Central City Fair Auction Bonds 4-H Baby Beeves
Twenty seven of sixty 4-H baby beeves sold at the Linz county fair auction for an average of 9.40 per hundredweight. Top was 11 for a 1 015 pound Hereford consigned by Joe Woods Central City bought by Will Falcon of Waterloo. Auctioneers were Lassen of Marion and Mitchell of Waubeek.
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Hereford
Entral City
Linz County
Will Falcon
Packer
Waterloo
Joe Woods
Central City
Falcon
Mort Gray
Cedar Rapids
Tom McDonald
Coggan
P. C. Lassen
Marion
W. T. Mitchell
Waubeek
Martha Kemp
Bernice Shaffer
Walker
Junior Reid
Eli Shada
Harold Wagner
Junior Haak
Vocational Agency To Meet At Ames August Event
A subject matter conference for vocational agriculture instructors will be held at Ames August 9 to 11. Two days will feature talks by college staff on latest developments and the final day will host conferences with department heads to discuss material and improvement of teaching.
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Ames
Oldsen and Hazen to Judge at North English
Carl Oldsen of Ames and Glen Hazen of Ottumwa will judge livestock at the ninth annual Keokuk county 4-H club show in North English. The event runs Tuesday through Thursday in the municipal park, with the Junior Commercial club of North English assisting.
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North English
Carl Oldsen
Ames
Iowa Beef Producers Association
Glen Hazen
Ottumwa
Keokuk County
English Valleys
Junior Commercial Club of
Farmer Threshed 2619 Bushels Oats on 52 Acres near Olin
William Pruess, a farmer near Olin, Iowa, recently harvested a total of 2,619 bushels of oats from 52 acres in a single threshing season.
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Olin
William Pruess
Farm Sports Festival Planned At Traer Aug 9
Traer hosts Tama county Farm Bureau sports festival as a lead up to the state event in Ames on Sept 8-9. Men and boys compete in tennis track kittenball volleyball baseball rifle shooting tug of war archery. Women and girls enter clock golf chair quoits dart throwing races and slipper kicking. Traer Commercial club assists.
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Traer
Tama County
Farm Bureau
Ames
Traer Commercial Club
Crazy idea to store corn on the stalks provokes debate
The writer mocks storage schemes for the corn surplus suggesting leaving ears in the field as cheap storage. He cites Hoover era tariffs and calls for study of stalk storage in Linn and Cedar counties while noting farmers balk at market prices and planners’ choices.
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Mr. Hoover
Wallace
Linn
Washington
Cedar County
Tri State Freight Rate Association Formed at Maquoketa
Fifty cattle feeders and representatives from shipping associations commission firms and railways met in Maquoketa to form the Tri State Freight Rate association to extend free pickup service. Joe Drew is president Burton Brown vice president Bert Morehead secretary treasurer and four directors named. Annual dues set at 10 per shipping association and 2500 attended the Farm Warehouse twentieth anniversary in Maquoketa with speakers including Lt Governor Hickenlooper.
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Maquoketa
Tri-State
Monmouth
Baldwin
Grand Mound
Eldridge
DeWitt
Goose Lake
Durango
Onslow
New Liberty
Miles
Amandsa
Dodgeville
Wis
Harper, Ill
Waddams Grove
Sherman, Til
Cascade
Joe Drew
Fillmore
Burton Brown
Anamosa
Bert Morehead
Arnold Pruess
Clarence
William Kuper
Bellevue
E. J. Drake
Harper, NL
Rodney Griffiths
Shipping Association
Farm Warehouse
Paul Ahlers
Frank Flynn
Union Stockyards and Transit Company of
Chicago
Fred Mitchell
B. B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
USDA Announces New Drug That Makes Hybrids Fertile
The USDA reports a colchicine drug from meadow saffron seeds enabling fertility in plant hybrids. It speeds up cellular division to double chromosomes, allowing heritable changes in cotton, cereals, tobacco, fruits, and grasses for breeding.
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USDA
Washington
Timothy Harvest Brightens Millsburg Area
More timothy than usual is being cut this season with better seed prices and well filled heads. At the Henry Tanke farm, oats yielded 50 bushels per acre.
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Millersburg
Henry Tanke
Winneshiek and Allamakee Health Champs Named
Decorah 16 year old Lucille Aschem topped 18 contestants to win Winneshiek county health girl with 98.1 points. Ossian 18 year old John Moellers captured boys health title with 97.8 points as a St Frances de Salle senior and local basketball fan. Lucille is a Decorah junior active in 4 H for eight years and lists bicycling skating dramatics and hopes to be an airplane stewardess or nurse.
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Decorah
Lucille Aschem
Hans Aschem
Winneshiek County
Lucille
John Moellers
John B. Moellers
Ossian
John
St. Frances de Salle School
Waukon Girl Named Allamakee 4-H Health Champion
Norma Hagen, 15, of New Albia, won Allamakee county 4-H girls health title at Lansing in a contest of eight contestants. She belongs to Union City Happy club, daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Tinienate. Sophie Buerger, 16, of the Sun shine Makers club, also competed.
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Waukon
Norma Hagen
New Albia
Allamakee County
Lansing
Union City
Herman Tinienate
Sophie Buerger
Sunshine Makers Club
Wool crop placed at 375 699 000 pounds in 1939
Chicago reports the 1939 US wool shorn total at 375 699 000 pounds, up 3 700 000 from 1938 and 6 percent above the 1928 37 ten year average. Sheep shorn total 47 455 000 head, up 2 percent, with regional variations noted in native state and western production.
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Chicago
United States
Federal Agricultural Marketing Service
Texas
California
$27 An Acre For Shellsburg Farm Bargain
A 280 acre Shellsburg area farm near a main highway was bought for $7,500. Valued at about $27 per acre, the property includes 170 acres of tillable land, 110 acres of bluegrass pasture and some timber, with an eight room house three barns and other buildings. Gustafson and Son will take possession March 1.
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Altor
Shellsburg
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Gustafson
Volga Creamery Pays 27 Cents For Top Butterfat
VOLGA CITY The Farmers Cooperative creamery at Volga City paid patrons 27 cents for top butterfat and 26 cents for No 1 butterfat received the first half of July.
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Volga Creamery
Volga City
Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Hay rope accident injures Hopkinton farmer
Peter Hugh, a farmer near Hopkinton, was injured when a hay rope twisted and threw him from a wagon. He suffered a fractured shoulder and cuts and bruises and was taken to Monticello hospital.
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the Gazette
Hopkinton
Peter Hugh Farmer
Monticello Hospital
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