U S Apple Crop Estimated At 134 Million Bushels This Year
New York dealers compile a national apple crop of 134 394 000 bushels for this year about one third below last year and ten percent under the 10 year average. Iowa expected 1 348 000 bushels down from 1 174 000 last year with the midwest generally light.
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Iowa
Washington
New York
N‘ York City
New England
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Jersey
Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Midwest
Mississippi Valley
Colorado
Barn Upgrade For Marengo 4-H Show Unveiled
The Iowa County 4-H club show will move to a new 36 by 128 foot barn at the east edge of Marengo’s old fair grounds. Funded by the Iowa County Shortcourse association and a local implement company, the barn will serve as headquarters for at least five years with tents for overflow exhibits. The event runs alongside the Merchants Jubilee August 18 to 20.
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Marengo
Iowa County
Towa County Shortcourse Association
Farm Bureau picnic date set for Columbus Junction
The Ouisa county Farm Bureau tentatively names September 10 as the picnic date at Chautauqua Park in Columbus Junction.
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Columbus Junction
Ouisa County Farm Bureau
4-H Style Winner Named for State Show
Virginia Sloan, 16, of Marion and Linns Best 4-H club will represent Linn county in the state 4-H style show at the Des Moines fair Aug 24 to Sept 2. She placed first in the county contest Saturday at Central City. Judge was Miss Laura Heddleson of Tipton.
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Virginia Sloan
Marion
Linns
Linn County
Des Moines Fair
Sloan
Central City
Laura Heddleson
Tipton
Rural Music Leaders School Set for Sept 7
An Ames sponsored training school for rural chorus directors and 4-H music chairmen will be held in Ames on September 7 under Tolbert MacRae. Sessions cover directing, general singing, with songs from the 1939 project. Seventy two directors attended last year. no fees.
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Ames
Tolbert MacRae
Ames Extension Service
Keokuk County Girls Health Contest Planned
Special to The Gazette Sigourney reports the Keokuk county 4-H club girls health contest will be held August 10 at Dr. J A Dulin's office. The winner will represent Keokuk County in the state contest at the Iowa State Fair.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
J. A. Dulin
Iowa State
FCA Reports 102 Oil Co-Ops In Iowa
Washington AP reports that Iowa farmers join 102 oil and fuel cooperatives selling gasoline kerosene and oil at wholesale and retail with 6 981 000 in gross annual business. Most handle gas and petroleum as main business, others as sideline. Co-ops rose from 36 in 1922 to 1 057 nationwide.
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FCA
Iowa
Washington
Farm Credit Administration
United States
Sleeping sickness hits Deep River area herd totals rise
Deep River veterinarian C. D. Hornbeck reports 24 cases of horse sleeping sickness in the Deep River region. A horse loss five miles north of Keswick brings total deaths to seven. Hornbeck notes the disease is moving south through Iowa and is more prevalent in the north, with the south largely spared.
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Deep River
C. D. Hornbeck
Lou Morse
Keswick
Hornbeck
Iowa
Sleeping sickness in horses reported near Walker and Troy Mills
Several cases of sleeping sickness are reported around Walker and Troy Mills along with hog cholera south of Troy Mills. One farmer lost nearly all his hogs.
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Walker
Troy
Troy Mills
State Fair Hobby Show Planned For Women
Ames plans have been completed for the sixth annual Iowa farm women's hobby exhibit at the Iowa State fair. Entries will be classified as collective creative or literary. First prize will be 10 dollars and second and third prizes 5 dollars each. Exhibits will be on display in the hobby room in the women's and children's building.
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Gazette
Ames
W. H. Stacy
Extension Rural Sociologist
CANNERIES PREPARE TO PACK SWEET CORN
LA PORTE CITY and MARENGO The town canning company plans to start sweet corn and tomato packing around August 15. Improvements at the plant include a high pressure pump, and about 125 acres of tomatoes are contracted. Evergreen corn will be used. about 500 acres contracted, down from last year. Harold L. Paulson is the plant manager.
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LA Porte City
Town Canning Company
Marengo
Harold L. Paulson
Early corn packing season starts sooner at Elgin cannery
Elgin cannery may begin corn packing within two weeks due to early hybrid sweet corn ahead of regular varieties. Factory officials expect an earlier start than the usual last week in August. In Columbus Junction a cannery started tomato packing with fifty workers and plans to can 100 acres of tomatoes.
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Elgin
Elgin Cannery
Columbus
Junction
Castalia Dairyman Boosts Production With Molasses
L H Leath a Guernsey dairyman south of Castalia topped the Southeast Winneshick Cow Test in July with an average 33.5 pounds of butterfat from twenty one cows boosted by molasses in the ration. The association average in July was 26.3 pounds from 430 cows on test.
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Castalia
L. H. Leath
Guernsey
Winneshick
Miles Daly
Leath
T. E. Selness
Association
Health Winner In Tama Ineligible For State Fair Contest
Ruth McCutcheon of Traer topped the Tama County 4-H health contest during the Tama County Homecoming Iowa Centennial event but cannot go to the state fair as she is under fifteen and lives in a rural district. Mildred Crane of west of Tama will represent the county and the Clark Willing Workers team Irene Fehr and Wilma Clough Dysart are the blue ribbon 4-H girls demonstration team for the state fair. Selma Equist Ames judged the county 4-H displays and demonstrations.
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Gazette
Toledo
Ruth McCutcheon
Tracr
Tama County
Iowa
Miss McCutcheon
Traer
Mildred Crane
Tama
Livestock Judging At Tipton Fair Opens Wednesday
Cedar county fair at Tipton begins Wednesday with entry day on Tuesday. Forty nine 4 H and vocational agriculture baby beeves will be judged at 9 30 a m near the grandstand. Thursday features draft horses and Friday offers a milkmaids contest.
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Tipton
C. S. Miller
DeWitt Hosts Fifth Clinton County 4-H Livestock Show
The DeWitt festival opens Wednesday for three days with premiums totaling 1600 dollars. Sixty three baby beeves plus purebred heifers dairy calves colts lambs and pigs are entered along with six entrants in the horse pulling contest.
Chicago shipped four million bushels of corn last week
The federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports about 4,000,000 bushels cleared at Chicago as of August. Lamson Brothers notes indicated corn production rising to 2,509,407,000 bushels nationwide with Iowa at about 437,826,000 bushels from 10,182,000 acres and an average yield around 43 bushels per acre.
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Chicago
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Lamson Brothers and Company
Missouri River
Lamson
Iowa
Low Quality And Yields Reported As Threshing Ends
Nearly all threshing crews in the vicinity have finished for the season. Oats yields range from fair to forty bushels per acre, with some fields too poor to cut and left to plow. Some oats were cut for hay due to light grain and downed stalks.
Montezuma threshing nears completion in Poweshick county
Threshing rings finished last Saturday across Poweshick County. Oats yielded 25 to 30 bushels per acre overall, with a few fields reaching 45 bushels. North of Deep River some fields produced 15 to 20 bushels per acre. Timoth y stands threshed but with small yields.
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Poweshick
Deep River
Harvest Notes Report Strong Oats and Corn Prospects
Walker threshing finished in the vicinity with oats yielding 10 to 45 bushels per acre. Early oats appear best this year. Prospects for corn are reported to be the best in years.
Cedar Rapids Seeks Sanitary Sewer Improvements
City of Cedar Rapids Iowa proposes a resolution of necessity for constructing a sanitary sewer from Knoll Street Southeast to Mount Vernon Road and related work. Public hearing set for August 25 1938 at 10 A M with estimated cost 2171 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Knoll Street
Dalewood Avenue
Mount Vernon Road
L. J. Storfy
Eastern Iowa Fairs Scheduled This Week
Eastern Iowa fairs fill the week with Tri-State at Burlington from Aug 7 to 13 Cedar county fair at Tipton Aug 9 to 12 Van Buren county at Keosauqua Aug 9 to 12 4-H shows at Washington Aug 9 to 12 Maquoketa Aug 10 to 11 and De Witt Aug 10 to 12.
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Tri-State
Burlington
Cedar County
Tipton
van Buren County
Keosauqua
Washington
Maquoketa
de- Witt
Tama and Fayette 4H Girls Camp Near Waterloo
Tama county 4 H club girls opened their annual county camp at Morris Isle north of Waterloo and camp with Fayette county girls. A four day program includes conservation work August 9 and 10 under G R Ramsey of Ames, plus handcraft and other craft sessions led by Gladys Adams Edith Hoffman and Thelma Weils. Swimming drama and health demonstrations are also planned.
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TRAER
Tama
Morris Isle
Waterloo
Fayette County
G. R. Ramsey
Ames
Gladys Adams
Edith Hoffman
Thelma Weils
Fayette
Cows killed by lightning on local farm
Two cows on the Holland Burch farm near Columbus Junction were killed Friday evening when struck by lightning.
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Columbus Junction
Holland Burch Farm
Here
Dysart farmer buys 169 acre farm northeast of town
Ernie Lassen, linked with Al Silverman of Deep River, purchased 169 acre improved farm northeast of Dysart from the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York for 127.50 dollars an acre. Possession is set for March 1, with Lassen not occupying the property for at least a year. the current operator is Dave Wilson.
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Dysart
Ernie Lassen
al Silverman
Deep River
Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York
Lassen
Dave Wilson
Buck Creek Fair Set At Moulton Grove August 23
Hopkinton residents will attend the Buck Creek fair in Moulton grove five miles west of Hopkinton on August 23. The chicken dinner at noon will be served by women of the Buck Creek church. Prof Russell Cooper of Cornell College will address the crowd in the afternoon.
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Hopkinton
Buck Creek
Moulton Grove
Russell Cooper
Cornell College
Walker Creamery Pays 28 Cents For Butterfat
Walker Creamery paid 28 cents for butterfat during the first two weeks of July. Production fell due to heat but remained higher than in July 1937.
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Walker Creamery
The
Gazette
Walker
Walker Farmers Creamery
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