Hog Market Records Odd Thirty-Year Gap In 1935 Prices
In Cedar Rapids hog prices hit 6.65 per hundredweight on the seventh anniversary of the Little Pig purge, about 2.50 higher than seven years earlier when government removal programs began. Corn bids were 36 cents a bushel, with a 107 to 100 corn hog ratio for August this year versus 10 seven years ago. The piece blends price trends, droughts, and policy impacts across the era, noting AAA payments and shifting market dynamics amid droughts and export changes.
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Cedar Rapids
Inowa
Supreme Court
Cuba
Bannn Ann
Ossian Boy Cresco Girl Are Winneshiek 4 H Health Champs
Winneshiek county will be represented at the Iowa state fair health contest by Jane Price of the Orleans Honor club and Cletus Bodensteiner of Military Jantor Farmers. Fourteen girls and five boys entered the county event, with Jane Price daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Price of Orleans township Cresco. Cletus Bodensteiner of Ossian is the other winner. The Fayette county fair featured strong 4 H lamb and cattle displays with grand champions in several classes.
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Winneshiek County
Des Moines
Jane Price
Orleans Honor Club
Cletus Bodensteiner
Jane
Ralph Price
Orleans Township
Cresco
Cletus
Moseno
Dg. C Bodenstein
Fayette County
West Union
Harry Davis
Silas Davis
Wadena
Kenneth Palmer
Hawkeye
Palmer
Willis Palmer
Kenneth
Clarence Schuchmann
Forecast of 1940 cash farm income set at 8.9 billion
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics projected 1940 cash farm income including government payments at 8.9 billion dollars, up 360 million from 1939 and a peak aside from 1937. Gross farm income expected around 10.15 billion, with government payments near 807 million. July cash income reached 73 million, following 587 million in June. A 1100 pound turtle was captured in Texas Sabine channel.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Europe
FENCE DRIFT AND THRESHING TALES FROM THE FIELDS
The piece recalls a harsh threshing season in the north with grain fields and rough machinery. It compares current difficulties to 1915 when wet harvests forced innovative fixes like bull wheel treads and beer kegs. Only one stack setting seen near Maquoketa.
Head of Livestock Brings $8500 At TraCr Sale
Special to The Gazette. The consignment sale here Wednesday grossed $8500, one of the best in recent weeks. A total of 206 head sold including 52 pigs and 9 sheep. Market lambs 8.30, top sows 425, best calves 10.40 and 10.15 per cwt. A 3600-pound bull brought 6.50 per cwt and a 1200-pound cow 6.10 per cwt. Twenty one steers averaging 875 pounds sold for 9.10 per cwt.
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Cazette
Trafr
Judge Orders AAA and FSA to Vacate Courthouse Rooms
Independence Iowa September 1940 judge A B Lovejoy ordered the Agriculture Adjustment Association and the Farm Security Administration to vacate two dormitories bailiffs room and grand jury room in Buchanan county courthouse by September 16 1940 their offices had no lease and were occupying the space by sufferance. Albert Loveland AAA district fieldman set election dates for township committees September 10 and county committee September 11 1940.
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AAA
FSA
Independence
Agriculture Adjustment Association
Farm Security Administration
Buchanan County
A. B. Lovejoy
Buchanan County District Court
Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Albert Loveland
Waverly
Fairview Orioles win home furnishings booth at county fair
Monticello report shows the Fairview Orioles girls' 4-H club of Jones county placing first with their booth exhibit on home furnishings at the county fair. Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls took second, Greenfield Good Luck club third, and Castle Grove Fortune Finders fourth as the fair closed Friday.
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Monticello
Fairview
Jones County
Scotch Grove
Greenfield Good Luck Club
Castle Grove
Timothy Yields 2 to 3 Bu Seed Per Acre
Threshing of timothy finished near Monmouth with yields of two to three bushels per acre. Joseph Ruley harvested 29.5 bushels from 10 acres. Corn is doing well with most in roasting ear stage and many stalks bearing two ears. Rain could improve hay and pasture. red clover seed harvest begun. gardens backward from heat and dryness.
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Monmouth
Joseph Ruley
Oh Gee Oh Gosh Six Men for Dinner in Drought
A COUNTRY WOMAN laments a dry spell with chores piling up including brining pickles, pickling Whitney apples, ironing, lawn care, and grape spoilage. She notes no rain for five days and signs with stark humor about happiness despite the list.
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Whitney
Harvest Notes in Webster Area Report
Fine weather aids alfalfa hay making and timothy threshing around Webster. Fall plowing continues with some alfalfa to be sown this fall. A strong plum crop is being harvested with top fruit at 1.50 dollars per bushel. Peach crops look light while apples promise a solid yield.
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Webster
Harvest yields posted for Buchanan county crops
Threshing near completion in Buchanan county reports show excellent quality oats suffered little from two weeks of rain while flax faced near ruin due to wet weather confirming uneven seasonal impact across crops.
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Independence
Buchanan County
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