Record chick and poults output hits new highs
United States hatcheries report a seven month 1939 rise of 21 percent in baby chick production over last year and a 47 percent increase over 1933 37 average. Poults hatched also climbed 52 percent to 4 351 000 across 182 plants signaling continued shift to commercial hatching.
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Washington
Agricultural Marketing Service
New England
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
East North Central
West North Central
Postville Creamery Pays 27 for July Butterfat
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery paid 27 cents for July butterfat. In July 88,163 pounds of butter were produced from 70,826 pounds of butterfat received. Paul Fleming, a North Jones contest association member, installed an electric fan in his dairy barn this summer costing 3 dollars using a washing machine motor, an automobile bearing, and salvaged siding for the blade.
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Postville
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company
Monticello
Paul Fleming
North Jones Contest Association
Millersburg crop notes show good yields and harvest progress
The Gazette reports Timothy threshing active after rain, shocks drying. Fall plowing begins as grapes ripen to excellent quality. The crop is heavier than last year with early potatoes dug and stored. Pear crop expected to be normal.
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Spreial
Gazette
Millersburg
Maynard Farm Woman is Champion Orator At Iowa State Fair
Mrs. Edward Borchers of Maynard won the Iowa State Fair public speaking contest in the home project division in Des Moines. Her Saturday speech titled The Farmers' Stake In World Peace outlined farm interests and she will represent Iowa at a national forensic event in Chicago during December with the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Edward Borchers
Maynard
Iowa State Fair
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farmers’ Stake
World Peace
First Hybrid Seed Corn Is Delivered
The first load of contracted hybrid seed corn arrived in Anamosa Saturday. Frank Frederick of Marion delivered the seed from an April 29 planting. This is believed to be the earliest gathering of commercial hybrid seed corn in industry history as eastern Iowa farmers report early frost protection and rapid growth with 53 percent of U.S. corn in hybrids and Iowa at 79 percent.
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Gazette
Anamosa
Frank Frederick
Marion
Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
Towa
Ryan Cooperative formed after charter expiration
Following the Farmers Commission company charter expiration on August 12, directors voted to change the name to Ryan Cooperative and filed a new charter under Chapter 390 GI of the 1935 code.
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Ryan
Farmers Commission Company
Ryan Cooperative
Dollar wheat by July 15 predicted in Des Moines
Crop Insurance Supervisor Jess Alton of the state agricultural adjustment committee foresees wheat selling for a dollar a bushel by July 1 1940 if growers confine 1940 harvest plantings to farm allotments. He notes a 12 1/2 month carryover plus AAA land allotments could keep prices high despite a world war in Europe.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Jess Alton
State Agricultural Adjustment Committer
Alton
United States
AAA
Europe
1937 corn may be stored in the ear if in good shape
At Ames Alva Troyer of the Commodity Credit Corporation announced that the 1937 corn crop may be resealed in the ear if both the corn and its storage structure are sound. Linn county corn loan supervisor R B Booth noted shelled corn in creosoted bins could off grade due to creosote odor. County representatives from Iowa attended the meeting.
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Ames
Alva Troyer
Commodity Credit Corporation
R. B. Booth
Linn County
Iowa
Central City Bantam Capon Displays at State Fair
Central City hatcheryman Verne O Phelps plans a state fair display in Des Moines featuring a Buff Cochin bantam capon and five Black Giant capons. The bantam, which began with nine Black Giant chicks on March 9, weighs 1 1/2 pounds, while the brood averages 7 3/4 to 8 pounds at five and a half months. In other notes, Towa county grape crop is forecast at 85 percent of normal, totaling about 5 700 tons versus 5 000 tons in 1938.
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Central City
Verne O. Phelps
Des Moines
Phelps
Towa
Eastern Iowa Feeders Among Group Winners at State Fair
Grand champion 4-H baby beef at Iowa state fair awarded to George Hopley 18 of Wayland with Black Laddie. Reserve grand champion Angus shown by Earl Hodgson of Pleasantville. County group wins split among Marion Marshall and others. multiple exhibitors from Iowa City Clarene Davenport and other towns place in Hereford Shorthorn and Angus divisions.
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Marion County Angus
Howard
Iowa City
George Hopley
Wayland Hopley
Cass County
P. 5
Shearer
Ames Animal Husbandry Division
R. E. O’connell
Guumwa
Earl Hodgson
de Moines
Pleasantville
Angus
Marion County
Marshall County
Herefords
Max Hafner
Letts
Louise Hafner
William Burlton
Norway
Robert Joslin
Clarence
Eldon Holst
Davenport
William Malloy
Williamsburg
Leo P. Duer
Charlotte
Donald Backman
Junior Reed
Marion
Wayne Danker
Toledo
Harold Chamber
Mount Auburn
Robert Neve
Garrison
Howard Yoder
Martha Kemp
Myron Oxley
Edith Domer
Richard Stephenson
Reinbeck
Burdette Farley
Grinnell
Jack Driscoll
Atlantic
Herbert Rees
Leo P. Dyer
Hereford
Warren Jones
Decatur
Arnold Randeris
Audubon
Eugene Harvey
Earl Gray
Adair
East Iowa
Eleanor Koster
Gladbrook
John Jarboe
Brooklyn
Leland Grove
Kinross
Duane Stock
Lone Tree
Seed market quickens as bluegrass moves from growers
The Agricultural Marketing Service reports rapid movement of Kentucky bluegrass seed for 1939. By August 15 about 93 per cent had been sold or pooled, above 90 per cent last year and 81 per cent on average. Prices offered ranged 75–80 cents in Kentucky and 90 cents to $1.10 in Missouri. The weighted average price was about 94 cents.
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Washington, D. C
Agricultural Marketing Service
Kentucky
Missouri
Soul conservation at county fairs shows changing roles
A country woman laments fading women's division at county fairs. She recalls past pride in breads jams pies and canned goods now scarce. A judge attributes the decline to time and widening family diversification, suggesting shifts in rural domestic display.
Parity Checks Mailed To Linn County Farmers In Iowa
John E. Dunn treasurer of the Linn County Agricultural Conserva tion association reports 1,300 corn parity payment checks totaling 87 415 87 for Linn County farmers. Notices list three distribution sites and hours with Cedar Rapids Farm Bureau office as alternate pickup. In Buchanan County Leonard Brame treasurer reports 349 parity checks totaling 26 437 72 for listed townships marking first parity checks received there.
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John E. Dunn
Linn County Agricultural Conservation Association
Linn
Farmers Cooperative Exchange
Central City
Legion Hall
Coggon
City Hall
Mount Vernon
Farm Bureau
Federal
Cedar Rapids
Independence
Leonard Brame
Buchanan County Soils Committee
Buchanan County
Westburg
Perry
Fairbank
Hazleton
Middlefield
Buffalo
Linn Boy Wins 4H East Iowa Feeding Record Contest
Rex Beresford Ames extension animal husbandman announces results of the eastern Iowa 4-H five calf feeding project record contest held with the All-Town fair in Cedar Rapids. C. Mac Towers of Marion won first place. Howard Gardner Walker placed fourth. Lloyd Fey Delmar second. Leland Grove Kinross third. Harold Schmitt Nichols fifth. Sixty-two record books were entered.
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Rex Beresford
Ames Extension Animal Husbandman
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
C. Mac Towers
Marion
Howard Gardner
Walker
Lloyd Fey
Delmar
Leland Grove
Kinross
Harold Schmitt
Nichols
Steers Bring $9.25 Cwt at Chicago Sale
Clarence E. L. Crist, feeder near Clarence, sold 34 head of 1,123 pound steers at Chicago for $9.25 per hundredweight.
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Clarence
E. L. Crist
Chicago
FSCC expands school lunch program to 5 million children
The FSCC expansion plan announced by the U S Department of Agriculture aims to serve up to 5,000,000 undernourished children next school year. The program uses surplus agricultural commodities via state welfare agencies to provide free hot lunches, with 800,000 children served monthly across over 14,000 schools last year.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
United States Department of Agriculture
FSCC
Work Projects Administration
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Oleo Sales Down 26 Percent in Last Year
Chicago report from the American Butter Institute shows July oleomargarine sales fell 26.1 percent from a year ago to 19,916,586 pounds. For the first half, six months totalled 169,105,970 pounds, down 60,349,518 pounds from 229,465,488 a year earlier.
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the Gazette
Chicago
American Butter Institute At
Smith Named Head of Agricultural Motor Fuels Research
David F. Smith a Buffalo New York chemist was named head of research on agricultural motor fuels at the government laboratories in Peoria Illinois. He will direct investigations into fuels derived from crops and related agricultural feedstocks for official use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David F. Smith
Buffalo
N. Y
Government Laboratories
Peoria
Maynard Creamery Pays 26 Cents Butterfat for July
Maynard Co operative creamery paid its patrons 26 cents a pound for butter fat received during July, according to Secretary C. H. Paul.
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Maynard
Maynard Cooperative Creamery
C. H. Paul
Baby chick costs in Iowa lower than U.S. average this season
Iowa farmers paid about 7.90 per hundred baby chicks this season, compared with the national average. The report highlights regional price differences and indicates Iowa prices are below the United States average for chick purchases.
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Iowa
Pat
United States
Jones 4-H Calves Fetch Strong Average at Jones County Fair
At Monticello 96 head of 4-H baby beef calves sold for 9 256.76 dollars, averaging 10.38 dollars per cwt and 96.42 dollars per head with 29 buyers handling 89 145 pounds. Hogs and sheep also sold. Fay ette county fair closed in West Union with a grand champion Angus steer bought by Rath Packing of Waterloo at 12.73 per cwt and reserve champion Hereford bought by Hormel Packing of Albert Lea.
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Gazette
Monticello
Jones County
West Union
Fayette County
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
Hormel Packing Company
Albert Lea
Minn
Harry Stolle, Jr
Bennett Fall Festival Set for Saturday Events
Bennett hosts its annual fall festival on Saturday with a calf show and a horse show. Culinary work, fancy work and farm products will be exhibited at the Bennett event.
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the Gazette
Bennett
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