Marshall County 4-H Angus Named State Fair Grand Champ
Ken Goecke, 17, of Marshall County exhibited the grand champion Angus at the Iowa State Fair for a total 4-H showing worth 73 900 dollars. The win came as part of Marshall County’s strong showing with Angus and Hereford cattle, with multiple breed champions and reserve awards noted across the day. The Angus will be sold at the state fair auction next Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ES Moines
Kenneth Goecke
Marshall County
Kenneth
Fred Goecke
State Center
Clarence Goecke
Angus
Donald Collins
Albion
P S. Shearer
Ames
Fred Myers
Des Moines
George Fraser
Monticello
Marshall
Marion County
Merle Thorman
Blairstown
Billy Bob Hunter
Town City
Bernard Kozik
Elberon
Reid Booth
Dallas
Carroll Phillips
Pleasantville
Herbert Reese
Fraser
Reeses
Collins
Hereford
Booth
Goecke
June Fuller
Marshalltown
Benton County
Jones County
Tama
Muscatine
Washington
Tama County
Johnson
Keokuk
Iowa County
Greeley C T A Average Drops to 18.7 Butterfat
Special to The Gazette Manchester reports 368 cows on test in the Greeley Cow Test association during August averaged 431 pounds of milk and 187 pounds of butterfat. The Paul McElmed herd of fourteen Holsteins led with 1,172 pounds of milk and 42.1 pounds of butterfat. A McElmed cow topped the group with 1,897 pounds of milk and 73.9 pounds of butterfat.
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Manchester
Greeley
Paul McElmed
McElmeel
Shipping Cooperative Organized At Waukon
A shipping cooperative has been organized at Waukon with Henry Fossum elected first president and William Ashline as general manager. Lou Sherman named vice president and Ed Schoenthal secretary.
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Gazette
Waukon
Lvestock Shipping Association
Henry Fossum
William Ashline
Lou Sherman
Ed Schoenthal
Public Sale Listing at Manehereence
Mrs Ada Brow hosts a public sale three miles northeast at Manehereence on Tuesday August 31 at 1 o'clock. Includes three head of horses, 6 cows with 3-6 years, 27 purebred Hampshire pigs, 80 poultry and ducks, farm machinery and hay and grain, with removal required. Items to be sold by Zobel Bros, archie, clerk.
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Ada Brow
Manehereence
Herin
Nike
McCormick
Zobel Bros
Frep
Banta Bepkins
Archiege
Aeie
Palance
James G Cunningham
M. J. McCailey
F. W Lindahl
15 To 20 Percent Of Threshing Left In Fayette
Abundant rains aided Fayette county farmers except delaying threshing with 15 to 20 percent still unfinished. Corn is well dented and not a bumper crop but sizable. frost is the only upcoming danger. Some seedings revived, drought harmed many. grasshoppers hurt soybeans and alfalfa. Fall pasture will be lush, milk flow largely unaffected. The overall season is favorable and granaries and cribs fill to capacity.
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Gazette
West Union
Fayette County
Harvest Prospects Rise as Threshing Nears End
Rowley reports threshing nearly finished with excellent yields. Pastures revived by recent rains. Corn denting in many fields and looks promising. Hybrid corn pushing through ends. fruit crop including apples plums tomatoes and sweet corn plentiful. Local farming conditions show strong prospects.
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Rowley
Webster threshing yields and crops amid rains
Timothy Webster reports threshing finished with yields from 250 to 300 pounds per acre on small acreage. Sudan hay averages two and a half tons per acre, beans and corn abundant. gardens affected by grasshoppers. Three inches of rain last week damaged some crops.
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Timothy
Webster
Sudan
Harvest activity in Millersburg as third crop alfalfa cut
Millersburg reports third crop alfalfa hay being cut and stored, expected to be heavier than earlier yields. Threshing rings largely finished, rain delaying runs. Portable mills race to complete grinding orders while farmers feed with small grains until corn matures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millersburg
Dysart-Silverman buyers sell cattle to Cedar Rapids packer
Dysart Silverman and Las sen buyers sold 130 head of 1100 pound cattle to a Cedar Rapids packing company at 162.5 dollars per eighty pounds, totaling a large sale.
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Dysart
Silverman and Lassen
Packing Company
Cedar Rapids
Judging Dates Set For All Iowa Show At Hawkeye Downs
The All Iowa Livestock Show at Hawkeye Downs runs Sept 6 to 10 with a four day judging schedule. The stock parade and judging contest open the event, followed by Milkings Shorthorns and junior livestock judging. Guernseys and Brown Swiss compete Sept 8, Ayrshires and Jerseys Sept 9, with saddle horse shows each afternoon and evening. A three man judging panel from Iowa Indiana and Ohio will oversee the contests.
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Hawkeye Downs
Frontier Park
Six Dairy Cattle Enter All Iowa Livestock Show
Six of the select dairy cattle parade as parish show grand champions for the All Iowa Livestock Exposition September six to ten in Cedar Rapids. No one is W. J. Campbell of Jesup with a 5 year Jersey cow. No two A. C. Meyer and Son of Castalia with a 5 year Brown Swiss bull. No three Hugh Mabon of Randalia with a 3 year Brown Swiss heifer. No four Ed Kubik of Elma with a 3 year Guernsey female. No five Walter A. Notbohm of Sumner with a Guernsey bull. No six Irwin Meyer of McGregor with a 3 year Milking Shorthorn bull.
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Cedar Rapids
W. J. Campbell
Jesup
Jersey Parish
Independence
Waverly
Des Moines
A. C. Meyer
Castalia
West Union
Hugh Mabon
Randalia
Guernsey
Ed Kubik
Elma
West
Joan
MOGS
Farmers Union To Stage Nat'l Co-Op Meet In September
Sioux Falls hosts the national conference of farm cooperatives on September 20 and 21. Emil Loriks of the Farmers Union of South Dakota announced the event, the first of its kind in the United States, expected to attract participants from many states. Cooperatives from creameries elevators poultry plants livestock exchanges and southern cotton ginning concerns may attend to boost cross-state cooperation.
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Farmers Union
Nat’l
Sioux Falls
S. D
National Conference of Farm Cooperatives
Emil Loriks
Farmers’ Union of South Dakota
United States
Secion Loriks
South
Corn crib with overhead granary under construction
A new 26 by 32 foot corn crib with an overhead granary is being built on the Gleim farm near here. It is operated by Lloyd Hill.
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Dysart
Gleim
Lloyd Hill
Aurora and Clayton Fairs Listed This Week
Two eastern Iowa fairs are scheduled this week with the Aurora fair set for Tuesday through Thursday and the Clayton county fair at National, north of Garnavallo, Tuesday through Friday. The state fair opens in Des Moines today and runs through next Friday.
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Iowa
National
Garnavallo
Des Moines
Bennett
Frontier Park
Cedar Rapids
Ryan
Allamakee County
Waukon
Stanwood
Postville
Sleeping sickness hits mare in Winton vicinity
A mare owned by Jim Langham six miles northeast of Winton is diagnosed with sleeping sickness by a local veterinarian. It is believed to be the first reported case in the area this week.
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Jim Langham
Winton
Butter Scores High At Clermont Creamery Meeting
Nels Larson of Decorah won the women’s judging at the Iowa Creamery Operators Association Section 1 meeting in Clermont. H Han Martner led the men’s contest. Louis Lehman of Elgin scored 94.5 with his butter sample, followed by Gordon Junkers of Clermont and Ed Hizer of Postville with 93. Additional program speakers included Harvey Schnurr, Dr L Carr, and state officials Ben Gulsvig Fred Gernand and A Malloy.
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Epeeia
Clermont
Dirs
Nels Larton
Decorah
Iowa Creamery Operators Association
H. Han- Martner
Louis Lehman
Elgin
Gordon Junkers
Clermont Vias
Ed Hizer
Postville
M. Ewing
Tripoli
Harvey Schnurr
Waterloo
Dr L . Carr
Nels Larson
L. H Appelman
Clermont Creamery
Ben Gulsvig
Fred Gernand
Volga City
A Malloy
Dubuque
Mr. Han
Center Point
Forecast of Lower Beef Prices for 1938
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics projects higher total cattle marketings in late 1937 and 1938 with prices for grain fed cattle likely to average somewhat lower in 1938 than in 1937. Slaughter cattle prices in the fall may hold near current highs and not decline as much as usual, while feeder cattle demand remains strong. cattle on feed in the corn belt around Aug 1 were down about 29 percent from a year earlier.
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the Gazette
Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Corn Belt
Farm Auction Listings from Challis to Lisbon and Manchester
Upcoming sales include the Challis estate farm at 92.04 acres south of Stanwood and a 100-acre farm near Cedar Rapids by Ed Smahel. Others: A J Shaw sale near Sigourney, Ada Brown farm near Manchester, Leo Kelly Co. livestock at Marengo, O C Walker sale near Lisbon, and J A Cunningham 82 3/4 acre farm with personal property at Walker.
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Challis
South
Stanwood
Ed Smahel
Cedar Rapids
Leo Kelly Co
Marengo
O. C. Walker
Lisbon
J. A. Cunningham
Walker
Electrification of U S Farms Reaches 1 138 335
Edison Institute survey shows 1 420 635 occupied farms within reach of lines. 1 138 335 use electricity, 120 000 connected in six months. Regional uptake varies from over 90 percent in New England and far West to 65 percent in the Mid Atlantic and 80 percent in the Midwest. Iowa reports 37 622 of 215 714 farms with service.
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New York City
Electric Light and Power
United States
C. W. Kellogg
The
Edison Electric Institute
Institute
New England
Far Western States
Middle Atlantic States
Middle West
Central States
Towa
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Ken Goecke
Eastern Iowa
Benton Jones
Ray Anderson
Greeley C. T. A
Fayette
Merle E. Garmoe
Optometris
Amana
Wiliam F
Fred Haas
Theodore Hertel, Jr
M. Sontag
Henry Haas
Aurora
Clayton
Arana
Ciill
Haag
Dirsita
A. J. Shaw
Sigourney
Ada Brown
Joseph Housar
Swisher
A. T. Bena
Swisher Trust and Savings Bank
U. S
E.cohn
9Th Ave
3Rd St
O. C. Walmer
W. FF. Chaltia
Lishen
W. M. Bennett
Merchants National Bank
Paramount Pharmacy Paramount
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