Fairs Report Costs Offset Income Gains
Iowa fair managers report 98 county and district fairs in 1962. Total receipts rose to 2,653,460 but disbursements climbed to 2,365,200 offsetting gains. Attendance reached 2,811,648 with 24 fairs profitable and 64 loss making. Livestock and poultry entries declined slightly.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa Fair Managers
Lloyd B. Cunningham
Iowa Fair Managers’ Association
Iowa
Cunningham
Monona Cooperative Re-Elects Officers
Monona Cooperative Commission Company re-elected all officers at the annual meeting. Walter Garrs is president, Henry Wagner vice president, Wendell Baskerville secretary treasurer, with Floyd Moon Arno Blumhagen Lou Stiert and Harold Zarms as directors. A seven percent dividend on last year’s business was declared.
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Monona—Al
Monona Cooperative Commission Company
Walter Garrs
Henry Wagner
Wendell Baskerville
Floyd Moon
Arno Blumhagen
Lou Stiert
Harold Zarms
Closing out sales listed across Iowa farms and towns
A sequence of December livestock grain hay and machinery closings from many vendors including George Andrew Mildred Meeks Delmar Pease Wilbur White Ed Fuhrmeister Tony Nepal Henry Wardenburg Milo Beltz Glynn Leonard Walters Newhard Caroline Kern Melvin Howser and M L Gleason with locations 344 mi NW of Alburnett 3% mi E Mechanicsville 11 AM 12 PM and other nearby points.
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George Andrew
Alburnett
Mildred Meeks
Mechanicsville
Delmar Pease
Blairstown
Wed
Schmitt & Ostergaard
Hopkinton
Wilbur White
M. M. Rogers
Fuhrmeister
Iowa City
Milo Beltz
Mt. Vernon
Fla
Glynn Leonard
Ryan
Walters
Newhard
Anamosa
Caroline Kern
Belle Plaine
Melvin Howser
M. L. Gleason
Urbana
Johnson County SCS Sees Sharp Rise in Cooperators
In Johnson County Iowa City the Soil Conservation Service reports a record increase with 170 farmers becoming new cooperators in the last 11 months. Total cooperators reach 364 farming 60 338 acres. district notes national rise of 80 percent more cooperators in 1952 than 1951.
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Iowa
Johnson County
Iowa City
Sioux County
Sioux Center
Washington County
Washington
Cunningham
Kenneth M. Wagner
Tol
Ross L. Barnett
SCS
Rust Ils Named By Angus Assn
Adlai Rust of Bloomington Illinois was elected president of the American Aberdeen Angu Breeders Association at the Chicago annual meeting. He operates 1440 acres in McLean county with partner William Woods and runs a purebred Angus herd plus 300 to 400 head of commercial steers each year. In the Show Window sale at the international event 50 head sold for an average of 2489 dollars, bulls averaged 1992 dollars and females 2629 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Adlai Rust
Bloomington
Rust
McLean County
Ill
William Woods
PMA Reports Corn Seedling Loans Seem Strong
A total of 160 applications for corn sealing have been received at the Allamakee PMA office. Completed loans cover 41 543 bushels and total 864 807, according to PMA officials.
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Waukon
Allamakee
PMA
Prices and policy changes loom for post election farm aid
The piece details how Republicans will reshuffle the Agriculture Department under Ezra Benson, facing immediate price support questions for basic commodities like wheat and corn. It notes farm prices slipping, costs rising, and parity debates, with butter and dairy markets under pressure and government buys likely to continue.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
G.O.P
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
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