Dubuque County Leads Second Corn-Hog Checks Issuance
Dubuque County becomes the first to receive second installment corn hog checks totaling 81,953.25 for 838 farmers as 500 more checks await processing. Nationwide, Iowa counties prepare for further installments and a Kansas City training session addresses 1935 plan and sign up efforts.
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Dubuque County
Des Moines
Iowa
Frank Kerrigan
Dubuque
Kerrigan
Washington
Adams
Cass
Chickasaw
Marshall
Poweshiek
Kansas City
A. G. Black
K M Evans
Ralph Smith
Wiliam McArthur
Leshie Carl
R. K. Bliss
Ames
Murl McDonald
Public Auction of Livestock at James Spear Farm
Public sale announced for 19th at James Spear farm near Stanwood Tipton on paved road No 3a. Sale includes 20 brood cows and 35 purebred Angus cattle from 9 months to 3 years, 8 head of farm stock, 3 matched reiners, plus 25 feeding calves, one saddle horse aged, and poultry including 3 dozen white rock, ½ dozen butt market, and cockerels from each breed. Mrs Floyd Spear conducts.
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Angis
Crist
James Spear
Stanwood
Tipton
Angus Buss
Floyd Spear
Fence Drift on the Farmhouse Doorway
A rambling Sunday evening scene on a farm shows a woven wire fence snagged in a doorway as a family and pets move through the room. Dust, heat, and scraps of popcorn drift amid chores with a dog and cat nearby as the family reels from the day’s small, domestic bustle.
Clarence farmer reports 60 bushels from 30 acre seed field
Howard Dowell, a Clarence area farmer, threshed a 30 acre field of mixed timothy and clover, yielding 60 bushels of seed at an average of two bushels per acre.
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Clarence
Howard Dowell
Solon Man Named Johnson Farm Bureau Delegate
Solon resident Joe Raim is chosen as delegate to the Iowa Farm Bureau convention at Des Moines January 16 17 and 18. The Johnson County 4-H club banquet will accompany the annual Farm Bureau meeting in Solon with music entertainment and auditing details listed by the board of directors.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Farm Bureau Organization
Joe Raim Solon
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Des Moines
Gear
Hunter
Glen Hope
Production Credit Corporation
George Stickney
Iowa
Farm Bureau
Butterfat Prices Reported At Monticello for November 1932
The Farmers Mutual Creamers of Monticello paid an average of 33.42 cents per pound for November butterfat. Production notes show butterfat averaging 25 cents per pound. Cream purchases rose by about 200 percent over the prior year.
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Monticella
Farmers Mutual Creamers Company of
Monticello
Apo
12516 Bushels of Corn Sealed in Winneshiek
Special to Tre Garvette reports 12516 bushels of corn sealed in Winneshiek County during a market event. Officials William Sevot, George Lonang, and Wisteeta Suchen sealed the lot while detailing a four dollar total per bushel commodity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Sevot
George Lonang
Wisteeta Suchen
Argentine Corn and Oats Receipts and Market Trends
The report notes December offerings of Argentine corn for January and February at about 96. per bushel duty paid on the West Coast. It records New York and Philadelphia oats receipts in November and December, prices for Russian white oats, and wide market shifts driven by feed costs and livestock retreat.
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West Coast
Pacific Coast
Federal Bureau of Agriultural Economis
Washington
New York
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Federal Bureau of Economics
Benton Farm Bureau Pledges Support To Corn Hog Program
The Benton county Farm Bureau adopts resolutions praising farmers and leaders, pledging support for the 1935 corn hog program, urging adoption to prevent price drops, endorsing the Honest Dollar plan, tax reform, and a Production Credit corporation, and calling for farm affiliate growth and continued public works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton Farm Bureau
Henry Wallace
R. K. Bliss
Farm Bureau
County Officers Nominated after Tax-Exempt Bond Talk
The nomination committee chaired by Charles Kimm of Van Horne urged re election of county officers. Officers listed: Allen Kline president, William Doerzman vice president, Charles Inman secretary, A M Goodell treasurer. A final debate on the corn and hog program featured Lewis Greaser and Ivan Trottnow for the project against Ed Harper and Burl Johnson.
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Cates
Charles Kimm
van Uhorne
Allen Kline
Vinton
William Doerzman
Blairstown
Charles Inman
A. M. Goodell
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
Lewis Greaser
Ivan Trottnow
Ed Harper
Burl Johnson
Old Corn Brings $1 and New Corn 97 at Monticello Sale
Special to The Gazette Monticello Old corn brought $1 a bushel at the Wesley Hanken estate sale near Monticello New corn sold for 97 cents a bushel and eats 48 cents a bushel Mixed hay ranged from 12 75 to 13 25 a ton Feeding shoats averaged four cents a pound Fifty one head of cattle averaged 26 dollars each At the John Corcoran sale cattle averaged 27 dollars each Feeding shoats averaged 6 dollars a head Mixed chickens sold at 50 cents each Corn brought 80 cents a bushel
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Gazette
Monticello
Wesley Hanken
John Corcoran
Closing Out Sale Yields Strong Prices Across Livestock
At the Oltman and Heddie sale seven miles north of Anamosa oats sold 82 cents a bushel for old crop and 47 cents for new. Corn brought 96 cents a bushel with corn shocks at 1.80 each. Cows sold 30 to 42 dollars per head, feeding shoats 6.25 to 6.75. A mule team sold for 280, a small team 111 a head. Steers 800 pounds 370 per hundredweight, 700 pounds 3.60 per pound.
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Anamosa
Oltman and Heddie
Hans Knutsen
Coming Farm Auctions Schedule For December
Public sale listings across Iowa counties include John Trojor sky near Norway William Herbst near Mechanicsville Glenn Richards near Prairieburg Brady and Breed near Martelle Robert Siver near Mount Vernon Spear and Crist near Stanwood W. Pollock near Whittier A B Myers estate near Marion Theo Martin near Mount Vernon H Kuriger near Monticello G F Siemer near Cedar Rapids W E Coonrod near Palo Rice and Phelps near Marion Samplings highlight multiple sale dates December 13 18 20 22 with locations and directions to each farm auction.
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John Trojorsky
Norway
William Herbst
Mechanicsville
Glenn Richards
Prairieburg
Brady and Breed
Martelle
Robert Siver
Mount Vernon
Theo. Martin
H. Kuriger
Monticello
G. F. Siemer
Cedar Rapids
W. E. Coonrod
South
Palo
Auction Prices Reported for Cattle and Corn
A sale details a hundredweight price for eighteen yearling steers at twenty dollars per head and corn at ninety two and a half cents per bushel. Auctioneer Lee Bebce presided over the event.
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Lee Bebce
Arlington Co-Operatives Renew 20 Year Charters
Stockholders of the Arlington Farmers' Creamery and officers of the Arlington Co operative Commission renewed their charters in two sessions here Saturday. A C Stetter is manager of the commission. Al Jen Foster is president and Will Behrins buttermaker of the creamery. The groups combined for a noon lunch.
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Arlington
Arlington Farmers’ Creamery Company
Arlington Co-operative Commission Company
A. C. Stetter
al Jen Foster
Behrins
Scandinavian Immigrants Help Shape Iowa Agriculture
The history outlines Norwegians Swedes and Danes settling Iowa after 1840s. It notes concentrations in northeastern Clayton Fayette Allamakee Winneshiek and western Woodbury. Luther College in Decorah became an educational hub, while Danes grew strongest in 1860s 70s and Swedes in 1880s. By 1890 Norwegians 27 000 Swedes 30 000 Danes 15 500 showing varied settlement patterns.
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North Sea
Iowa
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Greece
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Benton
Story
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Winnebago
Gilbert N Haugen
Worth County
Woodbury County
Jefferson County
Burlington
Des Moines County
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Wapello
Boone
Webster
New Sweden
Swede Point
Madrid
Bergholm
Swede Bend
Woodbury
Boone, Polk
Des Moines
Buena Vista
Montgomery and
Page
Polk
Christopher O Mynster
Council Bluffs
Shelby County
Audubon County
Pottawatttamie
Black Hawk
Linn County Young Farmer Club Planned
At a Cedar Rapids Farm Bureau meeting the Linn county group approved forming a young farmers club for members ages 21 to 30. A program committee led by Jessie Booth was named to arrange the first meeting on January 9. A second committee drafted recommendations for a permanent organization with Thomas Henderson chairing, including Lucille Huss and George Borghart.
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Linn County
Young Farmer Folk
County Farm Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Young Farmers Club
P. C. Taff
Ames Extension Service
Jessie Booth
Darrell Gilmore
Marion
William McGovern
Viola
Thomas Henderson
Coggan
Lucille Huss
Central City
George Borghart
Illinois crop income up thirty two million in 1934
Illinois farmers earned an estimated 181.379 million dollars from seven major crops in 1934, up 32.847 million from 1933. The gain centers on higher corn prices, with the 1934 corn value at 211.802 million compared with 78.662 million in 1933, despite a lengthy drought.
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Springfield
A. A J. Surratt
Federal
Departments of Agriculture
Surratt
Livestock Shipping Association Planned in Hopkinton
Farmers from South Fork and Union townships met in Hopkinton on Saturday afternoon to form a livestock shipping association. Principal speakers were Jim Poole Chicago livestock market reporter FE. L. Cady Ames extension specialist and Sam Thompson of Center Junction.
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Hopkinton
South Fork
Union Townships
Jim Poole
Chicago
FE. L. Cady
Ames
Sam Thompson
Center Junction
Hogs for sale listed in estate sale ad corrected
A misprint in the Sunday Sun advertisement for the A. B. Myers estate farm sale shows 46 hogs for sale instead of 16. The sale location is five and one half miles northeast of Marion and is dated December 19.
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A. B. Myers
Marion
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