110 Acre Farm Near Marengo Adopts Commodity Rent Plan
Frank Shelley and tenant Grafton Slaymaker agree to a lease paid in corn instead of cash. The 110 usable acres rent at 16.36 bushels per acre based on 1 800 bushels total and the average local prices on July 15 1933 and Jan 15 1934. If prices average 30 cents a bushel the landlord nets 4.80 per acre. lower prices reduce cash value accordingly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Shelley
Marengo
Grafton Slaymaker
Shelley
Herd Improvement Plan Inaugurated At Amana Villages
A dairy herd improvement program started at the Amana villages a month ago with Rudolph Pitz in charge and gained momentum after Earl Shultz of the Ames extension service met with the dairy foremen and milkers for a coordinating session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bpccial
Middle Amana
Amana
Rudolph Pitz
Middle In
Earl Shultz
Ames Extension Service
Fence Drift Caught in the Even Wire
A column by R F A argues against bribing farmers to cut basic crops. He suggests seed dealers would push clovers to fill slack in production, noting farmers would turn to alternatives amid policy talk.
Farm managers discuss profitable production
Mr Shultz backs the cow testing program at the colonies and suggests efficiency gains. Under Mr Pitz supervision milkers and caretakers weigh feed and milk and cull cows not returning a profit above feed cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Shultz
Mr. Pitz
Consignment Sale Draws Crowd at Columbus Junction
At Columbus Junction, the season's largest crowd attended a Tuesday sale. Twenty five horses sold from 30 to 147.50 a head, a 5 and 6 year old team brought 295, a mule span 160, shoats 1 to 5.15, pigs to 9.90, cows 15 to 35, calves 8 to 21, chickens 0.45 to 0.75, beef quarters 6.70 a lb, hedge posts 0.25 each, a 1932 Wehr auto sold for 300, another for 950. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and H M Duncan. An remark lists West Quoddy Head and Cape Alva as extreme points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Peter Yoo
Rhode Island
Paul Klotz
H M Duncan
Sugar from wild sunflowers eyed as new Iowa crop breakthrough
Iowa State College chemists claim a semi commercial process can extract levulose from Jerusalem artichoke tubers yielding about 50 pounds of 99.5 percent sugar per day. They estimate large scale production could cut price to 20 cents per pound, with potential medical and food industry uses, while noting no factories exist yet and market demand remains limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Corn Belt
Iowa State College
North America
Bureau of Standards
Washington, D. C
John Buchanan
R. M. Hixon
J . McGrumphy
J. W. Eichinger, Jr
E. S Haber
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa Experiment Station
J B Davidson
Iowa State College Agricultural Engineering Department
O. R. Sweeney
Chemical Engineering
Iowa State
Dissolution and consignments at Iowa farm auctions
A dissolution sale is planned for Thursday December 22 twenty one miles west of Waubeek by A F Schley and Jarvis Crew. On Friday December 23 a consignments sale will be held at the De Clow barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waubeek
A. F. Schley
Jarvis Crew
de Clow Barn
Miller elected head of Farm Bureau in Louisa
WAPELLO L L Miller of Wapello was elected president of the Louisa county Farm Bureau at the annual meeting in Louisa Monday. Officiating officers include Harold McCormac Letts vice president Kenneth Wiederrecht Wapello secretary Earl Devore Wapello treasurer Mrs Earl Smith home project chairwoman Mrs J B Garrett Letts girls 4 H club chair man Harry Duncan Columbus Junction boys 4 H club chairman and Wesley Shipman assistant. C W Huntley of the Iowa Farm Bureau federation delivered the principal address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wapello
L. M. Miller
Louisa County Farm Bureau
Harold McCormac
Letts
Kenneth Wiederrecht
Earl Devore
Earl Smith
J B. Garrett
Harry Duncan
Columbus Junction
Wesley Shipman
C W Huntley
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
State Committee On Tax Reduction
Chamber Proposes Crop Control Bonus Plan
Des Moines AP Iowa farmers would get about 36.7 million dollars from a 289 million federal bonus for crop limitation under a Chamber of Commerce proposal. Payments depend on 10 to 20 percent acreage reductions with 4 dollars per acre on wheat 3 on oats and 5 on corn. Iowa would cut about 2.69 million acres. Hog marketing would earn 12 dollars per hundredweight for lighter weights. Henry A Wallace said the plan mirrors the Jones bill for voluntary domestic allotment funded by excise taxes on packers and processors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Agricultural Committee
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Chamber
Chambers of Commerce
National Organization
United States Treasury
Henry A Wallace
Maquoketa
Wallace
Fayette Test Group Shows 18.1 Butter Fat in November
In Fayette County Cow Test association No 3 November report eleven cows topped forty pounds of butterfat with nine over fifty and one at sixty. Carl Miehe led the herd of thirteen Holsteins with 857 pounds milk and 29.2 fat. H H Belding’s purebred Guernsey produced 1134 pounds milk and sixty fat. Ensilage and soy bean hay common feeds. members used fodder linseed oilmeal and ground soy beans in rations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
Fayette County
Guernsey
H.H Belding
Ensilage
Shallabarger To Judge Poultry At Clinton Exposition
Clinton Iowa AP announces Iowa state poultry show judges for December 28 to 31. Frank Shallabarger West Liberty will judge hatchery Brahmans Cochins Buff Leghorns Cornish S Cochins Bantams and more. Cleve Stout Fort Wayne will judge Barred and White Rocks and other varieties. Earl Smiley Seward will judge bantams water fowls Austrolorps. About 1500 birds expected and judges finish first day.
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Clinton
C. E. Smith
Frank Shallabarger
West Liberty
Harry Atkins
Davenport
Rhode Island
Cleve Stout
Fort Wayne
Ind
United States
Canada
Menorcas
Earl Smiley
Seward
Neb
R. E. Pierce
Lorento
Julius Kilepke
Eldora
W. H. Harris
Reinbeck
W. M. Vernon
Iowa State College Extension Department
Mr. Smith Exaes
Short Course To Start With Weed And Seed Study
Fayette county Farm Bureau organizes a youth education program starting Jan 10 and running weekly through late February at Upper Iowa University. Sessions cover weeds and seeds beef and hog feeding grain and forage crops dairy feeding and breeding poultry fruit tree work horse feeding and management with cooperative marketing and brief talks by Ames extension service staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayette
Fayette County
W. M. Vernon
H. E. Nichols
Ames Extension Service
Harry Linn
Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders Association
B. W. Lodwick
Upper Iowa University
Self feeder used by Clinton county poultrymen
County Agent A. M. Kirby reports a simple self feeder in use in northern Clinton county. A steel rimmed wheel supports a flat wooden platform with an inverted barrel resting on the spokes, leaving a four inch feeding space between barrel rim and wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt
Clinton County
A. M. Kirby
105 Acres in Linn Sell for 11000
ROBINS The A P Burgess farm of 105 acres two miles south of Robins sold Tuesday to Walter L Rath for 11000. A 5 acre tract near Living Spring school south of Lou isa was accepted by Burgess as part payment. The balance paid in cash. Fifty acres tillable and fifty five timber. The house and barn in good condition. A 20 acre tract near Toddville sold to Annie Berger. Both transactions handled by Childs Realty of Cedar Rapids. Blairstown Gus Steinford bought 144 acre farm near Marengo for 7000 in cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robins
A. P. Burgess
Walter L. Rath
Mr. Rath
Living Spring School
Louisa
Burgess
James W. Good
August Ellis
Toddville
Annie Berger
Childs Realty Company
Cedar Rapids
Blairstown
Gus Steinford
Arthur McKusker
Marengo
Grafton Slaymaker
Mr. Steinford
Cattle Prices Hit $5.50 At Chicago Market
William Schaefer a town county farmer from Marengo shipped two loads of mixed yearlings to Chicago. They sold at five dollars fifty cents per hundredweight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marengo
William Schaefer
Chicago
Butterfat Loss From Defective Separator Highlighted
Jones county Dairy notes a November loss of 1.70 dollars in butterfat due to a broken separator oil cup and worn spindle bushing. Repairs would have cost 0.15 dollars, prompting Howard Klinetop to urge da irymen to keep separators in repair to prevent further losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Jones County Cow Test Association
Howard Klinetop
Klinetop
Creameries pay 24 cents for November butterfat
Sand Spring creamery patrons received 26 cents a pound for November butterfat at a recent board meeting Ed Cox was named manager and secretary John Batchelder became buttermaker and Dave Wilson to haul cream Wilson earns 14 percent of a butterfat pound Maynard Cooperative creamery patrons receive 24 cents a pound for November butterfat announced by secretary C H Paul The annual meeting is set for January 2
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sand Spring
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company
Ed Cox
John Batchelder
Dave Wilson
Wilson
Maynard
Maynard Co-operative Creamery
C. H. Paul
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Audubon County
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Slaymaker
Shelley Farm
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Cape Alva, Wash
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Third Ave
Walter M. Krebs
Mgr
Gazette
Proof Gazette
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Chamber OF Commerce
Clinton Exposition
First Street
U.S
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Stephenson’s Part Wool Men’s Union Suits
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Women's Union
Rockford
Union
Publix
Linn
Goodrich
Silvertown
Goodrich Silvertown
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Pennrich Motor Oil
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Silvertowan
Second Avenue E
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Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
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