Development Of Hybrid Hogs At Ames Farm For Genetics Lab
A hog genetics project is urged to Secretary Wallace to establish a laboratory and experimental farm at Ames to breed hybrid hogs with superior traits. The plan would cover multiple midwest states and is funded by the Bankhead Jones act, with Iowa centered in the project.
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Ames
Henry Wallace
United States Department of Agriculture
Middle West Agricultural Experiment Stations
Chicago
R. E. Buchanan
Iowa Station
Ames Laboratory
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Wisconsin
Missouri
Illinois
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Buchanan
J. A. Lush
Lush
Wallace
United States
Hannibal
Jersey
Denmark
Fence Drift at Cedar Rapids Market Sparks Protests
A cattle feeder vents frustration over 50 cent price breaks and arbitrary 3 percent shrinks by packers. He argues for united action by town and rural producers to pressure for market reforms and protection for small feeders facing crippling daily declines.
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Packer
Cedar Rapids
Farm Bureaus In Delaware And Johnson Decline To Boost Fees
Two eastern Iowa county Farm Bureaus in annual session Monday voted against raising dues to 10 dollars. Delaware and Johnson counties rejected the proposed increase while Linn and Fayette counties had previously voted down higher fees. Delaware county's Manchester meeting approved 40 to 10 against the raise and Johnson county, Iowa City, postponed any action indefinitely.
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Farm
Delaware and
Johnson
Iowa County
Delaware County
Johnson County
Linn
Fayette
Delaware
Manchester
Iowa City
Farm Bureaus
Iowa
National Federation
Des Moines
District meetings outline 1937 farm program in Iowa
Special to The Gazette Ames Iowa district conferences January 4 to 8 will explain the 1937 agricultural conservation program to county committeemen and agents. A new schedule for the county agricultural planning project and district soil conservation meetings is announced with dates and locations across multiple towns. Township committeemen will be elected and the AAA program presented at township meetings soon after.
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AMES
J. W. Merrill
R. K. Bliss
AAA
Denison
Cedar Rapids
Red Oak
Oelwein
Chariton
Mason City
Fairfield
Spencer
Webster City
Toledo
Emmetsburg
Charles City
LeMars
Elkader
Oakland
Muscatine
Hog market remains steady amid fewer hogs available
Economists in Ames report a Sellers' Market with sharp hog price declines and reduced offerings. They expect orderly marketing and price strength to continue as the fall seems past. Cold storage holdings rise for lard meats poultry and butter as packers prep for shortages later in the year. Egg supplies are favorable for producers but open winter weather could alter this dynamic.
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Gazette
AMES
Cows Top At 52 50 In Columbus Junction Sale
Cows ranged from 35 to 52.50 at the Finis Harbison sale seven miles west of Columbus Junction Monday. A Shorthorn bull brought 36, four calves averaged 20, five work horses averaged 37.50, and a 900 pound pony sold for 30. Hampshire feeding shoots sold 9 to 11, Barred Rock pullets 60 cents, seed corn 2 cents a ear, and eight tons of cow pea hay 9.50 a ton.
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Columbus Junction
Finis Harbison
Hampshire
Livestock Sells Well In Auction Near Stanwood
Six year old black mares led the sale at the Lewis Moore auction one mile southeast of Stanwood bringing 365 dollars. The day’s offerings included a bay mare, colt, cows, steers, calves, hogs, lambs, and grain with prices from 10 to 365 dollars, and sixteen hundred bushels of corn sold for 1.06 a bushel.
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Gazette
Stanwood
Lewis Moore
Poland
China
Farm Auction Schedule for December Holidays
The notice lists multiple sale events in Iowa. Pavelka closes out sale 5% miles northeast of Solon and Martha Merritt closes out sale 3 miles west of Waubeek on Wednesday December 23. Thursday December 24 features a Beverly consignment sale a Tipton community sale and a sale at the Iowa Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids. Saturday December 26 includes a sale at the Anamosa sale pavilion.
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Pavelka
Solon
Martha Merritt
Waubeek
Beverly
Tipton
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Grasshoppers Poised for Record Infestation Across Midwest
Agricultural experts in Iowa Nebraska Illinois Kansas Iowa warn 1937 could bring the worst grasshopper outbreak in history with half of Iowa counties likely heavily infested. Nebraska and Illinois officials report eggs abundant and warn heavy losses unless spring weather favors control. States seek $5 million federal aid for control programs and poison bait supplies.
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Iowa
Nebraska
Illinois
United States
C. J. Drake
Corn Belt
Omaha
Drake
L. M. Gates
T. H. Frison
Illinois State Natural History Survey
W. P. Flint
Dean H. L. Walster
North Dakota Agricultural College
North Dakota
C. A. Russell
South Dakota
Horse Show Set for West Liberty January 7
West Liberty hosts a horse show on January 7 featuring fifteen classes including best individuals in age groups and draft categories. A parade of all entries is planned for the afternoon.
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West Liberty
Eight Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty-One Bushels Sealed in Benton
VINTON The two corn sealings in Benton county during November have increased to ten to date, according to the county corn sealing committee report. A total of 8,921 bushels in this county, mostly in the northern part, have been sealed.
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Vinton
Benton County
County
Farm Bureau choruses organized in Sigourney and South English
Two Farm Bureau choirs formed in Keokuk county this winter. One gathers in Sigourney led by Mrs Maurice Soulis the county music chairman, the other in South English directed by Mrs Glen Groves.
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Sigourney
Farm Bureau
Keokuk County
Maurice Soulis
South English
Glen Groves
Lone Tree Belgian Breeders Form Group and Buy Stallion
Forty farmers north of Lone Tree formed the Lone Tree Belgian Breeders association and purchased a stallion. William Cerney was elected president of the new group.
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Lone Tree
Lone Tree Belgian Breeders Association
William Cerney
Drovers Journal Sees Little Threat From Canadian Beef
The Drovers Journal editors say Canadian cattle and beef imports pose little risk to US markets unless focused on plainer grade beef. They compare past tariffs and import volumes from 1935 to 1936 and note shifts in dressed beef imports and cattle slaughter supplies in both countries.
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Drovers Journal
Canada
Daily Drovers Journal
Chicago Livestock Market
United States
Chicago
Resettlement to Become Permanent U.S.D.A. Agency
Washington report notes plans to make the Resettlement Administration a permanent farm relief arm within the Agriculture Department starting January 1, 1937. President Roosevelt expected to sign the order, with Rexford Tugwell resigning and William W. Alexander named his successor.
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Washington
Resettlement Administration
Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Rexford Guy Tugwell
William W. Alexander
Henry A. Wallace
WPA RA shifts focus from drought relief to housing and farming
The RA completes low cost housing near Washington, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati while critics call the projects wasteful and competing with private building. It plans to relocate 250,000 farm families on relief and aid 150,000 more via loans and grants. Resettlement film production is to end, with The Plow That Broke the Plains as its only full length release. Wallace and Tugwell urge placing the RA under the agriculture department.
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WPA
Washington, D. C
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Wallace
Tugwell
Roosevelt
Department of Agriculture
Farm sales in Kansas barter 24 000 sacks of potatoes
The Farm Journal notes Frank Roark of Scott City Kansas sold his 160 acre farm in 1936 for 24 000 sacks of potatoes in annual installments of 2 400 sacks over ten years.
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The
Farm Journal
Frank Roark
Scott City
Kan
Shelled corn stolen from farm near Vinton
About 200 bushels of shelled corn were stolen from the George St. Clair farm northwest of here, Sheriff Leland A. Fry reported Monday. The corn was believed taken early Sunday morning from the unoccupied farm.
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Vinton
George St. Clair
Here
Leland A. Fry
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