Highlights In 1935 Iowa Farm Picture Parity Exceeded
The 1935 Iowa farm year saw hog prices peak at 10.90 per hundredweight in August and land values rise about 25 percent with top acres fetching 200 in December. Parity reached 128 percent of prewar in September while farm income and crop values climbed. Federal programs, electrification, soil erosion control, and AAA-related measures shaped policy, with cross-border trade talks and consumer attitudes also influencing the farm picture.
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Ray Anderson
Ighlights
Iowa
Board of Contract Review
Farm Classifieds Offer Stock Equipment and Supplies
To buy or sell farm stock farm equipment poultry and supplies feed hay and more read and use the Want Ads under classifications 38 and 39.
Fence Drift and New Year’s Wish for 1936 Nation
The poem reflects on Christmas dawn as pure snow and calls for the United States to regain its status as the best country to live in. It expresses hope that 1936 brings repatriation of worthy people and families who sought refuge abroad, and a rejection of ugliness.
Rural youth groups expand growth of 4 H clubs and future farms
Developments of the year highlight rapid growth of rural youth organizations with more than 4 H club age youth joining in increasing numbers. Future farmer groups are expanding in high schools and 4 H clubs are growing mightily.
Wallace Defended And Challenged In Suits At Chicago
Special to The Gazette reports two appeals filed with the Supreme Court challenge and defend Secretary Wallace power to fix handling rates at the Chicago stockyards. One appeal by Chicago livestock firms contests a 1934 rate cut, while government lawyers appeal a Dec. 3 ruling that Wallace could not ignore a request to raise rates effective November 1. Both rely on the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 granting rate fixing authority to the secretary of agriculture.
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The
Gazette
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Henry Wallace
Chicago
Wallace
Commission
Packers and Stockyards
Secretary of Agriculture
Demonstration Agents to Work in Twenty Iowa Counties
Mrs. Sarah Porter Ellis announces appointment of six home demonstration agents to cover ten counties. Ada Raake Gaede and Lenore Thorne begin work now. four others start in January. Assignments include Chickasaw Butler Floyd Mitchell Clay Dickinson Mahaska Milly Fremont Winneshick Winneshick replaced by Helena Dilger.
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Ames
Sarah Porter Ellis
Iowa
Ada Raake Gaede
Chickasaw
Butler
Lenore Thorne
Floyd
Mitchell
Selma Ekquist
Albert City
Clay
Dickinson
Laura Heddleson
Postville
Mahaska County
R. Phyllis Heins
Bayard
Milly
Fremont
Helena Dilger
Black Hawk
Winneshick
Hogs Reach Top December Price in Sixteen Years
Hog market reports show December top at 12.40 a hundredweight for light hogs in Chicago, the highest in sixteen years. Prices for wholesale fresh pork rose by 1 to 4 dollars per hundredweight compared with earlier in the month. Receipts at major markets were down roughly 5 percent week over week and 26 percent versus last year.
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Chicago
Pork Exports To England Fixed At 876 000 Lbs A Week
The British board of trade fixes the first six weeks of 1936 at the same weekly 876 000 pounds as the last 13 weeks of 1935. The United States quota is about 5 253 000 pounds for the period or 876 000 pounds weekly. The total non Empire pork quota remains about 1 196 000 000 pounds annually with Denmark 63.5 percent, Netherlands 9.5 percent, Poland 7.95 percent, Sweden 4.70 percent, United States 8.1 percent.
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Great Britain
British Board of Trade
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Washington
United States
Denmark
Netherlands
Poland
Sweden
Farm outlook meetings set in Alla makese county
Three farm outlook meetings are scheduled in Alla makee county on December 28 30 and 31 with sessions in Waukon Postville and Lansing respectively.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
Postville
Lansing
Night Hunting by a Country Woman
A narrator recalls a night hunting outing by ten boys including university students. They chase animals with dogs and flashlights, bag a possum and a tom cat before a fat coon ends the hunt. The piece reflects on simple home-made pleasures and rural joy.
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Tige
Iowa Farm Bureau Convention Scheduled January 15 17
DES MOINES the annual convention of the Iowa Farm Bureau federation will be held in Des Moines January 15 16 and 17. President Charles E Hearst announced the Iowa Farm and Home exposition will be held with the convention and a recognition program will open the event. The program will honor townships counties and individuals with music contests for county Farm Bureau male quartets women’s quartets and mixed voice quartets.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Charles E. Hearst
Iowa Farm and Home
Mules Reach New Highs in 1935 Valuation
Dr. Milton P. Jarnagin reports at the Horse and Mule Association meeting in Chicago that the average value of mules rose to 98.21 dollars in 1935, up from 81.54 in 1934, with total America mule and horse value at about 1.372 billion and mules at 470.9 million.
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United States
Milton P. Jarnagin
University of Georgia
Horse and Mule Association of America
Chicago
Horse
Mule Industry of America
Jarnagin
Georgia
Kansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
North Carolina
Missouri
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Oregon
Idaho
Farm Bureau Doubles Aid For England Dairy Champs
Black Hawk county Farm Bureau directors vote 300 toward expenses for the 1935 Black Hawk national dairy championship 4-H judging team to compete in England next summer. Team coached by Paul B. Barger and Tom Scott includes Vincent Kelley Kenneth Kramer Clinton Sage and Roy Miller as alternate. The Fayette county 4-H team, 1934 champions, placed fourth in Newcastle England last year.
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Waterloo
Black Hawk County Farm Bureau
Black Hawk
England
Paul B. Barger
Tom Scott
Vincent Kelley
Kenneth Kramer
Clinton Sage
Roy Miller
Fayette County
Newcastle
Corn Sealed in Iowa Under 1935 Loan Pact Reaches 6.1 Million
Des Moines AP reports assistant agriculture secretary H. C. Aaberg says 6,108,414 bushels of corn have been sealed in Iowa under 1935 loan agreements. Sealing continues through April 1.
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DES Moines
H. C. Aaberg
Agriculture
Iowa
Farm auction notices near Marengo and Marion
Friday December 27 Town Livestock Exchange sale at Cedar Rapids. James Vlasaty closes out sale two miles northeast of Marengo. Henry Bailey public sale three miles north of Mt Vernon. Floyd O Howard public sale four miles southeast of Marion.
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James Vlasaty
Marengo
Cedar Rapids
Henry Bailey
Mt. Vernon
Floyd O. Howard
Marion
Chick Production Surges Ahead of Last Season
The U S Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports November results from forty three hatchery plants showing a 10.7 percent rise in eggs set and a 37.3 percent jump in chicks hatched over November last year. December orders exceed last year by 11.5 percent while hatch projections for December face uncertainty due to prior heavy November settings and weak egg markets.
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United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Jackson Farmers Rebuy Their Surplus Porkers
MAQUOKETA Farmers in Jackson county routinely repurchase their surplus pigs sold under the 1935 corn hog program. Prices paid range from 2 to 10 dollars per animal, with proceeds going to the county poor fund. Some pigs were slaughtered and canned for distribution to the poor last year, though no canning setup exists this year.
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Maquoketa
Jackson County
County Poor'fund
Prairie State says grasshopper parasite shows high promise
University of Iowa zoology researchers report malighameba locustae as a highly probable method to control grasshoppers. Field tests in Muscatine Johnson and Linn counties show about five percent infection in baited hoppers versus two infected in 650 unbaited ones, with further trials planned for spring and lakeside plots near Okoboji.
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Iowa. City
University of Iowa Zoology Laboratories
R. King
University Zoology Department
King
University Lakeside
Lake Okoboji
Holiday Farmers Holiday Association Sets Dec 30 Convention
DES MOINES Iowa Farmers Holiday association schedules its annual convention for December 30 in Des Moines State President W D Keane says the date was moved to allow delegates to hear Milo Reno national president address a Des Moines forum Reno opposes the AAA and criticizes the Roosevelt Wallace policy Keane says farm sentiment is turning against the AAA and that thousands of farmers are joining the Holiday association in the cost of production battle
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Des Moines
Iowa Farmers Holiday Association
W. D. Keane
Panama
Keane
Milo Reno
National Association
Reno
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Secretaay of Agriculture
Henry A. Walace
Holiday Association
Erosion Control Project Maps 34 Clayton Farms
Officials announce 34 farms in the Farmersburg Mc Gregor soils area are mapped for an erosion control program. Cooperative agreements with the government will be drafted and submitted to landowners for signature as engineers inspect each farm to tailor plans with farmers.
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Clayton
Eleader
Farmersburg-McGregor
Erosion Control Service
Clayton County
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