Interest In Iowa Farm Land As Investment Revived
The Iowa farm land boom reflects rising prices and stronger demand from investors and farmers alike. Eastern capital seeks land, lenders foreclose on farms, and farmers ease mortgage access as inflation expectations lift purchase interest. Officials note three buyer groups and a political push to cut property taxes while commodity prices climb.
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Iowa
Towa
X Commission
Gerard Nollen
Equitable Insurance Company of
Town
Nollen
Gibson Man Has High Herd Among Mahaska Testers
DELTA Clair Werner of Gibson led December results in the Mahaska Cow Testing association with ten Jerseys averaging 738 pounds milk and 39.8 pounds butterfat. Otis Taylor of Delta followed with eleven Holsteins at 939 pounds milk and 31.2 butterfat. Stevens and Evans of Otumwa owned the high cow No 42, delivering 1 364 pounds milk and 70.9 butterfat. The association's average butterfat cost 13.2 cents per pound, high herd 12.08, low herd 15.42.
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DELTA
Clair Werner
Gibson
Mahaska
Frank Fry
Otis Taylor
Stevens and Evans
Ottumwa
Association
Cows Top $30 At Anamosa Weekly Sale
Cows brought $30 at the Anamosa weekly consignment sale on Saturday. Feeding shoots sold for $3.90 each, young boars $11 each, and calves about one year old $11.75 each. Lee Bebee served as auctioneer.
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Anamosa
Lee Bebee
Keokuk County Farm Bureau quartets to present program
The Keokuk County Farm Bureau will present a program at the Methodist church in What Cheer on Wednesday. The women's and mixed quartets recently won the national championship in Chicago, while the men's quartet holds the state championship.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Cold weather drives Calmar crew to finish sewer work
Despite frigid conditions the CWA crew in Calmar pressed on with the storm sewer project. Workers completed a section on Saturday and on Tuesday were sent to the Zeman stone quarry to crush rock for side street paving.
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CWA
Zeman
Keokuk 4-H Boys Attend Ames Short Course
A group of 4-H club boys from Keokuk county traveled to Ames for a three day short course. Attendees included Billy Yates Dwight Zepp Jimmy Werner Clair Werner Ronald Bates Myron Sorden and Herbert Dawson with Oscar Dawson accompanying the group.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Ames
Billy Yates
Dwight Zepp
Jimmy Werner
Clair Werner
Ronald Bates
Myron Sorden
Herbert Dawson
Oscar Dawson
Thirty Exhibits in Junior Corn Show
Iowa State College extension service hosts 4-H junior corn show with 325 4-H boys and 30 leaders from about 35 counties registered for the short course. Livestock and crops judging contests start Thursday with expected attendance above 400. Awards for best individual samples and top county aggregate. Banquet Thursday night features Rev. J. N. Nightingale. Friday science talks by H. H. Kildee and George Godfrey after winners announced.
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Ames
Extension Service
Iowa State College
J. N. Nightingale
Valley Junction
H. H. Kildee
George Godfrey
Stalks Prove Poor Feed for dairy Cows in Iowa Study
Special to The Gazette. Ames dairy farmers testing feed say cornstalks cut milk output and butterfat. Delbert Mayberry reports one member lost about 50 pounds of milk per day, equating to 1,500 pounds monthly and $19.40 at 26 cents a pound butterfat. Mitchel Wickel notes November feeding reduced butterfat by 12 pounds per cow and $30.50 monthly. Kenneth Littlefield cites farms not in fields averaging 32 pounds butterfat. those feeding stalks averaged 15.2 pounds.
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AMES
Ames Dairy Extension Service
Delbert Mayberry
Teater
Anamosa
Mayberry
Mitchel Wickel
Osceola-Lyon Association
Mr. Wickel
Kenneth Littlefield
Pocahontas-Humboldt Association
Farmer and hired man bag 30-pound badger near Vinton
L P Herger and his hired man Ray LaGrange trapped a 30 pound badger on the Herger farm northwest of Vinton. It is the first badger reported in years in the area. The farm is described as exceptionally fine and the hide will be preserved.
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Vinton
L. P. Herger
Ray LaGrange
Herger
Corn loan applications filed in Keokuk County
Record shows 220 corn loan applications totaling nearly $100000 at Keokuk County Recorder's Office. Among large loans, Charles Reinert of near Delta filed for five cribs totaling 6786 dollars.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County Recorder’s
Charles Relnert
Delta
Raising Alfalfa Along Cedar River Banks Plan
A Cedar Falls proposal envisions growing alfalfa on the Cedar River banks in northeastern Iowa with hopes of federal CWA aid. Proponents say the land can yield high profits and would spur similar projects, suggesting lime from local quarries and government funding for seed and rock crushers to supply lime.
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Cedar Falls
aNa
Cedar River
Iowa
A. H. Refshauge
H. E. Harvey
A. C. Wilford
Washington
Wilford
Refshauge
Jackson County Farmers Seal Corn
Maquoreta corn loans in Jackson county total $32 160 75.66 farmers have secured loans on 88 cribs of corn. The county is not a corn selling county but some farmers will seal cribs instead of feeding stock this winter. Stockmen expect corn may need to be shipped into the county as the annual supply is used.
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Maquoreta
Jackson County
Cedar County Corn Loans Reach $137 519 Total
Cedar County's corn loan total rises to 137519.56 with 227 loans filed in the recorder's office. Tuesday and Wednesday filings include Louis H. Moeller 607.50 and W. W. Lawton 768.60 among others such as F. W. Hinkhouse 9678 and E. F. Wallick 2574.06.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Recorder’s Office
Louis H. Moeller
W.W. Lawton
F. W. Hinkhouse
Fred Syring
J. N. Witmer
C. R. Life Ins
Clarence W. Ogden
H. H. Crist
Record in Cutting Government Red Tape
Lisbon one hour fifteen minutes from three to four fifteen p m was needed by E B Sisler of Stanwood to obtain a federal loan certificate for his corn crib from Sealer W T Jack, notarize at Union Trust and Savings Bank and record at Tipton, for prompt payment at Stanwood bank. Washington L R Bates of Riverside builds private stockyards with capacity for five to six loads of hogs. New scales and a loading chute for double decked trucks installed. Last week about 100000 pounds of pork shipped to Chicago in Bates and North trucks. Bates property at old mill site south of Riverside.
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Lisbon
E. B. Sisler
Stanwood
W. T. Jack
Union Trust and Savings Bank of
Tipton
Stanwood Bank
Washington
L. R. Bates
Riverside
Chicago
Bates
Would Out Dairy Plan Aims Two Eradications
Iowa officials propose using emergency federal funds to finish bovine tuberculosis eradication and remove about 35,000 dairy cows. The plan seeks to accelerate indemnity payments and speed accreditation across counties, potentially making Iowa TB free in a little over a year. Nationwide, 600,000 tubercular cows exist, with 300,000 in New York and 150,000 in California, and a broader campaign could remove up to 2,000,000 cows to solve the surplus.
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Ray Anderson
Des Moines
Ray Murray
H. A. Seidell
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Seidel
Towa
Seidell
Mur
Bureau of Animal Industry
Chicago
United States
New York
California
Washington
Murray
Corn Hog And War Programs Similar But Goals Differ
Ames Iowa State College extension chief R K Bliss compares the corn hog program to World War food drives, noting both require adjustments but now aim downward. He cites 1 317 meetings with 226 073 attendees and says more meetings will push the statewide total to about 5 000 as contracts near signing.
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Ames
Iowa
R. K. Bliss
Iowa State College
Bliss
United States
America
Rowley Creamery Pays Butterfat For November Half
Patrons of Rowley Farmers Co operative Creamery receive payment for butterfat. Secretary Albert F Sloan reports 21 cents per pound for the last half of November and 23 cents for the first half of November.
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Rowley
Rowley Farmers Co-operative Creamery Company
Albert F. Sloan
Farm Housing Survey To Be Conducted In Benton County
Benton county officials were notified that Benton has been selected as one of ten Iowa counties for a government farm housing survey. J. H. Milroy says the survey team includes a home economics expert, an engineer assistant, eleven field workers and three clerks to collect and tabulate data from farm homes.
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Vinton
Benton County
OWA
Benton
Iowa
J. H. Milroy
CWA
New Eastern Star Officers Named In NAWKEYE Chapter
NAWKEYE announces officers including Worthy Matron Mrs Walter Robinson and Worthy Patron Walter Robinson. Associate Matron Mrs James Barrett and Associate Patron James Barrett, Conductress Mrs Nate Tibbitts and Associate Conductress Mrs L W Sachs. Secretary Miss Jennie Smith and Treasurer Mrs L H Houth.
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Nawkeye
New Eastern Star
Walter Robinson
James Barrett
Nate Tibbitts
L. W. Sachs
Jennie Smith
L. H. Houth
Coming Farm Auctions Friday December Second
A consignment sale is listed at DeClow yards on Marion boulevard followed by the Iowa Livestock Exchange Auction at C. RR. & I. OC. Stockyards in Cedar Rapids. The notice names multiple auction venues and a firm schedule for farm equipment and livestock sales.
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DeClow Yards
Marion Boulevard
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Belgian Percheron sale at Columbus Junction fetches good prices
A closing out sale at Midway sale pavilion Columbus Junction featured Belgian Percheron mares and colts consigned by Harve Goodman of Letts. Prices ranged with matched pairs bringing 305 and 90 85 dollars, a mare and gelding selling for 140, and several 60 to 128 dollar entries. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and H. M. Duncan. Farrel Smylie was clerk.
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Columbus Junction
Harve Goodman
Letts
Midway Sale Pavilion
C. W. Walker
Earlingham
Albert Hall
John McNeider
Attalissa
Eugene Fletcher
Winfield
Elmer Davidson
Oakville
John Harvey
R. F. Smyle and Sons
Ted Donaldson
Keota
T. A. Ainsworth
Wayland
Chester Houser
Crawfordsville
John R. Williama
R. J. Lambert
Washington
G. W. Weber
Columbus’ Junction
Isaac Kleese
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Farrel Smylie
Training School For Rural Housing Survey Completed
AMES A school of instruction for home economics trained CWA workers who are to supervise the rural housing survey in Iowa closed Wednesday night at Iowa State college. Dr Margaret Rela announced the counties to be studied Scott Broux Webster Mitchell Fayette Benton Story Madison Shelby and Davis. Supervisors will hire field workers and clerks and supervise the survey using home economics trained women from the CWA list of unemployed. R K Bliss spoke on cooperation between CWA workers and extension staff.
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Ames
CWA
Iowa
Iowa State College
Margaret Rela
Soott
Broux
Webster
Mitchell
Fayette
Benton
Story
Madison
Shelby
Davis
R. K. Bliss
Agriculture
al Extension
Iowa State
Corn Loan Total In Iowa County Reaches $113893
Iowa county corn loans totaled 113893 dollars as of Wednesday night with 198 borrowers and 292 cribs represented. New loans include Are mand Wallace 474.75 Dora and Theo Van Hamme 630 Spratt Brothers 345.60 C. W. Rowland 270 and many others listed, with Iowa Valley Canning Co. and attorneys noted in filing certificates.
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Marengo
Iowa County
Roy G
Aremand Wallace
Dora
Theo van Hamme
Spratt Brothers
C. W. Rowland
W. F. Callahan
L. H. Brecht
O. L. Olson
J. A. Kelgan
Stephen Berry
Roy Collingwood
3. M. Coover
Russell and
Ry Y T. Conn
Henry Koehn
Irving Gingerich
Elmer Schulte
N. H. Feldaverd
Minnie L. Walker
R. C. Andereson
Arthur @G
Schwarting
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