Seventy-Seven 4-H Beeves Feed in Linn County
In Linn County 4 H youths weigh in seventy seven beef calves for market next fall. Breeds include 36 Shorthorns 22 Herefords and 19 Angus with 45 purebreds. Names reflect baseball radio and New Deal motifs among Marion Palo Center Point and Mount Vernon 4 H members.
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Ingle
Linn
Senate
Farm Bureau
Lee Sloan
Virgil Smyth
Albert Hindman
Ruth
Marguerite Michel
William Barnhart
Wayne Carpenter
Dale Thomas
Dale Goodyear
Donald Boddicker
Marion
Ralph Drake
Boyd Owens
Maxine Griffith
Curtis Hayes
Palo
Lawrence Workman
Howard Nelson
Kenneth
Berneice Shaffer
Walker
Marie
Dora
Carl Rockwood
Melvin Levasseur
Merrill Flitsch
Alburnett
Vincent Bading
Dale
George Sauer
Billie Lennox
Dora Rockwood
White Sox
Dale Sauer
Coggan
Glen Kester
Center Point
Jiggs
Pat
Mike
Dan Dunn
Popeye
Castor Oyl
Philip Hand
Amos and
Andy
New Deal
N.R.A
Lochinvar
Winifred Neal
Mount Vernon
Jerry
Grain Co-ops Back Research For Industrial Uses Of Farm Products
Iowa grain dealers endorsed the AAA and urged federal funds to study industrial uses for agricultural products. They proposed a research laboratory funded by federal relief for 1935 and praised crop stabilization and surplus absorption plans. The convention followed a speaker’s claim that most farm goods could serve industry without hurting food supply. Also noted is the China National Aviation Corp carrying 3,050 passengers and 152,000 pounds of mail in 1933.
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DES Moines
INS
Iowa
AAA
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
China National Aviation Corporation
Local Auction Promises Mixed Farm Goods and Livestock
An auction catalog lists four good Shorthorn cattle, 38 hogs, eight sheep, 200 houses and stores, hay, harness, tools, lunch, and farm equipment. RAY F WAUSER and WIL Tony Schmitz oversee the sale with noted figures Audt and Horsch. Additional items include 23 Hampshire cattle, pullets, brooder, grain, fodder, and farm machinery terms and grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray F. Wauser
Wil Tony Schmitz
Audt
Joe
Horsch
Hampshire
Fence Drift and Direct Marketing in Tama Commission Sale
A fragmented note mentions FENCE DRIFT and woven wire, alluding to state officials wary of direct marketing. It references Mike Hyland’s Tama commission firm set to sell liquor to a single buyer, with unclear connections to broader state action.
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R.F. A
Mike Hyland
Tama
4400 Head Cattle Bought by Uncle Sam in South Iowa
Special to The Gazette Ames Iowa drought relief director R K Bliss estimates that 4400 head of cattle were purchased in southern Iowa by the government in a program running from January 12 to Thursday. The federal fund of 1 million dollars financed a 60 000 head quota. Negative factors included bad roads mud and ice plus a buoyant cattle market which left buyers with mostly culls. Farmers held back hoping for higher prices, but Bliss notes the program still helped stabilize values in the drought area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
R. K. Bliss
Iowa
Bliss
Uncle Sam
Buttermaker In Grundy County For 35th Straight Year
Special to The Gazette Grundy Center B T Soles has been rehired as buttermaker of the Fern creamery in northern Grundy county for his thirty fifth consecutive year. At the thirty seventh annual meeting Fred Henze was re-elected president with J H Dieken as vice president and J Frater H Lumken J K Muller and J D Meester as directors. W H Henning was secretary. Creamery output showed 504775 pounds of butter produced with 243 percent overrun. Butter sales totaled 12502618 and patrons were paid 11555553.
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Grundy Center
B. T. Soles
Fern
Grundy County
Fred Henze
J. H. Dieken
J. Frater
H. Lumken
J. K. Muller
J. D. Meester
W. H. Henning
Ice Weather Forces Shift From Horses To Machinery In Iowa County
In Marengo Iowa County sleet ice covers ground forcing farmers to replace horses with tractors trucks and cars to move corn fodder and shocks. Only sharp hoofed horses can be used and danger remains due to footing. Spades and axes free corn shocks as crews fall behind usual speed. Four men normally load seven wagons now handle four wagons or trucks with seven loaders.
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Marengo
Clarence Creamery Meet Speaker at Dayton Creamery
Des Moines' former dairy and food inspectors chief B. O. Brownlee will address Dayton Creamery patrons at the Clarence Shipping association office during the annual meeting on February 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Creamery
Clarence
B. O. Brownlee
Des Moines
Dayton Creamery Company
Clarence Shipping Association
Hay and farm stock fetch strong prices at area sales
At the Robert Hulse closing out sale near Traer hay and crops drew high bids. Alfalfa hay sold 20.50 a ton. alfalfa foxtail mix 17.75. foxtail 10 to 13.55. New corn 956 bushels 78.5 cents. old corn 235 bushels 91.5 cents. Cattle and horses also sold well. Nearby North Liberty sale saw horses bring up to 408 and other farm stock at solid prices. A Bennett sale reported gilts at 22.50 and cribcorn 85.4 cents.
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Gazette
Traer
Robert Hulse
North Liberty
George Alt
Soam Reynolds
George Parizek
Bennett
Clarence Elliot
Cribcorn
Boling and Colby
Stanwood
Cascade
C. M. Maiers
Lawrence Peiffer
Frank Geisler
Auction totals and top prices from multiple Iowa county sales
In Columbus Junction Purebred Shorthorn yearling bulls averaged 103 dollars with buyers from Danville Lone Tree and Wapello paying up to 127 dollars. Cows averaged 51 dollars, horses sold from 60 to 100 dollars, hogs 4.50 to 6 cents per pound, and hay corn and seed sold at modest rates. Other sales near Cascade Anamosa and West Liberty reported top mares at 156 137 dollars and 172 dollars respectively with cattle and hogs varied by lot.
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Columbus Junction
C. E. Pierce
Evergreen Farms
J. H. Burgis
Danville
Til
Vern Burr
Lone Tree
George Grouwinkel
Wapello
A. D. Bradshaw
Smithshire
William Boyd
J. H. Nelson
Ill
Timothy
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Farrel Smylie
West Liberty
Cedar county meets on farm outlook and tax topics
Six Cedar county meetings are scheduled in the first two weeks of February under County Agent Emmett C. Gardner. The program will present information on the agricultural outlook farm business records income tax reports and the 1935 corn hog program.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Emmett C. Gardner
Farm Auction Schedule For Early February
Coming farm auctions on Saturday February 2 feature Anamosa consignment sale and Page and Bowman cattle auction in Maquoketa. February 4 sees W. J. Peet closing out sale at 414 miles SE Martelle. February 5 lists Irene L. Johnson 2 miles SE Mt. Vernon and Ray F. and Wm. G. Hauser 312 miles SE Vinton. February 6 covers Fred Huey 3 miles south Lisbon. February 7 lists A J Fuhrmeister farm sale ½ mile north Ely.
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Vinton
Fair Grounds Road
Page and Bowman Cattle Auction
Maquoketa
Vv. J. Peet
SE Martelle
Irene L. Johnson
Mt. Vernon
Ray F
Wm. G. Hauser
Fred Huey
Lisbon
A. J. Fuhrmeister
Ely
Henry County Added To Iowa TB Accredited List
Dr H H Seidell announced Thursday the accreditation of Henry county by the Iowa division of animal industry following tuberculin testing of cattle. Accreditation takes effect now with testers moved to Des Moines county, the only southeastern Iowa county not yet accredited.
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Mount Pleasant
H. H. Seidell
Division of
Animal Industry
Iowa
Henry County
Des Moines
Traer Traders Buy 35 Head of Horses at $110 Average
TRAER KO LMAN WEINBERG AND SON of Detroit bought more than thirty five head of horses from Tama county farmers for shipment this week. Single horses and teams averaged $110 per head. A farmer northwest of Traer sold a team of six and seven year old purebred roan mares for $350.
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TRAER
Kolman Weinberg and Son
Detroit
Mich
Tama County
Interior Hog Run Lightest on Record
Hog receipts at Iowa and southern Minnesota interior markets in January were the lightest on record. Total interior runs fell 48 percent from January 1934, with 599,600 head versus 1,155,000. terminal markets dropped 50 percent from a year earlier amid sluggish demand and lower prices across weight classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Sign-Up Totals for 1935 Corn Hog Program in Dubuque
Dubuque county reports 659 signers from ten townships for 1935 corn and hog contracts on Wednesday. Liberty township leads with 85, Taylor and Epworth report 80, while road conditions hinder sign-ups. Final figures may equal or exceed 1,503 in 1934. MARENGO reports 17 township meetings next week to explain the program and notes third payments of about 236000 follow final compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Dubuque County
F. R. Kerrigan
Liberty
Luxemburg
Taylor
Epworth
Kerrigan
Second corn hog payment arrives for Grundy county
The second installment for Grundy county corn hog checks reached 24206.08 on Wednesday. An additional 94000 is due, bringing the second payment total to 118206. About 50 to 60 percent of farmers have signed the contracts.
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Grundy Center
Grundy County
Farmers Delayed by Bad Roads Sign Up Plans in 1935
In 1935 many farmers are expected to register despite poor road conditions. The bad state of roads has kept many farmers from traveling to county headquarters to sign up, delaying the process.
1935 corn hog program info spread in Iowa county
Iowa City reports most of 73805.58 second payments to corn hog contract signers distributed. County Agent S Lysle Duncan says checks arriving this week will be issued next week. Meetings planned in townships, training for contracts underway as 1935 officers to be elected after outreach. Anamosa reports Lorenzen leading township meetings in Jones County with sign up events Friday and Saturday.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
S. Lysle Duncan
Duncan
Anamosa
L. T. Lorenzen
Jones County
Kal Lennabach Tops Clinton County Corn and Hog Contract Signers
F H Kal len n, longtime resident about three and a half miles southwest of Grand Mound, becomes the first in Clinton county to sign a 1935 corn and hog contract application.
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Grand Mound
F. H. Kallenbach
Clinton County
Yearlings Bring $13 At Chicago Sale
Washington Iowa livestock buyer Sam Turkington sold twenty three yearlings averaging 1017 pounds Wednesday in Chicago at 13 dollars per hundredweight.
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the Gazette
Washington
Sam Turkington
Chicago
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Dizzy
Daffy Dean
Harold Ingle
Linn County
Liam G. Nauser, c.Carrier
South
Iowa County
West Liberty Sale
Cedar Farm
Tracr
Yrregular
Department of Agriculture
Union
D. H. Zentmire
Johnson County
Clinton
Okie Wom
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Motor’ CO
Michigan
G.M.A.C
Flint
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