End Of January Hog-Corn Ratio Unfavorable At 9
The United States hog corn ratio at January end stood at 9, below the 1928-32 Feb 1 average of 11.3, meaning 100 pounds of live hog trade for 9 bushels of corn. Steer-corn ratio was 9.6 versus a 17.1 five year average, as feed grain markets weakened due to weak livestock demand. Atlanta demand info and Argentine corn imports plus prices for March and May shipments are noted. Groundhog and porcupine ice forecast hints warn of an early spring amid feed shortages for squirrels on the ice.
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Chicago
United States
Grain Market Review
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Washington
Atlanta
Atlantic Seaboard
Atlantic Coast
New Orleans
Ministry of Agriculture
Buenos Aires
Farm Sale Near Maynard Sells Soybeans At $165 A Bushel
Special to The Gazette reports soybeans sold for 165 per bushel at the Fred Kopp auction southwest of Maynard. Other farm items brought varied prices including oats 50 to 53 cents per bushel and cribs and tools. A team of five year old mares and cattle also featured in the sale with totals reaching thousands.
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The
Gazette
Maynard
Fred Kopp
Jesup
Allen
Thursade
Cedar Rapids
Auction Prices at Local Livestock Sale
A roan mare and a colt sold for 105 dollars and a suckling colt for 60 dollars. Cows brought 30 to 65 dollars, veal calves 15, sheep 6, feeding shoats 5 to 10. Two jenny mules weighed 2700 pounds sold for 100 dollars. Harness 2 to 10 dollars per set, horse collars 0.50 to 150 dollars. Paul Klotz of Columbus Junction acted as auctioneer and Elmer Ruthenberg of Muscatine was clerk.
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Paul Klotz
Columbus Junction
Elmer Ruthenberg
Muscatine
Harvey Badelier closing out sale at Wilton Junction
Horses sold from 122.50 to 190 a head near Wilton Junction. Cattle topped at 80, calves 25 each, shoats 7.50. Chickens 90 cents, roosters 1.40. Sale took place Thursday with buyers and sellers present.
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Wilton Junction
Harvey Badelier
Iowa County 4-Hers Enter 1937 Beef Calf Projects
Special to The Gazette Marengo Iowa county Club Agent R W Ashby enrolled 53 4 H members with 73 calves in the baby beef project for 1937. Nineteen members feed 28 Herefords and 28 Angus, while 15 feed 17 Shorthorns. Nine members own 16 heifers in the beef heifer project with 2 Herefords 9 Angus and 5 Shorthorns.
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Marengo
Iowa
R. W. Ashby
Iowa County
Colesburg Creamery reelects directors at annual meeting
At the Colesburg Cooperative Creamery annual meeting on Saturday the directors reelected include Stanley Ross John Keck HF Barnhart Wilhe L Like and Arthur G Gull. Arthur C Honn remains as buttermaker.
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Colesburg
Colesburg Cooperetive Creamery Company
Stanley Ross
John Keck
HF Barnhart Wilhe L. Like
Arthur G Gull
Arthur C Honn
Farm Auction Listings for February Second
Auction notices from Bell Alburnett Center Point Tawrence Pramieburg Stockhilmn and Landissola near Oxford and Anamosa announce closing out sales and a horse sale. Listings specify locations and distances with multiple small farms offering goods and livestock for sale.
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Tawrence
Reouves
Pramieburg Stockhilmn
Landissola
Oxford
Anamosa
Mostly About Hogs BY A COUNTRY WOMAN
A domestic essay describes loading hogs for Chicago amid ice and hardship. The narrator notes rising corn prices and debates profitability of feeding versus selling grain, while the husband argues hogs yield more money than grain farming and the couple contemplates the future of their hog operation.
Horsemen Meeting Set for Farm and Home Week in Ames
Des Moines reports a large attendance is expected for a Feb 10 horse program during Farm and Home week in Ames. Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders association official Harry Linn will present, with R F Hudson from Michigan State College discussing eastern trade costs and draft horse breeder cooperation. Talks include European breeding by Linn and Belgian breeder Thomas R Holbert. Ames staffer C F Curtiss will discuss possible spring stallion shows in Iowa.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Ames
Harry Linn
Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders Association
R. F. Hudson
Michigan State College
Thomas R. Holbert
Greeley
C. F Curtiss
Towa
Feed Loan Limit Raised in Nebraska and South Dakota
The re settlement administration raised its feed loan limit in Nebraska and South Dakota from twelve to eighteen animal units after lobbying by prairie state lawmakers. The rule applies to loans for feed for one cow or horse, 1090 chickens, two head of young livestock, seven sheep, five hogs, or an equal mix in the same proportion.
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Washington
Resettlement Administration
Nebraska
South Dakota
Prairie States
Congressmen's Committee
Creamery at Center Junction Reports 1936 Gains
Center Junction Farmers Mutual Cooperative Creamery shows 30 percent more patrons 1936 over 1935, butter shipped up 33 percent, and merchandise sales up 75 percent at annual meeting. Officers elected for 1937 include H J Durks as president and Herman Sechusen as vice president.
1935 survey shows livestock bruising en route totaling 11 million
A national livestock loss prevention bulletin finds 10 581 220 head bruised on routes to packing houses in 1935 with a total loss of 11 million dollars. Hog bruising led the total figures at 5 932 800 head, cattle 2 297 700, sheep 990 000, veal calves 360 720.
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National Livestock Loss Prevention Board
Tanners Council of America
Chicago
H. R. Smith
Exchange Building
Standing Farm Bureau Committees In Jackson
Directors of the Jackson county Farm Bureau appoint 1937 standing committee heads. Names and roles include Marketing M C Harrison Sabula. legislative Matthew Nolting Preston. taxation and budgeting H H Merrick Fulton. boys 4-H J R Wit Zigman Miles. educational L R Teeple Baldwin. rural electrification M Nolting Preston. roads William Efferding Maquoketa. service A G Nims Maquoketa. insurance D E Blake Green Island. rural credit and banking T H Schlegel Preston. girls 4-H Mrs William Dohse Maquoketa.
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Maquoreta
Jackson County Farm Bureau
M. C. Harrison
Sabula
Matthew Nolting
Preston
H H. Merrick
Fulton
J R. Witzigman
Miles
L. R. Teeple
Baldwin
M. Nolting
William Efferding
Maquoketa
A. G. Nims
D. E. Blake
Green Island
T H. Schlegel
William Dohse
Byron Virtue To Speak At Fayette Feb 15
Fayette county hosts the final meeting of the rural young peoples short course at Upper Iowa University. Byron T. Virtue agricultural engineer from the Ames extension department will discuss machinery repairing.
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Fayette
Fayette County
Upper Iowa University
Byron T. Virtue
Ames Extension Department
Red Poll Directors Meet in Cedar Rapids Feb 20
Homer Maxwell, manager of Hotel Montrose, announced that directors of the National Red Poll club will meet in Cedar Rapids on February 20. Dr E. E. Novak of New Prague, Minn, is president.
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Homer Maxwell
Montrose
National Red Poll Club
Cedar Rapids
E. E. Novak
New Prague
Minn
Champion 4-H lamb brings $76.25 at Waterloo show
Irene Moore of Hardin county sold the grand champion lamb weighing 101 pounds for 76.25 dollars at 75.5 cents per pound. The other fifteen lambs in her pen weighed 1291 pounds and sold at 14.5 cents per pound, totaling market prices well below the champion’s value.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Irene Moore
Hardin County
PORK IMPORTS TOP ONE MILLION POUNDS TO NEW YORK
New York reports more than a million pounds of pork and pork products arriving in the week ended Jan 29 from Poland and Lithuania. Poland supplied 916,222 pounds and Lithuania 128,410 pounds, with additional imports from Austria Canada Denmark England Estonia Germany Holland Hungary Italy and the Irish Free State. Butter imports for Jan 30 totaled 1 000 boxes of Argentine 300 casks of Holland 2 000 boxes of Siberian and 1 650 casks from northern Europe. Siberian butter at 18 cents a pound and supplies from Latvia and Argentina cited. Ohio floods not expected to curb butter supply. some dealers foresee reduced consumption offsetting lower production.
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the Gazette
New York City
New York
Poland
Lithuania
Austria
Canada
Denmark
England
Estonia
Germany
Ohio Valley
Electric Franchise Hearing Set by Iowa Railroad Board
The Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa sets February 23, 1937 at 10 a.m. in Des Moines for a hearing on a petition by Iowa Electric Light and Power Company Cedar Rapids to erect and operate an electric transmission line across Linn County. Objections must be filed in triplicate at least five days before the hearing. Secretary J Lynch signs the notice.
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Board OF Railroad Commissioners
Linn County
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
State of
St. P.m. Linn County
Elghteen
Fairfax
Said
Hishway
Said Township
Range
Des Moines
Petsion
Lynch
Iowa C T A Averages Milk and Butterfat in January
The 333 cows on test in the Iowa county C T A during January averaged 642 pounds of milk and 27.5 pounds of butterfat, per Ross Engle association tester. The Heilhusen Holstein herd topped 24 herds with 1172 pounds of milk and 44.9 pounds of butterfat. Haas Holsteins each produced 77 pounds butterfat.
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Marengo
Iowa County
Ross Engle
Association
Anton Heilhusen
John Haas
Benton county Junior Farm Bureau names delegates to Ames Farm Week
Norway Gardner of Garrison is chosen as delegate and Dorothy Plagmann as alternate to represent Benton county Junior Farm Bureau at Farm and Home Week in Ames from February 8 to 13.
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Norway
Roman Gardner
Garrison
Dorothy Plagmann
Benton County
Ames
Tenant Pays $8000 For 120 Acre Farm
Decorah reports the 120 acre Jo seph Goettleman farm four and one half miles north of Decorah was sold to Philip Kolegraph, a tenant since 1920, for $8000. The land includes 100 cultivated acres and 20 acres of timber with excellent improvements. In Oxford Junction an executor's sale yielded Frank Milota $2485 for the Ise man Eighty, an eighty acre tract between Oxford Junction and Toronto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Joseph Goettleman
Philip Kolegraph
Oxford Junction
Frank Milota
Toronto
Farmer Buys 160 Acre Adjoining Farm Near Jesup
Jesup area farmer Jesup Gilbert Riensche, five miles south of Jesup, purchased an adjoining 160 acre farm from Midland Mortgage Co of Cedar Rapids for 11 000 dollars. The property is well improved and includes a new house.
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Jesup
Gilbert Riensche
Midland Mortgage Company
Cedar Rapids
Poultry Co op Names New Manager at Clutier Station
Fred Hober, manager of the Taylor elevator, is named manager and buyer for the concentration station to be established at Clutier by the Iowa Cooperative Poultry Marketing association.
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Clutier
Fred Hober
Taylor
Iowa Cooperative Poultry Marketing Association
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Horst
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Washington County
W. O. Morgan
Ray Lambert
C. R. Oldfield
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Wayne E. Norman
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Fraid
Bizzard Ovo
ISA Sealer
Williams
Farm Bureau
Jackson
Byron Virtue
Red Poll
Irene
Iowa Co. C.T.A
Kneip Markets
Chuck
T. Joseph
Deemand &T. Joseph
Bank of America
Los Angeles
Calif
Anamosa Sale Pavilion
Lee Bebee
D. E. Brickley
MR. Farmer
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