Pittsburgh Market Sees Eastern Hog Solicitation Cut Chicago Shipments
An Iowa hog market study shows eastern market representatives, led by Lewis P. East of the Pittsburgh stockyards, have boosted Iowa hogs to Pittsburgh, raising receipts by about 100 percent in a year. Pittsburgh offers good demand for well finished hogs and other sizes, but higher freight and feeding costs deter long eastern shipments despite favorable 30 to 45 cent premiums over Chicago at times.
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Chicago
Iowa
Lewis P
Pittsburgh
Mr. East
Ohio
Chicago livestock receipts show smaller January totals
Union Stockyards Chicago reports January cattle receipts at 159 321 head and hogs at 685 854 head, both down from a year ago though cattle up from December. Direct quota sits around 313 000 with shipping orders at 95 000, reflecting tighter on sale hogs yet December comparison.
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the Gazette
Union Stockyards
Chicago
Mothers Mix This At Home For A Bad Cough
A home remedy advertises a two ounce syrup using sugar water and pine oil to soothe inflamed membranes, kill germs, and clear airways for easier breathing. The ad promotes Pinex pine extract as a fast acting throat healer with a money back guarantee.
Fence Drift in Uneven Wire Farm Editorial Note
A rural column by R. F. A. Midnight vents about county agents facing constant stress. The piece blends farm life remarks with wry humor about nerves and career shifts to insurance work.
Sharp shifts in livestock receipts across the corn belt
Receipts show an expanded scope of concentration point activity in the corn belt with sheep at 370266 head, down about 75000 from January last year but up about 95000 from December. January sheep supply exceeds December, while hog and cattle receipts follow typical January strength, though cattle totals differ from December.
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Corn Belt
Shelbyville Milkmaid Wins Dbnots Championship Title
Welle Jo Kensel, 18, wins the Dbnots milk extraction by drawing 184 pounds of milk from her cow in two and a half minutes, breaking the Tinots record of eleven and a half pounds. The national record is thirteen pounds.
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Shelbyville
Welle
Jo Kensel
Klinetop Farewell Marks Move to Charles City Farm
Members of the Anamosa Cow Test association and friends gathered at the American Legion club rooms Wednesday evening in farewell to Mr and Mrs Howard Klinetop who are moving to a farm near Charles City Mr Klinetop has been tester for the organization two years.
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Anamosa
Sand Spring Co op manager reports 1932 dairy and egg totals
Special to The Gazette. Sand Spring Farmers' Mutual Creamery patrons earned 21.2 cents per pound for butterfat and 12.79 per dozen for eggs in 1932. Eggs: 2,849 30-dozen cases sold, gross 13,362.57. consigned receipts 11,787.47. margin 196.32. Butterfat: 232,231 lb received, 288,565 lb butter produced, overrun 56,334 lb. Patron payments 51,939.96. 274,477 lb butter shipped at 20.8 cents. Consumption 14,088 lb at 19.3 cents. Manufacturing cost 27 cents per butterfat lb. Business volume up 10 percent from 1931. Feed sales 25,809.87. gross three-department sales 98,616.48. coop has 92 patrons.
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Sand Spring
New York City
John L. Batchelder
K. Greer
Henry Becker
Goteciers
P J Hurt
Leo Smreu
Poescent
Hastt
County Agent In Louisa Resigns To Operate Dairy Farm
County agent in Louisa resigns after four years to run a dairy farm near Council Bluffs. Earl Peterson of Boone notes the move and reports the resignation from the county office. Amber Cornelius Kettleson suffers a badly lacerated leg after a dog attack at John D. Dirks farm east of Amber on Monday.
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Louisa
Spee Woot
Robert M Davie
Gary
Counc Bluffs
Louisa County
Earl Peterson
Boone
Eprets
Cornelius Kettleson
John D. Dirks
Amber
Farmers' Union Shipping reports 362 decks handled in 1932
Deep River Frank Gabby, manager, notes the Farmers' Union Shipping Association processed 362 decks of live stock during 1932 at the local yard. The figure reflects activity handled by the cooperative in the period.
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Deep River
Frank Gabby
Farmers’ Union Shipping Association
Monticello Feeder John Hosch sells 1,204 lb steers in Chicago
Special to The Gazettes reports John Hosch of Jones county sold twenty steers weighing 1,204 pounds each in Chicago for 5.50 dollars per hundredweight, reflecting a robust cattle sale in midweek trading.
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Monticello
John Hosch
Jones County
Chicago
Health column critiques cold theories and medical prompts
A long personal health rant dissects common cold myths and germ theory. It mocks blanket statements about exposure causing illness, cites a magazine digest on colds, and challenges medical authorities while detailing various health anecdotes, thyroid notes, and unrelated fitness advice.
Annual meetings scheduled soon in several towns
Fragments list dates and venues for upcoming meetings of dairy firms and shipping associations. Feb. 3 53 at Anamoss. Feb. 4 Hopkinton and Arlington. Feb. 6 Monticello Cocgon Jesup. Feb. 7 Buckhorn. Feb. 8 Littleport West Liberty. Feb. 14 Cedar Rapids Co operative Dairy.
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Shipping Association
Anamoss
Hopkinton
Arlington
Monticello
Cocgon
Jesup
Buckhorn
Farmers’ Creamery
Littleport
West Liberty
Cedar Rapids
Riverside sale yields high prices for horses and livestock
At Riverside AHH Gerot estate sale five miles NW of Riverside sold horses averaging 135 with a top of 255 for one team and 200 for a mule span. Pigs averaged 2.85, sheep 4 to 5.30, Leghorn hens 0.55. Oats 11, corn 1.54, hay 2.50 to 2.90 per ton. Paul Klotz acted as auctioneer and Peoples State Bank of Riverside as clerk.
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Gazette
Riverside
Gerot
Paul Klotz
Columbus Junction
Peoples State Bank of Riverside
Consignment sale in Columbus Junction totals varied bids
At Midway pavilion on Tuesday sweet potatoes sold for 50 cents a bushel and onions for 25 cents. A trailer brought 6.50 dollars. Calves ranged 10 to 20 dollars, cows averaged 30, shoats 1.50 to 4.25, brood sows 10 to 12, seven horses 50 to 75 dollars, Plymouth Rock chickens 50 to 55 cents each. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and H M Duncan, with Columbus Junction bank serving as clerk.
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Meyer Barn
W. E. Challis
Columbus Junction
Midway Pavilion
Plymouth Rock
Paul Klotz
H M. Duncan
Columbus Junction Bank
Keokuk 4-H Clubs Plan 1933 Program
SIGOURNEY The project program for Keokuk county 4-H club boys for 1933 was outlined Tuesday evening at a meeting with Frank P. Reed of the Ames club department County Agent Leonard Zahn who has resigned effective Feb 15 and the new agent Maurice W Soulis Herman Weimer Oscar Dawson and J E Zepp club leaders also were present It was decided to conduct a county wide tour of inspection of the 4 H livestock on feed in June to hold the annual achievement day in August at the county fair in What Cheer the annual election of officers in August and the county wide banquet in October Members of the boy s 4 H club committee are S T Yates of Sigourney chairman George Grove of South English Dick Bruns of Sigourney Herman Weimer of Gibson A A Orr of Thornburg Bert Zepp of Hedrick and Glen Sorden of Webster
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Frank P. Reed
Ames Club Department
Leonard Zahn
Maurice W. Soulis
Herman Weimer
Oscar Dawson
J. E. Zepp
S. T. Yates
George Grove
South English
Dick Bruns
Gibson
A A
Orr
Thornburg
Bert Zepp
Hedrick
Glen Sorden
Webster
Creamery In Hardin Pays 22c For 1932 Butterfat
Patrons of the Hub bard creamery in Hardin received 22 cents per pound for butterfat from 581,737 pounds of butter. Overrun was 23.52 percent. They also earned 8,622.61 dollars or 12.8 cents per dozen for 2,235 cases of eggs, and handled more than 34,000 pounds of poultry bringing in 2,696.82 dollars.
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Hubbard Creamery
Steers Bring 5.35 a Hundredweight on Chicago Market
The Gazette reports AMOSA Fred Lees and Son of Lees County sold a carload of 1.277 pound steers for 5.35 dollars per hundredweight on the Chicago market Wednesday.
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AMOSA
Fred Lees
Lees County
Chicago
Index shows farm price downturn despite late 1930s gains
Washington D C Jan 15 1932 farm-price index for 27 commodities fell to 63 percent of pre war levels despite advances for flax rye apples horses wheat and cotton. Hog values tumbled to 2 684 per hundredweight down 29 percent year over year while corn and flax fluctuated and cotton held near prior year levels.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Farm Auctions Schedule For Early February
A sequence of farm auctions listed by date and location includes a DeClow barn consignment sale on Friday February 3 and a February 4 sale of a 120 acre farm and personal property led by Jaroslav Sirovy and Emill Dvorak. Additional sales follow February 7 near Marion by William Caraway February 8 near Watkins and nearby Walker by M. E. Dice and February 9 near Cedar Rapids by Stark and Miller.
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Swisher
Jaroslav Sirovy
Emill Dvorak
DeClow Barn
Marion
William Caraway
F. E. Harrington
Watkins
Walker
M. E. Dice
Cedar Rapids
Stark and Miller
Survey Indicates Live-At-Home Farm Outlook This Year
Washington report by a committee of Agriculture Department officials concludes farm families must develop their own resources to maintain living standards in 1933. Live-at-home is expected to continue as industrial work declines. Net farm income is projected to fall from $342 in 1931 to about $260 in 1932, with prices paid for basic goods dropping and farm prices remaining low.
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Washington, D. C
Agriculture Department
Bureaus of Home and Agricultural Economics
Extension Service
Butterfat Averages 22 Cents At Cascade Co op
Cascade Co operative creamery reports 1932 totals: 543,261 pounds of butterfat valued at 99,023.69 dollars, average test 28.3 percent, 622,831 pounds of butter produced, 552,927 pounds shipped for 107,909.46 dollars, 41,166 pounds consumed by 258 patrons worth 8,423.73, and 28,738 pounds sold to merchants for 6,100.64. Directors re elected include George Dolphin and Phillip Maternach, hold overs Leo Skahill George Ganfield Nic Turnis F H Kurt M J Bisenius. Cascade State Bank treasurer.
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Cascade Co-operative Creamery
F. X. Lauser
C. A. Miller
George Dolphin
Phillip Manternach
Leo Skahill
George Ganfield
Nic Turnis
F. H. Kurt
M. J. Bisenius
Cascade State Bank
Buchanan Livestock Co-Op Aims to Boost Shipments
In Independence the Iowa Farmers Cooperative Livestock Marketing Association held a meeting with L B Mann from the Federal Farm Board. Directors and members agreed to a county wide campaign to raise hog shipments from this point to at least 500 decks per year.
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Independence
Iowa Farmers’ Co-operative Livestock Marketing Association
L. B. Mann
Federal Farm Board
Farm Bureau
Shipping association elects directors at Columbus Junction
Rudolph Schlichting was elected a director of the Columbus Junction Shipping association at its annual meeting on Monday. Henry Oak and H. O. Meredith were re elected. Other directors are Milton Pretz and J M Wilson. Fay Green is manager.
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Columbus Junction
Rudolph Schlichting
Columbus Junction Shipping Association
Henry Oak
H. O. Meredith
Milton Pretz
J. M. Wilson
Fay Green
Co op Manager Dies in Dyersville
Funeral services for B. H. Tauke were held Thursday morning in Dyersville. Tauke was a well known figure in eastern Iowa livestock circles and formerly manager for several years of the Dyersville Shipping association.
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Dyersville
B. H. Tauke
Henry Wallace To Address Omaha Farm Managers Meeting
Henry A. Wallace of Des Moines a Roosevelt cabinet prospect and Iowa farm policy advocate will speak at a joint Iowa and Nebraska farm managers meeting in Omaha. D. Howard Doane of St. Louis, president of Doane Agricultural Service, will also appear. The event aims to unite mortgage and insurance company managers from both states into one organization.
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Henry A. Wallace
Des Moines
Iowa
Roosevelt
Omaha
Nebraska
Harvey Co. McClary
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Farm Real Estate Associatn
Mr. Wallace
D. Howard Doane
St. Louis
Doane Agriultural Service Company
BU-KETS bladder purifier advertises 25c test box
An old ad claims BU-KETS, a bladder purifier with buchu leaves and juniper oil, will cleanse impurities and acids, reduce nightly awakenings, and improve sleep. If not relieved in four days, customers may get their money back. Horak Pharmacies promote it as a best seller.
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Horak Pharmacies
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