Linn Committeemen Expect Strong 1935 Signups
Linn county committeemen forecast strong signup next week as applications for 1935 corn and hog contracts will be submitted in township meetings. Enthusiasm at informational meetings countywide supported hopes of parity with last year, though some contracts may be fewer due to new grouping rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Anderson
Mee
Linn
Ben Neal
Mount Vernon
Neal
John Wager
Spring Grove
Washington
Center Point Hall
Maine
Central City
Jackson
Coggon
Grant
Walker
College Township
Union Church
Linn County
Ivan Domer
Maron
Domer
Snectal
Gazette
Eleader
Clayton County
Roy Combs
Millville
Boardman
Buena Vista
Farmersburg
Volga City
Sperry
Highland
Clayton Center
Read
McGregor
Mendon
AMES
Well &Sen
Schoors
Marl Midunidd
Low T St
Annual Greamery Sessions Report Stable Butterfat Yield
The Sand Springs Farmers Mutual Creamery association reported 1934 butterfat at 28.96 cents per pound with 428,849 pounds of butter from 345,007 pounds of butterfat. Overrun 24.3 percent and average butter price 25.2 cents. Butter production up 37 percent from 1933. merchandise sales $39,151.31 up 95 percent. Eggs sold 4,490 cases generating $21,068.72. egg business up 64 percent. W. E. First re-elected director Ernest Gearhart named director to succeed Leo Ament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazett Spland Springs
Sand Springs Farmers Mutual Creamery Association
Edward H. Cox
John Batchelder
Cox
W. E. First
Ernest Gearhart
Leo Ament
Dissolution Public Sale Thursday February 14
Auction lists 8 horses and mules including colts and mares, several Hereford cattle bred to purebreds with Holstein and Shorthorn crosses, Jersey cows, 20 hogs, 17 Shropshire sheep plus 40 poultry. Feed, hay, corn and oats in storage, with stock stalls and a silo on site. Lunch stand provided on premises.
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Secor
Jersey
Oxford
Feed Grinder Demonstration Near Cedar Rapids and Louisa
Invitation to a BEAR CAT feed grinder demonstration on October 1 at the Fos Mitvalsky farm north of Cedar Rapids and four miles west of Louisa on Blair's Ferry road. Art Hulshizer, Representative, Western Lead Kotler Co., Hastings, Nebraska, will present the event.
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Mitvalsky
Cedar Rapids
Louisa
Blair's Ferry Road
Art Hulshizer
Rep
Western Lead Kotler Co
Nebr
Creamery Co operatives Report Butterfat Averages 1934
Special to The Gazette reports from multiple creameries and annual meetings. Cas cade Co operative paid 28.5 cents per pound butterfat with 725,856 pounds butter, term milk sales $1,001.41. Jesup Creamery average 28.23 cents, 2,137,986 pounds butter. English Valley Creamery at 28.02 cents, 910,645 pounds butter. Williamsburg York Co operative 27.1 cents, 287,744 pounds butter from 232,030 pounds butterfat. Arlington Creamery paid 25.26 cents, 419,287 pounds butter produced. Directors elected or reelected included Ganfield, Roger, Copenhaver, Ganicre, Wallace, Faas, King, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ascade
Cascade Co-operative Creamery
F. X. Lauser
George Ganfield
George P. Roger
Herbert Harmison
Dubuque
Hans Skott, Jr
Jesup
Jesup Creamery Company
W. A. Shute
Waterloo Public Accountant
J H Copenhaver
H. J. Ganicre
English Valley Co-operative Creamery Company
Hauskins
Frank Wallace
L. G Wallace
O. O. Faas
Ralph King
Orval Fry
Frank Bliss
Henry Norling
S S Cobb
Newell Gibbons
Charles Markwell
Ralnph King
C S_ Bogle
Dairy and Food Inspection Department
Iowa
Specia
Williamsburg
York Co-operative Creamery
C. L. Wilson
Carl Meyer
Fred R Blythe
Anton Heitshusen
Fred Boland
William von Alsen
H. R Langlas
Carl Holden
Alvin Hanseman
C L. Wilson
Martin Doecrman
Arthur Glandorf
Albert Wille
What Do Farmers Do Besides Farm And Recreation
A Marion area farmer Mrs. Harley Erwin, three and one half miles northeast of Marion, makes hooked rugs as a hobby. Over ten years she crocheted thirty five rugs and seven table runners in six years using a No. 5 crochet hook. She dyes her own materials and uses varied scraps like flannel shirts silk stockings and chenille curtains for her designs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harley Erwin
Marion
Mrs. Erwin
Erwin
Commission Men Fight 506000 Rebates After 20 Percent Cut
Chicago livestock dealers seek a rehearing before the Packer and Stockyards Administration after a federal court decision upholding a 20 percent fee cut by the secretary of agriculture. Since April they escrowed fees during the injunction. the ruling requires a 500000 rebate to consignors unless the court decision is reversed. An appeal to the Supreme Court is considered if the rehearing is refused or denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Livestock Exchange
Packer and Stockyards Administration
Federal
Secretary of Agriculture
Commission
Supreme Court
Eight Angus Cows Bring $96 Average at Columbus Junction
COLUMBUS JUNCTION For fifty five head of purebred Angus cattle consigned by Williem Cooper of Hedrick were sold at auction here Wednesday. Cows topped at 130 dollars with eight averaging 96 dollars. Eleven bull calves averaged 73 dollars and thirty eight late spring calves averaged 50 dollars. Four Hereford heifers consigned by Scott Blankenhorn averaged 60 dollars each. One hundred fifty head of stock cattle sold from 4.50 to 6.50 dollars per hundredweight and twenty three milk cows brought
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Columbus Junction
Williem Cooper
Hedrick
Scott Blankenhorn
Auction Results At J L Krider Sale Near Nichols
Broad sows sold 20 to 23 dollars each and 150 shoats went for 6.10 per hundredweight. A 12 year old team of horses weighed 2800 pounds sold for 150 dollars. A mule team 2200 pounds brought 134 dollars. Fourteen Holstein cows brought 28 to 51 dollars each. Fall pigs 2 to 5 dollars and stock pigs 8 to 9 dollars. Soy bean hay 15 dollars a ton. Corn 89 cents a bushel and seed oats 67 to 69 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Farrell Smylie
J. L. Krider
Nichols
Hog Marketings Exceed Last Year In Iowa and Minnesota
Feature of this week's hog trade shows a sharp rise in receipts at interior markets. Iowa and southern Minnesota reporting 109000 head in four days versus 56000 a year ago, aided by milder roads and higher interior prices. Officials note on farms supplies are down and demand for pork is modestly stronger, with no major cattle price spillover yet.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Uncle Sam
Shredding Jobs Completed in North English Area
Shredding work finished in the North English vicinity this week with Leo Wade Everett Johnston Vernon Faas Herman Guenther William Bonnater John Russ and T E Lown completing the task.
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East
Iowa
the Gazette
Leo Wade
Everett Johnston
Vernon Faas
Herman Guenther
William Bonnater
John Russ
T. E. Lown
Brandon and Naylor Finish Belated Shredding Work
Brandon and Naylor farmers near Brandon completed late shredding tasks on Tuesday and Wednesday. They report the need to cut loose fodder shocks in the field with shovels and axes before hauling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Wesley Horak, Jr
J. F .Naylor
Farm Auction Dates Take Place Across Counties
A series of farm auctions and public sales are scheduled across Iowa. Listings include Ed Skalsky closing out sale near Ely by Anamosa, George Rudish farm sale 114 miles east of Kenwood, Tyrell and Hoffman sale near Lisbon, Penn's dairy cattle sale in Mount Vernon, Albert Weng er sale in Coggon, Bert Dean sale near Marion, and Henry Zimm erman sale northwest of Marion running February 9 to 13.
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Clinton Township
Covington Hall
Monroe
Toddville
Bertram
Bertram Hall
Fayette
Palo School
Fairfax
Fairfax School
Grant
Walker Hall
Jackson
Coggon Legion Hall
Otter Creek
Arburnett School
Franklin
Mount Vernon Hall
Putnam
Ely
College
Township Hall
Boulder
Prairieburg
Linn
Mount Zion Church
Tre Linn Township Committee
Marion Township
Whither Hall
Tuesa
Marion Legion Hall
Maine
Vonday
Jordans Gooveemuen
Central City
Tagan
Brown
Witter
Buffalo
Man
Wallbeck Hall
Spring Grove
Tosh
Fey
Pas Ouscine Washintonsyash
Ed Skalsky
Anamosa
George Rudish
Kenwood
Tyrell and Hoffman
Lisbon
Penn's
Mount Vernon
Albert Wenger
Bert Dean
Marion
Public Sale Notices Near Atkins and Mechanicsville
Public sale by Martin Krug set two miles south of Atkins. Driscoll and Lynch announce dissolution sale two miles northwest of Mechanicsville.
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Dennis Driscoll
C. J. Lynch
W. E. Challis
Audt
Lishon
John Carville
The
Mechanicsville Trust and Savings Bank
Martin Krug
Atkins
Driscoll and Lynch
Mechanicsville
Jones Beef Breeders Hear Shearer at Anamosa Banquet
ANAMOSA Professor P. S. Shearer of the Ames animal husbandry department will speak at the first annual Jones county beef breeders and feeders banquet on February 11 at 6 30 p m. The item notes a 1933 autogyro production count of seven versus twenty one the previous year.
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Anamosa
P. S. Shearer
Animal Husbandry Department
Ames
Jones County
eighty in keokuk sells for ten thousand dollars
Webster Vesta Fancher bought the Sidney Axmear eighty acre farm west of White Pigeon for ten thousand dollars or 125 dollars an acre. The farm is well improved. Possession will be given March 1.
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Webster
Vesta Fancher
Sidney Axmear
White Pigeon
Grundy Center
J. W. Bartholomew
Conrad
Charles Bailey
Lincoln Township
Grundy County
Grundy County National Bank
322 Cars Hogs Handled In 1934 At Center Point
Center Point Iowa reports 22 660 head of hogs in 1934 handled by independent buyer Leslie Heefner, totaling 322 carloads or 834 truckloads. Hogs came from up to five miles north of Ryan and were sold to Waterloo and Cedar Rapids plants. Peak price 7.45 per cwt on August 30. low 2.80 on June 5. In 1933 carloads totaled 394.
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Gazette
Center Point
Leslie Heef
Linn County
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Ryan
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Harry Dunn
R. B. Booth
S. M. Wiley
Glen Loglan
Clayton
Towa
Grundy
Jones
Anamos
Cy Gow Teakiets
Barrie
Sand Springs
Hiiving
Driser
Driscoll
Lisac
H.E. Henderson
Cascade Report
Jesup Report
Nortal English Report
Arlington Report
Arlington
Arlington Creamery
Allen Foster
James McAllister
F A Schmidt
Arch Dorflinger
Richard Nus
Dean Richards
Jo. Herwig
Foster
Herwig
McAllister
Tru
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Warp & Co
Second Street
Henry Zimmerman
Keokuk
Penn
Overhead Bridge
Guernsey
W.S. Penn
C. Challis
Mt. Vernon Bank and Trust Co
Earl May
Florida
Cuba
Manchesters
Harry Manchester
1St Ave
Gulf Coast
Atlantic Coast
Alaska
Superior
Connecticut
Earl E. May Seed Company
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