Iowa reports 110000 corn and hog contracts signed
The 110 000 signers in Iowa represent about half of eligible growers. Daily signing reached around 5 000 with counties Benton Tama Grundy and Butler progressing to permanent committees. Other states show varied totals as campaigns expand nationwide.
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Iowa
OWA
Benton
Tama
Grundy
Butler
Murl McDonald
Ames
Kossuth
East
Towa
Bremer
Buchanan
Cedar
Clayton
Clinton
Delaware
Fayette
Jones
Johnson
Jackson
Keokuk
Linn
Lowsa
Muscatine
Scott
Poweshick
Washington
Benton Butler
Hardin
Guthrie
Worth
Woodbury
Pottawattamie
Montgomery
Crawford
Missouri
Tllinois
Ohio
Corn Hog Drive Spreads Across States With Meetings
The corn hog program gains momentum as 442 educational meetings attract 54 200 farmers nationwide. Indiana reports 113 314 farmers at 987 township meetings. Minnesota shows 2700 contracts signed by Feb 1. Texas tops with 500 contracts in Terry county. California, Oregon, Kansas report strong signups and widespread meetings.
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Indiana
Minnesota
Texas
Terry County
California
Unclear OCR Reading Sparks Fractured Local Card Text
Fragmentary lines describe a chaotic scene with scattered words and names. The legible portions reference everyday items and interruptions, but no coherent event or clear subjects emerge to form a valid news item.
Piles Go Quick Without Salves Or Cutting
Dr J S Leonhardt promotes Hemroid tablets as a pile remedy with a money back guarantee. He claims rapid relief without cutting, citing a large patient record and urging readers to buy from their druggist.
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J. S Leonhardt
Drug Co
Signers Rent Corn Acres to Uncle Sam in 1932
Sixty seven signers of corn contracts in Sigourney and Keokuk County report a total average of 2302 acres and production near 31 260 bushels. County committees push for contracts as farmers weigh government aid and acreage allotments amid nationwide corn programs.
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Uncle Sam
Wyaming
Isle Teokins
Frank Reesis
Kioude Dick
Goerrmert
Sield
Sigourney
Maurice Soute
Htt
Agert
Grand opera star in the photograph identified
Puzzle lists clues across horizontal and vertical sections. The reader is asked to name the grand opera singer depicted, with scattered hints including birth in Australia and fame in London.
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Nepal
Ames Professor pins hail damage on leaf loss in corn
Prof J C Eldridge of Ames farm crops dept explains a five year study measuring corn hail damage by percentage of leaf area removed. Yields drop with leaf loss. complete leaf removal causes total failure only at tasseling. No variety shows resistance. smut impact varies year to year.
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Ames (Ap
J C Eldridge
Ames Farm Crops Department
College Experimental Farm
Eldridge
Horses Fetch High Bids at Schafer Farm Auction
Forty one Percheron horses and colts were sold Friday at the J Henry Schafer farm east of Columbus Junction. A team of black geldings weighing 2700 pounds sold for 280 dollars and a team of grey mares in foal weighing 3100 pounds brought 260 dollars.
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Columbus Junction
J Henry Schafer
Economist Outlines Future Farm Land Needs in U S
Dr. E. Baker of the United States Department of Agriculture told a Farm and Home short course at Ames that population growth will drive 9 to 15 million more crop acres by 1940 and 18 to 30 million by 1950, though net cropland may not rise. He discussed shifts in land use, poor land programs, and subsistence homesteads policy to conserve resources and aid farmers and city residents.
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E. Baker
United States Department of Agriculture
Ames
United States
Fifty six graduate from Belle Plaine night class for farmers
Fifty six adults completed the Belle Plaine high school Vocational Agriculture night class for farmers. Diploma presentations occurred during the Commerce Club entertainment, with about 550 farmers and business men in attendance. John Tatge led as president, Oscar Schroeder as vice president, and Preston Koser as secretary.
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Belle Plaine
Department of Vocational Agriculture
Lewis Falck
Edward UL. Smith
Leroy Wright
H F. Phingston
Elmer Jones
G. S Schild
L. F Keep
H. L McLennan
Jess Beall
Wallace Kithcart
K. K. McLeod
George Schoening
Edward Swatosh
Earl Tatge
James Benedik
W. H McCune
Preston Koser
Dale Kithcart
C. E. Batterson
C. L. Booheister
John Tatge
B. A. Beck
Carl Rochr
G F. Jensen
Rudolph Pingel
W H. Fisher
J W. Schroeder
Pullet Lays Egg Weighing 32 Ounces at Cedar Rapids Farm
Special to The Gazette. A Tancred White Leghorn pullet on Will Allen’s Oak Ridge berry farm near Belle Plaine evolved from tiny eggs in August to 3 1/2 ounce eggs by January. Over months she produced sizes from 2 ounces up to 3 1/2 ounces, sparking talk of a new strain and images chronicling each egg size. Archie R. Eckert of Cedar Rapids preserves a sample of the seven egg sizes and the photographer’s record.
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Gazette
Belle Plaine
Will Allen
Oak Ridge
Allen
Mr. Allen
Archie R. Eckert
Oakland Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Meat Dealers Short Course Planned At Ames Feb 21 22
The second annual short course and conference for retail meat dealers is planned at Ames February 21 and 22. Featured speakers include John A Kotal secretary of the National Retail Meat Dealers Association, John Wrath president of Rath Packing Co. and chairman of the American Institute of Meat Packers, A T Edinger marketing specialist of the federal bureau of agricultural economics, Max O Cullen meat merchandising specialist for the National Livestock and Meat Board, and other Iowa State College staff and specialists.
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AMES
John A Kotal
National Retail Meat Dealers Association
John Wrath
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
American Institute of Meat Packers
A T. Edinger
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Max O Cullen
National Livestock and Meat Board
C W . McDonald
Fred J. Beard
Dean H. H. Kildee
P Mabel Nelson
Miss Pole Lowe
Iowa State College
Sta
Hill's Cold Tablets Offer Quick Relief
Advert says two Hill's Cold Tablets plus water can cure a cold fast by washing poisons from the system reducing fever easing aches and pains and fighting germs all at once. It promises rapid relief and a return to normal, urging readers to ask their druggist for Hill's Cascara Quicach reap Pay.
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Hill
New Ruling Allows Feed Crop Acres for 1934 in Iowa
A Cedar Rapids ruling from Claude Wickhard of AAA Washington allows corn growers with limited prior feed crop acres in 1933 to reduce 1934 corn acreage below the 30 percent limit to plant more feed crops like oats barley or soybeans. The decision details how to balance corn reductions with increased feed crops and requires notation in contract items.
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Cedar Rapids
Claude Wickhard
AAA
Washington
Wickhard
Iowa County Corn Loans Total 219857
After ten weeks about 400 farmers are represented in corn loans listed on chattel mortgage records. The records show 488 572 bushels cribs for 219 857 50 dollars. New stings since Feb 2 show 41 loans on 47 758 bushels totaling 21 491 10. Tipton Cedar county corn loans now total 282 784 55.
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Gazet
Marengo
Roy G. Faas
Spreial
Tipton
Cedar County
MonroE township corn and hog campaign final day at Midway
Ivan Notbohm, chairman, says Monroe township sign-up committee in Linn County will be at Midway on Wednesday for the final day of the corn and hog campaign.
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Toddville
Ivan Notbohm
Monroe Township
Linn County
Monroe
Lindley Allen elected president of Hopkinton Progressive Farmers
Mrs Lindley Allen was elected president and Mrs Glen Eilers secretary treasurer of the Progressive Farmers club at the annual Hopkinton meeting held Friday night at the home of Mr and Mrs Mose Lamont three miles east of Hopkinton.
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Gaz
Rural Farm Auction Schedule Across Several Iowa Towns
Auction ads list events from Feb 13 to 19 across Prairieburg Marion Alburnett Van Horne Lisbon Toddville Onslow West Branch Cedar Rapids. Buyers can bid dairy cattle and consignments at multiple stockyards with several named auctioneers and locations.
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Falcon and
Travis
Miles
Alburnett
John A. Schlotterbeck
Joe Alberts
van Horne
Carlean Farm
Lison
D. A. Cruikshank
Toddville
Petersen and Barnes
Onslow
George Slater
Commission Company
West Branch
John Smith
Cedar Rapids
Harrison Players Win Rural Drama Contest in Benton
WINTON The Benton County Farm Bureau trophy for the annual rural drama contest was awarded Saturday evening to the Harrison township players directed by Mrs. Allen Kline. Four townships reached the finals with Harrison first, Union second, Cedar third, and El dorado fourth. The winning play was Nancy Orr's Day with a cast including Mrs. Forrest King Everett Taylor Mrs. John Remington Hilma East ridge Eileen Birker Mrs. Leslie Hoon Mrs. Delbert Cox Allen Kline Max Birker and Mildred Pardon. Judges were Miss Fannie Buchanan of Iowa State College Loren T Jenks of Coe College and Miss Tanita Eager of Grinnell.
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Winton
Benton County Farm Bureau
Harrison Township
Allen Kline
Harrison
Union
Cedar
Eldorado
Nancy Orr
Forrest King
Everett Taylor
John Remington
Hilma Eastridge
Eileen Birker
Leslie Hoon
Keokuk County Farm Bureau Achievement Day Feb 23
The sixth annual achievement day of Keokuk County Farm Bureau home project workers will be held February 23 at Sigourney. Guest speaker is Mrs. O. E. Milner of Mount Pleasant. Miss May Larson of Iowa State College will judge the exhibits. A play by Edith Brower of Liberty township will be presented by women from county townships.
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South English
Keokuk
Meat prices rise in New York City during cold wave
New York City meat demand climbs as cold weather pushes dressed lamb and mutton prices to year highs. Fresh pork loins gain four to five cents, while fruit and vegetable shipments suffer from frost. Egg production across NY, PA, and NJ falls, threatening supply for weeks.
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The
Gazette
New York City
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Middle West
Gly-Cas touted as new remedy in Cedar Rapids
Local residents hear testimonials from John Machacek Sr about Gly-Cas health benefits. The retired farmer from near Cedar Rapids describes relief from indigestion kidney issues constipation and sleepless nights after starting the remedy. He urges others to learn more from the Gly-Cas Man at the Thrifty Drug Store.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar
Tam
Tys
Gly-Cas
Ely
Thrifty
Corist St. & 3Rd Ave SE
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