Poultry Output Mixed By Winter Blizzard Impacts
January weather severely reduced egg production per hen below five year averages across the central producing regions. Farm flocks shrank, egg counts per flock fell, prices edged higher in city markets, and storage stocks for case eggs tightened as weather disrupted supply and demand dynamics through February.
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Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Central Western
Division of Dairy and Poultry Products
Far West
New York City
Pacific Coast
Pune
FENCE DRIFT and language notes echo on vocabulary
The piece riffs on words like schizophrenia and autism, tracing them to a dictionary and then linking the discussion to language, economics, and politics. It mentions a Chinese character for home and notes Iowa farmers losing roofs when pig prices dropped.
Hog Run Prices Dip As Hog Market Sets Record Slump
A Wichita style market report notes heavy hog receipts across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota with total four day counts reaching 71,900 and seven market totals around 17,000. Prices fell sharply late Wednesday into Thursday, and analysts foresee liberal receipts if weather allows, while USDA bulletin forecasts larger May and June slaughter due to expanded fall pig crop and seasonally high September slaughter.
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DFS
Iowa
Minnesota
Llved
United States Department of Agriculture
Survey of Rural Electric Needs in Linn County Planned
Fifteen Linn county farmers and a late representative of the Iowa Electric Light and Power company met in Cedar Rapids with CV Barnhill of the REA to discuss rural electrification. No action was taken beyond agreeing to survey Linn County needs, with the county agent Rex B Conn tasked with organizing it. The group noted about 75 percent of Linn farmers lack electricity and urged service be made available if feasible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Cedar Rapids
CV. Barnhill
Rex B Conn
Parley
Survey in Johnson County Organizes Local Center
An Iowa survey by the county center organization in Johnson County aims to map locations of Farmers Service centers. Ed Gy fet, a local farmer and engineering graduate, heads the group with J. P. Burns, John Wels, and Evie Meyer in leadership roles. Directors are drawn from early townships, with several farm families showing interest.
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Iowa
Johnson County
Phaton Organization
C. Bett
Wastrator
Ardoin
Sk Coss Genere
Inty Organization
J.P. Burns
Oxford
Pres Dent John Wels
Iowa City
Evi Meyer
Line Tree
Eary Township
Chinch Bug Powwow Planned March 5-6
DFS MOVIES AP reports Rus Murray proposes a chinch bug control program for the North Central Entomologists Association meeting in early March. The event notes observers in the state will monitor barley fields and related crops for damage and potential invasions during March 5 and 6.
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Chinch Bug
DFS Movies
Rus Murray
Secretary of Agriculture
Frodavon
Posse Murray
Uncollected Processing Taxes Totals Across Commodities in 1935
A department of agricultural economics table shows Dec 31 1935 non collected processing taxes in two classes: court injunction held and delinquencies. Hog and corn lead at 101.2 million, cotton 96.8 million, wheat 80.4 million, with sugar and others totaling 20.0 million and a grand uncollected total of 307 million.
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Department of Agricultural Economics
Ames
Ways and Means
Federal Finance Division
Federal Bureau of Internal Income
Grocery list with bulk sale prices scattered across items
A long list of grocery items with varied prices for sugar flour canned peaches corn and snacks. The fragment mentions brands like Ex. Fey. Pabstett Gal and Calumet Baking Powder as well as commodities such as coffee, cheese, nuts, jelly beans and cocoa with prices ranging from a few cents to a dollar. The noisy OCR yields many misreadings and repetitions.
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Fey
K. C
Blizzard delays cream deliveries at Oelwein Co op
Special to The Gazette OELWEIN Forty one cents per pound for last half of January butterfat and forty cents for the first half were paid by the Oelwein Farmers Co operative creamery. Delays from late deliveries and crews struggling with deep drifts are noted. A hauler toppled nine times in six miles, some cream froze on arrival, and coal is delivered to snowbound farmers by road piles and sleds. A buried water pump on J C McLaury farm southeast of Oelwein delayed pumping for two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Oelwein
Oelwein Farmer's Co-operative Creamery
Frank Schroeder
J. C. McLaury
Farmers Creamery Returns Butter Fat Price in January
Patrons of the Strawberry Point Creamery received thirty nine cents a pound net for butter fat in January, according to Secretary B. R. Cole. The thirty nine cents net equals 41 cents when hauling costs are added.
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Strawberry Point
Strawberry Point Farmers Creamery
B. R. Cole
Elgin Dairy Pays January Butterfat at Forty-One Cents
Elgin Farmers' Dairy company patrons were paid Thursday for the last half of January butterfat at forty one cents per pound. Cream haulers have been hav
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ELGIN
Elgin Farmers’ Dairy Company
Farm Auction Notices Public Sales This February
Public auctions set for Saturday February 22 include Mrs Mary Kulhavy's estate sale one half mile north of Western and H J Krug sale four miles southeast of Atkins. Ray Challis sells three miles north of Tipton with Anamosa consignments. Monday February 24 brings George Randak sale two and a half miles northwest of Atkins and Victor Breza closing out sale one half mile north of Solon.
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Mary Kulhavy
Western
H. J. Krug
Atkins
Ray Challis
Tipton
Anamosa
George Randak
Victor Breza
Solon
Farm Auction Schedule From Feb 25 to 27
The notice lists multiple livestock and asset sales across Cedar Rapids and surrounding counties, including Miller and Kemp Angus dispersion sale near Morley, Reed Cars closeout near Tipton, Paul P. Thompson sale near Central City, and Belgian horse sale by C J Knickerbocker at Fairfax. Additional auctions include wood trade near Shellsburg and Shorthorn cattle near Mechanicsville with postponements and location details.
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Miller
Kemp Angus
Morley
Geo. W. Griffith
Weing Rd
J Ave
Cedar Rapids
Reed Cars
North
Tipton
Paul P. Thompson
Central City
C. J. Knickerbocker
Fairfax
Zack McArthur
Shellsburg
John van Note
Fractions and Sales Headline Noted in Local Notices
Friday February 28 dissolution filing for Secor and Brown located 1 mile west of Mechanicsville. Tuesday March 3 Owen L McConaughy to conduct a public sale 214 miles east of Martelle.
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Secor & Brown
West Mechanicsville
Owen L. McConaughy
Martelle
Haulers Struggle Delivering Cream Amid Freezing Conditions
Extreme cold and heavy drifts have hindered cream deliveries to the creamery for two weeks. Haulers have sometimes torn down fences to reach patrons by traveling through fields, with routes taking two to three days and several customers still unreached.
Delhi Creamery Butterfat Averages For 1935
Silver Spring Creamery of Delhi paid an average 31.04 cents per pound for butterfat in 1935. Total butterfat received 173,606 pounds from 615,589 pounds of cream delivered. Average cream test 28.2 percent. Butterfat sold 9,362 pounds, leaving 164,244 pounds to churn. 204,127 pounds of butter manufactured. Overrun 24.9 percent. Average butter price 28.4 cents. Butterfat values rose to 40 cents in late January and 42 cents in early February. Directors for 1936 named: A. O. Billings, G. L. Cramer, Roy Miller, August Nie man, Herman B. Roth, Arthur A. Schmidt, John R. White, John S. Wilson.
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Delhi
Silver Spring Creamery Company
A. O. Billings
G. L. Cramer
Roy Miller
August Nieman
Herman B. Roth
Arthur A. Schmidt
John R. White
John S. Wilson
Carroll Lass Named Iowa Champion Holstein Girl
Carroll county girl Wilma Ludwig of Breda has been chosen by the Holstein Friesian Association of America as Iowa state champion in Holstein shows. The award recognizes her as top Holstein in the state, reflecting success in county fairs and breed competitions.
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Carroll Lass
Iowa
Holstein Enthusiast Builds Herd Since 1930 in 1935 Notes
A 4-H Holstein girl, active since 1930, began expanding her dairy herd by 1935, illustrating early youth involvement in livestock projects and agricultural education.
Mechan icsville and Columbus Junction Sale Highlights
At Mechanicsville sale buyers paid 55 cents per bushel for corn and 39 cents for oats, hay at 11.75 per ton, cows at 30 dollars, chickens at 103 dollars each for 250 birds, and milk and stock cows 42 to 62 dollars. A team of gray mares brought 420, aged horses 55 to 70. Auctioneers Boling and Colby. In Columbus Junction a Shel labarger sale saw cows top at 50 and horses at 70, with Buff Orpington chickens at 80 cents, corn planter 23, plows 20 to 22, harness 10 to 12 a set, engine 1 1/2 hp at 7.50, H M Duncan auctioneer.
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Gazette
Mechanicsville
Gunn and Batchelor
Boling and
Colby
Columbus Junction
Elmer Shellabarger
Buff Orpington
H. M. Duncan
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