Feeder Auction Spurs Decentralized Livestock Trade Growth
In eastern Iowa a shift from terminal markets to in region feeder sales accelerates with Cedar Rapids and Iowa City auctions leading weekly volumes. A St Paul operator moved to Beverly stockyards and others open across Anamosa West Liberty and Town City, boosting annual consigned stock, including 700 cattle and 1800 sheep weekly.
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Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Town City
Branca
Liberty
Anamosa
Aliquesera
Beverly North
Raiway Junction
St. Paul
Beverly
South St Paul
Simar
Iowa City
Iowa
Rural Auction Almanac Steady Farm Prices Across Regions
A detailed sale report from Mount Vernon and Columbus Junction outlines livestock and crop prices. Prices included corn at 38 cents a bushel oats 34 cents, alfalfa hay 7.90 a ton, dairy cows 61 to 76, milk cows 25 to 36, yearling heifers 18 to 23, White Leghorn hens 45 cents each, shoats 3.60, and various horse prices. Auctioneers E J Hopkins and Anson Buree presided over multiple consignments and consignors across the counties.
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Mount Vernon
Poland
W S. Penn
Chalits
Lisbon
Anson Buree
STAS
Atom
Beho Martin
Omies
Maine
Tuite
E J
Hopkins
Records Revised for Corn Hog Data Ames
The Ames Farm Management Extension Service reports a revised farm business record book for corn hog data. It includes sections for receipts expenses and goods produced with yearly net income measures and profit analysis. The project aims to help farmers compare with Iowa averages and track financial progress.
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AMES
Ames Farm Management Extension Service
L. G Allbsuch
Iowa
Extension Service
Allbaugh
Washington
Cattle top at 590 per hundredweight at regional sale
The auction featured cattle sold by the hundredweight with twenty three head of 550 pound calves leading at 590. other prices ranged from 435 to 435 per hundredweight for quality stock and canners holding around 3.35. breds sold 5 to 8 per head and horses reached 146 for a broken colt with goats around 140 each.
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Pha Menaers
Chicago
Auction Offer For Farm Machinery and Miscellany
Auctioneer announces a sale of farm machinery and miscellaneous items beginning at 1 o clock. Featured lots include harrows, mowers, binders, rakes, corn equipment, harnesses, sleds, plows, seeders, and various tools with cash terms.
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Jupiter
Cormick
John Deere
Surrey
Fewer Swiss Cheese Imports As U S Production Rises
In 1933 exports of processed milk declined with evaporated and condensed milk down sharply. Domestic production expanded while Swiss cheese imports fell as American makers matched quality. Netherlands and Italian cheese markets weakened amid international dairy trends.
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Washington, DC
Netherlands
Ear
Bureau of Agricultural Economies
United Kingdom
Saireau
O F Reed
E Bureau of Dairy Industry
Arereop Dessem
United States
Farm Auctions Set Through February 27 Across Iowa
Local notices list multiple farm auctions and consignments scheduled from Friday February 23 to Tuesday February 27. Derborn and Hindman announce 5 miles northeast of Marion and Herman T Herren 34 miles northeast of Monticello. C R and I stockyards Cedar Rapids host consignments. W E Grow executor Mount Vernon road sale. Theo dore Matheny farm sale near Toddville. John Willman and Son closing out near Cedar Rapids. J F Berry sale southeast of Cedar Rapids. Caroline Peter clean up near Alburt? nett.
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Derborn and Hindman
Miles N. E
Marion
Herman T Herren
Miles
Monticello
C R. and I
Cedar Rapids
W E. Grow
Admr
Mt Vernon Road
Theodore Matheny
Toddville
John Willman and Son
J F Berry
Anamosa
Ames Meat Dealers Short Course Draws Eighty Attendees
About eighty retail meat dealers and enthusiasts attended the first day of the Meat Retail Dealers short course in Ames. Welcomed by H H Kildee, talks covered dealer relations to livestock, merchandising, and boosting meat sales with experts from the National Livestock and Meat Board, Rath Packing, and Fulton Markets.
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Gazette Ames
H H Kildee
R C Pollock
National Livestock and Meat Board
Max O Cullen
Chicago
C W McDonald
Fred J Benard
Belle Lowe
Foods and Nutrition Department
Roy Huntoon
Fulton
Des Moines
Mr Cullen
John A Kotal
National Retail Meat Dealers Association
John W Rath
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
Achievement Day Staged By Louisa County Farm Women
Louisa county held its Achievement Day with about 250 attendees. Wapello and Jefferson townships tied for first with 824 points. Eliot second 815. Morning Sun third 799. Marshall fourth 795. Port Louisa fifth 791. Mrs Earl Smith reported training and outreach metrics and talks by L M Miller and Mrs O Milner.
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Wapello
Wapella
Jefferson Townships
Louisa County Home
May Larson
Ames
Eliot Township
Morning Sun
Marshall
Port Louisa
Earl Smith
L. M Miller
Farm Bureau
O . Milner
Mount Pleasant
Second County In Iowa Organizes To Cut Corn And Hogs
Montgomery county is the second U S county to complete its organization for the national corn hog curtailment program with Alfred Williams elected president of the county control board. An allotment committee was appointed to review contracted acreage. Special to The Gazette reports hay sold for eight dollars a ton at Strawberry Point with cattle averaging twenty dollars and cows to thirty eight dollars, horses at sixty dollars.
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Second
Iowa
Red Oak
INS
Montgomery County
Benton
County Control Board
Alfred Williams
The
Gazette
Strawberry Point
J J McDermott
P A. Wolf
Dairymen Protest Ruling On Soy Beans In Iowa
Northeastern Iowa dairymen rally against a corn hog ruling that classifies soy beans as a feed crop not hay. A petition requests reconsideration to allow soybeans as a hay crop and expand eligibility for the program.
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Towa
Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture
Cedar County names corn-hog data tabulators
Tipton Leslie C Hamiel At alissa Everett I Pownall West Branch Ralph D Wingert and John McClellan Tipton named corn hog tabulators for Cedar county by agricultural statistician Leslie M Carl after top exam scores. Louisa county contracts 740 signed and Washington county reports 1 500 contracts with township elections nearing completion. Names of township chairmen and committee members listed for Iowa Brighton Cedar Franklin townships.
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Tipton
Leslie C. Hamiel
Atalissa
Everett I. Pownall
West Branch
Ralph D. Wingert
John McClellan
Cedar County
Leslie M. Carl
Des Moines
Washington
Washington County
Iowa Township
Albert Navy
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Topping von Hill
Columbus Junction
Morigan
Missouri
Rise Street
Basra
Paul Klotz
Coyas Juneson
Canzet
Yada
Fis
OL the
Des Perset Te Pte
Fred Peter
North
Lomiese Alburnett
Tulsdal
Caroline Peter Geo. Price
A. J. Schueler
U.S
Caroline Peter
Alburnett
Louisa County Farm Women
Hamil Er
First St
Hamilton
Seed & Coal CO
Oakland Ave
36Th St. SE
Mt. Vernon Road
W. E. Grow
Rainbow Flour & Feed
16Th Ave
W. L Matus
Anamosa Fairgrounds
D. E. Brickley
Lee Bebee
Second St
B Ave. NE
Northwestern Oil CO
Cedar
Louisa
Louisa County
C. B. Flynn
Joe Liebenguth
Wilford Thomann
Ed Schneider
Brighton
Amos Stout
Edward Petratz
Donald Tucker
F. M. Groves
C. H. Kessel
Cedar Township
O. C. Patterson
Earl L. Smith
Clayde Knupp
Harry Dusenberry
E. B. Young
Fanklin Township
George Wright
Leslie Gates
Boyd Dill
Edward Libe
Melvin Booth
Pillsbury’s Best
Sunnyfield
Tau Lees
IONA
Heinz
Quaker Maid
Iona Brand
Bisquick
del Maiz
Red Circle Coffee
Bokar Coffee
Superior Brand
Graham
A&p
Swift
I. Bac Caddys
California
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