A Nut In Time Saves Nine Machine Repair Week
Ames extension engineers urge Iowa farmers to designate March 6 to 11 for repairing and adjusting farm machinery before spring work. They cite potential state savings and longer machine life, outlining a methodical approach and when to repair versus replace.
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MES
W S. Peterson
Ames Extension
Peterson
E G McKibben
Iowa
McKibben
Extension Service
Ames
Farm Auction Schedule Near Lisbon Cedar Rapids and More
Auction listings show multiple farm sales from February 7 to March 2 across Iowa. John Raetz hosts a Holstein sale near Marion, Gale K. Frink runs cattle sales near Lisbon, and L J Rathburn oversees Covington cattle near Norway. Nearby consignments include Lisbon and Center Point farms, with additional sales at Mechanicsville.
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Marion
John Raetz
Lisbon
Gale K. Frink
Norway
Charles Delana
Farm Auction Sale at Fred Paul Farm
Auction to begin at 12 30 pm on the Fred Paul farm located one mile east of Flying Ward eighty and nine miles northeast of Center Point. Property to be sold by agreement at the auction.
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Fred Paul
Flying Ward
Center Point
Farm Bureau to Hold Cedar County Repair Machinery School
Cedar county Farm Bureau directors approved a two day short course the week of March 6 to demonstrate adjustment and repair of farm machinery. Leaders from each township will carry the program to their home communities.
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Tipton
Cedar County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Home Grown Protein Discussed at Linn Feeding Confacts
Linn county Farm Bureau hosts eight feeds and feeding schools this week to promote home grown feeds with focus on proteins. L Quaife of Ames leads discussions comparing soybeans alfalfa clover soy oil meal linseed meal tankage and other products across eight township meetings and schools led by various local leaders and 4H and club programs.
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Linn County Farm Bureau
L Quaife of
Ames
Farm Bureau
Monroe Township
Water van
Toddville High School
Marion Township
Frankin Red Cross
Mount Vernon
Otter Creek Township
Burean
Alburnett High School
Girls' Club
Marion
College
Putnam How Smith
Fayette and
Clinton
Franklin
Eva West
Yule Sisters Crossbreds Bring $3.50 At Chicago
Yule Sisters farm southeast of Mechanicsville sold sixty eight crossbred Poland China Berkshire hogs averaging 299 pounds at 350 a hundredweight. Oscar Mayer buys the packer’s hogs and found the loads uniformly high quality with carcasses blemish free after slaughter. Trucker Val DeWald hauled the herd 214 miles in nine hours from Mechanicsville. Experts in Chicago stockyards estimated the hogs were twenty pounds light due to their high finish.
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Garet Mechanicsville
Mechanicsville
Kenneth Smith
Chicago
Poland
Yule
Oscar Mayer
Mayer
Val DeWald
Mechanicsale
Cedar county farmer nets top price for steers at Chicago market
Fred Ruther of Tipton Cedar County shipped two carloads weighing 1045 pounds each to Chicago on Thursday. The steers sold at six dollars and fifty cents per hundredweight, among the day’s high prices.
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Tipton
Fred Ruther
Cedar County
Chicago
Agricultural Agents Move To New Quarters In Post Office
Linn county agricultural agents move to new offices in the Cedar Rapids federal post office building on First street between First and Second avenues SE. They occupy rooms 207 211 and 212 on the second floor. The doors now read U. S. Agricultural Agent replacing the old Farm Bureau Office sign. The accompanying photo shows a corner of the new offices.
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Linn County Agricultural Agents
Cedar Rapids
U. S. Agricultural Agent
Farm Bureau
Farm Near Toddville Sells for 110 An Acre
Walter L. Reitz master mechanic at Penick and Ford plant Cedar Rapids bought the Milton Fleisher farm of seventy acres near Toddville for 110 dollars an acre. The sale, through Childs Realty, leaves the land leased back to Fleisher for the coming season on paved Highway No 11 eight and a half miles north of Cedar Rapids.
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Toddville
Walter L. Reftz
Penick and Ford
Cedar Rapids
Milton Fleisher
Here
Childs Realty Company
Reitz
Milk Distributors Ponder Demands Of Farmers At Omaha
Omaha dairy managers met for over three hours with Beatrice Creamery regional head Charles Hutchison as milk sold in at least one store for four cents a quart. Farmers had demanded the Council Bluffs dairy affiliated with Beatrice join the Nebraska Iowa Co operative Milk association. After the meeting an unofficial conferee said little progress was made.
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Omaha
the World-Herald
Council Bluffs
Charles Hutchison
Des Moines
Beatrice Creamery Company
Beatrice Company
Nebraska- Iowa Co-operative Milk Association
Sam McKelvie Outlines 5 Point Farm Aid Program
Sam McKelvie, Nebraska farm publisher and former Farm Board member, spoke in Schenectady outlining five congressional steps to aid farmers. He urged reducing government costs and taxes, delaying farm debt collection until prices rise, matching government economy to farm practices, expanding foreign markets, and allowing farmers to run their own businesses.
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Sam McKelvie
Schenectady
Wisconsin Milk Strike Impacts Veal Market The Week
UNION STOCKYARDS Chicago dealers gained a dollar as Wisconsin milk restrictions curb shipments. Veals sold 5.50 to 6.50 with selects at 7. Choice fed yearling steers strong to 25 cents higher at 6 to 7 with top at 575. Cows scarce, beef cows 2.50 to 2.75. hogs steady to 25 cents lower, top 3.65. Lambs and ewes mixed with lambs at 5 to 5.50 and ewes 2 to 2.50.
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Gazette
Chicago
Wisconsin
Rowley Co-op Pays 17 Cents Butterfat in January
Rowley Farmers Co-operative creamery patrons receive payment for the last half of January butterfat at 17 cents per pound. The report notes the first half of January butterfat commanded 20 cents per pound.
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Rowley Co-Op
Rowley
Rowley Farmers Co-operative Creamery
Monmouth Shipments Move Double Deckes This Week
The Monmouth Shipping association on the Chicago market Thursday moved the third double deck consignment of the week. consignors included J R Saunders with 179 pound hogs at 365, C W Baird with 201 pound weights at 3 65, J C Carroway with 175 pound hogs at 350 and R Millicont with 260 pound butchers at 350, plus consignors J R Mitchell Latan E Bahnson Mrs Crawford and Charles Brown.
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Monmouth
Monmouth Shipping Association
Chicago
J R Saunders
C W. Baird
J C. Carroway
R Millicont
J R Mitchell
Lotan E Bahnson
Mrs. Crawford
Charles Brown
Logging In Iowa Monticello Log Spurs Farm Lumber
Jo Bateman of Monticello area remarks on a massive log five miles north of town. The ponderous log, part of a batch converted to lumber on the Bateman farm, measures four by twelve feet with a stump diameter of four and a half feet.
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Monticello
Jo Bateman
Farmer
Weoceman
Bateman Farm
Farm auction reports from Delta North English and Columbus Junction
Special to The Gazette details closing out sales near Delta five miles west of Delta where oats sold 16 cents bushel and corn 14 cents. Top horse 88 dollars and mare 40. Cattle hogs priced well. Near North English two milk cows sold for 26 and 40 dollars, horses 40 to 68, feeder pigs 3.80 to 470, corn 127 cents. Near Columbus Junction alfalfa hay four tons, timothy four tons, corn 13 cents, machinery and horses sold 25 to 75, eight dozen Buff Orpingtons 60 cents each. Paul Klotz and Chester Grigg auctioneers.
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the Gazette
Delta
Dick Burdock
Gazette
F. J. Pickett
North English
C. C. Evans
Mr. Pickett
Cedar Rapids
Columbus Junction
Hagerman and Vetter
Paul Klotz
Chester Grigg
West Liberty
Manchester farm sale yields varied livestock and grain prices
At Thomas Evans farm sale six miles northeast of Manchester thirty ewes sold from $1 to $3.50. Milk cows moved $15 to $25, 3-year heifers $25, 2-year heifers $20, a 5-month calf $16.50. An 8-year old horse of 1400 pounds topped at $106. hens 49 to 74 cents. Hay $3.50 per ton, straw $3. Oats 400 bushels at 13 cents, corn 300 bushels at 15 cents. Machinery prices fair with a corn planter at $30.
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Manchester
Thomas Evans
Lambs Bottle Fed In Viola Farm Scene Of 18 Lambs
Viola farm records show Dillon Atherton tending 18 lambs from 10 ewes including one quadruplet, two triplets, three twins and two singles. He bottles lambs every four hours, with chores split between 10 11 p.m. and 4 5 a.m. One night two ewes dropped seven lambs. all survived and thrived.
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The
Gazette
VIOLA
Dillon Atherton
Atherton
Nature
Mr. Atherton
Consignment Sale at West Branch Nets Strong Prices
Six hundred four hogs sold in ninety minutes. Sows up to 13.25 pounds, stock hogs 4 to 6 per head. One hundred cattle plus ten calves at 20.50 each, cows to 30. Eighty sheep topped at 3.85, thirty horses to 114, teams 196. Machinery commanded high prices with local auctioneers noting record bids.
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Gazette
West Branch
Fred Albin
P. N. Gibson
West Liberty
Fitzpatrick
Iowa City
Strawbery Point Creamery Plans March 7 Annual Meeting
Stock holders and members of the Straw berry Point Farmers' Creamery will hold their annual meeting on March 7 to elect officers.
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Strawberry Point — Stockholders
Strawberry Point Farmers’ Creamery
Shrink in hog shipments debated with truck vs rail evidence
The piece analyzes how human factors and handling affect hog shrink during transport. It cites Ashby’s Illinois study showing truck hauls shorter on average but higher shrink beyond 55 miles, and Matthes’ truck versus rail test indicating mixed results. It calls for more standardized shrink data and better official sales reporting in Iowa markets.
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Ashby
Illinois Experiment Station
Urbana
Illinois University
North English Co op hogs net $3.42 cwt in 1932 report
North English Shipping association members sold 5 679 hogs for an average net return of 3 42 a cwt. cattle averaged 4 50 a hundredweight with 505 head. Hog weight, market, and totals, plus board changes and continued affiliation with the State Shippers were reported at the annual meeting.
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North English Shipping Association
Frank Mullin
Sigourney Night School Graduates Twenty Farmers
Sigourney witnessed the third annual adult education program as twenty Keokuk county farmers were to receive diplomas. Fifty-five others attended the Monday courses since November focusing on farm management. Perfect attendance went to Ernest Herman and Henry Bruns with a longer list of diploma receivers including A. H. Bakehouse D. W. Bruns George Bruns Harvey Cassen Elst Evans Owen Evans Francis Grush Carl Herman John L. Herman Clifford Harras Raymond Linencamp H. H. Shanafelt L. H. Shaw Glen Sorden Clemens Streigel L. A. Strohman Newell Thorburn and E T Yates.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Fair C. Griffith
Sigourney School
Ernest Herman
Henry Bruns
A. H. Bakehouse
D. W. Bruns
George Bruns
Harvey Cassen
Elst Evans
Owen Evans
Francis Grush
Carl Herman
John L. Herman
Clifford Harras
Raymond Linencamp
H. H. Shanafelt
L. H. Shaw
Glen Sorden
Clemens Streigel
L. A. Strohman
Newell Thorburn
8. T. Yates
Harold J. Jones
Maurice Soulis
E. B. Lynch
Morley Co op Uses Fire to Fight Fire
Morley Shipping association directors vote to operate a cooperative shipping service after declining consignments. J H Kinkead of Cedar Rapids to headquarter at Morley with a 20 000 pound capacity double deck truck. The first load of eighty five hogs to Chicago leaves Sunday evening at 35 cents per hundredweight. Travel time to Union Stock Yards slated at ten to twelve hours.
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Morley
Morley Shipping Association
R. O. McColm
Clifford Miller
Hog House
J. H. Kinkead
Cedar Rapids
981 Bulls Entered In Iowa Better Sire Contest 1933
Fifty three of fifty nine Iowa dairy associations entered the 1933 better herd sire contest with 981 bulls listed. Earl N. Shultz Ames extension dairyman says this is the largest participation. The aim is to identify proven sires and boost use of proven bulls while keeping bulls in the community. Awards come from breed associations the Iowa State Dairy association and the Dairy Cattle congress at Waterloo when results are announced next fall.
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AMES
Towa
Earl N. Shultz
Ames Extension Dairyman
Shultz
Iowa State Dairy Association
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Millersburg Area Farmers Face Tight Egg Butter Prices
Farmers in the Millersburg area report last week prices of 8 cents a dozen for eggs 15 cents a pound for butterfat and 11 to 13 cents a bushel for corn. Many tenants have not yet rented farms due to landlords delaying crop share arrangements and tenants seeking other options.
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Millersburg
Closing Out Sale of Farm Horses Cattle Near Cedar Rapids
A retiring farmer lists 4 horses—one bay mare, one gray mare, two geldings—weighing 1300 to 1400 pounds, plus 11 cattle including 10 Holstein cows with good milk flow and a spring fresh heifer. Cattle TB tested. Sale at residence located miles south of Cedar Rapids and near Swisher Western Konigsmark station on the Iowa City Interurban.
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Cedar Rapids
Swisher
Western
Konigsmark Station
Iowa City
T.B
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. A. Combs
Covington
L. J Rathburn
F Koenigsmark, Jr
Western Rangers
H.fe. Page Cattle Company
Beverly Yards
Cedar Rapids, Ya
Paul Smith
Center Junction Jones Co
Geo. Price
W. RK. Watsabaugh
Cedar
Linn
Yule Sisters
George Dillon
Myrtle Erickson
Gladys Adams
Toddville Sells
Spee
Garvette Clutier Fedward Hoch
Tama
Tru-ari Cui
Tru
E. J. Hopkins
William Barclay
Masonville
Frank Matthes
Marengo-Homestead Shipping Association
Matthes
Department of Agriculture
SOYA
Iowa Milling Company
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Ottumwa
Buffalo
D. H. Goodman
F. E. Berry
L. G. Wallace
R. G. Owen
W.S. Ferree
Owen
Goodman
Wallace
State Shippers
Sigourney Night School
F. M. Wilson
Sale Barn
Mechanicsville, IA
Morley Co-Op
Iowa Dairymen
Chas. Delana
H. Thomas
Hart-Parr
Fr. Koenigsmark, Jr
A. T. Benn
R.F.D
United State Bank
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