Livestock Groups Demand Congress Probe of Packing Industry
Live stock associations in Illinois and nationwide urge a congressional investigation into meat packing practices. Delegates at a Springfield convention push reforms including a five member live stock committee and amended packers and stockyards acts to curb non competitive direct buying by packers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Livestock Association
Illinois Livestock Association
Springfield
Ill
United Press
Washington
Howard Gramlich
Chicago
American Shorthorn Breeders Association
R. C. Ashby
University of Illinois
Gested
D. M. Hildebrand
Seward
Neb
National Livestock Association
Wallace
Hull
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Packers and Stockyards Act
Cedar Rapids
FENCE DRIFT AND HOG PRICES SHAPING DIRECT SELLING
The piece surveys hog price declines tied to rising direct selling to packers, noting 51.9 percent of hogs were sold direct in 1939 and 40.5 percent in 1929, with cattle direct sales lagging. It traces marketing shifts from public markets to packers and the impact on price relationships between hogs and fat cattle across decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Stockyards
Chicago
Hybrid Watermelon Developed at Conesville
The world’s first developed hybrid watermelon nickname 39 by 50, created at Conesville by the Southeast Iowa Experiment Association. It crosses Dixie Queen and Iowa Belle with Wilt resistance, larger size, and higher quality, compared with commercial lines. Thirty seed lots are being distributed to growers for trial this spring.
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Conesville
Southeast Iowa Experiment Association
Iowa
Coming Farm Auctions and Slaughter Trends Report
The notice lists farm auctions on February 2, February 28, February 29, and March 5 across Iowa locations including Cedar Rapids, Martelle, Alburnett, Norway, Atkins, Lisbon, and Louisa. It also notes 1935 slaughter data with hogs rising and cattle prices, hogs directing sales to packers, and 1939 hog and cattle price conditions.
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Wesley Buresh
Mi. S
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City Sales Co
R. W. Cairy
Mi. W
Solon
John Nesley
Lisbon
Harry Lutz
Louisa
Illinois livestock marketed cooperatively at 1939 meet
Dan Smith of Shelbyville reported that 30 171 car loads of the 130 762 cars of livestock produced in Illinois last year were marketed cooperatively through National Livestock Marketing Association member agencies. Counties leading in cooperative marketing included McLean Henry Sangamon LaSalle and DeKalb.
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Peoria
Illinois Livestock Marketing Association
Dan Smith
Shelbyville
Illinois
National Livestock Marketing Association
Menard
Kendall
Mason
Woodford
Gallatin
McLean
Henry
Sangamon
LaSalle
DeKalb
Farmers Market Place Want Ads in The Gazette
Ready for spring livestock buyers and sellers can read and use Want Ads for new and used farm machinery seed baby chicks poultry and supplies in The Gazette Farmers Market Place advertisement.
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the Gazette
Two Teams Sell For 9770 At Onslow
Onslow Marvin Hanward son sold two matched teams of horses for 775 dollars. One pair of three year old geldings weighing 3700 pounds went to a New Jersey buyer. The other pair, two year olds weighing 3250 pounds, went to Bry H Davidson of Stanwood.
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Onslow
Marvin Hanwardson
New Jersey
Bry H. Davidson
Stanwood
Prices at county sale segment include livestock and machinery
At Columbus Junction near Lone Tree a red roan mare brought 102.50 and a gray mare 50 while a bay gelding sold for 65 and two colts for 40 each. Sows and pigs sold up to 20 per head with dairy cows 65. Tractors and farm implements also sold with prices listed. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and H M Duncan.
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the Gazette
Columbus Junction
Jack Curtis
Lone Tree
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Troy Mills
J. K. Henderson
Emmett Sehl
Central City
March Farrow
New Hampshire
Harry G. Powell
Burson To Conduct Pasture Meeting At C. R. Saturday
Linn county Farm Bureau pasture improvement committees and other interested farmers meet with Ames extension agronomist Paul Burson at the Farm Bureau office next Saturday afternoon. Rex Conn notes Burson will explain successful pasture practices and outline participation in the eastern Iowa pasture improvement contest culminating in a Cedar Rapids grass clinic in December.
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Paul Burson
Ames Extension Agronomist
Linn County
Farm Bureau
Rex Conn
Burson
Linn
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Scientists Decode Ancient Rainfall From Petrified Forest Rings
Researchers analyze growth rings in fossilized trees to reconstruct climate patterns. The study uses ring width to infer rainfall amounts across geological timescales, offering insight into Earth's ancient hydrological history.
Miniature steam engine chugs like a thresher in Bill Bend
Bill Benda, a lifelong steam hobbyist from Chelsea, built a 38 inch miniature steam engine with a 30 inch boiler and 12 flues that can pull 1800 pounds on 45 pounds of steam. He is now crafting a scale grain separator modeled after a 16 horsepower thresher engine, continuing a family tradition dating back to his father who started with a horsepower threshing rig in Czechoslovakia.
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Chelsea
Bill Bend
Mr. Benda
Czechoslovakia
Bill Benda
Fayette Township women plan county achievement day
The Farm Bureau office hosted Fayet te Township's home project chairmen on Thursday to organize the county achievement day set for May 3 in Fayette.
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Fayette — Township
Farm Bureau
Fayette
Natex touted by local man for back and leg relief
A local man praises Natex claiming it eased years of constipation nerves and headaches after taking the remedy. A Natex representative at Podzimek's Pharmacy offers samples and further explanation.
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Natex
Podzimek
Second Avenue SE
Forest Primrose
Route 1
Post Office
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Packer Buying
Packer
Ray Anderson
John
William Pisarik
Mount Vernon
John Pisarik
Gazette
I. E. Melhus
Ames
Major. Hoople
Twiggs
Williams
Trwillams
C. R
First Ave
Sioux City
Mason City
Harry
Benda
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