Continued Increase In Size Of Farm Flocks Is Reported
The federal poultry and egg production report notes a continued rise in farm laying flocks and higher eggs per hen in December. Prices for eggs chickens and turkeys in November reached postwar highs, with feed prices easing and production per flock up about 6 to 7 percent from a year earlier.
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Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Amwe
Puetek
Nnumpeis
South Atlantic
North Atlantic
East North Central
West North Central
South Central
Far Western
Turkey
Farmers Want Ads Guide Readers to Classifieds
Farmers are directed to use Want Ads under classifications 38 and 39 to buy or sell farm stock equipment poultry supplies feed hay and related items.
Grain Show Opens At Olin High School With Judge Thursday
Special to The Gazette reports grain and forage exhibits set for judging at Olin High School. George Strayer of Hudson acts as judge as the show opens to Jones County and runs until Friday. Heavy Thursday snowfall reduced entries in the 10 car corn division while other departments filled. Instructor J. W. Nichols notes entries were otherwise complete.
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Olin
George Strayer
Hudson
Jones County
Vocational Agricultural Department
Olin High School
J.“W. Nichols
REA Survey In Jones County To Be Finished By Jan 18
Directors of the Jones county rural electric cooperative signed articles of incorporation and set the survey scope. A county survey to determine highline routes is to be completed by January 18, with membership forms printed and offered to farmers in early January.
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Jones
Anamosa
Jones County Rural Electric Cooperative
Feeding schools set in Fayette county in January
Three feeding schools will be held in Fayette county on January 8 9 and 10 with Ames extension dairyman Floyd Arnold speaking on feeding and managing dairy cattle. Young farmers club members are urged to attend at Legion hall Fayette January 8 West Union assembly room January 9 and Oelwein city hall January 10 starting at 9 30 a.m.
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Fayette
Fayette County
Floyd Arnold
Ames Extension Dairyman
Young Farmers’ Club
Legion Hall
Assembly Room
West Union
City Hall
Oelwein
Ridgeway to Host Machinery Repair Discussions
Byron T. Virtue of the Ames extension service will lead discussions on adjusting mowers grain binders and plows at the Ridgeway community hall on January 7 and 8. The event aims to help local schools and farmers improve equipment maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgeway
Byron T. Virtue
Ames Extension Service
Chicago horse auctions show strong demand and higher prices in 1935
Union Stock Yards reports 1935 total receipts at 19 370 horses, down slightly from 20 906 a year earlier, with an average price of 190 dollars up from 115 in 1934. Saddle horses led the price rise while farm chunks and draft horses also advanced. color and colt sales boosted demand, as buyers favored sorrels and roans and mare colts sold quickly to Eastern and Southern markets.
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Union Stockyards
Chicago
Sadon
Maryland
Virginias
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Carolinas
Georgia
Tennessee
Wheatland Creamery Pays 35c For Butterfat
Wheatland Co operative creamery patrons were paid thirty five cents a pound for last half of November butterfat. Klahn Brothers topped the payments with a fifty dollar eighty five cent check. Mrs Ernestine Schneider finished second with forty one dollars nine cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheatland
Wheatland Co-operative Creamery
Klahn Brothers
Ernestine Schneider
Aaberg Reports Large Corn Loan Seals
DES MOINES AP H C Aaberg assistant agriculture secretary said Wednesday complete corn sealing reports up to Dec 26 show loans totaling 3 339 862 were made on 7 421 917 bushels to that date.
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DES Moines
H. C. Aaberg
Farm Bureau chief clarifies Canadian cattle import figures
Linn county Farm Bureau president E FLA Ave McCreery warns the Dec 31 and Jan 1 farm editor’s report on Canadian cattle imports may mislead readers. He notes the new treaty limits imports at about 155 799 head under the 2 cent rate, while the prior 3 cent duty remains allowed beyond that cap.
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Ave McCreery
Alburnett
Linn County Farm Bureau
Canada
the Gazette
Scientists Convert Energy Into Matter With Soft X-rays
At the AAAS meeting in St. Louis the energy to matter idea is discussed with Dr. E A Spessard showing plant weight gain from light absorption in sealed tubes. Tests on soybean seeds by Long and Kersten report up to 10 percent stimulation using soft X rays. Columbia Russet potato variety showcased in Canada.
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E. A. Spessard
Hendrix College
Conway, Ark
American Society of Plant Physiologists
Spessard
Theo. P. Long
H. Kersten
Physics Department
University of Cincinnati
Botanical Society of America
British Columbia
Canada
American Potato Growers Association
H. S. Machead
Walter Jones
William Scott
CCC
Roland M. Harper
Geological Survey of Alabama
Zoological Society of America
Civilian Conservation Corps
Wilson To Speak At Iowa Farm Bureau Convention
M L Wilson assistant United States secretary of agriculture will be a featured speaker at the Iowa Farm Bureau federation annual convention in Des Moines January 15 16 and 17. Charles E Hearst president announces. Wilson known as a former Iowan will discuss future land planning the AAA and department work. Donald Kirkpatrick legal counsel for the federation will also speak on Farm Bureau activity in his department.
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Des Moines
M. L. Wilson
United States Secretary of Agriculture
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Charles E. Hearst
Wilson
Washington, D. C
Henry A. Wallace
Montana State Agricultural School
AAA
Donald Kirkpatrick
American Farm Bureau Federation
Kirkpatrick
Hoosac Mills
Supreme Court
Farm Bureau
Dairy markets end 1935 with high butter and cheese prices
The 1935 year end saw butter at New York 92-score at 36 cents a pound and 93 at 36 1/2 to 37 cents, with cheese prices at their highest since 1929. 1936 opens with firm dairy markets, light stored supplies, and a mixed production outlook influenced by imports and federal milk-control programs.
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New York
United States
Farm Auction Schedule for Cedar Rapids and Worthington
A Friday sale schedule lists the Town Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids on January 3 and Worthington sale by J Hess featuring Poland China stock on January 8.
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Cedar Rapids
J. Hess
Poland
China
Worthington
Dairy butter prices and shipments shift trade patterns
London and New York quotes show Danish butter at 14.6 cents, with Danish and Swedish markets helped by large shipments to Germany. New Zealand butter, entering peak production, has 2,576,392 pounds en route to the United States, with arrivals slated Jan 26, Jan 30, and Feb 5. Colonial butter in Britain trades around a shilling per pound.
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Canada
New Zealand
London
New York
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Oats Bring 361 Cents In Wilton Junction Auction
Oats sold for 36 1/4 cents a bushel at the Charles Barber farm sale near Wilton Junction. The event posted a total of about 6500 dollars with corn at five and a quarter cents per bushel hay at 6 50 a ton cows to 78 a head calves 20 steers 60 hogs 10 to 11 each and horses and machinery selling high. John Osmers acted as auctioneer.
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Wilton Junction
Charles Barber
Here
John Osmers
Hilbert Gradert
H. W. Kretschmar
Cattle and horses lead sale at O S Korse farm near Columbus Junction
Milk cows sold from 47.50 to 67.50 a head at the O S Korse farm sale seven miles east of Columbus Junction. Top horse brought 97 for a 9 year old gray gelding. other horses 35 to 65. Pigs, hay, corn, and gear fetched varied prices. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and Jesse McGill.
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the Gazette
Columbus Junction
O. S. Korse
Columbus
Junction
Stover
Paul Klotz
Jesse McGill
Grandview
Meat and canning training school coming to Decorah
L. T. Airy of the Ames extension service will head cutting and curing of meat while Mrs. Helen Zoller runs the canning section at a meat canning cutting and curing training school Monday at the Aase Haugen home four miles west of Decorah.
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Decorah
L. T. Airy
Ames Extension Service
Helen Zoller
Aase Haugen
Miss Helen Dilger Named New Winneshiek Home Demonstration Agent
Miss Helen Dilger, newly employed home demonstration agent for Winneshiek county, will begin work here January 6. The announcement appeared in The Gazette from Decorah.
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Brecin
Gazette Decorah
Helen Dilger
Winneshiek County
Marketing Co-ops Favored In Europe
Ames economist Dr Geoffrey Shepherd reports growing producer government collaboration in marketing farm commodities in Europe. Studying Denmark England Norway and Britain he notes Danish co ops for milk butter and bacon are advanced while England eyes broader collective selling without strong government production controls.
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England
Norway
Denmark
Geoffrey S. Shepherd
Ames
Shepherd
Cedar Rapids
Europe
Scandinavia
British Isles
Department of Agricultural Economics
Town State
Copenhagen
Oslo
London
Cambridge
Oxford
Dr. Shepherd
Schmuecker Named Pocahontas County Agricultural Agent
SIGOURNEY Ervin J Schmuecker 4 H club agent in Keokuk county has been employed as agricultural agent in Pocahontas county succeeding Howard Willit Willit resigned to farm in Poweshick county Schmuecker formerly of Blairstown Benton county has been club agent here since Nov 10 and will begin work in Pocahontas next Monday
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Sigourney
Ervin J. Schmuecker
Keokuk County
Pocahontas County
Howard Willit
Willit
Poweshick County
Schmuecker
Blairstown
Benton County
Pocahontas
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Sayto
Pap
Winslow
Kai
Iai
Wheatland Creamery
Aaberg
MR. McCreery
Harper
Alabama
Charles Darwin
Arthur H. Compton
University of Chicago
Compton
A. G. Mitchell
State University of
Kansas
Mitchell
Williams
Viai
Iowa Farm Bureau
Dee. 1
H.G. Fussell
Okinow
2Nd Ave
Cedar Rapides, Ja
John ‘Friedl
40Th St. E
Ray Anderson
Hess’ Sale
Blackstone
Town
Hi. S. Duncan
Edw. Tobin
Anamosa Sale Pavilion
Shars
Lee Bebee
D. E. Brickley
Mgr
First Avenue
DIAL
Baltimore
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