Gifts And Sons Sale Tops At $335 Poland China Auction
Thirty-six bred gifts and six bred sons sold in Worthington for an average of $84.76. Top price, $335, went to a gilt sired by Model Queen, champion at Iowa State fair. Sale included animals from twelve states and raised totals around $3,600.
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Gifts and Sons
Worthington
Orthington
O J Hess
Poland
R. C Henry
Sheldon
Iowa
Hess
Blackstone
Discovery
Indiana
California
Minnesota
Texas
Ohio
North Dakota
South Dakota
Illinois
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Magquoketa
Mort Wilhelm
Maquoketa
Budgeting and a Working Plan for Rural Households
Rural housewives are urged to adopt budgets and working plans for the new year. Keeping the books helps smarter spending, with an example of allocating 20 from a dairy farm cream check into weekly parts and a left over fund for incidentals. Time budgeting is also advised to allow recreation and community activities.
4-H Club Elects Winne Sheffield Officers 1936
Decorah reports the Junior Master Home Makers 4-H club of Winneshiek County selects officers for 1936. Mabel Peck is president, Rebecca Sersland is vice president, and Myrtle Sersland serves as secretary treasurer.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
Mabel Peck
Rebecca Sersland
Myrtle Sersland
Treaster
Jones Farm Women Plan Food Study
Miss Ruth Cessna Ames extension nutrition specialist will lead a series of home maker discussions in Jones county this winter on foods costs standards and serving. Four meetings are scheduled with township leaders Jan 14 15 16 and 17 at Monticello Onslow and a yet to be announced location. The course titled Cutting Costs but Raising Standards will explore home production shopping choices and nutritious menus while noting prices and supply.
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Gazette
Anamosa
Ruth Cessna
Ames Extension
Jones County
Cessna
George Zimmerman
Monticello
Co-Operative Creamery
Monona Butterfat Averages 30.97 Cents Per Pound
The Monona Co operative Creamery paid patrons an average of 30.97 cents per pound for butterfat for the year ending Nov 30 1935. Total butter produced was 615454 pounds with 558248 shipped to market 28850 sold locally and 28356 sold to patrons. Overrun averaged 24.2 percent. New officers for 1936 include F G Drahn president Gilbert Meyer vice president E E Drahn secretary K W Bash treasurer and Fred Haas Will Marsilius directors.
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Monona
Monona Cooperative Creamery Company
F G Drahn
Gilbert Meyer
E. E. Drahn
K. W. Bash
Fred Haas
Will Marsilius
Farm Planning Committee Meets In Benton County
Twenty four members of the Benton county agricultural planning committee met Thursday to discuss the supreme court decision on the AAA. The county will form a Farm Bureau subsidiary named Minutemen to carry information into townships and school districts and will meet next Monday evening.
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Winton
Benton County Agricultural Planning Committee
Supreme Court
AAA
Minutemen
Farm Bureau
Scott County Agent To Talk REA In Grundy
Rural electrification meeting set for Grundy county at the courthouse Saturday at 1 p.m. Robert Combs, Scott county agricultural agent, will conduct the session.
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Scott County
Rea
Grundy
Wind Driven Battery Charger Mounted On Old Buggy
Herman Hoeger adapts an old buggy as a mobile wind driven generator to charge a radio battery. A 6 foot single blade drives the unit on a short tower, with an extra battery in a weatherproof box on the buggy. Eighteen hours of wind raise charge from 1 150 to 1 275 gravity. a full charge lasts about four days with heavy radio use.
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Maynard
Herman Hoeger
Fred Hoeger
Hoeger
Bugsy
Independence Board Caps Dog Damage Claims for Unlicensed Owners
Buchanan county supervisors ruled in 1936 no livestock damage claims will be paid to owners whose dogs are unlicensed. In 1935 about 3,000 dogs were taxed, with $1,600 in dog taxes and $1,400 paid for livestock claims. The schedule allows three fourths of market value for lambs, hogs, cattle, turkeys, ducks, and geese. caps include $125 per horse, $50 per cattle head, and $75 claim threshold requiring immediate notice.
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Independence
Buchanan County
County Board of Supervisors
West Liberty Farmers Discuss Pork Production
A fourth evening school session for Muscatine county farmers was set at the West Liberty high school with E C Darling in charge. Six experienced hog raisers W C Anderson Albert Ruess Ed Hendricks Lawrence Roth William Juhl and Scott McMahon will discuss care of sows and litters from farrowing to weaning. County enrollment for evening classes totals seventy five.
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Gazst West Liberty
Muscatine County
E. C. Darling
W. C. Anderson
Albert Ruess
Ed Hendricks
Lawrence Roth
William Juhl
Scott McMahon
Farm Auction Schedule Ahead With Multiple Local Sales
A series of farm auctions is listed for January with events across Iowa. William Hansen hosts a horse sale in DeWitt on Friday January 10 and the Iowa Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids also holds a sale that day. Edward Pitlik closes out near Mt. Vernon on Monday the 13th. B A Smith sells six miles south of Delhi on Tuesday the 14th, A S Weyer near Newhall on Wednesday the 15th, and N E Jones north of Cedar Rapids the same day. Another horse sale is set for Thursday the 16th at Cedar Rapids.
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William Hansen
DeWitt
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
A. S. Weyer
Newhall
N. E. Jones
North
Congressmen Urged To Support Farm Legislation
MAQUOKETA The Jackson County Farm Bureau sent telegrams to U S Senator Louis Murphy and Congressman B M Jacobsen urging support for agricultural legislation to compensate for the loss of the AAA. Township minute men also write to these officials.
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Gazette
Maquoketa
Jackson County Farm Bureau
United States
Louis Murphy
B M. Jacobsen
AAA
Calmar Creamery pays 38 cents for January butterfat
Calmar Creamery patrons are paid thirty eight cents per pound for butterfat in January. Weekly butter output is about 6,000 pounds.
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Calmar Creamery
Calmar
Calmar Creamery Company
Reno Pledges Cost of Production Plan Push
Milo Reno, head of the National Farmers Holiday association, plans a Washington trip to press for a cost of production farm program. He was not invited to Wallace’s farm conference and will join E. H. Everson of the Farmers Union for a Washington meeting on Jan. 13. Reno denounces the Triple-A as a failure but backs the McNary Haugen approach.
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Des Moines
INS
Milo Reno
Secretary of
Henry Wallace
Washington
Reno
National Farmers Holiday Association
Wallace
E. H. Everson
Farmers Union
Iowa
Farm Board
McNary- Haugen
Zemo Skin Itch Relief Praised by Millions
Zemo relieves itching from rashes ringworm eczema pimples and similar skin problems. For 25 years it has been used and praised as a safe dependable family remedy. A trial will convince you of its merit and insistence on genuine Zemo offered at 35 60 or 1 dollars by all druggists.
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Y Good Housekeeping Bureau
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Jones Farm Women Plan
Farm Planning Committee
Benton County
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PNS
Ellen
Gamblin
West Liberty
Edward J. Pitlik
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Mgr
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Nature's Remedy
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