East Iowa Counties Lead Top Cattle Prices At Chicago Market
Clinton, Dubuque and Louisa counties supplied 20 percent of top cattle sold in Chicago last year. Iowa as a whole accounted for 48 percent of prime beeves on 227 market days, with feeders from Clinton Dubuque Louisa and other eastern counties prominent. Thirty three percent of top loads came from those counties as 433 carloads topped the market across the year.
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NION
Chicago
Iowa
Clinton
Dubuque
Louisa
Nebraska
Clinton Dubuque
Scott Ordar Davhe
Delaware
Linnton - Johnson
Town
Hawkeye
Winows
Kansas
Wyoming
North Dakota
Colorado
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Indiana
Ilinois
Scotts Bluff
Clinton, Dubuque
Fence Drift and Bid War Over Timber Acre
A fragment shows a bid dispute over timber land with an $18 bid raised to $19 amid a tense scene. A man with an axe asks for the land under a tense joke or real auction doubt.
Convention of Farm Bureau Federation Plans 3000 Attendees
Des Moines APB reports the fourteenth annual Town Farm Bureau federation convention set for January 18 to 20 with about 3000 members expected. Highlights include talks on stabilizing the dollar crop control, and government economy. Key speakers include Charles E Hearst M S Winder and Dr G F Warren.
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Des Moines
APB
Farm Bureau
Town Farm Bureau Federation
Charles E. Hearst
Federation
O. W. Beeler
Ellsworth Richardson
Ellsworth Richardson, Chairman of the State Womens Committee
John W Jackson
Mahaska County
Chicago
Hearst
M. S. Winder
American Farm Bureau Federation
G F Warren
Cornell University
Ray Murray
State Secretary of Agriculture
State Federation
KO Bliss
Town State College Extension Service
Enitire
Aboo
Monona Creamery Hires Jordahl As Buttermaker
Monona Creamery appoints Peter A. Jordahl as buttermaker after a Saturday meeting of Linn Farmers Cooperative directors Bruce Tap and Howard Bern. The board set draft routes and payments for last year. the cooperative shipped 23 000 pounds of butter to New York via double deck conveyance.
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Speeo
Monona
Peter A. Jordahl
Linn Farmers Co-operative Creamiy Hee Sattnday
Bruce Tapeofars
Howard Bernhasta
Mr Jordahl
Whsup Co-operative
Feedlots Fuller Than A Year Ago In Eleven Corn Belt States
The number of cattle on feed in the eleven corn belt states on Jan 1 rose about 5 percent from a year earlier, with similar gains east and west of the Mississippi. Western declines centered on Colorado, while Texas remained flat. Sheep and lambs on feed dropped 15 percent to 5,239,000 nationwide, with notable declines in Iowa Kansas and western markets, and market inspections down 10 percent in late 1932.
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Gazette Union
Chicago
Bureau of Agricultural Economies
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Texas
Iowa
Indiana
Kansas
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Nebraska
Ohio
Michigan
Montana
Rocky Mountain States
Iowa Implement Dealers Association elects leaders in Des Moines
Rex E McCreary of Perry retires as vice president and is chosen president of the Iowa Implement Dealers Association at the convention final session J J Deering of Boone named vice president OP Riter of Hawarden and A F Miller of Sumner serve as directors Resolutions call for tougher bankruptcy laws and memorials to farmers facing low prices and foreclosures Sperlas in The Gazette.
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Des Moines
Rex E. McCreary
Perry
Iowa Implement Dealers Association
J J Deering
Boone
OP Riter
Hawarden
A F Miller
Sumner
Incoming Farm Auctions Schedule for January 17 18
A list of farm and livestock auctions across Iowa with sales on January 17 and 18. Louie W. Buresh hosts a sale near Cedar Rauns. Marengo fairgrounds hosts a horse sale. Patten and Patten near Marion. Julia E Offt near Keystone. L. C Bush near Iowa City Center Point sale by A J Hasley Mechanicsville. closing out sale near Watkins.
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Cedar Raunds
Louie W. Buresh
Marengo Fairgrounds
Patten
Marion
Keystone
Julia E. Offt
Iowa City
Center Point
L. C Bush
Mechanicsville
North Edge Watkins
A. J Hasley
Meat Campaign Culminates In Butchering Week
Ames Iowa marks Home Butchering Week opening Monday as farmers rush to butcher hogs and cure hams and bacon before warm weather. The statewide drive by Farm Bureaus promotes cutting canning and curing of beef pork and lamb with training schools in about fifty counties. Local leaders replicated demonstrations for the public and at a Vin ton school 125 quarts were canned.
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Ames
Iowa
C W. McDonald
Animal Husbandman
Extension Service
McDonald
Vinton
Future Farmers Vie In Judging At Tipton Jan 28
Tipton hosts county grain and legume judging contests and an eastern Iowa meet on Saturday January 28 at Tipton high school. Sponsored by the Tipton Future Farmers of America chapter under M A Crary, the events assess shelled corn car corn winter and spring wheat barley oats soybeans and seed identification with several grain and seed varieties named.
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Sprelal
The
Gazette
Tipton
Tipton High School
Future Farmers of America
M A. Crary
Cedar County
Iowa
Washington County Farm Records Keepers Meet
A five day farm records school for Washington county farmers is under direction of L. G Allbaugeh Ames farm management specialist. Sessions at the Farm Bureau office and Wellman cover impact of business depression on farm incomes and strategies for farmers to measure and improve profitability.
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Washington In
Washington County
L. G
Uae Sae
4 H Baby Beeves Gain 55 Pounds In December
Muscatine average gain for forty five of sixty baby beeves on feed in December was fifty five pounds. Howard Dean fed a calf thirty two pounds of oats and sixty pounds of hay to gain fifty five pounds. Another Dean calf gained eighty pounds in December. Thirty three boys and girls are in the baby beef club this year.
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Muscatine
Carl Rylander
Howard Dean
Babs Beef Club
Mr. Rylander
Sugar Beets Return $32 An Acre Near Kanawha
Sugar beet crop near Kanawha covered 400 acres yielding $13,000 last season with an average of $32 per acre. The Northern Iowa Experimental station operates a farm near Kanawha where Dr TFE Methus leads plant pathology work to combat leaf spot and bolster beet production.
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Kanawha
F Bl
Bush Bank
Kee
Iowa
Guernsey dispersal yields mixed prices near Independence
Independence area dairyman Chris Schwartz sold thirteen head of purebred and grade Guernseys for an average of 50.80. Two 2-year old springers brought 4875 each while four yearlings and five fall calves averaged 16.80 per head. Total twenty four head averaged 37.88. Schwartz is involved with the Wapsie Valley Contes association and the Wapsie Valley Bull club. J F Kelicher bought the herd sire.
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Gazette
Independence
Chris Schwartz
Schwartz
Wapsie Valley Con Test Association
Co-Op Sells 21.1 Per Cent Of Total St. Louis Receipts
Producers Livestock Commission association at National Stockyards East St. Louis reports 1932 earnings of 41786 to patron members. Livestock from 13 states brought 9100000 in sales. co-op handled 21.1 percent of total yard volume with 13.5 percent cattle 29.9 percent calves 24.4 percent hogs and 191 percent sheep.
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Co-Op
St. Louis
National Stockyards
East St. Louis
Producers Livestock Commission Association
Fayette Shippers Name Henry Hettler President
Henry Hettler was elected president of the Fayette Shipping association at its twenty first annual meeting. L Greenough was named vice president the State Bank of Fayette was treasurer and E L Clegg and E N Sinnott became directors. Hold over directors are H G Patterson J R Wood W H Turner and Roy Odekirk.
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Fayette
Henry Hettler
Fayette Shipping Association
L. Greenough
State Bank of Fayette
E. L. Clegg
E. N Sinnott
H G. Patterson
J. R. Wood
W. H. Turner
Roy Odekirk
Morrison Shipping Association reports 1932 hogs and cattle marketed
Ten carloads of hogs and nineteen of cattle were marketed through the Morrison Shipping association during 1932. The organization marketed seventy four loads of hogs and cattle in 1931. George Stumbaugh is president.
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Morrison
Morrison Shipping Association
George Stumbaugh
Dream of Najol piles relief ad claims gentle cure
An old advertisement urges sufferers to quit laxatives and use Nujol Dream for piles. It promises soothing healing of bowel membranes, no work interruption, pleasant taste, and a low daily cost, urging readers to buy at their local drug counter tonight.
Taxes Drop 20 Per Cent From 1929 Peak in Farm Real Estate
Washington report shows farm real estate taxes per acre in 1932 were 20 per cent below the 1929 peak but about twice the 1913 levy. The bureau notes the figures reflect average levies, not delinquency, and actual payments likely fell further as many farmers could not meet taxes. Regional differences are not yet computed.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
New England
Tax burden per acre in New England shows little drop
The report notes that by 1932 there is little evidence of a reduction in taxes per acre across New England. It suggests that overall the tax load on farmland remained substantially unchanged, with little relief for farmers despite broader fiscal measures.
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New England
Muscatine Women Enter State Quartet Contest
A Muscatine county Farm Bureau delegation led by County Agent Carl Rylander and the county women’s quartet will attend the Iowa Farm Bureau federation meeting in Des Moines January 18 to 20 to compete for state honors. The quartet featuring Rita Day Cloyce Downer Newton Lang and R Fry placed second in last year’s state contest.
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Wilton Junction
Muscatine County Farm Bureau
Carl Rylander
Rita Day
Cloyce Downer
Newton Lang
R. Fry
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Des Moines
Luana Shipping Association Cuts Non-Member Commission
The Luana Shipping Association halves commissions for members in 1933 while charging non-members double. In 1932 the group handled 139 carloads of livestock selling for 67,624.49 with commissions of 1,314.50 and also moved feed and coal valued at 13,744.39. Co B Davenport, secretary, reports.
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Luana
Luana Shipping Association
B. Davenport
Farmers use surplus corn as fuel in community
A group of local farmers reports corn surplus being used for fuel. Some mix corn with coal and wood, while others burn corn alone to heat homes and buildings.
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E. Webster
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