Benton Leads State With 135 Corn Hog Contracts Signed
More than sixty Kane township farmers near Keystone have signed corn and hog production adjustment contracts, lifting Benton county to 135 total signatures. County Agent W A Geiger of Vinton says 90 percent of Kane's 122 farmers may sign by week end, as committees organize centralized sign up in multiple townships across the county.
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Eystone
Kane
Keystone
Benton County
Iowa
W A Geiger
Vinton
John Franzenburg
Ralph Griesy
J F Heitman
Belle Plaine
Milton Beck
William Thiessan
Alfred Bockholt
Elberon
Kane Township
Iowa farmers sign up for corn-hog contracts efforts
A large Iowa county committee led by W J Roudabush organized township leader meetings to promote signing corn-hog contracts. About 63 township leaders attended as outreach expands to 2400 farmers with goal of 85 to 90 percent signup.
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Sprcint
Lee
Washington
Arthur
Ames Extension Service
Gus Brandt
Davenport
Otto Patterson
Cedar Township
Washington County Committee
William J. Roudabush
Lamb feeding declines noted in 1934 stockyard census
Federal estimates show 4 906 000 head of lambs on feed on Jan 1 1934 down 13 per cent from 1933. Corn belt and western states share the drop with smaller numbers across Mississippi east states and Missouri west states, while Montana and Texas show mixed gains in direct shipments.
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Chicago
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Nebraska
Scotts Bluff
Platte Valley
North Dakota
Texas
Colorado
Arkansas Valley
Corn Belt
Montana
AAA Investigator Emphasizes Farm Aid Consumer Angle
Ames reports emphasize the consumer impact of farm programs on Towa business. County leaders discuss corn hog strategy, relief measures, and restoring buying power, linking farm income to national manufacturing activity.
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AAA
AMES
Towa
R K Bhs
Ames Extension Service
Bliss
United States
Youth Dominates Awards At Oneida Grain Show
Dick Matthews, a farm youth near Oneida, captured the lion’s share of first awards at the annual corn and grain show. He placed first with a sweep of entries including alfalfa hay, soybeans, barley, yellow and white oats, calico and yellow corn, and shelled corn.
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Oneida
Dick Matthews
Oneida Consolidated School
Matthews
Howard Fensterman
Harold Joslyn
M. J. Joslyn
George Kuehnie
Don Parker
O. P. Smock
Lawrence Gienapp
Clara Matthews
Francis Barker
Milk Producers At Oelwein Seek Higher Price
Milk producers in Oelwein organized Tuesday to secure a higher price for their product. A committee of Frank Baker Floyd Oakley and Art Wardell will draft a contract for distributors. The base price was cut 25 percent months ago and distributors raised consumer prices two cents a quart. Current price to dairymen is butterfat plus forty five cents per hundred pounds skim milk.
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Oelwein
Frank Baker
Floyd Oakley
Art Wardell
Progressive Farm Union Names Beltran President
Albert Beltman Hospers was elected president of the Progressive Farmers' Union of Iowa in Sioux City Tuesday. Hans Bilken Rock Rapids and C P Bush Battle Creek were named officer positions with directors including Henry Brosamle Jefferson Sr. and others. The union urged Secretary Wallace to end concentration points and direct livestock buying by packers.
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Spreial
Sioux City
Albert Beltman
Hospers
Progressive Farmers’ Union of Iowa
Hans Bilken
Rock Rapids
C P Bush
Battle Creek
Henry Wallace
Henry Brosamle
Jefferson Sr
Law and Order League
Northwest Town
H P Lashter
Cushing
Carl Wilken
Wall Lake
Ed Lohff
Holstein Carl Wilken
Arthur Beltman
Progressive Union Farmers’ Co-operute Commission Company of
Sioux Tily
Linn County Corn Loans Reach 2320000 Total
A Linn County report shows corn loans totaling 232006.50 dollars with 8494 bushels pledged by Thursday noon. Four farmers in Powrshick area borrowed funds, bringing the overall total to 96749 dollars from 720 growers.
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Linn
Garette Coisele Onivy
Powrshick
Hartwick Folk Move To Avert Rail Abandonment
A North Western official warned at the Hartland Abinpingakanelation meeting that the Hartwick branch could be taken up if business does not improve A mass meeting was set for Saturday afternoon to discuss possible actions to save the line.
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Hartwick Folk
Tvwick
Hartwick
North Western
Hartaoe Abinpingakanelation
Eternoon
Corn And Hog Growers Meet In Waubeek Monday
The Buffalo township committee for the corn and hog sign-up campaign will hold a public meeting in Waubeek Community hall at 7:30 Monday Chair man H J Hood Burt Neal district leader will be the principal speaker Other committee members listed include William McGovern Ray Meredith Jesse Price Ralph V Kula Thomas Neilly Sharon Smith Frank Stoddard John Fronta Clif ford Bowdish Frank Dutcher Ed Finson and George Kolda
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Waubeek
Buffalo
Linn County
H J Hood Burt Neal
William McGovern
Ray Meredith
Jesse Price
Ralph V Kula
Thomas Neilly
Sharon Smith
Frank Stoddard
John Fronta
Clifford Bowdish
Frank Dutcher
Ed Finson
George Kolda
Winneshiek Co-Op Directors Re-Elected Amid Record Shipments
At the Winneshiek Farmers Co operative association annual meeting M Tweet Fred Nelson and William Foltz were re elected directors for three years and C O Bidne was re elected manager of the Decorah branch. In 1933 Decorah shipped 22 000 head and Ridgeway 5 177 head. Decorah merchandise sales neared $100 000 and Ridgeway about $25 000 with net income up $4 500 across the two stations.
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Decorah
Winneshiek Farmers Cooperative Association
M. Tweet
Fred Nelson
William Foltz
C. O Bidne
Ridgeway
Cows Bring 30 to 32 At Columbus Junction Sale
Good milk cows sold from 30 to 32 at the Midway sale pavilion. Calves sold well and hogs brought market prices. Sheep averaged 350, Timothy hay sold for 475 a ton, white oak posts for 11 cents each, and black wood brought 3 a load. Consignments of furniture brought good prices. Paul Klotz and H M Duncan were auctioneers.
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Columbus Junction
Midway
Timothy
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Cattle Sale Totals at Norway Reach High Prices
Cattle brought from 23.50 to 46 a head at the J. J. Pickart sale in Norway on Tuesday. Calves and yearlings sold 11 to 21. Tony Schmitz served as auctioneer.
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Apedal
Norway
J. J. Pickart
Tony Schmitz
Grundy Center Creamery elects Stubbs president at meeting
Charles Stubbs was elected president at the Grundy Center Creamery association annual meeting held Wednesday afternoon. Harm Kruse was named vice president and Lyle Wawn secretary treasurer. additional directors include Will Cold George Groenewald Will Getting Clarence Rockes Stubbs Kruse and Hawn.
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Gavette Grundy Center
Charles Stubbs
Grundy Center
Linn county corn hog meetings scheduled over four days
Nineteen corn and hog meetings are listed across Linn county over the next four days. Venues include Marion old court house Walker high school Center Point Yost hall Mount Vernon city hall Central City G A R hall Troy Mills Mt. Zion church Fair fax Catholic church Toddville Coggan opera house Union church Covington hall Whittier hall Prairieburg hall Ely Legion hall Waubeck hall Alburnett school and Palo school with times mainly 1 30 p m and 7 30 p m.
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Linn County
Marion
Old Court House
Walker
High School
Center Point
Yost Hall
Mount Vernon
City Hall
Central City
G.A.R. Hall
Troy Mills
Mt. Zion
Linn Township
Fairfax
Toddville
Bertram Hall
Coggan Opera House
Union Church
College Township
Covington Hall
Whittier
Prairieburg Hall
Ely
Legion
Iowa Professors See Meat Packing Expanding
Iowa packing industry is set for growth as plants cluster near hog and cattle sources. Professors H H McCarty and C W Thompson of the University of Iowa College of Commerce note production shifting to grain feeding regions of the corn belt with Iowa gaining share, given abundant hogs and beef, trucking facilities, and 1929 marketing data showing Iowa supplying 23 percent of hogs, 11 percent of cattle and calves, and 4 percent of sheep for the nation.
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Iowa City
Iowa
H. H. McCarty
C. W. Thompson
University of Iowa College of Commerce
Iowa Bureau of Business Research
Minnesota
Illinois
New York
Kansas
Farm By-Products Lab At Ames To Be Completed By May
The agricultural by products laboratory for the United States Department of Agriculture at Iowa State College in Ames is slated for completion in May during the Weishea celebration. P Burke Jacobs oversees construction with A H Kimball named supervising architect and M B Griffith as erection superintendent. Day labor will handle all on site work while bids on materials such as cement gravel sand brick and pipe are being received.
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Ames
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowan State College
Weishea
P. Burke Jacobs
A. H Kimball
M. B. Griffith
Jacobs
Hatcherymen In Six Iowa Counties Endorse Code
Sixty hatcherymen from Allamakee Clayton Winneshiek Fayette Bremer and Chickasaw counties met at a district Iowa Poultry Improvement association gathering in West Union to approve the hatcherymen code in full. The code was explained by W C Ramseyer A H Ward and R V Lobdell. Local arrangements were organized by C A Ostrander.
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West Union
Iowa
Allamakee
Clayton
Winneshieck
Fayette
Bremer
Chickasaw
Iowa Poultry Improvement Association
W. C. Ramseyer
Oskaloosa
A. H. Ward
Independence
R. V. Lobdell
Waterloo
C. A. Ostrander
Fayette County
Hogs top at 3 55 in Chicago market
Petersburg Shipping association reported a shipment of 204 pound hogs sold in Chicago at 3.55 per hundredweight, the extreme top of the market. The sale was handled by the Petersburg group.
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Petersburg
A. GC. Schmuecker
Chicago
Petersburg Shipping Association
Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine Cold Remedy Ad
An advertisement extols Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine as the complete internal cold remedy. It claims four actions: open bowels, combat germs and fever, relieve headache, and fortify against further attack, urging readers to buy at druggists and look for the LBQ stamp.
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Grove
January farm auctions set for Cedar Rapids to Monticello area
A sequence of farm sales runs January 19 through January 25 across Iowa towns including Cedar Rapids Martelle Atkins Anamosa and Monticello. Listings include consignments from Iowa Purebred Shorthorn and Holstein auctions with buyers invited to attend in Cedar Rapids Martelle Atkins Anamosa Monticello area.
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Pier Martin
Marelle
F. D. Deischer
Monticello
December egg prices hit low unseen since 1930s
Ames reports the December average egg price at 16.9 cents per dozen, the lowest in years, pushing margins per hen to 3.8 cents as income per flock drops. Production rose slightly from last year with 7.3 eggs per bird on average, while top flocks averaged 12.4 eggs and bottom flocks 3.2.
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Ames
Poultry Extension Service
Butterfat Gains Highlight Clayton CSA December Dairy Figures
Elkader-Volga City contest association’s 489 cows averaged 703 pounds of milk and 28.6 pounds of butterfat in December. L. C. Leath led with 1,094 pounds milk and 39.4 fat from 24 Holsteins. his high cow yielded 2,445 pounds milk and 179.2 fat. Emil Zurcher’s 16 Holsteins averaged 1,064 pounds milk and 38.4 fat. Harold J. Klaus’s high protein diet raised December butterfat from 3379 to 375.3 pounds, boosting income by 9.53 after expenses.
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Edgewood
L. C. Leath of
Elkader
Emil Zurcher
Farmersburg
Harold J. Klaus
Colesburg
Traer Creamery Reports Butterfat Averages and Finances
At the Traer Co operative creamery annual meeting Secretary J J Casiavska reports an average butterfat price of 23.58 cents per pound for the year ending December 31. The creamery produced 876 415 pounds of butter from 704 477.64 pounds of butterfat with 24.45 percent overrun and paid patrons 166 369 61 dollars in total.
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TRAER
Traer Co-operative Creamery Association
J. J. Casiavska
Fred Stephenson
Oelwein
R. C. Wood
W. D. Mitchell
F. M. Stork
Butterfat Price Set At 19 Cents For December Half
CENTRAL CITY The Farmers Mutual Creamery company paid 19 cents a pound for butterfat in the last half of December. Plans are under way for the annual meeting and election of directors to be held January 31.
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Central City
Farmers Mutual Creamery Company of
Butter Production Rises 35 Percent at Center Junction
Butter made by the Farmers Co-operative Creamery of Center Junction rises 35 percent in the first two weeks of 1934 versus the same period last year. Alfred Erickson is butter-maker.
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Center Junction
Farmers Co-operative Creamery
Alfred Erickson
Internal medicine offers cure for piles say ads
The ad argues piles stem from internal bad blood circulation and external salves fail. It promotes HEMROID by Dr J S Leonhardt as an internal treatment that restores circulation, heals affected tissue, and ends piles with a money back guarantee if unsatisfied. May Drug Co. invites trial for stubborn cases.
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J. S. Leonhardt
May Drug Co
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