Farm Bureau Seeks New REA Financing Sources
Iowa Farm Bureau leader Francis Johnson told The Gazette the federation is shopping for rural electrification capital beyond federal REA loans. He urged farmers to resist Washington control, noted interest from the private sector and the federal land bank, and cited a Des Moines convention resolution endorsing farmer voice and local board control in REA projects.
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Washington
Francis Johnson
The
Gazette
Johnson
Iowa Public Utilities Association
Des Moines
Iowa Farm Leader
Federal Land Bank For Cooperatives
Iowa
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Ested
Farm Bureau
American Farm Bureau Federation
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Maynard Creamery Pays 43 Cents For Butterfat
Maynard Cooperative Creamery patrons received 43 cents a pound for butterfat delivered in December, per secretary C. H. Paul.
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Maynard Creamery
Maynard
Maynard Cooperative Creamery Company
C. H. Paul
Fence Drift and Weather Gauntlet in Rustic Contest
A poem reflects on winter hardships and hardy labor, noting blizzards and heat as tests of men. It humorously contrasts carefree flirtation with practical tasks of cattle, pigs, and chores on a wind swept knoll. The piece finds zest in enduring severe conditions.
Iowa Hereford Breeders Plan Show And Sale In Ames
Iowa Hereford association members meet February 1 and 2 in Des Moines for the first show and sale. J C Holbert notes the banquet at Hotel Kirkwood and sale of seventy three Herefords from thirty breeders. Cal Kinzer leads the event to prove Iowa ranks among top Hereford producing states. Officers include J W Whindelbaugh C A Iverson and J C Holbert with a board of directors from multiple towns.
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Ames
Iowa Hereford Association
Des Moines
J. C. Holbert
Association
Hotel Kirkwood
Cal Kinzer
Union
Holbert
Iowa
J. W. Whindelbaugh
Chariton
C A. Iverson
H. A. Kinzer
Dave Dancer
Lamont
Charles Hendricks
Muscatine
C. A. Tow
Dysart
Carl Goecken
Atlantic
Lester Wiese
Manning
Oscar Peterson
Aurelia
William McArthur
Mason City
Charles Ager
Waupeton
Soon Be Broilers in Eastern Iowa Hatcheries
Thousands of baby White Rock chicks are being raised for the broiler market in eastern Iowa. At Belle Plaine a young agriculture student Cleo Madeson tends 200 chicks that will be three weeks old Thursday. A hatchery distributed about 3,500 chicks to three poultry raisers for early spring broilers, with plans to keep them about ten weeks to reach two to two and a half pounds before turkeys are later raised.
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Iowa
Belle Plaine
Cleo Madeson
Cleo
Washington
Manchester Co-Operative Creamery names officers in annual meeting
Directors named at the Manchester Co-Operative Creamery annual meeting include Fred L. Darey Frank Jordi son Joseph Hermann Curtis Hockaday L F Porter Earl A. McGee Martin R Maurer and C O McCarthy all of Manchester and Walter Lehman Dundee Gar ret L McGee serves as secretary Ray A Simpson was rehired as termaker Assistants Rhinehart Landhecer and Archie Maxwell were named Production figures show 640081 pounds of butter produced last year with 522820 pounds sold to Eastern markets and 117261 pounds locally Cream received 1846895 pounds and 21250 pounds of milk The average top grade butterfat price was 38.87 cents per pound and the net price received for butter was 3311 cents per pound Cream average test was 27.7 percent.
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Manchester
Manchester Co- Operative Creamery Company
Fred L. Darey
Frank Jordison
Joseph Hermann
Curtis J. Hockaday
L. F Porter
Earl A. McGee
Martin R. Maurer
C. O. McCarthy
Walter Lehman
Dundee
Garret L. McGee
Ray A. Simpson
Rhinehart Landhecer
Archie Maxwell
Hybrid corn to cover half of 1938 planting in corn belt
Chicago AP reports Dr. J. R. Holbert of Bloomington Illinois told the agricultural club that hybrid seed will be used on half the corn belt acreage this spring. He predicted that within a few years at least 75 percent of the acreage would be hybrid.
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Chicago
J. R. Holbert
Bloomington
Agricultural Club
Estate sale near Walker transfers 160 acres for 9200
The Philip Onder estate four miles southeast of Walker sells 160 acres in Spring Grove township to Lee Hunt of McIntire for 9200. Possession passes March 1. The old and well kept farm features a sandy loam soil, good buildings, and 50 acres of pasture never broken.
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Walker
Philip Onder
Lee Hunt
McIntire
Spring Grove Township
Linn County
First Farm Bureau Convention Seen By a Farmer's Wife
A farmer's wife and 1-H club leader recounts attending the nineteenth Iowa Farm Bureau convention at the Shrine Temple, Des Moines. She describes crowds, ticket shortages, lunch, coffee, a county prize of 100 dollars, a chorus, hog calling, the Dracula play, and the closing Friday departure after a week of farm activity and notes cultural contrasts.
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Iowa Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Shrine Temple
Dallas County
Hotel Fort Des Moines
Clay County
Drake
Locker plant proposed for Lone Tree by locals
Lone Tree residents and farmers are solicited to buy shares in a proposed cold storage locker system. A committee to push the project was named at a recent community meeting. Committeemen are Homer Eden Fred Stock Frank Sherburne Roy Neilson and S C Carl.
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Lone Tree
Homer Eden
Fred Stock
Frank Sherburne
Roy Neilson
S. C. Carl
Agronomy Chief Pierre Set for Iowa State Head Role
Dr. W. H. Pierre, head of agronomy at the University of West Virginia, will arrive Thursday to become the new head of the Iowa State College agronomy department on February 1. He is noted as a leading soil scientist, especially in fertilizers, and in 1934 devised a method to determine acid residues now used by the fertilizer industry.
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Ames
W. H. Pierre
University of West Virginia
Iowa State College
Pierre
Iowa Corn Loan Seals 17 Million Bushels On Farms
Des Moines reports 17,479,196 bushels of corn sealed on Iowa farms under the corn loan program. Dr. Thomas L. Curran says total storage may reach 25,000,000 bushels. Webster county leads with 940,851 bushels sealed, followed by Pocahontas 715,722 and Calhoun 599,893.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Thomas L. Curran
State Secretary of Agriculture
Curran
Webster County
Pocahontas County
Iead
Calhoun County
Creamery Patrons To Meet At Clarence Jan. 29
Clarence hosts the Dayton Creamery annual meeting January 29 with E M Wright of Waterloo presenting a dairy industry film. C H Meyer of Midwest Locker Co will discuss efficient use of cold storage lockers. Creamery revolving fund checks will be distributed and buttermilk for next year sold at auction. Directors to succeed John Klait G D Goldsmith and Herman Gehrls.
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Clarence
Dayton Creamery Company
E. M Wright
Waterloo
Iowa Dairy Association
C. H. Meyer
Midwest Locker Company
John Klait
G. D. Goldsmith
Herman Gehrls
Bennett Co op Ships 8 Carloads of Hogs West of Bennett
Bennett Co operative association under manager Jay Smith sent eight carloads of livestock to Chicago last week. Hogs ranged from 7.65 to 8.40 with heavier loads over 200 pounds. Farmer Carl Hersch northwest of Bennett delivered 110 head that topped Chicago prices and carried 500 pounds gain. M. F. Bullis, Rock Island agent, coordinated the shipments with free pickup as part of local railway service.
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Spreial
The
Gazette
Bennett
Bennett Cooperative Association
Jay Smith
Chicago
Carl Hersch
M. F. Bullis
Rock Island
Uncle Sam Reports Farm Income Near Ninety Billion
Washington AP The Bureau of Agricultural Economics said farmers earned 88,521,000,000 from sale of principal products and government payments last year, up 601,000,000 from 1936 cash income. Cotton sales and loan placement in late 1937 boosted cotton and cotton seed income to 864,000,000 from prior estimates. December cash marketing reached 675,000,000, down from November and December 1936.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Sixty six Cedar County Farm Bureau committees named
Cedar county Farm Bureau president Alvin Stonerook announced 1938 committee appointments. Chairmen cover corn plot, corn husking, insect control, soils, rural credit, taxation, band, vocal music, fair exhibit, excursion, drama, boys' clubs, colts, farm records, legumes and small grains, dairy calves, beef clubs, pigs, honey production, sheep, poultry, gardens and fruit, weeds, legislative, educational, transportation and roads, agricultural planning, marketing, service, insurance, organization, auditing, budget, resolutions, nominating, and program of work with members from Tipton, Mechanicsville, West Liberty, Clarence, Stanwood, Wilton, and other local towns.
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Clarence
Alvin Stonerook
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Amos J. Suchomel
Solon
Arnold Mente
Tipton
Ralph Johnston
West Liberty
Glen Agne
W. C. Hall
R. G. Kelly
H. L. Busching
Stanwood
Orin Kiser
Guy Wright
Mechanicsville
Hy von Muenster
James Smith
Melvin Bowser
William Davidson
Ed Penningroth
George Fraseur
Frank Thomson
J. H. Bartlett
West Branch
Bert Gill
Wilton Juncetion
Harry Johnson
Herman T. Holmes
Harry Severin
Mather
Anders Mather
Henry Ruser
Bennett
Chickens Perish In Fire On Farm Near Stanwood
Seventy five chickens died in a poultry house fire on the R. T. Moffatt farm two miles southwest of Stanwood Monday evening. The blaze, believed started by a burner under a waterer, was checked to prevent spread with help from the Stanwood fire department.
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Stanwood
R. T. Moffatt
Local Creamery Elects New Officers at Monona Meeting
Fred O'Drahn was elected president of the Union Farmers' Creamery company at the annual meeting in Monona. Gilbert Meyer was named vice president, K W Bash treasurer, and E E Drahn secretary. Harold Klinkel and Fred Kruse were chosen as directors.
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Monona
Fred Odrahn
Union Farmers' Creamery Company
Gilbert Meyer
K.W. Bash
E. E. Drahn
Harold Klinkel
Fred Kruse
Poultry Institute In Session At Chicago
Ames officials H L Wilcke and A D Oderkirk traveled to Chicago for a fact finding conference of the American Institute of Poultry Industries. Wilcke will discuss Ideal Types of Market Poultry while Oderkirk outlines A Regional Plan of Grade Egg Buying.
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Ames
H. L. Wilcke
A. D. Oderkirk
Chicago
American Institute of Poultry Industries
Wilcke
Oderkirk
Hogs Bring $8.35 At Chicago Market For Clarence Farmer
Clarence-Louie Goldsmith, a farmer near Clarence, sold sixty hogs weighing 229 pounds each on the Chicago market at 8.35 dollars per hundredweight Friday. The sale highlights local livestock demand and farm-gate pricing during the period.
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the Gazette
Clarence
Louie Goldsmith
Chicago
Farm Auction Schedule Readers See Busy Jan and Feb
A series of farm auctions is listed with dates and locations across Iowa towns including Rogers, Springville, Lisbon, Beverly, Marion, Cedar Rapids, Mechanicsville, Cottage Grove, and Toddville. Listings cover closing outs and estates with sellers such as F. C. Russell, Henry Krummel, Gail Storck, I. B. Smith, and R. H. Maley. Event timing spans January 26 to February 3.
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Priday
Gail Storck
Marion
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Clarence Co Op Sells 128 Carloads For $275 608 In 37
Clarence Shipping association patrons received 275 608 03 dollars for livestock consigned in 1937. Manager Arnold Pruess reported at the annual meeting noting 128 carloads including 9 893 hogs 603 head of cattle 489 calves and 389 sheep were shipped. Directors George Hansen A R Bixler and John Ibsen were reelected with hold over directors William Roth and William Schroeder.
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Clarence
Clarence Shipping Association
Arnold Pruess
Co-Op
George Hansen
A. R. Bixler
John Ibsen
William Roth
William Schroeder
Pruess
Washington auction nets 231 head for 5126 dollars
In Washington Iowa 231 head of livestock sold at a weekly community sale for 5126 dollars. The sale included six horses fifteen veal calves sixteen lambs 101 hogs and ninety three cattle. White face yearling heifers brought 27.50 each a grade Angus bull 81.50 bred gilts 22.25 and veal calves 18.25.
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Washington
Hybrids Enter State Corn Show At Ames February
Ames hosts the State Corn and Small Grain show February 7 to 11 with certified hybrids and inbred entries. Joe L. Robinson, superintendent, says ten ear entries in five hybrid lots and open pollinated entries compete for sweepstakes honors. Iowa hybrids 931, 939, 942 and 13 run in separate lots. prizes total over 1000 dollars plus ribbons. An anticipated 8000 to 10000 ears may be entered by February 5 deadline as Farm and Home Week features the event.
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Ames
Joe L. Robinson
Iowa
Robinson
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules Ad Claim
An old advertisement touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a diuretic for weak kidneys and bladder irritation. It promotes a 35 cent box claiming to flush toxins, relieve nocturnal bathroom visits, backache, and other symptoms, asserting safety and origin from Haarlem, Holland.
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Haarlem
Holland
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