Iowa Farm Bureau seeks $8 million to boost REA program
Washington officials report the Iowa Farm Bureau shopping for non federal funds to supplement the rural electrification program. They hope to add about 8 million dollars to the roughly 2 million expected for the year, aiming at a 10 million dollar construction push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa Farm Bureau
Ilora
Rural Electrification Administration
Farm Bureau
Ashington
D. C
Cedar Rapids
Fence Drift Caught in the Woven Wire
Fifty six 35 miles an hour speed limit districts set by the highway patrol. Many stretches of road where moderate speed is prudent. Frost forms on unpaved sections as it melts and nature reshapes the pavement. Winter pavement humps appear north of Central City on highway 13 and near Williamsburg and North English. Patrolmen urge driver cooperation to prevent accidents.
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Highway Patrol
Nature
Central City
Highway 13
Williamsburg
English River
North English
Tenancy Hearing Planned At Independence Feb 1
A farm tenancy meeting is set for February 1 in Independence with a state committee member in attendance to discuss tenancy questions. The event aims to address local farming lease concerns and inform affected parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Farmers Mutual Creamery selects directors at annual meeting
Central City witnesses re elections of R. F. Blofield E. R Finson and Herschel Stickney as directors. Ernest M Wright of Waterloo secretary of the Iowa Dairy association spoke and showed moving pictures at the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central City
Farmers Mutual Creamery
R. F. Blofield
E. R Finson
Herschel Stickney
Ernest M Wright
Waterloo
Iowa Dairy Association
F F A Corn Show Highlights Delhi Grain Event
Walter Nieman wins sweepstakes with ten ears yellow at the fourth annual FFA grain and legume show held at Delhi High School. Judge A F Walker names top entries led by Earl Durey and Dell Paris in multiple corn and forage categories among 152 entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delhi
Walter Nieman
Future Farmers Organization
Nieman
A. F Walker
Monticello
Raymond Lanning
Louis Guetzke
F. F. A. Chap
Ter
Mr Walker
Earl Durey
Dell Paris
Bill Harder
Henry Kracke
Harold Pettlon
Bert Thibsdeau
Ensilage
Earl Darey
Conversational Center Sparks Cozy Home Spirit
A Kentucky Country Woman piece celebrates a conversational center as a haven of comfort where families share confidences and ease daily troubles. It highlights window views, desk corners, rocking chairs, and warm gatherings around meals and fires.
Delaware County farm tenancy hearing attracts 25 farmers
Twenty five Delaware county farmers attended a farm tenancy hearing in Manchester. Dennis E. Drummy chaired the meeting with Dan J. Schnittjer and County Agent Edward L. Molin guiding a discussion on drought, price fluctuations, and tenancy issues. Topics included ownership benefits, stabilizing prices, earlier lease dates, and limiting landlords liens to 50 percent of yearly production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Manchester
Delaware County
Dennis E. Drummy
Ryan
Delaware County Planning Board
Dan J. Schnittjer
Delhi
State Farm Tenancy Committee
Edward L. Molin
Buttermaker resigns as Jesup cream route honors receivers
Jorgen Thomsen, Jesup butter maker since 1935, will join a Waterloo creamery supply firm on February 1. He was honored at a Saturday dinner with W A Brown Kent Acuff and Raymel Demmel who recently sold their cream routes. About seventy five creamery members and families attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesup
Jorgen Thomsen
Waterloo
W. A. Brown
Kent Acuff
Raymel Demmel
Linn Oil Co-Op reports gains in 1937 operations at Marion
At the annual Marion meeting manager Harry Dunn announced the Linn County Cooperative Oil Co. handled 665 573 gallons of gasoline 135 244 gallons kerosene 74 055 gallons distillate 14 180 gallons lubricating oil 333 gallons alcohol and 12 414 pounds grease in 1937. Gains included 100 213 gallons of gasoline versus 1936 and 6 063 gallons distillate. kerosene dropped 6 201 gallons and alcohol 203 gallons while grease rose 2 716 pounds. Directors reelected Quaas and Vondracek. Ben Neal elected to replace Beckenmann.
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Marion
Harry £. Dunn
Linn County Cooperative Oil Company
Dunn
Charles Quaas
Godfrey Vondracek
Fairfax
Ben Neal
Mount Vernon
Robert Beckmann
Finois
F. Michel
F. H. Hoppe
Hogs Higher Than Steers At Chicago Sale
Nick Holst of Onslow sold fifty two head of 1 193 pound steers at eight fifty per cwt in Chicago Tuesday. He also sold twenty head of 249 pound butcher hogs at eight sixty per cwt, top for their weight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Onslow
Nick Holst
Chicago
Per Capita Use of Fats in the United States 1912 1936
Figures from the American Butter Institute show that per capita consumption of oleomargarine doubled from 1912 to 1936 while compounds and vegetable shortening rose a third. Butter and lard stayed roughly flat. Total fat consumption rose from 38.1 to 43 pounds per person. Oleomargarine rose to 15 pounds per person in 1912, peaking earlier, and increasing to 397,487,167 pounds in 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Butter Institute Today
United States
More Grain Sold On The Hoof In Iowa Elevators
Des Moines AP Harold Hedges of the federal farm credit administration tells the Iowa Farmers Grain Dealers association that cooperatives are adapting to smaller grain volume as farmers market more on the hoof. He notes a shift to patron control and new services while Nebraska data show smaller share pools attracting more members.
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DES Moines
Harold Hedges
Federal Farm Credit Administration
Iowa
Hedges
Iowa Farmers Grain Dealers Association
Economist
Nebraska
Fayette Cattlemen to Revive County Assn
Fayette county cattle breeders plan to revive the local association after it lapsed last year. The Feb 3 meeting in Fayette will feature Rex Beresford addressing the group as officers are elected. Plans include prizes for baby beef exhibitors at the Fayette county fair. Sixty breeders exist in the county across Shorthorn Hereford and Angus breeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speeial
Gazette West Unon
Fayette County
Fayette
Rex Beresford
Ames Animal Husbandman
Steers Sell At 7 990 In Chicago Trade
Anamosa consignor Ray C. Mowry in Jones county sold a load of twenty five 1000 pound steers at Chicago for 7.90 per hundredweight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Anamosa
Ray C. Mowry
Jones County Feeder
Chicago
Profits To Be Stressed In Farm And Home Program
Ames outlines Farm and Home Week February 7 to 12 with emphasis on conservation tenancy efficient marketing and more profitable production Four to five thousand farmers and homemakers expected for six days Speakers include Gov Kraschel Soil Conservation officials and university experts on soil management grain varieties equipment hybrid seed and dairying Topics cover conservation and profit oriented farming practices Tenancy land values marketing and horse disease EEE brain fever noted by State Veterinarian H A Seidell
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Gazette
Ames
R M Visquain
General Assembly
Visquain
Nelson G. Kraschel
J. L. Boatman
The
Soil Conservation Service
B. J. Firkins
Ames Agronomist
L. C. Burnett
J. B. Davidson
A. A. Bryan
Claude Harper
Purdue University Animal
W. A. Wentworth
Borden and Company
New York City
Rainer Schickele
W. G. Murray
S. H. Thompson
Frank Robotka
W. T. Maakestad
H. A. Seidell
Corn Auction At Allen House Farm Near Delhi
Corn sold for 52 cents a bushel, oats at 33 cents, top cow brought $60, team sold for $270, and chickens sold for 75 and 60 cents each at the Delhi area sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delhi
Allen House
Arthur Stapel farm auction draws crowd despite blizzard
In a sale two and a half miles northeast of here on Tuesday, AURORA seed corn sold for 85 cents a bushel and crib corn for 50 cents. Oats 28 cents, hay 6.75 per ton, soybean hay 9.25, soybeans 84 cents, potatoes 65 cents. A 1500 pound three year old horse sold for 122, top milk cow 67, pigs 15 each, White Rock chickens 85 cents, and ducks 1.30 each.
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The
Gazette
Aurora
Arthur Stapel
Here
Hogs Bring 38. Clarence Market Report
Arnold Mente of Cedar County market hogs for Clarence Shopping Association at Chicago. Forty one 256 pound hogs sold for eight dollars per hundredweight.
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Clarence
Arnold Mente
Cedar County
Chicago
Clarence Shopping Association
Steers Fetch 89.75 at Cascade Auction Yard
John P. Kurt near Cascade sold a load of 1 284 pound steers at Chicago receiving 9 75 per hundredweight and totaling 110 55. The report notes the cattle price movement and gives buyer and weight specifics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Cascade
John P. Kurt
Chicago
Farm Auction Schedule From Jan 28 to Feb 3
Multiple farm auctions listed across Iowa towns with sales by Gail Storck I B Smith Floyd Butler R H Maley estate B S Wilson J T and M E Smith Frank Krouse. Locations include Marion Cedar Rapids Cottage Grove Viola Mechys the villas Toddville.
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Gail Storck
Marion
Lowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
I. B Smith
Cottage Grove Avenue
Linn Boulevard
R. H. Maley Estate
Waukon Creamery Averages 36.3 Cents For 1937 Butterfat
Waukon The average paid for butterfat in 1937 by the Waukon Farmers Creamery company was 36.35 cents a pound. The annual report shows 1,356,306 pounds of cream received 458,183 pounds of butter made and 368,282 pounds of butterfat purchased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukon
Waukon Farmers Creamery Company
Directors Of Fair At What Cheer Appointed
Executive committee of the Keokuk county fair board named by President Sam McKain includes John Baylor What Cheer Roy Clevenger Thornburg C W Augustine Delta D W Bruns Sigourney D Garrett Delta and E P Lally secretary Aug 22 25 1938 dates set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
What Cheer
Keokuk County Fair
Closing Out Sale At Stereel Farm North Of Springville
Auction notice for Olin Paul Levsen with cattle hogs hay grain and machinery to be sold Monday Jan 3 at the Stereel farm one mile north and 34 mile south of Viola near Springville. Terms to be announced. Sale by Floyd Butler with Anamope Citizens Savings Bank as clerk.
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Lynch and Griem
Marion
Floyd Butler
South
Viola
Springville
Stereel Farm
Chartle Wickam
Guernsey
Jersey
T. B
Bane’s
Chester
Oxford
Deering
Harrow
Floyd Butler Lee Rehee
Anamopa
Citizens Savings Bank
Smith Farm
Miles S
Cedar Rapidsy
Cedar Rapids
Dee
Poland
Farrow
T. Deering
McCoremick
I. H C
Osborne
John Deere
Hays
Janesville
Sandwich
Lane
John T
M. E. Smith
Iowa Supplies Nineteen Percent of New York Poultry
Iowa provided about 19 percent of New York's dressed poultry in 1937, the largest share among states. Minnesota and New York followed with about 12 percent each, while nationwide receipts rose overall from 1935 to 1937 despite lighter late-year fowl and turkey production.
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Iowa
New York
Minnesota
Towa
Seed Project Meeting Planned in Waukon
Ames extension plant pathologists and botanist join county supervisors and seed committee in Waukon for a seed project meeting. They will outline an educational program on weed eradication and control and discuss cleaning and training field crop seeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gacette
Waukon
Sylvester
Ames Extension
Allamanee
County Seed Committee
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Washington
Hope Farm Bureau
ED Hadley
REA
Congress
Jroning
John M. Carmody
Bureau
Borrow of Insurance Company
New York State
Kentucky
South Carolina
RFA
Midwest
Vinton Hybrid Corn Co
Vinton, Iowa
Grzette
A. F. Walker
Buttermaker
Linn Oil Co-Op
County Assn
Delco Parts
1St St. NE
J.T and
M. E Smith
Frank Krouse
Toddville
Waukon Creamery
Fair At
Olin
Paul Levsen
Merle E. Garmoe
L. Brown
Tara Yee Au
E. A. Kriz
E. G. Kriz
First St
Cedar Rapids, Ta
RP C. Lassen
United State Bank
MR. Farmer
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