Heavy imports ease grass seed shortage with 1500 tons Sudan seed
U S officials report a 1934 drought created a 30,000 ton seed shortfall for hay pastures and for emergency forage crops. Importations of Sudan grass seed totaling about 1500 tons and other cargoes in transit are expected to erase the reduction and may boost 1935 acreage above 1934.
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Ashington
Iowa Daily Press Bureau
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Sudan
Australia
New Zealand
Madagascar
Hungary
Fence Drift and Odd Visionals Across a Midnight Snack
A surreal piece describes drift over a muoven wire and astride a bacon rind. It recounts visions of Rome’s seven hills and a polar bear chase, with a rising keeper of the deep smiting a ship. A dream of Bruno Hauptmann sewing buttons and Franklin D says this task is beyond him as a billion is offered to remake the country.
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Rome
Bruno Hauptmann
Franklin D
Icy Roads Hamper Start Of Corn Hog Plan In Iowa Towns
Hazardous gravel and rock surfaced roads slowed the 1935 corn and hog program in east central and northeastern Iowa. Ice coated side roads made travel dangerous. township meetings were postponed and main roads only partially improved by sunshine and temps.
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East Town
Iowa
Advertised Guernsey Cows Sold Next Day
A 5K Want Ad in The Gazette on Friday January 25 advertised six Guernsey milk cows for sale and all were sold the following day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guernsey
the Gazette
Township Meetings Advance Across Iowa for New Contract Signups
Iowa counties report thousands of applications as township educationals wind up. Sac county lists 1200 contracts signed, Page county 700 to 800, Marion county over 1200. Training schools for township committeemen wrap up, with meetings to explain the contract to neighbors.
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Sac County
Page County
Marion County
Iowa
Early Pay Second Batch Arrives in Brooklyn
About $55,000 in early-pay second installment 1934 corn and hog checks arrived at Poweshiek courts allotment headquarters and will be distributed Tuesday and Wednesday at designated stations. H 1. Dieterich, corn-hog chairman, reports $70,000 still due. Township meetings to inform farmers about 1935 contract are held this week and next for signing applications.
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the Gazette
Brooklyn
Poweshiek Courts
Dieterich
Government Cattle Buying To Cease In South Iowa Thursday
The Iowa drought emergency triggers a halt to government cattle purchases in southern counties. Purchases set for Tuesday at Donnellson Fairfield Center with Leen Indianola Bedford Audubon Denson Malvern. Wednesday at Sigourney Mount Pleasant Keosauqua Bloomfield Iscrola Guthrie Center Atlas to City Carda Logan. Thursday at Montezuma Corning.
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Apecatr
AMFS
Nrthern
Iowa
Beresford
Ames Extension Service
Eolector
Montezima
Corning
Sigourney
Mount Meas
Keosauqua
Bloomfield
Bloomfield Ina Iscrola Guthrie Center
Atlarto Ciarda
Logan
Donnellson Fairfield
Leen Indianola
Bedford Audubon
Denson
Malvern
Eighty Night Schools For Adult Farmers This Year
Eighty night classes for adult farmers have been held this winter, with about fifteen more planned. State supervisor Ekstrom reports Iowa vocational agriculture teachers have organized the sessions, with total classes expected around one hundred despite weather challenges.
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Speria
DFS
Fordult
Partiere Olanee
Towa Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Ekstrom
Amber Butterfat Averages Highlight 1934 Creamery Year
The Amber Mutual Creamery patrons averaged 28.58 cents per pound for butterfat in 1934 with 611 668 pounds of butterfat produced from 760 040 pounds of butter. Overrun reached 24.46 percent and total butter value was $192 412.39 while patrons received $174 570.85 for butterfat. Director election included A P Nielsen and Henry Wehing. The Manchester Cooperative Creamery reported 28.2 cents per pound for 711 312 pounds butterfat, with Clarence Kolsrud as buttermaker producing 882 339 pounds in 1934 and 779 842 in 1933. Average butterfat price 22.62 cents in 1933, overrun 24.04 percent, milk rest 3.6 percent. Butter shipments totaled 746 817 pounds to eastern markets, 74 851 to Manchester stores, and 60 671 to patrons. Officers elected 1935: Martin R Maurer president, Ray E Glew VP, L F Porter treasurer, Garret L McGee secretary. Clar ence Kolsrud rehired as buttermaker.
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Hans Skott
Epworth, Dairy and Food Inspector
A. P. Nielsen
Henry Wehing
Ga. Specs
Manchester Co-operative Creamery Company
Garret L. McGee
Clarence Kolsrud
Manchester
Martin R. Maurer
Ray E. Glew
L. F. Porter
Chester O. McCarthy
Frank Jordison
Walter Lehman
Fred L. Darey
Earl A. McGee
Langworthy Co-operative Creamery reports 1934 butterfat rise
Langworthy cooperative creamery patrons marketed 240 723 pounds of butterfat in 1934, up from 187 883 pounds in 1933. Secretary George Poppe announced at the annual meeting. Buttermaker Clifford Arduser produced 299 409 pounds of butter vs 133 504 in 1933, with an overrun of 24.37 percent. Butterfat paid 27.78 cents per pound on average. cream test 30.12 percent. milk 3.8 percent. Butter sold for 24.57 cents per pound net.
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Langworthy
Langworthy Co-operative Creamery
George Poppe
Clifford Arduser
Center Junction Creamery records 1934 butterfat payout
The Farmers Mutual Co operative Creamery at Center Junction paid 78 patrons a total of 22 557 83 dollars for 93 006 pounds of butterfat in 1934. Herbert Cox, manager, announced at the annual meeting that 115 759 pounds of butter were produced, with overrun at 245 percent. The creamery also sold coal and feed to patrons worth 41 6851 dollars during the year.
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Center Junction
Farmers Mutual Co-operative Creamery Association of
Herbert Cox
Clover Seed Brings $14.50 In Auction Near Mechanicsville
Clover seed sold at $14.50 a bushel at the James Shrope farm sale south of Mechanicsville. Other items included clover hay $14.50 ton. corn 80c a bushel. 1932 seed oats 72c. 1933 oats 68–71c. 2400 bushels oats sold. soy bean hay $8 a ton. horses and cattle sold with mixed prices. total receipts over $5000. W E Challis of Lisbon was auctioneer.
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Gazette
Lisbon
James Shrope
Mechanicsville
E Challis
Questions and Answers on State Income Tax For Farmers
Cedar Rapids office presents a Q and A on farm tax rules. Topics cover partnerships reporting methods cash versus inventory basis depreciation on farm machinery and buildings insurance of corn and hogs on hand and the treatment of corn hog checks AAA salaries and exemptions for parents widowers and dependents. Rules specify itemized cattle sales schedules depreciation rates and filing requirements with Form IT-1B preferred for farmers.
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Cedar Rapids
AAA
Washington
Daugher
Blacksmiths Row To Farms To Shoe Horses
Grundy Center reports ice covered ground has delayed fieldwork as farmers rely on visiting blacksmiths to shoe horses before turning them out. The practice has continued for several weeks due to frozen terrain.
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Grundy Center
Wallace declines to discuss Farm Bureau resolution
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, received a Farm Bureau resolution from 97 Iowa county directors and declined to discuss its contents publicly. The document, drafted by Reymond Sayre, protests selection methods for the state corn and hog committee and fieldmen, with details not released to The Gazette.
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Wallace
Farm Bureau
Washington
D. C
Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Iowa
Paul Appleby
Gazette
Appleby
Reymond Sayre
Ackworth
Warren County
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Research and Steering Committee
Washington Dispatch
Sayre
Tela Wallace
State Committee
A. G. Black
AAA
Farm Auction Notices for Central City Tiffin Ely Area
Auction listings announce sales on Wednesday January 30 by E R Finson three miles southeast of Central City and Alt and Reynolds one and a half miles northeast of Tiffin. A second sale Thursday February 7 on the A J Fuhrmeister farm half a mile north of Ely.
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E. R. Finson
Central City
Alt and Reynolds
Tiffin
A. J. Fuhrmeister
Ely
Dysart Rural Fire Department Expands in 1934
The Dysart Farm Fire company answered six rural alarms in 1934, added two members, and boosted treasury surplus from 82 to 175 dollars. Officers re-elected: R. V. Lee president, John A. Mehlhous vice president, W. D. Brandt secretary treasurer, and EF McElhinney J A Mehlhous Henry Holst C C Sawyer G H Milne as directors.
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Dysart
Dysart Farm Fire Company
Treasury
R. V. Lee
John A. Mehlhous
W. D. Brandt
EF. M. McElhinney
J. A. Mehlhous
Henry Hols
Second Batch Checks Total for Johnson County
Iowa City reports corn hog payments totaling 18,594.65 distributed to Johnson county farmers on Tuesday. The release from AAA headquarters in Washington confirms the second payments bring Johnson county total to 61,787.85.
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Johnson
Iowa City
Johnson County
AAA
Washington, D. C
Scalp Eczema Healed By Cuticura Soap Ointment
Mrs. Walker Smith reports her daughter suffered months of scalp eczema with red, angry patches and hair loss. After using a free Cuticura sample, she bought Cuticura Soap and Ointment, which healed the condition. March 28, 1934 Marshfield Missouri. Proprietors: Peter Drug & Chemical Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker Smith
Marshfield, Mo
Chinch Bug Parley In Cedar Scheduled Friday
Ames extension entomologist CD Worthington will discuss the chinch bug situation Friday at a Cedar County Farm Bureau meeting. The event is sponsored by Cedar County Farm Bureau and aims to inform local farmers about pest control options.
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Tipton
Worthington
Ames Extension
Cedar County Farms Bureau
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Oelwein
Hoyt Young
Arlington
ED Hadley
Dysart Rural Fire Department
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Talcum Jie
Petter Drug & Chemical Corp
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