Hereford Female Sale Sets Record Auction Night
One hundred ten head of Hereford females sold for 43470 dollars averaging 395 per head in under four hours at Hawkeye Downs opening session of the Iowa Hereford association sale. MB Dot Blanchard led females at 3300 to Fruehauf farms Cedar Rapids. reserve champion MC Starlet Ltd went to T R Sorenson for 3000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkeye Downs
Iowa Hereford Association
MB Dot Blanchard
McMahon Brothers
Graf
Fruehauf Farms
Cedar Rapids
MC Starlet Ltd
Maplecrest Hereford Ranch
Wellman
T. R. Sorenson
Moine
Ill
Laura Dean
John C. Wisdom Herd
Ben-Mar Farms
Washington Court House
Ohio
Ben-Mar
John Wisdom
Des Moines
R. F. Miller
Fairfield
Patterson Land Company
Bismarck
N.C
Wisdom
Baldwin Rice
Greenfield
F. W. Anderson
Morrison
Maplecrest
Eugene A. Mack
Truro
Edward F. Zeman
Chelsea
Olson Brothers
Newhall
Sorenson
H. J. Woody
Reasnor
Zeman
Ben- Mar
Victor Herbst
Duncombe
James Brook
Brady
Texas
Sam Marting
Bocardo
Lyman E. Meyer
Bellevue
Tony
Reasner
MC Starlet
James J. Mulvihill
Cumming
Baron Tone
Farmer buys 18 acre Toledo tract at 6250 dollars
Buckingham Everett Braden who has farmed the Arthur Manfull farm one mile and a half west of here for three years purchased the O J Albert 18 acre tract two miles north of Toledo for 6250 dollars Adolph Himschoot will occupy the Manfull farm next year George Van Gorp will move to the 100 acre Dr Clem Cummings Chicago farm west of here now being farmed by Mr Himschoot
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckingham
Everett Braden
Here
O. J. Albert
Toledo
Adolph Himschoot
George van Gorp
Clem Cummings
Chicago
Master Corn Growers Honored at Olin Banquet
Twenty four Jones county farmers who produced 100 bushels or more per acre in the 1944 tenacre corn yield contest were honored Saturday night at a banquet attended by 101 persons. Ten top yields came from contoured fields. Winners will receive Iowa Master Corn Grower medals from the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers association. Chief speaker was Earl Elijah of Clarence, member of the Iowa Soil Conservation committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olin
Jones County
Iowa
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Earl Elijah
Clarence
Iowa Soil Conservation Committee
New York Bank Warns Price Guarantees Could Worsen Farm Woes
The Guaranty Trust surveys postwar price guarantees and warns they may create large surpluses without broad production controls. It calls for new administration, heavier benefits, and questions their foreign market usefulness as world prices fall and domestic workers face reduced earnings after wartime conditions end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Guaranty Trust Company
Farm Briefs Roundup From Masonville to Postville
MasonvilleRobinson brothers win fourth fifth and eighth in three classes at National Western Livestock Denver show their show herd includes three bulls and two females all bred by them Decorah Winneshiek county national farm loan association meets Feb 16 250 members expected all day session with dinner Shueyville Angus bull sells for 215 cows to 138 bred ewes 7 60 Harland Smith sale three miles SE of here Lisbon cooperative creamery stockholders meet Jan 31 Anamosa Amber Langworthy creamery meetings Wednesday Hilton Boynton speaks Langworth Amber Anamosa High School class later Solon European corn borer topic Feb 1 Nelson closing out sale Top cow 142 50 Hereford calf 90 feeding calves ...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonville
Robinson Brothers
Masonville Angus
Denver
Shueyville
Harland Smith
Here
Anamosa — Cooperative
Anamosa
Amber
Langworthy
Hilton Boynton
Ames Extension Dairyman
Langworth
Anamosa High School
Virgil E. Corey
Solon — Milner Kohout
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Postville
William A. Nelson
Coming Farm Auctions Across Iowa in February
A Gazette advertised list shows numerous farm auctions and closing outs across Iowa in February. Buyers include William Vick near Linn County, Baty & Deal at Troy Mills, and A S Bena estate near Cedar Rapids with multiple Duroc and Hampshire consignments at Cedar Rapids Hawkeye Downs, Amte, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Vick
Linn
Baty & Deal
Troy Mills
Congress Grounds
Waterloo
Farm Prices and Family Move From Nelson Farm
Prices listed include registered calves at 60 dollars each and fall pigs at 65 dollars. Poland China gifts 94.50 dollars, top horse 75 dollars, corn 0.94 per bushel, hay 0.59 per bale, oats 0.72 per bushel. The Nelson family is leaving the farm and relocating to Clermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
China
Nelson
Clermont
WFA weighs butter subsidy rise to boost output
The War Food Administration studies a possible increase in butterfat payments after summer to spur butter production. Congress faces review of the overall dairy subsidy, with no planned rise in retail prices under hold-the-line policy, and wholesale price changes considered but unlikely to be drastic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Food Administration
Monay
WFA
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
State Board of Education Sells 240 Acre Grundy County Farm
The state executive council approved the sale by the Board of Education of a 240 acre Grundy county farm to Joe J. Meester for 39600. The farm was formerly owned by Iowa State College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Education
DES Moines
State Executive Council
Board of Education
Grundy County
Joe J. Meester
Iowa State College
Clutier Elevator Sold to Piper Grain and Milling
Melvin E. Kundt sells his elevator seed and grain business in Clutier to Piper Grain and Milling with possession set for March 1. Kundt bought the elevator in 1926 after five years as manager of the Independent Grain and Lumber company elevator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clutier
Melvin E. Kundt
Piper Grain and Milling Company
Kundt
Independent Grain and Lumber Company
Jones Agrees to Limitation of Food Subsidies
Wart Food Administrator Marvin Jones told the Senate banking committee he accepts an $845 million ceiling on Commodity Credit Corporation food subsidy expenditures for the next fiscal year. The Taft amendment would cap crop subsidies at 225 million and dairy plus non crop subsidies at 310 million for the remainder of 1945, with possible further entitlements if the war lasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marvin Jones
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate Banking Committee
Taft
Ohio
CCC
Jones
Aurora Creamery Assn. Elects Officers and Directors
Albert Seedorff was reelected president and Otto Martin reelected vice president at the Aurora Creamery Assn annual meeting. New directors named were John Barrack and Otto Martin, with hold-over directors Hilton Smith Emery Wilson Fred Martin Albert Graves and Albert Seedorff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Albert Seedorff
Farmers’ Creamery Association
Otto Martin
John Barrack
Hilton Smith
Emery Wilson
Fred Martin
Albert Graves
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hereford Sale
BULLS
Verne Wright
Mt. Pleasant
Noller
Alvin G. Davidson and Sons
Mechanicsville
Meyer
Clifford Bell, Jr
Pulaski
J. W. Meeker
W. E. Roberts
Troy
W. D. Reichmann
Rock Rapids
Woody
C. &. Wimmer
Afton
L. F. Keep
Dysart
Spring Bull Futurity
Gallagher Brothers
Vail
Keep
Burns
F. R. Moffitt
Tipton
E. Poortinga
M. A. Hall
Vinton
Tuttle Brothers
Norway
Irene Nickerson
Moffitt
McMahon
Floyd H. Woods
Cromwell
Kozik Brothers
Elberon
Minish
R. D. Lawrence
Meeker
Clyde
Maggie Musselman
F. Max Schomberg
Letts
A. W. Goff
Chariton
H. E
Hillandale
Lawrence
Holmes Brothers
Milton
Bocaldo
Gazette
John Minish
J. J. Mulvihill
A. C. Electric
E. Cohn & Sons
Lt. Ave
3Rd St. SW
BY Williams
International Clown Society
NOUR @RANERN
Lisbon
Lisbon Cooperative Creamery
Legion Hall
William Reimer
A. S
Bert E. Miller
Duroc
Hampshire Breeders Association
Smyth & Hodgden
Alburnett
Peperae Ene Snd
Lison
Iowa County Duroc
Homestead
Zack McArthur
Duroc Sale
Fairfax
Milo Y. Wolrab
Berkshire
Ences Downs
Albert Martin Sons
Hampshire Sale
Helgens Bens
Am- Te
John van Buren
Prairieburg
Owen & Kershner
Center Point
Marvin Topinka
H. G. Manuel & Son
Hampshire
Center Junction
Oscar Busenbark
Marion
J. H. Davis
Martelle
Alfred Drexler
Central City
Frank Stadler
Mount Vernon
W. E. Powers
Horace Thompson
John Strosahl
Fred Butschi
James J. Stadler
Macheck & Klinger
I. R. Drake
Charley
WEA
Guernsey
Maorehi
Farrow
John Deere
Ike News
Ilke News
Owen and
Kershner
H. F. Lockwood
Geo, Price
Beverly Cattle Company
WMT
Cedar
Clutier Elevator
Aurora Creamery Assn
Tony Schmitz
State Bank
Farm Seed
Red River Valley
Cobblers
OHIOS
Chippewa and
Bliss Triumph
Boone
Tama
Ames
Denison
Earl May’s Store
First Street
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