12 Per Cent Cut in Iowa Oats Yield Predicted Due to Rust
MES SPECIAL Iowa oats yield is forecast to drop 12 percent because stem rust infested fields during an Ames survey led by I E Methus head of the botany and plant pathology department. Rust and smut in oats also threaten quality and yield with root parasites damaging roots, possibly halving some systems. wheat rusts may trimmed yields further in parts of the state.
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Iowa
I. E. Methus
Ames Botany and Plant Pathology Departament
Melhus
Medhus
Methus
Shington
Hear Ly
Weather Bureau
Try
Dalas
Montana
Nebraska
Kansas
Wheat
Midwest
Jesup Vocational Ag Students Plan Saturday Tour
Jesup agr culture students will tour projects all day Saturday starting at 9 am from the school. The trip includes livestock judging a picnic and a kittenball game at Nixon area with inspections of swine projects at several farm homes including Ohrt Trumbauer Mumaw Schares Demuth Hess Patgen Hess and Crawford.
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Pecs
JESUP
M. F Grosscup
Qnoga
Everett Ohrt
Ipaul Trumbauer
Joseph Mumaw
Ald Schares
Paul Demuth
Le‘Toy Hess
Virgil Hess
Robert Pat‘gen
Jack Crawford
Farm home enlarged with front addition near Dysart
One and one half story expansion is added to the farm house of Leonard Riegle northwest of Dysart. The new section will measure 16 by 24 feet with a 14 foot extension, altering the structure’s footprint and appearance.
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The
Gazette
Leonard Riegle
Fence Drift in the Woven Wire Farm Note
Rural humor piece by R.F.A. Rust notes drift in fences and oats, mold in hay, and a weather angle joining the Triple A. A light, domestic farm column shaping daily agricultural life.
Farm Union Speaker Calls For Price Floor
West Union SC Fayette County Farmers Union held its annual picnic at the fairgrounds with E. E. Kennedy of Kankakee Ill as principal speaker. Kennedy urged putting a floor under farm prices noting unemployment around thirteen million and farm income at two thirds of 1929. Mrs Paul Beck organized the entertainment.
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West Union
Fayette
Paul Beck
Hawkeye
Costume Harmony Chosen For Home Project In Clayton
Mrs. Joel Clark near Elkader was reelected Clayton county home project chairman at the annual reorganization meeting Tuesday. New officers include Mrs. Otto Klein as first vice chair, Mrs. Floyd Dittmer as second vice chair, Mrs Henry Leonard as publicity head, Miss Lucia Roggman as music chairman, and Mrs. Carl Johansen as health chairman. Plans with Ames extension service guide a fourth year clothing project titled Harmony in Complete Costumes and four major Jessons will be shown by Miss Mary Wood. Sub projects for next year cover music and folk dances, running water installation on the farm, small fruit culture and health.
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Elkader
Joel Clark
Clayton County Home Project
Otto Klein
Floyd Dittmer
Henry Leonard
Lucia Roggman
Carl Johansen
Sarah Porter Ellis
Ames Extension Service
Mary Wood
Ames
Benton County Dairy Test Records Show High Butterfat
The Benton Cow Test association No. 1 reports 280 cows tested in June averaged 28.7 pounds of butterfat. The G. C. Van Nice herd led groups at 39.4 pounds, while a cow in Harold Miller’s herd posted a top individual 65.3 pounds.
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Vinton
Benton Cow Test Association
G. Edwin Phillips
G. C. van Nice
Harold Miller
Butcher hogs sold in Chicago at $8.45 cwt
Victor Glenn, a feeder from Jones county, sold a lot of 290 pound butcher hogs in Chicago on Monday at eight dollars forty five cents per hundredweight.
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the Gazette
Anamosa
Victor Glenn
Jones County
Chicago
Poultry and Hog Prices Reported in Iowa Midwest
Luther Thumma near Clarence sold twenty six hogs at 266 pounds for nine dollars per hundredweight in Chicago. The Gazette notes J H Whitford near Volga City added four hundred poults to his turkey stock on the William Shea farm now totaling two thousand three hundred ninety poults.
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the Gazette
Clarence
Luther Thumma
Chicago
Volga City
J. H. Whitford
William Shea
Whitford
Town Holstein Breeders declare 1938 Waterloo grand champs
The 1938 state show at Waterloo named grand champions chosen Thursday by H. NH. Kildee of Ames. A 2 year old bull exhibited by Rehder Brothers of Gladbrook earned the bull title and a 7 year old cow shown by Paul McElmeel of Greeley took the cow crown.
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Town Holstein Breeders Association
Waterloo
H. NH. Kildee
Ames
Rehder Brothers
Gladbrook
Paul McElmeel
Greeley
Fewer Hogs Sold in June Than Expected
Iowa and southern Minnesota interior hog receipts for June totaled 479,100, up 59,200 from 1937 but well below forecasts of 500,000. July prospects show a smaller increase, with slaughter and sow runs influencing near-term prices and weight-based bidding patterns across light to heavy hogs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Corn Belt
Corn Plowing Thoughts On Peaceful Farm Work
A country woman reflects on corn plowing as a thinking task for farmers. She praises the quiet, rhythmic motion of guiding a team to turn soil and straighten perspective, suggesting it clears irritations and yields level headed thinking.
Meat packing price spread widens across weight groups
Buyers shifted bids with 75 to 80 cents per hundredweight for top butchers in the 180 to 220 pound range. Sows show a 25 cent spread, some 15 cents. Lightweight to 350 pounds and heavyweights to 550 pounds vary 60 to 80 cents. Prices Thursday 10 to 20 cents higher than last week. lighter weights up 10 to 15 cents. heavier weights steady to 15 cents higher, mostly 5 cents.
State Brand Creameries Meeting Draws 2000 In Iowa
Nearly 2,000 persons attended the eleventh annual meeting of the Iowa Brand Creameries in Mason City. R O Storvick, the manager, reported constant business gains with last year described as the best in history for the cooperative butter marketing organization.
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Mason City
Iowa Brand Creameries
R O Storvick
Majority of pool lambs too thin at Keokuk County sale
Two hundred forty lambs were rejected as too thin from 370 goats gathered for a grading and selling demonstration by the Keokuk county Farm Bureau. C. W. McDonald of Ames did the grading. The 130 retained lambs graded to choice and sold at 8.75 per hundredweight, medium at 7.75, with only two calls totaling 650 dollars to a packing company at Ottumwa.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County Farm Bureau
C. W. McDonald
Ames
Ottumwa
Olin Feeder Tops Thursday Chicago Steer Market
OLIN William Pruess led the Thursday steer market in Chicago with 34 head averaging 1110 pounds sold at 11 dollars per hundredweight.
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OLIN
William Pruess
Chicago
Plans for Farm Bureau Day at All-Iowa Livestock Show
Farm Bureau Day is set for September 7 during the All-Iowa Livestock exposition in Cedar Rapids with events expected to draw 10 000 to 20 000 rural attendees. Organizers seek Secretary Henry Wallace as speaker and anticipate top participation from 300 farm women and 300 4 H club girls, with a surprise men’s attraction to be announced. Committees were named and paid-up Iowa Farm Bureau members will gain free admission on Sept. 7.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
General Committee
A. R. Pearson
Whittier
Pearson
Mr. Pearson
Frank Bedell
Rex Conn
D. H. Zentmire
Marengo
Wilson Ashby
Glenn Sones
Anamosa
C. D. Moore
Farm Bureau
Mr. Moore
Early Cabbages and Raspberries Sold by Conesville Grower
Paul McGill near Conesville marketed early cabbages of good quality this week. Raspberry season here is about half over and the fruit is fine and yielding largely.
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Conesville
Paul McGill
Fayette County 4H Rally Elects Officers at West Union
Alice Koch of Hawkeye elected president at Fayette County 4 H rally day in West Union. Jeanette Kiel of Fayette named vice president, Helen Stolle secretary treasurer, Eleanor Dohse historian. One hundred thirty nine girls attended with thirty three leaders and mothers. Awards honor Hearts of Center Bethel Ever Ready Banks Busy Bees Dover's Daughters Fairfield Lucky Clovers Merry Hearts of Scott. Uniform 100 percent awards went to Fairfield Lucky Clovers Putnam Peppy Pals. Afternoon program included a music review soloists Norman Marshall Dorothy Severs Edward Lutz. Evening features included honorary 4 H membership for Mrs John King Oelwein and a play Romance of Bread.
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West Union
Alice Koch
Hawkeye
Fayette County
Jeanette Kiel
Fayette
Helen Stolle
Eleanor Dohse
Oelwein
Hearts of Center
Bethel Ever Ready
Banks Busy Bees
Dover's Daughters
Fairfield Lucky Clovers
Merry Hearts of Scott
Putnam
Betheel Ever Ready
Harlan N
Smithfield Jolly
Music Review
Norman Marshall
Dorothy Severs
Edward Lutz
John King
Bethel Ever Ready Clubs
W. H. Hatch
Grover Miehe
Bedard Farm Cultivates Seventy Acres in Two Hours
Eleven neighbors farmed seventy acres of corn on the Bedard farm near La Porte City in less than two hours. Eleven tractor cultivators worked the field under the direction of George Bedard, a local farmer west of Eagle Grove.
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LA Porte City
George Bedard
Eagle Grove
Bedard
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