Postville Livestock Ranking Highlights State Role
The Postville Farmers Cooperative, led by C. C. Sander and Gil Bert Folsom, tops Iowa in livestock shipment in 1938 among six neighboring stations, with 1 303 decks shipped. The co op, organized in 1904, moved hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep totaling $503 234 35, mostly to Madison Wisconsin, and also runs a small retail store.
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Postville
C. C. Searls
Milwaukee Railway
Folsom
Co-Op
Benjegerdes
Milwaukee
South St. Paul
South Omaha
Montevideo
Minn
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Spencer
William Kneeland
Postville Commercial Club
Iowa Brown Swiss Breeders Association
Iowa
Postville Farmers Cooperative Society
Madison
Wis
Midland Mortgage sells 3907 acres at 90.68 average in first half 1939
Midland Mortgage Co Cedar Rapids reports 3907 acres sold in 27 farms from Jan 1 to June 30 1939 totaling 358833 dollars with an average price of 90.68 per acre. Eight of the sales occurred in the last nine days totaling 1091 acres and 95250 dollars average 87.30 per acre.
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Traer — Conant and King
Traer
Vince Pulkrabik
Clutter
Waterloo
Midland Mortgage Company
Cedar Rapids
Conant and King
Reinbeck
Edward
Fred Clausen
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Clausen
F S. Waples
Waples
Iowa
Minnesota
DPMA to Borrow $6 Million for Butter Buying Plan
Washington reports the DPMA will receive a $6 million loan from the Commodity Credit Corporation to buy up to 125 million pounds of butter for distribution via state welfare agencies. Last year the program moved 140 million pounds with total costs around $34.5 million. Market prospects show drought-affected production easing and prices to producers described as not bad, with activity expected to continue.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Dairy Products Marketing Association
Commodity Credit
DPMA
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
FSCC
Agriculture Department
Highest lamb prices mark Iowa demonstrations in Decorah
Eighteen lamb grading demonstrations and marketing pools in Iowa yielded top prices in Decorah on Friday. Prime lambs sold at 11.00 per hundredweight, good to choice 10.50, medium 9.50, with two clipped lambs at 7.50. Nine lambs graded prime. The accompanying photo shows consignors Palmer Peacock and Otis Rothlisberger, Ralph Green, C. W. McDonald who graded, Robert Lyon county agent, and Albert Womeldorf sheep growers official.
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Iowa
Decorah
Palmer Peacock
Hesper, Minn
Otis Rothlisberger
Elgin
Ralph Green
Ossian
C. W. McDonald
Ames
Robert Lyon
Winneshiek
Albert Womeldorf
County Sheep Growers’ Association
First oats cut in Washington County reported
Don Bishop, a farmer near Wellman, cut 30 acres of oats Friday, the first harvest in Washington county. The field was seeded March 25 and yields are estimated from 20 to 45 bushels per acre. Half the county's wheat was cut over the weekend, with more oats likely if weather stays favorable.
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Washington
Don Bishop
Wellman
Washington County
George Agne Feeder Tops Market With 42 Hogs
Tipton George Agne of Cedar County received seven dollars thirty cents per hundredweight for the top weight on forty two hogs weighing 288 pounds each at Chicago Wednesday.
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The
Gazette
Tipton
George Agne
Cedar County
Chicago
Recreation Camp For Farm Women At Palisades
The Linn county home project announces a three day recreation camp for farm women at Lower Palisades from July 7 to 9. About 20 to 25 attendees are expected with Friday featuring a book review by Lois Metcalf and a flower arrangement talk by J. B. Wingert. A bank night movie caps Friday. Saturday offers hand craft instruction by Lena Ament and a talk on the Amana colonies by O. J. Elsenbast with a health lecture. Sunday is open for picnics and visiting relatives.
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Linn County
Lower Palisades
Lucille Gove
Cedar Rapids
Lois Metcalf
J. B. Wingert
Ames Extension Service
Bank
Lena Ament
Cat Traveled 85 Miles Back to Iowa Home
The thin hungry cat walked 85 miles from Memphis Mo to Columbus Junction, reappearing at the old Iowa farm after the Ralph McKean family moved last March. The family had loaded the cat on a truck for the move but it disappeared in Missouri before returning home.
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the Gazette
Columbus Junction
Ralph McKean
Here
Memphis
Missouri
Iowa
Old Homestead
Hines to Buy Cattle for Wilson and Co
Forrest P. Hines is hired as cattle buyer by Wilson and Company Cedar Rapids. He will start Monday morning as Mort Gray confirms Hines bring years of livestock dealing experience and prior work with Wilson and Company and in Mechanicsville.
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Forrest P. Hines
Harry Palmer
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Hines
Mort Gray
Mechanicsville
Delaware County Farmers Shipping sells top light weight butchers
Paul Johnson, manager of the Delaware county Farmers Shipping association, sold a lot of light weight butchers at seven dollars fifty cents per hundredweight, the season’s highest price at Chicago.
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Gazett
Paul Johnson
Delaware County Farmers Shipping Association
Chicago
Brown Swiss Cattle Exhibit At Postville Show
In Postville, 13 exhibitors from seven northeast Iowa counties displayed 62 head in the Brown Swiss canton show tied to the state picnic. Harold Iserman and Emmett Wilson won grand champion female and bull respectively, with multiple class winners named including Rominger and Mabon. Fred Idtse noted 1,500 head exhibited across 30 canton shows in eight states this spring.
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Ray Anderson
Postville
Iowa
Harold Iserman
Waverly
Emmett Wilson
Cresco
C. W. Rominger
Waukon
Lowell Mabon
Randalia
Floyd Johnston
Ames
E. C. Brandt
Arno Funk
St. Olaf
Wilson
Mabon
Rominger
Iserman
Hugh Mabon
Fred Idtse
Gazette
Baba
Twin Knolls
Jack Royal
Shermanhurst
Hogs Sell at 7.40 Top Price at Monmouth Sale
Fifty eight head of 208 pound hogs consigned to Chicago by Antone Hadlick of near Monmouth sold at 7.40 dollars per hundredweight, the practical top for the day.
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Monmouth
Chicago
Antone Hadlick
Blakely Re elected Leader Of Iowa Sheep Growers
A J Blakely of Grinnell was reelected head of the Iowa State Sheep and Wool Growers association for a second term at the Des Moines annual meeting. George Souder of Rockwell City and A V Brady of Sanborn were reelected vice president and secretary.
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Des Moines
INS
A. J. Blakely
Grinnell
Iowa State Sheep and Wool Growers Association
George Souder
Rockwell City
A. V. Brady
Sanborn
Linn County 4-H calves inspected by youth group
Out to learn from each other Linn county 4 H live stock club boys examined whiteface calves owned by Wayne Carpenter near Marion. They judged Angus at Irvin Kemp farm and viewed baby beeves of George Davis then Macs Towers Junior Reed William Barnhart and Myron Oxley near Marion. Friday they inspected calves of Roy Quaas near Alb urnett Louis Koester Center Point Donovan Kramer Bernice Shaffer near Troy Mills Robert Pratt near Coggan and Joe Wood Emery Henderson near Central City.
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Linn County
Mac Towers
Junior Reed
William Barnhart
Myron Oxley
Marion
Roy Quaas
Albur
9 Foot Corn Stalk Display Impresses Cedar Rapids Man
P C Putnam of Cedar Rapids displayed a 9 foot stalk of corn Saturday. He obtained the extraordinary plant from a Wyoming, Ia garden, drawing attention for its height.
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P. C. Putnam
Cedar Rapids
Wyoming
First 1939 turkeys appear in New York market
New crop turkeys began arriving in limited volume in New York with Utah California and Iowa farms shipping early. Demand favors 6 to 9 pound broiler sizes for summer meals. Egg markets show firmer undertone with improved prices and lighter storage influx. Top quality eggs remain scarce.
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New York City
New York
Utah
California
Iowa
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Iowa City Sales Co
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Wilson and Co
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Shover's Oak Farms
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