Whittier Farmers Eke Out Income by City Truck Jobs
Farmers near Whittier take secondary jobs driving trucks and buses in Cedar Rapids to sustain farm life. Names mentioned include John Hoge Dean Haworth DeWees Lawrence DeWees Hubert DeWees Raymond White and Arthur and Ralph Pearson. Wages cited as very low with laborers earning about 1 a day to 10 a month.
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John Hoge
Dean Haworth
Whittier
Cedar Rapids
DeWees
Lawrence DeWees
Hubert DeWees
Raymond White
Arthur Pearson
Ralph Pearson
Fence Drift Along Roadsides of Clover Near Marion
Clipping describes banks of sweet clover along both sides of No. 13 near the Collins farm northeast of Marion. It notes Poindexter’s earlier claim about low production costs and sales prices, and praises a practice of seeding roadsides to extend clover to the cement or dirt track, imagining a future with clover banked roads instead of weeds.
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Marion
No. 13
Collins
Poindexter
4-H Girls Bake Bread Across Iowa in 1931 Project
Special to The Gazette Ames 384 Iowa girls baked their first bread in 1931 through the 4-H bread baking project led by Miss Lulu Tregoning. Across fourteen counties 2,061 girls participated with 240 local club leaders, baking 39,947 loaves of whole cereal bread and 25,911 quick breads plus 19,395 other breads. Esther and Beulah Getty of Black Hawk County earned prize money by selling bread to private customers after winning at the state fair, and they shared a prize recipe using home grown wheat and flour with Fleischmann yeast and several steps and temperatures.
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Ames
Iowa
Lulu Tregoning
Ames Extension Service
4-H Club
Esther
Beulah Getty
Black Hawk County
Bread Club
Fleischman
Twenty Acres South of Anamosa Owner Reflects on Roosevelt Era
Interview with J. C. Ray, owner of twenty acres near Anamosa, discusses farm life, prices, and times past. He recalls oxen haulage, shifts to horses, and a shift from black johnny cake to modern living. Ray supports Roosevelt, critiques high government salaries, and foresees gradual price recovery while valuing a paid-off farm as security.
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J. C. Ray
Twenty Acres
Anamosa
Jackson County
Cows In Johnson Ass'n See High Butterfat In June
Oakdale report shows 386 cows in Johnson County Cowtest averaging 28.3 pounds of butterfat in June. W P Morner led with eight Guernseys at 929 pounds milk and 45.2 butterfat. A state hospital herd produced 73.4 butterfat with 2 160 pounds milk. Oakdale herd of 52 cows had three over 70 pounds butterfat and twelve over 50 that month.
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Oakdale
Johnson County
W. P. Morner
Guernseys
Association
Upping Livestock Prices Spur Farm Faith And Optimism
TIPTON Cedar county farmers express optimism as hog and cattle prices rise. J N Witmer and Herman Albert shipped two carloads to the Chicago market this week, with cattle selling up to 8.75 dollars a hundredweight for forty five head totaling about 840 dollars per hundredweight.
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Gazette
Tipton
Cedar County
J. N. Witmer
Herman Albert
Chicago
Barley Harvest Under Way Near Morley and Newport
In the Newport area northeast of Morley Hubert Shankland and others cut barley on Tuesday. Grain is turning rapidly and cool days favor filling. Haying is in full swing across the region.
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Morley
Hubert Shankland
Newport
Wheat in shock on Becker farm north of Norway
About thirty five acres of wheat are in the shock on the Lawrence Becker farm north of Norway. This marks the first small grain to be cut in the area.
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Norway
Lawrence Becker
Yellow Bantam corn towers over Oelwein garden scene
Ted Richards, a truck gardener south of Oelwein, grows an acre of Yellow Bantam corn over seven feet tall. Planted early on well manured ground, the plants now show full tassels and will silk in a few days. Black raspberries are entering markets at 20 to 25 cents, indicating a promising crop.
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Oelwein
Ted Richards
Iowa Farmers Increase Soybean Acreage in 1931
Des Moines reports show soybean acres rising from 48 780 in 1930 to 89 662 in 1931 reflecting a shift amid a second drought year. Tame hay acreage fell about 250 000 acres, with hay imported from Texas and new seedings largely killed by drought or harsh winter conditions.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Texas
Harvest Begins On Sixty Acres Of Fall Wheat At High Amana
High Amana farmers deploy a tractor outfit to start the harvest of sixty acres of fall wheat. The scene marks a busy start to the season as fields are readied for threshing and delivery to local markets.
Shell Gasoline Promises to Cut Engine Waste and Save Money
An advertisement touts Shell Gasoline as engineered to reduce Engine-Waste, claiming millions spend on wasted fuel annually. It accuses inferior gas of slow start and gummy valves, urging a switch to Shell proven in engines and refined over years to improve mileage and performance.
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Shell
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