Increase in Hog Receipts Expected at Midwest Markets
The rise in grain prices prompts heavier hogs and higher receipts across the middle west. Farmers have been holding hogs to heavier weights, with Chicago weights around 260 to 265 pounds, lifting market activity and keeping demand for pork strong despite per pound changes. Hot weather and late shifts raise supplies while prices near yearly peaks.
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Midwest
Middle West
Northwest
Chicago
4 H Dairy Tour Planned In Allamakee
Allamakee county 4 H livestock club members will hold a county tour of dairy calf projects on July 23. Ernest Wright of the Iowa State Dairy association will attend to discuss care and management of dairy heifers and preparation for showing. The tour begins at 9 am from the Farm Bureau office with clipping demonstrations halter making training and a calf showing and dairy judging workout.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
Dygert to Import 75 Belgian Horses for Manchester Trade
Epecial reports Erwin F Dygert proprietor of the Dygert Horse Importing company of Manchester sails to Belgium this week to buy seventy five Belgian horses and mares for import.
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Epecial
Gazete
Manchester
Erwin F Dygert
Dygert Horse Importing Company
Belgium
Raspberries Ripen as Troy Mills Reports Good Crop
Raspberries are selling on the market here with good quality and a fair crop expected. Blackberry bushes are loaded with fruit beginning to ripen. with sufficient moisture an abundant crop is expected.
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Troy Mills
Hopper bait saves 10000 tons feed daily in West Iowa
Special to The Gazette. Poison grasshopper bait spread in western Iowa has saved about 10,000 tons of feed daily. A D Worthington Ames extension entomologist estimated that 40,000,000 pounds of bait on 400,000 acres has killed an estimated 40,000,000 grasshoppers whose diet would be 10,000 tons of crops. The heaviest May infestations in Audubon Shelby Harrison and Pottawattamie counties show less damage per plant due to the poisoning campaign begun in May.
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Ames
Iowa
A. D. Worthington
Ames Extension
Mr. Worthington
Audubon
Shelby
Harrison
Pottawattamie
Worthington
Allamakee C.T.A. 1 Averages 31.3 Lbs Butterfat In June
June milk and butterfat figures from Allamakee C.T.A. No. 1 show 480 cows across 27 herds averaged 779 pounds of milk and 31.3 pounds of butterfat. Roth and Sons’ cow led with 1,833 pounds milk and 78.8 pounds butterfat. High herd owned by John Gocke averaged 1,125 pounds milk and 472 pounds butterfat from sixteen grade Holsteins. Eighty-one cows surpassed forty pounds of butterfat in the month.
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Waukon
Allamakee
Milk Production Totals From Greeley Cow Test June
The Gazette Manchester reports the Greeley Cow Test Association had 456 cows in test during June, averaging 796 pounds of milk and 274 pounds of butterfat. Fifty four cows produced 40 to 50 pounds of butterfat, thirteen 50 to 60, three 60 to 70, and one over 70 pounds. The top herd was L L Odell’s grade Holstein producing 723 pounds butterfat and 581 pounds milk in June, while Witham Nieman led with fifteen Holsteins averaging 1212 pounds milk and 385 pounds butterfat.
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Manchester
Greeley Cow Test Association
William Gilbert
L LL Odell
Nieman
115 4-H Dairy Calves To Be Shown At Fayette Fair
One hundred and fifteen dairy heifers and bull calves, raised by sixty-five 4-H club members in Fayette, will be shown at the county fair this fall. Twenty-five top calves will advance to Waterloo Dairy Congress. Entries include sixty-one Holsteins, thirty-two Guernseys, nine Brown Swiss, six Shorthorns, and six other Holsteins with multiple classes by breed and age.
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Fayette
Waterloo
Eto
Guernsey
Jersey
Soybeans Rise as Major Iowa Crop at State Conference
Iowa farmers and industry leaders gathered at a Chamber of Commerce soybean conference to discuss expanding production and use. E. S. Dyas of Iowa State College highlighted soybeans as a substitute for oats and a means to reduce corn acreage, naming top varieties Illini Manchu Durfield Mukden and Black Eyebrow, and noting storage cautions and erosion considerations. Rex Beresford and other attendees outlined feeding uses and market outlook amid rising demand and an AAA program impact.
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Iowa
Dyas
Iowa State College
Towa
Chamber of Commerce
Milwaukee Railroad
L. H Robbins
Comte de la Hubaudiere
Ferrodo
Hubaudiere
J. E Barr
Washington, D. C
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Rex Bronn
Linn County
Illini
Durfield
Dias
AAA
Rex Beresford
H. H. Whiteside
Chicago
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Cedar Rapids Bank Ledger Shows June 10 10936 Liabilities
Organized under Iowa law the ledger from Cedar Rapids Linn County details assets liabilities and deposits as of June 10 10936. Prochaska PResident Pochobradsky Jr Vice President Kanak Cashier Kriz Assistant Cashier sworn. Notary Bessie Zurka witnessed.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Federa
Farry Teta
Burpila Fund
U S
State of Iowa
Linn County
Prochasxa
L. J. Pochobradskyv Jr
G. Kanak
Charles Kriz
Ant
Prochaska
L. J Pochobradsky, JR
F. G. Kanak
J Seah
J _L. Prochaska
J Pochobradsky
GQ Kanak
Charier Kriz
Seal Bessie Zurka
Harvest Linn County Wheat With Combine
In Fairfax, the Wallace Rogers farm began the season's first combining of winter wheat on ten acres sowed Sept. 15. The crop yields about 35 bushels per acre with top quality grain. A new 5 foot combine was used to cut and thresh in one pass, with straw returned to the field.
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Gazette
Fairfax
Linn
Wallace Rogers
Rogers
Tests Show Lead Sprayed Apples Harmless to Humans
University of Iowa laboratory tests found lead spray in apple orchards does not cause lead poisoning from eating the fruit. The study by Helen Funk reports an average of 0.0168 mg lead per apple including skin and core with no toxic effects in blood tests of regular tasters.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa Laboratories
Helen Funk
Top growth on Dillon Atherton corn near Viola
The Gazette hill corn on the Dillon Atherton farm near Viola showed a three inch growth on Monday with one new leaf. Morning measurements occur at 5 o clock and the field recorded a high of 126 degrees and an average of 95. A nearby hill watered by Mr Atherton attained five percent inches of growth.
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Gazette Hill
Dillon
Farm Labor Demand Exceeds Supply at Iowa Employment Office
Lloyd C. Grover assistant manager of the Iowa State Employment Service reports a shortage of applications for qualified farm hands. Daily requests arrive. workers are urged to list themselves. Work ranges from part-time seasonal to full-time with wages higher this year.
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Lloyd C. Grover
Iowa State Employment Service Office
Grover
Greeley C T A Picnic Set For July 23
The Greeley Contest association arranges two judging contests for men and women at a July 23 picnic on the Paul McElmeel farm three miles west of Greeley. Merchants of Greeley fund the prizes. Paul Stewart of Maynard will deliver the afternoon main address.
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Manchester
Greeley Contest Association
Paul McElmeel
Greeley
Merchants of
Hybrid Seed Company At Anamosa Incorporated
The National Hybrid Corn company of Anamosa filed articles of incorporation in Des Moines to retail seed corn with authorized capital stock up to 100000 dollars. Franklin County Rural Electric company also filed articles of incorporation to build a rural electric transmission network in the county.
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Des Moines
National Hybrid Corn Company of
Anamosa
Alex Miller
Franklin County Rural Electric Company
Association of Farmers
Farm Bureau drive in Allamakee county hits 650 members
A sixteen day Farm Bureau membership drive in Allamakee county yields about 650 pledged for the year, surpassing the 450 goal. Sixteen townships were covered with two remaining, and countywide membership may exceed 700. A fulgurite formed from lightning in sand is noted.
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Waukon
Farm Bureau
Allamakee County
Hogs Bring $10.85 A Hundredweight at Chicago Sale
Tama county farmer Carl Steuhn Jr sold sixty three Hampshire hogs averaging 293 pounds at Chicago for $10.85 per hundredweight. The top price for the weight was achieved and the hogs were sold without sorting.
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The
Gazette
Toledo
Carl Steuhn, Jr
Tama County
Hampshire
Chicago
Oats In Shock In Columbus Junction and Nearby Areas
In Columbus Junction Timothy hay harvest nears completion as oats are in the shock and livestock feed on fields. Rain is badly needed to salvage the oat crop. some oats are already damaged by moisture shortage and heat. Nearby Brandon reports oats damaged by lack of moisture with heads in milk and risk of chaff. Troy Mills notes crops and gardens showing rain need with corn laid by and some fields tasseling.
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Columbus Junction
Timothy
Brandon
Troy Mills
Weather impacts Delta farm yields as heat and drought persist
Special to The Gazette reports Delta farmers face damaged crops due to hot weather. Pastures are short, corn is beginning to roll, and rain is needed. Early potatoes are fair but late ones suffer. oats are being harvested with many fields hurt by grasshoppers and dry conditions limiting head fill.
Cattle Sale At Chicago At 8 60 Per CWT
Maquoreta C and M Chandler of Jackson county sold a load of cattle in Chicago on Monday for eight dollars and sixty cents per hundredweight.
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Maquoreta—C
M. Chandler
Jackson County
Chicago
Suffolk Punch Horses Ship to Iowa for Cedar Rapids Farm
Fourteen Suffolk Punch horses, first import in over twenty five years, left New York City Tuesday under Harry Linn of the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders association. They will unload at Atkins and travel to Stewart Holmes farm west of Cedar Rapids by week’s end.
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New York City
Iowa
Harry Linn
Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders Association
Atkins
Stewart Holmes
Cedar Rapids
Wyoming Farm Woman Hatches Large Ducklings
Mrs. Henry Bramer, a Wyoming farm woman one fourth mile north of Wyoming, reports sixty ducklings from early hatchings and five more hens currently hatching.
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the Gazette
Wyoming
Henry Bramer
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