Plagmann Plan Seeks Federal Warehouses and Bonds
Arthur Plagmann proposes a plan to issue 2 percent federal bonds to finance leasing and construction of a string of government warehous es for basic commodities. The scheme links warehousing to currency needs and aims to buy low sell high to fund the treasury and reduce taxation while creating jobs. It mirrors Ever Normal Granary ideas and calls for storage space to support export volume and price parity targets.
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Athur Plagmann
Sunday Gazettes Farm Page
Henry
Plagmann
Mr Plagmann
National Treasury
Iowa
Fence Drift in Woven Wire Prompts Major Signer Question
The Twenty-five delegates return from Ames with debate over the Future AAA plan. The press questions if 1934 and 1935 injustices are corrected and whether the program yields real money for farmers paying rent and taxes.
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AAA
Ames
Superintendent of Iowa Jersey Show Appointed at Cedar Rapids
Floyd Johnston head of the dairy extension department at Ames will oversee the All Town Jersey Show in Cedar Rapids from August 22 to 24. Seven parish herds with about twenty head each will be exhibited.
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Floyd Johnston
Ames
Cedar Rapids
Parish
Roosevelt booster hosts farm dinner with Sumnick family
Gus Sumnick harvests wheat near Waterloo Nebraska while praising Franklin Roosevelt. He recalls Roosevelt's farm visit during the 1932 campaign and says corn loans at 45 cents a bushel helped farmers. Mrs Roosevelt joined Sumnicks for chicken dinner with campaign supporters in Omaha.
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Omaha
Gus Sumnick
Waterloo
Neb
Franklin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Sumnick Farm
Summnicks
Farm implement industry near normal employment in 3 years
Chicago AP reports the farm equipment sector, employing about 60 000 workers, is at 5 to 10 percent below normal. Hay and grain harvesting gear are in strong demand as crop prospects improve. The institute notes horses are scarce, pushing farmers toward tractors amid high feed costs.
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Chicago
Farm Equipment Institute
United States
Machine Demonstrations Scheduled in Fayette
Four Young Farmers club meetings are set in Fayette Friday and Saturday to discuss farm machinery adjustment and repair led by a member of the Ames agricultural engineering department.
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Garetts
Fayette
Young Farmers Club
Ames Agricultural Engineering Department
Alfalfa Harvest Advances After Three-Week Ground Delay
Special to The Gazette reports Edgewood farmers Bryan and Elmer Sherman finishing their twentieth alfalfa load after three weeks on the ground due to poor weather. Some will be stored for feed or used as ditch filler as they harvest fifty two acres and hire help for corn. Troy Mills area farmers race to plant corn and soybeans while oats turn and growth accelerates.
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The
Gazette
Edgewood
Bryan
Elmer Sherma
Shermas
Troy Mills
Rye straw display by Malcom resident Mitcelman towers over crowd
Malcom resident Malcom Will Mitcelman showcases a six foot four inch rye straw on display south of Malcom. The event draws local interest and features the unusual agricultural exhibit near town.
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Malcom
Will Mitcelman
Delta Corn Backward in Keokuk County as Harvest Nears
In Delta Iowa the Corn crop lags three weeks, alfalfa and clover ready, peas beans and lettuce ample, Bert Roberts reports up to twenty large potatoes per hill, cabbage good, pastures plentiful though weedy. The pickle plant plans to contract over 100 acres of cucumbers as farm work piles up. Washington county notes whinch bugs in oats but no major damage. oats and wheat near harvest.
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Delta
Keokuk
Bert Roberts
The
Washington, Ia
Washington County
IOWA FARM FOLK GO IN FOR CULTURE
Two hundred farm girls and seventy boys will take part in the opera Bohemian Girl on the Benton county fairgrounds in Vinton Thursday evening. The Benton County Farm Bureau and the girls 4-H club sponsor the event with Percy Letson directing the cast.
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Vinton
Benton County Fairgrounds
Benton County Farm Bureau
Percy Letson
Keystone
Allan Kline
Brandon
Thaddeus
Howard Knupp
Thelma Baxter Shadle
Belle Plaine
Dell Taylor
Jane Carrier
Dale Johnson
Kane
Iowa Township
Benton 4-H Club
Rural Iowa cultivates culture through extension led arts programs
Iowa farm groups and extension specialists promote popular arts across twelve rural categories including music drama folk crafts and photography. The American Country Life association notes music exhibits and art in daily farm tasks as the most popular, with Balfe operas like The Bohemian Girl highlighting rural music appreciation and capable leadership driving cultural development.
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Iowa
American Country Life Association
America
Balfe
Ames
Dairy Rations Compared Shows Different Butterfat Returns
Thomas Hotchkiss reports three dairy rations from the Wapsie Valley Cow Test association year ended July 1. Roughage alone yields lowest butterfat but poor cow condition. limited grain preserves body weight with near-cheap butterfat. full grain boosts butterfat and profit per cow. State hospital tops with high milk and butterfat averages. several farms show notable breed performance and yields.
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Thomas Hotchkiss
Wapsie Valley Cow Test Association
Association
Independence
Arvid Magnusen
Kramer
Robinson
Magnusen
L. A. Thom and Son
Art in the farm yard signals cultural growth in Iowa
The piece notes that competition at agricultural shows drives artful displays in farm work. It cites neatly planted gardens, hay stacks, wood piles, precise corn rows, and well groomed animals as art. Youth in 4 H clubs lead this cultural rise among Iowa farm families and future agriculture.
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Iowa
Power company cuts off farmer chicken-wire traps
West Penn Power will disconnect any farmer who wires chicken coops to electrocute thieves. Farmers proposed lethal traps but the utility deems it too dangerous and will shut off power when warned.
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Pittsburgh
West Penn Power Company
O Neal Lashes AAA Enemies At 11 State Conference
Edward A. O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau federation addressed 1000 farmers at Fort Collins urging a new constitutional amendment if courts strike down any provision of the amended agricultural administration act now before Congress. He denounced opponents of the AAA and pressed unity among eleven western states to back the measure.
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Fort Collins
Cole
Congress
Edward A. O'Neal
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
AAA
Horse Overheat Leads to Missing Doe Near Wyoming
Herman Brun scheen, a farmer three miles south of Wyoming, reports a late Saturday incident of a horse overheating and presumed lost from the premises.
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Wyoming
Herman Brunscheen
States Added to Accredited List Reflect Tuberculosis Eradication
Florida Missouri and Arkansas were declared modified accredited areas by the U S Department of Agriculture as free of cattle tuberculosis. The move marks accelerated progress and is the first time three states were named in one announcement, bringing the total to twenty two modified accredited states. Florida joins the Gulf coast and Atlantic coast as modified, with Monroe County the first county to achieve this status in February 1931.
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Washington
Florida
Missouri
Arkansas
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Seaboard
Monroe
Ames Alumni Buy 148 Acre Farm Lease to College
Dr. R. M. Hughes announces Iowa State College purchases a 148 acre farm adjoining the college farm to be leased by the Ames Alumni Association for the division of veterinary medicine and animal husbandry. Possession is March 1, 1936. North Woods timber pasture will be given to the athletic department for recreation development including picnic grounds a bicycle path and a golf course.
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College
R. M. Hughes
Iowa State College
Ames Alumni Association
Division of Veterinary Medicine
The
Ani
Mal Husbandry Department
Hughes
North Woods
Athletic Department
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