Argentine Corn Processing Showed Clinton Test Unlikely to Compete
Argentine corn arriving at U S ports appears unsuitable for Midwest processing. Clinton plant found Argentine corn flinty, low in starch, and harder to soften, increasing the amount needed. No foreign corn imports anticipated while domestic supply remains ample. South African white corn sent to Milwaukee mainly for brewing.
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Milwaukee
Associated Press
Clinton Corn
Clinton
Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Bidne sells 43 cattle at Prosper for 3216
Winnebago farmer Knut Bidne of Winneshick sold forty three head of cattle at Prosper Minnesota this week for 3216 dollars and 90 cents. This marks the third large cattle sale he has made this year.
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the Gazette
Decorah
Knut Bidne
Winneshick
Prosper
Minn
Fence Drift From Flood Section in Missouri
Letter from Missouri flood section describes heavy chiggers and heat while noting oats and wheat crops, poor corn prospects, wheat harvest beginning, and farmers delaying corn and bean planting with hay cutting and small grain activity ongoing. Wotta mess.
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Missouri
Timothy
Late pea yield reduced by aphids in Iowa canning pack
In Vinton the Iowa Canning Company reports about 600 acres of early peas in warehouses and 300 acres of late peas. Aphids have damaged the late crop despite recent hot weather. The pea pack employs around 300 workers with a weekly payroll near 5300 dollars, and officials expect at least 100000 cases or 2400000 cans.
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Vinton
Iowa Canning Company
Rust and rusts noted in Iowa crops amid favorable weather
Rust has appeared in eastern Iowa vats with little damage and black stem rust in the same area. The Weather Bureau reports a seven day period of favorable weather with high temperatures and sun, marking the best corn week of the season. Rye harvest is underway in Amana and Linn county as corn growth accelerates but harvest may lag due to late fields and competing haying.
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Iowa
Washington
Weather Bureau
Amana
Linn
Iowa corn crop outlook mixed as rains ease
Federal meteorologist Charles D. Reed reports about one third of Iowa corn is wet and weedy and at risk of drowning, while the rest advances rapidly. Damage is concentrated in the south half, with sultry weather helping crops on well drained soil and weeds. Chinch bugs have abated during the rainy season, and small grain improves with less rain though red rust and blight rise with heat.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Reed
Northwest
Work Starts On New Turkey Packing Plant At Wellman
Foundation walls for a $25,000 turkey packing plant are completed in Wellman. Maplecrest Turkey Farms builds the plant to process five carloads of dressed turkeys daily during peak season. The industry may employ 125 or more workers next season with cash turnover over $1.5 million annually.
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Wellman
Maplecrest Turkey Farms
A. C. Gingerich
United States
Gingerich
Lodwick Reports Dairy Team Return from Europe Tour
Letter from B W Lodwick Fayette coach of the national champion dairy judging team describes Newcastle contest results, the team’s European tour through Denmark Holland Switzerland and the Isles of Jersey and Guernsey, plus impressions of English farming. The party sails for the United States July 24 from Plymouth aboard the Normandie.
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London
B. W. Lodwick
Fayette
Fayette County
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Northumberland
Robert Putnam
Oelwein
Paul Harrison
Maynard
Grover Miche
Newcastle
Europe
Denmark
Holland
Switzerland
Jersey
Guernsey
United States
Midland Sells an Eighty For 6000
Rudolph Herman of Conroy purchased the Sam State farm of eighty acres two miles south of North English for 6000. Possession will be given March 1, 1936. The sale was made by the Midland Mortgage company of Cedar Rapids. A bushel a day is the price we pay for planting corn after the middle of May.
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Rudolph Herman of
Conroy
Sam State
North English
Midland Mortgage Company of
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Furnishes Third of Butter Shipped to New York
Iowa supplied one third of butter sent to New York in June and totaled 8,876,768 pounds receipts for the month. In the first half of 1935 Iowa shipments to New York reached 38,126,475 pounds, with 2,106,005 pounds by truck, while New York domestic butter receipts for the period were 120,927,471 pounds.
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Iowa
New York
L. Brown
New York City
Bennett farmer sells long yearling steers on Chicago market
Joe Gehris, a farmer near Bennett, sold 1 090-pound long yearling steers on the Chicago market for 11.10 dollars per hundredweight. The cattle hailed from western Nebraska and had been on full feed for five months since last fall.
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Bennett
Joe Gehris
Chicago
Nebraska
Brooder Hearse Used As Chicken Brooder By West Branch Farmer
Alvin Anderson near West Branch repurposed an old horse-drawn hearse as a brooder for baby chicks. The unused vehicle, kept in the Anderson barn, provided warm confinement with glass sides a rear door lantern heat and a practical refuge as wet cold spring weather hampered normal chick housing.
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West Branch
Alvin Anderson
Anderson
Ames Delegates Confer With Committeemen
Delegates from Benton county met with R C McElhinney of Dysart to discuss Ames economists grass corn and hog adjustment program. McElhinney, who last week represented Tama Benton Linn and Jones in Ames, led talks. meetings with Linn at Cedar Rapids and with Jones at Anamosa were planned.
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Benton County
Vinton
R. C. McElhinney
Dysart
Ames
McElhinney
Tama
Benton
Linn
Jones
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Four-County Meeting Called by Allamakee Official
A meeting of allotment committeemen from Winnebago?宁? Winnessiek Fayette Clayton and Allamakee counties was set for Friday in Postville. Fred Straate, chairman of the Allamakee county corn hog control association, called the gathering and represented the four counties at the Ames discussion school last week.
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Postville
Winneshiek
Fayette
Clayton
Allamakee
Fred Straate
Allamakee County
Corn-Hog Control Association
Ames
Tipton Seed Firm Completes Blue Grass Harvest Operations
Tipton Iowa reports a blue grass harvest by a Council Bluffs seed company. About 800 acres were stripped producing roughly 10 000 bushels of strippings. Workers prepared and cured the material, intending to yield around 35 pounds of refined seed per 100 pounds of strippings, with shipment to Council Bluffs.
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Tipton
Council Bluffs
E. J. Heck
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Ray Anderson
South Africa
America
Penick and Ford Company
House Paints
J. E. Cameron
Gndard Glass
Second Aver Rapids
Lodwick
Plymouth
Great Western
England
Midland
Brooder
Iowa Livestock Exchange
12Th St
12Th Ave
Cedar Rapids II
Jack Clements
Tony Schmitz
Jay Patten
O. M. Bundy
West
Anheuser-Buseh
ST. Louis
Budweiser
the Beeb Beverage CO
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