Corn Reports Progress Amid Mixed Iowa Conditions
Iowa crop chief Charles D. Reed says corn is making excellent progress in most counties with rainfall improving yields. In southern areas, frequent rains and chinch bugs hinder growth while some regions benefit from recent showers and higher water levels. Special to The Gazette notes substantial rainfall totals and rising streams, though wells remain slow to fill. Brookyn-L A Marsh Powe reports fifty native lambs sold in Chicago at $8.25 per cwt.
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Chicago
Independence White Rocks Retain Place In Eggs Saving Meet
The Oklahoma A and M college report shows the egg contest opened October 1, 1933, and runs to September 22, 1934. Ten birds in Ward pen laid 1896 eggs in 273 days, while Ingland pens reached 210 and one high hen 245 eggs in 273 days.
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Srecin
Oklahoma A and M Co
George C Ingland
Inglewood
Ward Pen
Collins and Ripper
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Wheat Yields Strong in Wilton Junction Area
In Wilton Junction vicinity farmers reported high yields. Lloyd Reimbrecht threshed forty bushels per acre from twenty acres and seventeen bushels from thirty. Frank King’s forty acre field yielded about twenty five per acre. Samuel Van Zandt averaged thirty eight, Frank Walker thirty eight, and a field of axe produced seventeen bushels per acre.
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Wilton Junction
Lloyd Reimbrecht
Frank King
Samuel van Zandt
Frank Walker
4-H Club Meeting Reviews Projects and Leaders
The 4-H group held a club meeting at the Wheaton community hall. Members reviewed projects including music, agriculture, and home economics, with officers and volunteers guiding demonstrations and upcoming activities.
Commercial alfalfa quality and market notes across Kansas and Oklahoma
The report covers alfalfa prices and quality in Kansas and Oklahoma with notes on second cutting harvests, drought impact, grasshoppers, freight effects, and bids from meal mills. It cites shipments from North Canadian and Washita Valleys, prices for baled alfalfa, and regional demand shifts affecting export to northern and eastern areas.
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PETIA
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Wort
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Nebraska
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Delaware Farmers Face Gov Corn Loans Dilemma
Fragmented crop loan report describes Delaware farmers attempting to repay government corn loans amid uncertain relief and policy details. Names and specifics are unclear in the damaged text, but the piece centers on farmers' efforts to settle debt under wartime or policy programs.
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Delaware
Holiday Members Seek Pardon For luenker and Moore
Holiday members push for pardon for Luenker and Moore in a community meeting. The plea highlights local concerns and calls for clemency, with supporters citing past actions and potential rehabilitation.
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Holiday
Luenker
Moore
Header attachments built for binders near Garrison
GARRISON three header attachments for grain binders were built for local farmers by C M Kruger. Louis Kaiser owns the rig shown, with Kaiser planning harvesting of eighty acres of oats and thirteen of barley amid light rains and encroaching foxtail and grass. Harvest has begun in Benton county as farmers braid grain despite short straw and trashy fields.
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Louis Kaiser
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Oldsen Predicts Solid Return on 4 H Beeves
Ames Iowa AP 4 H beef projects show potential profit as secretary C A Oldsen reports after inspecting most of 5000 baby beeves in Iowa Calves bought largely around 5 to 650 per hundredweight appear to offer at least a slight profit under current prices Enrollment of 525 purebred beef heifers has fallen due to a dry season.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa Rain Record To Date This Year
Iowa reports precipitation data with 0.06 inch in the last 24 hours and 2.45 inches for July to date. The normal July to date is 1.46 inches, yielding an excess of 0.99 inch. Year to date precipitation from Jan 1 totals 10.43 inches, normal to date 16.97 inches, yielding a deficit of 6.54 inches.
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Iowa
Calf Run Varies, Oldsen Reports Range of Performance
Oldsen notes condition affects calves, with some showing exceptional quality while others lag. He cautions extremes in performance but emphasizes overall variability in the herd.
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Oldsen
Test Association In Buchanan Makes 318.5 Year Average
The Wapsie Valley Testing association reports the year ending June 30 averaged 7193 pounds of milk and 318.5 pounds of butterfat across 422.34 cow years. Ten herds exceeded 300 pounds butterfat as the highest count yet. The Iowan State Hospital herd led with 12488 pounds milk and 446.5 butterfat for 77.8 cow years. Kremer and Robinson’s herd followed with 11008 pounds milk and 388.5 butterfat for 14.98 cow years.
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Independence
Wapsie Valley Testing Association
Thomas Hotchkiss
Iowan State Hospital
Kremer and Robinson
Arvid Mnanguson
W. J. Bonefas
L. A. Thom
J. F. Kelleher
Henry Allenstein
Art Satterlee
Diogenes Lantern Needed to Find Hay Crop This Year
Mrs Paul C Pownall of near West Branch is noted for mowing hay on twenty five acres and storing the entire crop one and one half loads in the barn Farmers in the area have needed Diogenes lanterns to locate hay after it was cut The report highlights farm efforts and storage during this season.
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West Branch
Paul C. Pownall
Petersen Elected to Wyoming Corn-Hog Committee
Fred Petersen was elected member of the Wyoming township corn-hog committee at a called meeting of contract signers. He succeeds Klaud Dick, who resigned.
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Wyoming
Fred Petersen
Wyoming Township
Klaud Dick
Linn County Supervisors Approve Unemployment Aid Allocations
Linn County Iowa, June 19 1934 proceedings show the Board adopting resolutions allocating relief and unemployment aid. Several named companies and individuals are listed for rent relief medical aid and subsidies under state law. The measure funds county officers salaries and a refund authorization related to department expenses.
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Board OF Supervisors
Linn County
Iowa
Towa Linn
Rapice
Frazier Lemke Act Seen as Debtors Last Resort
Iowa farmers facing heavy mortgage burdens may turn to the Frazier Lemke amendment only after using the Federal Land Bank refinancing the Iowa Moratorium act and county debt advisory committees Dr W G Murray of Ames outlines three key points showing how the moratorium and buy back terms operate and how creditors must preagree to buy back land at appraised value with staged payments.
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Iowa
WG. Murray
Ames Agricultural Economics Department
Federal Land Bank
Murray
Dr. Murray
Land Bank
County Farm Debt Advisory Committee
Farm Loan Association
Williamsburg buyers solid on Steers and heifers at Chicago market
Iowa feeder Elwood bought an 838 pound steer at 715 dollars and Frank Mullins purchased light heifers at 6.75 dollars per hundredweight on the Chicago Mons day market.
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R.A. Elwood
Frank Mullins
Iowa
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