Bee drought hits East Iowa hives as clover fails
Eastern Iowa beekeepers report thousands of hives starving due to a failure of Dutch white clover, the main nectar source. Honey yield in eastern Iowa may drop to 25 percent of normal, while western areas expect about 75 percent. Some regions see aid from rains and other blooms, but many beekeepers fear little surplus for winter.
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Iowa
F. B. Paddock
Iowa Extension Service
Professor Paddock
Cedar Falls
Paddock
Mr. Paddock
Ralph Kerber
Sigourney
Keokuk County
E. S. Dyas
Cedar County 4-H Club Calf Tour Attracts 70 Members
Seventy people attended the Cedar county 4-H baby beef club tour led by assistant agent John Ingels. Carl Oldsen of the Iowa Beef Producers Association spoke on calf feeding and showing. A judging contest and cafeteria picnic followed at the Anders Mather farm and Rochester. About sixty calves are enrolled for exhibition at the Cedar county fair. E M Wright of the Iowa Dairy Association will lead a dairy calf club tour on July 16, detailing calf care yearling heifers fitting and judging. The tour starts 9:30 am from the George Fraseur farm north of Utom.
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Boedtal
Gazette
Tipton
Cedar County
John Ingels
Carl Oldsen
Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
Anders Mather
Rochester
E Mwright
Iowa Dairy Association
Wright
George Fraseur
Upton
Farm Union Leader To Speak At West Union
Kennedy of Kankakee Illinois secretary of the National Farmers Union will speak here Tuesday at 3 pm at the fair grounds. John Chalmers of Madrid vice president of the Farmers Union will also be in Fayette County from July 14 to 24, announced by Mrs Albert J Stahr of Elma.
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Borcal
West
Fee Kennedy
Kankakee Il
National Farmers Union
John Chalmers
Madrid
Farmers Union
Fayette County
Albert J Stahr
Elma
Health Contestants To Be Examined In Iowa City
About fifty Johnson county 4-H girls and boys in the county health contest will undergo physical examinations at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital. The health contest winner will be announced at the show next month and will advance to the state contest.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
University of Iowa Childrens Hospital
Neighbors Plow Corn For Bereaved Farmer
A Springville area neighborhood bee on the Fred Bebee farm aided by Lee Wilson Ris sel Hoke Oliver Caldwell Mr John son A J Rotert Sheldon Hopkins and Irving Penn to plow corn due to illness and a death in the family Joseph tho landlord provided lunch and ice cream at noon Exports of pork and lard from the United States in 1933 were the smallest in fifty years.
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Springville
Fred Bebee
Lee Wilson Rissel Hoke
Oliver Caldwell
Mr Johnson
A. J. Rotert
Sheldon Hopkins
Irving Penn
Joseph Tho
United States
Fewer hogs sold than in July 1933 at Des Moines markets
Hog receipts in interior markets for July run about 30 percent lighter than a year ago as prices hover near seasonal highs. Demand improved late in the week with weather improving pasture conditions reducing forced selling. Weights rise as farmers hold light underfinished hogs and packing sow receipts increase.
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Des Moines
Drought Area Grows Across Five States
The Farm Credit Administration added seven counties in five states to emergency drought counties eligible for loans to farmers for livestock feed and forage. The update lists 36 Texas counties, 15 in Kansas, eight in Nebraska, five in Utah, and Minnesota counties included. An additional 11 counties across Kansas and other states were added to the second list for drought aid.
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Washington
Farm Credit Administration
Texas
Harnes
Nebraska
Erznt
Utan
Minnesota
Rastamm
Kansas
Seconeas
Oat shocks and yields across eastern Iowa fields
Stanwood reports heavy rains halt haying and harvesting delaying oats. North English farmers increase binder use with improvements on reel slats to sweep short cuts onto the conveyor. Millersburg yields ten bushels per acre from oats threshed recently. Soybeans and buckwheat still being sown.
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North English
Orval Kolosik
Dick Kelley
Sam Cable
Millersburg
John Bauer
John Kolosik
Grinnell area farmers use maple leaves as emergency feed
Drought conditions push Poweshiek county farmers to feed cattle with chopped maple leaves. Dr O F Parish says some areas cut a maple tree daily for green feed. rains last week bring partial relief. Harvest fields see slow work. oats may skip threshing and hay yields improve with a promising second cutting. Early apples are ready and gardens show growth despite drought.
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Gazette
Grinnell
Poweshiek County
O. F Parish
Gazette Whittier
Best C. T. Guernsey Herd Tops Local Butterfat Record
Arlington area dairy tale: J H Bassett and Son rebuilt after losses, developing a Guernsey herd of high producers. One cow led Fayette county with 160 pounds plus in a month and 1057 pounds butterfat in January. The farm Milks twenty-one Guernsey cows, average butterfat rose from 319 to 357 pounds per cow last year. Tester Leo McDonald of Lociwein certified the records.
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Spere
Arlington
J H Bassett and Son
Thia Best
Guernsey
Fayette County
CTA
Bassett and Son
Guernsey Cowan
Teat Association
Leo McDonald Lociwein
John Lensch Builds New Dairy Barn on 265 Acre Farm
On an 265 acre Benton county farm eleven miles southwest of Cedar Rapids John Lensch completed a dairy barn. The 38 by 80 structure with 20 foot posts houses stanchion stalls for twenty six cows and space for eight horses plus calf and maternity pens. The $3400 building lacks native lumber and may add electric service if power is available. George Benesh operates the farm. Lensch rents a Lincoln highway farm and undecided on moving his high producing Holsteins next season.
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John Lensch
Benton County
Cedar Rapids
George Benesh
Lensch
Lincoln Highway
Yotter Brothers Harvest 32 Bushels Per Acre On Sixty Acres
The record notes that Yotter Brothers achieved an average yield of thirty-two bushels per acre from a sixty acre tract, indicating strong corn or grain production for the period.
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Yotter Brothers
Sand Springs Pastures Revive After Rain Showers
Special to The Gazette an Oklahoma Sand Springs community reports revived pastures after recent rains. Corn tassels emerge while early potatoes yield poorly. Farmers mow oats and harvest with binders as winds topple corn and uproot trees. A wagon and hay rack on Cap Arduser farm were blown into a cottonwood tree with enough force to trap the tongue, requiring a tractor to free it.
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Sand Springs
Cap Arduser
Hail Storm Rips Mount Vernon Corn Fields
A Mount Vernon hail storm Friday night damaged corn fields but caused no serious losses. Local growers assess extent as light to moderate with minimal reported financial impact.
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the Gazette
Mount Vernon
Harvest Difficulties Pin Buchanan County Crops
Special to The Gazette reports oats and hay crops in Buchanan County are very short with hay about 15 percent of normal. Corn is uneven and starting to tassel. Late potatoes show few bugs and do well. Alfalfa revives. Soybeans promise well. Livestock buyers complain of many immature pigs and hogs offered by farmers, with prices for them noted.
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Independence
Buchanan County
Market notes show hog prices and feed pressures in Independence
Prices for ferings run about 3.25 a hundredweight while better grades fetch 4.10. Farmers are compelled to sell due to feed shortages and high corn costs, about sixty cents a bushel locally near Independence.
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Independence
Weather and Harvest Notes Following Deluge in Delaware County
Heavy rain revived pastures and gardens in Delaware County. Oats harvest under way with yields of six to ten bushels per acre typical, few exceed twenty. Two shockers to one binder reversed. one man can handle output of two binders. Corn drought tolerant with visible silks and tassels. Soybeans thriving. New potatoes on market and home-grown cabbage seven cents per pound. Some gardens replanted for the fourth or fifth time after rain.
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Manchester
Delaware County
Lightning Strikes Railway Farm Team Killing Valuable Teun
On Wednesday night a valuable team of young work animals on the Mrs. Mary Leobsack farm near Littleton was struck by lightning. The event caused significant loss to tenant Simeons Achiele.
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Littleton
Achiele
Simeons
Mary Leobsack
Teun
Eggs Strengthen With Crop Report And Grain Prices
Egg values rose on bullish crop estimates and higher grain prices. Chicago led gains with spot eggs up a cent as eastern producers face adverse egg feed ratios and slow consumer demand kept prices mostly steady in New York. The poultry strike ended last week with strong midweek demand for large dressed fowl.
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New York City
New York
Chicago
East
Farming notes reflect drought strain and feed shifts in Iowa
The Ames area dairy outlook discusses high fuel use on 1909-model cows, alfalfa imports from Kansas City and Oklahoma, and possible ample rough feed next fall. Farmers anticipate lower yields, shifting seeding, and payments for corn and hog programs, with farmer-led policy questions ahead.
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Iowa
Earl Shultz
Ames Extension Dairyman
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Talking It Over on Dairymen and Markets in Cedar Rapids
A rambling narrative discusses the possibility that powerful interests may disrupt Cedar Rapids dairymen and take over their plant. It weighs risks of disorganized markets, the value of unity, and the resilience of producers recalling past hardships while speculating on future outcomes.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather and market notes on rain records and potato outlook
A report notes Jowa Rain totals for the year and July to date, with excess or deficiency to date. It discusses consumer resistance to meat price rises and its effect on farm prices, plus a detailed potato crop forecast from the US Department of Agriculture, including shipment rates and regional conditions across Virginia Maryland New Jersey and northern states.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Virginia
Maryland
New Jersey
Kansas
Missouri
Cedar county contracts sent to AAA Tuesday
Tipton reports that Fifty of 1 213 regular corn and hog contracts in Cedar county refused a second signature. Transmittal sheets are being prepared for Des Moines and contracts likely go to Washington on Tuesday. eastern Iowa counties listed include Chickasaw Buchanan Grundy Linn Benton Jones Poweshiek Johnson Keokuk Jefferson Davis Van Buren Lee and Des Moines.
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Tipton
Cedar County
State Board of Review
Des Moines
Washington
AAA
Iowa
Chickasaw
Buchanan
Grundy
Linn
Benton, Jones
Poweshiek
Johnson, Keokuk
Jefferson, Davis, van Buren, Lee
Spring seeding of grass declared a total loss nationwide
H D Hughes Iowa State College warns drought has wiped out spring grass seeding in the middle west. He urges summer and fall reseeding of legumes on contracted acres and grain fields with alfalfa sweet clover late as Sept 1. He notes lime needs and seed rates for successful sowing and estimates hen feed cost at about 38 cents daily.
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Ames
Middle West
H. D. Hughes
Farm Crops
Hughes
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa
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