Embargo Proposed On Corn From Borer Areas
Government funding shortfall halts the fight against the European corn borer prompting a plan for a de facto embargo on corn and grains from infested regions. Illinois Iowa Missouri and Kansas growers call a conference with possible support from Nebraska Texas Arkansas Colorado Minnesota and others. Missouri may issue quarantine barring imports from multiple eastern and midwestern states as the pest nears the Illinois border.
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Missouri
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K. C. Sullivan
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Sullivan
Missouri State Board of Agriculture
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Sudan
Far Wall Street Farmer Opposes Prohibition in Iowa Interview
Leo J. Wicke, a 320 acre farmer near Fairfax Iowa, voices distrust of Wall Street influence in government and supports repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. He discusses farming finances, credit struggles, and calls for saloons to revive prosperity, citing tuberculosis testing and a push for repeal.
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Leo J. Wicke
Fairfax
Farm Folks Debate politics and taxes in village interview
A reader explains views on Hoover Roosevelt and Smith, favors repeal of the nineteenth and eighteenth amendments, discusses farm unions and taxes, and calls for cutting salaries from Washington to township including teachers. He criticizes religious influence and supports a farmers holiday while noting local civic groups and finances.
Hog Cholera Report From Fourteen Iowa Communities
The Eastern Iowa Veterinary association bulletin lists infectious diseases in livestock. Hogs affected by cholera reported in Stanwood Tipton Sunbury Davenport Amber Elma Monticello Cedar Falls Elberon Garrison Dysart Traer Springville Dike. Also necrotic enteritis in Nashua Garrison Grundy Center Belle Plaine Bennett Independence Amber Anamosa Dubuque Tama Cascade Maquoketa Tipton. Mixed infection in Garrison Keystone Bennett. Swine plague in Dixon Wheatland. Infectious pneumonia in Washington Dike Cedar Falls Stout Bennett. Cattle hemorrhagic septicemia in Washington Cedar Rapids Anamosa Maquoketa Dysart Big Rock Buena Vista. Infectious keratitis pinkeye in Anamosa Vinton. Black leg in Dysart Lamotte Maquoketa Tipton Iowa City Waterloo Traer.
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Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Stanwood
Tipton
Sunbury
Davenport
Amber
Elma
Monticello
Cedar Falls
Elberon
Garrison
Dysart
Traer
Springville
Dike
Nashua
Grundy Center
Belle Plaine
Bennett
Independence
Anamosa
Dubuque
Tama
Cascade
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Mange
Washington
West Chester
Dyersville
Waterloo
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Clinton
Kalona
Iowa City
Mechanicsville
Keystone
Dixon
Wheatland
Stout
Cedar Rapids
Big Rock
Buena Vista
Lamotte
Teachers Of Vocational Agriculture View Fields
Seven teachers of vocational agriculture joined a field inspection tour near Strawberry Point as part of sixteen Iowa tours this month by the state department of vocational education. Supervisor G. F. Ekstrom of Ames led the group with over twenty farmers and students. twelve farms were reviewed for crop projects.
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Strawberry Point
Iowa
State Department of Vocational Education
G. F. Ekstrom
Ames
M. H. Bishop
Postville
J. S. Schoentng
Monona
Morrell Leeds
Olin
Raymond Lanning
Delhi
Frank Walker
Monticello
Wilbur Balmos
Guttenberg
Paul Sweany
FENCE DRIFT Caught in the Coven Wire
The text describes a dramatic sky scene with cosmic imagery. A fiery twilight reveals a Gigantic genie like hand reaching upward as dawn approaches. A cooler sunrise mocks it with a yellow harvest moon and a starry escort over the horizon.
Buckhorn Area Reports Favorable Harvest Outlook
Small grain is nearly shocked and will be threshed this week with a good yield. Corn stands tall and deep green with most fields tasseling. Second crop alfalfa is being stored and oats were cut for hay due to low grain prices and to avoid threshing.
Harvest Notes From The Farm Report
Haying is postponed due to small grain harvest. Oats show heavy yield and barley is good. Tomatoes are ripening.
Dewitt Clinton County Grain Damaged by Weather
In Clinton County the small grain shows poor condition across many fields after three weeks of wind rain and hail. Al Creger threshes windrow this week as grain lay down and he threshes 400 bushels on Saturday. Roy Coverdale notes tall sweet clover in barley causing variable shocks but expects better yield than last year.
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Gazette
Dewitt
Clinton
al Creger
Roy Coverdale
Cattle Tuberculin Tested Across Iowa Nearly 1.1 Million
Dr. J A Barger Iowa inspector reports 1 096 930 head of cattle tuberculin tested as of June 30 from 7 376 farms. Seventy of 99 counties are modified areas with eight more likely to qualify soon. State aid hints at about 20 percent tax levy cuts next year. fifty seven counties may be exempt.
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Des Moines
J. A. Barger
Iowa
Federal Department of Agriculture
Barger
State Department of Agriculture
Buckhorn Creamery pays 16.8c June butterfat average
Buckhorn Co operative creamery paid patrons for June butterfat at 16.8 cents per pound. Twenty four patrons receiving over five dollars include Hans Jorgensen Baldwin at 95.96 and H E Skott Buckhorn at 73.87 among others. A note says 3,600 pounds were printed during the first week of July showing rising local consumption.
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Buckhorn
Buckhorn Cooperative Creamery
Hans Jorgensen
Baldwin
H. E. Skott
Charles Waugh
Delmar
A. J. Wirth
Elwood
C. W. Pithen
Lost Nation
Ralph Bungarner
Oxford
Fred E. Willimack
William Shunter
Roy Ruggeberg
Welton
Fred Schieschat
Farmers Near Dysart Buy $1 339 Fire Truck
Dysart residents approve a $1 339 purchase for a new fire truck to be delivered from Chicago this week. Mounted on a one and a half ton chassis it carries thirty feet of suction hose a 100 gallon tank with 300 feet of hose a chemical tank hand extinguishers a siren and ladders. The truck will be kept with city equipment and staffed by local firemen with a limit of three on rural calls at a time.
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the Gazette
Dysart
Dysart Farmers’ Fire Company
Chicago
Truckload of Wheat Burns On Collins Farm
A Wheat filled truck carrying grain to a granary caught fire Monday on a Collins farm in Springville. The blaze started from a backfire and spread quickly, with wind helping limit the surrounding field damage. Springville fire department responded.
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Collins
The
Gazette
Springville
E. C. Farrell
Mare Lost to Heat Prostration Near Troy Mills
Jesse Sauer, a farmer near Troy Mills, reports the loss of a mare from heat prostration while cutting oats. The mare had recently foaled. This marks the first livestock loss in the area this season due to extreme heat, with several other horses overheated but recovering.
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Troy Mills
Jesse Sauer
Buckhorn Girls Outdoors Club Postpones Meeting
Buckhorn Girls Outdoor club members chose no idle name as they postpone their regular meeting due to field work. The girls have been helping with haying on their fathers' farms, keeping busy with agricultural tasks.
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Buckhorn
Buckhorn Girls’ Outdoor Club
120 Acre Butler Farm Sold For 75 Per Acre
Parkerburg Ernest Aswegan purchased 120 acres one mile west of Swanton from Dan Huting for 75 dollars per acre. The property includes a solid building set and possession is to pass next spring.
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Butler
Parkersburg
Ernest Aswegan
Dan Huting
Swanton
Cattle Sale Near Dysart Totals Thirty Two Head at $8.35
Arthur Norden, a farmer southwest of Dysart, sold thirty two head of fat cattle to a local buyer for 8.35 per hundredweight. The cattle averaged about 1,200 pounds and were trucked to Waterloo.
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Dysart
Arthur Norden
Waterloo
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