4-H Livestock Dominates Central City Fair Features
Linn county 4-H boys and girls lead the Wapsie Valley fair livestock show August 16 20 with no open cattle hogs or sheep classes. Horses only in open classes. Awards include cash prizes ribbons and breed association prizes for Angus Hereford Shorthorn Holstein and Jersey cattle and a $30 Holstein keeper trophy. A showmanship contest will crown the champion and a boys livestock judging contest runs August 17.
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Patente City
Linn County
Wapsie Valley Fair
A. R. Hoffman
Linn County Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
Guernsey
Jersey
Iowa Holstein Breeders’ Association
Ewe
Ram
Central City
Fence Drift and the Crabapple Tree Along the Fence Line
A vivid sketch describes a lone crabapple tree growing along a line fence. Its shaded refuge cools in midsummer and entices animals, while its branches yield sturdy shinny clubs. The text blends rural imagery with practical note on its use against ground squirrels.
Record June poultry profits rise on broiler sales
Ames Iowa farmers report June income from farm flocks rose despite a 2.4 egg drop per hen. Returns averaged 2.3 dollars per dollar spent on feed and care, driven by higher market sales of young birds. Hens laid 15.3 eggs on average per flock, while receipts per hen totaled 23 cents with 11 cents cost.
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Ames
Iowa
Ames Extension Service
Massillon Township Farmer Seethes Over Rising Taxes
An interview with Louis Schluter, owner of an eighty acre Massillon Township farm two miles southwest of Massillon, details soaring taxes, ruined profits, and calls for tax reform. He cites 16 cent butterfat, 2 cent hogs, high school tuition, and a law forcing district tuition across borders as crushing costs.
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Louis Schluter
Massillon
Hanover
Germany
Massillon Township
Daily Farm News Polls on Liquor Prohibition and Politics
A community excerpt shows opinions on liquor repeal state control versus saloons, farmers holiday, T B test accuracy and graft, milk tuberculosis testing, farm organizations, and voting for Turner with references to McKinley and Garfield. The piece reflects broad rural concerns and political attitudes.
Prospects of bumper corn crop fade in heat spell
Des Moines AP report says hot spell weakens corn prospects across Iowa. Meteorologist Charles D. Reed notes drought stress lowers tasseling and yields, though some fields show silks and early ears. Harvesting progresses. oats, barley, and winter wheat yields remain mostly fair. hay cutting up. chinch bugs in barley migrate to corn.
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Des Moines
Charles D. Reed
Federal Weather Bureau
Reed
Grain Separator Explodes on Farm Near Columbus Jct
An explosion wrecked a threshing machine on the L. M. Hildebrand farm between Columbus Junction and Letts. Operators L. M. Hildebrand Furnas and Ralph McCleary had just stepped down when the blast occurred. no injuries were reported.
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Columbus
Jct
Gazette
Columbus Junction
L. M
Delaware Farm Bureau Picnic Set for July 29 at Earlville
Plans are under way for the annual Delaware county Farm Bureau picnic on July 29 at the Earlville school grounds. County Agent Kermi Huehn says the event will feature sports games and talks as part of the program.
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Manchester
Delaware County Farm Bureau
Earlville
Kermi Huehn
Cedar members tour inspection from Tipton Farm Bureau visit
Members of the Cedar take a tour of inspection Saturday leaving the Tipton Farm Bureau office at 9 30 am in charge of County Agent Emmett C Gardner and Ernest Wright field secretary of the Iowa State Dairy association
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Tipton
the Cedar
Farm Bureau
Emmett C. Gardner
Ernest Wright
Iowa State Dairy Association
Buyer pays $400 for span of mules at Cedar Rapids
O B Clements of Cedar Rapids bought a carload of horses including a fine span of mules from Louis Yoder of Ka lona for $400. The three mules are five years old, seventeen hands high, and weigh about 3400 pounds. One mule won a prize last year at the Iowa State fair.
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O O. B. Clements
Cedar Rapids
Louis Yoder
Iowa State Air
Tractor Accident Injures Troy Mills Farmer
Alburt Fuessley, farmer four miles south of Troy Mills, was injured when his tractor ran over him while he worked a binder in an oat field. He had stopped the machine and crawled under it to repair it but accidentally shifted the lever, throwing the tractor into gear.
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Jones County
Troy Mills
Alburt Fuessley
Fuessley
Bertram Town Council Sets August Meeting for Budget Estimate
The Town council of Bertram Linn County Iowa will meet August 1 1932 at 8 pm at the Town Clerk office to discuss the town budget estimate of expenditures for the coming year. The notice invites input for or against the proposed budget plan and tax levy.
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Bertram
Linn County
Iowa
Production cost figures for Iowa farm products
Iowa official Jesse D. Sickler of Ogden, secretary of the Holiday association, released cost of production figures. Corn 92 cents per bushel, oats 49 cents, wheat 1.36, barley 73 cents, rye 77 cents, clover seed 19.74, timothy seed 3.14, tame hay 17.68 a ton, wild hay 11.16, hogs 11.25 per hundredweight, beef 10.40, veal 13.30, lambs 12.67, wool 40 cents per pound, chickens 24 cents, butter fat 62 cents, eggs 35 cents per dozen.
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Waterloo
Jesse D. Sickler
Ogden
Iowa Partners Holiday Association
Iowa Farmers Sell Steers at Chicago Market Prices
Hocker of Iowa county hauled steers weighing 1 080 pounds to Chicago and sold at 8 65 per hundredweight. Heitman of the same county also sent steers weighing 1 373 pounds to the market and sold at 9 15 per hundredweight.
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Marengo
F. C. Hocker
Iowa
Chicago
Clark Heitman
Iowa County
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Linn
Sec. Hoffman
Linn 4-H
Hoffman
Liberal
RE. F. A
Dayton Township
Cedar County
Clarence
Lowden
Oxford Junction
Hoover
Roosevelt
Wilson
Daily Farm News
Farm Folk
Ray Anderson
T. B
Turner
McKinley
Garfield
Anyy
Willie Willis
Riley
Delaware Farm
R. C. Anderson
Triangle
Lambert Pharmacal Company
St. Louis
Boudoir
Beth
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