Iowa Divides Wheat Loan Areas By Terminal Prices
Iowa lists three loan regions with rates tied to Omaha Chicago and Kansas City terminals. No. 2 hard winter loan bases run 71 to 77 cents, with adjustments for grade, storage location, and transport. Officials prep the new program as wheat loan rules unfold.
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Chicago
Omaha
Kansas City
Western
Iowa
South Iowa
Chicago Market
Kan, Chi- Omaha
Cao Mo
Aig
Federal
State Office
Ellison
Rowley Creamery Pays 28c For Top Butterfat
Patrons of the Rowley Farmers' Cooperative Creamery received pay for butterfat delivered in late June. Secretary Joe McGrath reported grade No 1 at 28 cents a pound, grade No 2 at 27 cents, and grade No 3 at 26 cents, with similar rates for the first half of June.
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Rowley
Rowley Farmers’ Cooperative Creamery Company
Joe McGrath
Fence Drift in woven sire by R F A
Fragmentary lines reference a fence drift and a woven sire with Latin allusion to Caesar and Gaul. The text appears as a literary or puzzle fragment noting wheat loan purposes and a Caesar comparison, inclining toward a metafictional or cryptic style.
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Fence Drift
R.F.A
Two Farms Sold in Christian Ammeter Estate Sale
Judge H C Ring approved the referee's report in Cedar Rapids on a partition case involving the Christian Ammeter estate. Fred Ammeter bought both farms totaling 388.2 acres for 31056 dollars cash, with one lot of 263.2 acres now his residence and a nearby 125 acre parcel awaiting adjustments. Referees James H Yuill and Rufus Sisler supervised the sale in the district court, decree issued last November 19.
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Coggon
H. C. Ring
Cedar Rapids
Christian Ammeter
Fred Ammeter
James H. Yuill
Rufus Sisler
Cannery at La Porte Prepares for Big Pack
Special to The Gazette. La Porte City reports extensive repairs in the cannery boiler room. Two boilers are being installed in new foundations doubling capacity and increasing safety during peak times. The sweet corn crop is expected to be the largest the company has handled due to more acreage and favorable weather. Superintendent A. H. Brewer oversees plant operations serving as a receiving station for forty two acres of green and wax beans. Produce is shipped to Vinton for canning.
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Gazette
LA Porte City
A. H. Brewer
Vinton
Washington 4-H Health Contests July 26 And 27
Washington county 4-H health contests are set for July 26 for club boys and July 27 for club girls. Dr D C Barret of the county health unit will supervise physical examinations with help from the county medical society. County dental society members will conduct dental exams. the boys’ event moves to evening to accommodate field work.
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The
Gazette
Washington
Washington County
D. C. Barret
Washington County Health Unit
Washington County Medical Society
County Dental Society
W. J. Roudabush
Yearlings Bring $10.50 At Chicago Market
Tipton-Harley Anderson of Cedar County feeder sales twenty three yearling steers at Chicago market for ten dollars and fifty cents per hundredweight.
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Tipton
Harley Anderson
Cedar County
Chicago
Heat Threatens Iowa Corn Harvest
Iowa corn in half the state faced severe stress from extreme heat with temperatures near 100 degrees, reducing expected yields by at least one bushel per acre in any area hitting such heat in the next two weeks. Reed notes oats, barley, winter wheat and rye harvests progressed unevenly, while pastures and livestock water supplies deteriorated in southern counties amid rust and chinch bugs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Reed
Harvest reports from Clarence and Calmar areas
In Clarence oats cutting finished and threshing began on the Ernest Wulff farm south of Clarence. Many fields are being combined after storms flattened grain making cutting difficult. In Calmar farmers finished haying and now harvest grain with overripe crops and expected light oats yield. rust has ruined much. Alfalfa crop praised as best in years.
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Clarence
Ernest Wulff
Calmar
Iowa
Ben Miller
Kalona
Mr. Miller
Lawrence Strickler
Detas seling in fields of parent hybrid seed corn
Wilton Junction reports field operations began Monday with detasseling of parent hybrid seed corn to ensure seed purity and improved yields.
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Wilton Junction
Farming pace in South Bethel slows for oats and threshing
In South Bethel farmers cut and thresh oats in the field amid heavy down grain. Many combines are in use this season. Farm wives are canning vegetables but fruit supplies are scarce for preserving.
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Gazette
South Bethel
Tipton’s First Combines Open on Safely Farms
One of the first combines to begin operating in the Tipton area is owned by Howard and Donald Safely. It started work on their neighboring farms, marking a notable early agricultural milestone for the community.
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The
Gazette
Tipton
Howard
Donald Safely
Century of Harmony to be staged at 4 H club show
Iowa City pageant Century of Harmony illustrating music growth over 100 years to be performed August 17 at 7 30 p m on an open stage east of the Iowa football stadium. Eight episodes feature groups organized at county meetings next week.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Judging Team Selected for Clayton-Delaware C T A Contest
Edgewood dairymen Shirley Phelps and Paul Weger were chosen to represent the Clayton Delaware Contest association at the state judging contest during the Dairy Cattle congress at Waterloo. The association contest was held near Edgewood on Fred Fisher and Fred Sherman farms, before the annual picnic. Results also noted top scorers in both men’s and women’s divisions with several named participants and officials present.
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Edgewood
Shirley Phelps
Paul Weger
Strawberry Point
Clayton- Delaware
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Fred Fisher
Fred Sherman
Phelps
Sidney Page
Volga City
Mr. Weger
R. L. Phelps
Waukon County Cow Test Yields High Milk and Butterfat
In June the Allamakee County Cow Test association recorded 496 cows, including 32 dry, averaging 711 pounds of milk and 29.6 pounds of butterfat per group. The George Goeke herd of nine grade Holsteins led at 1,192 pounds milk and 46.3 butterfat per group. A purebred Holstein in Ross Roth and Son’s herd topped individuals with 1,797 pounds milk and 77.3 butterfat.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
Howard Gordon
George Goeke
Ross Roth
Grasshoppers Reported In One Field In Johnson
Johnson Iowa farmers report a 30 acre infestation on the John Thomas farm in Sharon township southwest of Iowa City. County Agent Emmett C. Gardner notes this is the county s first hop damage report this season. He warns dry hot weather could revive the pest and urges prompt poison spread on first signs.
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Iowa City
John Thomas
Sharon Township
Emmett C. Gardner
Johnson County
Gardner
Yearlings Bring 12 Dollars for Cedar County Steers
Tipton Ray Murphy Cedar county feeder sold yearling steers weighing 1040 pounds at Chicago Monday for 12 dollars per hundredweight totaling 12480 dollars.
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the Gazette
Tipton
Ray Murphy
Cedar County
Chicago
National hay yield estimate reaches eighty million tons
The Kansas City bureau reports total tame hay at 79,488,000 tons, with wild hay 10,257,000 tons and alfalfa 28,951,000 tons. Wisconsin leads tame hay output at 6,110,000 tons, followed by Iowa at 5,135,000 tons, while Iowa’s alfalfa totals 2,109,000 tons and its clover and timothy at 1,789,000 tons.
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the Gazette
Kansas City
United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Wisconsin
Iowa
Boosted by AAA Farmers Grow More Hay in Poweshiek
In Montezuma area the soil conservation program has materially increased hay acre age and boosted yields. Charles Richman baled 500 bales of clover hay from six and three quarters acres and expects a second crop. Many nearby farmers report second cuttings of alfalfa and storage space shortages mean exposed hay stacks will be common.
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AAA
Montezuma
Poweshiek
Charles Richman
Fire on Walter Dillon farm oats field damages nothing
Kinross straw from thirty acres of oats caught fire on the Walter Dillon farm Saturday afternoon. Men were working in the field and the machine was moved out before the blaze reached it.
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Kinross
Walter Dillon
Special Rail Rates Considered for Agricultural Lime
Governor Kraschel announced that four railroads expressed willingness to set special intra state freight rates for hauling lime used in agricultural projects. The talks occurred after meetings in Chicago with emergency conservation official Charles Housh and executives from C B and Q North Western Rock Island and Milwaukee roads. Lime utilization expands from southeastern to northern Iowa counties.
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DES Moines
INL
Nelson G. Kraschel
Charles Housh
C. B and Q
North Western
Rock Island
Milwaukee Roads
Chicago
Iowa
Wantsads Classified Note on Black Dirt Fertilizer or Sod
Property seekers scan the Want Ads under classification JO for available black dirt fertilizer or sod and related yard supplies. Advertisers direct inquiries to the classified column listing availability and terms.
Market School For Vocational Ag Boys Planned
Sioux City stockyards company will sponsor a two day market school for vocational agriculture students at Sioux City Sept. 29 and 30. The program aims to teach students to mark their livestock at a public market and understand marketing steps from grading to delivery to packers and carcass grading. About 169 Iowa students will have livestock for sale and 268 boys will attend.
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Sioux City
Sioux City Stockyards Company
Iowa
South Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Towa Vocatial Ag
Arnold Sersland Heads 4-H Boys In Winneshiek
In Winneshiek county the 4-H club names officers for the year with Arnold Sersland of Springfield township as president, John Moellers Jr as vice president, Paul Selness of Highland as secretary, and Ernest Seland of Springfield as treasurer.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
Arnold Sersland
Springfield Township
John Moellers, Jr
Military
Paul Selness
Highland
Ernest Seland
Springfield
First threshing in West Union area reported at Johansen farm
The West Union region records its first threshing of 1938 at the Paul Johansen farm four miles northeast, with fourteen acres of als, clover, and heavy growth. William Mudlestal d's machine processes the straw again to finish the job by Thursday or Friday as Johansen predicts a yield of a bushel and a half per acre due to solid, dense growth.
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West Union
Paul Johansen
William Mu«dlestadt
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