High grade grain market from Cedar Rapids July inspections
Inspection records show Cedar Rapids handled 562 grain cars in July with 73.3 percent of corn grading No. 3 or higher. Of 562 cars, 30 No. 1, 245 No. 2, 137 No. 3. 40 No. 4, 15 No. 5, 30 No. 6 and 64 sample grade. Heating and moisture affect sample grades. test weight runs 58 pounds per bushel or more. Also reports four to five cars of new oats, five wheat, five barley. barley grades No. 2 Special 2 at 47 pounds or more.
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ANL
G. A. Cabinett
Cedar Rapids
Cabinett
George W. Ramsey
Ramsey
Fence Drift at the Gateway of Youth
A humorous vignette from The Gazette features F. A. and Jim Wong with Annie Rooney as a symbol of thousands of fine youngsters. A boy dreams of becoming a cake tester while all three share ice cream after a slice. The piece ends with a meditation on the value of children in a troubled world.
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the Gazette
Annie Rooney
Jim Wong
Murphy to Speak at Delhi Dairy Day Aug 3
Louis Murphy of Dubuque Democratic candidate for United States senator will headline the twenty second annual Delhi Dairy Day picnic in the town park Aug 3. Hopkinton band provides music, two ball games are on the program, and a evening dance ends the festivities.
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Delhi
Louis Murphy
Dubuque
United States
Hopkinton Band
Farmer J E Harper on taxes farms and national policy
Interview with J E Harper owner of 120 acres near Urbana born 1865 in Vinton discusses tax totals of 186.45 including personal tax and a proposed reduction of 30 in township and county road costs. He critiques wartime economics, supports Hoover, and questions mandatory laws, Farm Bureau funding, and the Board of Trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Harper
Urbana
Vinton
Daily Farm News For Farm Folk Daily Farm News
Ray Anderson edits the Daily Farm News for Farm Folk delivering concise agricultural updates. The items cover crop guidance market signals and rural community notices with practical farming tips and local reporting.
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Daily Farm News
Farm Folk
Better Pasture Theme Of Testers Conference At Ames
More than fifty Iowa cow testers began a thorough overhaul of problems facing dairymen at the opening of their first annual short course at Iowa State college Ames. Topics include pasture management dairy outlook and fed programs with Prof Hughes proposing Sudan grass to supplement bluegrass for July September grazing. The cowtesters banquet will feature an illustrated talk by Prof Mortensen on Denmark dairy industry.
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Gazette
Iowa
Iowa State College
H. ID. Hughes
Farm Crops and Soils Department
Hughes
Sudan
Waterloo
M. Mortensen
Denmark
The Gamble Of Price Increases In Trade And Market
A speaker contrasts betting with real trading noting that a buyer gains when prices rise and the seller loses. He argues that stock exchanges let one party win only by the other losing and compares this to a gambler’s approach when leveraging small funds into large exposure.
Corn Borer Quarantine Proclaimed In Illinois
Springfield Illinois Gov Louis L Emmerson declares a quarantine to stop transporting European corn borer into Illinois from infested areas. The proclamation covers New England states New York New Jersey Pennsylvania West Virginia Michigan Ohio and Indiana due to the federal quarantine service ending in the infested region.
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Springfield
Ins
Illinois
Louis L. Emmerson
New England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Angus Culls Top Market At 9.00 Dollars At Chicago Sale
Sixteen Angus culls from John Mommsen near Miles sold in Chicago at 9.50 per hundredweight, averaging 1 038 pounds, top price for that weight. Nine heifers averaging 938 pounds brought 8.50, with other feeders from Clinton County and buyers handling loads of steers and shoats at various prices.
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the Gazette
Miles
John Mommsen
Chicago
Mommsen
Albert Peterson
Clinton County
Jones County Farmer Tops Chicago Cattle Market
Anamosa’s C. A. Reade led the cattle sale in Chicago with a load of 1,315-pound Hereford steers at 9.60 per hundredweight. W. A. Reade, also from Jones county, weighed in 267 hogs for 4.75 per hundredweight on the same market day.
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Anamosa
C. A. Reade
Jones County
Chicago
W. A. Reade
Monmouth Shipments to Chicago Market Report
Monmouth Shipping association consigns twenty packing sows averaging 283 pounds at four dollars per hundredweight, twelve 177-pound shoats at four dollars and ninety cents, 345-pound packers at three dollars eighty five cents, and butcher sows at four dollars ten cents in Tuesday’s market. Also included are 258-...
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Monmouth
Chicago
Monmouth Shipping Association
F. G. Orr
W. H. Fadley
FP. Chatterton
Iowa City feeder tops Chicago market with 1423 pound steers
Jesse Lackender of Johnson county led a 1 423 pound steer load at the Ak Sar Ben show. The prize two year old steers were begun on corn fodder last fall and fed fodder through winter with concentrate.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Jesse Lackender
Johnson County
Chicago
Mr.Lackender
Vinton Angus Market Beef Tops at $9 per Cwt
Eight head of 1001 pound yearling Angus cattle sold in Chicago Monday, bred by George Dietrich. The long yearlings brought nine dollars per hundredweight, reflecting strong demand for cattle from his own feeding operation.
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The
Gazette
Vinton
Chicago
George Dietrich
Edmondson hogs fetch strong prices at Chicago market
Washington county farmer Ian F H Edmondson shipped 110 prime medium and heavy hogs to Chicago on Monday. Ninety hogs averaged 299 pounds bringing 4.70 per hundredweight while twenty averaged 240 pounds brought 5.05, near the top for light weights. Hogs were crossbred Hampshire Polands, late summer or fall, fed on corn oats tankage and oilmeal. Edmondson still holds 150 late spring pigs for sale.
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Gazette
Washington
Ian F. H. Edmondson
Chicago
Edmondson
258 1-2 Acre Tract Sells for 21000 Near Marion
The sale of 25.84 acres four miles north of Marion by the receiver of Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Marion to Weaver Witwer of Cedar Rapids for 21 000 was approved in district court by Judge H C Ring. The 160 acre John Mitchell farm is leased to Mr Mitchell. the remainder is unimproved and formerly owned by Mrs Clementine Michel. Witwer has recently acquired several nearby farms.
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Marion
Farmers and Merchants State Bank of
Weaver Witwer
Cedar Rapids
H. C. Ring
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Clementine Michel
Five Harvest Activities Reported Along Highway 113
Five machines operated between Hopkinton and Monticello on Friday, covering ten miles. Oars yield forty five to fifty bushels per acre. Haying is finished. Timothy is a heavy crop, Ray Chaplin reports two tons per acre east of Sand Spring. Second crop alfalfa is being cut.
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the Gazette
Sand Spring
Hopkinton
Monticello
Timothy
Ray Chaplin
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Henry Wolf
Taylor Brothers
Charles Bush
B. R. Sauners
Tops Market
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Peerless
First Avenue
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