Jersey Show Highlights In State Center and Centerville
State Center hosts Jersey parish show with Claire We mer Ro se Hill as senior and grand champion cow and other top awards. Judge Norman Jacobsen of Iowa State College classifies 64 head into blue red and white groups. Parish shows continue in Emmetsburg Clarksville Elkader Marion West Branch and LaMont with winners advancing to the All Iowa fair. Centerville Jersey parish show features E S Baughman Pulaski senior and grand champion female and Wilson and Scott Mt Pleasant senior and grand champion bull with Norman Jacobsen judging.
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State Center
Claire Wemer
Rose Hill
Jersey Parish
L Haesemeyer
Earl Lyon
Toledo
Norman Jacobsen
Iowa State College
W. S. Morrison
Iowa City
Ivan Gates
West Liberty
Bert Sams
Beaman
Iowa Jersey Cattle Club
Emmetsburg
Clarksville
Elkader
Marion
West Branch
Lamont
Cedar Rapids
Centerville
Jersey
E. S Baughman
Pulaski
Adams Brothers
Moulton
Wilson
Scott
Mt Pleasant
OQT Wilson
Steers Bring 41 At Chicago Yard In Sale
A load of twenty Hereford steers sold for 41 dollars per hundredweight at the Chicago stockyards on Tuesday, just under the all time Chicago price record set last January. The Herefords were sold by the Swanton Brothers of Goose Lake.
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Chicago
Swanton Brothers
Goose Lake
Swine Health Advisory On Cholera Vaccination Need
A public note stresses swine cholera as a major but preventable threat. It urges veterinarians and farmers to vaccinate and maintain hygiene, prioritizing timing after piglets reach eight weeks and show good gains.
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Meath
Beef slaughter goal may cut into breeding herds
USDA aims for a 32 million head cattle slaughter in the coming year a target about 7 percent below the previous year. The plan risks trimming breeding herds while potentially extending meat shortages for years. Farmers weigh long term returns as decisions hinge on market conditions.
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USDA
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Cedar County Fair Adds New Livestock Classes
Cedar county fair introduces Spotted Poland Chinas in swine division and several poultry classes. Machinery displays planned with $50 prizes to top four exhibits. 4-H and FFA entries suspended fees, premiums cut by $2. Gulf 4-H division prizes total $300.
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Tipton
Cedar County
J F Caterline
Fair Board
Poland
FFA
Caterline
What's What Out on the Acres
Carl Anderson, 58, owner of 560 acres near Wellman, talks about farming this year with two neighbors as partners. He rents out machinery and raises corn and hogs, criticizes high prices and price supports, predicts crops will help prices drop, and backs Dewey and Warren for president.
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Carl Anderson
Wellman
Care Urged To Avoid Spreading Livestock Ills
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association warns farm labor exchange spreads infectious diseases. Disinfect shoes and vehicle wheels, change clothing after visiting infected premises, and shoo flies from autos before leaving. Reports list hog cholera, swine erysipelas, pasteurellosis, plant poisoning, blackleg, sleeping sickness in horses, Newcastle disease in poultry, and screw worms in sheep across multiple Iowa towns.
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Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Association
Riceville
Kalona
Ellsworth
Radcliffe
Grundy Center
Postville
Plainfield
Maquoketa
Bennett
Iowa City
Preston
Green Island
Sabula Center Junction
Eldridge
Olin
Sigourney
DeWitt
Charlotte
Washington
Charles City
St. Ansgar
Nashua
Grand Mound
Cascade
London
Davenport
Strawberry Point
Vinton
Hawkeye
Walker Blackley
Cresco
Delmar
Waterloo
Elma
Garnaville
West Liberty
Waterville
Monona
Number of Chickens Is Down 15 Percent
The agriculture department reported 635,036,000 chickens are raised on US farms this year, 15 percent below last year. High feed prices from last year’s corn crop blamed. a hoped-for 1948 record crop lowered feed costs but not enough to lift output before fall 1949.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Johnson County Farm Sells for 300 an Acre
A 240 acre Pleasant View farm near Iowa City sold for 72000 dollars at 300 per acre. George Nagle Leland Nagle and Louis Burke of Iowa City sold to Leo T. Kessler of Nichols. The property lies two miles west of Iowa City on IWV road.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Pleasant View
George and Leland Nagle
Louis Burke
Leo T. Kessler
Nichols
Delhi Dairy Day Set for August Fourth
Delhi dairy day will be held on August 4 with a 4-H dairy heifer show featuring 27 entered heifers from the Delhi area. All breeds appear in four classes per breed with prizes totaling five dollars for blue ribbons, three for red, and two for white.
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Delhi
Robert Hall
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Truman
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Iowa Iron & Coal CO
Iowa
Iowa Livestock Exchange
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