Farm Price Index Rises Three Points in July
The Farm Price Index rose three points from June 15 to July 15 as of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics report. Most commodities gained except grains. wheat prices fell due to large expected crops though government loans may cushion the drop. Farmer purchasing power improved as prices of goods bought by farmers dipped about one percent.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Agriculture Department
AAA
Wineortat
Concrete hogs win at Springfield with Hendriks system
John Hendriks of Walnut Grove farm raises hogs on a concrete floor from farrowed birth, using the crisscross breeding method and a strict feeding plan. His 78 floor shoots, sanitation routine, and cob charcoal mineral mix support rapid gain, with a 5 cent per pound cost of gain two years ago and a grand champion in a Springfield show.
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McLean County
Springfield
John Hendriks
Walnut Grove Farm
West Liberty
Hendriks
Barrows
Soul Conservation Box Ready for 4-H Calves Fair
The finished green box with a lock rope handles and end lettering shows boys pride. Built by two youths under a farmer's helper, it contains partitions for blankets buckets and feeds and a neatly organized lid with brush holders. Ready for the 4-H calves' first fair trip.
Good Prospect For Corn In East Iowa
East Iowa farmers welcomed rain and warm temperatures as corn silking continued and ears formed. While not yet made, the crop looks near normal barring an early freeze, with some hail damage noted but not excessive overall. Threshing is ongoing, with rigs returning to sheds, oats mostly disappointing, haying continuing, soybeans in good condition, and pastures abundant. Special note: Buchanan county reports bountiful rain and excellent corn prospects though threshing slow due to frequent showers.
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Iowa
Cedar
Clinton
Muscatine
Scott
Louisa
H. A. Mowrey
Cedar Rapids
Lamson Brothers and Company
Chicago
Joliet
Buchanan
Gazette
Independence
Buchanan County
First oats shipments boost Tama Benton elevator output
Dysart reports the first carload of new oats sold on the Chicago market with No 3 white averaging 27 34 pounds per bushel and best oats at 29 pounds. Rye and wheat show quality and quantity gains over last year while barley improves. Traer sees first threshed barley two weeks ago weighing 42 pounds per bushel with the heaviest at 45 pounds from the Lebert Morrison farm. The Weaver farm delivered the first combined small grain July 14 with Weaver barley at 40 pounds and oats at 24 pounds per bushel.
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the Gazette
Dysart
Tama- Benton
Chicago
TRAER
Traer Farmers
Oats Yields Reported Around Columbus City Area
On the Lisle Maxwell farm southwest of Columbus City oats averaged 56 percent bushels per acre, Floyd Maxwell’s field yielded 50 bushels. Grain dealers are paying 15 to 19 cents for oats. Wheat has averaged 16 to 18 cents.
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Columbus Junction
Lisle Maxwell
Columbus City
Floyd Maxwell
Grain Prices Talked In Local Market Report
The report notes yields measured in bushels per acre in this vicinity and cites No. 1 grade grain fetching 60 cents a unit, reflecting market conditions for buyers and sellers.
Rural Tipton County Sees Varied Yields and Bountiful Harvest
Tipton county reports oats yielding 15 to 35 bushels per acre this season. Half of the corn tasseled with early fields already shooting ears and silking. Blackberries ripe and yielding well. Garden truck plentiful as canning season reaches its height.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Oat Harvest Nears Completion in Poweshiek County
Grinnell reports oats threshing in northern Poweshiek county will finish soon with harvest quality below earlier expectations. Heat and moisture during grain filling reduced crop weight. many standard bushels weighed less than half the normal oats weight.
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Grinnell
Poweshiek
Iowa corn hog ratio improves to 18.9 on July 15
The Agriculture Department reports Iowa's corn hog ratio at 18.9 on July 15, up from 18.6 a month earlier, with the national belt ratio at 18, up from 17.5 on June 15, signaling favorable feed for livestock.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa
Night Chester White sale attracts record crowd
A record-sized crowd attended the Chester White sale near Chester, hosted by Jurgensen Brothers. Top price reached 52 dollars for a fall gift bought by Max Stumph of Pocahontas. H. J. Welter of Sand Spring bought five head. Bred sows and gilts averaged 40.75, spring pigs 18.35. top spring boar 20.50 bought by B. Hunter of Center Point, top spring gilt 17.50 sold to Ray E. Morehead of Maquoketa.
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the Gazette
Olin
Chester
Jurgensen Brothers
Here
Max Stumph
Pocahontas
H. J. Welter
Sand Spring
B. Hunter
Center Point
Ray E. Morehead
Maquoketa
Rural Young People Tour Visits Decorah and Winneshiek Sites
Decorah is included in the eastern Iowa itinerary of the Iowa Rural Young People's assembly. The group plans to visit the Norwegian American museum Luther College the Bily docks near Calmar the Dvorak memorial at Spillville and other Winneshiek county localities during August 15 to 20.
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Gazette
Decorah
Iowa
Louisa County Host Series On Frozen Meats Demonstrations
Miss Annette Peterson Ames extension nutrition specialist will give a demonstration on frozen meats at a series of home project teas in Louisa county on August 2 3 4 and 5. The Louisa county project for the next year is fifth year nutrition.
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Gazette
Wapello
Annette Peterson
Ames Extension
Louisa County
Hog market view pins down July trends in Iowa
An Iowa farm page market view weighs hog price signals as spring pigs reach market earlier, corn feeds the baseline, and packers favor light hogs while storage purchases lag. It notes Chicago strikes, varying fall price patterns in 1921 1924 1927 and stresses careful trend surveys plus possible Triple A role and feed-use challenges.
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Iowa
Chicago
Missouri River
Uly
Maplecrest Turkey Plant Under Construction at Fruitland
Maplecrest Turkey Farms of Wellman builds a large Fruitland plant on Muscatine Island. Under A. C. Gingerich, the project will house 25 000 poults in brooding sheds and grow to about 425 000 birds this season with 35 000 turkeys range anticipated. Charles Yoder leads Fruitland operations.
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CCC
Maplecrest Turkey Farms of
Wellman
A. C. Gingerich
Muscatine Island
Fruitland
Wellman Corporation
E. N. Foster
Maplecrest
Foster
Maplecrest Turkey
United States
A. C. “Art” Gingerich
Charles Yoder
Johnson County
Fruitland Turkey Enterprise
Yoder
Turkey
Ames Advice Shapes Dairy and Meat Feeder Attitudes
Dairymen and meat animal feeders are influenced by recommendations at Ames and look to Iowa State College for guidance, signaling statewide impact on farming practices and policy direction.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Potato Referenda Called In 15 States
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration ordered a referendum in fifteen late potato producing states to determine support for a program to keep potatoes off the market. Voting will occur Aug 19 to 24 in Maine New York New Jersey Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota Nebraska Colorado Idaho Wyoming Utah Oregon Washington and California. The plan targets low grade potatoes to prevent market flooding and price depression and would grant AAA power to curb interstate shipment of non culled potatoes in surplus years.
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Washington
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Maine
New York
New Jersey
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Colorado
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Oregon
California
AAA
Sleeping Sickness Reported In East Iowa Counties
Winneshiek county reports sixty possible horse cases of sleeping sickness with thirty to forty confirmed by Decorah vets F. C. Kochendorfer and C. P. Wilson. The illness has not caused many horse fatalities yet, according to local veterinarians.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
F. C. Kochendorfer
C. P. Wilson
Sleeping sickness cases reported in Edgewood area
Edgewood veterinarians F H Stalnaker and H W Stalnaker report sleeping sickness in horses over the past days. Several horses died, while other farmers have vaccinated their stock as a precaution.
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Beecal
the Gazette
Edgewood
F. H. Stalnaker
H. W. Stalnaker
Sleep ing sickness grips Dysart area with horse deaths
Five cases of sleeping sickness reported in the Dysart community with most horses recovering. One mare on a farm southeast of here died as a result of the illness.
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Dysart
Here
Monona Creamery Pays 28c For Top Butterfat
Monona Cooperative Creamery reports 28 cents per pound for top butterfat in sweet cream delivered in June. Grade No 1 paid 27 cents. The plant produced 78,362 pounds of butter from 63,320 pounds of butterfat received, per secretary Alvin Draha.
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Monona
Monona Cooperative Creamery Company
Alvin Draha
Dysart dairyman reports cow found dead from nail ingestion
Verne Mehlhaus of Dysart found one of his best cows dead in the field. A post mortem showed a nail in the animal’s stomach, indicating a long period of concealment or accidental ingestion prior to death.
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Dysart
Verne
Cattle Sale By DYSART Buyer For Waterloo Plant
Meecial reports Bruce Pippert near Dysart sold twenty eight 1 140 pound cattle to R V Lee buyer for the Waterloo packing plant for 11 35 per hundredweight. The twenty year average potato yield in the United States from 1918 to 1937 was 100 8 bushels per acre vs 95 3 bushels in the previous twenty years.
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Cuzatte
Dysart
Bruce Pippert
R. V. Lee
Waterloo
United States
Central City Fair Opens 1938 Season
The eastern Iowa event kicks off with the 50th Linn county fair in Central City. Harness races, semi pro ball games, and restricted Linn county entries dominate, with world entries for horses sheep and hogs. 4-H demonstrations feature thirteen leaders supervised by Rex Conn P J Letson and Lucille Gove.
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Gazette
Central City
Iowa
Linn
Edith Stanek
Mary O'Connell
Little Sister
Thera Kirk
Carol Burr
Lida May Haworth
Rose Haworth
Marie Neilson
Eleanora Dvorsky
Shirley Carver
Betty Lou Scott
Ella Loughran
Ames
Laura Heddleson
Tipton
Cedar County
Linn County
Washington
Buffalo
Maine
Spring Grove
Jackson
North Marion
Otter Creek
Bertram
Waterloo Sale: 40 Cattle Net $11 Per Cwt
Albert Caslavka of Traer sold forty head of 1,100 pound cattle to Kubik and Dalziel of Traer. The cattle brought 11 dollars per hundredweight when shipped to Waterloo.
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TRAER
Albert Caslavka
Kubik
Dalziel
Waterloo
Butter Demand Drops Affected by Atlantic Rainfall DPMA Purchases
Excessive rains across the Atlantic states reduced demand and damaged vegetable crops. DPMA continued heavy tub butter purchases in New York and Chicago totaling about 14.34 million pounds, with total July 28 holdings near 50 million pounds, while carton prices weakened. Egg values remained firm. broiling turkeys and poultry markets showed mixed conditions amid abundant supplies and rain damage to crops from New Jersey to Long Island.
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New York City
Atlantic Coast
Dairy Products Marketing Association
DPMA
New York
Chicago
Pacific Coast
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Long Island
Iowa Corn Loans Seal 26 Million Bushels on Iowa Farms
The Commodity Credit Corporation reported it had loaned money on 26,253,647 bushels of corn stored on Iowa farms through July 28. The loans were part of federal loan programs approved for farm support.
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Iowa
Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
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Pelsielé Sun
Merle
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D. J. Gatens
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