Clover leaf worm and grasshopper threat hit Fayette County fields
County Agent Paul McElroy reports the clover leaf worm thrives in cool damp weather and damaged Herzman Brothers farm west of Arlington. grasshoppers hatch in warm weather and threaten six Fayette townships. A state wide poisoning campaign led by C J Drake aims to combat the outbreak with mixing stations and poison bait shipments reaching sixty counties.
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Arlington
Fayette County
Paul McElroy
Herzman Brothers
McElroy
Peron
State Department of Agriculture
The
Gazette
Ames
Iowa
C J. Drake
Drake
Five Month Rainfall In Lowa County Surpasses 1935 Levels
Weather records show 1937 as the wettest first five months in Lowa County, with rainfall exceeding 1935 figures. Documented by John Gava, weather recorder, the five month totals reflect heavy May contributions and higher inches overall than 1935 despite earlier years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowa
John Gava
Ames Economists Say Hog Prices Not Affected By Imports
Ames extension agricultural economists say the current pork import excess has little impact on domestic hog prices. They note December-March imports exceeded exports by 8 million pounds while domestic slaughter reached 2.284 billion pounds, and prices have risen 160 percent since 1932, with Europe’s Poland cited as main import source. They expect a return to export basis in America as hog numbers rise and crop averages improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames—Ames Extension
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Ames
Poland
America
Corn In And Farmers Now Are Sowing Soybeans
Iowa County Agent D H Zentmire reports soybeans being planted in the area while corn is nearly all in Farmers expect continued planting barring heavy rains Infrequent hard showers may slow grasshopper spread with little insect damage yet Small grains and grasses grow well though weeds thrive in frequent rains Gardens are doing well despite a late season and chilly temperatures
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marengo
Iowa
D. H. Zentmire
Zentmire
Way
Zentmire Save Gardens
Mahaska C T A Average Butterfat Reported for May
The Mahaska County Cow Test Association reports May results from 424 cows with 71 dry. The Ralph Survey herd of purebred Holsteins, Rose Hill, led with an average 597 pounds of milk and 247 pounds of butterfat, while the overall test averaged 448 pounds of butterfat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coazette Delta
Mahaska County
Urban Schisner
Ralph Survey
Rose Hill
Farmers Abandon Corn to See Cattle at Clinton County Tour
About 200 farmers left their corn fields Wednesday to join a Clinton County Beef Producers tour. The procession visited nine stops near DeWitt Welton Delmar Elwood and Elwood, viewing hundreds of Angus Hereford and Belgian cattle, with show cattle observed for the International exposition and a business session led by Marvin Jargo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Dewitt
Clinton County Beef Producers Association
Robert Bowman
Ford Schmidt
J. W. Hurley
Albert Everaert
Welton
Everaert
Paul Goedes
Goedes
Kansas City
George Schmidt
Delmar
Snyder
Chicago Daily Drovers Journal
Jargo Reelected
Iowa State Fair to Award 4-H Prizes for 1937
Des Moines announces prizes totaling 17 1725 for state 4-H club divisions at the Iowa State Fair to be held August 27 through September. Major awards include Baby beefs, beef heifers, dairy heifers, pigs, lambs, poultry and club records with new competition classes for baby beeves and purebred beef heifers, New Hampshire poultry, and new colt divisions for Clydesdale and Shire horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Towa
Iowa State Fair
New Hampshires
Clydesdale
Shire
Iowa County 4 H Club Noted For Long Standing Record
Marengo York Center live stock and crops 4 H club claims unique honors since 1929. Since organizing in winter 1929 it has produced two county presidents, a state officer, and high judging team participation. It has long demonstrated in demonstrations and sent a pair to state championships. Members claim town representation in national contests and sent a member to Washington DC first.
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Marengo
York Center
Iowa County
Daily Record
Washington, D. C
Farms With Horses In The Daytime, Truck At Evening
West Branch farmer Adna Miller adapts a two ton truck to field work when horses run low. He harrows up to 145 acres daily, discs and harrows into dusk, using 25 acres plowed with horse power and 100 acres cut with the binder last year. Twenty gallons of gas a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Branch
Adna Miller
Miller
Augustine family plants 235 acres of corn
Delta C N Augustine, a farmer west of Delta, with his son William and a hired man, finished planting 235 acres of corn after three weeks of continuous tractor work. Mrs Augustine managed house chores and prepared six meals daily as the men labored around the clock. On Tuesday he began plowing with a two row cultivator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Delta
C. N. Augustine
William
Augustine
Pay Raised For Cow Tester In Fayette Ass'n
West Union Fayette Cow Testing association No 4 reorganized for the year at West Union, electing K. J. Kerr president, Roy Learn vice president, Nanfred Osmundson secretary, and Max Grafenberg and H N Turner directors. Thirty-two herd owners sign in for the year. another testing association may form. The group unanimously raises tester George Fenton’s pay by 50 cents per group, starting at 2.50 for herds of under eleven cows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Union — Fayette
Grasshopper Committee Named In Jones County
Special to The Gazette Anamosa Grasshopper control in Jones county will be handled by a committee including Harold Deischer Castle Grove township W S Eby Lovell John Hein Richland William Stanton Jr Washington William Buckner Cass Otto Danneman Wayne Harm Dirks Scotch Grove Wilfred Wherry Clay J E Meeks Fairview Ray Stivers Jackson BD Heiken Madison RP Morse Wyoming William Bailey Greenfield Ray Embree Rome QOT Burst Hale and Harry Ingwerson Oxford township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Jones County
Harold Deischer
Castle Grove Township
W. S. Eby
Lovell
John Hein
Richland
William Stanton, Jr
Washington
William Buckner
Cass
Otto Danneman
Wayne
Harm Dirks
Scotch Grove
Wilfred Wherry
Clay
J. E. Meeks
Fairview
Ray Stivers
Jackson
Heiken
Madison
Eleven dairy herds honored on Anamosa honor roll
Eleven dairy herds enrolled in the Anamosa Cow Testing association received national honor roll certificates for the 1935-36 year. Owners listed include Men's Reformatory personnel and individuals such as Monroe and Walderbach, John H. Smith, J. Edward Muller, Edwin Wilcox, Claude Latta, Tom Shover, J. M. Byerly, Schoonover and Oltmanns, Prentice, J. W. Streeter, and J. E. Ahrich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guerzette Anamosa
Anamosa Cow Testing Association
Men's Reformatory
Monroe
Walderbach
John H. Smith
J. Edward Muller
Edwin Wilcox
Claude Latta
Tom Shover
J. M. Byerly
Schoonover
Oltmanns
Prentice
J. W. Streeter
J. E. Ahirich
Dairy Calf Club Tour Set for Allamakee County
Allamakee county dairy calf club members will tour several members farms June 18. Ernest Wright field secretary of the Iowa Dairy association will demonstrate covering feeding and management of the dairy heifer calf hoof trimming shaping horns and preparing calves for exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukon
Allamakece County
Dairy Calf Club
Ernest Wright
Iowa Dairy Association
Franchises Granted For 750 Miles Of Iowa Rural Line
The Iowa state board of railroad commissioners announced franchises for 750 miles of rural electric transmission lines. Notable awards include Greene County Rural Electric cooperative with 563 miles, plus entries for Public Service, Iowa Nebraska Power and Light, Towa Light and Power, Iowa Electric Light and Power, Interstate Power, Towa Southern Utilities, People's Gas and Electric, Monona County Rural Electric cooperative, and Glidden Rural Electric cooperative across numerous counties ledgers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Greene County Rural Electric Cooperative
Towa Public Service Company
Sioux City
Sac County
Iowa-Nebraska Power and Light Company
Lincoln
Neb
Fremont
Mills
Montgomery Counties
Towa Light and Power Company
Dallas
Hancock
Worth
Monona County
Iowa corn planting near completion across districts
Iowa crops advance as warm weather boosts germination with 95 percent of corn planted statewide and three days ahead of average. Decker notes rapid cultivation in western areas while small grains head and gardens thrive. grasshoppers and other pests rise in many regions.
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Des Moines
S. E. Decker
Iowa
Decker
Pottawattamie
West Union Girl Included In Group To 4-H Club Camp
Four Iowa club girls were chosen to represent Iowa at Camp Miniwanea Shelby Michigan for August 2 to 15. Named are Velma Ilian Walcott Viola Jeffryes Greenfield Bernice Stelzmiller West Union Kathryn Monson Farragut. Miss Margarette Pfeil Emmet county home demonstration agent accompanies them. Selection based on long time 4-H club records. Camp sponsored by American Youth foundation to train leaders. About 3 000 youths attend these camps annually in the U S and Canada.
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Ames
Iowa Club
Towa
American Youth Foundation
United States
Canada
Reemployed Linn County 4-H Leader Miss Lucille Gove
Miss Lucille Gove was reemployed as Linn county home demonstration agent for the coming year at a Farm Bureau board meeting in Cedar Rapids Tuesday evening. Gove has led Linn's women and girls 4-H work since February 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucille Gove
Linn County
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Cedar Rapids
Gove
Linn
Indianola Cow Tops Des Moines Holstein Show
Warren county entries dominated the central Iowa Holstein show in Des Moines. Schrier Brothers of Indianola captured the champion cow and multiple female classes, with Piffer Jr presenting top three year old cow and best senior yearling heifer. Other winners included Maytag Dairy Farms Newton and various Schrier lines in bulls and heifers.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Warren County
Newton
Schrier Brothers
Charles Peterson
Madrid
Carroll Jacobsen
Roland
Glenn Appenzeller
Dallas Center
Soil conservation awards totaling 37857.90 received in Cedar County
Tipton reports thirteen hundred soil conservation award checks totaling 37 thousand 857 dollars and 90 cents. Of this sum 25 thousand 907 dollars and 40 cents were balance on prior checks and 11 thousand 950 dollars and 50 cents covered full payments in ninety checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
Cedar County Soil Conservation Office
Hog price report from Chicago market run
Kenneth Fry with a load of hogs to Chicago for Tuesday market. Forty five head of butchers averaged 279 pounds sold at 11.65 dollars. Fourteen head of sows sold at 10.65 dollars.
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Gazette
van Horne
Kenneth Fry
Chicago
Farm Sells At $120 An Acre In Keystone District Court
A 160 acre Vinton farm from the Martin Schlieman estate near Keystone sold for $120 an acre. Jess Brandt bought the land as the sole bidder and has rented it the past five years. The property includes forty acres in permanent pasture.
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Vinton
Martin Schlieman
Keystone
B. O. Tankersley
Jess Brandt
Tama 4-H Rally Day Shows Pageant and Programs Friday
Tama county 4-H rally day at Traer Friday features the TRAER-A pageant Books and Boundaries plus six township clubs. Mrs W J Breakenridge leads the opening events with county officers assisting. honorary membership for Mrs J C Wood of Traer. The day includes a music memory contest officer elections and folk games as June 10 rallies approach across several towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traer
W. J. Breakenridge
Dinsdale
Hene Thede
Iva Isenhower
Doris Bruene
Melda Hass
Helen Rippert
J C Wood
Tama
Jones
Anamosa
Cedar
Clarence
Linn
Cedar Rapids
Delaware
Manchester
Keoxuk
Stourney
Jackson
Maquoketa
Allamakee
Waukon
Benton
Vinton
Muscatine County
Muscatine
Ames
8 000 000 Tons Fertilizer Sold In Year In U S
National Fertilizer association reports that by end of June this year total fertilizer sales in the United States likely reach 8 million tons, up 25 percent from last year and within 163 thousand tons of the 1930 all time high. Missouri Indiana Florida and California set all time sales records this year.
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Washington
National Fertilizer Association
Charles J. Brand
Association
Missouri
Indiana
Florida
California
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Andover
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Arnold Johannsen
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Chris Paysen
Camanche
Henry Strueland
Grand Mound
Roy Coverdale
Carl Paarmann
Elwood
Herbert Schmidt
Hugo Geffers
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