Iowa Price Index Holds Steady While Nation Slips
Iowa farm price index rose to 124 percent of prewar in April 15 to May 15 period, double May last year, while national index fell from 111 to 108 percent. Hogs cattle eggs and chickens rose, butter dropped seven cents, grain prices eased, purchasing power dipped to 97 percent. First quarter 1935 cash income climbed 43 percent to 117 million total, 90 million from livestock sales.
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Iowa
Agricultural Economic Facts
Ames
Hog Run Slump on Interior Markets
Des Des Moines report shows interior direct hog receipts higher than seven markets for the first days, with a 5 percent year over year decline in the interior versus a 6 percent rise in seven markets. Demand remains dull, prices slide from last week, buyers wary, packers reluctant to take more hogs, and heavy weights over 290 pounds selling slowly.
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Des Moines
When Men Gabfest on Farm Programs and Loans
A rural gathering of farmers discusses the corn hog program and bank lending. Debates money sources, interest rates, and borrowing difficulty while noting a backward spring and poor crop conditions including yellow corn and alfalfa fields.
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Crearge
End of the corn hog program debated by farmers
Farmers discuss crop fate and meat prices as they sit in a muddy field. Prices are seen as favorable for years while hogs fetch high over the counter meat values. A pig crop failed due to wet cold weather as a group bets on the corn hog program’s fate.
Agricultural Adjustment admin reports large expendi tures and tax receipts
The Agricultural Adjustment administration releases a May 1 1935 report showing $790,062,385 in expenditures linked to adjustment and removal programs against processing tax receipts of $824,430,579. It lists $211,533,906.50 in other chargeable costs and total funds available of $1,122,218,,875.
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Washington, DC
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Comptroller
New 4-H Girls Club Formed in Linn County
Helen Soukup was elected president of the Indian Creek Bluehads 4-H club at Rose Dale school east of Cedar Rapids. Other officers include Lilhan Pelisek as vice president Margaret Knapp as secretary and treasurer Florence Bena historian and Margaret Stolba reporter. Mrs Row McCrackin leads the club with Mrs I Catson as assistant leader. members listed are Dorothy Allison Matjeme McGowan Julia Bena Mary Ann Bena and Margaret Sanders.
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Helen Soukup
Indian Creek Bluehads
Tann County
Rosedale School
Cedar Rapids
Lil+ han Pelisek
Margaret Knapp
Florence Bena
Margaret. Stolba
Row McCrackin
I Catson
Dorothy Allison Matjeme McGowan
Julia Bena
Mary Ann Bena
Margaret Sanders
Barberry Work in Iowa Sought by Agriculture Dept
Washington AP: Agriculture Department seeks 168 408 to fund barberry medication in Iowa to curb black stem rust threatening wheat. It also requests 47 920 to remove peach trees infected with mosai disease across seven states including Iowa.
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Washington
APY
Department of Agriculture
Works Relief Administration
Iowa
Unseasonable frost hits eastern Iowa orchards
Light frost Thursday night touched orchard blossoms and tender plants across eastern Iowa with minor damage in low ground areas. West Union reports some fruit damage while Atlatnco Charles City Forest City Iowa Falls Waterloo and Inwood also saw light frosts. The mercury fell to 35 in Forest City and Council Bluffs posted a June low of 40. The weather bureau forecasts fair warmer conditions statewide.
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Iowa
West Union
Associated Press
Atlantico
Charles City
Forest City
Iowa Falls
Waterloo
Inwood
Mercury
Council Bluffs
Weather Bureau
Local Planting Update Draws Mixed Garden News
In Wheatland, corn planting remains incomplete on low lands with substantial replanting needed. Gardens thrive while some radishes rot from wet weather, and strawberry picking has begun.
Weather notes and farming updates across Iowa towns
Special reports from The Gazette describe rain hampering corn planting in Clarence while most fields are in, with farmers working between showers. Keokuk county chinch bugs remain a risk. entomologists note fungus-based deaths in southern Iowa, but not yet alarming locally. Stanwood rotary hoes break soil crust after heavy rains. oats and pastures look strong but persistent cold slows corn growth and weeds spread.
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Millersburg
Clarence
Sigourney
Maurice Soulis
Keokuk County
Iowa
Soults
Stanwood
Feeder Cattle Auction Yields Mixed Prices at Columbus Jct
About 300 head of cattle were sold on Wednesday at Columbus Junction. Hereford calves weighed 400 pounds brought 72 to 83 cents per pound. Heavy Shorthorn steers and heifers sold at 61 and 74 to 82 cents per pound. Hereford cattle and Angus calves averaged 83 to 84 cents per pound. Veal calves brought 81 to 84 cents per pound. Five Hereford and Angus bulls sold for 50 to 60 dollars each. Shoats averaged 12 to 19 cents per pound. sows with litters brought 38 dollars each.
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Columbus Junction
Wool Pool In Johnson County Set For Saturday
Johnson county wool pool to assemble in Iowa City on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. County wool growers' association officers will manage weighing and loading at the Rock Island freight depot. Top grade wool advance rises from ten to fourteen cents per pound.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Johnson County
Joe R. Caputo
County Wool Growers’ Association
Rock Island
Jones County Corn Hog Contracts Forwarded to Des Moines
Anamosa report states 990 of 1453 corn hog contracts for 1935 in Jones county were sent to Des Moines this week, with 463 remaining to be filed at state corn-hog headquarters later.
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Des Moines
Anamosa
Jones County
Mitchell wins North Tama Milking Tourney at Traer
Mrs J W Mitchell of Reinbeck wins the North Tama Milking Tourney on John E Howard farm two miles north of Traer with 933 pounds of milk in three minutes. Second was Mrs Roy Porter of Traer with 5.6 pounds and third Mrs Fred Shoup of Reinbeck with 7.2 pounds. The event capped a North Tama Cow Test association picnic day with multiple contests and talks by local officials and bank representatives. Joe Chezik of Dysart set a national butterfat record with 6557 pounds from fourteen Holsteins mountain- worthy achievement noted by the group.
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TRAER
Water Herrmann
Herrpaar
Nels Rehder
Fred Bruene
Harold Baillie
Billy Lockard
William Kranf
Jester
Floyd Johnston
Ames Extension Dairyman
Rehder
Herrmann
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Johnston
Jerry Mason
Omaca
Bank For Cooperatives
Farm Credit Administration
Mason
Federal Credit Agency
North Tama “Association
United States
North Tama Group
Joe Chezik
Dysart
Bangs disease test results show 314603 reactors in U S
Special to The Gazette. U S cattle testing from July 1934 to April 1935 records 314603 reactors among 157742 herds across 46 states. Total cattle tested 2,572,563 with 1,110,284 negatives in 93,394 herds. May 1 totals include 2316237 cattle under test and 671149 on waiting lists including 597 in Hawaii.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
Bang
Hawaii
Iowa
Milking Shorthorn Picnic Set for June 14
Reinbeck event brings H H Kildee Ames dean to speak at the annual Iowa Milking Shorthorn Breeders picnic on the E M Mitchell and Sons farm near Reinbeck. Three classes will be judged in a breeders contest conducted by a state representative.
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Reinbeck
H. H. Kildee
Ames
Iowa Milking
Marken Employed As County Agent In Greene
A J Marken will assume duties as county agent in Greene county succeeding Glenn Anderson at the Farm Bureau office. Anderson moves to Webster. Marken, a former Franklin county resident, has eight years of 4 H club work and is a Hampton high school and Iowa State College graduate with animal husbandry studies.
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Jefferson
A. J. Marken
Black Hawk
Greene County
Glenn Anderson
Farm Bureau
Anderson
Webster
Marken
Franklin County
Hampton High School
Iowa State College
Ames
Junior Farm Bureau Picnic Set for June 16 at Macbride Park
A notice corrects an earlier Gazette error stating the Southeastern Iowa Junior Farm Bureau picnic will be held June 16 at Macbride State Park near Solon, not June 9. The event date change aims to avoid confusion among attendees and participants.
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Iowa
Junior Farm Bureau
Macbride State Park
Solon
First Strawberries Hit Market in Troy Mills
The Gazette reports G. D. Cornwell, local gardener, sold the season’s first home grown strawberries in Troy Mills at 18 cents per quart. A fair crop is noted across most patches.
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Troy Mills
G. D. Cornwell
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J. W. Mitchell
North Tama
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Steond St
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I. Potato & Grocery
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Fancy Sunkist
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