Mechanical Chicken Picker Installed By Cedar Rapids Firm
A Cedar Rapids wholesaler H E Yearick introduced a mechanical chicken picker as the first in Iowa. In seven to ten seconds per bird the machine plucks and cleans without skin damage, with a helper feeding birds on a whirling cylinder of rubber tubes after a light scald.
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Gazette Farm
Iowa
H E “Rarl” Yearick
Center Point Road
Cedar Rapids
Veari
Vearick
Yearick
Veterinarians Elect Officers Plan Clinic At Waterloo
Dr C Mc Grath of Elma was elected president of the Cedar Valley Veterinary Medical society at the ladies night dinner in Waterloo attended by 59 veterinarians and wives from 14 counties. Dr N A Kippen of Independence was elected vice president and Dr C B Strain of Dunkerton reelected secretary treasurer. The meeting included an IQ quiz for women and a discussion on the tenth annual practitioners clinic to be held June 16 at the Dairy Cattle Congress fairgrounds.
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Waterloo
C. McGrath
Elma
Cedar Valley Veterinary Medical Society
N. A. Kippen
Independence
C. B Strain
Dunkerton
Black Hawk
Bremer
Buchanan
Chickasaw
Cerro Gordo
Fayette
Grundy
Howard Linn
Mitchell
Polk
Linn 4 H'ers Care For 86 Dairy Calves
Sixty Linn county 4 H boys and girls feed eighty six dairy calves this year with forty four purebreds and forty one grades. Calves include thirty one first year heifers and twenty eight second year calves and twenty seven third year calves. Breeds listed: Holsteins twenty three Guernseys thirty four Jerseys one Milking Short horns fourteen and Brown Swiss four. Linn county led the state last year in number of 4 H dairy calves on feed.
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Linn County
Bill Harr
Washington C. T. A. To Elect Officers June 12
Washington Ia June 12 meeting of the Washington County Dairy Herd Improvement association will be held at p.m. Floyd Arnold Iawa State college extension dairyman will discuss trends of the association's work. Plans will be made for the coming year and officers and directors will be elected.
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Washington, Ia
Washington County Dairy Herd Improvement Association
At & P.m Wednesda
Floyd Arnold
Iawa State College Extension Dairyman
Fence Drift and Railroads in the News
Supplementing editor Harry Boyd, RLFA cites a Chicago Drovers Journal snippet from January 1863 about David Kelly of Wilton selling hogs in Chicago. He netted $155.30 after costs and freight, a remark on why transport shifted west and truckers took freight business.
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Harry Boyd
Chicago Drovers Journal
David Kelly
Wilton
Chicago
Kelly
Kells
Crops Destroyed By Hail Near Hawkeye In Sixmile Area
Heavy rain hail and wind damaged farms southeast of Hawkeye. On the Knox and Anderson properties oats corn beans sheds vines trees and windows were ruined. hail piled along roads and up to two feet deep in places. Damages extended to Wendland and Peeper farms with broken trees and buildings.
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Hawkeye
Leallen Knox
Ervin Bogart
August Niemann
Kenneth Wendland
Harry Anderson
Knox
Anderson Farm
Onc
Knox Farm
Will Peeper Farm
Rain slows haying but aids corn oats and gardens
A Sunday evening shower in Tipton delayed alfalfa haying yet benefits corn oats and gardens and strawberries. Decorah reports cutworms and wireworms damaging corn with replanting seen in several large fields. Small grain may head short without more rain. alfalfa remains the main hay crop and timothy and clover struggle.
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the Gazette
Tipton
Gazette
Decorah
Timothy
Elaver
Weather Update From Fayette County After Sunday Rain
Special to The Gazette reports scattered rains in Fayette county followed by general rain from one inch upward. Small grain pastures and gardens benefited. brown spots appeared in pastures and oats threaten to head short. Corn shows good prospects with rapid growth from recent heat. soybean acreage largely sown.
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the Gazette
West Union
Fayette County
Hearings on lard standards set for June 18
Iowa Farm Bureau leaders say representatives will attend a June 18 USDA hearing in Washington, D C, on proposed lard standards to remove low quality fats from products and define lard as fresh fatty tissue only. The move aims to boost consumption and exclude inferior renderings, with input from consumers, producers, and processors.
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Des Moines
INS
Francis Johnson
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Washington, DC
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa State College
Washington, D. C
Johnson
Farm Bureau Board Names Convention Delegates
The American Farm Bureau board authorized President Edward A O’Neal to appoint special committees to represent the bureau at the national Republican convention in Philadelphia and the national Democratic convention in Chicago. The committees will present the bureau’s agricultural balance principles to platform drafting committees during the weeks of June 23 and July 15.
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Gazette
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Edward A O'Neal
American Farm Bureau
National Republican
National Democratic Party
Philadelphia
Amrican Farm Bureau
O'Neal
Fire Destroys Farm House Near Monmouth
The Norman Brown farm home one mile northwest of Monmouth burned Friday evening. Neighbors discovered the fire while Mr and Mrs Brown were milking in the barn. The Brown baby slept on the sunporch as firefighters saved first floor furniture. The two year old house and a previous home on the property had burned before. Cause undetermined.
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the Gazette
Monmouth
Norman Brown
Fire destroys corn crib and machine shed on Buser farm
In Conesville on the L ID Buser farm a large corn crib and machine shed burned Friday evening. The crib held 1200 bushels of corn and 1000 bushels of oats. the machine shed housed tools a binder a corn planter and a car. A hog shed burned and the barn caught fire but was saved. Max Heither the hired hand who found the blaze was burned trying to save the car. Insurance partly covers the loss.
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Gazet
Conesville
L. ID
Buser
Max Heither
Delaware county 4 H boys club plans county tour for June 27
Special to The Gazette reports Manchester Delaware county 4 H boys club officers meeting to organize an annual county wide club tour and rally on June 27. The itinerary includes stops at projects in baby beef dairy purebred litter market litter and lamb categories.
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Manchester
Delaware County
Buckhorn 4-H Dairy Calf Club Tour Planned in Jackson County
Maquoreta reports Buckhorn 4-H dairy calf club will tour project displays on June 14 starting at 9 am from the William Wilcox home. Ernest Wright of the Iowa State Dairy association will discuss exhibit animal quality as the group visits Pierce and Donna Myatt Russell and Maxine Hartvigsen Francis Siders Barbara Snoeberger Dale Denlinger Donald and George Roe Dean Bowman Darrell and Arnold Bloore Zelda Herkelman and Floyd Wirth.
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Maquoreta
Jackson County
Ernest Wright
Iowa State Dairy Association
William Wilcox
Pierce
Donna Myatt
Russell
Maxine Hartvigsen
Francis Siders
Barbara Snoeberger
Dale den
Winneshick C.T.A. Picnic Set for Thursday Evening
DECORAH The Winneshiek County C T A picnic is planned for Thursday at 6 30 pm at the W G Hjelle farm opposite Sievers Springs. President Bill Wilkens says the event will include a judging contest along with a program of movies talks and music.
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Gazette
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Forty acre tract bought near Mount Auburn for fifty an acre
Clifford Wilson purchased a 40 acre parcel, one and a half miles south of Mount Auburn, from George Lormor of Waterloo for $50 per acre. The land is unimproved and mostly pasture.
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Mount Auburn
Clifford Wilson
George Lormor
Waterloo
Holstein Winners Picked In District Show At Des Moines
The district Holstein show at Cedar Rapids August 11 to 16 was led by a 4 year old cow shown to grand championship by Harry Piffer of Indianola and a bull from Maytag farms Newton, judged by Jens Bollerup of Waterloo. Fifty nine cattle from 17 breeders were exhibited. 230 people attended with 5 percent new breeders. Junior champion bull went to William Wickersham of Melbourne and junior champion female to Harry Piffer Jr who also claimed the senior championship. Piffer’s entries included 4-H calves. R W Witzel Tama won junior yearling bull. Walter Woodyard Indianola won 3-year-old bull. Herbert E Kleiss Brooklyn won yearling heifer.
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Alltowa Fair
Cedar Rapids
Harry Piffer
Indianola
Maytag Farms
Newton
Jens Bollerup
Waterloo
M. C. Chance
William Wickersham
Melbourne
Piffer
R. W. Witzel
Tama
Walter Woodyard
Herbert E Kleiss
Brooklyn
Milking Shorthorns Society Picnic Near New Providence
The Iowa Milking Shorthorns society plans its annual picnic at the Mabee and Clemons farm five miles southeast of New Providence on June 15. Attending will be HD W. Clemons secretary W J Hardy of Chicago editor Floyh Johnston of Iowa State College dairy extension service and others.
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Clarette
New Providence
Iowa Milking Shorthorns Society
Mabee and Clemons
HD. W. Clemons
W. J. Hardy
Chicago
Milking Shorthorn Journal
Floyh Johnston
Iowa State College Dairy Extension Service
Brown Swiss Canton Show Date Moved to June 26
The Brown Swiss canton show for northeast Iowa will be held in Decorah and moved up one day to June 26. H A Iserman, chairman of arrangements, announced the change.
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Decorah
Towa
H. A. Iserman
Veterinarian Dr George Howell Dies in Des Moines at 84
Dr George Howell age 84 one of Iowa's oldest veterinarians died at his Des Moines home Monday after an illness that began last September. Born in Canada he began veterinary surgery in Des Moines 61 years ago.
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Des Moines
George Howell
Iowa
Canada
Howell
Notice of Executor Appointment in William Morran Estate
George R. Griner is named executor of the estate of William T. Morran of Linn County Iowa on June 5th. He requests all debts be paid to him and all claimants file their claims with the Linn County District Court Clerk. Fisher and Fisher are the attorneys for the estate.
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Jane
Towa Linn County
William T. Morran
Linn County
Iowa
Poultry School Planned at Ames July 8 to 15
An Iowa poultry school is scheduled at Iowa State College from July 8 to 15. Instruction on pallorum control will be provided to those with a testing kit. Open to poultry breeders farmers and flock service men for hatcheries or produce companies.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
May Hog Slaughter Tops Record, 3.89 Million Head
May slaughter under federal inspection reached 3,890,192 hogs, the largest May total since 1934 and the sixth largest on record. Cattle, sheep and calves also showed gains with five month totals rising over last year. cattle 795,807 in May and 3,833,206 for five months, calves 500,849, and sheep 1,420,186. Overall year to date slaughter rose about 2 percent from 1939.
Queens in blue uniforms rally for 4 H cooperative service
A country observer praises the 4 H rally day and the girls in blue uniforms, highlighting their cooperative service and patriotic spirit across the nation.
Guernseymen to Hear Gov Wilson at Iowa Picnic
George Wilson Iowa governor will speak June 18 at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids during the state picnic and field day of the Iowa Guernsey Breeders association. Henry Gensicke and C Y Cannon and CB Finley will also speak as district shows of Guernsey cattle are judged. Show herds from district Exhibits will be selected for the All Iowa Livestock exposition August 11 to 16.
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Silenes County
James Kearns
Carl Oldson
Ames
Iowa Beef Producers Association
Willis Fairbanks
Donald Fairbanks
Lester Fairbanks
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
Fairbanks
Merlin K. Lyon
Charles Kline
Olin
Oldson
Jones County
Wayne Township
Jackson
Wyoming Boys Club
Marley
Greenfield
Scotch Grove
George Wilson
Towa
Hawkeye Downs
Iowa Guernsey Breeders’ Association
Henry Gensicke
C. Y. Cannon
Iowa State College
Barn completion at William Molar farm near Troy Mills
A 24 by 32 foot barn with hip roof has been completed on the William Molar farm three and a half miles southeast of Troy Mills. Contractors were Joe Poposia and Bill Dusil.
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Troy Mills
William Molar
Joe Poposia
Bill Dusil
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Washington C. T. A
Merle E. Garmoe
Optometrist
RLFA
Gan
Beverly
Bane
Everly Cattle Company
Cedar Rapins
Jones
Delaware
George R. Griner
Fisher & Fisher, Attorneys
H. J. Halamka
Montrose
H. B. Sykes
America
CMP
Poultry School
Guernseymen
Gov. Wilson
Olli
Eld
Narness
Second Avenue
Sears Farm
Cedar Rapids, Lewn
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