Uses For Contracted Acres Clarified In Iowa Corn Ruling
ALPH SMITH explains new crop acre restrictions banning field corn sweet corn and grain sorghums on contracted Iowa acres for fodder or harvests. Sweet sorghums and Sudan grass may be planted for forage with broadcast seeding or close drilling, but no grain or seed harvesting. Soybeans may be sown on contracted land for hay but not for seed or grain. contracted acres cannot be rented for cash or pasture. Restrictions lifted for non contracted acres on drought altered farms, with rules on silos and prior acre yields. Linn County Allotment head Ben Neal confirms compliance checks and designations.
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State Corn and Hog Committee
Gazette
Iowa
Atlas
Kansas
Smith
Linn County
Ben Neal
Monay
Anamosa C T A Averages 32 4 Lbs May Butterfat
Anamosa C T A reports a May butterfat average of 32.4 pounds amid hot dry weather and burnt pastures. The Men s Reformatory herd totals 93 cows with high milk yields 2722 pounds and 9 25 pounds butterfat. Monticello dry herd led with 1079 pounds milk and 39 pounds butterfat from 34 Holsteins. One hundred thirty four cows exceeded 40 pounds butterfat in May.
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Anamosa
Delbert Mayberry
Shovers
Monticello
Mens Reformatory
Fence Drift Caught in the Woven Twice by R. FLA
New rulings allow use of contracted acres for forage enabling farmers to have their cake and eat it. The revival of old adages is noted as a caution while policy shifts expand land use options for agricultural feeds and grazing.
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R. Fla
AAA
Alfalfa Aid Reaches Chicago Milk Shed Farmers
One hundred carloads of alfalfa bought in Oklahoma and Kansas through a government loan are being distributed to farmers in the Chicago milk shed. Rain shortages last week plus over the weekend threaten a milk famine, while rains across the grain belt improve corn and late forage crops. Oats and barley crops across drought areas are ruined though late crops show revival. Illinois oats may drop from 80 million to under 50 million bushels.
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Chicago
Oklahoma
Kansas
Middlewestern
Ilinois
Debt Adjustment Confabs Set Across East Iowa
Special to The Gazette reports M L Bowman chairing the Iowa Farm Debt Advisory council announces scheduled conciliation committee meetings for debtors and creditors in eastern Iowa. Dates span June through August across multiple counties including Delaware, Bremer, Howard, Allamakee, Dubuque, Fayette, Chickasaw, Winneshiek, and Clayton with cities such as Manchester Waverly Cresco Dubuque Decorah Elkader and New Hampton.
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Des Moines
M L. Bowman
Iowa Farm Debt Advisory Council
Iowa
DelaWare
Manchester
Bremer
Waverly
Howard
Cresco
Ailamakee
Waukon
Dubuque
Fayette
Oclwein
Chickasaw
New Hampton
Winneshiek
Decorah
Clayton
Elkader
West Branch C T A Picnic Drive to Scattergood Farm
West Branch C T A announces its annual Cow Test tour with a noon picnic at Scattergood School two and a half miles southeast of West Branch. The itinerary begins 9 30 am at West Branch Creamery and proceeds to the Frb and Son Farm in Centerdale at 10 30.
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West Branch
Scattergood School
Crindairy
W Oh Frb and Son
Centerdale
4-H Feeders In Louisa Inspect Baby Reeves
Louisa county 4-H boys joined a Friday tour of five farms led by county agent Edgar Rogers. Scores of Ay or more were earned by Ron Herphrey, Russ Ho Newell, Row Neve, Curtis Bred, Sepe Row, and Laton Peeper Hats Dunit. Club chairman Peve end Wwader led the group, visiting Wa pel, Newel bets William, Harv Duprear, and others to observe cattle, Hoco Peter Startlorr, and rims.
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Straty the
Bose Wapfleo
Tleusa
Greece
Ivestack
Edgar Rogers Testa
Ron Herphrey Russ Ho
Newell Row
Neve ' Onen
Curtis
Sepe
Dunit Club
Wero
Peve End
Wwader
Arscaf Wa
Et Atterton Wapel
Dees Newel
William
Harv Duprear
Peter Startlorr
Meat imports from 19 countries under Colonel L Brown report
The report details meat imports into New York from nineteen countries since January, led by Argentina and Uruguay with South American beef products, plus Italian sausages and Swiss bouillon cubes. A nationwide strike by butchers curtailed trading, forcing car unloading in wholesale centers and lowering veal and lamb prices.
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New York City
United States
New York
South America
Uruguy
Brazil
Paraguay
Canada
Irish Free State
England
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Switzerland
Australia
New Zealand
4 H Lamb Brings 50 Cents Pound At St Louis Sale
East St Louis Special to The Gazette Frank Hucke and LaVerne Probst two Belleville Illinois youths aged 16 won 35 dollars plus cash prizes as grand champion of 400 lambs at the Vocational Agricultural Lamb show at the National Stock Yards East St Louis Friday The champion lamb sold for fifty cents a pound via Producers Cooperative association The boys also claimed first prize with the pen of three which brought twenty five cents a pound The first prize carload of lambs sold at ten and a half cents a pound The champion lamb was a Southdown
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Gazette
East ST Louis
Frank Hucke
LaVerne Probst
Belleville Ill
Vocational Agricultural
National Stock Yards
Producers Co-operative Association
Southown
Drought Strikes Farms Near Troy Mills Hit Livestock
Cattle on the Forrest Cherry farm west of Troy Mills grew sick and bloated likely from stagnant water or dusty grass while several horses on the Ed Hand farm five miles southwest of town died earlier in the week from dusty pasture.
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Sprevid
Troy Mills
Forrest Cherry
Ed Hand
Jones Farm Bureau Plans County Picnic On July 4
The Jones County Farm Bureau will hold its annual picnic on July 4 at the Monticello fair grounds. S. M Uosford with George Specht W McLaughlin and Fred Heiken head the sports committee. Carl Smith J C MecConaughy and Max Wortman organize the program while Norman Clark William Bal sher and J H Perrin oversee the finance committee.
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Monticello
Jones County Farm Bureau
Fair Grounds
S. M Uosford
George Specht W . McLaughlin
Fred Heiken Wall
Carl Smith
J C MecConaughy
Max Wortman
Norman Clark Wilam Balsher
J H Perrin
Buchanan Farm Bureau Picnic Planned June 21
Independence reports the Buchanan county Farm Bureau picnic set for June 21 at the fairgrounds. Speaker for the day will be A B Kline of Vinton, president of Benton county Farm Bureau and district committeeman.
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Buchanan Farm Bureau
Buchanan County Farm Bureau
Fairgrounds
B Kline
Vinton
Kline
Benton County Farm Bureau
Postville Jersey Parish Show Scheduled Tuesday
Postville will host the Northeastern Towa Jersey Parish show on Tuesday June 12 with a picnic dinner. Judging of livestock begins at 1 30 p m and high scoring animals will form a herd for the Iowa State fair in Des Moines this fall.
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Gazette
Iowa Rain Record To Date This Year
The report shows Iowa precipitation with June to date at 2.02 inches, normal 1.79 inches, an excess of 0.23 inch. Jan 1 to date totals 6.48 inches, normal 12.62 inches, yielding a deficiency of 6.14 inches for the year so far.
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Iowa
International News Service
Oelwein Creamery Reaps Premium for Unsalted Butter
Special to The Gazette. Fred Harms of the Oelwein Farmers Cooperative creamery reports half the output is unsalted butter with a premium. Five kinds are made. unsalted butter graded 82% fat, produced under Town State College supervision, and inspected weekly by an Ames inspector. Output includes 550 tubs plus 1,500 pounds per week, sold in New York, with remaining cream made into salted butter for local and distant markets.
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Oelwein
Fred Harms
Oelwein Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Dubuque
Oelwein Creamery
Town State College
Ames
New York
Cow Test Groups To Picnic Friday At Thomas Park
Linn County cows test associationsNos 12 and 3 will picnic Friday at Thomas Park Marion. Testers L Adams Harold Klinger and Paul Henderson will select three two person judging teams in the morning to represent associations at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo this fall. Guernsey cattle on E Clark and Son Kenwood will be judged at 9 30 am followed by Jersey cattle on Carl Carver farm west of Marion with Floyd Johnston Ames extension service official judge.
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Linn County
L. Adams
Harold Klinger
Paul Henderson
Thomas Park
Marion
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Guernsey
E. Clark and Son
Kenwood
Jersey
Carl Carver
Floyd Johnston
Ames Extension Service
Jones 4-H Girls Plan Rally in Monticello
Jones county 4-H girls clubs will hold their annual Rally day June 20 at Monticello. County Agent Carl R. Smith will give the welcoming address. A music memory contest and election and installation of county officers are included on the morning's program. Each 4-H club will present a special feature pertaining to some part of their club work on the afternoon program.
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Monticello
Jones County
Monticlio
Carl R. Smith
Counties Form Groups to Get Free Chinch Bug Oil
Iowa chinch bug infested counties have organized to receive free oil from a federal appropriation. Dr C J Drake, state entomologist, says farmers will obtain the oil via county agents. He and H C Aaberg plan to order a million gallons for immediate distribution to compliant counties.
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Specis
Gazette
Ames
Iowa
C J Drake
Drake
H C. Aaberg
State Secretary of Agriculture
Farm Activities Listed In Poweshiek County
Poweshiek county farm groups have plans for the next weeks. June 12 features the Baby Beef club annual tour and a Cow Test association picnic at Grinnell. June 15 marks Poweshiek County Women’s Achievement Day in Grinnell’s gymnasium with George Godfrey, assistant to ISU President Hughes, as a principal speaker.
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the Gazette
Brooklyn
Poweshiek County
Baby Beef Club
Grinnell
Poweshick County
George Godfrey
Hughes
Iowa State College
Cedar Rapids official to speak at Jefferson township meeting
Royal Holbrook of Cedar Rapids extension agent for Iowa State College will address the Jefferson township Farm Bureau Tuesday evening. The Oelwein Farmers Creamery will run the event with Buttermaker Fred Harms as chairman.
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Gazette
Oelwein
Royal Holbrook
Cedar Rapids
Congineecr
Iowa State College
Jefferson Township Farm Bureau
Oelwein Farmers Creamery
Fred Harms
FERA Buys Soys for Chinch Bug Counties
In Des Moines FERA purchases over 40 000 bushels of soybean seed for distribution at cost on a work payment basis to chinch bug distressed areas of Iowa. Eight hundred bushels welcomed in Wapello for Louisa county farmers, while Washington county buyers seek more. shipments encourage planting this season.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Iowa
E. H Mulock
Montgomery
Louisa
Adair
Muscatine
aAaberg
Wapello
FERA
Louisa County
Mancheser Delaware County Farmers Seek Soy Beans for Seed
Special to The Gnazette Manchester Delaware county farmers, spurred by rain and lifted forage crop acreage bans, hunt soy beans for seed at 150 a bushel recently and as high as 275. More will be planted this year than ever. rape millet Sudan grass and other forages on a smaller scale.
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Washington
Joe Caputo
E. P Hayes
Farm Bureau
Missouri
Washington County
Gnazette
Manchester
Delaware County
Early Pay Checks Total $7,000 in Louisa County
Louisa county corn hog contract signers received about seven thousand dollars in first payments on forty early pay contracts, according to a report by County Agent Earl Peterson on Saturday.
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Louisa County
Wapello
Earl Peterson
Swimming Pool Built On Allan Kline Farm
A concrete swimming pool measuring 30 by 20 feet and eight feet deep was built on Allan Kline’s Brandon area farm five miles southeast. The pool is a gift to Kline’s three children from a California relative of Mrs Kline. A tennis court is also planned as part of the gift.
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Gazette
Brandon
Allan Kline
Kline
Kine
California
Oats Short for Binders Amid Poor Hay Prospects
In Troy Mills and Walford areas oats are eight to ten inches high and too short for binders. heads show few kernels. First alfalfa cut yields about one third last year, with soybeans, Sudan grass and mullet planned as forage. Cherry crop, strawberries, and currants are poor. potatoes fair. tomatoes and cabbage replanted.
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Troy Mills
Speeial
the Gazette
Walford
Sun Hatches Eggs On Dump At Belle Plaine
Belle Plaine residents report nineteen baby chicks hatched from discarded eggs at the city dump. James Price and the Stammer children found the chicks while driving past, and fifteen were taken home by the Stammer family.
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Belle Plaine
The
Gazette
Old King Sol
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Glen H. Price
4-H Girls Camp Planned in Louisa County June 12 15
Special to The Gazette Wapello The annual Louisa county 4 H club camp and Rally Day will be held at Chautauqua park Columbus Junction June 12 15 Rally Day is set for June 15 Activities include picture and music memory study recreation and the election of county officers Camp matron is Mrs H E Gipple recreation leader Miss Frances Letts music memory contest in charge by Mrs Roscoe Eliason and picture memory contest led by Mrs R F Johnston
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the Gazette
Wapello
Louisa County
Chautauqua Park
Columbus Junction
H. E. Gipple
Frances Letts
Roscoe Eliason
R. F. Johnston
June 4-H trips and events in Jones County
Jones County 4-H lists a busy June with club tours at Martele June 13 Olin June 14 Wyoming June 15 Scotch Grove June 16 Hickory Grove Castle Grove June 19 a girls Rally day in Monticello June 20 Jackson June 21 Madison June 22 a girls 4-H club convention in Ames June 25-28 and a county wide livestock judging meet on June 30.
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Jones County
Martele
Olin
Wyoming
Scotch Grove
Hickory Grove
Castle Grove
Monticello
Jackson
Madison
Ames
State Fair Jersey Parish Show Expands Open Competition
Iowa state fair officials announced continuation of the Jersey cattle show and expanded open class for Jersey breeders after a conference with the Iowa Jersey Breeders association. Parish shows in seven districts select winners to a parish herd for final fair competition. Prizes total 1050 dollars with 250 to the Iowa Jersey Breeders association and 800 for open competition. Additional premiums allot 2160 for Holsteins 1850 for Jerseys 1260 for Guernseys 780 for Ayrshires 625 for Brown Swiss and 1018 for 4-H dairy heifer entries. Special classes offer 360 for Holsteins 1050 for Jerseys and 300 for Guernseys. Premier breeder and exhibitor banners awarded to top money winners. Twenty tons of fish are consumed annually by one sea elephant in the Philadelphia zoo.
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Des Moines
Iowa Jersey Breeders’ Association
State Fair Board
Iowa Jersey Breeders Association
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Wil
Philadelphia Zoo
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