Benton Farm Auction Nets 16900 As 160 Acres Sell In Vinton
Bidders flocked to Vinton for a Benton county 160 acre estate sale with Clint Schlotfeldt of Vinton winning at 16900 for the P W Heil farm five miles southeast of Garrison. Another Benton county farm sold by private treaty to Lewis King at 100 an acre for the Adolph Theis 160 acres southwest of Newhall.
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Vinton
Benton County
Clint Schlotfeldt
P W. Heil
Garrison
Heil
Lewis King
Cedar Rapids
Adolph Theis
Newhall
Childs Realty Company
Theis
Iowa
Wolfred Heynen
First Street
Heynen
Covington
Whither
Seynen
Jackson County
Series Of Grain Grading Schools Planned Next Week
A series of five grain grading schools for farmers and elevator managers in northwest Iowa will be held next week. E S Dyas announces the schedule with meetings in Madrid Coon Rapids Albert City Sheldon and Britt. Representatives from the USDA Ames extension service Northwest Crop Improvement Association the Elevators Association of Iowa and Milwaukee railroad will conduct the sessions. Attendees will learn federal grading standards and practical grading of grain and discuss factors affecting grade quality.
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Ames
Northwest Iowa
Ames Extension
Madrid
Coon Rapids
Albert City
Sheldon
United States Department of Agriculture
Ames Extension Service
Northwest Crop Improvement Association
Elewater Association of Iowa
Agricultural Department of the
Milwaukee Railway
Farm Utilization Survey Report From Cedar Farm
A survey on farm utilization was conducted in Cedar Boreal to evaluate land use and production potential. RT Kierrme of the Ames department steioe fa aotun Gatacon taea inter assessed counts and determined the same.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar
Tipton Pune Pet
Tye Farms
RT Kierrme
Ames Caproment
Gatacon
Olin Lass Nominated For State 4-H Prez
Evelyn Stavers of Olin Jones county and Virginia McLennan of Belle Plaine named as candidates for state president and secretary treasurer of Iowa and Virginia 4-H girls clubs. Other contenders include Alvina Iverson and Carol Vinton for president and vice president respectively. A grass roots rally Tuesday supports candidates and each county will vote Wednesday morning. Retiring officers are Evelyn Frances Kent Verona Jepson Rachel Thomson and Arline Kline.
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Spee A
Evelyn Stavers
Olin
Jones County
Iowa
Virginia McLennan
Belle Plaine
Benton County
Josephine Arnquist Bakke Ofames
Alvina Iverson
Stanhope Hamilton County
Carol Vinton
Eldora
Hardin County
Doris Nelson
Atlantic
Audubon County
Leone Morton
Rockwell City
Calhoun County
Florence Green
Essex
Page County
Lucille Holaday
Greenfield
Adair
Evelyn Frances
Kent
Union County
Verona Jepson
Walcott
Scott County
Rachel Thomson
Cass County
Arline Kline
Waterloo
Black Hawk County
Market Decline as Hog Prices Fall on Seasonal Demand
Des Moines reports a week of lower interior hog receipts versus last year with seven markets slightly lighter and a 20 to 40 cent drop in heavy weight hogs. Packers pay premiums for well finished drives while lighter cuts hurt dressed hog prices amid seasonal demand shifts.
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Des Moines
Amony Sears
Farmers Urged to Apply Creosote Oil for Chinch Bug Fight
Des Moines Iowa farmers must submit applications for creosote oil to county agents for the 1935 chinch bug program. Only up to 50 gallons per 10 yards of drill row may be requested, with shipments from Chicago in 1000 gallon tank cars. Eastern and southern Iowa show the heaviest infestations, while adjacent farms can vary greatly in bug counts.
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Des Moines
INS
Towa Department of Agriculture
Ray Murray
Secretary of Agriculture
Murray
Ad Ina
Sinco
C. J. Drake
Iowa
Cattle Bring $12.10 on Chicago Market
Mrs Amelia Gerot sold a load of Hereford cattle averaging 1043 pounds on the Chicago market for 12.10 dollars per hundredweight.
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Spaccial
the Gazette
Washington
Ameelia Gerot
Chicago
Springdale Club Wins Song Contest At Cedar 4-H Rally
The Cedar 4-H rally featured a six-township song contest. First place went to Springdale township for singing Bendemeer Stream. Red Oak and West Branch earned honorable mention for Dreaming and Stars of the Summer Night respectively.
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Tipton
Springdale
Bendemeer
Red Oak Township
West Branch
Red Oak
Ruby Schroeder
Linn Township
Helen Mather
Iowa Township
Marjorie Estle
Doris Miller
Dayton
Cass-Linn
Fremont-Dayton
Florence
First Crop Yields Two Thirds As Much As All Cuttings
Special to The Gazette Stanwood Maine farm reports its first alfalfa crop on the William Tenley farm one mile west of Stanwood yielding about two thirds of the 1934 total. Tenley and his sons Howard and Forrest worked a T acre meadow with seven acres this year producing two roads to the acre versus nineteen roads for last year. Several Stanwood farmers had hay down Thursday and Friday.
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Stanwood
William Tenley
Corn Growth Boosted by Warm Weather in Several Vicinities
In WEST UNION farmers resume planting or replanting after damaged early weather and worms, with corn fields turning grassy as warmth improves color and growth. Pastures and alfalfa yield heavy, while strawberries begin first picking. Troy Mills notes rapid corn growth though some fields remain too wet to plow.
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Svoeenan
West Union
St Lucas
Troy Mills
Walford Corn Crop Widely Planted Amid Moderate Replanting
Cultivation is general in the Walford area with little replanting. Pastures oats and gardens are in good condition, and potatoes are fair though potato bugs are noted.
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Walford
Martelle Farmer Plows Third Time as Corn Grows
Special to The Gazette reports Arthur Crain two and a half miles west of Martelle plows corn for the third time. The April planted field shows slow emergence with warm weather in Millersburg bringing replanted corn through the ground. Farmers rush to beat weeds as grain fields run heavy. Strawberries ripen large and of good quality. Rooster day yields eleven cents a pound, the year’s high price.
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Martelle
Arthur Crain
Millersburg
Washington county 4-H girls rally elects leaders
More than 150 members and 200 guests attended the Washington county 4-H rally in Washington Iowa. Rosaline Combs of Jolly Joker club elected president, with Helen Dickinson, Kathryn Stewart, and Gladys Turnipseed named officers.
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Washington
Washington County
Rosaline Combs
Jolly Joker Club
Helen Dickinson
Happy Hustlers
Kathryn Stewart
The
Northern Stars
Gladys Turnipseed
Woussicket Club
Edmund Morrison, Jr
W. J. Roudabush
English River Club
Jolly Jokers
Woussickers
English River
Brighton
Good Luck Club
Maplecrest
Tama county 4-H rally plans approved
TOLEDO sixty five club girls and leaders met with Miss Fannie Buchanan to finalize plans for the Tama county 4-H girls rally day set for June 26 at Traer. Fourteen clubs will participate. DYSART Margarete Buck was elected president of the Clarks Willing Workers 4-H club. Blanche Dengler vice president Helen Pippert secretary Pauline Lindeman treasurer Fern Klink club reporter Silas Hansan historian. Edith Huffman county home demonstration agent attended.
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Toledo
Fannie Buchanan
Tama County
Traer
Dysart
Margarete Buck
Clarks Willing Workers 4-H Girls Club
Blanche Dengler A
Helen Pippert
Pauline Lindeman
Fern Klink
Silas Hansan
Edith Huffman
Decorah 4-H to Attend State Convention in Ames
Winneshiek county will be represented at the state convention of 4-H clubs in Ames from June 17 to 19 by nine club members and four leaders and assistants.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
Ames
Defense funding boosts property values in British Malaya
Increased appropriations for defense in British Malaya raise property values and rental demand. Local investors and landlords see stronger rents as military spending expands.
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British Malaya
Folland Tunnel Planned Under High Amana Canal
A 60 foot Holland tunnel is proposed under the High Amana Canal as part of a drainage project affecting over forty acres of bottom land. A. J. Fleckenstein of Cedar Rapids leads the work. The canal acts as a mill race for local woolen mills and is raised where it crosses the High Amana bottoms. In heavy rains the northern bottoms flood behind the canal. The southern land drains via an open ditch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Amana
A. J. Fleckenstein
Cedar Rapids
Aqueduct Project Aims to Link North and South Drainage
A new Iowa river drainage project connects northern areas to the south via an aqueduct under the canal. The structure will carry water through a 2 foot tubing to the southern slope, enabling drainage flow across the division.
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Iowa River
700 Pound Feeders Bring 8.52 At Columbus Jct
Approximately 175 head of cattle sold at consignment in Columbus Junction. Twenty head of 700 pound white faced steers brought 8.25 dollars per hundredweight. Hereford heifers and calves sold at 7.25 to 7.50 per cwt with various prices for butcher cattle milk cows and bull calf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Vinton pea crop ready for harvest
Special to The Gazette reports 900 acres of peas will be packed at the Iowa canning plant in Vinton starting Monday providing work for about 100 people. favorable weather and officials predict a bumper crop. Oelwein notes a pickle company contracted 76.5 acres from 73 growers.
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Vinton
Iowa Canning Plant
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Cedar Rapids Clothier
Ray Anderson
Amana Society
Amana, Lowa
Riverside Feed Mill
Bever Park
Olin Lass
Springdale Club
Beulah Dodds
Elmer Meyer
Mary A. Puffer
Bert Oepping
E. L. Pemberton
Nelson Cope
Katherine Horr
O. W. Cope
Helen Hinkhouse
Margaret Hyde
Elsie Stagg
Francis Nelson
Elizabeth Millett
Helen McCoy
Gertrude Simpson
Esther Small
F. A. McCoy
Marjorie Essle
Tru
ST. Lucas
FUNE
Tama
Dysart Club
Wuenneshiek
Dial
First Ave. B
Farmers Cash & Carry
Green Mountain
Swift’s
C. & H. Cane
Cloverbloom
SodaCrax
la Conreth
Japan
Prunes
DR. Pears
Blue Barrel
Folland Tunnel
Amana Canal
Columbus Jct
Oelwein
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