Hog Market Shows Strength In Interior Run
The interior hog market in Iowa and southern Minnesota moved higher for Thursday and Friday, with butcher hogs 5 to 10 cents up Thursday and a nickel to a dime on Friday. Friday’s interior run reached 24,200 head, 1,100 below last week but well above last year. Five-day total was 126,300 head against 131,500 the prior week and 89,900 a year ago, with June so far at 336,600 head, 41 percent above mid June 1938. Trade expects lighter slaughter volumes later in June as most butcher hogs are marketed, relying on packers’ sow movement. Grassy sows remained about 20–40 percent of receipts, with quality generally inferior in marketings.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Soul Conservation by a Country Woman
Right now country boys and girls go to school in Nature's great classroom. A barefoot boy chases cows at dawn and returns with pheasant nests, baby squirrel playhouses, and oversized toadstools. His pockets hold stones, his hands roses, and his heart dreams of life beyond the hedges.
4 H Livestock Tour In Keokuk Planned Tuesday
Keokuk county 4 H livestock club members will tour local farms on Tuesday escorted by a state highway patrolman. Farms to be visited include Elliott Brown A C McCullough and Ed Cook with Ed Synddergaard of the Ames 4 H department accompanying the group.
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Sigourney
4-H
Keokuk County
John Morris
Elliott Brown
A. C. McCullough
Ed Cook
Ed Syndergaard
Ames 4-H Department
Scott County girl is best groomed at state 4-H convention
Nelda Paulsen of Scott county won the state 4-H better groomed contest for farm girls. Judges praised her neat appearance, posture and carriage. She advances to represent Iowa at the national contest in Chicago next fall. Other blue ribbon winners include Mary K. Walter, Nadine Nordquist, Mary Oviatt, Helen Levien, Rita Waechter, Irene Niebuhr, and Louise Schultz. Eastern Iowa red and white ribbon winners also named.
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Ames
Nelda Paulsen
Scott County
Mary Wood McClintock
Irene Buchanan
Carrie Holland Anderson
County Clothing Project
Iowa
Chicago
Eleanore Perdelwitz
Louisa
Lucille Walters
Hardin
Iowa 4-H girls crown state winners at convention
Helen Creger, 17, Clinton County, near Delmar, won the state 4-H girls clothing project at the 12th annual convention on the Iowa State College campus. Vivian Obrecht, 17, Thornton, Ta., won the nutrition project. More than 1,000 Iowa farm women rehearsed for the open-air festival Flag of Our Land, with over 2,000 dollars anticipated for the Friday night event on the college athletic field.
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Ames
Helen Creger
Clinton County
Delmar
Iowa State College
Dreger
Vivian Obrecht
Thornton
Iowa
Flag of Our Land
Three Cow Test Assns In Fayette Stage Picnic Tours
Three cow test associations in Fayette County evaluated Guernsey and Jersey cattle at local farms. Leaders rustled tours with picnics at Fayette No 4 venues, contests conducted for dairy cattle congress considerers and testers.
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Fayette
District Guernsey and Holstein shows at Mount Pleasant
The first district Holstein and Guernsey shows of the season were held on the Henry county fairgrounds in Mount Pleasant. A total of 79 cattle were shown including grand champions Victor Peters of Keokuk and Maplecrest Farm Wellman. Dairy judging winners and district herd selections for Cedar Rapids state competition were announced.
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Mount Pleasant
Rex
Janette
Guernsey
Victor B. Peters
Keokuk
Lassie Buttercup Fabes Hark
Maplecrest Farm
Wellman
Ray Anderson
Nount Pleasant
Henry County Fairgrounds
Scheurman and Haus
Arthur Porter
Ames Extension Dairyman
J. T. Kessler
Oskaloosa
Glenn Householder
Brattleboro
Householder
American Holstein-Friesian Association
Des Moines
Burlington
Henry County
Shearman
Hauf
Victor Peters
Shearman and
Harry McCornick
Harry Cornick
Scheurman
Old
Donnellson
Lee County
Washington County
Stanley Chabal
Riverside
Alvin Horak
William Maas
Washington
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Butter Consumption Surges Since 1929 Boom
Des Moines AP reports Iowans now eat 29.2 pounds of creamery butter per person last year, up from 15.5 pounds a decade earlier. Iowa creameries sold 158,811,000 pounds to eastern markets, a 40 million pound rise from 1937, with Minnesota leading Midwest dairy belt sales.
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Chicago
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Boston
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Illinois
Midwest
Fee Reereee
Vhane Eye
Steven Eeenee
Gener
Arm Butte
Illyria Community Day Near Elgin Sets June 23
Elgin area event details a Illyria community day at Ellyria church south of Elgin on June 23 with dinner and supper served by Women of the church. Afternoon sports program follows by a home talent play in the evening. Homecoming church service scheduled for June 25 in the evening.
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Elgin
Illyria
Ellyria Church
Ames Tour Set for June 29 by Linn County Farmers
County Agent Rex Conn said Friday the annual Linn county farmers tour to Ames is planned for June 29. The event will feature other local growers and agricultural sites in the region.
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Linn County
Ames
Rex Conn
Fence Drift Critique by Judge Glenn Householder
In Brattleboro the Holstein breeders celebrate Glenn Householder as a top judge at the district show. The Mount Pleasant judging left spectators noting his thorough explanations of good and bad points, with some disagreement but evident expertise.
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Glenn Householder
Brattleboro
Mount Pleasant
Mr. Householder
Nine Women Named To Rural Chorus Committee
Nine farm women were named to form a state rural women s chorus committee to plan policies for the 70 county rural women s choruses in Iowa. Miss Fannie R. Buchanan announced from the Ames extension service. The delegates include Mrs Earl Edson Sonia, Mrs Harry Schroeder Murray, Mrs Brook Nash Bedford, Mrs Fred Mitchell New Providence, Mrs Park McNeill Onawa, Mrs Oren Kiser Wilton Junction, Mrs Elmer Merrins Paullina, Mrs Earl Dimmitt Ottumwa, and Mrs Cecil H Avis Rockwell.
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Ames
Iowa
Fannie R. Buchanan
Ames Extension Service
Earl Edson
Sonia
Harry Shroeder
Murray
Brook Nash
Bedford
Fred Mitchell
New Providence
Park McNeill
Onawa
Oren Kiser
Wilton Junction
Elmer Merrins
Paullina
Earl Dimmitt
Ottumwa
Cecil H. Avis
Rockwell
Iowa Farm AAA participation rises by seventy three thousand
About 73,000 more Iowa farms join the 1939 Agricultural Adjustment Act program than in the previous year, reflecting a expansion of participation across the state.
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Iowa
Flax in Full Bloom Near Olin as Rain Benefits Crops
Special to The Gazette reports flax in full bloom near Olin attracting attention as farmers plant from a few to twenty acres. Webster notes three inches of rain in eight days, soaking in quickly and boosting oats. meadows and pastures grow rapidly. Strawberries come late but are of good quality. cherries are being picked but scarce. raspberries begin to turn.
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The
Gazette
Webster
Vacinity
Whittier Garden Update Reports Mixed Prospects
Despite cold snaps, corn shows strong growth with knee to waist high stalks. Oats thrive in cool weather, early potatoes bloom and some have been sprayed twice. Garden crops vary as seeds germinate unevenly from dryness, with strawberr ies hurt by drought and fruit trees seen as fair to just fair overall.
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Whittier
Duckling Parade Stirs Arlington Main Street
A brood of ducklings wandered Arlington's main street Thursday morning. The owner could not be found, a wild duck and drake were frightened in a nearby garden, and the ducklings, unable to fly, stayed briefly before disappearing without a trace.
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the Gazette
Arlington
Farm Bureau Picnic Dinner Set At Hawkeye Downs
Linn county Farm Bureau plans a June 26 dinner at Hawkeye Downs in the big new barn. Tickets are offered to all members by committees in each township. After dinner a program features Dick Offringa and W. B. Hamilton with singing and entertainment.
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Rex Conn
Cedar Rapids
Farm Bureau
Linn County
Linn County Farm Bureau
Chambers of Commerce
Hawkeye Downs
Conn
West Sixth Street
Dick Offringa
Bremer County
W. B. Hamilton
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
First Rail Shipment Of Livestock In Two Years
Arlington reports Eugene Fitzgiberons shipped two carloads of cattle to Chicago by rail. This marks the first rail stock shipment here in two years.
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Arlington
Eugene Fitzgiberons
Chicago
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