Iowa Farms Grow Bigger as Fewer Farms Remain
A federal state crop reporting study shows 1937 Iowa farm land totals at 34,364,857 acres, up 1 percent from 1936, while the number of farms fell to 209,737, a 12 percent drop. Average farm size rose to 163.8 acres. Tractors rose 19.3 percent to 99,803, with ratios at 45.6 percent per farm. County totals list Kossuth as top tractor holder with 2,348 and Monroe lowest with 234. other counties include Story, Tama, Linn, Pottawattamie and Washington among many others. The trend toward larger, fewer farms continues, aided by tractors especially in southern Iowa.
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Iowa
D. Moines
INS
Thomas L Curran
Towa
Kossuth
Monroe
Audubon
Benton
Boone
Butler
Cass
Fremont
Henry
Johnson
Linn
Mills
Montgomery
Page
Pottawattamie
Story
Tama
Washington
Canton’s Forgotten Town: Quiet, Picturesque and Untidy
A late Monday scene in Canton shows a tranquil but neglected town in Jackson County. A barefoot woman, a fishing-keen trio, two teen girls, three boys, and three sleepy hounds sit in shade while woven avire fences drift near. The setting captures a peaceful, brimming with character, if run-down, rural mood.
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Ie & A
Canton
Jackson County
Garnavillo Creamery Adopts Seven-Day Schedule
Garnavillo Cooperative creamery, in GARNAVILLO, switches to seven day operation allowing patrons to obtain sweet cream daily. Buttermakers are Alvin Thorenson and Milton Reichert. In MAYNARD, the Maynard Cooperative creamery pays 29 cents per pound for May biutter fat per Secretary C. H Paul.
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Garnavillo
Garnavillo Cooperative Creamery
Alvin Thorenson
Milton Reichert
Maynard
Maynard Cooperative Creamery
C. H Paul
Rowley Creamery Butterfat Prices Set for May Half
Patrons of Rowley Farmers Cooperative creamery received 28 cents a pound for No 1 butterfat in late May 2nd grade at 27 cents and No 3 at 26 cents per pound secretary Joe McGrath said prices were uniformly 1 cent lower than the first half of May.
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Rowley
Rowley Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Joe McGrath
Tipton 4-H Club Tours Cedar County Livestock Farms
Sixty 4-H club boys and their parents attended the Cedar county livestock tour Friday. Judging was practiced on the farms of Wendell Willers, George Frascur and Mearl Eilers.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Wendell Willers
George Frascur
Mearl Eilers
Farm Lyceum Planned By Ag Teacher At Marengo
Marengo hosts a Friday evening meeting of town and country men and women called by AOL Amsberry vocational agriculture instructor aims to form a women’s council to cooperate with the men’s council for adult education projects Each member may pay a $1 enrollment fee with half allotted for forum speakers.
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Marengo
Marengo Vocaional Agriculture Department
AOL
Amsberry
Mens Council
3000 Pounds Wool Pooled in Buchanan County
More than 3000 pounds of Buchanan county wool were pooled Monday for shipment to the Iowa Sheep and Wool Growers association in Des Moines. The wool will be graded there and sold through the National Wool Marketing association in Boston. Growers receive a guaranteed advance price averaging over 17 cents a pound for one-quarter to three-eighths clean staple, with any higher sale price remitted after marketing expenses. The advance is guaranteed by a government ever normal granary loan arranged by the Des Moines cooperative.
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Gazette
Independence
Buchanan County
Iowa Sheep and Wool Growers Association
Des Moines
National Wool Marketing Association
Boston
Continued Low Interest Saves Iowans $7 453 270
Omaha AP Charles Mc Cumsey president of the Omaha federal land bank said a bill by Congress keeps reduced rates on land bank and land bank commissioner loans saving Iowa farmers about 7 453 270 in the next two years. The 3 ½ percent rate on land bank loans and 4 percent on commissioner loans applies to all interest before July 1 1940. There are 55 000 loans outstanding in town totaling over 268 million. Contract rates now run 4 to 6 percent averaging just under 5 percent for land bank loans and 5 percent for commissioner loans. Farmers and stockmen taking new mortgages will gain from the lowered rates.
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OMAHA
Charles McCumsey
Omaha Federal Land Bank
Congress
Land Bank
Land Bank Commissioner
Iowa
McCamsey
4-H Club Tour Judging Begins in Decorah
Winneshiek 4-H club boys started judging tours Friday with forty five participants. Additional tours will follow and a judging team will be chosen from the results to compete at the Dairy Cattle Congress show next fall. Four farms were visited on the first tour.
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Gazette
Decorah
Winneshiek 4-H Club
Dairy Cattle Congress
Spillville farmer first to ensile sweet clover in county
Albert Andera of Spillville finishes storing ten acres of sweet clover in a 16 by 28 silo using a grain binder and basket racks. Molasses at sixty pounds per ton of green feed yields a 24 foot fill. He notes improved quality with molasses and may be first in Winneshiek to store clover this way. DECORAH report notes D E Schmidt plans to ensile sweet clover at Old People's home farm this week.
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Spillville
Winneshirk
Albert Andera
Andera
Decorah
E. Schmidt
Old People’s Home
Alfalfa Silage Demonstration Planned Near LaCrosse
A demonstration of ensiling alfalfa is set for the federal government's experimental farm five miles east of LaCrosse. The University of Wisconsin Madison extension department cooperates in the project.
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Lacrosse
Wis
University of Wisconsin At Madison
Angus cow tops sale at 3500 in Maquoketa auction
The Congdon and Battles Angus sale in Maquoketa drew buyers from Maryland to Alberta with 144 lots sold. A coming seven-year-old cow with calf at side brought 3500 to Mrs H Hamilton Hackney of Finksburg Maryland, top price. The two day event grossed 63345 for 144 lots and averaged about 454. The sale featured females only with multiple top prices above 1000 and 45 cattle going to Maryland. Governor Kraschel opened the sale praising Otto Battles for Angus breed progress.
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Congdon and Battles
Maquoketa
MH. Hamilton Hackney
Finksburg
Bessie Moyle
H. Hamilton Hackney
Angus
George Laughlin
Kirksville
Canada
Iowa
Clyde Nelson
Birmingham
Frank Pearson
Milton
Nels G. Kraschel
Otto Battles
Jackson County
United States
Arthur W. Thompson
Lincoln
Neb
J. E. Halsey
Des Moines
Walter Congdon
Duluth
Minn
Chester A. Congdon
The
Herd
Guilford
D B. Mullen
Province of
Alberta
H. Hamilton ‘Hackney
Hackney
Baltimore
Expert predicts passing of county government units
Arthur W. Brom age of University of Michigan told County Life Institute members that the future would bring an end to many smaller units of government. He predicted the doom of township and county government and said functions should transfer to other units to form towns and counties of our own making.
Soil Chemist Estimates Hidden Phosphate in U S Soil
Kenneth D. Jacobs of the Agriculture Department testified before a joint congressional committee that a vast, untapped phosphate reservoir exists between the Mississippi River and the Rockies. He said a preliminary survey shows large deposits lie near the surface in the western sector.
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Washington
INS
Agriculture Department
Mississippi River
Rockies
Congressional
Kenneth D. Jacobs
Washington compliance school on soil conservation held
Hervey Hazen of Denmark, a member of the state soil conservation committee, spoke in Washington Monday for a compliance school. Wayne Norman of Ainsworth serves as county chairman and reporters from the county attended.
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Washington
Hervey Hazen
Denmark
State Soil Conservation Committee
Wayne Norman
Ainsworth
Lamb Prices Seen Low This Summer Says Report
Washington AP The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports lamb prices are likely to stay relatively low through the summer, compared with a year ago. Weaker meat demand and low wool and pelt prices are cited as factors keeping sheep and lamb values down.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Monthly Review
Judging Team Chosen For Garnavillo C T A Contest
Gerald Meyer and A J Hempler won the Garnavillo Contest association judging contest held during the annual picnic at National last week. They will represent the association at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress in the fall. Frederick Larabee of Fort Dodge spoke as Iowa Dairy Association president and Grover Hahn spoke as acting county agent. L F Wainscott led a pasture tour on the C F Kramer farm near McGregor. Arrangements were made by Ewald Hardt and Howard Hackett.
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Gerald Meyer
A. J. Hempler
Garnavillo Contest Association
National
Irvin Meyer
Gilbert Meyer
Giard
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Frederick Larabee
Fort Dodge
Iowa Dairy Association
Grover Hahn
Clayton
L. F. Wainscott
The
Soil Conservation Service
C. F. Kramer
McGregor
Ewald Hardt
Garpaville Association
Howard Hackett
Stanwood Steers Bring $9.75 Cwt in Chicago Market
Ralph Wilson, northwest of Stanwood, sold a load of Hereford steers weighing 1,315 pounds at Chicago for $9.75 per hundredweight. The sale highlights available feeder prices and regional cattle shipments.
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Stanwood
Ralph Wilson
Chicago
Farm Bureau Moves Into New Tipton Quarters
The Cedar County Farm Bureau relocated to the basement of Tipton's new federal building on Monday, marking a regional shift in its offices and operations.
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The
Gazette
Tipton
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Tiption
Federal
Farmers Prepare for Oats Harvest
Montezuma Poweshiek county farmers readying machinery for small grain harvest amid cool nights and ample rains. Early oats heads are heavy, color changing as harvest nears. corn in area knee high by July. clover and timothy crops strong. Washington county fields weeded by plowing. oats 90 percent headed. soybeans planted and two inches high. Troy Mills alfalfa hay being put up. corn knee high in sandy-soil patches. oats doing well though wet spots yellow. Potatoes ready, tomatoes blooming, raspberries ripening, gooseberries plentiful. currant crop short. peas being canned. West Union reports higher temperatures aiding color. rain followed by steady cultivation. alfalfa haying advanced. clover haying begun. pastures rank. soybeans planted. white clover nectar for bees but some die.
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Spreinl
The
Gazette
Montezuma
Poweshick County
the Gazette
Washington, Ta
Washington County
Troy Mills
Fred Fisher
West Union
Haying Advances in Town County Fields Report
HAYING TWO-THIRDS DONE, MARINGO-Corn in Town county made fine growth during the last week. Much plowing has been accomplished, and fields mostly have been cleaned of weeds. About two-thirds of alfalfa hay ing' has been completed. The strawberry yield here is finished. The cherry crop is light.
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Marengo
Town
Tour Of Erosion Control Projects In LinnThursday
A Linn county tour for farmers and soil conservationists visits the Indian Creek demonstration area. Starting at the county home at 10 30 a m the route includes Gerald Thomas Clyde Scott Irwin Scott Hughes Starry and Nelson farms. Lunch at Jordan s Grove church at noon followed by discussions on farm plans pasture improvement fertilization liming and seeding guided by E A Zack Marion acting project manager.
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Indian Creek
Linn County
Gerald Thomas
Clyde Scott
Irwin Scott
Hughes
Starry
Nelson
Jordan's Grove Church
E. A. Zack
Marion
Rally Day for Fayette 4-H Girls on June 29
Fayette county 4-H clubs schedule a rally day June 29 at Upper Iowa University gym Fayette. Afternoon events begin at 1 with county officers election and a music memory contest. A campus picnic supper precedes an evening program featuring township clubs. Fairfield club to honor an honorary member. Center and Bethel clubs to perform a bread making demonstration.
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Gazette
Fayette
Fayette County
Upper Iowa University
Fairfield Club
Center
Bethel
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