Hog Type Parley Heads Farm Events Across Eastern Iowa
A week of farm activities in eastern Iowa features a hog type conference at Cedar Rapids Hawkeye Downs, with judging, talks on pork use and defect evaluation, and a meat demonstration. Beekeeping regional meeting follows at Credit Island Davenport, plus milking contest for Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Mayors, field day at Conesville, Linn County Farm Bureau picnic at Central City, and a dairy promotion event in City.
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Cedar Rapids
American Poland China Record Association
Chicago
Montrose
All-Iowa Grounds
Hawkeye Downs
R. L. Pemberton
Des Moines
Secre
Illinois
Missouri
Credit Island
Davenport
M. G. Dadant
Hamilton
L. C
Iowa City
Conesville
Southeastern Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association
Linn County Farm Bureau
Central City
Francis Johnson
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Iowa State
On City
FENCE DRIFT and Gillette livestock bill stir Iowa hearings
A Farm Editor notes that Gillette's livestock bill could disrupt interior markets and urges strong Iowa turnout at hearings. A Waukon feature shows a 50 acre John Livesind farm barn built in 1939 for 28 Guernsey cows with neck chains and adjustable stalls, costing 5000 dollars with one silo.
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Waukon
John Sivesind
Guernsey
Iowa
Livesind
Brown Swiss Shows Planned in Eastern Iowa Week
Two Brown Swiss shows are planned in eastern Iowa this week. Friday features the Brown Swiss show at Central City and a Brown Swiss picnic at Iowa Falls, with Senator Guy Gillette scheduled as speaker at the Waverly festival.
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Tival
Waverly
Senator Guy Gillette
Iowa
Iowa Falls
Central City
Delaware 4-H Club Tour and Rally in Colesburg
The Delaware 4 H boys host an annual club tour and rally in Colesburg with dairy projects visited at Ed Brockmeyer W P Adams John Keck and Roy Wessel farms. A noon sack lunch follows. Afternoon events include officer elections a business meeting a sheet steel in farm buildings demonstration by Karl Keck and Virgil Wessel and a kittenball tournament.
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Manchester
Delaware 4-H Boys
Colesbury Club
Ed Brockmeyer
W. P. Adams
John Keck
Roy Wessel
Colesburg
Karl Keck
Virgil Wessel
Postville Creamery Pays 42c For May Butterfat
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery reported its largest May production in fifty years with 114,699 pounds of butter from 92,404 pounds of butterfat. May butterfat paid at 42 cents per pound, up 11 cents from May 1940.
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Postville
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company
Hearings Not Open on Gillette Livestock Bill
Senator Guy M. Gillette has not opened hearings on his bill to bar direct livestock buying by packers. He says the Justice Department is developing evidence in grand jury meat-industry cases that may illuminate the issue. The measure would ban packers from buying cattle except at posted stockyards, not affecting feeders or unfinished stock.
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Iowa
George Stimpson
Washington, D. C
Guy M. Gillette
Washington
Cherokee
Department of Justice
Bulow and Aiken
Republican State Publicity Office
Congress
United States Livestock Association
D. M. Hildebrand
Seward, Neb
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Secretary of Age
Mae
Corn loan totals for 1940 program issued on June 14
Special to The Gazette reports 102 136 342 bushels of 1940 corn loan loans totaling 3 112 534 98 dollars. State figures include Illinois 13 487 588 bushels 8 227 137 90 dollars Indiana 903 579 bushels 551 155 23 dollars Iowa 58 857 528 bushels 35 902 052 72 dollars Minnesota 7 923 737 bushels 4 826 403 dollars Missouri 2 918 778 bushels 1 778 668 69 dollars Nebraska unspecified kenosha? 7 872 403 92 dollars South Dakota 858 bushels 2 429 916 38 dollars Wisconsin 18 928 bushels 11 280 28 dollars Ohio 261 670 bushels 159 618 70 dollars.
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D. C
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Dakota
Dat
Ohio
South Dakota
Consin
4-H Demonstration Teams To Train In Friday Sessions
Ella Loughran of Ames will meet with 4-H girls demonstration teams Friday at the YWCA Cedar Rapids and the Linn County Farm Bureau office announced today. The sessions aim to prepare the girls for demonstration contests at the county fairs.
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Ella Loughran
Ames
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Farm Bureau
Test Plots to Be Observed Open House at Experiment Farm
Conesville Iowa farmers will tour the Southeastern Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station farm on June 25 starting at 1 30 p m to inspect oats flax alfalfa and melon plots and raise crop production questions. New oats varieties 3350 3602 and 3607 will be shown alongside released varieties for rust and smut resistance with comparisons to Iogold 105 103 Vanguard and Columbia. Extension pathologists will demonstrate weed control chemical mixing and application.
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Gazette
Conesville
Southeastern Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association
Boone
Marion
Hancock
Tama
Vanguard
Columbia
Price Spread Narrowed Between Hog Prices in Chicago and Missouri
Officials say government purchases under lend-lease and surplus marketing programs have little impact on the usual price gap between Chicago and Missouri river hog markets. The spread has narrowed as western buyers extend eastward and drought reduces western hog supply, with prices rising to levels seen in 1916 and 1917.
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Washington
Agricultural Marketing Service
Chicago
Missouri River
Smith Confirms Report Loveland to Lead AAA in Iowa
Des Moines Guy Smith chairman of the Iowa AAA confirms a Cedar Rapids Gazette exclusive about Albert Loveland of Janesville succeeding him as AAA chief in Iowa on July 1. Smith says Loveland will handle crop insurance work for the national AAA, largely in the south with cotton planters and also with wheat raisers, with headquarters at Russell.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Guy Smith
Iowa Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Albert Loveland
Janes
Smith
AAA
Russell
Tour Of Apiaries Planned By Fayette Beekeepers
A summer meeting for Fayette county bee keepers is scheduled at the fair with a July 2 tour of apiaries planned by local beekeeping groups.
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Fayette Beekeepers
West Union
Fayette County
Milking Shorthorn Picnic Scheduled in Castalia
Northeast Iowa Milking Shorthorn breeders plan their annual picnic June 29 at the E. W. Green farm located 4½ miles northeast of Castalia. Farmers and members are invited to the gathering and farm tour.
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Castalia
Iowa
E. W. Green
Here
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