Meat consumption proves year round in United States
R C Pollock of the National Livestock and Meat Board reports meat remains popular all year in the United States with only slight seasonal variation. He cites 1937 estimates of 16.079 billion pounds consumed and per capita meat use at 124.4 pounds, noting western production and eastern consumption patterns.
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United States
R. C. Pollock
National Livestock and Meat Board
Chicago
Mr. Pollark
Mr. Pollock
Pollock
America
West
Mississippi River
Central West
Mississippi
Iowa
Meat in National Livestock Board Efforts Cited
The National Livestock and Meat Board reports expanded activity in 42 states reaching 1,495 audiences in 306 cities. It aims to counter anti meat propaganda, spread factual meat information, and reach 130 million people while noting Texas leads in lamb production. The piece also mentions Romans introducing beer to Britain.
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New York
National Livestock and Meat Board
Pollock
Cows Bulk Large in Hog Receipts
Des Moines reports show well finished heavy packing sows rising in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota markets. Sows now comprise 20-50 percent of receipts across regions with heavier slaughter hogs discounted. light to medium weights bring near record highs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Wallace Addresses Centennial Dinner at Dubuque College
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace will speak July 28 at Dubuque for a centennial celebration dinner at Columbia College gymnasium. He will discuss The Conservation of Our Natural and Spiritual Resources with sermons from Archbishop Murray and remarks from several dignitaries including Charles Finley Gerald Lyons and Bishop Sheil.
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Dubuque
Henry A. Wallace
Columbia College
Wallace
John G. Murray
St. Paul, Minn
Charles E. Finley
Town State College
Gerald Lyons
Cresco
FCA
Washington
Bernard J. Sheil
Chicago
Francis J. Beckman
Spring Pigs Bring Seven to Eight Fifty at Columbus Jet
COLUMBUS JUNCTION spring pigs sold from 7 to 8.50 per hundredweight in the weekly consignment sale. Dairy cows brought 40 to 73 dollars per head. About 250 head of stock cattle went to farmers in Louisa and nearby counties.
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Columbus Junction
Louisa
Steers Sold at Chicago For 10.75 a CWT
Cascade feeder Peter Hosch sold twenty head of 1 177 pound steers at Chicago Wednesday for 10 75 per hundred weight.
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the Gazette
Cascade
Peter Hosch
Cascade Feeder
Chicago
Youths Build and Run Hay Baling Machine Near Mount Vernon
John Haesler and Don Lahman, 18 and 19, construct a pickup hay baler from a discarded combine with an automobile engine. Four youths operate it three miles north of Mount Vernon testing in May and baling alfalfa and clover at high speed.
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Mount Vernon
John Haesler
Don Lahman
Cedar Rapids
Ien
Haesler Farm
John Walton
John Kirkpatrick
Bluegrass Seed Yield Dips Near Grinnell
Harvest of blue grass seed near Grinnell is about one fourth normal. Fewer than a dozen men are needed for stripping on Sumner Brothers Seed Company acreage. Warm March and cold April hurt grass after early March growth. A large carryover from last year’s crop should prevent a serious shortage this year.
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Grinnell
Sumner Brothers Seed Company
Postville Creamery Pays 29 Cents For Butterfat
Butterfat delivered during May to the Farmers Cooperative Creamery at Postville brought patrons 29 cents a pound. The creamery has operated on a seven day schedule and receipts increased ten percent last month. Demand for dried buttermilk, produced here this year for the first time, greatly exceeds the supply according to the secretary.
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the Gazette
Postville
Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Jesup Group Plans Soil Tour Near Clayton
The Jesup part time school with fifty three farm boys aged sixteen to twenty five will tour soil erosion control projects in the Farmersburg area on Wednesday. They will be accompanied by Mr Grosscup head of the vocational agriculture department of the Jesup consolidated school.
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Jesup
Farmersburg
Grosscup
Vocational Agriculture Department
Joe Slavik reports tall early planted corn in Cedar Rapids
Joe Slavik of 2007 J Street Cedar Rapids reports an acre of early planted hybrid corn reaching six feet in height.
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Joe Slavik
J Street
Cedar Rapids
Hogs Bring $9.15 On Chicago Market
F A Shannon of near Keota sold twenty six butcher hogs on the Chicago market Monday. The hogs brought 9.15 dollars per hundredweight with no sorting and an average weight of two hundred twenty six pounds.
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Sigourney
F. A. Shannon
Keota
Chicago
By a Country Woman Reflections in an Antique Mirror
Like a picture from the past the reflection is caught in a walnut mirror surrounded by bronze and shell pink roses arranged in a copper kettle. A charming suggestion of bygone days in a country scene.
Earl Smith links farm price control to industry policy
Earl Smith of the American Farm Bureau Federation argues that farmer control of crop surpluses will set price levels like industrial production policy. Speaking at the Western Regional Farm Bureau meeting in Yellowstone Park, he says surplus control boosts consumption of industrial goods and employment, lauding the 1938 AAA as the best farm law, with possible corrections.
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Yellowstone Park
Mont
Earl Smith
American Farm Bureau Federation
Western Regional Farm Bureau
Thursay
Smith
Ilinois Farm Bureau Federation
Eastern Iowa Fair Managers Converge in Cedar Rapids
Members of the Eastern Iowa Fair Managers association met in Cedar Rapids for their annual conference ahead of the agricultural exposition season. Fairs represented include All-Iowa Livestock show Cedar Rapids Cedar County fair Tipton Fayette county fair West Union Benton county fair Vinton Howard county fair Cresco and 4-county fair Postville.
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Eastern Iowa Fair Managers’ Association
Cedar Rapids
Cedar County
Tipton
Fayette County
West Union
Vinton
Cresco
Postville
120 Acre Linn County Farm Sells for 19000 Cash
George P. Witwer and Company report Carl Wiley sold a 120 acre Linn county farm near Marion to George E. and Sophie Benesh for 19000 cash. The property is described as well improved with a modern house, adequate out buildings, fully fenced, and divided into 20 acre tillable fields.
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George P. Witwer and
Cedar Rapids
Carl Wiley
Marion
George E
Sophie Benesh
Witwer
Linn
Swiss Parish Show Set With Buchanan Fair Feedback
Orville Thom secretary for the Brown Swiss parish show at the Buchanan county fair Aug 16 19 has called a breeders meeting in Independence to complete show plans.
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Independence
Orville Thom
Buchanan County
Clinton Climbers 4-H Plans Weekly Cedar Rapids Bake Sale
The Linn county 4-H club met to organize a Saturday bake sale at the Cedar Rapids city market. Henrietta Prasil reported on the Ames state 4-H convention, and Mrs. Jacob Gerber demonstrated tests for silks and synthetic fabrics.
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Clinton Climbers
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Henrietta Prasil
Ames
Jacob Gerber
Farm Records Assn Picnic Highlights Cedar Rapids Visitor and Wallace Farewell
The Cedar Valley Farm Business association plans a Marion picnic at Thomas Park Tuesday with a welcome for new Cedar Rapids fieldman Hl S Nicol. Retiring Ames fieldman J J Wallace will give a farewell talk reflecting on seven years. L G Allbaugh will discuss Price Outlook.
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Hl. S Nicol
Cedar Rapids
J. J “Jim” Wallace
Ames
Marion
Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Thomas Park
Nicol
Soviet
Russia
Wallace
Association
L. G. Allbaugh
Iowa County C T A Averages 32 3 Butterfat
Special to The Gazette AMI A RENGO The 401 cows on test in the Iowa County Cow Test association during May produced an average of 834 pounds of milk and 32.3 pounds of butterfat. The Fred Gingerich herd of Guernseys Wellman was high group with 45 pounds of butterfat and a Holstein in the John F Haas herd Williamsburg top individual with 1 981 pounds of milk and 73 3 pounds of butterfat.
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Amiarengo
Iowa County
Forest E. Darey
Fred Gingerich
Guernseys
Wellman
John F. Haas
Williamsburg
Army Worms Threaten North Tama County Corn Fields
Special to The Gazette reports army worms in the Traer and Dinsdale areas aided by warm weather. Burn Byram Tama county agent notes baited control underway as corn grows one to two feet tall. Oats and wheat promise strong yields while alfalfa haying proceeds.
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Traer
Burns Byram
Tama
Toledo
Dinsdale
Byram
Millersburg
Steers Bring Mixed Prices at Chicago Yard
Speedtnn to The Gazette reports Cascade feeder rear Cascade received 11 per hundredweight for 22 steers averaging 1,294 pounds and 1075 for 18 head of 1,403 pounds sold in Chicago.
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Gazette Cascade
Ed Reiter
Cascade
Chicago
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