Trucking Upsets Reliability Of Market Estimates
Special correspondent reports advance livestock receipts at public markets are unreliable due to trucking growth. Sioux Falls shows 98 percent hogs and 94 percent cattle by truck in 1932. Trucking affects price moves, market fill value, and regional distribution across Sioux City Omaha Chicago Denver and Indianapolis markets.
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ES Moines
Sioux Falls
Continental Divide
Sioux City
Omaha
Chicago
Indianapolis
Denver
Grain Elevators Curtail Operations In Iowa
Credit stringency and uncertainty about the farm board and Stabilization Corporation have forced several Iowa grain elevators to scale back. Operators say the sector is paralyzed as grain movement stalls and costs squeeze margins. many elevators plan to ride out the downturn until demand returns.
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Ray Anderson
Federal Farm Board Grain Stabilization Corporation
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Farmers Deliver Heavy Grain Totals at Tama Benton Grain
Special report lists top weekly deliveries to Tama Benton Grain company. Louis Struve sent 2500 bushels of corn followed by Walter Pippert 2500 bushels. Roy Luze 1350, Ollie Vaubel 1100, William Landerebe 1300, Millard Brown 1000, Melhaus and Fiscus 660, Theodore G Stoakes 500 bushels of wheat.
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Dysart
Tama-Benton Grain Company
Louis Struve
Walter Pippert
Roy Luze
Ollie Vaubel
William Landerebe
Millard Brown
Melhaus
Fiscus
Theodore G Stoakes
Co op Creamery in Winneshirk County Starts Buying Eggs
DECORAH The Nordness Co operative creamery began handling eggs for patrons on a co operative basis. Producers are paid cash on delivery and graded eggs determine pro rated earnings. The Winneshiek county Farm Bureau cooperates with the creamery on this plan.
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Co-op Creamery
Winneshirk County
Decorah
Nordness Co-operative Creamery
Winneshiek County
Bis sells 1000 chicks near Manchester this week
Warren S Bisous sold 1000 baby chicks five miles northeast of Manchester this week receiving 500 Jersey Black Giant chicks and 500 Leghorns from a local hatchery. The Jersey Giants will be caporized and marketed in the fall while Leghorns will be intensified for early egg production.
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Manchester
Warren S Bissell
Bissell
Hog Market Talk Foresees March Price Rise
A veteran hog finisher predicts the market will strengthen in March as hogs weight around 225 pounds and the market tops move higher. He notes spring work arrival and market dynamics as reasons to hold for better prices.
Short Course At Fayette Attracts Sixty Farm Youths
About sixty Fayette county farmers attended the second annual short course in Fayette. Harry Linn of the Horse and Mule Breeders association led horse management talks and illustrated soundness with feet samples. Topics covered included butchering and meat cutting, canning, weeds and seeds, feeding and management of cattle and hogs, crops, dairy, poultry, orchards, and fruit care. The group organized the Fayette County Young Farmers club with Alvin Thoreson as chairman and Homer Chapman as secretary.
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Fayette
Fayette County
Harry Linn
Horse and Mule Breeders’ Association
Young Farmers’ Club
Alvin Thoreson
Cow Test Association No. 4
Homer Chapman
Jones County Farm Women Study Home Management
AMBER A series of home management lessons for Farm Bureau women is conducted this week in Jones County by Miss Fannie Gannon of the Ames extension service. Women from Fairview Greenfield and Rome townships met Tuesday at Mrs Allie Hopkins home near Anamosa. The remainder of the week schedules Wayne Jackson and Cass townships at Mrs Ray Fairbanks home Wednesday Wyoming at Mrs Henry Wolf Thursday and Castle Grove Lovell Richland and Scotch Grove at Mrs Edwin Wilcox Friday.
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Gazette
Amber
Farm Bureau
Jones’ County
Fannie Gannon
Ames Extension Service
Fairview
Greenfield
Rome
Allie Hopkins
Anamosa
Wayne
Jackson
Cass
Ray Fairbanks
Wyoming
Henry Wolf
Castle Grove
Lovell
Richland
Scotch Grove
Edwin Wilcox
Wool Sales Slow Pending Trend Of Goods Market
In Boston AP reports wool traders hold a wait and see stance as the goods market trends, with weak quotations from reduced buying but no clear push to dump stock. Domestic wool receipts for the week ending Feb 25 total 189,800 pounds, down from the prior week’s 7,044,300 pounds.
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Boston
Boston Grain and Flour Exchange
Farmers Prepare For Spring Work Amid Muddy Roads
Elgin residents repair harnesses oil harnesses and sharpen plows as spring work nears. Side roads are heavily muddy, forcing more moving by team and wagon than usual this year.
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Elgin
Tax burden on Iowa farmers adds to debt service
Ames AP report cites mal distribution and total taxes as main causes of high Iowa tax burden. Hopkins names public debt service about 20 million dollars annually, plus current expenses and road program costs, urging careful cuts and better state county administration to ease taxpayers load.
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Ames
Iowa
John A. Hopkins, Jr
Hopkins
Farmers Display Indoor Orange From Small Tree
James A Sherbon Jr, operator of a truck and fruit farm south of Walker, shows a ripe orange picked from an indoor tree at his home. The tree stands one and a half feet tall and bears twenty two oranges the size of small peaches.
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Walker
James A. Sherbon, Jr
Horses Sell Well At Farm Auctions
Old horses brought $100 a head at the Gilbert Martens sale near Wilton Junction as farmers report strong demand. Heifers $30.50, cows $25 to $36, hogs $16 broad sow, 60‑lb pigs $4, feeder shoats $6. Hay $3.50 a ton, oats 13c/bushel, total sale $2,500. Auctioneers were John Osmers and H W Kretschmar. Nearby sale saw old horses fetch $85 to $90. corn 14c a bushel.
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Ilton Junction
Gilbert Martens
John Osmers
Wilton Junction
Fritz Albrecht
H. W. Kretschmar
Elgin Co op pays 18 cents for half January butterfat
Elgin Patrons of the Elgin Farmers' Dairy company received payment for the last half of January butterfat at 18 cents per pound, two cents less than the rate paid for butterfat in the first half of the month.
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Elgin Co-op
Elgin
Elgin Farmers’ Dairy Company
Insurance Rules Ease for Stored Corn Loans
Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray announced that W B Whiting of the Regional Agricultural Credit at Sioux City advised the Iowa credit program may now accept warehouse certificates on corn without tornado or windstorm insurance. The change relieves sealers and farmers from the prior cost and trouble of dual coverage while warning loan agencies of the lack of insurance on the certified corn. Most warehouse certificates are still processed by the credit corporation.
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Des Moines
Ray Murray
W. B. Whiting
Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation
Sioux City
Murray
Credit Corporation
Farm Auction Lineup for March in Mechanicsville and West Branch
Auction schedule lists consignments in Mechanicsville and West Branch on Thursday March 2 and a livestock sale at DeClow barn on Friday March 3. Local buyers are advised to note times and lots for the events.
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Mechanicsville
West Branch
Debating Allotment Plan In Marengo March 10
Iowa State College at Ames and Iowa State University at Iowa City debaters will meet March 10 at Marengo high school auditorium to discuss domestic allotment for agricultural relief. County Agent D. H. Zentmire says Farm Bureau sponsors the program with an open forum to follow.
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Marengo
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa State University
Iowa City
Marengo High School
D. H. Zentmire
Iowa County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Organization Outreach in Delaware County
County Agent Kermith S. Huehn announces W. E. Krizer, Farm Bureau organizer, will hold a series of meetings in Delaware county this week. Krizer speaks Thursday at Lenox College Hopkinton, Thursday evening at Greeley High School, Friday afternoon at Earlville, and Friday evening at the court house in Manchester.
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Manchester — County
Kermith S. Huehn
W. E. Krizer
Farm Bureau
Delaware County
Mr. Krizer
Lenox College
Hopkinton
Greeley High School
Earlville
Court House
Iowa Live Stock Exchange Auctions Every Friday
Special notice to buyers and sellers at the Declow Stock Yards Marion Boulevard Cedar Rapids Iowa. Due to abundant stock the sale will be livestock only until further notice. Last sale topped 100 horses and another large entry is expected next Friday March 3. Cattle and hogs sell 11 am to 1 pm then horses. We hitch and try your horses. Sale occurs each Friday. Gene Fagan Tony Schmitz auctioneers.
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Marion Boulevard
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gene Fagan
Tony Schmitz
Flax Production in Iowa Faces Shifting Space
Iowa flax story traces a rise and fall from 1885 to 1932 as wilt resistance and new land expansion reshape its place. Experts note no surplus nationally and highlight Des Moines, central location between Kansas Illinois Minnesota mills as favorable outlets.
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Ames
Iowa
Burnett
Kansas
Illinois
Minnesota
Des Moines
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