No Interruption Expected In Livestock Marketing
Farmers may market livestock as usual Monday with payments by checks that will be cashed when financial arrangements restore. At conferences in Chicago and Des Moines, bankers, packers, and traders discussed continuing normal operations. most sellers accepted checks, while some held stock amid market uncertainty.
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Roducers
Tresaar Ans
Sankinge
Chicago
Menkers
Bankers
Harry Palmer
Sinclair Packing Company
Cedar Rapids
Chicago Exchange
Iowa
Des Moines
Allan Nash
Wilson and Company
Checs
Nash
End of Month Hog Market Sees Price Fluctuations in Des Moines
Market sentiment turned up after heavy month end liquidity. Prices reached late week highs with strong hogs largely holding around 3.10 to 3.35 per 100 pounds for 170 to 240 pound ranges, while 240 to 260 pound weights discounted about 10 cents.
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Des Moines
Mony
Fragmented Input Card From Night Street Scene
A distorted OCR fragment references a West Street area and a night main with names that appear garbled. The text mentions Loreen and Tau Sisters and clues to a local scene, but lacks coherent details or clear events.
Quarter Section Sales Highlight Rural Land Trades
The 160 acre Belda Mo Tuttle farm near Newhall sold for 105 dollars per acre to William Haunstorf. Chester Tuttle to manage during 194? season. In Fayette, A S Morse bought 144 acres of the Hard Turner farm for 7000 dollars. 65 acres remain across the highway with new arrangements for Ford Turner and Frank Edmonds as transitions occur on nearby properties.
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Belda Mo Tuttle
Newhall
Wiliam Haunstorf
Chester Tuttle
Alice
Vinton
Fayette
A. S. Morse
Restricted Milk Shed For Chicago Contemplated
Dr Herman Bundesen president of the Chicago board of health says a temporary milk shed with a 250 mile radius for cream and ice cream and 130 miles for fluid milk may supply Chicago. A court order for dairy farm inspections preceded this action and permits to ship milk from northern Wisconsin will be revoked. Bundesen notes reduced inspector funding and says 200000 pounds of milk remain available in Illinois and southern Wisconsin not yet on the market.
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Spreal
the Gazette
Chicago
Hermann Bundesen
Chicago Board of Health
Thaois
Wisconsin
Bundesen
Bundensen
Illinuis
Farm students repair implements in workshop scene
A damaged manuscript-like fragment describes students repairing tools and farm implements in a workshop. The garbled text mentions machinery, a shop, and limited references to students and possible farm activity, with uncertain details and names obscured by OCR errors.
Clover seed sale and farm stock auction at Mechanicsville
Clover seed fetched 7.75 a bushel at Mechanicsville consignment sale in the Wilson barn. In Columbus Junction, a closing out sale of Joseph B Jones yielded ponies to $40 and cattle and sheep selling from 10 to 53 dollars, hens at 55 cents, hay at 3 per ton, corn at 14 cents a bushel, oats at 12 cents, and various machinery selling well. Auctioneers were Boling, Colby, and Paul Klotz of Columbus Junction.
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Mechanicsville
Wilson Barn
Boling
Colby
Gazette
Columbus Junction
Joseph B Jones
Paul Klotz
Everett Borman
Columbus
Jon Harness
Callars
White Rock
Ready match of horses at Manchester auction
A ready matched team of horses from grass sold for 200 dollars at a Friday auction at the county fairgrounds in Manchester. Other South Dakota horses brought 39 to 88 dollars, averaging about 75. Auctioneers were E. J Hopkins of Manchester and T P Turner of Ryan. Water expands one eleventh of its bulk when frozen.
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Spectr
Manchester
South Dakota
E. J Hopkins
T P. Turner
Ryan
A Modern Edition Of the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
Urbana feature shows Mrs. Manley and J R Manley with a home built buggy named Coaly. The contraption, fashioned from a car rear end, lacks a tire pump and tool kit yet is praised for durability. It hauls children to school daily between ash hills near Urbana and is likened to the Holmes shaw.
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Manley
Urbana
the Gazette
L. D Manley
Commission cuts at National Stockyards East St Louis
Rates for buying and selling livestock at National Stockyards drop under a February 28 order by acting Agricultural Secretary R W Dunlap. Carload hog tariffs fall to 9 11 dollars from 12 13. sheep and double deck cattle also see substantial reductions.
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ST. Louis
R. W. Dunlap
Mr. Dunlap
Linn County Farm Bureau Weekly Meeting List
The Linn county Farm Bureau schedules home project meetings for Putnam College townships Marion Brown and Linn townships and North Marion and Washington townships with dates Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday at 10 am or 1 30 pm. Meetings are hosted by individuals including Mrs James Smyth Mrs A J Hoge Mrs Roy Lacock and Mrs Forrest Hann and held at venues such as Iowa Railway and Light building Marion library Pleasant Valley school and Washington township meeting room.
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Linn County Farm Bureau
Putnam
College Townships
James Smyth
Iowa Railway and Light
Marion
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Brown Township
A. J. Hoge
Maine Township Farm Bureau
Pleasant Valley
Linn Township
Roy Lacock
North Marion Township
Forrest Hann
Washington Township
Livestock Values Drop Despite Higher Numbers in U S
The 1933 agricultural situation report shows U S farm livestock up 2 percent in numbers but value down 17 percent, about half a billion dollars, with cattle up 4 percent to a peak since 1928. Hogs rose 3 percent, sheep fell, and hog prices hit a 36 year low early this year.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Cascade hog consignments top Chicago market pace
Cascade-Thirty-eight Hogs sold on the Chicago market Thursday averaging 183 pounds and $3.70 per hundredweight, top for their weight within 5 cents of the Feb. 14 peak. George Rogers Jr also consigned forty-one head of 243-pound hogs at $3.65. Spotted Polands. John P Kart sold two cattle loads in Chicago, one at 1,241 pounds for $6 and one at 1,208 pounds for $625. A steer weighed 950 pounds and brought $725 per hundredweight.
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The
Gazette Cascade
Cascade Shipping Association
Chicago
George Rogers, Jr
John P Kart
Dubuque County
Dairy contest yields 93.5 by Allan Leffler at Ames
In a contest conducted by M Mortensen among dairy manufacturing students at Ames Allan Leffler of Vinton scored 93.5 on his batter The highest score so far is 93.75 Prof Mortensen expects to continue the contest for ten more days.
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Vinton
M. Mortensen
Ames
Allan Leffler
Mortensen
McArthur Plan on Extension Service Sparks Farm Bureau Clash
Senator William McArthur seeks to change county extension work prompting a split in Iowa’s Farm Bureau with Hearst faction opposing and fears of wrecking 4-H and local farm leadership. The debate centers on control of extension, insurance, and federation influence.
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Associated. Press
William McArthur
Mason City
County Agricultural Extension Service
State Farm Bureau Federation
McArthur
Charles E. Hearst
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance
Farmers’ Mutual
Hearst
Senator McArthur
Independence Hen Sets Laying Records in 1932
Independence A Ward, a poultryman, posted the top averages in two breed groups in 1932. He produced 236 eggs from 110 White Leghorn pullets in 365 days, and 197 eggs from 66 Buff Orpington pullets, leading Mediterranean and English breeds respectively. Mrs WM Ferrin of Winthrop led American breeds with 234 eggs from 47 Rhode Island Red pullets. Only eight breeders in the state met the record of performance.
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Independence
A. H Ward
Independence Poultryman
Poultry Division
Ames
Ward
Buchanan County
WM. Ferrin
Winthrop
Forty hens stolen from Ed Schilling farm in South Bethel
A Wednesday night theft at the Ed Schilling farm in South Bethel left forty hens missing. Local authorities urge any leads and describe the loss as a livestock theft.
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South Bethel
Ed Schilling
Eight Times Around Globe On Milky Sea
Fayette veteran cream hauler Jesse Deeds, 60, retired March 1 after forty years on the road. He averaged long hauls, handling about thirty cans daily with eight gallons each and logging 130000 miles and 312000 cans over eight figurative world trips.
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the Gazette
Fayette
Jesse Deeds
Mr. Deeds
Deeds
Arlington
Scott Creamery
Stanley
State Hospital Herd Tops Test Assn In Buchanan
Independence Iowa The Cedar Valley Cow Test association reports the state hospital herd led February with 1116 pounds of milk and 40.3 pounds of butterfat from 75 cows Arvid Manguson followed with 883 pounds of milk and 32.1 pounds of butterfat from nine cows The 234 cows in the association averaged 742 pounds of milk and 29.6 pounds of butterfat The Buchanan county farm recorded a highest cow at 1170 pounds of milk and 53.8 pounds of butterfat Five top cows averaged 5.22 dollars over feed cost at 17 cents per pound for butterfat High herd fed cost averaged 11.7 cents per pound for butterfat.
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Independence
Iowa State Hospital
Cedar Valley
Arvid Manguson
Tom Hotchkiss
Buchanan County
There Goes the Wagon: Farm Migrations Sweep Mechanicsville
In Mechanicsville a mass movement marks spring as over twenty five farms change occupants within five miles. Farmers report widespread rent sharing and new tenancy across the countryside this year.
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Gazette
Mechanicsville
John Jones
Farmer Brown
Smith
Wilson
Stevens
Wood Choppers Active This Year Across State
Observation across eastern areas shows wood fuel use up at least twofold from usual. Farmers report 30 to 300 percent increases, with beetling timber clearings by Unemployed groups in Tama county and widespread wood heating replacing other fuels. Hardwood cords cost 3 to 7 dollars delivered, poles 1 to 1.5 dollars each. softwoods cheaper.
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Amana
Williamsburg
Tama County
Waterloo
Benton County
Ely 4 H Girls See Inaugural Parade in Washington
Linn county 4 H girls club members attended the inaugural parade passing White House Capitol and other government buildings. They heard President Roosevelt deliver the inaugural address and viewed pictures of Washington described by club leader Mrs F L Fuhrmeister.
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The
Gazette
Ely
Sunny Sparklers
Linn County
4-H
Washington
White House
Capitol
Roosevelt
George Lorenc
F. L. Fuhremeister
Wilma Skalsky
Dorothy Lockwood
Angie Holets
Coetten
Margaret Smyth
Fuhrmeister
Tama man elected president of Iowa butter and egg dealers
At the Iowa Butter and Egg Dealers convention in Des Moines R G McFarland of Tama was chosen president with Leo P Winks Sumner as vice president Mark A Hagensick Des Moines as secretary and M J Good rich Strawberry Point as treasurer Executive committee members were re elected E G Morse Mason City J P Gould Harlan J J Gallagher Waverly J L Hakes Laurens and J L Dickinson Knoxville
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Des Moines
Iowa
R. G. McFarland
Tama
Leo P. Winks
Sumner
Mark A. Hagensick
M. J. Good
Rich
Strawberry Point
E. G. Morse
Mason City
J. P. Gould
Harlan
J. J. Gallagher
Waverly
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Chieum
Livestecks Cenverec Blondas
Donews
Snes
Ramos
Oneida
Aemontyce Obey Ate
Faerr
Iriefmactar
Taree & Samosas
Rss- Sands
Saziss
Sra
Ceemery
Anc World Histor
Meida
Stowerk
Miss Forbes
Gladys Adams
Osnaberg
Tre-Art
Tims
Formishine Ponet
Florence Forbes
SFLIS
Lloss Shay
East ST. Louis
Department of Agriculture
Linn Farm Bureau Calendar
Federation
A. H. Ward
Globe
State
Buchanan
Wood Choppers
Iowa Butter and Egg Dealers
Tama Man
Mary Tamblyn
H. E. Pagecattle CO
Beverly Yards
Hicken
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