Short Cuts Valuable in Hog Raising
An Ames extension report urges strategic farrowing timing to cut labor and disease risk. If facilities allow, farrow in February or March. with limited facilities postpone to May or June. Late farrowing avoids corn planting, reduces sanitation needs, and lets sows care for piglets. Emphasizes sanitation, vaccination, clean ground, and efficient water and feeding systems. Veterinarians will meet as Dr. H G Smith of Allied Laboratories speaks in Tipton.
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Ames Agricultural Extension
Tipton
H. G. Smith
Allied Laboratories
Sioux City
East Central
Tipton Veterinarian Meeting on Swine Illnesses
The Veterinarian Medical Association in Tipton hosts a March 9 session titled Recent Developments in Gastro-Enteritis Infection in Swine. Dr A R Stephenson Bennett will lead discussion and cover feed efficiency, sulfur litter treatment for lice, culling low producers, and labor savings through large capacity feeders and waterers.
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Veterinarian Medical Association
Tipton
A. R. Stephenson
Bennett
Effective Labor Saving in Poultry From Iowa Pamphlet
An Iowa extension service pamphlet emphasizes housing, labor-saving equipment, and timing to maximize labor efficiency in poultry. Key points include staggering chick arrival to avoid peak conflicts, freeing the house for other enterprises, and ensuring full yearly pullet production. Early pullets should be confined before fall work peaks to prevent stress and align with high egg prices. The report also recommends supplementing whole grain fed free choice with a balancer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Extension Service
Livestock Sale At Kinney Farm Near Oxford
Overstocked cattle and other livestock offered at public auction. Joe Kinney farm sits a mile and a half southeast of Oxford on a gravel road, sixteen miles west of Town City, half a mile off No 6 Road. Sale details provided locally.
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Joe Kinney
Oxford
Town
Town City
No. 6
Livestock and Hog Auction Highlights March 16
Auction features 718 head including 68 registered Angus cattle with 43 cows and 25 young stock plus two top sires Brookside Burgess Envoy of Erin and Blackcap Blackcap Bando. Also 200 Hampshire sows and 84 Hampshire open sows with 216 Hampshire feeder hogs and 66 cross bred open sows plus 2 herd bulls. Sale 11 o'clock, rain or shine, closed pavilion. Auctioneers Kraschel Kennard Rarizek. Clerk Schweitzer.
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Brookside Burgess
P. J. Donohoe
Erin
Miss Burgess
Broder Blackcap
Blackcap Bando
Hampshire
Farrow
Public Sale Notice From Center Point Farm Auction
Public sale announced as milking quits. Auction to be held at a farm located 3 miles south of Center Point and 11 miles north of Cedar Rapids, just off Highway 150. Details on date and catalog to follow.
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Center Point
Cedar Rapids
Sale of Cows Hogs Poultry and farm Equipment
Forty cow herd details list 12 head including 6 Holsteins with various stages of freshening and milking, 2 Jerseys, 3 Guernseys, plus a Holstein bull and a Holstein yearling. Also 50 Hampshire hogs with cholera immunity, 150 White Leghorn pullets, a three-pen hog house, a 6 ft AC combine in good shape, one disk, four 10 gallon milk cans, steel barrels and related items. Entire herd for sale, proprietor not keeping any stock.
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Arden
Jerseys
Guernseys
Hampshire
Gordon
A.C
Fayette C T A milk averages and subsidies report
Fayette county dairy herd groups A2 and A4 averaged 747 pounds of milk and 396 pounds of butterfat in February, while Holsteins under Kenneth Kerr led with 39.1 pounds butterfat. Associations 1 and 3 posted 818 pounds of milk and 30.4 pounds butterfat. Des Moines reports $1,479,429 in dairy subsidy payments to 108,576 Iowa farmers for October to December.
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Fayette
Fayette County
Leo F. Wendland
Kenneth Kerr
Sam Alshouse
Des
Farmers' 1934 Soybean Acreage Shortfall Report
Des Moines Iowa farmers planting intention sheets from 75 counties show the planned soybean acreage for 1934 at 729,500 acres less than the 43 percent increase targeted by the federal government.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Bean Plans Far Short of Iowa Goal
Iowa farmers from 75 counties show intentions for a about 10 percent rise in soybean acreage, far below the 43 percent increase the government seeks for 1944. The survey indicates 728,500 acres short of the 2,890,000 acre soybean target, while corn and oats acreage may rise or stay stable.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Sheep Numbers Decline 8 Percent On Iowa Farms
The sheep industry sees a national drop from 57 million to about 45.8 million head, the western states suffering the largest losses while Iowa declines about 8 percent. Declining wool stocks, totaling over 900 million pounds, loom large as the postwar outlook shifts with war needs waning and government stockpile release debated.
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United States
Iowa
U. S
Fayette County Plans Conservation Campaign
Fayette county, via agent M. C. Wangsness, outlines a conservation program to prevent disease, neglect, and accidents that cause meat animal deaths and grain waste. The plan will be explained to rural school teachers and sessions will be held for district residents.
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West Union
Fayette County
M. C. Wangsness
Rural Schoolteachers’ Association
Increases Dairy Production Subsidy Rates
The War Food Administration announced sharp increases in dairy production subsidy rates for March and April and pledged to re-examine producer returns from milk used in cheese, evaporated milk, butter and skim milk powder. New rates range from 50 to 80 cents per hundred pounds, with a flat eight cent subsidy for butterfat sales. applies to Indiana Illinois Iowa Kentucky Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska and Wisconsin.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Office of Price Administration
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Milk and butterfat prices set by WFA for Jan Feb
The War Food Administration notes milk rates ranged from 30 to 50 cents and butterfat from five to six cents during January and February. Rates are higher in the Southwest and East due to feed shortages. They plan to cut rates from May through August as pastures improve production costs.
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WFA
Rose Advises Use of Certified Potato Seed
R C Rose, plant pathologist at the University of Minnesota farms, urged farmers Monday to use certified seed to ensure a better potato crop. He warned that virus diseases common in table stock or garden crops can infect seed, reducing vigor in the following year.
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R C. Rose
University of Minnesota Farms
Coming Farm Auctions This Week in Iowa Area
Auction notices list sales in Dysart Cedar Rapids Winthrop Center Point and Olin Iowa with lenders and deadlines. T J Case sale near Dysart Iowa State Aberdeen Angus sale in Cedar Rapids Barta farm sale near Cedar Rapids D H Brickley closing out near Winthrop Frank Telecky Leora Arne sale Center Point Milt Tudor sale Olin.
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J. L. Case
Dysart
Iowa State
Cedar Rapids
Barta
H. Brickley
Winthrop
Frank Telecky
Leora Arne
Center Point
Milt Tudor Sale
Olin
Seed Growers Told to Remove Infected Plants Early
Farmers must pull out all infected plants early in the season. Fields inspected by state representatives must meet health requirements set by the state department of agriculture.
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State Department of Agriculture
Dairy subsidy payments scheduled in Iowa through March
County Triple-A offices in Iowa will issue dairy feed subsidy payments for January through the remainder of March. Farmers are urged to file applications as early as possible.
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Triple-A
Iowa
Farm Forum Program To Be Broadcast on KXEL
Special to The Gazette Waterloo radio station KXEL will air an hour long farm forum during Food Front Alert week on March 9. Governor Bourke Hickenlooper will join the panel along with farm representatives county agents Farm Bureau leaders and AAA chairmen. The first half hour will discuss Food and the City Farmer with participants Dr Winfield Scott Mrs Burdette Jones Rex Conn J S Van Wert and Murl McDonald.
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Gazette
Waterloo
KXEL
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Triple- A
Winfield Scott
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Burdette Jones
Black Hawk County
Rex Conn
the Gazette
J. S. van Wert
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Murl McDonald
Iowa Extension Service
Contour Listing Surpasses Hill Method at Farm Study
A contour listing method at the Clarinda Indiana soil conservation experimental farm saved five times as much soil and water as the up-and-down hill listing over seven years from 1933 to 1939, highlighting contour practices' effectiveness in erosion control.
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Clarinda, In
Soil Conservation Experimental Farm
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Joe Kennard
Geo. Rarizek
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F Avenue
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Peerless
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Peg
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Voy
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Bean
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