Demand Indicates Upturn In Farm Buying Power Dealers Report
Ray Anderson reports a rise in farm buying power this season with more interest in machinery. Cedar Rapids dealers cite increased tool and seed cleaner sales, heavy equipment demand, and strong tractor production at Waterloo and Moline plants. Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward note rapid tillage tool sales and overall growth.
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Cedar Rapids
Henry Kling
Hamilton Seed and Coal Company
Hamilton Company
Farm observer notes new electric loader at Oats plant
An observer recalls a Tuesday event at the Quaker Oats plant where an electric floor tractor with a scoop handles large cardboard rolls. The farmer comments he wishes for one to load manure but worries about battery costs and resolves to stick with manual tools for now.
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Quaker Oats
Local farm equipment demand rises in Cedar Rapids and Marion
Zack McArthur reports a 25 percent sales jump in harness and tools at the Cedar Rapids store. The Cedar Rapids Transfer company flags higher pump and farm equipment business year over year. An implement firm in Marion has sold five times as much machinery this season, with strong demand for second hand gear and seventy tractors plus plows discs and cultivators noted.
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Cedar Rapids
Zack McArthur
Marion
Milk Prices and Election Mark Strawberry Point Dairy Meeting
Special to The Gazette at Strawberry Point reports 1934 butterfat price averages 30.33 cents per pound including hauling, with patron milk 29.27 cents. Total milk delivered 26,905,265 pounds. cream 466,080 pounds. overrun 23.13 percent. Weger buttermaker produced 1,211,035 pounds butter. prices to market 25.7 cents. A J Stamp elected president, BR Cole re elected secretary, G E Dunfrund treasurer. Carl Zwanzger new director. Ed Felter speaker.
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Strawberry Point
Strawberry Point Farmers Creamery Association
R Cole
Weger
Association
What Causes Epilepsy and Is There a Cure
A booklet presenting opinions from famous doctors on epilepsy is offered free to readers who write to the Educational Division Dept M-402 545 Fifth Ave New York. The ad promises insights on causes and potential cures.
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Fifth Ave
New York
Cattle Laid In At $5 60 In July Sell For $12 25
Washington report notes Richard Schnoehelen, a River de farmer, sold twenty head of white faced cattle last week. He bought them in Tulsa for 4560 per hundredweight, averaging 5450 pounds, and sold to John Foles of Sichols for 1225, weighing about 1087 pounds each.
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the Gazette
Washington
Richard Schnoehelen
Riverde
Tuls
John Foles
Sichols
Gazette
LA Porte City
Otto Stumma
Chester White
Gus
Carter
M.co
Chickasaw and Floyd Farm Folk Tour Cedar Rapids Industries
A group of eighty farmers from Chickasaw and Floyd counties toured Cedar Rapids, visiting Penick and Ford corn products and The Gazette, with a YMCA luncheon at noon. The tour, organized by Charles Manson for the Chamber of Commerce, followed winter night classes on agriculture taught by Aaron Bowman and Paul Auringer. The group returned home by 9 p.m. after shopping and theater visits.
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Chickasaw
Floyd Counties
Cedar Rapids
Penick
Ford
Chamber of Commerce
YMCA
Gazette
Charles Manson
Aaron R. Bowman
Paul Auringer
New Hampton
Charles City
Minneapolis
Mason City
Des Moines
Midwest
Bred Gilts Lead Auction Prices Across Livestock Sale
Special to The Gazette details a Lisbon sale where Spring gilts topped at 3450 a head and yearling brood sows reached 35, with late fall pigs at 5.20 and other livestock items including horses, cows, calves, ewes, poultry, and farm gear, amid mudbound conditions and a large turnout from nearby Maquoketa.
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Lisbon
Clara Brinks
F. S. Martin
Maquoketa
Uork
Penn
Mount Vernon
Localized Auction in Decorah Nets Modest Returns
In Decorah a steel wagon sold for 3050 dollars while a separator brought 4950. A harness set went for 35 dollars and seven month old colts sold for 52 and 65 dollars respectively. Chickens brought 91 cents each.
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Tate Gazette
Decorah
CN Merah S.ie
Fayette Young Farmers Admit Girls After Meeting
Fayette County group of over thirty young farmers voted to form a coed organization for rural men and women aged twenty to thirty. The session featured a talk on quality concrete by FOW Schrieber and an address by TT. C Surfus of the Farm Bureau Service company. A meeting is planned for April 8 at the Fayette Legion hall.
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Fayfur
Fow Schrieber
Fayette County
UT U Thipel
Legion Hall
Fayette
Young Farmers Organization
C Surfus
Farm Bureau Sensice Company
Merning
Ines Af
Township Corn And Hog Leaders Named In Tama And Louisa
Newly elected township committeemen for the 1935 Tama county corn hog program are listed with chairmen and vice chairmen for each township. March 6 elections in Lincoln and Spring Creek, March 7 county election, and April 1 final signup deadline.
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Tama and
Louisa
Toledo
Columbia Township
Claude Phillips
John C. Schroeder
Gus Timm
Tama
Carl Liston
Willard Houdyshell
Victor Lacina
Indian Village
Harry White
C. G Milligan
George Mhitchem
York
Louie Novotny
George Stransky
Perry Overturf
Salt Creek
R. Frank Crane
Ray Wilkinson
Joe Stadler
Russell Winders
Charles Whalin
B R Emerson
Grant
R. S. Stephenson
E. J. Dinsdale
P H. Claussen
Buckingham
L. B. Stavely
J. Wood
W S Howard
Geneseo
R. C McElhinney
Harold Speer
E. N McElhinney
Crystal
Robert Lyon
A R. McMillan
William C. Wiese Perry
Frank Stark
S. S Wilson
John Curren
Clark
H. G. Hark
Aschenbrenner
William Schnell Carlton
C W. McCune
R E. Meyer Wilford Ruppenkamp
Howard
Earl Lyon
Joseph W Dostal
Alfred Brandt
Carroll
John Roubinek
Fred J Kupka
Fred J Husak
Queida
John Cherveny
Hans Wieck
Richard Arp
Otter Creek
Charles Mishek
J .D. Hayes
Frank Stransky
Highland
Charles A. Gary
Glenn Lovig
O Shipley
Richland
Walt Rich
F. E. Wilcox
Will Upah
Lincoln
Spring Creek
Fayette county files 1550 signers for 1935 corn hog contracts
Walter Rothlisberger, Fayette county chairman, reports 1 550 signers of applications for 1935 corn and hog contracts to date and expects the total to exceed 1 700 by the April 1 deadline.
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Fayette
Walter Rothlisberger
Fayette County
Permanent township corn-hog committeemen listed
The Louisa county permanent township corn-hog committeemen are named for multiple townships, including Columbus City WT Duncan E W Fullerton L D Jones Concord R C Lowe Lester Hafner Ro Schlichting Eliot Frank Creighton Harold Swan Carl Thurman Elm Grove Floyd Beauchamp L B Hill J R Rees J Hall Evan H Davis Grand View J D Newell Harry Stine J E McGrew Jefferson L M Miller A A Hook S B Matthews Marshall H G Crow James Humphrey William Johansmeier Morning Sun Kirk Armstrong Elbert Hill Ray Corne Oakland C E Nicholson Melvin Forbes Frank Gooch Port Louisa Guy Hardman Paul Beik Hi M Leyda Union Lyle E. Dun-
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Jefferson
L. M Miller
A A Hook
S B. Matthews
Marshall
H G. Crow
James Humphrey
William Johansmeier
Morning Sun
Kirk Armstrong
Elbert Hill
Ray Cornie
Oakland
C E Nicholson
Melvin Forbes
Frank Gooch
Port Louisa
Guy Hardman
Paul Beik
Hi M Leyda
Union
Lyle E. Dun
Names Listed at Wapello April 7 Meeting
Local notes list attendees including Can J W Boyd Earl Crim Alvah Ball T G Hotle Earl Moyers Lee Dotson J J Cut hamp Burr Harris and Charles Reuting er for an April 7 gathering in Wapello. The fragment confirms participation but lacks event detail.
Memorial payments planned for early-pay corn hog contracts
Memorandum sheets for second benefit payments totaling about $30,000 were received at the county corn and hog headquarters in Washington Iowa. Checks are expected late this week or early next week.
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the Gazette
Washington
Buckhorn Creamery Pays 40.5 Cents For Butterfat
Maquoketa area reports Buckhorn creamery paid an average of 4.00 dollars per pound for butterfat in February with smaller checks than January due to the short month. The top ten checks included Frank Decker of Oxford Junction 199.11 dollars and Walrod and Bousselat of DeWitt 193.69 dollars among others.
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Maquoketa
Buckhorn Creamery
Frank Decker
Oxford Junction
Walrod and
Bousselat
DeWitt
Hans Jorgensen
Baldwin
Hans Skott
Winter Farm Activities In South Bethel Community
South Bethel farmers sustain winter duties with varied tasks. One man uses a wood saw daily and treks miles by tractor to supply neighbors. Another baled thirty five tons of hay. A third with an ice saw ensures ice houses stay filled. A fourth assists by hauling livestock, wood, coal, and passengers by truck. A fifth shreds fodder, while some fodder is ground instead of shredded.
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The
Gazette
South Bethel
Popped corn coated with melted cheese debut
A new confection features popped corn coated with melted cheese, introducing a savory snack option that blends corn puffs with cheese coating for a rich taste.
Bliss Defends AAA Cost Claim Amid Drought
Iowa extension director R. K. Bliss argues drought more than government control raised living costs. He cites AAA actions conserving food, cattle pulled from pasture and canned beef for relief, and notes agriculture cut production only recently without boosting unemployment.
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AMES
INS
AAA
R. K. Bliss
Iowa Extension Service
Bliss
Harry Linn to Demonstrate Colt Breaking in Fayette Rallies
Harry Linn field secretary for the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders association will give a colt breaking demonstration and explain the multiple hitch at two meetings in Fayette county on March 18 and 19. The southern Fayette meeting will be March 18 and the northern meeting March 19 with venues announced later.
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Fayette
Harry Linn
Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders Association
Fayette County
Adams Deplores Sideline Dairymen In February Report
Whittier Iowa L. C. Adams dean of testers criticizes sideline dairymen in the Linn Cow Test association No. 1. He notes most butter selling at a loss and cites variable feed returns across herds. The 265 cows in 19 herds averaged 595 lb milk and 26.9 lb butterfat in February, with top cows producing over 60 lb butterfat. The Pearson Holstein herd led at 967 lb milk and 39.8 lb butterfat from 13 head.
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Whittier
Dairyman
L. C. Adams
Linn Cow Test Association No. 1
Adams
Iowa
A. R. Pearson
Co. B. F. Michel and Son
Marion
Schoonover and McClelland
Association
Dairy Herds Report Butterfat and Feed Details
The McClelland herd averaged 39.1 pounds butterfat. The Pearson herd was fed a grain mix of eight parts corn plus cod meal four parts 16 percent protein feed and one part soybeans. February butterfat prices ranged from 38 to 40 cents per pound for association members.
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McClelland
Pearson
Association
Cedar Garden Project Drives County Garden Plan
Cedar County emergency relief committee expands garden program this year to aid relief families. George Sissel leads the effort with plots slated in multiple county areas where feasible.
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Tipton
Cedar County
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