East Iowa Farm Income Jump Driven by Prices and Inventory
The Cedar Valley Farm Business Association reports 1934 net cash income per farm of 1 730 with farm management returns of 2 247 and total net farm income of 3 672 tied to higher inventory values. Corn yields fell to 40 bushels, oats 7, barley 6, hay 16 tons. crop value per acre rose to 22 45. Weather drought and chinch bugs reduced yields but not profits.
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Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Iowa
J. J. Wallace
Marion
Wallace
Olive Tablets offer relief for bad breath and digestion
Thousands suffer bad breath and constipation choose Dr Edwards Olive Tablets a vegetable formula taken at night to purify the system and aid natural bowels without griping or after effects sold in 15c 30c or 60c sizes.
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Edwards
Dr. Edwards
F. NM Edwards
Greeley C T A Averages 23 5 Lbs February Butterfat
Greeley C T A reports February results for twenty eight herds with an average 612 pounds milk and 23.5 pounds butterfat per cow. Butterfat cost averaged 29 cents per pound. Delaware county home herd led with 41.7 pounds butterfat from 16 Grade Holsteins.
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Manchester
Greeley
Paul McElmed
Marengo Iowa Cow Test Shows Strong February Averages
Special to The Gazette. In Iowa County, the Cow Test Association reports February averages across 261 cows including 40 dry. The herd average was 542 pounds of milk and 231 pounds of butterfat with Anton Heitshusen’s herd at 1 064 pounds of milk and 37.5 pounds of butterfat from sixteen Holsteins. Lea B Smith led with a purebred Jersey cow yielding 11M pounds of milk and 54 pounds of butterfat.
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West Branch Association
Ralph Branson
West Branch
A. H Spencer
Downey
Spencer
Branson
West Liberty
Marengo
Iowa County
Anton Heitshusen
Holsters
Lea B Smith
Jersey
La Porte Cannery Plans Tomato Purchase and Staffing
La Porte Cannery announces plans to contract for thousands of tomatoes and to pay 11 cents per pound. About 158 women and 50 men will be employed at the plant through August. Leo Lutz will retire as manager.
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la Porte
Spe
Clarence Spippogonsociation Grain Market Report
On Friday the Chicago market shows prices at 975 per hundredweight for hag with shipments by the fastening furmare. Bexner cixty hags average 219 weeds Pand Hasselbusch 240 weed average. Gold smth Pereoindt average and WoVaam Conrad 260-pound average.
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Clarence
Linn farmers offered free seed testing for 1935 planting
Linn county farmers may mail seed samples to the Iowa State College seed testing laboratory for free germination and purity checks throughout 1935. Guidelines specify sample sizes for small and large seeds and advise using seed grown in climates similar to the planting area to avoid poor yields and weed contamination.
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Towa
Botany
Iowa State College
Linn County Farm Bureau
Linn County
Iowa Experiment Station
What Do Farmers Do Besides Farm
In Benton County farmer Eli Parry operates a 260 acre farm along the Lincoln highway two miles south of Keystone and runs a filling station with his son Charles. The station, opened seven years ago, has aided sheriff deputies in tracing a bank robbery when bandits used the nearby highway. Parry notes occasional attempts by drivers to swindle him but says most automobile drivers are honest and he has serviced cars from across the United States.
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Eli Parry
Lincoln Highway
Keystone
Parry
Charles Parry
Benton County
Barry
Keystone Road
United States
Receipts of Hogs Continue Light in Interior Markets
Des Moines report shows interior hog market remaining light due to scarcity bad roads and weather. Prices held steady with a modest rise. a Wednesday high of 9.80 for rail delivered hogs sets a new interior peak not reached since Oct 8 1930. Farmers delay sales amid favorable corn hog ratios and thinner weights, with slow demand and no rush to market despite good prices.
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Des Moines
Harbingers of Spring Seen as Ducks Move North
Large flocks of wild ducks were seen flying north at different times Wednesday in Troy Mills, signaling arriving spring. Song birds are beginning to appear, foreshadowing warmer days ahead.
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Troy Mills
Shiloh Battle Recall Iowa Heroic Stand Echoes
In April 1862 near Pittsburg Landing, Iowa regiments led a stubborn defense at Shiloh. The Second Seventh Twelfth and Fourteenth Iowa held the Hornet s Nest against repeated Confederate assaults. Despite heavy losses, they delayed the enemy and aided Grant s army’s regrouping for a counterattack.
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U S Grant
Tennessee River
Fort Henry
Grant
Fort Donelson
Iowa
Tennessee
Pittsburg
Corinth
Mississippi
Missouri
Oho River
Army of the Tennessee
Towa
J. M. Tuttle
Fourteenth Iowa
Eighth Iowa
Mhd
Hornet's Nest
Kentucky
Pea Ridge
Island No
Shiloh
Veterinarians To See World Series Film At Meeting
The East Central Linn County Veterinary association will screen a 1 000-foot reel of the 1934 World Series in St. Louis at its March dinner meeting in Cedar Rapids Thursday at 6 30 p m The Cedar county group organized by Dr C H Waite of Stanwood as president and Dr George O Shipley of West Branch as secretary also features talks on Guernsey cattle swine disease control hog cholera case reports livestock sales regulation and a chalk talk on equine ailments by listed veterinarians
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St. Louis
Linn County Veterinary Association
Montrose
Cedar Rapids
Cedar County Group
C. H. Waite
Stanwood
George O. Shipley
West Branch
Fred Kammiller
Dubuque
R. H. Hofford
United States
I. W. Moranville
Durant
Iowa
W. C. Stewart
Maquoketa
C. H. Banks
Tipton
January exports hit twenty year low says agricultural bureau
The bureau of agricultural economics reports the smallest January farm export volume in over 20 years with an index of 57. Cotton exports drop to 68 from 109 year over year while total seven month exports fall to 3.325 million bales from 5.929 million. Wheat and flour exports reach a record low for January as imports exceed exports by 16 000 bushels.
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United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Pullets Sell For 97.5 Cents Near Columbus Junction
Twelve dozen Rhode Island Red pullets sold for 97.14 cents each at the Henry Leffier sale nine miles northwest of Columbus Junction. Various farm implements and livestock brought prices including two hundred bushels of seed oats at 69 cents per bushel and corn at 80 cents. A team of black mules weighed 2600 pounds sold for 215 dollars. other stock ranged from 30 to 75 dollars per head. Clerk H Lee Huston and agents Paul Kloiz and H M Duncan noted the sale.
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The
Gazette
Columbus Junction
Rhode Island
Henry Leffier
Paul Kloiz
H. M. Duncan
Suro Sheer
H. Lee Huston
Colt Brings 161 At Decorah Auction
Good horses sold well at the Goodno and Ronan sale in Decorah with 31 head changing hands. Seven Angus bulls averaged 50 while work horses ranged from 40 to 80 dollars. Milk cows sold 40 to 50 each and sows topped 36. Ewes reached 9. Total sales near 5700 dollars.
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Gazette
Decorah
Goodno
Ronan
Waukon Area Livestock Sale Tops At $147
Special to The Gaz reports the L. C. Harden sale near Waukon saw horses peak at 147 dollars. Cows ranged 27.50 to 48 dollars per head while steers averaged around 26 dollars per head. Overall sale total reached 1 178 dollars.
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Gaz Waukon
L. C. Harden
Waukon
Delaware farmer sells 369 hogs to Cedar Rapids packers
Lyle Sutton of Delaware marketed 369 head of hogs Friday to Cedar Rapids packers at $9.55 per hundredweight.
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Delaware
Lyle Sutton
Cedar Rapids Packers
Cattle Slaughter Drops to February Lows in 1935
February slaughter under federal inspection shows drought effects with cattle 658,987 head, calves 389,521, hogs 2,408,826, and sheep and lambs 1,136,873. Comparisons set record lows since 1910 for hogs and since 1929 for sheep and lambs. Eight months ended February totalities reflect ongoing drought impact.
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Chicago
Corn-Hog Program Signups Reach 1 072 in Washington County
Washington county signs show 1 072 corn-hog applications filed to date with 200 more expected before April 1. Patterson, the county committee chair, notes many farmers have signed joint renter contracts, likely reducing total contracts below last year. forty such contracts are already on file.
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the Gazette
Washington
Washington County
Patterson
Rowley Creamery Pays 40c A Pound for Butterfat
Rowley Farmers Cooperative Creamery reports patrons received forty cents a pound for first half of February butterfat, per secretary Joe McGrath. Butterfat during the last half of January brought thirty nine cents a pound.
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Rowley
Rowley Farmers Co-operative Creamery Company
Joe McGrath
External remedies rarely yield swift lasting relief
The question asks why external remedies often fail to provide quick, permanent relief and why cutting is unlikely to remove underlying causes. Reasons include placebo effects, temporary symptom masking, complex biological and psychological factors, and the need to address root causes rather than surface symptoms. Comprehensive approaches target underlying mechanisms for durable outcomes.
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Morley H. D Smith
Moriey
Linn Farmers
Ames
South
Sudan
Benton
Charles Perry
John Ely Briggs
Battle OF Shiloh
Merty
McClellan
Lee
Potomac River
Bowling Green
Columbus
Mississippi River
Cumberland
Ft. Henry Taken
Shiloh Church
Buell
Pittsburg Landing
Corinth Highway
Lew Wallace
A. S. Johnston
Vicksburg
Dr. Pierce
Lee Ruhl
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Kansas City
Rowley Creamery
Lydia E. Pinkham
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