Grasshopper Control Efforts in Argentine Ranches Advise Local Farmers
Dr. Carl J. Drake and Charles H. Richardson report on grasshopper infestations at the Santa Marina hacienda in Buenos Aires province. They demonstrate poison bait and fencing tactics to curb locust swarms that threaten crops and pastures, noting 25 percent grass loss and nearly all corn damage.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Carl J. Drake
Ames
Iowa
Drake
Charles H. Richardson
South America
Senor Alfredo Santa Marina
Dr. Drake
Richardson
Santa Marina Hacienda
Drake and Richardson
Santa Marina
Senor Santa Marina
Gether
Egypt
Miami
United States
New York
Iago
Private Sale Catalog Lists Various Livestock Lots
Sale on Tuesday and daily private sales feature 260 Hereford steer and heifer calves 400 to 500 pounds 100 Hereford steers about 1 000 pounds 25 Angus steers 1 100 pounds 160 Hereford yearling steers 600 to 700 pounds 200 Shorthorn steers 600 to 800 pounds 40 choice Hereford heifers 600 pounds 3 yearling Buffalo 1 bull and 2 heifers 300 feeding pigs 26 head of horses.
Farmer proposes 10 percent sales tax to fund soil care
R F A Drake reports cattle breeders in Argentina use a milking parlor to let calves suckle past two years. Cedar County farmer Bob Kelly suggests a 10 percent levy on production sales that would fund soil fertility programs and be refundable if soil building goals are met. He also imagines a cash peace guarantee among nations.
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CA Drake
Bob Kelly
Clarence
Kelly
Uni
Cedar County
$90 AN ACRE FOR TROY MILLS FARM
A Cedar Rapids businessman bought 300 acres near Troy Mills in recent farm sales. Mark Baty sold 100 acres for 9,500 dollars, while Dwilla Shaffer moved 200 acres in two parcels priced at 60 dollars per acre for 120 acres and 35 dollars per acre for 80 acres. The 80 acre tract is described as sandy and rough, the others as level and more productive.
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Troy Mills
Cedar Rapids
Mark Baty
Dwilla Shaffer
4-H Lamb Feeding Project Shows Profit in Iowa
C W McDonald and L G Allbaugh report 145 4 H club members in Iowa led the third annual junior lamb feeding project with an average profit of 1 26 per lamb across 245 lots fed over 99 days. Lambs averaged 89 pounds sold at 9 34 per cwt, gained 22 4 pounds, and consumed 112 pounds of corn and 14 pounds of oats daily. Death loss totaled 3 5 percent.
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Gazette
Iowa
C. W. McDonald
L. G. Allbaugh
Ames
Spencer
Waterloo
Sioux City
Des Moines
4-H
Marengo FFA Hosts Belle Plaine Visit Evening
The Marengo Future Farmers chapter entertained guests from Belle Plaine on Friday evening. A basketball game provided part of the entertainment.
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Marengo
Future Farmers
Belle Plaine
Farm Preferred To Factory Because Ideal For Family
ALICE DAVIDSON profiles M H Runkle and wife who moved to a 280 acre Delaware county Iowa farm in 1918 to seek a family friendly rural life. He builds a general farming operation with 75 to 100 Poland China hogs, a dairy herd of about 22 cows, and a butterfat dairy output sold to a local creamery.
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Runkles
Delaware County
Manchester
Runkle
Ames
Mr. Runkle
God's Green Acres
Des Moines
Little Runkles
Betty Runkle
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Father’s School
Grinnell
W. E. Stone
Laurel
Delaware County Farm Bureau
Chicago
Greeley
Artificial insemination advances by New Jersey dairymen
In May 105 New Jersey dairymen formed the first U S cooperative for artificial cattle impregnation. The project used three Holstein bulls with about 1100 cows, later adding two Guernsey bulls for 500 cows. A Missouri FSA program reports progress with many loans and farms employing insemination, including Pearl Spurgeon and others in Davis and Wapello counties.
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Bloomfield
New Jersey
United States
Guernsey
Argentina
National Agricultural Research Center
Washington, D. C
FSA
Pettis County
Missouri
Pearl Spurgeon
Farm Security Administration
Spurgeon
Doyle Schmittert
Davis County
C. W. Spurgeon
the Gazette
Jack
Schmittert
Davis
Wapello
Edwin G. Pearce
Lancaster
Pearce
Eee
H. W. Connor
Charles Willhoit
Ottumwa
Test of Butter Markets This Week
The federal weekly review predicts the week will reveal the impact of government support withdrawal on butter markets and potential price trends. Retail prices in New York Boston and Philadelphia range from 23 to 29 cents a pound with New York chains at 25 cents. Lower grade butter remains scarce and 90-score prices show little spread.
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Federal Weekly
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
New York
Iowa Farmers Rush to Seal Corn Under 57c Loan
DES MOINES AP Iowa farmers show renewed interest in the governments 57cents a bushel corn loan as the March 31 crib sealing deadline nears. L Dieterich state committee man in charge of corn loans said 1 500 samples were received for moisture tests Saturday up from 600 a week ago. He estimated 2 000 samples daily this week and that eligible farmers have more than 110 000 000 bushels of corn under seal.
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Des Moines
Iowa
AAA
L. Dieterich
Farm Auction Schedule Local Sale Dates
Local farm auctions listed with events on Monday March 20 at Mitchell farm Cedar Rapids 5 percent mile southwest and Tuesday March 21 at Iowa City Sales company for buyers and bidders in the area.
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Mitchell Farm
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City Sales Company
Tama Farmers Receive Final AAA Checks for 1938 Total
TRAER A distributed 1 886 AAA benefit checks totaling 310 264 to Tama county farmers on Friday. These were the final allotment awarded in the county for 1938 compliance.
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Tama
TRAER
Tama County
Local AAA Checks Arrive for Winneshiek Farmers
About 1000 AAA checks averaging 125 dollars are set to arrive in Decorah within days for distribution to Winneshiek county farmers.
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Gazette
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Walker Farm ers Creamery pays 28 cents butterfat
The Walker Farmers Creamery paid patrons 28 cents per pound for butterfat delivered in the last half of February. Kenneth Butler, secretary, reported Saturday.
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The
Gazette
Walker
Walker Farmers Creamery
Kenneth Butler
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Rio de Janeiro
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Busias Hardware CO
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Ther Street
Alice Davidson
Pera
M. H. Runkle
Tipton
Grinnell College
Williams and Hunting
John Runkle
Iowa State
Gazette Photo
Urbana
Benton County
Gienes
Enapr
Ray Anderson
Gazette Photos
Washington
Triple A
Joseph Kushner
Farm Bureau Calendar
Linn County Farm Bureau
Clinton Township
James McNamara
Chamber of Commerce
Brown Township
John Williams
Spring Grove
Riley Slocum
South Marion
S. G. Pearson
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