East Iowa farm groups weigh more government control
About 225 eastern Iowa farm leaders met in Cedar Rapids to discuss increased government involvement in economic life. John Weig argued government participation will rise unless social responsibility grows and privileges are renounced, outlining five reasons and several economic challenges.
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East
Iowa
Gov’t
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
John Weig
Department of History and Economics
Ames
Federal Department of Agriculture
Ames Extension Service
Weig
Veig
Timber potential from gully control field near Waubeek
A 20 acre sloping field near Waubeek, leased by Donald Price and owned by a church group, is shown in photos taken in spring 1936 and recently after snow. The Linn county soil conservation project reduced 25 foot gullies with tree plantings, improving erosion control and yielding a dense stand of black locusts and jack pine along with ash oak willow hackberry and shrubs for cover.
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Hese
Donald Price
Waubeck
Linn County
Soil Conservation CCC
Marion
SCS
Waubeek
Fifty Tubs Butter Entered For Earlville Contest
Fifty tubs of butter have been entered in the state educational butter scoring contest at Earlville. Elmer Primus, manager of the Farmer's Cooperative Creamery association, says the event may be among the largest educational exhibits in the state. Many producers sent duplicate tubs to the national contest in Minneapolis where judging is set for March 26.
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Earlville
Elmer Primus
Farmer's Cooperative Creamery Association
Minneapolis
Horse Sale At Feep Yard Describes Russian Bred Horses
A historic sale advertises fresh from farms horses surplus from the Colt Club and neighbors. Many are Russian bred, with mares in foal and several shown at Stanwood Horse Show as colts. The lineup includes paler roan mares, blue roan geldings, red roans, and 2 year old colts and fillies. good color and well broken. Auctioneers Walter Challis and staff, Union Trust Savings Bank as clerk, Melvin Bowser and Floyd Spar as managers.
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Fepp YaRd
Colt Club
Stanwood Horse Show
Tana
Walter Challis
Union Trust Savings Bank
Melvin Bowser
Floyd Spar
Fence Drift Through Spring Field Work Near April
A reflective note indicates spring arrival and field work starting by April 1 with warmer days and lingering squallier weather. The piece references a woven mire metaphor and a heartfelt greeting of good mornings as spring progresses.
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RF. A
Hog Slaughter Declines at Leading Packers in Week Ended March 15 1940
Special to The Gazette Chicago reports the weekly hog slaughter at 27 federal points fell to 669 888 head from 692 306 the prior week the lowest since October. Interior Minnesota markets saw 161 554 hogs while cattle and calf totals were 123 427 cattle and 70 863 calves. Sheep and lamb slaughter reached 228 641.
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the Gazette
Chicago
Federal Agricultural Marketing Service
Interior Town
Minnesota
Albert Lea
Austin
Minn
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Marshalltown
Ottumwa Storm Lake
Waterloo
Iowa
TVA Phosphate Trial Planned For Allamakee Farms
An Allamakee county project forwards a 40 200 pound shipment of 45 percent superphosphate to TVA for use on farms of 13 cooperators testing the fertilizer over five years. Each cooperator receives specified pounds and acres, with application at 100 to 150 pounds per acre on 80 percent of fields. Cooperators observe yields on phosphated and untreated plots and pay transportation plus a per ton assessment ranging from 2 to 10 dollars.
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Tn the Gazette
Waukon
TVA
Allamakee County
Theodore Gronna
George Herman
Joseph Kernan
James V. Ryan
Horace Clark
John P. Ferring
Warner M Harris
Ole Orness
John Rouster, Jr
AG Bahr
Harold
Farm Auction Schedule With Multiple Sales This Week
Upcoming sales list includes E L Riley sale at Linn Junction Iowa and Livestock Exchange horse sale in Cedar Rapids on March 20 and 21. Gibson Commission Co. horse sale at West Liberty and Beverly Cattle Co livestock sale on March 21. Mrs Henry Sage closing out sale near Troy Mills and Albert Tenley closing out sale near Tipton on March 22. Stan Wood horse sale on March 26.
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E. L. Riley
Linn Junction
Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Gibson Commission Co
West Liberty
Beverly Cattle Co
Henry Sage
Troy Mills
Albert Tenley
Tipton
Stanwood
Farm in Buchanan County Brings $5,800 in Sale
Independence reports the 140 acre Crow ley estate farm in Middlefield township sold by Referee Leo J Molloy for 5800 cash or 41 per acre to settle a partition suit. Buyer is Frank M Farrell of Independence. Judge R W Hasner approved the sale and the referee is to issue a deed to the purchaser.
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Independence
Crowley
Middlefield Township
Buchanan County
Leo J Molloy
Frank M. Farrell
R W. Hasner
District Court
Bill to Limit AAA Payments To 5000 Drafted
Senator Gillette announces a Senate bill to cap annual federal agricultural program payments at 5000 per person, down from 10000. The House approved plan also tightens the excess payment rule and adds a landlord burden of proof on sharecroppers’ exemptions.
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Senate
Washington
Gillette
Senate Agriculure Committee
House
Garden seeds list offered to Iowa rural borrowers for a family of five
The Farm Security Administration circulated a seed and plant list to Iowa rural rehabilitation borrowers to supply a family of five. Prices range from 5.20 for individual orders to 277 for bulk orders of ten, with a supplied list including beans corn cucumbers cabbage peppers and tomatoes and a free packet each of zinnia and petunia seeds. The note mentions timing for sowing and setting out and cites the Netherlands as having dense cattle population.
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Farm Security Administration
Iowa
Ames
FSA
Lima
Henderson Bush
Kentucky
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Allamakee
Merle E. Garmoe
Ft Ha
Buchanan Ould
The
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Beverly Yards
Western
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New Mexico
Bane's
T. B
Bane
WMT
Beverly Cattle Company
Oliver Dealers
Happel and Sons
Second Avenue SW
Spring House Cleaning Furniture Sale
Robe
Gibson
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Sampson
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