Educational Butter Scoring Contest At Oelwein In June Announced
The 1937 Iowa educational butter scoring contest is slated for Oelwein in June. Announcement came at the March meeting of Section 11 of the Iowa Creamery Operators association. National cold storage butter timing will affect the state meeting date with a National Buttermakers directorate meeting in St Paul next Tuesday. Scores from the Oelwein event will feed into the national competition in November.
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Elwein
Iowa
Oelwein
Iowa Creamers Operators Association
National Buttermakers Association
St. Paul
St Paul
Dyersville
Arthur Honn
Calesburg
Iowa Creamery Operators Association
A C Hogan
Masonville
Honn
Peter Jordaht
Delhi
H C. Holthaus
Worthington
E. J. Reed
Ryan
Fence Drift and the New London Tragedy Reflections
The piece laments safety compromises in New London Texas linking to school board cost cutting. It condemns those who pushed for economies at the expense of public safety and offers the community’s condolences to affected families. It calls for accountability beyond the local board to those who sought savings at safety’s cost.
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Lone Star State
New London
Benton bankers host farm planning board gathering at dinner
Special to The Gazette reports a Vinton event where Lewis Greaser, president of the Benton county farm planning board, urged bankers to study long-term credit for soil improvement. About fifty bankers attended as Greaser outlined aims and accomplishments and suggested deeper credit reviews for individual farmers.
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Vinton
Lewis Greaser
Benton County Farm Planning Board
Greaser
Planning Board
Benton County Bankers Association
George Doebel
Newhall
Bankers’ Association
Joseph Carrier
Tetbury
Wallace
Wacom
Pont Burswen
Tov Serls
Ue Association
Dull Horse Demand Reported at Chicago Union Stockyards
Chicago dealers report a weak horse market with prices about 25 dollars a head under year-ago levels. Heavy demand for power machinery and a smaller farming sector due to soil conservation programs are cited as factors behind the sluggish sales of work horses.
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Union Stockyards
Chicago
Ard
Oast
Interior hog runs exceed last week in Iowa and Minnesota
Interior hog markets in Iowa and southern Minnesota sold 91,800 head over four days, up 3 percent from last week and 41 percent from a year ago. March totals reached 345,000 head vs 396,500 in the first half of March 1936 amid a mild liquidation and supply shifts.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Winter Lingers in Allamakee Iowa Photo
A photo taken Thursday afternoon two miles south of Waukon shows lingering snow in Allamakee county and across northeastern Iowa. Side roads remain difficult for autos as a heavy Wednesday evening snowfall whitened fields, timber, and north facing hills. fields are wet and soggy delaying oat sowing for weeks.
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Iowa
Waukon
Allamakee County
Angus Average 70 at Kemp Auction Northeast Marion
A dispersal sale of purebred Angus near Marion grossed seven teen head with averages around 75 dollars. A 2-year-old bull topped at 126 dollars, a yearling at 125, and top cow at 105. Two main buyers were John Sheets and Dan Lillie, with Poland China gifts averaging 40 dollars each. Carl Wallace acted as clerk.
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Warren Kemp
Marion
John Sheets
Wyoming
Dan Lillie
Central City
Farm Auctions Schedule Reach Anamosa and Cedar Rapids
A series of farm sales announced for March includes a sale at Anamosa Livestock Exchange on Saturday March 20, a horse sale at Iowa Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids on Monday March 22, a Taylor auction three miles south of Norway on Tuesday March 23, and a community sale at Marion on Wednesday March 24.
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Anamosa
Anamos
Anamosa Livestock Exchange
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Taylor
Norway
Marion
National President OSF F A To Attend Iowa Session In May
Ames reports the national president Joe Black of Sheridan Wyoming will attend the Future Farmers of America convention in Iowa at Ames May 13 and 14. The event coincides with Veishea with FFA groups on the Veishea program. The Iowa FFA band will perform on several programs and a float will appear in the May 14 parade. Preliminary entry blanks for Iowa Farmer and American Farmer applications are due by April 1 and chapter membership and annual program plan reports by April 30.
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Ames
Joe Black
Sheridan
Wyo
Future Farmers of America
Iowa
Veishea
Iowa F. F. A
Iowa Future Farmer
Iowa Farmer
American Farmer
Traer Farm Sells for 125 Per Acre
Ralph Crawford dairy farmer buys 120 acre Stuart estate farm at Traer for 125 an acre. John Hanus farm near Traer of 160 acres sells to J. K. Chalupnik for 13000 total or 8125 an acre. Chalupnik also buys 40 acres at 100 an acre and L F Chalupnik pays 100 an acre for eighty acres of the same farm.
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Traer
Ralph Crawford
Stuart
Crawford
John Hanus
Jerry Hanus
Cedar Rapids
J. K. Chalupnik
John Chalupnik
L. F. Chalupnik
Mighty Nimrods Bag Fox With Flivver Near Mount Vernon
Glenn Stoner and Clarence Neal, farmers north of Mount Vernon, claim they killed a fox Thursday evening without hounds or a gun, using only a flivver. The fox was shown Friday to County Agent Rex Conn of Cedar Rapids as proof of the unusual hunt.
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Bnecal
Gazette
Mount Vernon
Glenn Stoner
Clarence Neal
Stoner
Neal
Grange Hall
Rex Conn
Cedar Rapids
West Union Hay Moves to Castalia
Colderable hay has been trucked from West Union to Castalia where cattle feeders are short of hay and straw. Prices at Castalia reach 12 to 15 dollars a ton for hay while straw climbs to 9 to 10 dollars. Local supply is limited with some farmers completely out, though no alarm is felt as pastures are not yet ready for stock. Cattlemen delay turnout until about May 15 unless urgent.
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The
Gazette
West Union
Castalia
Washington Planners Hear Pasture Improvement Talk
Thirty farm readers attended the Washington county agricultural planning board meeting. Soils specialist H. B. Cheney of the Ames extension service spoke on pasture improvement during a 2 o'clock recess. He also conferred with County Agent William J. Rudolph on planning two soil fertility demonstration farms in the county.
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Washington
Washington County Agricultural Planning Board
H. B. Cheney
Ames Extension Service
Planning Board
Cheney
William J. Rouda
Bush
Steers Sold In Chicago At 15 Per Cwt
Washington county feeder Jesse Pearson sold thirty six head of 1295 pound steers in Chicago for fifteen dollars per hundredweight.
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the Gazette
Washington
Jesse Pearson
Washington County
Chicago
Censure And Praise Alternate At Sioux City Farm Meeting
About 300 farmers in Sioux City gathered for an open forum to pressure farm relief legislation. A 69 to 47 vote backed a Gillette Maverick bill proposing parity prices via commodity loans at 75 percent of 1926 parity and an excess commodities program to manage surpluses, with debate on the current farm plan’s fairness.
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Gazette
Sioux City
Gillette-Maverick
Congress
Guy Mark Gillette
Cherokee
Carl Wilken
Progressive Farmers Union
Supreme Court
Fred Hawley
Laurens
Wilken
Pocahontas County
25.4 Pound Average Herd Milk Records Brooklyn
The Poweshick Jasper Cow Test Association reports February results for 332 cows, including 56 dry, averaging 622 pounds of milk and 25.4 pounds of butterfat. Herbert Kleliss of Brooklyn leads with 1,853 pounds of milk and 47.3 pounds of butterfat from 17 purebred Holsteins.
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Brooklyn
Poweshick-Jasper
Avere
Herbert Kleliss
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