Benton County Drama Contest Crowned by Seeing Things Right
The 750 audience braved rain and sleet to witness Bert Blocher and Pearl Blocher in Taylor township's Seeing Things Right, winning the Benton county championship at Vinton high school. Other townships performed Detour Ahead Gains Bar gains Hir am and the Peddlers and more under directed casts, with judges F. E. Palmer Velma Greenfield and Mary Brickley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Blocher
Benton County
Taylor Township
Vinton High School
Blocher
F. E. Palmer
Vinton School For the Blind
Velma Greenfield
Vinton
Mary Brickley
The
Cedar Rapids
Fannie Buchanan
Ames Extension Service
Fence Drift in the Woven Wire and Farm Credit Debt
A rural notice notes a fence drift problem tied to a Federal crop production loan rule. It states a Corn grower must rely on oats to meet the obligation. The piece reflects on small town banks reopening and local agricultural finance.
Omaha Stockyards Appeals U S Order To Reduce Charges
The Union Stockyards asks a federal court to overturn a U S Department of Agriculture rate cut on livestock handling. Judge Woodrough will hear the appeal with Circuit Judge Gardner and Judge Munger on March 28 in Omaha. The new rates would take effect April 15. The yard contends the order is unlawful and would confiscate property, alleging the valuation is only a fifth of real value and noting potential wider impact on other yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OMAHA
INS
Union Stockyards Company
United States Department of Agriculture
J. W. Woodrough
Woodrough
Circuit
A. K. Gardner
T. C. Munger
Department
Cincinnati Medics Claim Malta Fever Serum Cure
University of Cincinnati researchers say a perfected serum will cure Malta fever in three or four days. Drs. Alfred E. O Neil W B Wherry and Lee Fossay report the undulant fever, long a livestock and human scourge, could soon be a minor illness. The disease causes fever pain and long lasting disability with cycles of rising and falling temperatures.
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Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine
Alfred E. O'Neil
W. B. Wherry
Lee Fossay
Malta
Europe
Man
Marion Sprayer Clashes With Ames Horticulturist
Marion operator G. E. Wainwright challenges Ames horticulturist H. E. Nichols over dormant spray timing. Wainwright warns delayed spray when leaves are a half inch can harm trees if apple scale is killed with enough spray, urging immediate application before buds burst. He also questions Nichols guidance to omit dormant spray unless oyster shell scale is present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. E Wainwright
Marion
H. E. Nichols
Ames
Mr. Wainwright
Nichols
Des Moines Man Proposes 10 Billion Refinancing Plan
Des Moines businessman Joseph Sorokino proposes that the government borrow 10 billion dollars at 2 percent and lend to farmers and others to pay off mortgages at 3 to 4 percent. He suggests annual principal reductions with nominal payments, including a $100 semiannual payment on a $2,000 loan for twenty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Joseph Sorokine
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Sorokino
Wallace Aide to Lead Farm Program in Roosevelt Era
President Roosevelt assigns Henry Wallace as secretary of agriculture to direct a vast farm relief plan aimed at saving up to 10 million farmers. Rexford Tugwell and Mordecai Ezekiel join as top economists behind the program. Wallace, a practical farmer and editor from Iowa, is noted for his work on agricultural prices, corn production, and farm budgets.
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Pearl Blocher
Lucy Mae
Morris King
Blocher
Mr. Blocher
W. C. Anderson
Glenn van Nice
Sam Simson
Clinton van Nice
Richard Clark
Frank Stauffer
Lucy
Richard
Grandpa
NEA Service
NEA Service, Inc
Washington
Soviet Russia
Roosevelt
Henry Agard Wallace
Iowa
Wallace
Middle West
Rexford Tugwell
Mordecai Ezekiel
Tugwell
Ezekiel
Farm Board
Farm Organization
Henry
Wallaces
Henry A. Wallace
Farmer
England
Hoover
United States
Polk County
Iowa Sees 1933 Crop Acreage Shrink Across Major Staples
Iowa reports a 2.5 percent cut in 1933 crop acreage with corn losing 704000 acres. Oats, flaxseed and potatoes rise slightly, tame hay up 16 percent, and pasture expands to about 10160 thousand acres. Nationwide, total major crops likely fall about 3 percent versus last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
United States
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Des Moines
Pigs Weigh 233 Pounds Sell for $3.50 a Hundredweight
George Sauerbry of east of Oelwein sold forty one fall pigs to a Waterloo packer. Each hog averaged 233 pounds, sold at 3.50 per hundredweight, and were farrowed Sept. 1. They were self fed with corn and a mix including alfalfa meal oil meal tankage oats and skim milk.
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Oelwein
George Sauerbry
Waterloo
Farmer Carl Wieditz Marketed 34 Hogs to Chicago
Benton county farmer Carl Wieditz sold thirty four butcher hogs in Chicago on Thursday. The hogs brought four dollars per hundredweight after traveling about two hundred thirty miles by truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
Carl Wieditz
Benton County
Chicago
Movement of corn stalls as grain market slow
The farm editor notes slow corn movement as grain exchanges reopen and futures trading resumes. Brokers in Cedar Rapids report bids near 25 1/4 cents for No 3 yellow corn, yielding farm returns well below production costs after transport and shelling. Elevated cash premiums briefly boosted receipts in Cedar Rapids and southern Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Wisconsin
Crop Production Loans Open for 1933 Payable Oct 31
Dr. C W Warburton announces checks issued to farmers for 1933 crop production loans began Friday. Ninety million dollars available. loans up to 300 dollars per farmer with acreage reduction terms. Loans due by October 31, 1933, at 5 1/2 percent interest. Over 100000 applications received at six regional offices in Washington Memphis St Louis Dallas Minneapolis and Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
C. W. Warburton
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
France
Washington
Memphis
Market Expert To Demonstrate Egg Grading In Cedar
Tipton and Clarence will host egg grading demonstrations at 9 30 a.m. and 1 30 p.m. respectively on March 29. W D Termohlen Ames extension poultry marketing specialist will lead the sessions under Cedar county Farm Bureau sponsorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
Clarence
Livestock Shipping Hall
W. D. Termohlen
Ames Extension Poultry Marketing
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Farm Auctions Schedule For March 21 23
A series of farm and consignment auctions listed for March 21 and 23. Auctions include a farm sale near Anamosa by W J McNamara and a community sale near Springville on Jesse Stiller Farm. Also scheduled are Holstein sales at Waterloo and Lisbon consignments plus a sale at West Branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
W. J. McNamara
Springville
Jesse Stiller
Water
Lisbon
Waterloo Cattle Congress
West Branch
Manchester Co-Op Pays 19 Cents For February Butterfat
The Manchester Co-operative Creamery shipped 12 290 pounds of butter to New York on Saturday from 202 64-pound tubs. Including home use the week’s make topped 17 000 pounds. Patrons received 19 cents a pound for February butterfat. January price was 20 cents. The creamery interior is being painted white and aluminum enamel for sanitation. Patronage is rising and a larger vat, from 400 to 600 pounds, is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Manchester
New York
Manchester Co-operative Creamery Company
Co-Operative
C. H. Kolsrud
Capacity Crowd Hears Moore At Reinbeck Meeting
Robert Moore, secretary of the Iowa Farm Union, spoke to a packed Reinbeck high school auditorium about the Union's educational program to determine farm commodity costs of production. He urged cooperation to influence favorable farming legislation and described the Farmers’ Holiday association as aiming to remove speculation, raise prices, and apply the Golden Rule. Ed R. Aschenbrenner and Charles Shearn also spoke briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carette Reinbeck
Reinbeck High School
Robert Moore
Iowa Farm Union
Fred Bloss
Moore
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Ed R. Aschenbrenner
Black Hawk County
Garden notes on farm crops and early produce
Special to a Gazette. Farmers report brooders and ready baby chicks. One farmer has ruined his garden. Rhubarb is near ready for use and some horse radish was dug last week. Hot beds show rapid plant growth.
Wool Price Trend Continues Upward in Markets
Wool prices rose further across domestic offerings as the advance, begun ten days earlier on select lines, spread to Texas lines and finer territory wools. Fleece grades also gained, with 56s and lower grades firming, boosting activity in wool tops and prompting greater interest from top makers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Texas
Baby Beef Gains Range From 20 To 100 Pounds In Month
In Muscatine county thirty nine baby beeves on feed gained from twenty to one hundred pounds in February. Forty six calves showed total gains since December 1 ranging from forty five to two hundred thirty pounds. Calves fed by Wayne Hetzler and Doris Paul gained one hundred pounds in February and Lucy Anderson’s calf gained two hundred thirty pounds since December 1.
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Gazette
Muscatine
Muscatine County
Carl Rylander
Wayne Hetzler
Doris Paul
Lucy Anderson
Howard Dean
Vance Fletcher
Arlene Ihms
Edmon Paul
Lawrence Paul
Richard Taylor
Problem for Politicians McGregor Four Lambs from One Ewe
Louis Larson, a local farmer, asks what allotment plan can do about ewes bearing four lambs. A Larson ewe dropped four healthy lambs last week, mirroring four in previous years and three the year before. Two of this season’s lambs are bottle raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGregor
Louis Larson
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