United States Hay Acreage Up 2.7 Percent Above 10 Year Average
The bureau of agricultural economics Kansas City reports about 57,231,000 acres of tame hay to be put up this year, up 16 percent from 1938 and 2.7 percent above the 1927-36 ten year average. Notes note potential modifications as meadows may be diverted to pasture plowed for soil improvement or harvested for seed. Prices vary by region with Platte Valley bids ranging from 3 to 8.5 dollars per ton depending on cutting, while Arizona shows active demand for dry roughage amid moisture scarcity.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Kansas City
Gundinamad Kies City
SEIU
Middlewest
Arizona
Platte Valley
Nebraska
Larned
Garden City
Kan
Walford 4-H Club elects new officers led by Eulen
Special to The Gazette reports Walford's Happy Hikers girls 4-H club elects La Verne Eulen president with Wanda Rosdail as vice president Dorothy Athoff secretary treasurer Aileen Frimmal reporter and Viola Frimmal historian Hope Rosdail as leader and Helen Vette as assistant leader.
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Walford
la Verne
Fence Drift and Schoolyard Landscaping Debate
A fragmentary item notes Fence Drift spotted in a woven wire by R F A and discusses schoolyard beautification. It contrasts a prim yard with wildflowers hedges and quotes classical imagery about education and a school morning.
Rural schoolyards to be dolled up
Iowa extension service plans spring demonstrations in landscape architecture to improve rural school grounds. Projects aim to protect from sun and wind, create pleasing environments, educate on trees and plants, attract birds, and provide usability. county demonstrations will cover Adair Black Hawk Clinton Humboldt Jackson Lyon Mahaska Marion Webster with planned plantings.
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Ames
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Landscape Architecture Department
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Russell Johnson
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Adair
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Humboldt
Jackson
Lyon
Mahaska
Marion
Webster
Farmers receive hog cholera vaccination permits
Tipton Forti Cedar county farmers were awarded permits to vaccinate against hog cholera after a county vaccination school conducted recently.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Chilly on Corn Alcohol U S Agriculture Hearing
Washington AP reports Agriculture Department experts doubt blending agricultural alcohol with gasoline is feasible at current prices. Congress heard the department refused to sell corn at 28 cents a bushel to Atchison Agroil Co and to take over its plant. Dirksen and Lambertson urged more support for developing farm commodity uses. Perkins explained financial constraints and the need for self sustaining ventures within two to three years. The discussion cited a Peoria laboratory and potential RFC loan conditions.
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Atchison Agrol Company, Inc
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Agros Company
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Atchison
Perkins
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
Cannon
FSCC
Sioux City
Grain dealers hear on site licensing and routes act
Gladbrook group hears Harlow and Kurtz discuss the United States grain standards act and licensing provisions for itinerant truckers. Ron Kennedy outlines town house passage of the bill with three dissenting votes and the need for trucker liability insurance and bonds. Attendees from Tama, Gladbrook, Toledo, Dysart, Buckingham, Garwin, Traer, and Des Moines participate.
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H. A. Harlow
Cedar Rapids
Tama County
Western Grain Dealers Association
Howard Kurtz
Harlow
United States Grain Standards Act
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R C. Booth
Western Grain Dealers
Ron Kennedy
Des Moines
State Organization
Towa House
Kennedy
Senate
Iowa
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C. E. Berryhill
Robert Beal
Tama
Rex Whitney
Nick Hanson
W. E. Whitney
Dysart
George Beenken
Buckingham
Joe McNally
A. Head
Toledo
Fred Hober
Clutter
W. C. Rucker
Gladstone
G. Lorenzen
Garwin
Ed Mullen
Traer
D. R. Jorgensen
McCandless Orchard Pruning Demo Set Next Friday
Ames extension horticulturist S. W. Edge Combe will lead a pruning demonstration at the S. A. McCandless farm two and a quarter miles north of Belle Plaine Benton County. The event starts at 1 p.m. on Friday per County Agent James Green.
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S. W. Edgecombe
Ames Extension Horticulturist
S. A
Farmers Get Ready To Begin Work In Fields
Farmers in this vicinity prepare for spring work by sharpening discs and plows and oiling harness. Teams haul manure on dry ground. mud roads are drying. Hogs are butchered and meat cured for summer use. Baby chicks are hatching in incubators with good hatches reported.
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Troy Mills
Young Mare Team Tops Columbus Sale At Luckey Harbison
A roan mare team of 4 and 5 year olds weighing 3,100 pounds led Luckey and Harbison sales in Columbus Junction fetching 35.50 per head. A second mare team of 6 and 7 year olds weighing 2,600 pounds sold for 312.50 with a top single 6-year-old mare at 147.50 and other horses 85 to 135.
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Columbus Junction
Luckey and Harbison
Weed Discussions Scheduled in April Across Iowa
Ames weed talks set for April 3 to 14 in Red Oak Chariton Fairfield Cedar Rapids West Union Denison Spencer Mason City and Ames. Extension plant pathologist Dr R H Porter and Dr Erhardt P Sylvester will cover weed control methods and planning for weed eradication programs with county weed commissioners supervisors and agents. Authorities from the Iowa department of agriculture will outline weed law responsibilities.
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Ames
Iowa
R. H. Porter
Extension Service
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Porter
Erhardt P. Sylvester
Red Oak
Chariton
Fairfield
Cedar Rapids
West Union
Denison
Spencer
Mason City
Court Finds North Iowa Land Rent Ranged 5 to 7.50
In Mason City a district court heard expert testimony that northern Iowa farm land rented for 5 to 7.50 dollars per acre annually from 1920 through 1928. Plaintiffs in the Northwestern States Portland Cement case seek 2.3 million against the McNider estate, citing company checks showing about 12 dollars per acre paid for land used in farming.
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District Court
F. A. Ontjes
Northwestern States
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C. H. McNider
Public Sale At Homer's Farm Near Toddville By Walcott
Public sale held at residence 12 miles north and 4 west of Mack Newman farm 1 mile southwest of Toddville on Saturday March 25 at 1 06 PM. Nine head of horses including a black mare in foal and several work and saddle horses plus 24 head of dairy cattle with fresh cows springers and yearling stock. Sale conducted by Homer Walcott owner and A M Lampman avwet store notice.
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Mack Newman
Toddville
Guernsey
Homer Walcott
A. M. Lampman
Farm Auction Schedule for March Across Local area
Readable notices list sales at Homer Walcott four miles southwest Toddville on Saturday March 25 and at Beverly livestock auction Thursday March 23 and Ti a Live stock exchange in Cedar Rapids on Friday March 24.
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Homer Walcott Sale
Toddville
Beverly Livestock Auction
Tia
Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Butterfat Payments Lead Volga and Calmar Creameries
Volga City creamery paid 29 cents a pound for butterfat delivered in the last half of February, per secretary Glen Moats. Calmar Creamery also paid 29 cents for February butterfat, with 31,376 pounds of butter produced from 25,303 pounds of butterfat delivered last month.
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Volga City
Volga City Creamery
Glen Moats
Calmar
Calmar Creamery Company
Corn Loan Deadline In Cedar County March 25
TIPTON The Cedar county AAA office announced no further moisture tests after March 25 for corn loans as all papers must be completed by March 31.
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Cedar County
Tipton
AAA
High School Ag Congress Planned At Ames May 11-12
The Iowa high school agricultural congress will be held in Ames May 11 and 12 as part of the Weishea program. Officials predict 1,500 to 2,000 students will attend and participate in achievement events across fields like animal husbandry, farm crops, farm mechanics, and farm engineering. Participants may not repeat an achievement event they have previously entered.
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Ames
Iowa High School Agricultural Congress
A. H. Hausrath
Congress
Farm Home Burns in West Union
A two story frame farmhouse owned by Mrs. Ritta Musser and her son Archie Musser burned Tuesday morning after starting in the attic. West Union firemen arrived but could not save the structure though many contents were removed. Insurance partly covers the loss.
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West Union
Ritta Musser
Archie Musser
West Union Fire Department
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