Tame Meadow Hay Acreage Near 1935 Levels in 1936
Government crop report shows tame hay acreage in 1936 at 53,312,000 acres, up about 2 percent from 1935 and slightly below the 5-year average of 53,725,000. Regional notes include dairy area shortfalls and northern states under the five-year average, with Iowa at 3,200,000 acres matching 1935 and above the 5-year mean.
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Iowa
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Potomac River
Indiana
Illinois
Nebraska
Missouri
North Dakota
South Dakota
Fence Drift in Woven Wire From Ames Pastures
A fragment mentions Veterans of Future Wars groups at Iowa sites, with references to VFCP and veterans’ networks. It discusses benefit payments on rotated grass lands, future control programs, and a playful but critical stance toward postwar farming schemes and debts.
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USAP
Iowa City
Veterans of Future Wars
Gold Star
Ames
Acres
Iowa
Tractor Dealer Sells Three Teams At More Than $450
Approximately seventy five head of horses were sold at auction by an implement firm in Columbus Junction. Prices ranged from $245 for a 4 year old roan mare to $480 for roan Belgian mares, with various horses, mules, cows and used tractors sold at prices listed by the auctioneers Paul Klotz and H M Duncan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
C. F E. Pierce
Albert Holtz
Muscatine
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Prices Hit Varied Yields at Radeke Sale near Blairstown
At the Mrs. Mattie Radeke sale three brood sows brought 42.50 each while four pens of pigs sold for 119.20 118.80 115.20 and 72.50. Horses topped at 206 per head for two mares and a colt sold for 77. Cattle saw cows at 83 and 80 while a bull went for 81 and six steers 32.50 each. Corn in crib 44.5 cents, oats 24.5 cents, Timothy hay 5 a ton. Harness sold for 21 and 18.50 respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blairstown
Timothy Hay
Auction Items Fetch High Totals From Farm Set
A gang plow sold for 30 dollars a cultivator for 29 dollars a drag and cart for 29 dollars. The sale totaled about 9000 dollars.
Sixty 4 H Baby Beeves On Feed In Jones County
Anamosa reports sixty 4 H baby beef calves on feed in Jones County with twenty seven youths participating. Dairy calf club ranks second and market pig club third. Other projects include pure bred beef heifer sow and litter sheep colt garden corn breeding and farm record clubs. Average weight last fall was 425 pounds with a low of 235 and high of 640.
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Anamosa
Jones County
Max Sauerbry
Potatoes Harvested In Montour As Gardens End Season
Montour gardeners finished 1935 potato harvest with J A Vreeland and J D Alden finding good stores under deep snow. Henry Stump, 82, started 1936 planting on Monday as others begin early gardens.
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Gazette
Montour
J. A. Vreeland
J. D. Alden
Henry Stump
Service Company Elects New Fayette County Officers
Paul P. Stewart of Maynard was named president of the Fayette county Farm Bureau Service company. J. R. Wood of Fayette was elected vice-president and Clarence Hoag of Elgin secretary. L. C. Surface of Maynard was re-employed as manager.
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Maynard
Paul P. Stewart
Fayette
April Fools Day Opens Iowa Township Soil Meetings
Iowa officials designate April 1 to start township meetings on soil conservation and domestic allotment. Farmers will file work sheets to qualify for awards and elect permanent township and county committees, with initial instructions in Ames and a two day state briefing.
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Washington, Des Moines
Ames
Iowa
Claude Wickard
Joe Reed
Washington
Wickard
AAA
Reed
Ames Extension Service
State Corn and Hog Committee
Des Moines
County Agricultural Planning Board
Belgian Stallion Sells for 1000 to Kalona Buyer
Quasqueton breeder C. W. Harris sold a 2-year-old Belgian stallion weighing 1900 pounds to Joe Miller of Kalona for 1000 dollars. Foaled in October 1933 the colt has Harris as sire and dam. In recent weeks Harris sold three other Belgians to buyers in Denver Palo and Waterloo.
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Quasqueton
W. C. Harris
Joe Miller
Kalona
Mr. Harris
Ed Seeger
Denver
Mathias Brothers
Palo
Henry Kurtz
Waterloo
Fayette county appoints six to supervise new farm program
The temporary Fayette county committee to supervise election of and explain the soil conservation and domestic allotment act program includes W. S. Rothlisberger Elgin chairman C B Holtzman Oelwein L D Hitch Elgin Homer Chapman Fayette W C Robinson Hawk Eye and County Agent Paul E McElroy Rothlisberger is chairman.
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Fayette
Fayette County
W. S. Rothlisberger
Elgin
C. B. Holtzman
Oelwein
L. D. Hitch
Homer Chapman
W. C. Robinson
Hawkeye
Paul E. McElroy
Rothlisberger
Township meetings set for soil program information
Notices announce a series of township meetings in Allamakee county to discuss the new soil conservation program and to hold elections. Sessions run April 1 to April 4 across Union Prairie Makee Jefferson Post Fairview Union City Linton Iowa Lansing Paint Creek French Creek Franklin Center Ludlow Hanover Lafayette Waterloo Taylor.
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Waukon
New Soil Conservation
Allamakee County
Union Prairie
Makee
Jefferson
Post
Fairview
Union City
Linton
Iowa
Lansing
Paint Creek
French Creek
Franklin
Center Townships
Ludlow
Hanover Township
Lafayette
Waterloo Townships
Taylor Township
Temporary Delaware county committee to present new farm program
A temporary committee in Delaware County is formed to present the new farm program to farmers and supervise its initial rollout and oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Delaware County
Township meetings set on new soil program in Tama county
Toledo Township area outlines the schedule for education meetings on the new soil conservation program. Indian Village Clark Columbia Tama Buckingham Richland Lincoln Howard Otter Creek Spring Creek York Perry Carroll Oneida Salt Creek and Toledo townships are listed with dates ranging April 1 through April 4 in afternoon and evening sessions.
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Toledo
Tama County
Indian Village
Clark
Highland
Geneseo
Carlton
Grant
Crystal
Columbia
Tama
Buckingham
Richland
Lincoln Township
Howard
Otter Creek
Spring Creek
York
Perry
Carroll
Oneida
Salt Creek
Tipton Cedar county farm program committee plan meetings
Members of a temporary Cedar county committee to present the new farm program and supervise township committee elections under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act include J. M. Reeve chairing, E. F. Walshire, E. F. Jordan, Hy Von Muenster, and County Agent Morrell Leeds. Meetings begin 1:30 p.m. with dates and sites spanning March 31 to April 8 across Tipton Fairfield Stanwood West Branch Red Oak Durant Lowden Sailor hall Linn Rochester Lime City Mechanicsville Clarence Plato school.
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L. T. Lorenzen
Wyoming
Oscar Kinler
Olin
Ray Stovers
William Stanton
Bernard
Herman Helgens
Monticello
Carl Smith
Lorenzen
Ames
Jones County
Madison Township
Center Junction
Castle Grove
Lovell
Greenfield
Dutch Church
Oxford
Jackson
Antioch Church
Richland
Rogers School
Hale
Nigger Point Church
Cass
Cass Center School
Fairview
Anamosa
Washington
Clay
Frozen Hill
Scotch Grove
Rome
Wayne
Center School
Tipton
Cedar County
J. M. Reeve
E. F. Walshire
Mechanicsville
E. F. Jordan
Hy von Muenster
Stanwood
Morrell Leeds
Center Township
Fairfield
Fremont
Massillon
Schneider Hall
Springdale
West Branch
Red Oak
Red Oak Church
Farmington
Durant
Springfield
Lowden
Iowa
Township Hall
Sailor Hall
Inland
Bennett, Linn
Linn No. 2
Rochester
Sugar Creek
Lime City
Pioneer
Dayton
Clarence
Gower
Plato
Winnebago County forms temporary farm committee leaders named
A temporary committee led by Charles M Langland with M R Ringoen Leo Herold S J Moore and County Agent E J Weigle has been formed in Decorah to conduct educational meetings and aid in forming a permanent Winneshiek county committee under the new farm act. Meetings will be held across the county between April 1 and April 7.
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Decorah
Charles M. Langland
Highlandville
M. R. Ringoen
Ridgeway
Leo Herold
Fort Atkinson
S. J. Moore
Kendallville
E. J. Weigle
Winneshiek County
Iowa Reports Planting Intentions For 1936 Corn Acreage
Iowa farmers indicate 10,478,000 acres planned for corn in 1936, up from 9,525,000 acres planted in 1935, reflecting growing corn production plans across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Fifty Holsteins Average $127.30 at Waterloo sale
Iowa Holstein Breeders spring auction in Waterloo sold fifty head for $6,365 with an average of $127.30. Nine males, seven under serviceable age, and five heifers under one year were included. thirty-six cows of breeding age averaged $132. High price hit $180 for a four-year-old cow from L. C. Lenth.
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Waterloo
Iowa
L. C. Lenth
Elkader
Polk
Des Moines
Lenth
P. P. Stewart
Maynard
Floyd Schwab
Winterset
Matt Birker
Vinton
Nels Rehder
Gladbrook
Polk County
Schrier Brothers
Indianola
Tritomia
Inka May
Robert Decker
Clarence
J. G. Hastings
Garner
Frank Decker
Ludvik Petrak
Cedar Rapids
Amana Society
Elmer Santman
Dysart
Destiny Of John's Wedding Clothes
A rural club women weave rugs from rainbow strands telling family histories through old fabrics. They recount garments from a mustard skirt to a grandmother's black alpaca, a white wool blanket dye bath, and a husband's worn wedding suit, each rug capturing memories of love, loss, and romance.
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Anne
John
Why You Should Never Cut a Corn
Do not pare corns or calluses or risk blood poisoning. Ice Mint from your druggist quickly eases pain and loosens the corn so it lifts off with healthy surrounding skin. The ad urges stopping cutting to avoid injury and promotes Ice Mint for foot comfort.
Farm Auction Variety Sets Day Near Shellsburg Monticello
Public sale by Zack Mc Arthur five miles northwest of Shellsburg. Beverly hosts a Page cattle sale. E V Duer conducts a horse sale at Monticello on Thursday March 26.
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Zack McArthur
Shellsburg
Page
Beverly
E. V. Duer
Monticello
Livestock Sales Scheduled Across Iowa Front Page
On Friday March 27 the Iowa Livestock Exchange holds a Cedar Rapids sale while Muscatine hosts a horse sale conducted by William Glatstein.
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Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
William Glatstein
Muscatine
Schmickle Sale Near Alburnett Demands Attention
Saturday March 28 Gottlieb Schmickle sale advertised 214 miles west of Alburnett. Tuesday March 31 Edwin Bartlett estate lists 181.86 acres 342 miles east of Solon. Property notices show auctions with locations and dates for public sale.
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Gottlieb
Edwin Bartlett
Solon
District Court
Johnson County
Iowa
Cedar Township
Rock Road
Grover C. Watson
Disc ing Starts At Spencers Grove
Farmers in the Spencers Grove area begin spring field work with discing for grain seeding underway. John Smith and Frank Cramer lead the first in the field reporting good ground condition as corn harvesting proceeds from last fall. Labor shortages push wages to 20 to 35 dollars monthly depending on status and extras. Seed corn and horses are hot commodities with seed corn selling for 2 to 6 dollars a bushel.
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Spencers Grove
John Smith
Frank Cramer
Farmers Prepare Fields After Shredding Fodder
SHRED CORN FODDER. Walker Elza Jeffries and Ashley McCright shred fodder for Claude Wright near Walker and for Roy Butterfield east of Walker. Shredding delayed by unseasonable weather. farmers oil harness, repair machinery, and clear rubbish while awaiting workable ground as side roads become passable.
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Walker
Elza Jeffries
Ashley McCright
Claude Wright
Roy Butterfield
West Liberty sale totals $20 686 11
Six hundred three head of livestock sold at the P. N. Gibson commission auction in West Liberty for a total of $20 686 11. Over 1 000 bidders attended. Horses topped at 187 50 while hogs brought 3034 29 for 201 head and cattle 11943 19 for 327 head. Sheep brought 88 72 for 19 head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Liberty
P. N. Gibson
Scotch Grove steer shipment heads to Chicago market
Emil Paartsen shipped seventeen long fed steers to Chicago for Tuesday market. The lot averaged 1324 pounds and sold at 11 dollars per hundredweight, the top price. A few heifers in the consignment sold at 8.50 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Scotch Grove
Emil Paartsen
Chicago
Iowa 1930 Census Shows Beef Or Dual-Purpose Milked Cows
Data from the 1930 census indicate that 35 percent of all cows milked in Iowa in 1929 were primarily beef or dual purpose breeds.
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Iowa
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Kermith S. Huehn
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Ryan
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Chester O. McCarthy
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