Farm Program Administrative Expenses For 1936 Are Revealed
A report from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in Washington shows 1936 aggregate administrative expenses totaling 40 058 698 dollars for the program, including 11 829 105 dollars for all state offices and 5 058 540 dollars at Washington. Iowa's 1936 county and state costs are listed, with total Iowa farmer payments at 28 116 028 dollars and about four million farmers in the program. The fiscal year ended November 30, 1937, covered payments and county expenses in eastern Iowa counties such as Allamakee, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, and others.
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Iowa
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Washington
United States
Des Moines
Allamakee
Benton
Buchanan
Cedar
Clayton
Clinton
Delaware
Dubuque
Fayette
Towa
Jackson
Johnson
Jones
Keokuk
Linn
Louisa
Muscatine
Poweshick
Tama
Winneshick
Posture Princess Minnie Performs for Iowa 4-H Girls
Minnie the Manikin a jointed cardboard posture figure, tours Iowa as part of 4-H girls posture training led by Edith Barker and Ella Gardner. District meetings attracted 151 in Denison and 132 in Red Oak with schools planned for Cedar Rapids, Waverly, Clarion and Spencer.
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Ames
Minnie the Manikin
Edith Barker
Indianola
Minnie
Ella Gardner
Federal Extension Service
Iowa
Denison
Red Oak
Cedar Rapids
Waverly
Clarion
Spencer
Overton Named Secretary Poultry Congress Group
DES MOINES Robert Overton of the Iowa department of agriculture was named secretary of the publicity committee for Iowa's participation in the Seventh World's Poultry Congress at Cleveland in the summer of 1939. Sam Beck extension director at Ames is chairman.
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Des Moines
Robert Overton
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Seventh Word
Cleveland
Sam Beck
Ames
Hulling 4000 Bushels of Oats A Year Promoted for Hog Rearing
Farmers praise hulled oats as the best cheap starter for swine and poultry. One farm notes eight years of hulled oats yielding 2100 tons from 10 bushels. Cost estimates show potential savings and quick market readiness. The ad urges pursuit of yeast feed from the seller and provides contact at Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Hallinz
the Gazette
Lews
Spring in the Country From a Country Woman
A country woman celebrates spring on farms and homesteads. Tractors hum from dawn to dusk while fields turn from brown to rich black and crops begin to grow. Birds, tulips, eggs, lambs, and chicks evoke simple joys of country living.
19 000 Elms Harvested At Jesup For Uncle Sam
Workmen harvested 19 000 Chinese elms Tuesday and Wednesday at Mrs Peter Sullivan’s home in Jesup. Trees grown from seed planted two years earlier under government contract were pulled if at least ten inches tall and shipped to a Valley City North Dakota nursery.
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Jesup
Peter Sullivan
Valley City
N. D
Steers Top At $8.20 In Auction At Decorah
More than 700 cattle were sold at the sale pavilion in Decorah. Steers topped at $8.20 per hundredweight, fat cows brought up to $650, thin heifers sold from $6 to $6.50 per hundredweight, and feeding pigs brought $11 per hundredweight.
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Decorah
Clarence Cooperative Creamery expands locker plant
The Clarence Cooperative Creamery company added thirty five lockers, bringing total storage to 240 at the cold storage plant. In operation since last August, the facility now holds about 40 000 pounds of meat in cold storage.
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Clarence
Clarence Cooperative Creamery Company
8000 Trees Ordered for Reforestation Program
Decorah Winneshiek county farmers order 8000 trees under the Clark McNary act. Varieties include black locust black walnut green ash silver maple American elm red burr oak white oak and basswood.
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Decorah
Winneshirk County
Farm Income Slide in February Amid Price Decline
February cash income from the sale of farm products totaled 456 million dollars, with government payments adding 31 million. Compared with January and February 1937, income shows declines as meat, dairy, and fruit categories fall, while cotton lint loans helped support some figures. First two months total 1.059 billion for marketings, 11 percent below last year, with total including payments at 1.107 billion.
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Gazette
Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Ecconomics
Bureau
Sa Omldo
New Elevator Nears Operation at Monoa
The Farmers Commission company completes a $10,000 grain elevator at Monoa near completion and set to start operating April 1. Fredericks Daugst has been hired as manager.
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MONOA
Farmers Commission Company
Fredericks Daugst
Calorie control may double farm animals' productive life
Dr C M McCay at Cornell reports rat experiments show delaying caloric intake during growth can extend life. In tests rats fed low calories until 1000 days outlived peers by 600 days. dairy cows horses and chickens have projected life spans of five years fifteen years and 2.5 to 3 years respectively. The method suggests growth rate influences total life span and aging pace.
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Paul N. Shoemaker
Associated Press
Ithaca, NY
Cornell University
C. M. McCay
Animal Nutrition Department
McCay
Acreage Of Spring Wheat Increases In Washington County
Washington-COF. Lorack and his son Arthur, farmers southeast of Riverside, were the first to complete spring wheat sowing. The dry fall prevented fall wheat sowing, so a large acreage will be seeded to spring wheat this season in the northeast section of Washington county.
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Washington—Cof
Lorack
Arthur
Riverside
Washington County
Farmers busy in fields across Masonville and Millersburg
Special to The Gazette reports Masonville farmers seeding oats discing and hauling manure as gardens are prepared for planting. In Millersburg area farmers disc corn stalks plow sod and sow oats while orchards and fruit buds swell. West Union notes general field work with discing and varying seeding progress in north Fayette county.
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the Gazette
Masonville
The
Gazette
Millersburg
Sperial
West Union
North Fayette County
Kraschel Attacks Inconsistency in Farm Policy
Gov Nelson G Kraschel of Town criticizes the AAA and interior department policy in Council Bluffs claiming leasing public lands to ranchers while AAA pays to remove Iowa land from production. He notes Iowa feeds millions of cattle and argues ending land leasing would force the Midwest to feed cattle and use land.
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Council Bluffs
Federal Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Nelson G. Kraschel
United States Department of Interior
AAA
Iowa
Kraschel
Middle West
Anamosa and Cedar Rapids Farm Auctions Set for March
Auction notices list events on March 26 in Anamosa for Thompson estate sale and 7 miles SE Ryan, plus March 30 in Cedar Rapids area for Hamilton closing out 5 miles SE. Local buyers urged to inspect livestock and items before sale. The notices appear in area farming listing sections.
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Anamosa Livestock Auction
Thompson Estate Sale
Miles SE
Ryan
Hamilton
Cedar Rapids
Iowa livestock sale honors veteran field man M T White
The Iowa executive spoke at a livestock breeders dinner honoring M T White of Omaha, a longtime Iowa Nebraska field man associated with farm publications for forty years. Currie Brothers of Schuyler exhibited the reserve grand champion Scotch Shorthorn bull during the sale.
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Iowa
M. T. White
Omaha
Nebraska
Currie Brothers
Schuyler, Jr
Garnaville Butter Tops Elgin Contest At Iowa Creamery Meet
Alvin Thoreson of Garnaville won with a 94 in the March meeting of Section No 1 of the Iowa Creamery Operators association in Elgin. Louis Lehman of Elgin was runner up with 93.75, while Fred Timmerman Verni Schultz and Gordon Junker tied for third. In men’s judging, H T Hangartner and Gordon Junker led with near perfect scores. Mrs Ben Gulsvig and Mrs Louis Lehman led the women’s judging with strong showings.
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Sterint
Gazette
Elgin
Alvin Thoreson
Garnaville
Iowa Creamery Operators Association
Louis Lehman
Fred Timmerman
Waterville
Verni Schultz
McGregor
Gordon Junker
Clermont
Oclwein
No M Larson
Decorah
Ben Gulsvig
Monona
Verni Shultz
H T Hangartner
Hog prices top Chicago market at 9.40 a cwt
Hogs weighing 216 pounds sold for 9.40 dollars per hundredweight at the Chicago market. The Tama county feeder project led by Wallis Taylor from Toledo sold twenty five hogs at the top price.
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The
Gazette
Toledo
Wallis Taylor
Tama County
Chicago
Steers Bring $9.75 and $9.90 a Hundredweight in Jones County
George Manter nach, a feeder in Jones county, sold steers weighing 1 154 pounds at 9 75 a hundredweight and 1 331 pounds at 9 90 a hundredweight on Wednesday, reports The Gazette.
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Anamosa
George Manternach
Jones County
Market Lacks Pep Despite Small Hog Price Runs
In Des Moines market for hogs shows only tentative recovery with light receipts. Four days total interior Iowa and southern Minnesota near 57,400, below last week’s pace. buyer indifference keeps prices steady to slightly lower. Observers cite weak consumer demand, light weekly runs, and ample holding on spring crops as factors. The National Bank of Australasia notes farming fertilizer use boosts New Zealand dairying.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
The
National Bank of Australasia
New Zealand
Cornhulk Seat For Antique Chair Reused In Keokuk County
A century old handmade hickory chair was restored by Mrs Lenora Sorden after training in Keokuk county home project work. The seat was replaced with rope made from cornhusks, preserving the original as the chair, brought from Ohio in 1854, now sits at the Sorden homestead near Webster.
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Lenora Sorden
Keokuk County
Ada Sturdevant
Brown Swiss breeders plan parish shows in multiple counties
Brown Swiss breeders from district multiple counties including Franklin and Wright vote to hold a parish show in Franklin County August 22 to 25. Tom Purcell and Ed Mahnke named to lead the Hampton show committee. County representatives from several towns named to the district show committee. A separate Fort Dodge one day show was planned for the last week of May with John Mooney as president of the committee.
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Hampton
Franklin County
Winnebago
Wright
Hamilton
Hardin
Franklin
Worth
Mitchell
Floyd
Butler
Grundy
Tom Purcell
Ed Mahnke
Walter Miller
Buffalo
M. O Stark
Clarion
Don Fi
Fort Dodge
Kossuth
Humboldt
Webster
Calhoun
Pocahontas
Palo Alto
Emmett
Dickinson
Clay
John Mooney
Lawrence Beecher
F M. Wolfe Wesley
James N. Johnson
Clyde Munson
Gowrie
Adolph Schaepke
Rockwell City
Fred Smith
Rolfe
Norman Namer
Curlew
J A. Huff
Armstrong
von McCarts
Lake Park
Max Davis
Webb
Fred Idtse
Iowa Brown Swiss Breeders Association
Iowa Brown Swiss Breeders Meet in Cedar Rapids
Brown Swiss breeders from east central and southeast Iowa plan a Saturday meeting with Fieldman Fred Idtse in Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce rooms to organize a parish show and related activities.
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Iowa
Fred Idtse
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Hampshire hogs bring top price at Chicago sale
Harold Tim mons and Clarence Timmons of Washington county feeders sold a string of 114 Hampshire hogs averaging 270 pounds at Chicago for 920 dollars per hundredweight.
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Garett Washington
Harold Timmons
Clarence Timmons
Washington County
Chicago
Hampshire
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