Congress Asked To Establish F H A Loan System For Tenants
Iowa House members urged Congress to create an F H A style loan system to extend farm loans to tenant farmers so they can buy homes with same loan advantages as resident owners. The measure passed the Iowa House, sent to Washington, amid debate over AAA impacts and farm price policy.
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Congress
Towa
Con- Bie
Tim
Voncay
FIA
Washington
Snonsers
Farmers Examine Their 1940 Records Crisis?
Farmers gather to study 1940 records and tests at a county meeting. The event covers dairy and crop data, with members from Vinton, Anamosa, Marion, and nearby towns discussing results and plans for upcoming association activities. The session aims to compare past measures and set schedules for next week meetings and testing events.
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Cidnan
Oper
Vinton
Anamosa
Marian
134 Baby Beeves Being Fed In Iowa County This Year
In Iowa County the baby beeves program reports nineteen members enrolled in the purebred sow and litter club. Members own animals across six breeds including Chester White Hereford Berkshire Poland China Duroc Jersey and Hampshire. Calves are fed heavily with daily gains up to three and a half pounds, and the group notes quality exceeds that of a year ago as selection improves.
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Peanteen Bay Oater
Sheortberrm
Davis
Hereford
Berkehire
Poland
China
Duroc
Jersey
Thermpshire
Fragmented Wartime Reflections on Soul and Strife
Disjointed lines ponder inner struggle and social tension. Questions about memory, merit, and what drives people mad echo through a terse, uneven verse fragment. No clear event or identifiable figures emerge from the obscured text.
Imports Of Cuban Beef Increase Speeds Up
Chicago report shows a rapid rise in Cuban beef imports over six months reaching 2 904 936 pounds in January. Compared with 51 187 pounds a year earlier, the eight months May 1940 to January 1940 total 1 365 412 pounds versus 225 044 pounds in 1939 40. In the week ending March 12 total 726 940 pounds entered, including 575 313 pounds beef quarters via New York.
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Spee
Chicago
Cuba
New York
Wapsie Valley Dairy Herd Plan June Picnic
Special to The Gazette reports that at a meeting of the Wapsie Valley Dairy Herd Improvement association plans were made to hold the annual association picnic on June 3 in Independence.
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Wapsie Valley Dairy Herd Improvement — Association
Farm income mixed as Cedar to Scott counties report gains
The Mississippi Valley Farm Business association shows last year average net farm income of 3530, down slightly from 3554 in 1939, with beef and dairy gains offsetting hog losses. Higher corn prices and a 1X acre average reduction kept overall profits steady across 154 farmers from Cedar Clinton Johnson Muscatine Toutsa Scott and Washington counties.
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Pee A
Gazette
Spavenport
Mississippi Valley Farm Business Association
Herb Howell
Secration
Cedar
Clinton
Johnson Muscatine
Toutsa Scott
Washington
Met
Vowell
Howell
Gazette West Union
Iowa Farm Business Association
T. J Bodensteiner
West Uimon
Fieldman
Bordensteiner
4-H Club Photos Show County Livestock Pairs
On page 17 of the Saturday Evening Post this week a photo features Link County 4-H boy Willard Haak Jr asleep with his head on a Shorthorn steer owned by John Oxley of Marion. Also pictured are Tom County 4-H members Eleanor Koster and Ethel Water, taken at the Chicago International last fall.
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Saturday Evening Post
Link County
Willard Haak, Jr
John Oxley
Marion
Toma County
Eleanor Koster
Ethel Water
Achievement Program In Benton Planned April 4
Ava Johnson of Des Moines, lecturer and commentator, will speak at the Benton county Farm Bureau women achievement program on April 4. County home project chairman Mrs Charles Hanneman announced. Johnson, who taught and advised in Bulgaria, will discuss The Balkans As a Symbol. No township booths. township groups will be judged by Fannie Gannon of Ames. In Wapello, a second hog vaccination school is set for April due to farmer demand. County Agent Tuet Moon announced the event with Dr K W Stouder conducting.
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van Horne
Ava Johnson
Des Moines
Benton County Farm Bureau
Charles Hanneman
County Home Project
Bulgaria
Balkans
Fannie Gannon
Ames
Wapello
Louisa County
Tuet Moon
K W . Stouder
Ames Extension
Poor Pa by Claude Callan
A humorous line by Claude Callan features Ma’s niece forgetfully pursuing a divorce. She hands the lawyer the name of a husband she has already divorced from, creating a comic misstep in the domestic scene.
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Poor PA
Claude Callan
Pasture Work Planned in East Iowa Fields
Reports from CCC camps soil improvement associations and county agents indicate late week pasture sod discing and reseeding of permanent bluegrass pastures. Snow has mostly melted with little frost. soil remains saturated complicating draws but surface drying varies by area. Early lamb crops look strong and Fayette county flocks are increasing while the spring pig crop begins with good luck despite ten days of sub zero weather.
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CCC
Iowa
Snore Ota
Gazette West Union
Fayette County
Jones 4-H Girls Receive Awards At Banquet Program
Betty Adams of the Lovell Happy Helpers 4-H club was named outstanding 4-H club girl in Jones county for 1940 at the mother-daughter banquet here attended by 207. She will receive a trip to the state convention in Ames in June. Ethel Domer of Tipton spoke on Future Destinations. Awards were given to three clubs for perfect attendance and several clubs received standard club certificates. Greenfield Good Luck and Castle Grove Fortune Finders among others were recognized, with Greenfield Good Luck chosen to represent the county in the state contest for a trip to the National 4-H Club Camp in Washington, D. C. Betty Furst led in the county study quiz and Lulu Embree won blue at the state health contest.
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Onslow
Betty Adams
Lovell Happy Helpers
Jones County
Ames
Ethel Domer
Greenfield Good Luck
Wyyoming Swingtimers
George Fishwild
James Kearns
Fairview Orioles
Greenfield
Clay Busy Bees
Castle Grove
Warne
Dorothy Pospishil
Washington, D. C
Betty Furst
Olin
Lulu Embree
Anamosa
Sixteen Mattresses Completed in Delaware County Surplus Cotton Program
Special to The Gazette Manchester. County Agent E. J. Molln announced today that sixteen mattresses have been completed in Delaware County to date under the surplus cotton program.
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Manchester
Delaware County
E. J. Molln
Public Auction Of New And Used Machinery
John Deere dealer Joan H. Miller announces a public auction of new and used machinery on Saturday March 29 1941 at 1 pm in Lisbon New York area. Items include a 939 Model A John Deere tractor several plows planters seeders manure spreader rakes trailers and a Milburn wagon with other equipment. Aiming to clear surplus stock with sales of high quality used machinery and overstocked tools.
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John Deere
Standard Oil Station
Lisbon
Town
New
Somrone
Fordson Tractor
Fordson
Enod
Condh Hayes
Rock Island
O. K
Iike
Fairbanks Morse
McCormick-Deerbe
Joan H. Miller
Challis
Lisbon Bank and Trust Co
Economist Allbaugh to lead FSA farm management in Washington
AMES L G Allbaugh head of extension farm management service at Ames granted a year's leave of absence to join the Farm Security Administration in Washington as chief of the farm management section. He is well known in Iowa through farm business associations and has been a farm economist on the Ames faculty since 1918 except for two years.
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Gazelle
Ames
L. G Allbaugh
Department of Agricultural Economics
Washington
Farm Security Administration
Allbaugh
Iowa
April Fool Party Set for Benton County Junior Farm Bureau
Members of the Junior Farm Bureaus in Benton and Iowa counties will meet here the evening of April 2 for an April Fool party. Mer Bruch of Blairs town, chairman in Benton, announced today.
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Spreial
van Horne
Benton
Iowa
Mer Bruch
Blairstown
Gillette Pushes Restriction on Packet Buying of Livestock
Washington AP Senator Gillette of Indiana introduced S 1199 to restrict livestock purchases for slaughter. The measure requires packers to buy only at government posted stockyards within three miles of where animals will be killed to curb unfair practices. Milk and dairy products account for over 25 percent of the typical American diet.
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Washington
Gillette
Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna Ad Offering Stomach Ease
An old advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin as a gentle remedy for constipation. It claims to wake lazy bowels and soothe the stomach, highlighting a pleasant taste for children and urging readers to buy at their druggist.
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Dr. Caldwell
Fin
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