Dairy Advertising Campaign Planned For Sept 1
Representatives from eight Midwestern states convene for the fortieth annual National Butter Makers association meeting led by Estel of Waterloo Iowa. The group discusses a national dairy advertising plan to inform the public of dairy products value and to promote voluntary state contracts for advertising funds.
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Dairy
National Buttermakers Association
St. Paul
Pati
Cerre Ng Septius
Armorican Daty Assoevan
Euthaed Rere Tuesdas PLC
F S Estel
Waterloo
Secretast
Cvramer
Nitaea Pirtteemakers Association
Iowa
Dodges
Tetel Ald
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Dakota
Cabhfornia
Montana
Nebraska
Kansas
Michigan
Pstet
Timon
Oregon
Missouri
Utah
Estels
D B Fitch
University of Minnesota Dan
Dvision Fitch
Fitch
Johnson County Women Honor Home Project Day Participants
About 300 attended the Johnson county women's annual home project achievement day in Iowa City. Highlights included exhibits on foods and nutrition for 1939-40, speeches by Mrs Raymond B Sayre of Ackworth and others, a Farm Bureau chorus, and recognition of township leaders and home project committees.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Dane County
Raymond B. Sayre
Ackworth
Iowa Farm Bureau
Jessie B Gordon
Iowa Library Association
Byron D. Coglan
Johnson County Farm Bureau
Lloyd F Burr
Marian Edswards
Ames
Johnson County Women's Farm Bureau Chorus
Frank Colony
Fremont
Lincoln
Clear Creek
Penn
Newport
Sharon
Oxford
Clear Creek Township
Farm Bureau
Tory
Town City
Howard Sentman
Fow. Doskocil
Sylvester Brant
Milton Edmonds
A. E Reeve
Clifford Reynolds
J .E. Herman
J. M. Holtz
Oren Neutderhisar
Charles Fiegle
Dorothy Reeve
Albert Hagan
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Promote Liver Bile Flow
Advert encouraging use of Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to stimulate bile flow and aid digestion for constipation and sluggish liver. Claims vegetable tablets aid elimination and digestion with prices 15 30 60 cents and availability in all drugstores.
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Ohio
Deetor
Why hog markets rise costs and fewer hogs pay same
A reader questions why marketing hogs costs one-fourth more while returns are one-half less than a year ago. The example shows 73 hogs fed on 50-cent corn yield the same as 40 hogs fed on 40-cent corn last year.
Rehabilitation Plan Aims to Return Relief Families to Farms
Dickinson and Spirit Lake officials approve a joint plan with the state welfare bureau and US Employment Service to rehabilitate dozens of relief families after farming downturns. The program, prompted by a county survey, seeks farm placements, reduced administrative overlap, and closer cooperation among welfare, labor, and farm communities.
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Spirit Lake
USS
Dickfreon Courts
State Welfare Bureau
United States Employment Service
Omo
Rotls R Kamm Naga
Bowden
Board of Supervisors
Spirit Lake Commercial Club
Farm Bureau
Nickinan Counti
US Employment Service
Dekinsee County
Naomi Nicewanner Wins Cedar County 4 H Records Contest
Naomi Nicewanner of Durant won the Cedar County 4 H club record contest. Her six years of club work will advance to the state contest for a chance at the national club camp in Washington DC. She previously belonged to the Farmington Farmerettes under Luella Hamann and before that the Fulton Royal Workers 4 H club of Muscatine county.
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Specatta Tae Garet
Tipton
Frank Roser
Cedar County
Naomi Nicewanner
Durant
Cedar
Washington DC
Nicewanner
Farmington Farmerettes
Luella Hamann
Fulton Royal Workers 4-H Club
Muscatine County
Butterfat Prices At Edgewood Creameries February
Edgewood and surrounding creameries paid 33 cents a pound for sweet cream butterfat and 32 cents for No 1 sour cream butterfat during February. Farmers Creamers and F H Hatch creamery led February payments with 33 cent rates.
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Edgewood Creameries
Farmers Creamers Companys
F H Hatch Creamery
Tipton B Willer Sells Hogs At Chicago Market
Cedar County farmer Forrest B Willer sold 58 prime butcher hogs averaging 262 pounds at Chicago Manda for 4.35 per hundredweight without sorting, and two 432 pound sows bringing 465 per hundredweight.
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Tipton
Forrest
Willer
Chcago Manda
Tentative 1940 sugar beet prices announced nationwide
The Department of Agriculture released a tentative price schedule for the 1940 sugar beet crop under the sugar production and marketing control program. Based on recent sugar prices, beets could rise about seven cents per ton at Mason City and up to 30 cents at various western points. District 2 includes Iowa Minnesota and central Nebraska.
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Washington
Federal
Sugar Production and Marketing Control Program
Department of Agriculture
Department
Mason City
Minnesota
Montana
District 2
Iowa
Nebraska
Butterfat payments at Frankville cheese factory rise for February
Patrons at the Frankville cheese factory southeast of Decorah received 41 cents per pound for butterfat in February. The plant produced 33,933 pounds of cheese that month. Fifteen patrons cashed checks over $100, led by Sherman Bollman $255.79 and Henry Thompson $221.76. others ranged from $184.42 to $102.13, with eight more recipients.
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Gazette
Decorah
Frankville
Sherman Bollman
Henry Thompson
J. E. Wkneeskern
Ed Dickman
Oscar Russett
Fennimore Ambrose
Chris Waters
Stanwood Horse Sale Highlights Mare Prices
Stanwood hosted a horse sale with 33 head sold. A pair of six and seven year old mares brought 275 dollars each to Max Specht of Monticello, a three and four year old mare and gelding sold for 250 dollars to Ernest Dinse of Stanwood, another pair of mares earned 250, and a four year old mare sold for 112 dollars. Walter Challis of Lisbon acted as auctioneer for the Stanwood Colt club sale.
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Gazette
Stanwood
Max Specht
Monticello
Ernest Dinse
Stanwood Colt Club
Walter Challis
Lisbon
Better Homes Chairman Is Named In Buchanan
Independence Iowa Mrs L A Main former Buchanan county 4 H girls club chairman named Buchanan county Better Homes chairman for 1940 by Miss Mildred Wilson Better Homes chairman for Iowa The week of April 28 to May 1 is set aside for special emphasis on home improvement as part of a national program for better homes
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Independence
L. A. Main
Buchanan County
4-H Girls’ Club
Better Homes
L. Mildred Wilson
Iowa
First farmer in field this spring sows clover seed near Ainsworth
Everett Tobin, the Gazette farm editor, was photographed Monday afternoon two miles west of Ainsworth while sowing clover seed on a 35 acre field of fall wheat. The stand is excellent with a sticky surface. the medium narrow tired wagon did not cut in significantly.
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Gazette
Everett Tobin
Ainsworth
Farm Auction Schedule Highlights March 28 to April 3
A series of farm auctions listed across Iowa cities including Beverly Cattle Co Cedar Rapids Marion and Cedar Rapids. Key sales include Beverly Cattle Co March 28 five miles southwest of Cedar Rapids Hervey DeWees closing out sale March 29 five miles southeast of Marion Oxford Sales Co horse sale March 30 in Oxford and In. Livestock Exchange horse sale April 3 in Cedar Rapids.
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Beverly Cattle Co
Cedar Rapids
Hervey DeWees
Marion
Livestock Exchange
Oxford Sales Co
Oxford
Poultry Flocks Under 500 Birds Common Among Iowa Farmers
Despite 93 percent of Iowa farmers raising poultry and eggs, only a small share maintain flocks larger than 500 birds, suggesting limited scale in most farm operations.
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Iowa
Butter Production Rises 5.9 Percent From Week Prior
DES MOINES, March 21. National creamery butter production for the week ended March 21 rose 5.9 percent from the previous week, the USDA reports. Western North Central district including Iowa showed a 7 percent gain, yet fell 1.8 percent compared with the same week last year.
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Des Moines
INS
United States Department of Agriculture
West North Central
Iowa
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