Small Grain Sowing Finishes On Three North English Farms
North English reports three farmers Herman Guenther Carl Myant and Glenn Banes have finished sowing small grain. In southern Iowa seeding is general with oats near completion as weather warms. Farmers push corn sod breaking plowing manure spreading and other field work while finishing last fall harvests and maple sap boiling continues.
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Herman Guenther
Carl Myant
Glenn Banes
Iowa
Warner Brothers
North English
Pasture Calendar Aids Year Round Dairy Grazing
The Ames dairy extension service proposes a pasture calendar to keep cows on pasture throughout the year for limed and fenced farms. Eastern Iowa dairy men report success, with Ray mond Joseph of Hopkinton cited as an example. Government soil conservation acts may expand early summer oat pasturing to use growing grass acreages efficiently.
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Ames Dairy Extension Service
Seven Income Streams From 9 Acre Manchester Farm
Special to The Gazette reports Mr. and Mrs. Warren E. Bond operate a 9 acre Delaware county tract with diversified income. Eggs poultry cream milk vegetables flowers bulbs and preserved produce from season to season add to a total that includes a 150 Buff Orpington flock producing eggs and dairy byproducts. Rye pastures soybeans alfalfa oats and feed crops sustain livestock while electricity hot water heat and active community life accompany their farming routine. The Bonds note they cannot take vacations, saying they married on Labor Day.
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Gazette
Manchester
Warren E. Bond
Delaware County
Fence Drift and Soil Rules Challenge Town Plans
Puzzling questions arise over fence drift in woven wire and whether permanent pasture land used for bluegrass seed last summer falls under new farm act rules. Township soil conservation appraisers face spring review with Washington policy clarifications and growing need for formal legal training for farmers.
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Township Soil Conservation
Washington
Oleomargarine Consumption Drops 4.8 Percent
Tax figures show oleomargarine production for the first two months of this year at 75,238,766 pounds, down 4.8 percent from 79,074,888 pounds in the same period last year. February production reached 37,850,778 pounds, down 12.1 percent from 45,350,942 pounds in February 1935.
Winners Named In Delhi Grain Show
Delhi high school Future Farmers class sponsored grain show awards for Yellow crib corn Ray Peters yellow corn professional class William Neiman yellow corn amateur class Ray Peters other than yellow corn Bert Thiba deau single ear yellow corn Do lores Spergilage shelled corn Louis Guetzke oats Donald Smith soybean seed Clarence Orcutt soybean hay Earl Darey alfalfa hay Doran Pettlon ensilage William Harder.
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Delhi
Delhi High School
Ray Peters
William Neiman
Bert Thibadeau
Dolores Spergilage
Louis Guetzke
Donald Smith
Clarence Orcutt
Teams Top At 420 In Columbus Junction Sale
Forty head of horses sold by William Glatstein in Columbus Junction. A team of gray horses six and seven years old brought 420 dollars, a pair of 3-year-olds 365 dollars, and a pair of mules 280 dollars. Older teams and single horses sold from 125 to 275 each with yearling colts 100 to 125. Paul Klotz and Herman Kretschmar acted as auctioneers.
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Columbus Junction
William Glatstein
Paul Klotz
Herman Kretschmar
Wilton
Argentine Corn Imports Reach Seattle and Tacoma
About 240000 bushels of Argentine corn arrived in Seattle and Tacoma in the last ten days per a federal grain market report. Buenos Aires shipments totaling 575000 bushels were bound for the United States in the past week. Argentina fixes new corn price at 42 cents a bushel under its price support policy, seven cents above the 1935 crop, with April-delivery corn quoted at 76 cents on the Pacific coast.
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Seattle
Tacoma
Buenos Aires
United States
Pacific Coast
Certified Seed Potatoes Misbranded Under Iowa Seed Law
Dairy and food inspectors in Iowa ordered confiscation of seed potatoes misbranded under the Iowa seed law. Sale or exposure for sale of seed potatoes bearing blue tags or the word certified is forbidden unless truly certified. First crop from certified seed may bear a specific non blue statement. Violations face confiscation, sale to fund school funds, fines from ten to one hundred dollars, and civil damages of fifty cents per hundred pounds to buyers.
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Iowa
Farmers Protest Mississippi Dam and Channel Plan
One hundred fifty drainage district representatives and landowners from Muscatine and Louisa counties gathered in Wapello to seek damage estimates for the proposed Dam No. 17 and 9-foot channel program on the upper Mississippi. They warned that post completion operating costs will rise as plants must pump against higher head and handle more water due to groundwater outlet loss and seepage from elevated river levels.
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Columbus Junction
Muscatine
Louisa
Wapello
Mississippi River
Costs Rise From Increased Pump Use And Backwater
The report warns that operating costs will grow as pumps run more often and silt will back up outlets, reducing discharge. Levees face wave damage, crops may fail on some lands, and assessments, taxes, and interest payments will shift to undamaged lands. The meeting featured Ex Senator Edwin Hicklin of Wapello district engineer Charles Young and Major Gesler of Rock Island.
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Edwin Hicklin
Wapello
Charles Young
Major Gesler
Rock Island
Manchester Farm To Be Improved
Fort Dodge businessman A C Gienapp spends 5000 dollars to modernize the 160 acre Manchester area farm once owned by his father C H Gienapp. Renovations include a three way water system, septic tank, electrical upgrades, new furnace with air conditioning, oak floors, replastering, new doors and windows, a re roof, a full basement, and plans for a porch landscaping and outbuilding improvements to follow.
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Gazette
Manchester
A. C. Gienapp
Fort Dodge
C. H. Gienapp
Delaware
Gienapp
Tractive Pull for Deep Plow in Midwestern Soils
Under ordinary soil conditions in the middle west about 400 pounds of tractive pull are needed for each 14 inch plow plowing 514 inches deep when the hitch is at the true line of draft.
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Middle West
Periodical cicadas to emerge in 1936
Brood X and Brood XXII are due to appear in their usual ranges in late April to May, with millions of cicadas surfacing after long underground lifespans. Entomologist Lee A. Strong explains the harmless yet dramatic emergence and notes the broad 200 year continuity of these broods.
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New York State
Missouri
Michigan
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Lee A. Strong
Bureau of Entomology and
United States Department of Agriculture
Strong
Farm Auction Schedule Across Counties
Coming farm auctions list Edwin Bartlett estate 181.86 acres 342 miles east of Solon. John W Pichner estate sale 7 miles northeast of Oxford. Angus sale of M H Donohoe and Son 4 miles west of Holbrook. Beverly cattle sale. Joe Metelak public sale 1145 miles east of Cedar Rapids.
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Edwin Bartlett
Solon
John W. Pichner
Oxford
Angus
M. H. Donohoe & Son
Holbrook
Page Cattle
Beverly
Joe Metelak
Cedar Rapids
Sumner Lands $79,300 REA Loan for Rural Lines
Washington reports the rural electrification administration approved a $79,300 loan to Sumner Indiana to extend 79.3 miles of rural distribution lines, serving 250 customers in Bremer Fayette and Chickasaw counties. Interest is 3 percent with a twenty year repayment.
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Rural Electrification Administration
Morris L. Cooke
Sumner
Bremer
Fayette
Chickasaw
Mascoutah
Edison of Fort Dodge Named Acting Secretary Farmers Grain Dealers
D E Edison of Fort Dodge is named acting secretary of the Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Iowa and the Farmers Elevator Mutual Insurance Association, succeeding Wilbur H Thompson who resigned to lead the Omaha Bank for Cooperatives. The appointment takes effect April 1. Edison has five years with the association.
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Fort Dodge
D. E. Edison
Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Iowa
Farmers Elevator Mutual Insurance Association
Wilbur H. Thompson
Omaha Bank For Co-operatives
Mr. Edison
Farmers Grain Dealers Association
Webster Farmer Slaughters Giant 780-Pound Hog
Webster area farmer Montz butchered a giant Spotted Poland China hog weighing 780 pounds with aid from Ed Osweiler. The five year old hog weighed 280 pounds when fed last September and gained about 500 pounds to reach the final weight. Lard totaled 28 gallons and 104 pounds of sausage were made, with the remainder canned.
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the Gazette
Webster
Seldon Montz
Ed Osweiler
Packers Hold Back In Contracting Of West Coast Lambs
Bakersfield report notes West Coast packers refrain from contracting spring lambs this spring due to past low profits and market uncertainty. California and Arizona lambs are in good, heavier condition. a few cars sold for immediate slaughter, thirteen loads bought for eastern shipment, with three via the southern route and ten via the northern route. No contracts yet despite field surveillance by major packing interests.
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Bakersfield
Calif
California
Arizona
San Joaquin Valley
Mature stallions require daily exercise in stud season
The report notes that mature stallions in stud season need about six miles of exercise each day to maintain health and performance.
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Raymond Joseph
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Sudan
Columbus Junction Sale
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Buster
Julius
South Africa
Michael
Hyah, Fate
Mickey
Williams
Europe
Pilgrim Fathers
New England
Egypt
Nile
Canada
J. S. Leonhardt
May Drug Co
Fayette and Bremer
of Scholls Zinc
Ee Yaa
Briggs-Stratton
Washing Machine Headquarters
First Street
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Packers
West Coast
Lambs
1St Ave
Kneip Market
Dial
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