Iowa Farm Price Index Falls to 93 in April
Iowa extension economists report the farm price index at 93 on April 15, the lowest since December 1934 except for last year's August and October. Prices for hogs eggs lambs and beef were weak while grain rose and cattle sheep and chickens held steady. The index shows purchasing power at 78 percent of the 1910-14 level mid-April, with demand for farm products about March levels amid uncertain foreign markets and a reduced U S export outlook. Central Europe is largely a lost outlet for farm products, shrinking competition with England.
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Ames Extension
United States
Europe
England
Fence Drift and Corn Acreage Rules Highlight Rural Church Note
A Sunday school feature honors Mrs. Donald Sinclair of Scotch Grove for lifelong Christian service and conveys practical farming rules. Mr. Wager explains corn acreage rules, distinguishing sweet corn sold to canneries from crop planted for farm use.
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Donald Sinclair
Scotch Grove
Feeder cattle flow into Cedar Rapids station in record day
More than 474 cattle from the Malek ranch near Whiteface Texas were unloaded at Konigsmark interurban station south of Cedar Rapids in a single day. Trachta and Sons sold 200 head to themselves while eight other feeders shared the rest. Freight and costs pushed the total to about 41 thousand dollars with the haul from Texas exceeding 1,000 miles.
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Konigsmark
Cedar Rapids
Frank Trachta
Faltis
Emil Vondra
Leo Trachta
John Louvar
Louis Petrak
Alfred Garnett
Leonard Stepanek
Malek Ranch
Whiteface
Tex
Texas
Kansas City
C. R. and
S. C. Railway
Agriculture Department Promotes 1939 U S Fiber Flax Program
In 1939 the Department of Agriculture launched an initiative to boost fiber flax production across the United States. The program aimed to expand cultivation, stabilize markets, and support farmers through guidance and incentives.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Wagor clarifies ruling on sweet corn classification
Linn county agricultural official John F. Wagor warned farmers that sweet corn is a soil depleting crop and cannot be substituted for non depleting crops under the 1939 AAA program. He cited bulletin NCR 301 which defines corn acreage as land seeded to field corn sweet corn or popcorn with exceptions for contracted sales.
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Wager
Wagor
John F. Wagor
Linn County Agricultural Conservation Association
Mr. Wager
West Branch C T A annual meeting set for May 24
The West Branch testing association will hold its annual meeting on May 24 with Arthur Porter, extension dairy husbandman, as speaker. Oswald Jensen herd of grade Guernseys topped the association in April, averaging 678 pounds of milk and 43.1 pounds of butter fat. eight month average test stood at 6.5 percent.
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West Branch
Arthur Porter
Extension Dairy Husbandman
John Offringa
Oswald Jensen
Offringa
Rough on Rats in Delaware County
A Wednesay afternoon session on the Roland Dasenbrook farm near Manchester featured Ames entomologist H. D. Tate and G. C. Decker demonstrating rat control methods. The group, including AAA officials from five counties, discussed poison types, gases, and safe distribution while noting a single pair of rats can spawn 11,000 offspring in a year and rats breed from three months old.
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Gugh
Roland Dasenbrook
Manchester
H. D. Tate
Ames
Ring of Men
G. C. Decker
Dasenbrock
AAA
Delaware
Linn, Jones, Clayton
Buchanan
Tate and Decker
Rat killing campaign ends with May 22 27 week
Tate and Decker ran demonstrations in Floyd and Winneshiek counties on Monday and Tuesday and were slated for Clinton on Thursday and Benton on Friday. The campaign aims to culminate in a week from May 22 to 27, designated for that purpose. The average rat weighs about three quarters of a pound, with the largest on record at 25 ounces.
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Tate and Decker
Floyd
Winneshiek
Clinton
Benton
Brandon Sees Corn Planting Start Amid Drought Strains
In Brandon this week farmers began corn planting while oats fields and pastures await rainfall. The drought impact stresses forage for livestock as local growers monitor moisture.
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Brandon
Poultry Grading Demonstrations Planned Across East Iowa
A series of thirteen meetings on poultry grading and marketing is set this month across Iowa. Sponsored by the Ames extension service the state department of agriculture and the federal bureau of animal industry the events will include talks by B O Brownlee Alva L Howard John L Wineinger and others followed by a live poultry grading demonstration at each site. Eastern Iowa sessions are May 5 Oelwein May 8 Cedar Rapids at the Wilson company plant and May 9 Clinton.
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Ames Extension Service
State Department of Agriculture
Federal Bureau of Animal Industry
Iowa
Oelwein
Wilson Company
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
B. O. Brownlee
Des Moines
Alva L. Howard
86 Per Cent Washington County Farms In Program
Wayne Norman chairman of the Washington county soil conservation committee reported that 1803 of 2294 cropable farms have signified their intent to comply with the 1939 farm program. This confirms 86 percent cooperating.
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Washington County
Washington
Wayne Norman
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