Boston Wool Imports Hit Record April Total On Foreign Goods
Agricultural Marketing Service notes April receipts in Boston surpassed domestic supply with over 21 million pounds of foreign apparel wools arriving in the city during the week. Domestic wools totaled more than 10 million pounds for April, while foreign wools dominated trading with prices favoring skirted and combing types from South American and other origins.
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OSTON
Agricultural Marketing Services Monthly Review
Boston
Farmer Maps Irregular Fields With Plane-Table Alidade
Helmut Butch Wirhkler, a farmer near National in Clavion county, uses a plane-table alidade to map irregular fields for the Clayton county AAA. With Walter Wright of National, he has mapped over 40 farms and up to 100 acres a day, planning contour cultivation. The instrument cost 60 dollars and the duo earn about 10 dollars daily plus mileage, submitting sketches to the Elkader AAA office for acreage calculations.
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Helmuth Butch” Wirhkler
National
Clavion
Claston
Elkander
Mio Wikler
Clayton County
Iowa
Walter Wright
Rod
Wirkler
The
AAA
Soil Conservation Staff
Emerson Wolf
Wright
Wickler
Wight
Triple A
Elkader
Tests Show Early Cultivation Not Always Profitable
A decade of USDA and Iowa State experiments on corn cultivation shows best yields often occur on plots left un cultivated until corn reaches about ten inches high. Early cultivation is still advised in wet conditions to curb weeds, with spiketooth, spring-tooth, and rotary hoes effective for young weed seedlings except deep rooted species.
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Ames
Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Wild crab thickets and Thoreau’s pocket crab apple
A country woman muses on wild crab thickets and their tap roots tending north. She asks if wild crab trees can be transplanted to home gardens and recalls Thoreau carrying a crab apple for scent in his handkerchief.
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Thoreau
Weeder Preferred for Corn Weeding Over Other Tools
The report compares three weeders for corn care. The weeder is favored for its lower cost light weight and ease of use. It can be used up to 12 to 15 inches tall while the rotary hoe works until 10 to 12 inches and the spike tooth only up to 8 inches.
98 177 516 Bushels of 1940 Corn Under Seal Nationwide
Washington report shows 98,177,516 bushels of 1940 corn under loan as of April 26, totaling 59,820,692.89 dollars. Major holdings include Illinois 56,115,394 bushels and loans 56,102. Iowa 56,102 loans valued at 34,229,507.94. Nebraska 12,597,039. Minnesota 7,515,454. South Dakota 3,901,189. Missouri 2,855,136. Repayments on 437 loans total 219,145.14 dollars.
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Washington, DC
Joan
Commodity Credit Corporation
Iona
Illinois
Nebraska
Minnesota
South Dakota
Missouri
Hutson Named Head Of Ag Defense Relations Office
John B Hutson named chief of the new office of agricultural defense relations by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. The move aligns with Roosevelt's recommendations and forms a policy and liaison group to oversee agriculture defense work. A joint Anglo American food committee for lend lease planning was also created, chaired by Wickard, to coordinate food resources for the UK and allies. Week's food purchases show little policy change with large quantities of potatoes eggs cheese and canned goods listed.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Claude Rickard
John B Hutson
Office of Agricultural Defense Relations
Hutson
Kentucky
AAA
Defense Advisory Commission
Wickard
Division For Agriculture
Chester A Davis
Department of Agriculture
America
United Kingdom
Husking and Planting In Progress Near Winthrop
Husking corn plowing for corn and planting corn are underway on three adjoining farms near Winthrop this week. An early November storm left some fields unhusked until spring. General planting is expected by next week with some soft corners remaining in a few fields.
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Winthrop
Iowa corn yield tests swap on Manchester farm plot
One of 12 state corn yield tests was swapped Wednesday on a farm near Manchester owned by Ed Molln and Howard Hamilton. Loyd Tatum of Ames supervised a 13 acre hand planted test with 144 hybrid varieties across nine replications to guide farmers in selecting suited seed.
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Ed Molln
Howard Hamilton
Kenneth Dunlap
Manchester
Loyd Tatum
Ames
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Federal Bureau of Plant Industry
Iowa
North Central
South Central
Cresco
Forest City
Sheldon
Storm Lake
Clarion
Eldridge
Denison
Henderson
Chariton
Mount Union
Clayton Women Plan Achievement Day On May 15
Mrs. Joel Clark county chairman announced Clayton seventh annual achievement day will be held May 15. The event marks a yearlong study of home furnishings with principal speaker Mrs. Raymond Sayre of Ackworth and notable speaker Mrs WN May Larson of Ames who will judge township activity exhibits.
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Eleader
Joel Clark
Clayton
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
State Farm Bureau Women's Organization
WN. May Larson
Ames
HDA
County Rural Women Hear War Experiences From Monona Leader
Decorah marks annual achievement day as Mrs. George Reed of Monona addresses attendees about her war experiences in England. The county rural women's chorus directed by Mayo Savold performs two numbers.
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Decorah
Winneshiek
George Reed
Monona
England
County Rural Women's
Mayo Savold
Sheep Dipping Planned Again in Clayton County
County Agent Grover Hannan announced the Clayton County Sheep Producers association will continue the annual dipping program this year. A portable dipping tank purchased last year by producers will again be used in the project run with local support.
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Elkader
Clayton County
Grover Hahn
Sheep Dipping Program Aims for Farmwide Coverage
The plan would have sheep dipped at owners’ farms to move from farm to farm. Last year three thousand sheep were dipped. The standard charge is 10 cents per head for first year dipping and 8 cents per head for second year. This year’s schedule depends on demand and can be arranged once sufficient interest is shown, Mr Hahn stated.
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Hahn
Iowa AAA signup seen higher than last year in 21 counties
Des Moines officials reported from 21 counties that a larger share of farmers will sign up for the farm program this year than in 1940. Wayne County leads with 95 percent, Carroll shows the biggest gain to 89 percent, while Johnson and Chickasaw trail with lower participation.
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Des Moines
AAA
Iowa
Johnson and Chickasaw
Marion
Pocahontas
Wayne County
Ossian Creamery Pays 372 Cents Butterfat First Half April
Patrons of Silver Springs Co operative creamery in Ossian received 372 cents per pound for butterfat in the first half of April. The top producer was Fred Scheidel with 322.3 pounds.
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Ossian
Silver Springs Co-operative Creamery
Fred Scheidel
Farmers sell 36 steers near Olin for 10.75 cwt
P R Paulsen and son of Olin in Jones County sold 36 head of 1,223 pound steers at Chicago on Tuesday earning 10.75 dollars per hundredweight.
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Eproval
Williamsburg
Koester Brothers
Iowa County
Chicago
Olin
P. R Paulsen and Son
Jones County
Wapello County 4-H Enrollment Deadline Set
May 15 is the cutoff for enrollments in dairy calf colt and corn projects announced by Lael Moon county agent in Louisa county.
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Wapello
Lael Moon
Louisa County
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