Feeding Not Owning To Rule Cattle Profit This Year
Rex Beresford Ames extension animal husbandman told Linn county cattlemen that profits come from feeding rather than owning. He warned no near term rise in fat cattle prices, suggests after July 1 better markets, notes high cattle on feed, and urges extending marketing to avoid price drops. Linn feeders form a beef feeders association with a tentative committee named.
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Rex Beresford
Ames Extension Animal Husbandman
Linn County
Marion
Beresford
United States
Ames
Iowa
Linn
Linn County Beef Feeders Association
Roscoe Blinks
Lee Stinger
Mount Vernon
Irvin Scott
Marion, Co
Map Shows County Soil Conservation Base Ratios
Iowa counties received base ratios for soil depleting crops from five regional soil conservation meetings. The map shows two ratios per county: 1932 33 to total farm land as the county base and soil depleting crops to all crop land for farm bases. State officials expect county and township bases to be announced by June 1 with appeals handled in Des Moines and later eligibility for soil conservation act awards.
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Iowa
Soil Conservation
Des Moines
Chicks Require Early Ore Supply by Week Five or Six
A guidance note asserts chicks need ore access by the fifth or sixth week to promote healthy development. It emphasizes timely provisioning to ensure proper feeding and growth.
Fayette wool pool sale set for June 6
Fayette county pooled wool to be offered for sale on June 6 as the sheep growers association holds its yearly meeting. Last year 19 062 pounds sold for 44030 with most wool grading No 1 and bringing 23 ½ cents per pound.
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Fayette
Fayette County
Sheep Growers Association
F. G. Schroeder
Fred Hanley
Oelwein
Hawkeye
John McSweeney
Paul McElroy
Bessie Schneider
Sheep shearing begins as heat arrives in Fayette county
With hot weather the sheep shearing season starts in Fayette county in the middle of last week. Wool yields are heavier than usual with many fleeces weighing about twelve pounds. Dealers in the area offer 26 cents per pound.
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West Union
Fayette County
Vail Ed Imports Rise Over Previous Year
Import totals for 1935 reached 6 953 in value, up from 1 406 in 1934, reflecting a significant increase in Vail exports.
Outlook for Egg Prices Favorable
Colonel L. Brown reports firm egg prices this week with a favorable spring outlook. Storage holdings are light, especially in Chicago, and cold winter reduced production. Production may rise late spring to early summer, but fall supplies could pressure the market if feed costs stay high and storage eggs compete with fresh stock.
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New York City
New York
Chicago
Roeder Brothers Raise 121 Spotted Poland China Pigs
Hazleton area farmers Roeder Brothers report 121 Spotted Poland China April pigs farrowed by seventeen sows all healthy no runts among them.
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Hazleton
Roeder Brothers
Poland
China
Harvesting Threshing In May
A May harvest report notes soybeans left from last fall snow caught fields and farms. Walt Patterson of Wellman, working a 25 acre field, uses a side delivered combine to lift downed beans for the harvest already finishing in March or last week.
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Walt Patterson
Wellman
Patterson
Trainload Of Baby Combines To Arrive In Iowa
A 160 unit trainload of new 5-foot rubber cylinder combines is due May 13 in Cedar Rapids with events planned in Cedar Rapids Marshalltown and Ames. Speakers include Lieutenant Governor Nels Kraschel Cedar Rapids Mayor Frank Hahn and Francis Johnson of Des Moines. Public kickoff at 10 30 a m with bands and parade.
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W. P. Bobst
Steffy Seed and Transfer Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
J. D. Peet
Martelle
Bobst
Iowa Farms
Allis-Chailmers Company
Combine
Nels Kraschel
Frank Hahn
Francis Johnson
Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Marshalltown
Ames
Rubber Components Described For Machine
The description notes a machine weighing 2750 pounds with rubber tires and a rubber plated cylinder. It also specifies rubber concaves and a rubber separating deck, detailing the equipment’s flexible components.
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Bobst
Roughage Quality Tied to Dairy Output in April
Depleting roughage supplies and widespread poor quality reduced dairy production. Linn Cow Test association No 2 reports April results: 391 cows averaged 586 pounds milk and 25 pounds butterfat. E C Forest and Son led with 951 pounds milk and 36.1 butterfat from 15 Holsteins. diet included corn cob meal oats bran and cracked soybeans. The top cow was a Brown Swiss from Robert Beckman’s Mount Vernon herd producing 64.3 pounds butterfat.
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Robert L. Sucher
Linn Cow Test Association No. 2
Mr. Sucher
E. C. Forest and Son of
Mount Vernon
Robert Beckman
Farmer Prepares to Plow Corn Near Millersburg
Charles Grimm Jr a farmer five miles southwest of Millersburg plans to plow corn within a week. He finished planting on April 27 and reports a forty acre stand that is up enough to row. Most locals are planting or preparing as ground remains cloddy and rain is needed.
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Millersburg
Charles Grimm, Jr
Grimm
Farmers' view on soil policy and imports in 1935 Iowa
The Gazette farm editor argues agricultural economists overstate soil conservation benefits. He notes little meat import impact, observes shifts in cattle and corn patterns, and predicts Iowa corn acreage will rise while oats give way to grass under the soil conservation program. Rex Beresford cites a 28 percent rise in cattle on feed concentrated in cotton states and the corn belt.
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Gazette Farm
Central Market Commission
Cotton Belt
New Zealand
United States
Pacific Coast
Mississippi
Iowa
Rex Beresford
Ames
Marion
SFAR
Gazette
Brandon Bush orders spring wore plows to run night and day
Bauer Brothers custom plowers west of Brandon take on a new 3-bottom plow amid droughty winds. Ray Albert and Laurence Forsyth join several farmers in night plowing in the area. Clifford Hay of the Van Skike farm near Brandon leads late March corn planting after warm dry days.
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Brandon
Bauer Brothers
Ray Albert
Laurence Forsyth
Clifford Hay
Farmers Planting Corn Near Hazleton this Week
Farmers three miles southeast of Hazleton began planting corn on Saturday and report the ground in fine condition. With favorable weather, most corn in the vicinity will be planted this week. Oats are doing fine and pasture and hay are coming fast since warm weather. Gardens are mostly up and growing nicely.
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Hazleton
Roeder Brothers
Corn Planting Begins in Fayette County Fields
West Union reports corn planting starting in northern Fayette county with plowing the main task. Discing dragging and manure spreading are extensive as heat and wind toughen the ground. Foliage has put out rapidly over the last three days.
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West Union
Fayette County
Farmers Begin Planting Corn Near Troy Mills
The planting season started Friday as local farmers including Ashley McCright led the way in corn planting. Melvin Wright Carleton Schantz and others prepare to sow as the field work opens in the area.
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Troy Mills
Ashley McCright
Melvin Wright
Carleton Schantz
Farmers Begin Planting Corn After Rainy Warm Spell
Following recent rains and warm weather, farmers began planting corn in the area. Paul DeForrest started planting on Wednesday, and Forest Cherry uses a tractor plow then a planter. Pastures and meadows grow quickly, orchards bloom, and many young trees show winter-kill at tips.
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Walker
Paul DeForrest
Forty acres sold at Amber. price $75 per acre
George and Reinhardt Siebel purchased forty acres at the edge of Amber from Herman Danneman for seventy five dollars an acre. The tract has no buildings.
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Amber
George and
Reinhardt Siebel
Herman Danneman
U S Buys Chicago Butter Because New York Price Higher
New York butter prices rose slightly this week, widening the gap with Chicago. The shift to lake and rail shipments from Great Lakes ports delayed receipts, tightening supplies briefly. The government continues purchases, now focusing on Chicago due to the price spread, with no amount announced yet. Agricultural adjustment purchases at Chicago last week totaled 1,011 tubs of 92 score butter.
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New York City
New York
Chicago
Great Lake
Wheatland 4-H Lads Stage Egg Corn Contests
Louis Schnieder won an egg contest at a Wapsie Valley League 4-H meeting in Wheatland. He displayed the six largest eggs weighing 19.14 ounces. Darlene Minnert finished second with six eggs weighing 18 ounces. Roger Riedesel won the seed corn event with 97 points, Ruth Bicknese was second with 96. Twenty-two members attended.
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Wheatland
Louis Schnieder
Wapsie Valley League
Darlene Minnert
Roger Riedesel
Ruth Bicknese
Sevig Herefords Dispersion Sells Bulls and Cattle
In Walford Nebraska Oscar C Sevigs dispersion sale of purebred Herefords brought 29 head averaging 138 45 bull ages ranged six to fourteen months Top bull a two year old sold for 470 to F L Morse Neligh Neb Top female a three year old sold for 250 to Hillendale Farms Muscatine Amana colonies among buyers taking two bulls and five cows heifers High Middle and West
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the Gazette
Walford
Oscar C. Sevig
F. L. Morse
Neligh
Neb
Hillendale Farms
Muscatine
Amana
Auction Results Highlight West Union Horse Sale
A 5-year-old mare weighing 1600 pounds in foal sold for 240 dollars at West Union auction. A pair of mares aged 6 and 7 weighing 3600 pounds total sold for 368 dollars. Ten horses averaged 184 dollars.
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West Union
Horses and livestock fetch solid sums at Cedar Rapids sale
Forty five head of horses sell at the Iowa Livestock Exchange with top horse prices around $200 for a 5 year old and $179 for an 8 year old. Hogs top at $10.20 per hundredweight as 75 head sell. Calves reach $8.20 per hundredweight on 100 head while feeder cattle top at $7.95. At Brooklyn N Y a load of sorrels brings $450. Mitchell ships horses and pigs to Buffalo and Wichita sourced stockyards.
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Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Sackwood
Harry Mitchell
Brooklyn
N. Y
Buffalo
Mr. Mitchell
Wichita
Kan
Mitchell Run
Calf loads and feeder cattle top Page Cattle auction
A 425 pound load of Hereford calves sold for 9.05 per hundredweight at Beverly yards with three other loads at 8.90, all to Delaware county feeders. Cattle 600 to 800 pounds moved 7.85 to 8.30. Two hundred feeder pigs averaging 65 pounds sold at 11.05 per cwt to Clinton and Black Hawk county buyers, with bidders from five states.
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Page Cattle Company
Beverly Yards
Delaware County
Clinton
Black Hawk County
Brandon Farm Seeded With Low Chick Loss Record
Mrs Harold Smith, four miles northwest of Brandon, reports minimal chick loss from 525 White Rocks bought two weeks ago. She hatched 250 turkey eggs on Thursday. Mrs Lester Davis has 1,100 eggs to hatch this week as unusually healthy flocks are reported.
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Brandon
Harold Smith
White Rocks
Smith
Lester Davis
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