Achievement program highlights Benton farm women efforts
About 900 people attended the Benton County Achievement program titled Attic Storeroom and Garden. It showcased 553 meetings, 958 farm homes reached, and 4 735 pounds of homemade soap among tangible feats as well as dramatizations and 4-H, nutrition, and clothing achievements directed by Mrs Ernest Reiss. The Washington county event followed with 100 Farm Bureau attendees and scores near 950.
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Jan Horne
Loneyfellow
New England
Benton County
Iowa
Corn Belt
van Horne
Legion Hall
Near
Garrison
Ernest Reiss
Reiss
Benton
Kane Township
Mary Gregg
Ames
Big Grove
Gazette
Washington
Jackson Township
Washington County
Washington Township
Lime Creek Township
Farm Bureau
Ames Extension Service
O. E. Milner
Mount Pleasant
Meat storage levels dip below month and year earlier
Chicago reports May 1 meat holdings across categories show smaller totals than April and the five year average, with lard and beef varying. Pork and lamb and mutton decline or vary slightly, while miscellaneous meats and poultry shift modestly. Government butter purchases for relief total 51.53 million pounds with 0.82 million pounds left for distribution.
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Chicago
Central City Creamery pays 27 cents butterfat rate
The Farmers Mutual Creamery of Central City paid twenty seven cents per pound of butterfat for the period April 15 to May 1.
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Central City Creamery
Specianl
Central City
Farmers Mutual Creamery Company
Robins Farmers Plow And Plant For Maurice Meyer
Robins neighbors drove forty seven head of horses over the Helen Meyer farm north of Robins to plow, disc, harrow, and plant for Maurice Meyer. Meyer, a spring illness victim, has his eighteen acres of corn now seeded and ground prepared. Named workers include Carl Schluntz Joe Sutera Charles Quaas Paul Bowser Charles Van Fossen Wilbur Van Fossen Walter Van Note Virgil Leidigh Owen Burress Sam Hamed John Allman Roger Leidigh John Holsinger and Jim Hoover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Sutera
Charles Quaas
Paul Bowser
Charles van Fossen
Wilbur van Fossen
Walter van Note
Virgil Leidigh
Owen Burress
Sam Hamed
John Allman
Roger Leidigh
John Holsinger
Jim Hoover
Hogs Bought Daily at Cedar Rapids Plant Under FPSRC Order
The federal government continues efforts to support hog prices by issuing daily orders totaling 14 000 to 15 000 live hogs across 22 markets. FPSRC assigns Cedar Rapids packing plant 400 head daily with quality 100 to 210 pounds, distributed to 27 processors over the next 15 business days.
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Cedar Rapids
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
FPSRC
Chicago
Detroit
Buffalo
Wheeling
Newak
Baltimore
Louisville
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Wichita
St. Paul
Sioux City
Los Angeles
Bt. Joseph
Iowa Rain Record To Date This Year
State precipitation from January 1 to date shows a deficit of 4.29 inches against the normal 8.60. May totals stand at 0.0 inches, with a normal of 1.0 inch, leaving a 1.05 inch shortfall.
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Iowa
International News Service
Ormal
War on Barberry Pushed in Fifteen Iowa Counties
The barberry eradication drive expands across fifteen Iowa counties including Fayette Clayton Des Moines and Black Hawk under the public works program. D R Shepherd of the USDA notes crews will remove natural and planted barberry and survey efforts rely on local re employment labor. More than 19 million bushes have already been destroyed across Iowa and twelve other states.
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Ames
Iowa
D. R. Shepherd
United States Department of Agriculture
Allamakee
Dallas
Floyd
Jefferson
Jackson
Scott
Winneshiek
Fayette
Clayton
Des Moines
Adams
Louisa
Cedar
Jones
Black Hawk
Shepherd
Mr. Shepherd
Poultrywomen Market 100 Week Old Broilers in Iowa Towns
Mrs. Fred Nichols of Cedar Rapids markets 100 two to three quarter pound White Rock broilers at 20 cents per pound after raising 516 of 530 chicks bought March 6 from a Cedar Rapids hatchery. In West Branch Mrs. Tony Bohac sells 300 2 to 4 pound Buff Orpington broilers raised in an oil heated house and plans to expand with Leghorn chicks.
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Fred Nichols
West Branch
Orpington
Tony Bohac
Bohac
McArthur Attacks Commission Men Over Direct Marketing
Iowa State Sen McArthur charges federal bills to curb direct livestock buying would mainly benefit terminal commission men He favors cooperative direct selling as farmers solution and says opposition profits from such legislation while stressing production control and many corn hog signers support him
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Mason City
Terminal Livestock Commission
William McArthur
Co-Operative Shipping
McArthur
Iowa
Electric Light Traps Advance Fruit Pest Control
Arthur Huntington, Cedar Rapids, notes data from a General Electric study on electric light traps for orchard pests. Early trials used water pan and high voltage electrocuting traps, showing light traps comparable to spraying, with about half the catch being gravid females.
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Arthur Huntington
Cedar Rapids
American Association of Agricultural Engineers
General Electric Company
Rochester
New York State
Geneva
Hilton
When Is Chinch Bug Not Chinch Bug
Des Moines reports Iowa State College and the state agriculture department explain two similar insects the true chinch bug Elissus Leucopterus and the false chinch bug Nysius Ericae Schilling differ in diet with the true bug attacking small grains and corn while the impostor targets turnips radishes rape and flax.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Iowa State College
State Department of Agriculture
Nysius Ericae Schilling
Fence Drift In Stable Night Scene
Poem fragment describes chores and quiet farm life with horses cattle and fowl. A lone moon glints over pasture as a man puffs on a pipe inside a stable while a wife reacts to a sudden stir of affection. The speaker muses on spring and longing across the rural scene.
Confab On Chinch Bugs At Iowa City
A county farmers meeting at the Iowa City courthouse will discuss plans for a war on chinch bugs with Harlow Mills of the state entomology department presenting control methods. A. D. Worthington will speak in Muscatine on chinch bug menace under Farm Bureau auspices, as county agent Rylander notes weather speeds bug development threatening crops.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Harlow Mills
State Entomology Department
Muscatine
A. D. Worthington
Ames
Farm Bureau
Muscatine County
Carl E. Rylander
Early Planted Corn Comes Up After Weekend Rains
North Liberty farmers cultivate and harrow rough ground as a shower boosts garden plantings. Stanwood notes good corn stands with remaining plantings, oats and haylands growing after Saturday rain. Central City reports early corn growing well with no weeds yet and gardens improving after rain.
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North Liberty
Stanwood
Central City
Storm Winds Knock Down Delta Trees and House Fire
Strong winds Saturday evening toppled trees in the Delta area causing intermittent electric service. A fire of undetermined origin swept a new broader house on the Sam DeWeese farm west of Delta as the DeWeese family was in town, killing 180 week-old chicks.
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the Gazette
Delta
Sam DeWeese
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Benton Farm Women
Ray Anderson
Eden
Eldorado
LeRoy
Jane Nelson
Tama
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Benton County Farm Women
State Farm Bureau
Longfellow
Benton Courty
Robins Farmers
Maurice Meyer
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SMUI
Smulekoff
Third Avenue
Orpington Broilers
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