Iowa Farm Bureau Builds Planned Pressure Group Network
In Cedar Rapids a Farm Bureau session led by Francis Johnson and Roger Fleming outlined nine May district meetings to organize “minute men” groups and relay legislative goals to county and state bodies. Objectives include tax relief on old grain carryover, fair school funding, cream grading laws, and farm protections, with national aims to empower farmers in policy, curb monopolies, and parity income. Attendees included 60 members from 11 eastern Iowa counties and legislators Weichman and Dietz. The Mount Pleasant conference follows. other dates listed through May 27 in Denison, Spencer, Garner, West Union, Nevada, Chariton and Red Oak.
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Cedar Rapids
Francis Johnson
Des Moines
Roger Fleming
Iowa
Iowa Farm Bureau
Linn
Benton
Tama
Poweshick
Johnson
Cedar
Scott
Clinton
Jackson and
Jones
Minute Men
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
AAA
FCA
REA
Idea
Mount Pleasant
Denison
Spencer
Garner
West Union
Nevada
Charion
Red Oak
American Farm Bureau
Wallace
Washington
Senate
Harry Weichman
Benton County
Walter Dietz
Farmer Sales Near Dinsdale Highlight Chicago Livestock Market
Special to The Gazette reports W. J. Breakenridge, a Tama county farmer near Dinsdale, sold a carload of 851-pound heifers for 10.50 dollars per hundredweight and a carload of 1,030-pound steers for 950 dollars per hundredweight at Chicago Thursday.
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Gazette
Dinsdale
W. J. Breakenridge
Tama County
Chicago
Break for Growers Tough on Traders
Chicago AP reports American farmers largely liquidated about 140 million bushels of wheat from government loans by May 1 1940 securing profit as May wheat fell from 1 09 to 90 cents. The German blitzkrieg disrupted markets, wiping out over 100 million dollars of potential 1940 crop value and shifting grain purchases toward speculators who suffered losses.
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Chicago
Germany
Ill Health Forces Cropsey To Resign Poultry Co-Op Job
Harold Miller, president of the Benton County Poultry and Egg Marketing association, named Al Easter of Ottumwa as manager to replace Harmon Cropsey who resigned due to ill health. Cropsey quit Wednesday after doctors advised complete rest. he plans to return home to Marcellus Michigan once Easter takes over. Easter, previously with the Iowa Poultry and Egg Marketing co op in Ottumwa, is expected to move to Vinton late this week.
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Gazette
Winton
Harold Miller
Benton County Poultry and Egg Marketing Association
al Easter
Ottumwa
Harmon Cropsey
Cropsey
Benton
Tama
Marcellus
Mich
Easter
Iowa Poultry and Egg Marketing Co-Op
Ottumina
Vinton
Bangs Testing Financed by Counties Under 1939 Law
Des Moines AP: Special county levies authorized by the 1939 legislature will fund Bangs disease testing for 500,000 cattle this year. A $100,000 appropriation expired May 1. counties will levy to cover the program with estimates totaling about $672,000 for the year.
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Des Moines
H. A. Seidell
Louisa
Butler
Seidell
Queens Resistant To Foulbrood To Be Distributed In Iowa
Ames bees bred for resistance to American foulbrood will be tested statewide this year by the Iowa Beekeepers Association. State Apiarist F. B. Paddock notes some strains reach 92 percent resistance. Orders go through Des Moines group. extension service aids education and trials. Results will be summarized by the experiment station.
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Ames
Iowa Beekeepers’ Association
F. B. Paddock
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
United States Bureau of Entomology
Louisiana
Beekeepers Association
Des Moines
Iowa State College Extension Service
Iowa County 4-H Show Scheduled for Marengo August 7 10
Marengo will host the Iowa County 4-H show from August 7 to 10, announced county club agent Joe Davis. Fourteen feeder lots plus livestock exhibits will be shown by 4-H club members amid the event.
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Marengo
Iowa County
Joe Davis
Something new in baby chicks
Thirty hybrid chicks were delivered this week to Louis Selzer of Amana farms at Homestead. Selzer bought them from James Wallace, brother of Secretary Henry Wallace, for 20 cents each. Wallace, linked to a Des Moines hybrid seed corn company, has been testing poultry hybridization. The chicks, five days old, are a first market offering. They are bred from Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn stock.
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Louis Selzer
Amana Farms
Homestead
Mr. Selzer
James Wallace
Henry Wallace
Des Moines
Wallace
Selzer
Rhode Island
Corn Belt Feeder Cattle Placements Down in April
Federal report shows seven corn belt states placed 79 827 cattle and calves on feed in April, 17 453 fewer than a year ago, while Iowa and Minnesota posted gains. Sheep and lambs placed totaled 79 279, down 58 532 from last year.
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Des Moines
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Federal Agricultural Marketing Service
Towa
Yowa
Creamerymen Gather on Hauling Practices Meeting
Cream hauling practices and cost were discussed Thursday evening in Cedar Rapids by 38 creamerymen from Linn, Benton, Iowa and Johnson counties at their May meeting. H. D. Hunt of Williamsburg presided. Robert Brownlee of Des Moines and Fred Ford of Cedar Rapids attended. Next gathering is scheduled for June 13.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Benton
Iowa
Johnson Counties
H. D. Hunt
Williamsburg
Robert Brownlee
Des Moines
Iowa Dairy Inspection Service
Fred Ford
Buttermakers To Meet At Colesburg May 23
Colesburg hosts the District No. 9 Iowa Creamery Operators association for its monthly meeting and an educational butter scoring contest. Members will travel to Colesburg for the events on May 23.
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Buattermakers
Colesburg
Iowa Creamery Operators’ Association
Soul Conservation In A Country Woman's Dinner Tale
Supper time on the farm brings the scent of home smoked ham and coffee from the house. Cattle yards echo with contented Herefords fed on Iowa corn, ready to rest on clean straw. A pastoral moment that makes farming worthwhile.
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Iowa
National Holstein herd sets Illinois two daily milking record
A Wal ter Splinter of Winslow eight cow Holstein herd posted a national record with twice daily milking. The group produced 16 366 pounds of milk at 3.8 percent butterfat averaging 615 pounds per cow and a high individual fat of 709.6 pounds. Five cows are daughters of Douglas Brodhead Sir Bess Hark and the record was supervised by the Holstein Friesian Association of America in cooperation with Illinois State College of Agriculture.
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Winslow
Walter Splinter
Douglas Brodhead
Sir Bess Hark
Halstein-Friesian Association of America
Brattleboro
Illinois State College of Agriculture
Sweet Potato Plants Set Out At Conesville
Conesville truck growers are setting out sweet potato plants with about 25 acres planted by one producer. Other growers are just beginning as corn planting progresses and home gardens flourish.
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Conesville
Hog Prices Jump and Slip on War Fears Across Interior Markets
Hog prices fluctuated wildly under war jitters with a Friday advance of about ten cents and earlier swings. Interior markets saw large midweek runs in Iowa and southern Minnesota, with sharper declines on Wednesday followed by a late week recovery. May receipts remained heavy, totaling 364 200 head for the period and central markets reached 675 000 head in the first half of May, up from a year ago.
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Europe
Towa
Minnesota
Aeie
Paddock urges program to boost income from bees
Ames F B Paddock state apiarist opened the beekeepers short course with two proposals to raise honey income. He urged boosting production efficiency and increasing demand for honey, praising the American Honey Institute and noting Iowa’s abundant sweet clover and nectar. He warned of future soybean and lespedera acreage reducing honey pasturage and cited Diane as a major handicap.
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Ames
F. B Paddock
American Honey Institute
Iowa
Union
Paddock
AAA
Diane
Newhall Creamery Razed for New Plant On The Way
A landmark creamery building erected by J. H. Shaver in 1890 will be razed Monday. The plant has been sold to George Haberman who plans a new creamery on the site. William Gardeman, manager for 36 years, has long operated in Newhall since 1866.
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Newhall
J. H Shaver
Cedar Rapids
George Haberman
Wayland
William Gardeman
Social Security For Farm Labor Advocated By Iowan
Iowa State college sociologist Ray E. Wakeley urged extending urban social security protections to farm laborers before the U.S. Senate education and labor subcommittee. He warned many farm workers lack protection from operators and stressed the need for better education, development, and employment pathways to prevent rural hardship. He noted farm laborers are younger, more mobile, and often have limited schooling while wages in some areas average around 36.50 dollars monthly for a 200-acre farming context.
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Washington, DC
Ray E. Wakeley
Iowa State College
United States Senate Subcommittee On Education and Labor
Wakeley
Iowa
Greene County
Contour Cropping Demands More Labor Yet Eases Horse Work
Ames report by C H Van Vinck and L E Clapp finds contour or strip cropping requires more labor than straight row farming in similar fields after surveying 197 farmers. Despite the extra time, 84 percent say contour farming eases horse work and reduces effort. tractors show fuel savings on contour fields but higher use on terraced plots.
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