Delaware Chorus Wins Farm Women's Singing Tourney in Fayette
Delaware county chorus topped eight northeastern Iowa county groups in a vocal contest judged by opponents at the Iowa University gym in Fayette. Two hundred forty rural women competed. Winneshiek and Chickasaw tied for second. The event is the fourth in a nine‑contest series begun May 15 at Sac City.
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Iowa University
Iowa
Delaware County
Winneshiek
Chickasawa
Fayette and
Howard
Sac City
Primghar
Mason City
Red Oak
Conservatory of Music
Upper
Sioux county women to sing at World's Fair Rural Women’s Day
Twenty seven Sioux county farm women will travel to New York May 20 to perform on Rural Women's Day at the World’s Fair broadcast at 1 pm CST over NBC. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak and the Iowa TIowam chorus follows her talk. The trip honors Dutch heritage and includes county agents Iris Macumber and Fannie Buchanan. Rural Women’s Day precedes the May 30 to June 9 London conference. Five Iowa women sail on the Queen Mary for London. Bon voyage broadcast May 23 will feature the Iowa chorus and Farm Bureau speakers.
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the Gazette
Ames
Sioux County
Iowa
New York City
United States
NBC
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tiowam Chorus
Ames Extension Service
New Amsterdam
Iris Macumber
Fannie Buchanan
Extension Service
New York
Associated Country Women of the World
London
Irma Garner
Elvina Garner
Ethel Garner
Davenport
Raymond Sayre
Farm Bureau Women’s Committee
Ackworth
Belva Swalwell
Collins
National Farm and Home Hour
Central Standard Time
Sayre
Associated Women of the
Farm Bureau
Grace E. Frysinger
Washington, D. C
Federal Extension Service
Counties Buque and Bremer Compete in Unmentioned Event
Buque and Bremer were the counties participating not afore mentioned.
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Buque and
Bremer
South Jones Cow Test Averages 27.4 Butterfat in April
Anamosa report shows the 365 cows on the South Jones Cow Test averaged 757 pounds of milk and 27.4 pounds of butterfat in April. Forty-two cows were dry. Fifty-nine cows produced 40 pounds of butterfat or more.
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Anamosa
Dale Wicks
Today
South
Jones Cow Test Association
Feed trials show no advantage to fodder type for yearling steers
Iowa State College researchers report yearling steers fed whole corn fodder gained similarly to those fed corn silage. Five feeding methods tested recut fodder ground fodder whole fodder and silage with gains between 1.98 and 2.21 pounds per day. Cost of gain was similar across treatments, guiding farmers to choose based on cost and available time rather than expected performance.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Agricultural Experiment Station
C. C. Culvertson
Culbertson
Paul Smith
Swift and Company
B. B. Thorne
Wilson and Company
Termite poultry remedy maker halted on multiple claims
Tim Lake Laboratories of Des Moines agreed with the FTC to stop alleging the poultry remedy Termite reduces chick loss and disease, promotes rapid growth, cocciosis resistance, and diarrhea prevention, and to drop claims it acts as an antiseptic, appetite booster, or bone builder. It also must drop assertions that one gallon antisepticizes 250 gallons of water or 32 sacks of feed.
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Washington
Tim Lake Laboratories, Inc
Des Moines
Federal Trade Commission
Termite
Better Domestic Demand For Farm Products Predicted
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics forecasts modest improvement in domestic demand for farm products this summer with no major advances. Foreign demand is viewed as slightly better due to rising British and French business indexes and stable exchange rates. Domestic price gains for wheat and cotton offset by declines in meat and dairy prices. farmers’ cash income and government payments expected near 1938 levels at about $1.662 billion for Q2.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States
Bureau
Spraying Of Elms Not Protected By Bands Is Suggested
Linn County agent Rex Conn reports Cedar Rapids elm defoliation from canker worms. He says trees without tangle foot bands are at risk and urges one thorough spray using 14 percent lead arsenate in 50 gallons water, with oil additive to improve adhesion, and a strong sprayer for tall trees.
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Rex Conn
Linn
Cedar Rapids
Conn
Arlington creamery Pays 26 Cents a Pound Butterfat
Special to The Gazette reports Arlington creamery paid 26 cents per pound for April butterfat.
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Gazette
Arlington
Arlington Creamery
Crowe Buys 80 Acres Near Blairstown for 3000
Ernest Crowe purchases an unimproved 80 acre tract from Andrew Johnson for 3000 dollars including this year’s lease. The farm sits 214 miles southeast of Blairstown with Ralph Robinson farming the land this season.
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Blairstown
Ernest Crowe
Andrew Johnson
Ralph Robinson
Cattle imports surge to 275000 head in first quarter
U S department report shows imports of cattle on the hoof averaging about 90000 head monthly. From January 1 to April 1 imports totaled 275000 head, with estimates pushing total above 400000 for the year. Most imports come from Mexico and Canada.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Roosevelt
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Mexico
Canada
Newhall Youth Wins Gund Medal in Livestock Judging
Arnold Olson of Newhall, a farm youth and Ames animal husbandry student, is named winner of the Gund medal for highest junior livestock judging at the college. George Gund of Cleveland also funds a $200 annual animal husbandry scholarship for a senior major.
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Hall
Arnold Olson
Newhall
Ames
Gund
George Gund
Cleveland
Interior hog market receipts rise to new high marks
Des Moines reports from the federal livestock market news service show that in the first seven months of the hog marketing year October through April interior yards and plants supplied the largest share of federally inspected slaughter in the nation while interior Iowa and Southern Minnesota receipts climbed to about 20 percent. Packers report heavier sows and higher weights as they anticipate a sow movement in the near future, with prices ending the week nearly unchanged amid rising receipts.
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Des Moines
Federal Livestock Market News Service
United States
Iowa
Minnesota
Bristow
Soul Conservation Tells of Cattle Moving Home Pasture
With lowered heads and soft bellows of contentment the cattle leave the feeding banks of corn and molasses. They lumber toward the deep pasture where they will spend the night. As you watch them go and come in the quiet of the evening and early morning, it is hard to believe that other countries could raise superior beef.
Hog Market Slants To Lighter Weights As Buyers Show Preference
Prices for lighter and medium weight hogs edged higher while heavies and packing sows fell slightly. Five day interior yard receipts reached 132,200 head, up from 102,400 the prior week and 100,300 year ago. First half May sales by interior packers total 234,800 head, the largest May tally since 1934, up 19 percent from late April and 38 percent from May last year.
88 Rats Gased Beneath and By Poultry House
Washington county Mutual Fire Insurance secretary Charles Kennedy learned of a potential $176 loss beneath his six by eight foot chicken house after a Farm Bureau and soils conservation demonstration. H D Tate Ames entomologist gassed the rats hidden beneath. digging revealed 88 rats. Government figures estimate a rat destroys $2 worth of grain yearly.
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Washington
Charles Kennedy
Washington County Mutual Fire Insurance Association
Farm Bureau and County Soils Conservation
H. D. Tate
Ames
Corn Cultivation Update From Linn County Farm
C M Boyd, a Linn county farmer eleven miles north of Cedar Rapids, began cultivating corn planted April 28. The crop shows thriving stands with some hills missing where seed lay in dry soil. Local gardeners report cutworms, oat fields streaked, and rain needed to germinate newly planted seed and finish remaining plantings this week.
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C. M. Boyd
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Boyd
Troy Mills
Rain Needed For Crops In Millersburg Area
In Millersburg farmers report uneven oat growth and yellow corn due to insufficient rain. Most corn planting is finished while alfalfa grows well and strawberries are blooming across the area.
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Millersburg
Druggist Osborn Promises Rain With Ads In Town
Knoxville reports that Druggist O. E. Osborn, famed local poet, placed rain requests in both papers. A shower arrived within hours, connecting the ad to rainfall as Osborn’s rainmaking publicity.
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Knoxville
O. E. Osborn
Osborn
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