Reed Reports 93 Percent Of Iowa Corn Planted Amid Drought
Iowa's corn planting reached 93 percent, eleven days ahead of normal, but drought and heat grimly affected oats and alfalfa. Reed cited minimal rainfall, with May averages around 0.96 inches, the driest in decades, and warned of replanting and crop losses across western counties.
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Reed
Iowa
ES Moines
Charles D. Reed
Danger Point
North Counties
Towa
FENCE DRIFT ON WOVEN WIRE AND DROUGHT CRISIS
Drought tightens Iowa and surrounding counties with corn and hay losses. Reed notes poor stands, need for replanting, and scarce pasture as weather fails to bring timely rain. Soy beans and Sudan grass offered as emergency feed while cattle sellers face exhausted stock and high seed costs.
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Gacette Fayette
Fayette County
Gly-Cas Sensation In Cedar Rapids Advertised
A local newspaper ad touts Gly-Cas as a remarkable new medical remedy introduced by the Gly-Cas Man at the Thrifty Drug Store on First Street and Third Avenue. The piece claims rapid, widespread relief for sufferers and emphasizes its dramatic local reception and alleged proven efficacy.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar
Corn Hog Money Goes Into Circulation In Benton County
In Benton County Vinton farmers queued as A H Frycorn and hog treasurer opened a closed bank and handed out 252832 dollars in payments for reduced corn and hog production. Walter E Brandt received the first check for 60095 dollars, and the rollout over four days will push county totals over two million with 2401606 bushels sealed for 45 cents a bushel.
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the Gazette
Vinton
Dillinger
A. H. Frycorn
Benton
Mr. Fry
Walter E. Brandt
Bruce Township
la Porte City
Brandt
Mr. Brandt
Charles City Distributes Early Pay Corn and Hog Checks
One hundred fifteen early pay corn and hog checks totaling 16624.45 on eighty nine contracts were distributed to Floyd county farmers here Tuesday in a staggered first installment event.
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New Hampton
Chickasaw County
Jerome Kelly
Lawler
Frank Richards
E. A. Roach
Nashua
Charles City
Floyd County
Buchanan Quotas Set For Corn and Pigs in County
Independence reports the Buchanan county production quotas from the state board of reviews. Corn allotment is 99 808 acres after reductions and pig quotas total 116 486 head after 25 percent cut. Past two year county corn totals under contract were 99 340 in 1933 and 109 095 in 1932. Pig litters from contract signers were 24 370 in 1933 and 23 933 in 1932.
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Buchanan County Allotment Committee
State Board of Reviews
Resentment Grows Over Corn-Hog Quotas in Iowa
Eastern Iowa county corn and hog committees protest allotments issued by the state board of review. AAA officials in Des Moines and Washington ordered secrecy and bans on press disclosure. Committees face 1 to 20 percent cuts, amid drought, pests, and fears of compulsory reductions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Review
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Washington
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Marengo
Black
Benton County
Iowa Board Chief Flags Protests Over Corn Hog Quotas
DES MOINES UP Leslie M Carl chairman of the Iowa board of review for the corn hog section of the AAA said reports of protests against ordered reductions in corn and hog quotas were greatly exaggerated. He noted only half a dozen county corns.
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Des Moines
Leslie M Carl
Iowa Board of Review
AAA
Iowa Rain Record To Date This Year
State precipitation data shows Jan 1 to date at minus 4.40 inches with normal minus 9.72 inches. The year’s deficiency totals 5.32 inches, and a 24 hour period ending Wednesday at 7 am recorded 0.02 inch. May has 0.96 inch to date, with normal 3.02 inches and a deficiency of 2.06 inches.
Iowa Farm Quotas Reduced Amid Overstatement Claims
County committees discussed quota cuts after federal statisticians advised reductions. Carl noted many signers overstated figures, citing a farmer listing 400 hogs unseen and another who forced an affidavit after accusing a thief. Washington reductions averaged 5.3 percent for corn and 9.8 percent for hogs, with Indiana facing as much as 30 percent. A Des Moines meeting will outline reasons Thursday.
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Mittees
Black Hawk
Winnebago
Carl
Washington
Indiana
Des Moines
Westcoat Hired as Agricultural Instructor at Vinton
Wendell Westcoat, agricultural instructor from Waukee, succeeds H. T. Miller who resigned to join a canning company. Westcoat is an Iowa State College graduate and previously served in Witten and Waukee schools.
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Vinton
Wendell Westcoat
Waukee
Vinton School Board
H. T. Miller
Westcoat
Iowa State College
Witten
Alfalfa hay prices range 9.50 to 16.50 a ton in Kansas City
Special to The Gate reports Kansas City alfalfa prices by grade with U S No 1 extra leafy at 16 to 16 50 a ton and No 3 at 9 50 to 10 The market shows renewed crop basis as new hay arrivals stay light and first cutting yields are expected to be meager due to green bug damage and dry conditions.
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Kansas City
U.S
U. S. No
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California
Pacific Northwest
Garden City
Pawnee Valley
Washita
Okelahoma
Salt River Valley
Phoenix
Gila Valley
Yuma Valley
Lead poisons yearling on farm near Mechanicsville
Mechanicville, Marvin Andre saw a yearling calf die from white lead poisoning on a farm six and one fourth miles southwest of town. Four cows were poisoned but saved by purgatives after authorities identified the toxin from an old can found discarded in a ditch.
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Mechanicsville
Marvin Andre
Andre
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