Leader proposes permanent plan for farm price controls
Earl C. Smith of Pittsfield Illinois spoke to 600 farmers at a Cedar Rapids Farm Bureau meeting urging a permanent cereal and feed crop control plan backed by warehouse loans to maintain higher price levels. He praised Henry Wallace, noted limits of current programs, and stressed farm recovery hinges on organization and fact based action.
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Cedar Rapids
Earl C. Smith
Pittsfield
Ill
Illinois Agricultural Association
Smith
Farm Bureau
Linn
Jackson
Clinton
Iowa
Jones
Cedar
Johnson
Benton
Tama
Poweshiek
Scott
Henry Wallace
FENCE DRIFT Caught in the Woven Wire
A fragmented poem notes a drizzly night and hope for rain to lift farmers spirits. The speaker urges the weatherman to bring genuine rains to Southeast counties and ease pest troubles like chinch bugs.
Iowa County pays out over forty thousand to farmers
Special to The Gazette reports that 224 early pay corn and hog checks totaling more than 40 000 were received by Oscar Misel Iowa County treasurer. Ninety one signers join in this payment with 19 contracts pending due to minor errors. Regular contracts are being prepared for first and second installments after quota figures are finalized. In Cedar and Tipton counties early pay contracts await Washington approval amid a dispute over county quotas and adjustments to corn hog allotments.
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Marengo
Oscar Misel
Iowa County Production Adjustment Association
Association
Farm Bureau
Federal
Iowa
Washington
D. Hentmire
Tipton
Cedar County
State Review Board
Lne
Plan to limit cereal output ties farm buying power to progress
An Illinois agricultural leader urges institutional cooperation to limit cereal and feed grain production to sustain rural buying power. He argues restoring farm buying power will restart industry, curb unemployment, and break the stagnation, calling for further progress in equalizing farm product values. Town leaders at the conference include Charles E Hearst and several state and district Farm Bureau officials.
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United States
Illinois
Charles E. Hearst
State Farm Bureau Federation
Ellsworth Richardson
Albia
J. ©. Wood
Traer
Allan Kiine
Vinton
Demonstration Of Chinch Bug Control In Cedar County
Special to The Gazette Tipton reports chinch bug damage across Sugar Creek Farmington Center Inland and Red Oak townships in Cedar county. A June 12 demonstration on dust barrier building will guide farmers in protecting corn from invasion while County Agent Emmett Gardner warns against plowing nearby barley fields to reduce adult bug migration. Dust barriers may curb nymph migration as adults die.
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Tipton
Berley
Cedar County
Sugar Creek
Farmington
Center
Inland
Red Oak
Emmett Gardner
Butterfat prices set by three creameries across Iowa
Luana Creamery paid 26 cents per pound for April butterfat with 58 255 pounds manufactured 2 658 pounds sold to patrons and 55 040 pounds shipped. Greeley Co operative Creamery also paid 26 cents with top buyers listed by name and poundage. Monona Cooperative Creamery paid 23 cents per pound for April butterfat with 49 581 pounds manufactured 2 912 bought by local stores 1 997 bought by patrons and 44 672 shipped to market.
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Luana
Greeley
Greeley Co-operatie Creamery Company
J W Matthews
Victor DeKrser
J D Fischer
Paul McFinneel
C J Borkenstadt
Fred
Woeste
Guy Phelps
H_ Hartman
Jess McLane
George Cox
Spra
Gazette Monona
Mon Oona Co-operative Creamery
Hay Prices Rise Amid Drought In Greeley Vicinity
Drought cripples hay crops in the Greeley area with hay held at 12 to 14 dollars per ton for inferior grades. Farmers fear mass market sales to feed cattle as pasture and dry feed vanish. Corn is noted as the best crop, while dust storms have ruined small grain seedings. soybeans and similar crops will be planted in their place.
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Greeley
Greeley Vic
Thes Wall Chase
Early pay corn and hog checks reach 500 Benton farmers
More than 500 Benton county farmers had received their early pay corn and hog checks by Wednesday evening. Payments continue during the daytime except Monday until all checks are claimed. The allotment committee will keep open a payment office at Van Horne in the southern part of the county on Thursday and Friday evenings, Saturday evening, and all day Monday to accommodate signer contacts.
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van Horne
Vinton
Benton County
Rally Day in Cedar County Planned for June 11
4 H Rally Day in Cedar County will be held June 11 with an afternoon program featuring playlets by local clubs. The event, led by 4 H state girls leader Josephine Arnquist Bakke, shifts from pageants to skits depicting club activities. A health, music, reading, and recreation program will be shown as a drill, song, dance, pantomime, and folk dance, including Footsteps on the Sands of Time and the Courtesy Question Box.
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Tipton
Josephine Arnquist Bakke
Cedar County
Wide Awake 4-H elects new officers at meeting
Leonard Gough was elected president of the Wide Awake 4-H Livestock club in North Liberty. Robert Jones became vice president and Paul Fuhrmeister was chosen secretary and treasurer. Johnson County agent Robert Hager demonstrated rope splicing and led a discussion on livestock care.
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North Liberty
Leonard Gough
Wide Awake
Robert Jones
Paul Fuhrmeister
Robert Hager
Iowa City
Johnson County
Hampshire hog sale nets 375 per hundredweight
Twin man and Latimer Davis of Washington county sold ninety 249-pound Hampshire hogs Tuesday at Chicago for 375 dollars per hundredweight.
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Washington
Twinman
Latimer Davis
Washington County
Hampshire
Chicaco
Amana Farm Raises Colts After Forty Years
For the first time in forty years the Amana farm department is raising colts to replace aging workhorses. A Belgian stallion was bought in 1933 and fourteen foals are now on the seven farm departments with more mares to foal. Barn-man Ferdinand Bernhard is pictured with two mares and two-months-old colts as Amana farms continue under long-standing managers Geiger, Schaefer, Zuber, Bendorf, Miller, Setzer, and Selzer.
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Amana
Gazett Amana
Amana Society
Ferdinand Bernhard
P. C. Geiger
Richard Schaefer
East Amana
William C. Zuber
Middle
First Cover Spray Time Warned By Iowa Agents
County agents in eastern Iowa urge applying the first cover spray this week or early next week after the calyx spray. The suggested mix is four quarts liquid lime sulfur or 3 to 4 pounds dry form plus two pounds hydrated lime and 10 pounds lead arsenate per fifty gallons of water, sprayed only on trees bearing fruit with full fruit coverage.
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Iowa
Growers At West Liberty Prepare To Set Tomatoes
West Liberty growers face delays in setting tomato plants due to heavy rains in southern Oklahoma. Planting becomes urgent as dry spell ends, with over 300 acres planned for the upcoming season. Al Hemstreet, manager of the local plant, expects shipments by week’s end while some growers cultivate their own stocks.
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West Liberty
Oklahoma
al Hemstreet
150000 Tomato Plants To Set Near La Porte
LA PORTE CITY The first consignment of 150000 tomato plants from Georgia has been received by a canning company here. It is estimated the plants will cover seventy five acres. Another shipment is expected this weekend to supply the forty seven farmers under contract to provide tomatoes for the canning factory this year with plants.
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LA Porte City
Georgia
Jackson County Added To Soils Survey List
AMES AP Soils survey work in Iowa will be conducted in five counties this summer instead of four as planned. Dr P E Brown head of the Iowa State college soils department said additional federal funds will allow completion in Jackson county. G A Swenson and Hartzell Dean of the Iowa agricultural experiment station will begin work June 1.
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Ames
Iowa
P. E. Brown
Iowa State College
Jackson County
Brown
G A. Swenson
Hartzell Dean
Iowa Agricultural Experient Station
Cattle Consigned From 8 Counties At Iowa City Sale
Iowa City buyers and farmers flocked to the weekly livestock sale as cattle from Mitchell Delaware Benton Muscatine Washington Wapello and Johnson counties plus western ranches moved at steady prices. More than 600 head sold with most at 5.25 to 5.55 per hundredweight and 40 Herefords fetching 6. Dozens of full carloads drew western Illinois buyers as the pavilion stayed packed and Fagan estimated 800 to 1000 farmers in attendance.
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Iowa City
Gene Fagan
Mitchell
Delaware
Benton
Iowa
Muscatine
Washington
Wapello
Johnson
Cedar County
Illinois
Fagan
Corn Hog Chairmen Confer At Vinton
Twelve eastern Iowa counties met at Vinton to discuss quotas set by the state board of review. County chairs later attended a statewide meeting in Des Moines, all supporting the AAA program, with action deferred pending the state conference. Early pay contracts were urged for immediate payment despite quota disputes.
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Viinton
Iowa
State Board of Review
Des Moines
Vinton
AAA
Benton, Linn
Buchanan
Tama
Keokuk
Jones
Poweshiek
Hardin
Grundy
Black Hawk
Johnson
Delaware
Leslie M. Carl
Washington
Herring
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Riverside Feed Mill Ad Highlights Poultry Mash Prices
An old Riverside ad promotes feed and flour price increases with items like 100 lb Chick Mash, Growing Mash, Laying Mash, Hen Scratch, stock salt, white flour, rye flour, and poultry eggs. The noisy listing blends prices and product names, reflecting a rural business catalog fragment.
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14Th Ave
Iowa Rain Record To Date This Year
Iowa state precipitation data from January 1 to date shows 4.44 inches below normal. The year’s deficit stands at 5.42 inches, with May to date showing 1 inch of rainfall versus 3.16 inches normal, a deficit of 7.16 inches. One day’s rainfall to Thursday morning was 0.04 inch.
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Iowa
One Inc
Reported shortfalls in farmer contract claims
It was reported that in some cases payments could be as much as 12 percent below the amount claimed in contracts drawn up by the farmers.
Feed Shortage Pressing Near West Liberty
West Liberty faces a serious feed shortage as pastures are burned out and farmers resort to straw. Dairy operators have exhausted roughage and hay, with some hay shipped from Kansas City. Untouched, unproduced pasture remains due to the government's agricultural program. North Dakota produced 20,048,000 bushels of corn last year.
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Gazette
West Liberty
Kansas City
North Dakota
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