Hides Rise Sharply Amid Optimism Across Packers
Ray Anderson reports prices for heavy native steer hides and light ice cowhides have more than doubled since March with bids at 11 cents, while average prices hovered around 44% cents earlier in the year. Eastern buyers express optimism about a market upturn, and packers anticipate higher values as by products gain demand.
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Ray Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Brac
Rybody
Mr. Prentiss
Chicago
United States
Sand Spring Co op Pays 23c For April Butterfat
Patrons of the Farmers' Mutual Creamery at Sand Spring receive April butterfat payments at 23 cents per pound. deliverers over 590 pounds include J Kurt 1003, Puetz and Lang 594, Ray Slauson 525, Henry Becker 524, Ray White 523, Weber and Csestel 516, Alfred Eggers 501 pounds.
Fence Drift Catches Wire In Farm Act Debate
United Press reports on Farm Act Administrator George N. Peck, who favors brains over brawn and wakes his wife to note brain throbs. The piece notes Peck’s appointment of Wildman Brookhart as an aide amid a public nightmare scenario.
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United Press
George N. Peck
Rain Delays Sunday Corn Planting in Iowa Fields
Special to The Gazette reports farmers in SIGOURNEY and KEO KUK county halted field work as heavy rain began Sunday afternoon. Much land remains unplanted especially along Skunk rivers where fields remain flooded. higher land corn is up but weed-choked. In Grundy Center area heavy rain washed out seed and required replanting with a favorable growing season and late fall needed for a good corn crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Sigourney
Keokuk County
Skunk
Wallace
Grundy Center
Grundy County
Iodin Ration Claims From A Health Service Message
A vendor promotes an iodized salt program as essential food, urging physician guidance for dosages and criticizing self prescription. The piece argues iodization prevents goiter in children, mood issues in teens, and aging effects in adults, while noting caution against unsupervised use.
Administrator Of Farm Act Is Built Like Football Tackle
Washington (UP) George Nelson Peck chief administrator of the farm relief act is a tall strong organizer who favors brains over brawn. He has worked on farm relief since 1921, collaborating with General Hugh S Johnson and aiming for fair exchange values between farm products and other commodities. Peck’s background includes farming, manufacturing and owning multiple farms with a preference for golf over social events.
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Washington
George Nelson Peck
Peek
Hugh S. Johnson
War Industries Board
Johnson
Barney Baruch
Baruch
Peck
Wallace Wallace
Hartney
Polo
Ill
Bert
George Peek
Illinois
Colorado
Moline
Farm Exports Index Falls to 59 as Wheat and Flour Decline
Washington report shows April exports for forty four leading farm products drop the index to 59. Wheat and flour exports totaled 1,754,000 bushels while ten month totals reached 37,982,000 bushels versus 118,880,000 the prior year. Only fruit and tobacco remained above pre war levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, DC
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Instruction Request for Indination in Monograph
A correspondence in a monograph asks for instructions to perform an indination and includes a stamped envelope with the correct address for reply.
Cancer Not Communicable and Eye Surgery Q&A
A reader asks if cancer can be transmitted and about a crossing eye operation. The reply states cancer is not communicable and warns not to kiss on the mouth. It covers cost, risks, and doctor referrals for strabismus surgery with assurances it is not dangerous and often preserves vision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esapharis
Commodity price ledger snippet from mid century market
The record lists item categories with unit values: mal products 56, dairy products and eggs 84, cotton 65, wheat and flour 20, hams and bacon 31, lard 98. This reflects pricing tags or index scores used in market reporting.
Gibson Lass Crowned Keokuk County 4-H Queen
Margaret Riddle of Gibson was elected queen of Keokuk County 4 H girls. Mary K. Dawson serves as crown bearer. Attendants and emblem bearers listed from multiple towns. Rally day program set for June 7 at 9 30 am at the Methodist church with a pageant The Festival of the New Corn at 2 pm crowning to feature. County chairman Mrs H H Shanafelt oversees the event.
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Sigourney
Margaret Riddle
Gibson
Keokuk County
Goal Getters
Lee Fisher
Mary K. Dawson
Merry Mixers Club
Mildred McAdams
Dorothy Leathers
Delta
Sunshine Chrisman
What Cheer
Josephine Wheeler
Bessie Fry
Webster
Rachel Higgins
Keswick
Claudine Priest
Anna Olson
Mildred Lawn
Elinor O'Brien
Mary Denton
June Wenger
Kinross
H. H Shanafelt
Linn County Rural Chorus Rehearses For Annual Picnic
Forty Linn county farm folk gathered Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church in Marion for the first county-wide rehearsal of the rural chorus under Prof Tolbert MacRae of Town State college. Six townships were represented as the group prepared to perform at the Linn County Farm Bureau picnic June 22 at Thomas Park in Marion. selections included Haydn Spacious Firmament from the Creation and Schubert Serenade.
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Linn County
Marion
Tolbert MacRae
Town State College
Pirate of the Linn County Farm Bureau
Thomas Park
Haydn
Gounod
Crowd braves rain to hear rural band at Wildwood Park
Ottumwa Mayor Edwin C. Manning reports 25 000 listened or tried to hear the Southern Iowa Farm Bureau band with 800 players at Wildwood park Sunday afternoon. Traffic clogged detours and mud slowed hundreds of cars entering the city while rain began as the program opened. Winder spoke on the new deal for agriculture. Mayo Williams led the band. speeches by Ellsworth Richardson Manning and Fletcher Cope followed. The band leaves June 11 for Chicago's world fair. over twenty counties represent the personnel from Wapello to Polk.
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Ottumwa
Edwin C. Manning
Southern Iowa Farm Bureau
Wildwood Park
Winder
M. S. Winder
American Farm Bureau Federation
Manning
New Deal For Agriculture
National Farm Organization
Mayo Williams
Chicago
Wapello
Washington
Keokuk
Louisa
Muscatine
van Buren, Lee
Des Moines
Appanoose
Monroe
Mahaska
Davis
Henry
Marion
Warren
Poweshiek
Decatur
Clark
Adams
Lucas
Polk
Story
Linn
Washington County dairy test shows May milk and butterfat leaders
Washington Iowa 252 cows in the county test produced an average 723 pounds of milk and 28.8 pounds of butterfat in May at 9 cents per butterfat pound. Two cows culled for low production. High herds included V W Fleig and Son Holsteins at 1 097 pounds milk and 40 pounds butterfat and E P Hayes Guernseys at 713 pounds milk and 34.2 pounds butterfat. Reorganization meeting set for June 8 at Farm Bureau office.
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Washington
Washington County Test Association
Marvin Matthes
V W. Fleig and Son
E. P. Hayes
Guernseys
Irwin and
Failyer
Noah Brenneman
Washington County
Dean
Dan Johnson
FE. L. Swartzendruber
Guernsey
Irwin and Fadger
V. W Fieig
Evaporated milk makers prepare marketing agreement draft
Washington reports evaporated milk manufacturers plan a tentative marketing agreement under the Agricultural Adjustment act. Dr. Frank E. Rice leads the 98 percent industry group in Washington to craft a national pact with hearings, aiming to stabilize prices and prevent harmful price cutting. In April and May, some price increases averaged 15 cents per hundred pounds to aid producers while receipts at plants rose. A formal hearing process would review drafts with Secretary Wallace and the act administrators. CLIP 2,200 SHEEP. SOUTH BETHEL G E Reedy and son Gale shear over 2 200 sheep this spring with about 600 remaining to clip.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Frank E. Rice
Chicago
The
Evaporated Milk Association
Washington
Wallace
George N. Peek
Charles J. Brand
Amana Society starts pig feeding test in Iowa farms
Amana society runs a 100 day pig feeding trial funded by the Iowa county Farm Bureau to compare oats tankage and milk as protein supplements. Four pens of four pigs each on alfalfa pasture at South Amana are weighed in and divided into four feeding groups: oats, oats with tankage, 80 percent oats with 20 percent tankage, and skim milk.
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AMANA
Amana Society
Iowa County Farm Bureau
South Amana
Corn yield test plots planted in Cedar County
Tipton reports a corn yield test plot in Sugar Creek and Rochester townships on the Frank Kiser farm with seed from multiple local growers. A sample from J N Wiese Bennett, the prior year's top pure strain, was planted. A second Rochester plot used seed from last year’s Cedar county crop. Harvest aims to determine the highest yield. Mrs Harold Fulwider’s incubators hatch over 2000 chicks as two more hatchings and resets are planned.
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Tipton
Sugar Creek
Rochester
Frank Kiser
C. Gcg
Baker
Herschel Frater
W. R. Whitmer
Elwood Hain
Leroy Whitmer
Bert Whitmer
Moscow
Lee Whitmer
Flavis Port
George Kiser
Wilton Junction
Frank Chapman
J. N. Wiese
Bennett
Cedar County
Rochester Township
Specilal
The
Gazette
South Bethel
Harold Fulwider
Bridge squeeze ends play as South discards on last trump
When the last trump was led, South was squeezed. To discard the remaining cards, East showed a calculated defense and forced a winner. The hand highlights the classic endplay where timing and suit control decide the trick outcome.
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Trump
South
Veterinarians Of East Iowa Plan Third Annual Clinic
Dr. A. Fa Menary of Cedar Rapids chairs a June 1 meeting in Mechanicsville for committees organizing the third annual veterinary clinic to be held June 15. Committees cover horse cattle swine small animals sheep poultry laboratory and other sections with representatives from multiple towns and states.
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Mechanicsville
A. Fa Menary
Cedar Rapids
Mechaneicsville
William ©. Vollestedt
Dixon
P. V. Neuzil
Blairstown
James C. Carey
West Liberty
C. H. Banks
Tipton
C. H. Waite
Stanwood
John B. Bryant
Mount Vernon
R. M. Hofford
D. A. Eastman
Moline
F. F. Parker
Des Moines
A. R. Menary
W. L. Andrews
Milton
H. W. Conner
Bloomfield
Fred J. Crow
Iowa City
James Dixon
John Weininger
Boone
C. D. Lee
Ames
H. C. Smith
Fort Dodge
A. T. Kinsley
Kansas City
Frank Breed
Lincoln
Neb
Ashe Lockhart
Aganans City
T. W. Munce
Sioux
Benton Cow Test Associations Reorganize Officers
In Benton County two cow test association meetings elected new officers. Association No 1 in Vinton re elected Glenn Van Nice as president H W Miller as vice president Dale Stickney as secretary Matt Birker and Ezra Reiss named directors. Association No 4 at Fairview church elected D B Cooper as president E M Santman as secretary and Harold Moore William Herman and George Moran as directors. About 155 people attended both sessions.
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Vinton
Benton Cow Test Association No. 1
American Legion Hall
Glenn van Nice
H. W. Miller
Dale Stickeney
Matt Birker
Winston
Ezra Reiss
Garrison
Graves Underberg
D. B. Cooper
la Porte City
Benton Cow Test Association No
Fairview Church
E. M. Santman
Dyn Sarb
Harold Moore
Harrison
William Herman
George Moran
Floyd Arnold
Ames Dairy Extension Service
W. A. Geiger
Farm Bureau Fees In Crawford Seek Injunction
Fritz and Herman C Blume filed suit in Denison asking a injunction against Crawford county supervisors auditor and treasurer to stop appropriating 2000 yearly Farm Bureau funds. They allege lack of legal paid members and unconstitutional appropriation plus repayment of about 30000 claimed overpayments over fifteen years.
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Denison
Fritz
Herman C. Blume
County Board of Supervisors
Crawford County Farm Bureau
Blume Brothers
Joseph Shields
Farm Bureau
Test Groups To Picnic At Central City June 8
Central City speaker Clyde Bechtel heimer of Waterloo, secretary of the Iowa Creameries' association, will address Linn county's three contest associations at their annual picnic on June 8. Leftover ensilage may be saved by tar paper covering and edging with dirt.
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Central City
Clyde Bechtelheimer
Waterloo
Iowa Creameries' Association
Linn County
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