Interior hog market shows $4 lift from year ago trend reversal
Hog prices in interior Iowa rose about $4 per hundredweight from a year earlier as market activity shifted. After a small midweek dip, gains of 10 to 15 cents on Thursday boosted quotes to the best level since August 1938. May receipts totaled about 740,000 head, above April but below last year, with demand favoring heavy butchers and sows while pork trade remained slow.
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Iowa
Towa
Minnesota
Corn Shows Good Stand In Troy Mills Area
In Troy Mills area practically all corn has been planted and shows a good stand with healthy color. Oats are growing but behind typical seasonal pace. peas bloom, potatoes look fine. gardens overall grow but moisture is badly needed. Strawberry ripening but crop lighter due to drought. potato bugs appear and spraying has begun. gooseberry and currant bushes affected.
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Troy Mills
Decorah Creamery Pays 41 Cents For Butterfat
Special to The Gazette notes Decorah Farmers Ice Cave creamery pays 41 cents per pound for butterfat to 800 patrons. Butter production has run 12 percent higher in the past three months than a year ago, boosting local farm income in the Decorah area.
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Gazette
Decorah Farmers
Pistone
Decorah
Butter Market Advances on Prices and Storage Movements
Secretary Wickard’s announcement that butter was no longer eligible for food stamps spurred price gains in Chicago and New York. By week’s end heavy storage, drought impacts, and rising imports from Argentina pushed butter markets higher while inventories in 35 principal markets rose above the year earlier levels.
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Lspite
Wickard
Chicago
New York
Mississippi River
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Iowa
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Nebraska
Kansas
United States
Agricultural Marketing Service
Wisconsin law kills butter fat tax prompt protests
The Wisconsin legislature defeated a proposed tax on dairy butter fat for promotion and advertising. Protests prompted plans for a second reconsideration with a 50 50 chance of passage. Proponents claim large processors would gain at producers expense.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Assembly
Corporation
7500 Tomato Plants Set Out On Columbus Jct Farm
The Columbus Junction Gazette reports farmer Mike Scott, five miles northwest of town, set out 7500 tomato plants over three acres using a one row planter drawn by a tractor. An automatic watering system supplied water to each plant while two boys arranged the beds and firmed soil with small wheels.
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Snecinite
Gazette
Columbus Junction
Mike Scott
Here
Wheat Growers in Iowa to Vote Saturday on Quotas
About 6 000 Iowa wheat farmers eligible to vote on Saturday in a nationwide referendum on marketing quotas under the 1938 farm act. The measure affects those growing 200 bushels on more than 15 acres. parity rate set at 97 cents with a 60 percent loan option for sealed wheat. Polls will operate in townships with more than 50 eligible voters and committees will oversee the secret ballot. Nate Murray predicts 74 percent support for quotas.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Congress
Last Mondday
Roosevelt
Hervey Hazen
Iowa Aaa Committee
Hazen
AAA Committee
Nate Murray
Farmers urged to vote in wheat quota referendum
Ames dispatch reports R K Bliss of Iowa State College urges wheat farmers to exercise their right to vote on the wheat marketing quota referendum. Economists say U S wheat supply could reach about 1.25 billion bushels in 1942 with domestic use around 680 million, including food seed feed and exports.
Cattle Feeders Day Shifted to July 23 at Ames
Ames schedules cattle feeders day for July 23 not May or June as in past years. P. S. Shearer and C. C. Culbertson report 10 experimental steers, 660 pounds, started on feed last November and to be shown after 240 days. They detail corn types, silage, alfalfa hay, linseed and mineral supplements, plus varying protein feeds among five groups.
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P. S. Shearer
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Gazette
Extension Folk To Meet June 16 At Ames On Defense
Ames extension director R K Bliss announced a June 16 conference in Ames for all extension workers to plan defense activities linked to extension work. Topics include boosting pork dairy poultry and vegetables production while keeping costs and soil conservation gains, with Mrs. Sarah Porter Ellis reporting on nutrition efforts.
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Extension Folk
Ames
R. K Bliss
Ames Extension Service
Bliss
Sarah Porter Ellis
Washington
Iowa
Wickard
Extension Service
Production Credit Parley At Davenport June 5 6
Six production credit associations will be represented at a conference in Davenport June 5 and 6. About 40 farmers and stockmen from Cedar Rapids Elkader Mount Pleasant Ottumwa Waterloo and Davenport associations will attend with secretary treasurers of the six credit co-ops and reps from the Production Credit Corporation of Omaha.
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Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Elkader
Mount Pleasant
Ottumwa
Waterloo
Production Credit Corporation of
Omaha
Belle Plaine Man Elected Benton Junior Farm Bureau President
Stanley Keep of Belle Plaine was elected president of the Benton county Junior Farm Bureau to succeed Merle Bruch who expects to be called to the army.
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Belle Plaine
Stanley Keep
Benton County
Junior Farm Bureau
Merle Bruch
Winneshiek County Sets June 20 Soil District Referendum
The Gazette reports June 20 as the vote date in Winneshiek county on creating a countywide soil conservation district. Voting is limited to actual landowners, with eight similar Iowa counties already approving the measure.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
Iowa
Record butter production climbs in April across regions
The U S Department of Agriculture reports April creamery butter output at 163 535 000 pounds, up 7 percent from last year and 18 percent above the 1930 39 April average. Regional gains ranged from 3 to 30 percent, with declines in New England and middle Atlantic areas. First four months total 580 5 million pounds, 6 percent above last year.
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United States Department of Agriculture
East North Central
West North Central States
South Central
Pacific States
New England
Middle Atlantic
Creamery butter production set to peak early this year
Leslie M. Carl, statistician for the Agricultural Marketing Service, says butter output will peak sooner as the seasonal rise slows. For the week ending May 22 the national increase was 4 percent versus 10 percent last year. In the West North Central region gains were 3 percent vs 11.4 percent a year ago. Minnesota and South Dakota were nearly steady while other area states rose moderately to sharply.
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Agricultural Marketing Service
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Middle Atlantic States
South Atlantic States
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West North Central
South Central
Mountain
Pacific States
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Des Moines
INS
Leslie M. Carl
Carl
Towa
Minnesota
South Dakota
SCS Tours Planned for Soil Conservation Week
Governor George A. Wilson proclaims soil conservation week and Linn county tours run Monday Tuesday and Friday. Stops include John Weber farm near Prairieburg with terracing and strip cropping, Carl Meints farm near Coggon, and a Cedar Rapids Marion service club tour at Prairie Chapel church. Tuesday covers A D Pollock farm near Springville and Rudy Novak farm, then Friday visits S F Emerson near Lisbon and RP Ink near Mount Vernon to view contour farming terracing and tree planting.
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George A. Wilson
Linn
John Weber
Prairieburg
Carl Meints
Coggon
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Prairie Chapel Church
A. D. Pollock
Springville
Rudy Novak
S. F. Emerson
Lisbon
R P Ink
Mount Vernon
Iowa field days mark fourth soil conservation week
Chariton plans June 4 field day Red Oak June 5 Fairfield June 6 as part of Iowa fourth annual soil conservation week. R K Bliss Iowa State College extension service says more communities may join with events. H H Bennett federal soil conservation service to speak in Fairfield and Red Oak. Governor Wilson invited to Chariton and Red Oak.
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Iowa
R. K. Bliss
Iowa State College Extension Service
Chariton
Red Oak
Fairfield
Bliss
H. H. Bennett
Federal Soil Conservation Service
Gov. Wilson
United Stockyards Corp Reports Quarterly Net Income Rise
Chicago Illinois April 30 1941 consolidated net income for United Stockyards Corp and subsidiaries totaled 70108.16 up from 55135.24 last year D F Hunt president announced the gain 16233 02 due to adjustments of over accruals for 1940 federal excess profits taxes titled as current quarter profits.
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Chicago
United Stockyards Corporation
D. F. Hunt
Plans for New FSA Committees At District Meet
District and county FSA supervisors meet in Dubuque to discuss establishing three new county committees in each of 17 eastern Iowa counties. Committees include rural rehabilitation advisory, farm debt adjustment, tenant purchase, and a council at large. Attendees include Charles O. Doty Ames state representative tenant purchase. Cleone Miller and Harry R. McMul len from Cedar Rapids.
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Gazette
Dubuque
Iowa
FSA
Howard Dodge
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Jones
Jackson
Tama
Marshall
Benton
Poweshick
Clinton
Cedar
Scott
Muscatine
Delaware
Buchanan
Clayton
Charles O. Doty
Ames
Cleone Miller
Harry R. McMullen
Government corn shipped from Keokuk County by CCC
Four carloads of corn were shipped from Keokuk county this week by the Commodity Credit Corporation. The loads came from Webster two, Keswick one, and South English one. The corn was taken from government bins that were too full to store properly. Two more carloads are expected next week, from Webster and Keswick.
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Keokuk County
Commodity Credit Corporation
Keswick
South English
Loan Association Sells Most Farms to Operators
DECORAH The Federal Farm Loan association once owned 27 farms in Allamakee and Winneshiek counties. Now it holds only two farms per county as operators own 22 of the 27. Delinquent payments exist on one farm, per H G Ludeman secretary with offices here.
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Federal Farm Loan Association
Allamakee
Winneshiek
H. G. Ludeman
Eastern Iowa Weddings and Local Obituaries Roundup
Marriages in Randalia and La Porte City resume life events as Norman towns share word of nuptials. Notables include Lucille Hold and LaVerne Proctor wedding in Randalia, with Proctor to work in Oelwein, and Kerr-Beck nuptials near Hudson and La Porte City. Local obituaries note Rachel Hemphill Schmickle’s death near Center Point and long-time community ties across Linn and surrounding counties.
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LaVerne Proctor
Charles Proctor
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Dorothy Hold
Arthur Perry
Points
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Oelwein
LA Porte City
Mariana Kerr
Robert D. Kerr
Hudson
William J. Beck
P. F. Beck
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Raymond Duffy
Margaret Kerr
Joe Beck
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Cedar Falls
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