Roosevelt approves voluntary domestic allotment plan
Roosevelt approves a new farm relief plan titled the voluntary domestic allotment, a subsidy funded by a tax on exportable farm surpluses. The program would pay farmers back part of the tax while producers sign agreements to limit output, with funds distributed by state bureaus to growers based on five-year averages.
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Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United Press
Topeka
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Jones
South Dakota
Such a Headache A Could Sean The medicine ad
Mrs W A Thomson from Detroit Michigan reports relief from headaches and back pain after using Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. She says she felt stronger with less tiredness and improved headaches and recommends the remedy sold by druggists. The tablets are convenient to take.
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Lydia LE. Pinkham
W. A. Thomson
Cass Ave
Detroit
Michigan
Fall sale prices lure farmers to buy work horses
Des Moines AP reports Carl N. Kennedy assistant secretary of agriculture says fall sale prices tempt farmers to buy work horses now for next spring. He notes spring markets typically peak and the current shortage suggests prices may rise again. Purchasing two and three year old Colts at fall sales offers potential gains for work readiness.
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Des Moines
Carl N. Kennedy
Kennedy
Guttenberg Commission firm markets hogs in Chicago sale
Special to Tha Chorvette reports the Guttenberg Commission Company reached Chicago with a mixed hog load. Hogs sold for as high as 3.65 dollars, the day’s top price, signaling strong demand in the market.
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Tha
Chorvette
Guttenberg
Guttenberg Commission Company
Chicago
Owine Specialist Suggests Method of Raising Fall Pigs
Ames AP fall pigs are not harder to raise than spring pigs says A L Anderson swine specialist at Town State College. He notes failures arise from unsanitary conditions incorrect rations or lack of proper equipment. He recommends small group handling clean dry well ventilated housing pasture feeding self feeding and careful pest control with alfalfa meal corn trinity mix and minerals as key ration components.
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Ames (Ap
A L. Anderson
Town State College
Anderson
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Plans Laid For Corn And Legume Show In Jones
The Jones County Corn and Legume show organizers announce a winter exhibition with two classes per township. A commercial display uses seed corn from twenty five hills. the legume section includes clover, soy bean, and alfalfa seed. Arnold Fedderson is secretary. directors include Sam Switzer Oliver Furst Alfred Manwiller and Paul Smith.
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Amber
Jones County
Arnold Fedderson
Morrell Seeds
Sam Switzer
Oliver Furst
Alfred Manwiller
Paul Smith
Cedar Farmers Build Temporary Corn Cribs
Local Tipton area farmers plan temporary cribs to store a large corn harvest. Yields run fifty to ninety bushels per acre with excellent quality. Herman Switzer and family crib 300 bushels daily. Homer Burgess husked over 4 000 bushels from fifty five acres. Few hired hands, often paid in meat or produce. much seed corn stored.
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Tipton
Herman Switzer
Homer Burgess
0-20-20 Increases Corn Yield 20 Bu In Fayette Test
Special to The Gazette reports two Pryette county corn test plots on the WII Pace farm near Maynard and the Arlie Martin farm near Oolwelh. Fertilizers 0-20-0 0-20-10 and 0-20-20 raised yields on Clyde silt clay loam soil. On the Pace farm check plots yielded 71.4 bushels with 0-20-20 producing 87.1 bushels. On the Martin farm check plots yielded 72.1 bushels with 0-20-20 yielding 92.1 bushels.
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Fayette
Pryette County Farm Bureau
WII Pace
Maynard
Arlie Martin
Oolwelh
Clyde
Carrington
W. F. Watkins
Ames Crops Department
B. W. Lodwick
Martin Farm
Martin
Change In Ration Causes 44.3-Pound Drop In Production
INDEPENDENCE The Wapsie Valley Cow Test Association reports October averages for 260 cows, including 616 pounds of milk and 25 pounds of butterfat. The study notes a herd gain from a balanced ration and a loss when returning to whole oats, with a ten-cow group up 64.8 pounds daily and a 44.3 pound drop after reverting to oats.
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Independence
Wapsie
Lloyd P. Thom and Son
Cook Farm
J. P. Spragg
Mr. Hotchkiss
Dysart Farmers Begin Selling New Corn Crop
Dysart shipments show large corn and oat deliveries to Tama Benton Grain. J L Tompkin and August Hilmer each delivered 1 200 bushels of new corn while W H Smith sent 2 300 bushels of oats and Raymond Miller 1 200 bushels. Hart Raub sold 1 200 bushels of old corn to Schroeder Grain and Livestock.
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Dysart
Tama-Benton Grain Company
J L. Tompkin
August Hilmer
W H Smith
Raymond Miller
Hart Raub
Schroeder Grain and Livestock Company
Fewer Feeders Move To Corn Belt In October
A Chicago Union Stockyards report shows stocker and feeder cattle inspections to the corn belt dropped more than 10 percent in October. The month’s shipments were well below 1931 and the five year average, with western states hardest hit. Smaller market receipts helped drive the decline, while demand shifted to lighter weight steers and indications point to larger feeding programs in Texas and nearby western states.
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UNION
Chicago
Mississippi River
Texas
Olin Farmers Begin Third Evening School On Corn
The Olin area starts its third annual series of evening classes for farmers on Wednesday November 23 under Morrell Leeds. Topics cover cost of production seed selection storage disease and insect control soil types harvest marketing and a corn program for the community. Committee members include Harry Levsen Clarence Graft Louis Lorenzen Carl Wigger and Mr Leeds.
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Olin
Morrell Leeds
Smith-Hughes
Harry Levsen
Clarence Graft
Louis Lorenzen
Carl Wigger
Leeds
1800 Girls’ Club Leaders Trained In Iowa Last Year
Eighteen hundred leaders for Iowa 4 H clubs were trained by ISU extension specialists this last year, a 150 percent rise from eight years ago. The program grew from 700 trained leaders in 1924 with 6,000 meetings to 1,800 leaders and 13,000 meetings last year. The average age of club girls is just under 15 years, reflecting the permanence of the local leader system.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Paul Taff
Taff
Agricultural Credit Council to Get Under Way in Two Weeks
Plans for the operation of county Agricultural Credit councils in Iowa were outlined by the State Agricultural Credit council in Des Moines. The aim is to have county councils in every county within two weeks to assist debtors and creditors with farm mortgage issues and prevent foreclosures.
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Agricultural Credit Council
Des Moines
State Agricultural Credit Council
Iowa
State Council
Charles E. Hearst
L. A. Andrews
R. K. Buss
E. W. Clark
J. N. Darling
B. F. Kauffman
H. 8. Nollen
George Schienker
Iowa Cow Testing Association reports mixed October activity
Iowa Cow Testing association members culled low producing cows nearly as much as a year ago while more cows were bought for milk and more purebred sires were purchased. October losses from faulty separators dropped to 100.32 dollars from 319.79 in 1931, with several herds topping butterfat averages and multiple owners named among high ranking cows.
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Ames
Memers
Iowa
Ames Dairy Extension Service
Marion-Lucas
Linn
Grundy
South Hardin
Henry Jefferson-Van Buren
Wapsie Valley
North Tama
E. M. Santman
Dyesart
A. W. Evans
Pleasantville
T. Mitchell
Buckingham
Merle 'Trossem
Paullina
Ernest Diehl
Grundy Center
John F. Reiss
Garrison
Stolt and Son
Odebolt
Mitchell
Overnight Test Promises Clearer Complexion With Noxzema
This old advertisement urges a one week overnight test using Noxzema Skin Cream to improve skin clarity. It claims the product clears blemishes, softens the complexion, and is greaseless and quickly absorbed for hands and face after makeup removal.
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