Massive 1929 cattle imports exceed prior yearly totals
U S imports of cattle and calves for the first nine months of 1929 reached 604,015 head, far surpassing any single prior calendar year. Most were cattle weighing 200 to 659 pounds from Mexico, with heavy slaughter stock near two thirds. Calves under 200 pounds filled their quota, Canada supplying most at reduced rates, while pork imports fell slightly from 1938 levels.
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Ashington
United States
Mexico
Aedhe Main
Canada
Bureau of Customs
Great Britain
Germany
Cuba
Milling Firm Funds To Be Used In Vitamin Study
A $6,400 grant from a Minneapolis milling company to the Ames agricultural experiment station was approved by the Iowa board of education. The funds will fund a two year study of vitamin E in grains and roughage for farm animals and poultry, with B. H Thomas heading the animal chemistry and nutrition subsection.
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Ames
Minneapolis
Ames Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa Board of Education
B. H Thomas
Turkey wholesale prices ease amid record yearend supply
In Chicago AP report, dressed turkeys quoted wholesale at 17 to 24.5 cents per pound as large supply and strong feeding boosted weights to 16 to 17 pounds. Duck and geese prices also lower with November harvests shaping a longer Thanksgiving period and anticipated Christmas demand.
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Chicago
America
Land Grant College Conference Attended by Ames Team
Charles E Friley president of Iowa State College and eight staff members travel to Washington DC for the Land Grant Colleges and Universities Association meeting November 15 to 17. Friley speaks on State Federal Relationships Affecting Agricultural Programs. R E Buchanan discusses graduate work. Other Ames attendees include R K Bliss H H Kildee T R Agg Genevieve Fisher George W Godfrey and E W Lindstrom.
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AMES
Charles E. Friley
Iowa State College
Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities
Washington, D. C
Friley
R. E. Buchanan
Land Grant
R. K. Bliss
Agricultural Extension Service
H. H. Kildee
T. R Agg
Genevieve Fisher
George W. Godfrey
E. W. Lindstrom
Maize levy harms South African natives and nonproducers
A Johannesburg reader summary from the Manchester Guardian reprinted by the Cape Times warns that a Maize Control Board levy of 4s per bag on maize consumed by non-producers will hit the poorest communities hardest. It notes exports from a bumper crop and a fund intended to compensate producers, yet native and poor white and colored groups face higher food costs. The piece questions the policy's justice given existing hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maize Control Board
Cape Times
Union
Ever Normal Granary Bursts Open at Marion
A Marion government grain bin from the Ever-Normal program burst overnight, spilling 2457 bushels of shelled corn onto two tracks in the Milwaukee switch yard. The collapse, tied to Alabama‑made bins with reinforced door frames, prompted repairs as a second bin showed foundation shift while the fall occurred a week after filling.
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Gazette
Marion
Ray Anderson
Sam
Farmers Elevator Company
Milwaukee
Linn County
Triple A
Irvin L. Ford
John Wager
Central City
AAA
R. B. Booth
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Ford
Lester Mitchell
Fairfax
Shalltown
Dieterich
Alabama
Iowa
Creston 4-H Boy Wins Wilson Award in Iowa
Creston teen Robert Hardman, 17, named state winner in the Thomas E Wilson meat animal contest. He will receive a $50 gold watch and may compete in the sectional for a trip to the National 4-H Club congress in Chicago December 2 to 9. Hardman’s 4-H record spans six livestock projects and farm work totaling $1500 in livestock and $80 in prizes.
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Ames
Robert Hardman
Creston
Paul C Taff
Iowa
Hardman
Creston High School
Cattlemen to Hear Gramlich in Postville Banquet
The Northeast Iowa livestock community will host H. J. Gramlich, head of the American Short Horn Breeders association, as principal speaker at a banquet meeting on November 15 in Postville. Gramlich, former head of Nebraska's animal husbandry department, will discuss feeding and raising livestock. The event is sponsored by Farm Bureaus of Allamakee Clayton Fayette and Winneshiek counties in cooperation with local feeders and breeders.
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the Gazette
Eleader
H. J. Gramlich
American Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
Chicago
Iowa
Postville
Gramlich
University of Nebraska
Allamakee
Clayton
Fayette
Winneshiek
Butterfat Price Set At 32 Cents In Delhi Creamery
The Delhi Silver Spring creamery paid 32 cents a pound for butterfat received during the first half of October.
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Delhi
Delhi Silver Spring
Neighbors Husk 20 Acres At Traer Farm
About 75 neighbors and friends gathered to husk 20 acres of corn on the Mrs William Diedrichsen farm ten miles southwest of Traer. Fifty men worked while 25 women prepared dinner. Meanwhile Richard Hargan of Amity, still in a Waterloo hospital, and about a dozen neighbors husked the remaining 15 acres in his field. Mrs Hargan and local women served hot lunches.
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Traer
William Diedrichsen
Diedrichsen
Richard Hargan
Amity
Waterloo
Community Corn Husks Across Two Farms
Wellman area reports eighty neighbors with twenty four teams husking four thousand bushels of corn at Mrs Jack Dill farm after her husband died last month. Ladies of the community served dinner to the huskers. Mount Auburn residents say forty five neighbors friends and Legionnaires husked and cribbed 1400 bushels at Jesse Gulick farm. Mr Gulick broke an ankle when thrown from a road hay wagon on Sept 8. Mrs Gulick aided by auxiliary ladies served a chicken dinner to the group.
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Gazette
Wellman
Jack Dill
Mount Auburn
Jesse Gulick
Benton Women To Plan For Achievement Day
WINTON An achievement day planning meeting for women’s home project workers in Benton county is scheduled at the Legion hall Van Horne Nov 14 at 10 30 a m according to Miss Ann Nygaard county home demonstration agent Mrs N May Larsen Ames extension specialist will have charge of the meeting open to local leaders cooperators township chairmen publicity chairmen and other township and county officers Family farm living problems will be discussed In preparation for the smallpox vaccination program the health chairmen will meet with a physician who will discuss this program and assist them in methods of presenting it at rural schools.
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Winton
Benton County
Legion Hall
van Horne
Ann Nygaard
N. May Larsen
Ames
Farm Outlook Meeting in Louisa Listed on Nov 14
WAPELLO IA November 14 will see Forrest Bennett of Sigourney district planning assist ant join Louisa county agricultural planning committee members to study the 1940 farm outlook and discuss objectives with federal program reps. They will assess effects of the European war and focus on a limestone project, with a summary and recommendations to Ames extension service.
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Wapello
Forrest Bennett
Sigourney
Louisa County Agricultural Planning Committee
Earl Mayers
Ames Extension Service
Corn Ear With 30 Rows Reported Near Farmersburg
ELKADER Charles Reinke of Farmersburg reports an ear of hybrid corn with 30 kernel rows, weighing one pound five ounces, nine and a half inches long and eight and a half inches around. The note adds that 24, 26 and 28 row ears had appeared previously and mentions another 30 row find by Ted Hemesath of Ossian.
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Elkader
Charles Reinke
Farmersburg
Ted Hemesath
Ossian
Year End Meeting Set for Decorah Iowa Creamery Group
The Iowa Creamery Operators association section No 1 schedules its annual business session for December 6 in Decorah. Members will gather for the year end meeting to review operations and set plans for the coming year.
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Decorah
The
Iowa Creamery Operators’ Association
Guernsey Breeders Form Association in Northeast Iowa
Will Oelrich of La Mont was elected president of the Northeast Iowa District Guernsey Breeders association. D R Witter of McGregor was named vice president and Ray Lange of Garnaville secretary. Twenty members attended as plans for a district show at the West Union fairgrounds June 17 were set and a decision was made to join the state association. C B Finley and E M Wright spoke at the meeting.
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Fayette
Will Oelrich
la Mont
Iowa
Guernsey Breeders Association
D. R. Witter
McGregor
Ray Lange
Garnaville
West Union Fairgrounds
State
C. B. Finley
E M. Wright
Iowa Dairy Association
Eveready Grange Elects Officers For Coming Year
Colesburg members of Eveready Grange elected officers for the coming year. Names include Worthy Master Clair Klaus Overseer Harold Holthaus Lecturer Zara White Steward Louis Hartbecke Assistant Steward Arthur M Holthaus Chaplain Ben Holthaus Treasurer Watson Gull Secretary Dorothy Hartbecke Gatekeeper Bob Schenke Pomona Norma McDowell Ceres Marie Schenke Flora Emma Gull Lady Assistant Steward Aldean White Executive Committeeman W. P. Adams and Pianist Gladys Holthaus.
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Colesburg
Eveready Grange
Clair Klaus
Harold Holthaus
Zara White
Louis Hartbecke
Arthur M Holthaus
Ben Holthaus
Watson Gull
Dorothy Hartbecke
Bob Schenke
Pomona
Norma McDowell
Ceres
Marie Schenke
Flora
Emma Gull
Alde
Fat cattle fetch 10.35 per cwt at Ottumwa sale
DYSART Silverman and Las Sen, large cattle feeders near Dysart, sold 166 fat cattle averaging 1,050 pounds at Ottumwa last week, bringing 10.35 dollars per hundredweight.
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Dysart
Silverman
Las- Sen
Ottumwa
Farm Auction Schedule Announces Multiple Local Sales
A sequence of livestock and farm implement auctions is listed with dates from Tuesday November 14 to Tuesday November 21. Sellers include Thomas A. Davis Manford Powelka A M Crains the Thomas Willmott Estate and Henry Schlesselman with locations near Martelle Wyoming Springville Waubeck Whittier.
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City Sales Co
Thomas A. Davis
Martelle
Manford Powelka
Wyoming
M. Crains
Springville
Thomas Willmott
E. Waubeck
Henry Schlesselman
Whittier
Mrs Ellison Still Heads F B Women In Jones Co
Mrs S H Ellison was reelected county chairman of women s home project work in Jones county at a meeting of county and township officers in Anamosa Recent selections include Mrs Lloyd Hutton Monticello as publicity chairman Mrs Oliver Furst Olin secretary Mrs Lloyd Robertson Anamosa music chairman and Mrs Arnold Phalaker Monticello health chairman
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Anamosa
S. H. Ellison
Jones County
Lloyd Hutton
Monticello
Oliver Furst
Olin
Lloyd Robertson
Arnold Phalaker
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Tanto
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Laurel Dieterich
Williams
Ae US
Egad
Hoople
Ben Zeen
Uncle Amos
Louisa
Guernsey Breeders Form Association
Ellison
F. B. Women
Jones Co
Sioux City
Mason City
Univis Lenses
J. C
Buckley
May
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People’s Furniture Co
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