South Tama Cows End Assn Year With 328.2-lb Average
The South Tama Cow Test association now Tama-Poweshiek reports 8 008 pounds milk and 328.2 pounds butterfat per 321.07 cow years. Average value 99.52 per cow, 51.93 above feed cost 47.58. 399 cows tested 77 purebreds 322 grades. High herds include Grade Guernseys Rhinehart Son 7 998 lb milk 439.3 fat. Holsteins Carroll Westfall 10 946 lb milk 439.1 fat. State juvenile home herd 11 619 lb milk 405.5 fat. Four of 13 high cows in juvenile home herd. Other high cow owners listed.
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AMA
South Tama Cow Test Association
The
Tama-Poweshiek Organization
Herbert Kliess
Guernseys
Rhinehart and Son
Carroll Westfall
Harvey McFate
Lloyd Brown
F. M. Stark
Iowa Butter Output Seen At 1.297 Billion Lbs For First Months
Special to The Gazette shows domestic creamery butter production in the United States from January to September at 1,297,610,000 pounds, up only six tenths of a percent from 1931. Bechtelheimer notes the weak incentive to produce as prices lag, despite relatively high butterfat prices in September. Eastern creameries lead in butterfat with Jesup, Monticello, Maquoketa among top handlers.
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Waterloo
Clyde Bechtelheimer
Iowa Creameries’ Association
United States
Bechtelheimer
Iowa
Association
Jesup
Mionticello
Tether
Maquoketa
Dairy Co op Head Warns Against Price Cutting
J H Mason of the Des Moines Co operative Dairy Marketing association told the Iowa Institute of Co operation that price cutting by unscrupulous distributors harms milk producers and distributors. He called for a stabilized market to ensure fair prices and quality milk. Charles Sexton urged farmers to push lower prices for consumers and noted high meat and egg prices in the east as a factor in surpluses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
J. H. Mason
Des Moines Cooperative Dairy Marketing Association
Iowa Institute of Co-operation
Charles Sexton
Ferguson
Farmers Through Husking Helps Neighbors Finish
Corn husking has resumed after a week’s layoff due to rain and snow. Some farmers finished and now help neighbors complete their crops while husking weather lasts. Up to sixty acres remain on some farms. Delays come from wet fields and frequent unloading. Winter wheat looks well and has grown rank.
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Watkins
Cattle Die Of Blackleg On Concord Township Farm
Seven head of cattle owned by Ralph Lowe and Harry Gipple near here died from blackleg contracted in timber and river bottom pasture in Concord township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Lowe
Harry Gipple
Concord Township
Co Operative Hog Breeding Experiment In Vinton
A group of four Vinton high school vocational agricultural students purchase a junior yearling Hampshire boar for their co op breeding project. Lyle Crisman Glenn Beresford Frank Beresford and Gale Johnson own the boar with Howard T. Miller guiding the effort. The animal is a half brother to Blue Boy and Storm King and was sired by Nehanka Whirlwind out of Molly Gann.
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Hampshire
Moving Pictures
Storm King
Vinton High School
Lyle Crisman
Glenn
Frank Beresford
Gale Johnson
Howard T. Miller
Smith-Hughes
Vinton School
Nehanka Whirlwind
Molly Gann
Oneida Farm Women to Start Evening Classes This Winter
Mrs Lawrence Gienapp of Oneida will lead the adult evening school for women beginning Nov 30 with eleven weekly lessons. R L Amsberry, superintendent, will oversee the men’s classes. Due to economy, home economics is not offered this year but women will continue evening studies.
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Oneida
Lawrence Gienapp
R. L. Amsberry
Delaware County Farms Fetch $24.35 and $55 An Acre
Two Delaware County properties change hands in a Greeley sale. The August Mohlencamp 115 acre tract east of Oneida sells to a syndicate led by H Schenke for 2190 dollars, contrasting with ro Gerdes 168 1/2 acre northwest of Greeley sold to Arthur re Bgrete Lestor at 55 dollars per acre. Will McGuire to operate the latter.
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Greeley
Will McGuire
Livestock Sale At Midway Pavilion Columbus Junction
About 285 head sold Tuesday at Midway pavilion. Milk cows topped $32. steers and calves 3.5 to 5 cents per lb. Sows with litters $10 to $15. shoats $1.25 to 4.50 each. boars $7 to $12.50. Sheep $4.50. Leghorn roosters 30 cents. An 8room house furniture lot brought good prices. Paul Klotz and H M Duncan were auctioneers.
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Columbus Junction
Midway Pavilion
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Mechanicsville corn husking boosts yields and labor mix
Mechanicsville area reports corn husking resuming after a weather delay. Hand pickers earn 1 to 214 cents a bushel while machine operators receive 1.50 per acre. Yields range 55 to 65 bushels per acre, with fields seen near 100 bushels in one replanted plot.
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Gazette
Mechanicsville
Frank Rhoads
E. F. Walshire
Alvin Davidson
C. ©. Rhoads
Forest
Frank
Howard
Rhoadses
Nebraska
Frank Miller
Clarence
Neighbors Help Harvest At Kohlmeyer Farm
Fifteen neighbors with eight teams went to Walter Kohlmeyer’s farm after he injured his hand. They husked and cribbed 350 bushels of corn while Mrs. Kohlmeyer and four neighbors prepared dinner for the workers.
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Beedal
Hawkeye
Walter Kohlmeyer
National Farm Union reelects officers at annual session
At Omaha the National Farmers Union re elected officers. They plan a comprehensive agricultural relief program and seek a Roosevelt call for a special congressional session if the lame duck session fails to act. The group endorsed silver remonetization, production cost guarantees, and mortgage financing reform. The convention also voiced sympathy with the Farmers Holiday movement and urged a debt moratorium and tax reforms.
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Omaha
INS
National Farmer’s Union
Roosevelt
Congress
John A. Simpson
Oklahoma City
H. G. Keeney
Nebraska
E. E. Kennedy
Kankakee, Ill
Ewe Sells for One Cent at Chicago Market
Mechan iville reports Elwood Rhoads formerly six miles south of Mechanicsville shipped a load of lambs to the Chicago market. An old debt on the ewe sold for a gross 50 cents, but after freight commission and other expenses the net was one cent.
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Mechanicsville
Elwood Rhoads
Chicago
Iowa Team Wins Vocational Livestock Judging Title at Royal
A three man team from McLamoresville Tennessee won the vocational agriculture livestock judging contest with 2115.7 points at the American Royal show in Kansas City. Individual winner was R Howery of Illinois with 722675 points. L Whitaker of Fairfield Iowa finished second with 720125 while the Iowa team of Emert Newton and Leland Whitaker of Fairfield and Robert Miller of Batavia placed third in cattle judging with 511.375 points.
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Kansas City
McLamoresville
390 Cattle Tested For a T. B. In Fayette County
Hawkeye report notes Dr. F. T. McGrew conducted the first bovine tuberculosis test for 390 head of cattle in thirteen herds in Bethel township this fall. Dr. P. A. Weires of West Union assists. The testing covers herds never previously tested in Fayette County.
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Hawkeye
F. T. McGrew
Bethel Township
Fayette County
P. A. Weires
West Union
Cows Sick After Eating Hedge Balls Near Webster
Three cows from the Lota Herrick herd two miles south of Webster fell seriously ill after grazing on hedge balls along a fence in a corn stalk field.
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Webster
Lota Herrick
Farm leaders seek 50 percent cut in corn freight rates
Directors of Iowa farm organizations plan a petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission asking a 50 percent reduction in rail freight on corn. They note eastern selling prices at 43.6 cents per bushel versus 28 cents freight, plus handling and brokers’ costs, eroding farmer profits. A 24 cent cut could raise Iowa prices to about 26 to 28 cents per bushel for roughly 190 million bushels of the new crop.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federation of Iowa Farm Organizations
Webster Farmer Threshes Soy Beans This Week
Webster area farmers focus on soybean threshing. Ora Hervey northeast of Webster set the pace by threshing his crop on Wednesday.
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Webster
Ora Hervey
Twenty five Western horses sell for average of twenty five dollars
Twenty five head of Colorado horses sold at auction for an average of $25 Wednesday at the city feed yards in Washington. Fred Chandler of Chariton Paul Klotz of Columbus Junction and Fred Chandler Jr. acted as auctioneers.
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Washington
Colorado
Fred Chandler
Chariton
Paul Klotz
Columbus Junction
Rowley Group Funds Gravel Road Improvement
Rowley business men and farmers donated labor and cash this fall to gravel a 1.25 mile road northeast of Rowley. The route, previously impassable in spring and only graveled in the worst spots, will gain a usable surface.
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Rowley
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