Farm Hand Wages Fall to 25 Year Low With Board
The U S Department of Agriculture reports farm labor pay with board averages about $17 per month nationwide, two men available per job, day labor without board near a dollar in many areas. Livestock prices weaken, cattle futures hit new lows while heavy feeder demand drops. Wool and dairy markets show dull activity as milk prices slip and egg and poultry receipts ease.
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Ashington
D. C
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Middle West
United States
Minneapolis
Onslow Grower Yields 120 Bushels Onions on Tiny Plot
Sam McCarty of Onslow is named the champion onion producer of the locality. This year he harvested 120 bushels from a plot smaller than one eighth of an acre. Much of the crop has been stored for future sale.
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Onslow
Sam McCarty
Chicago to Host 12 000 Farm Animals at International Livestock Show
More than 12 000 top farm animals across 35 breeds will be shown at the International Livestock exposition in Chicago stockyards from November 26 to December 3. Judges from 15 states and foreign countries will evaluate entries including specimens from British Columbia Texas California and Connecticut. The event showcases crops and purebred stock amid continued agricultural progress despite low market prices.
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Chicago
Chicago Stockyards
B H. Heide
British Columbia
Texas
California
Connecticut
Canada
Australia
Poweshiek 4-H Girls Will Study Clothing
Mrs Edith Barker of the Ames extension service met with Poweshiek county girls club committee and club leaders to plan the 1933 clothing project. Committee members include Mrs Charles Hudson Montezuma chairman and Mesdames Royce Malcom Shadel Brooklyn Eames Gilman Boyle and Dempster Grinnell.
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Brooklyn
Edith Barker
Ames Extension Service
Poweshiek County Girls’ Club
Charles Hudson
Montezuma
H. J. Royce
Malcom
Andrew Shadel
Thomas Eames
Gilman
W. C. Boyle
J. J. Dempster
Grinnell
Farm Women in Cedar County Study Nutrition
Cedar County farm bureau women will start the 1933 fourth year nutrition project led by Ruth Cessna Ames specialist. Subjects include unusual vegetable growing and cookery lowering cost of adequate meals modern trends in the bread industry new methods of meat cookery and mineral balance in daily diets.
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Tipton
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Ruth Cessna
Ames
Farm Women In Jones County Study Home Grounds Improvement
Jones county Farm Bureau women joined four outdoor sessions led by Nord W. Davis Ames extension landscape architect to study home grounds improvements. Attendees from Anamosa Center Junction Monticello discussed plantings massing balance and features like ponds arches and arbors, aiming for better living conditions and community uplift.
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Jones County
Nord W. Davis
Ames Extension
Farm Bureau
Mr. Davis
Davis
Lloyd Robertson
Will Hays
Anamosa
B. D. Heiken
Center Junction
Edwin Wilcox
Monticello
Edwin Wilcox Place
Potato shipments from Nebraska expected to fall this year
Nebraska crops statistician A E Anderson says potato shipments through November 17 total 852 cars, far below 3 076 a year ago, due to Western Nebraska crop problems and October freezes despite a 40 percent rise in statewide acreage. Panhandle counties planted about 79 000 acres, nearly matching recent state totals.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
A. E. Anderson
Anderson
Panhandle
Agricultural Credit Council Formed in Poweshiek County
Poweshiek county forms an Agricultural Credit council this week with Otto Schulta C. S. George A. J. Blakely A. J. Boatman and R. J. Smith as members. County Agent W A Geiger reports the council will meet with mortgagors and mortgagees to aid in amicable equitable adjustments.
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Brooklyn
Poweshiek County Agricultural Credit Council
Otto Schulta
C. S. George
A. J. Blakely
A. J. Boatman
R. J. Smith
W. A. Geiger
Fifty Two Herefords In Dry Lot On Mechanicsville Farm
Mechanicville area farmer Walter Kiehl praises his fifty two head of Herefords kept in a dry lot south east of Mechanicsville. The herd, grown from forty cows and calves purchased near Belle Fourche, S. D., now averages over 1100 pounds under spring full feed with home grown grain, reflecting a family ranching background from Wyoming.
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Mechanicsville
Walter Kiehl
Kiehl
H. H. Kiehl
Belle Fourche
S. D
Kieh
Wyoming
Cedar County
More Than 30 Percent White Leghorn Flock In Production
Mrs G E Sauerbry near Oelwein runs 200 Tom Barron White Leghorn pullets with over 30 percent laying. Hatch date April 23, they started on all mash, later adding home grown grains. Feeding mix includes corn oats flour middlings meat and bone meal buttermilk oyster shell charcoal and alfalfa meal.
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Oelwein
G. E. Sauerbry
Tom Barron
Ames
10000 Turkeys Marketed In Week By Wellman Firm
Wellman firm shipped ten thousand dressed turkeys from Maplecrest hatchery for the Thanksgiving market. The birds were obtained from Reynolds Illinois Rose Hill Batavia Mount Hamill Fairfield Williamsburg and Donnellson from local hatchery at two to three days old.
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Wellman
Maplecrest Hatchery
Reynolds, Ill
Rose Hill
Batavia
Mount Hamill
Fairfield
Williamsburg
Donnellson
County corn harvest exceeds eighty percent complete
Washington county corn harvest tops 80 percent according to County Agent Harold J. Montgomery. Most fields will be finished this month with a portion left for cattle in some areas.
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Washington
Washington County
Harold J. Montgomery
Erratic Hog Prices Push Down in Iowa Market
In Des Moines and across Iowa direct hog trade prices fluctuated last week with late-week quotes 30 to 40 cents lower than the week’s high. Farmers paid a bit over 3 dollars for top hogs briefly, but bids fell back as packers sought to secure hogs for kill.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Livestock Prices at Union Stock Yards Chicago Fall on Higher Receipts
Increased receipts boosted supplies across cattle hogs and lambs at Union Stock Yards Chicago causing price declines. Cattle saw 20 cent higher local supply with fat cows and fat steers down and heifers dropping up to 75 cents. Hogs fell 25 to 40 cents from week’s top while lamb prices eased 50 to 75 cents though some native and western lambs sold near 5.25 to 5.75 and top at 6.25. overall market softer amid larger volumes.
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Chicago
Omaha
Cincinnati
Colorado
UNION
Fed
Fed Western Lambs
Neighbors Help Marion Farmer With 1200 Bushels Harvest
Forty five men and twenty women husked 1200 bushels at the Frank Cimprich home near Marion to aid a neighbor unable to pick his corn. A dinner was served by the women and Mrs Cimprich baked over 200 kolaches.
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Frank Cimprich
Marion
Cimprich
Robert Martin
Dimprich
Sam Fernow
George ‘Marak
Hubert
George Dvorsky
Clyde Kearns
Bob Dean
Henry Larson
Joe Tepley
Fred McShane
Harrison Oxley
Willard Haak
Kenneth Young
Jim Robinson
John Raets
Dan Cory
Jack Kent
Elmer Graham
Charles Sweet
Oscar Martin
Donald Dean
Charles Clark
Harold Martin
Husk for sick neighbor in Iowa community
Neighbors and friends husked twenty acres of corn on the Fison farm for Delbert Elson who is hospitalized in Vinton. Local farmers finish husking and cribbing as weather stays favorable with some still to harvest. One farm reports 60 bushels per acre and a neighbor near Walker finished cribbing 6 000 bushels from 75 acres.
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Shellsburg
Delbert Elson
Fison
Elson
Vinton
the Gazette
Walker
Will Michael
Here
Corn Husker Brings In Two 70 Bushel Loads In One Day
Cedar Rapids man J R Severe husked thirty one loads of corn averaging over sixty bushels per load in fifteen and a half days on Clarence Merritt farm. He is pictured with a 70 bushel load as proof of his big yield. The Merritt farm has eighty acres of Black's yellow dent averaging sixty bushels per acre.
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the Gazette
J. R. Severe
Westwood
Cedar Rapids
Clarence Merritt
Flagstaff
Ariz
Arizona
Arizona farming notes near Flagstaff show varied yields
The author travels Coconino County Arizona noting corn yields from 30 to 35 bushels per acre on some flats while nearby fields fail. He describes air drainage as the key to differences, frost dates, high altitude effects on appetite, and the region's dry farming practices and complex land values.
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Coconino County
European corn borer spread slows in 1932 survey
The 1932 joint committee report notes reduced spread of the European corn borer due to poor spring and early summer weather. New infestations appear in Indiana Maryland Kentucky Pennsylvania and Virginia along with established ranges across many states and Canadian provinces. The group urges continued federal quarantines research on parasites resistant varieties machinery and practices to curb the pest.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Indiana
Maryland
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
West Virginia
New York
New Jersey
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Canada
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Joint Committee
United States
American Society of Agricultural Engineerz
American Farm Association
American Society of Animal Production
W. H. Larrimer
Renansel
Larrimer
Auction of Mt Vernon Road Acreage With Cottage and Farm Outbuildings
An auction notice describes Acreage 4 at Mt Vernon paved road and 34th St near Dairy Dale school and church. The property includes a 5 room cottage with sun porch, full basement, furnace, electricity, drilled well, cistern, bathroom, cesspool, a large barn, poultry house, a vineyard and assorted fruit trees and berries. Inspections are welcome any time.
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Mt. Vernon
34Th St
Dairy Dale School
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