1935 Corn Hog Sign Up Expected Soon After Jan 1
Iowa prepares for the 1935 corn and hog adjustment program sign up to start after January 1. Paul G C Taff of Ames outlines a simpler plan with 10 to 30 percent acreage reductions and a 35 cent per bushel payment, plus revised hog adjustments and payments set for January 1, 1936.
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Iowa
Paul GC. Taff
Ames
Chester C Davis
Triple A
Taff
Corn
Kansas City
St. Paul
Des Moines
AAA
Fence Drift and Hog Contracts Shape 1935 Iowa Program
A Cedar Rapids observer recalls Frank C. Lowden as ageless while Iowa details 1935 hog and corn loan adjustments. The plan uses two installments totaling 35 cents per bushel, with tax-funded adjustments and corn loans for signed producers, aiming to stabilize farm income amid shifting quotas and processing taxes.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Iowa
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Promote Gentle Bowel Action
Longtime physician Dr F M Edwards offered a vegetable substitute for calomel named Dr Edwards Olive Tablets. Marketed as olive colored aids, they claim to restore normal bowel action and improve pale complexions dull eyes pimples coated tongues headaches and fatigue. Available in 30¢ and 60¢ sizes, touted by thousands of users.
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F M Edwards
Dr Edwards
Upcoming Farm Auctions a Week of November Sales
Tuesday November 20 marks Waterloo Town Holstein Breeders annual sale led by Harry G Powell at 1% miles NE Troy Malls. Wednesday November 23 features J R White sale near Toddville and Roy Ireland closing out sale 5 miles west of Wyoming. Thursday November 22 lists W E Tuetken closing out sale 215 miles SW Monticolo. Tuesday November 27 shows Mrs O Kent administratrix sale 6 miles NW Marion.
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Waterloo
Harry G. Powell
Troy Malls
J. R. White
Toddville
Roy Ireland
Wyoming
W. E. Tuetken
Monticolo
O. Kent
Sale
Marion
1935 Farm Program Details and Policy Focus
Iowa AAA officials outline voluntary 1935 plan with community committees and county control groups. The corn and hog bases stay with farm and producer data from 1932-33 will guide 1935 payments. Crop insurance touted as definite income protection and early funds to farmers. Two thirds voted for control. reasons include curb overproduction, parity goals, and a test of farmer cooperation.
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State Boards of Review
Egg price improvement noted in October report
The Iowa calendar flock demonstration report shows October egg prices improved with large cold storage holdings and lighter fresh egg receipts. Flocks averaged 88 eggs per bird on 127 cents cost and 20 cents per bird receipts. top ten flocks averaged 114 eggs per bird, 144 cents cost and 224 cents receipts per bird. Record flocks sold surplus poultry heavily in September, income doubling versus October.
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Gazette
AMES
Towa
Buttermakers to Meet Earlville Iowa Nov 21
Elmer J. Primus, buttermaker at Earlville, announces the annual meeting of Unit No 9 of the Iowa Butter makers association. The gathering will be at Bankston, seven miles north of Farley, starting at 4 pm on November 21.
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Earlville
Iowa Buttermakers’ Association
Bankston
Farley
Elmer J. Primus
Haarlem Oil Capsules Advert For Kidney Relief
An advertisement promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a remedy to reduce nightly kidney and bladder disturbances. It claims the product flushes poisons and acids, easing irritation and associated symptoms such as burning, backache, leg cramps, and puffy eyes.
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Haarlem
Illinois Expert To Address East Iowa Farm Association
Illinois farm management expert L Mosher will speak December 7 at Cedar Rapids YMCA for the Cedar Valley Farm Business association meeting. His talk covers why some farms pay better, rewards of good farming, and lessons from 4,000 yearly farm records. The event includes three eastern Iowa farmers leading forums on dairy, beef, and hog production. Carl Anderson of Wellman will present on hog production. L G Allbaugh will discuss individual adjustments for the coming crop year. The session opens at 10 am and is open to all interested in farm management and accounting.
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Mosher
Cedar Valley Group
Cedar Rapids
Marion Farm
Iowa
Carl Anderson
Wellman
L. G. Allbaugh
Ames Extension
Cedar Rapids Y. M C. A
Clinton County
G. R. Bliss
Scott
Ames
Mexico
Studeman
Woodford County
Ilinois
United States
Oats Harvested Near Clarence Mark Historic Cedar County Crop
Arnold Kleppe and his father of Clarence harvested a 19 acre volunteer oats crop on November 17 using a tractor binder. It is Cedar county’s latest oats crop, formed after earlier July plowing due to dry weather. A following rain led to waist high oats, though a freeze halted maturity. The yield averaged about one ton per acre, excellent for hay or roughage.
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Clarence
Arnold Kleppe
Cedar County
Many Iowa livestock enter Chicago show, Iowa State breeders listed
Prize stock bred at Iowa State college farms near Ames prepared for the International Livestock exposition in Chicago December 1st to 8th. The college will again be strongly represented with sheep cattle and hogs selected by the agriculture faculty. Leading breeders from across Iowa will also exhibit in twenty six breeds while hundreds of farm entries join the International Grain and Hay show events. The state’s junior 4 H members contribute ninety baby beeves lambs and pigs from fairs and clubs.
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Ames
INS
Iowa State College
Chicago
Towa
Yowa
OW Hubbell
Des Moines
Hallandale Farm
Muscatine
A. C Meyer and Sons
Bellevue
Elliott Brown
Rose Hill
Wayland Woopiey Farms
Atlantic
Miller and Kemp
Olin
Glyn Mawr Farms
Roger van Evera
Davenport
Foster Brothers
Earlham
Dale R. Williams
Town City
Caputo and Rinner
Washington
Dean C. F. Curliss
Holbert Horse Importing Company
Greeley
E. L. Humbert and Son
Corning and Jarard Horse Company
New Sharon
Spring Colts Bring $30 In Manchester Auction
Cows topped at $31 in the weekly combination auction in Manchester. Ten horses sold, top being an 8 year old gray mare at 3209 pounds for $85. Four suckling colts brought $30 each with Banta Hopkins as auctioneer.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Banta Hopkins
Farmer Recounts Long Hay Market Experience Near Manchester
Peter Whitman of Manchester area recalls 25 years of hay prices and storage. He notes a $6 per ton sale in a abundant year and $24 per ton in a scarce year, with one buyer joking he paid as much as the hay was worth. Whitman also suffered hail damage to his crop last summer.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Peter Whitman
Whitman
Drought Threat Looms Over 1935 Farm Plans
Washington AP reports department officials fear a renewed drought may imperil the agricultural bread basket. No prediction yet, but AAA planners worry as abnormal temperatures and scarce rainfall return across the Midwest and West. Subsoil moisture is low and winter crops could suffer without heavy snowfall.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
AAA
Midwest
West
United States
Ohio Valley
Iowa State Livestock Judging Team Named for Chicago Meet
Iowa State college announced its livestock judging team to represent the school at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago December 1 to 8. Prof. P. S. Shearer disclosed the six members Lindley Finch Kidders Mo Wilburn Latham Alexander Roy Olson Terril John Riggs Sioux City Cecil Rooks Grand Junction Cole and Thomas N Scott Perry.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Chicago
P. S. Shearer
Lindley Finch
Kidder
Wilburn
Latham
Alexander
Roy Olson
Terril
John Riggs
Sioux City
Cecil Rooks
Grand Junction
Cole
Thomas N, Scott
Perry
Corn resistant to chinch bug sought
A report from the Iowa Corn Research Institute at Ames outlines the development of chinch bug resistant corn to guard Iowa and infested areas. J. R. Holbert notes open pollinated and hybrid lines show tolerance, with field tests across Illinois and Iowa showing up to thirty bushels per acre yield differences in infested plots.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa Corn Research Institute
J. R. Holbert
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Bloomington
Holbert
Illinois
Corn
Ilinois
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Cannery Seeks Tomato Contracts At Riverside
Riverside area growers await highway No 22 completion to secure tomato acreage contracts for the next season. In 1925 about 24 farmers earned roughly 8500 for tomatoes shipped to Muscatine at 14 dollars per ton, totaling over 1 125 000 pounds, with 58 rail cars used to move the crop.
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Gazette
Riverside
Muscatine Canning Company
Highway No. 22
Muscatine
Iowa County Test Averages 22 Butterfat
The 297 cows in 19 herds averaged 599 pounds of milk and 22 pounds of butterfat in October, reports tester John Cray. F R Blythe of Williamsburg had the high herd with 1202 pounds of milk and 44.9 pounds of butterfat from 14 Holsteins.
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Marengo
Iowa County Cow Test Association
John Cray
F. R. Blythe
Williamsburg
Fasteeth Advertisement Promises Secure Dentures
Fasteeth powder for upper or lower plates claims to hold false teeth firm and comfortable without sliding or slipping. It supposedly leaves no gummy taste and freshens breath. Available at May Drug Company and any Road drug store.
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May Drug Company
Woman Husks 98 Bushels in Nine Hours for Eastern Iowa Title
Mrs Merl Long set a record by shucking 98 bushels of corn in roughly nine hours on a 48 acre field at Elmer Sawyer farm in eastern Iowa while unloading by elevator. Her husband Mr Long husked 109 bushels the same day. Together they have harvested over 4000 bushels this fall.
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Clarence
Merl Long
Elmer Sawyer
Hay replaces corn harvest on Mc Neill farm field
Hay making occupies a twenty acre oat field four miles south of Hopkinton as oat hay replaces November corn. Seeded oats grew from scatterings after harvest and with moisture and warm spells, a dense hay crop forms. Alfalfa seeded in fall shows good growth and should withstand winter.
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Hopkinton
McNeill Brothers
Murray Reports Farm Values Gain In 1933 Agriculture Figures
Des Moines reports show Town farm product values rising from 273.7 million in 1932 to 389.154 million in 1933, a gain of 115.454 million. Livestock on farms Jan 1 1934 valued at 217.252 million, up 19.537 million. total farm wealth up 134.991 million. Corn led all crops with 500,214,535 bushels valued at 155.066 million. oats valued at 37.14 million.
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Des Moines
State Department of Agriculture
Ray Murray
Murray
Iowa
Public Auction To Sell Farm Stock And Gear Near Anamosa
A public auction will be held on Wednesday November 21 at twelve noon on the farm along Primary Road No 117 ten miles east of Anamosa five miles west of Wyoming. Items listed include horses cattle hogs pullets barley hay and machinery plus household goods. Cash terms unless prior arrangements with the clerk. Lunch on grounds. Roy Ireland owner. Lee Bebee auctioneer. Citizens State Bank clerk.
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Anamosa
Wyoming
Aire
Atlas
Roy
Ireland
Lee Bebee
Citizens State Bank
West Union sale nets average 74 for 35 North Dakota horses
Thirty five head of North Dakota horses, from a drought district and noted by their condition, sold at West Union Saturday afternoon. Prices ranged from 17 dollars for spring costs to 134 dollars for a seven year old mare, with an average of 74 dollars.
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West Union
North Dakota
Cedar county survey notes shifts in feed and livestock numbers
A Cedar county survey reports 105 percent more cows milked than in October 1933, 15 percent more beef cattle on feed, and sharp rises in sheep feeding while brood sows and young pigs decline. Corn and oats crops are projected far below last year, while forage mixes show mixed gains and losses. Total feed production for the season is projected under three quarters of last year.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Ear Worm Damage Is Not Extensive In Jackson County
Maquoketa reports only light ear worm damage as Jackson County farmers finish cribbing corn. F. C. Sears cribbed eighty acres of bottom land, sold about 100 bushels last week, and said ground at the mill showed excellent quality with minimal worm impact. His yield averaged 55 bushels per acre. A load of corn reportedly sold for 85 cents a bushel.
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Maquoketa
Jackson County
F. C. Sears
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Iowa State Livestock Judging
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