Excessive Moisture Deepens Corn Deterioration in Iowa
Iowa weather worsens crop prospects as corn shows further deterioration from excess moisture. Winter wheat and pastures benefit from rainfall. Seed corn germination is abnormally low, with best ears at about 75 percent. Damp conditions hinder husking and field operations amid widespread hog cholera outbreaks in eastern towns.
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ES Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Federal Weather and Crop Observer
Reed
Northwest
North Central
Grangers Oppose reciprocity with Canada trade pact
National Grangers from thirty six states record opposition to reciprocal tariff agreements with Canada. Resolutions target the treaty and tax measures, urging Roosevelt and top officials to consider farm relief steps. Women Grangers Freestone King and Robinson sign on. Other points push for stable money, jobless and old age protection, co operatives, tenant farmer aid.
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Sacramento
Calif
INS
United States
Canada
Roosevelt
Wallace
Hull
Susan W. Freestone
Interlake
N. Y
Maybelle King
Seattle
Margaret Robinson
Delaware
Grange
Netherlands
Long Grange
Five Thousand Seven Hundred fifty Corn Hog Checks Received
Special to The Gazette Toledo Tama county corn hog office reports seventy two checks for Group 4 contracts totaling 5750.70 received Monday by R C McElhinney chairman of the Tama county corn hog allotment committee. Notices have been sent to farmers with arriving checks and payments will be issued from the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
R. C. McElhinney
Tama County
Corn Hog Checks Distributed in Grundy and Buchanan Counties
Twenty five Group 3 corn hog payments totaling 2439.05 and seventy eight Group 4 payments totaling 4856.55 were received at Grundy county allotment HQs for distribution. Independence reports 116 first-installment checks totaling 4556.70 for 1935 reductions in Buchanan county, with county total to date at 178877.35.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grundy Center
Grundy County
Independence
Buchanan
Thieves Take Fifty Four Lambs From Iowa Farm
AP reports fifty four lambs weighing about ninety pounds each were stolen Tuesday night from the John Ewoldt farm near Green Mountain. Tracks indicate the thieves used a dual wheeled truck and fled south from the scene.
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Marshalltown
John Ewoldt
Green Mountain
Jones 4-H Clubs To Hold Annual Party At Olin Saturday
Jones county 4-H clubs plan their annual party at Olin on Saturday evening. Members receiving project honors will be recognized with awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones 4-H
Olin
Gazette
Wyoming
Jones County
Wilton Junction
Muscatine County
Muscatine
Gladys Watham
Fayette 4-H Party Draws 500 plus Attendees In Maynard
More than 500 people attended the annual boys and girls 4-H club party at the U S A gymnasium. Elections named Paul Harrison of Maynard president Ronald Grafenberg of West Union vice president Gene Brownell of Maynard secretary and Grover Miehe of Maynard treasurer.
Boys 12 and 13 Set Corn Husking Record Near Reinbeck
On William Harman’s farm north of Dysart, brothers Leonard 13 and Howard 12 husked 130 bushels of corn in eight hours. The Reinbeck students report corn yields of about fifty bushels per acre.
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Reinbeck
William Haman
Dysart
Leonard
Howard
Reinbeck School
Harman
Egg production at 10 year high marks record month
The USDA crop reporting board notes that November egg production per 100 hens and pullets set a ten year high due to good care and mild October weather. Farm flock numbers rose 2 percent from 1934, with regional gains led by the north Atlantic and far west, while prices remained above 1929 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Board
West Central
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Far Western
United States
East North Central
West North Central
South Central
Pacific Coast
Central Western
Central West
Central Western States
Farmer Henry Kruse to Exhibit Hampshire Hogs in Chicago
Henry Kruse, a farmer from six miles southwest of Wyoming, will show a carload of Hampshire hogs in the swine division at the International Live-Stock exposition in Chicago next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Wyoming
Henry Kruse
Chicago
Co operative Buying Gains Favor With Farmers
A Farm Credit Administration bulletin reports that 250 million dollars of the 2 billion dollar annual farm supply market is now purchased cooperatively. It notes growth over seventy years, with regional associations in nearly every region and thousands of smaller groups, and explains organization, policy, and financing. Copies available from the Office of Information in Washington D C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co-Operative Division
Farm Credit Administration
Bulletin
United States
Office of Information
Washington, D. C
Seven New H D A S Appointed For Iowa Home Aid
The Gazette reports the appointment of seven home demonstration agents to work with farm women in thirteen Iowa counties. The hires, graduates of Iowa State College, advance office in twelve counties and replace prior staff as of January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa
Sarah Porter Ellis
Jeader
Iowa State College
State Board of Education
Hog Prices Reported in Grundy Center Sale
Harold Downey of Grundy county sold a load of 198 pound hogs on the Chicago market Monday for 9.70 dollars per hundredweight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grundy Center
Harold Downey
Grundy County
Chicago
Farm Auction Schedule For November Across Iowa
A sequence of farm auctions is listed with dates November 21 through November 25. Stiller's consignment sale near Springville on the 21st, A. B. Young closing out sale near Anamosa on the 22nd, Town Livestock Exchange at Cedar Rapids, E. E. Wood acreage sale in Cedar Rapids, Aberdeen Angus sale by Wm. Hansen at Dixon, and Howard E. Hurt closing out sale near Walker on the 25th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Young
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
St, SE
Wm. Hansen
Dixon
Howard E. Hurt
Walker
Davenport Man Named to I S C Extension Dairy Staff
Arthur Porter of Davenport, superintendent of Iowana Farms with a famed Holstein herd, is named to the Iowa State College dairy husbandry extension staff. He will report December 1, succeeds Earl N. Schultz, and brings ties to Scott County Cow Testing and Holstein associations. Porter is ISU graduate of 1931 and formerly a cow tester.
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Ames
Arthur Porter
Iowana Farms
Davenport
Iowa State College
Floyd Johnston
Porter
Iowa State, College
Earl N. Shultz
Scott County
Waterloo
St. Louis
Chicago
Fayette Agricultural Society Re-Elects All Officers For 1936
WEST UNION The Fayette County Agricultural Society in annual meeting Tuesday unanimously re-elected all outgoing officers. J. C. Probert was named president with L L Bloomfield as vice president Ed Bauder as secretary W M Knox as treasurer and directors Grant Lauer Carl M Palmer H A Kent L D Hitch. Holdover directors are Max Saltsgiver H R Humphry W S Rothlisberger and J W Wilbur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Union
Fayette County” Agricultural’ Society
J. C. Probert
L.L. Bloomfield
Ed Bauder
W. M. Knox
Grant Lauer
Carl M. Palmer
H. A. Kent
L. D. Hitch
Max Saltsgiver
H. R.humphry
W. S. Rothlisberger
J. W. Wilbur
Farm stock and machinery sale listing by Hart McCalley Remer
Howard E. Hart M J McCalley R T Remer Auctioneers offer 5 head work horses 9 year old horse 1600 lb cattle including 2 white faced cows and a Jersey cow plus 27 cattle and extensive farm machinery like a hay loader rake disc mower plows and a cream separator. Also brooders incubators stoves and other items in a large estate sale. Auctioneers note live inventory details and weights for selection.
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Rhode Island
Jersey
Rock Island
McCormick
Hayes
Wisconsin
Family Pride
Howard E. Hart
M. J. McCalley
R. T. Remer
Iowa Horticulture Groups Meet at Ames
More than 350 Iowans from multiple horticulture groups gather at Iowa State College for the seventieth annual Iowa State Horticulture Society meeting and seven affiliated societies. Out of state speakers include Dr. A S Colby Dr A F Yeager Prof H B Dorner and Edward Auten Jr addressing fruit and vegetable growers florists and garden clubs conferences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa State College
Iowa State Horticulture Society
A. S. Colby
University of Ilinois
A. F. Yeager
North Dakota Agricultural College
H. B. Dorner
University of Illinois
Edward Auten
Princeville
Colby
Fruit and Vegetable Growers
Yeager
Iowa State Vegetable Growers’ Association
Professor Dorner
Florists
Auten
Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa
Montana Horses Sell At Auction For 4785 Dollars
Independence bidders from eastern Iowa and one team from Illinois purchased eighty five Montana horses for a total of 4785 dollars. Three two year old colts brought 150 dollars each. Fifty three head averaged 69 dollars. John Heffernan of Masonville led the sale.
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Independence
Montana
Iowa
Illinois
John Heffernan
Masonville
Hog Shipment Sells at Chicago Market Top Price
Charles Gehrls of Cedar County sold fifty purebred Hampshire hogs averaging 250 pounds on the Chicago market for 9.60 per hundredweight. The sale set the extreme top price for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gay Tipton
Charles Gehrls
Cedar County
Hampshire
Chicago
Market Report: Steers Sold at Chicago Market
The Gazette notes William Mommsen Ewitt sold forty steers averaging 1,170 pounds in Clinton County. They brought $12.50 per hundredweight at the Chicago market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewitt
William Mommsen
Clinton County
Chicago
Farm Bureau Plans National Convention At Chicago
Officials of the American Farm Bureau Federation announced details for the annual convention a three day session opening Dec 9 with President Roosevelt address. The event at the international amphitheater Union Stockyards begins at 10 o clock with Wallace presented after the address and 25,000 farm leaders to hear Edward A O Neal federation president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Roosevelt
International Amphitheater
Union
Ariculture
Wallace
Federation
Edward A. O'Neal
Shingling Bee Held On Farm Near Edgewood
Seventeen members of Knights of Pythias lodge No 358 and friends of D E Rhines gathered at the Rhines farm for a shingling bee Monday. About half of the 32 by 60 foot new barn was shingled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgewood
Knights of Pythias Lodge No
D. E. Rhines
Rhines Farm
Marengo Feeder Tops Chicago Market With Steer Lot
Herman Heitman of Marengo Iowa sold twenty steers averaging 1219 pounds for 13.50 per hundredweight in Chicago bidding. His brother Clark sent a load averaging 1353 pounds bringing 1.25 per hundredweight.
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The
Gazette
Marengo
Herman Heitman
Iowa County
Chicago
Clark
House at Auction Mrs Emil Smahel Residence
Mrs Emil Smahel residence to be sold at auction on Wednesday November 27 1935 at 2 pm located on Memorial drive one block south of Bever Park No 506. Nine rooms bath pantry full basement electric lights water well 14 acres orchard and plow land out buildings in good repair. Household goods sale November 30 1935 at 1 pm at Memorial drive one block south of Bever Park No 506. Terms stated at sale. A T Benn auctioneer Cedar Rapids Route 4 Ph 3 2252 United State Bank clerk Mrs Emil Smahel Owner.
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Emil Smahel
Memorial Drive
Bever Park No. 506
Bever Park
A. T. Benn
Cedar Rapids
United State Bank
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DiLeRim
Great Britain
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Feg Murray
Bette Davis
Stiller
Springville
I. S. C. Extension
Fayette Agricultural Society
Center Point
Alice
Troy Mills
Iowa Livestock Exchange
12Th St
12Th Ave. SW
Jack Clements
Tony Schmitz
Aberdeen
Angus Sale
Dixon, Iowa
Elba Ericas
Miss Burgess
Eileenmere
Edmore M
William Hansen
E. T. Davis
Cooper & Halsey
A. Son
Ls Street
Farm Bureau
the Big Shoe Store
Second Avenue
Buckle
Oxfords
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