Trade outlook for Iowa farmers under British pact discussed
Iowa dairy and agricultural expert T W Schultz says the Britain trade agreement may raise demand and lower prices for English goods, but gains will be slow due to pork shortages. He notes Europe’s restrictions and Japan, with Germany expanding central Europe, may offset gains as foreign trade remains weak.
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Ames Economics
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Iowa
Wade
Great Britain
United States
Fence Drift in the Woven Wire Poem
A short verse praising providence and daily comforts. The poem thanks the Lord for cows and bees producing milk and honey, Uncle Sam providing money, sunny weather, and a sense of humor, home, and family in a hopeful tone.
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Uncle Sam
Goshen
Farmers' Business Ass'n To Meet At Davenport
The Mississippi Valley Farm Business association gathers 163 members from Scott Clinton Muscatine Cedar Louisa Johnson and Washington counties for its fourth annual meeting in Davenport on December 3. Speakers include Feldman Brothers Kalona George Pond LG Allbaugh Miss Nickell Arnold Anderson and L K Macy with talks on hog marketing human factors and farm management.
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Scott Clinton
Muscatine
Cedar
Louisa
Johnson
Washington
Mississippi Valley Farm Business Association
H. Bowell
Fieldman
Feldman Brothers
Kalona
George Pond
University of Minnesota
LG. Allbaugh
Ames
Paulina Nickell
C Arnold Anderson
L K. Macy
Pond
Allbaugh
Macy
Anderson
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Grange Calls for Farm Import Controls at Portland Meeting
The National Grange urged strict enforcement of a wartime embargo and defense of U S farm markets. A convention resolution backed American markets for American farmers at living standards, demanding Senate ratification of trade deals before they take effect and opposing farm commodity imports that raise unemployment or idle acreage or undercut production costs.
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Bucks County soil group distributes funds to farmers
Independence reports total checks of 77,738.73 were received at the Buchanan county soil conservation association this week for distribution to 560 farmers who complied with the 1938 program. Leonard Brame, treasurer, reported Tuesday.
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Buchanan County Soil Conservation Association
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Delaware Auction Totals At $2700 Across Livestock Sale
The Ed Harris farm auction near Delaware realized 2700 dollars with fifteen cows averaging 42 dollars and yearling heifers at 30 dollars. Horses brought 40, broad sows 16, feeder pigs 12, heavy hens 60 cents, Leghorns 39 cents, geese 160, ducks 80 cents, hay and grain prices noted, farm ownership changes announced.
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Ed Harris
Harris
Fred Sangeling
Dubuque
Charles Brown
George Yelden
Auction at Mrs D E Cherry Farm Near Washington
Ten tons of clover and timothy hay sold at SG a ton. Straw brought 22 to 24 cents a bale and oats 25 12 cents a bushel. Milk cows brought 35 to 55 dollars, heifers 20 to 40, bull calf 25. Three work horses sold for 20. Broad sows 10 to 13 50. Chickens 60 to 80 cents each. Paul Klotz of Columbus Junction and William Bruty of Washington supervised the sale.
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D .E. Cherry
Washington
Paul Klotz
William Bruty
Survey shows Iowa leads in grain co op memberships
Special to The Gazette Omaha report shows Iowa farmers use cooperative elevators most, with 100,663 co op patrons in 1936 and 289 elevators handling $38.412 million in annual business supervised by Farm Credit administration. Illinois is second with 84,392 patrons.
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Allamakee and Monticello Cow Tests Report October Yields
Allamakee County Cow Test Association reports 492 cows on test averaged 496 pounds of milk and 21 butterfat in October. Top group was George Goeke herd with 1 179 pounds milk and 40.8 butterfat. Hagen’s Holstein led individuals with 2207 pounds milk and 68.2 butterfat. Monticello North Jones Cow Test had 411 cows on test averaging 476 pounds milk and 19.7 butterfat. Walter Muller herd led with 33.7 pounds butterfat per group and a top individual Holstein at 76.3 butterfat.
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Waurkon
Allamakee County
Howard Gordon
George Goeke
C. H. Hagen
Monticello
North Jones Cow Test Association
Dale Mayberry
Walter Muller
Shomont Carry
Sewing Machines To Be Overhauled In Jones
“Reconditioning the Sewing Machine” is the second lesson for Jones county home project women. Miss Elizabeth Peterson of Ames Training schools leads sessions next week with Mrs. Bal siger at Monticello, the court house at Anamosa on Dec 1 with Mrs. Sievers of Wyoming, and Dec 2 with Mrs. Russell of Anamosa.
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Jones County
Elizabeth Peterson
Ames Training Schools
William Balsiger
Monticello
Court House
Peter Sievers
Wyoming
Harlan Russell
Neighbors Help George Berger Haul Corn Before Hospital Visit
Nineteen neighbors husked corn for George Berger near West Branch on Tuesday morning then he left for Iowa City for an operation on Wednesday. Berger had recently fallen from a horse and broken his leg and had not yet recovered.
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the Gazette
West Branch
George Berger
Iowa City
Berger
Home Project Group Forms In Honey Creek Township
Edgewood A home project group organized in Honey Creek township Delaware county with Mrs Henry Fisher as chairman Miss Dorothy Gates home demonstration agent presented a lesson on canning methods and frozen foods at the meeting.
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Honey Creek Township
Delaware County
Henry Fisher
Dorothy Gates
Hopper Threat To Iowa Crops Half As Great As Year Ago
In Omaha the grasshopper threat to Iowa crops in 1939 is reported as half the 1938 level. Iowa may need 12,480 tons of poison bait in 1939 versus 21,052 tons in 1938, for 18 states totaling 206,242 tons planned in 1939 against 178,411 in 1938.
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Omaha
Illinois
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Missouri
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South Dakota
318 000 Bushels Of Corn Resealed In Tama At 57 Cents
Tama county reports complete liquidation of the 1937 corn loans. Robert Lyon says all 580 loans closed with corn delivered or re sealed at the new 57 cent rate. 318 000 bushels were re sealed. 108 000 shell corn and 210 000 ear corn.
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Tama
Toledo
Robert Lyon
Tama County
Ames Livestock and Meat Judging Teams Named
AMES J C Holbert coach of the livestock judging team and Fred J Beard coach of the meats team announced the members who will represent Iowa State College at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. Livestock team members are Kenneth Hyde Shell Rock Beryl Keen Marshalltown Henry Kling Kellogg Paul McNutt Sheldon Don Rinner Mount Pleasant Jacob Stimson Clarinda and Dale Williams Iowa City. Meats judges are Robert Grummer Luzerne Phillip Poland Winterset Buford McClurg Scranton and George Byrne Moorland. The livestock team departs for Chicago Wednesday to compete Saturday while the meats squad leaves Sunday to compete.
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J. C. Holbert
Fred J. Beard
Iowa State College
Chicago
Kenneth Hyde
Shell Rock
Beryl Keen
Marshalltown
Henry Kling
Kellogg
Paul McNutt
Sheldon
Don Rinner
Mount Pleasant
Jacob Stimson
Clarinda
Dale Williams
Iowa City
Robert Grummer
Luzerne
Phillip Poland
Winterset
Buford McClurg
Scranton
George Byrne
Moorland
Farm Auction Schedule Includes Multiple Iowa Closings
Coming sales list shows Bev erly livestock auction on Thursday November 24 and In. Live stock exchange in Cedar Rapids on Friday November 25. Dan Joslin closing out 312 miles NW Morley on Tuesday November 29. F. D. Stoddard closing out December 1 eight miles NW Anamosa.
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Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Dan Joslin
Morley
F. D. Stoddard
Anamosa
28 Fields Exceed 100 Bushels Corn To Acre At Ackley
ACKLEY AP Yields of more than 100 bushels of dry corn per acre are common locally. Twenty eight fields topped 100 bushels in the four county fair yield contest announced Tuesday night. Tester Jansonius, 26, near Ackley, led with 115.42 bushels per acre, followed by J N Martin of New Providence at 115 bushels.
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Corn Husking Nears End In Blairstown Community
Corn husking in Blairstown will be practically finished this week. All mechanical picker jobs are done and a few farmers used machines to speed hand picking. The corn has dried well and some new crop has been shelled and sold to make crib room. Fall plowing is finished and farm work is ahead of schedule due to favorable weather.
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the Gazette
Blairstown
Bulletin outlines preventing shipping fever in cattle
Eastern Iowa Veterinary association released a bulletin with preventive steps for shipping fever. Advice includes light feeding on arrival, early segregation of home-raised and shipped cattle, good ventilation, frequent water-tank cleaning, and baking soda in drinking water. The notice notes recent hog cholera outbreaks in Cascade Sumner Oelwein Dyersville Bankston Prairie Dubuque Oxford Kalona Richland Washington Iowa City West Union Shellsburg Waterloo Preston and Hudson.
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Nebraskan Elected President of Polled Hereford Breeders
Frank L. Robinson of Kearney Nebraska was elected president Wednesday at the American Polled Hereford Breeders Association meeting in Des Moines Iowa.
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Frank L Robinson
Kearney
Neb
Reed Reports Corn Harvest Near End
Reed reports corn harvest near end in Iowa with hand husking mostly finished and machines wrapping up. He notes vast piles of corn in cribs or on the ground, extensive plowing, and good overall conditions aside from a late cold snap. average weekly temperature 39.7 degrees, 5.3 above normal.
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INS
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Reed
Harrison
Rowley Creamery Pays 28c For Top Butterfat
Rowley Farmers Cooperative creamery paid 28 cents per pound for No 1 butterfat in late October, with No 2 at 27 cents and No 3 at 26 cents Secretary Joe McGrath noted prices remained steady in the first half of the prior month.
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Rowley
Rowley Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Joe McGrath
Washington Poultry Show Set for December 7 to 10
The Washington county poultry breeders show will run December 7 through 10 with Oscar Grow of Atlanta Missouri as judge and Gerald Duncan of Washington as superintendent. Closing entry date is December 5, announced secretary Fred S Downing.
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the Gazette
Washington
Washington County Poultry Breeders
Fred S. Downing
Oscar Grow
Atlanta
Gerald Duncan
Closing Out Sale At Dan Joslin Farm Near Anamosa
Auction listing at the Dan Joslin Farm 51 miles south of Anamosa and 1 percent west, 314 miles northwest of Morley, Iowa. Tuesday Nov 29 at 12 noon with 5 head horses 23 cattle 60 hogs full line machinery including an F-30 tractor 10 ft disk a 3 bottom plow and other implements. Also house goods. Terms to be announced day of sale. Lunch on grounds.
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Morley
Iowa
Dan Joslin
McCormick-Deering
Lee Bebce
Citizens Savings Bank
Thanksgiving reflections on harvest and freedom
A countrywoman muses on Thanksgiving focusing not on economic laws but on gratitude for fall weather, a bountiful harvest, health, ability to work, and the blessings of a free press, speech, schools, church, and community. She contrasts forefathers’ thanks with modern concerns about supply and demand.
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Iowa
Haulers Get $1.35 To $2.50 A Cwt Butterfat
Waukon Farmers Creamery set cream routes at varied rates to individual haulers led by Clarence Schwartzhoff at 2.50 and Albert Hansmeier, a 20 year veteran, rehired as buttermaker.
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Waukon Farmers Creamery Company
H. Wurtzel
D. J. Ryan
Teddy Rumph
Theodore Rumph
Francis Zoll
George Beisker
Clarence Schwartzhoff
Clarence Hanson
Selmer Moe
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Austin Moon
Albert Hansmeier
Webster farmer threshes 100 bushels popcorn and 80 cane seed
Roy Sorden of Webster, on Ora Herry farm, harvested 100 bushels of popcorn and 80 bushels of cane seed last weekend ending his threshing season.
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Webster
Roy Sorden
Ora Herry
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