Record Soybean Market Movement Surges During 1939 Harvest
By Oct 31 nearly 70 percent of the 1939 crop had been sold by growers, higher than last year and the five year average. Movement was fastest in central Aliosis with about 78 percent sold, while some southern states saw only 5 to 10 percent moved. October exports and mills purchases set records and prices to growers varied by variety and region.
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Ashington
D. C
Agricultural Marketing Service
Central
Aliosis
Harvest Sunday Observed at Fayette County Home
The eleventh annual Harvest Sunday will be observed at the Fayette county home on November 26. Two minute talks will spell out the first eleven letters of Thanksgiving, with local officials, educators, and residents delivering brief vignettes on themes from thoughtfulness to needs.
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West Union
Fayette County
L. M. Thornberry
James Ferrer
Paul E. McElroy
Fred Gremmels
Oelwein
County Board of Supervisors
W. H Mitchell
Fayette County Women's Chorus
W. T. Smith
Upper Iowa University
W.S. Rothlisberger
Fayette County Farm Bureau
Benton County Fair Set for August 6 to 8 in 1940
VINTON The Benton county fair board fixed August 6 to 8 for the 1940 fair and reappointed W J Bill Campbell of Jesup as secretary. The board also voted to revert to the open class livestock exhibits. Members include Henry Miller Newhall Roy Cameron Chris Kinsel Matt Birker Ivan Trottnow Howard Miller Vinton Sam Tow Norway Louis Keep Belle Plaine and Herman Franzenburg Keystone.
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Vinton
Benton County Fair
Whittier memorial marks two decades of community hall
Twenty years ago Whittier dedicated its community hall and in a Friday gathering they recalled that effort. The crowd reflected on the hall as a shared meeting place that helps keep residents connected and uplifted through fellowship and local ties.
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Whittier
Corn Loan Money Available in December for 1939 Program
The Commodity Credit Corporation moved to make money available for the 1939 corn loan program by December 1. Farmers in the commercial corn belt can get 57 cents a bushel if they stay within AAA acreage allotments, with outside belt loans at 43 cents. Eligibility depends on participating in the AAA program.
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Washington (Lp
Commodity Credit Corporation
Henry A. Wallace
Iowa county fairs receive state aid this year
Des Moines reports eighty five fairs and agricultural shows drew state aid under a 1939 appropriation of 140000 dollars yearly. Most grants were around 1903.20 dollars, with a few smaller amounts including 1486.07 and 1659.80 dollars.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State Fair Board
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
North Iowa
Mason City
Clay County
Spencer
Burlington
Donnellson
Cedar Rapids
Central City
Marshalltown
West Liberty
Avoca
Davenport
Wapello
Eldon
Webster County
Fort Dodge
Woodbury
MoVille
West Liberty Night School Topics Split by Division
The women's division discussed Canned Goods under Miss Alverda James. The men's division covered Buying Commercial Feeds led by Frederic Maltas.
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West Liberty
Alverda James
Frederic Maltas
Agronomy Society Officers Named at New Orleans
Dr F J Alway of Minnesota automatic move to president of the American Society for Agronomy. Dr W OH Pierre of Iowa State College becomes Soil Science Society of America president. C E Kellogg named secretary of the Soil Science Society.
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New Orleans
F J Alway
University of Minnesota
American Society For Agronomy
W OH Pierre
Iowa State College
Soil Science Society of America
C. E. Kellogg
Bureau of Plant Industry
Butter Production Tops 1.4 Billion Pounds in Nine Months
The American Butter Institute reports 1 406 408 000 pounds of butter produced in the first nine months of 1939, 7 percent above the 1930 37 eight year average but below the 1938 nine month record. Dr N W Hepburn notes dairy cash income far outstrips grains and cotton, with 1938 milk production at 336 billion pounds and butter nearly matching all other dairy products combined.
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Chicago
American Butter Institute
Institute
N W. Hepburn
Twenty-five Iowa Boys Named Delegates to 4-H Congress
Frank Reed announces 25 Iowa 4-H club boys as official delegates to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago on Dec 28. The group includes state champions in livestock, poultry, crops, and health, plus district fair and champion club winners from Hedrick Newhall Norway Boone Gladbrook Toledo Martello Pulaski Story City Ames Audubon Eldridge Osage and others. A railroad trip is awarded to Robert Wellman as Lee county champion.
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Ames
Chicago
Frank Reed
Willis Arendt
Glenn Bakehouse
Hedrick
Herbert Olson
Lyle Olson
Newhall
William Burlton
Norway
Walter Hermann
Gladbrook
Esther Lorenz
Lincoln
Ernest Zmolek
Toledo
Edwin Brown
Gail Brown
Ivan Nelson
Lloyd Bates
Boone
Dean Newman
Martello
Clifford Bell
Pulaski
Elmer Fritzel
Wellsburg
Dixon Harper
Story City
Robert Howerter
Woolstock
Allan Bently
William Boust, Jr
Audubon
Vernon Kuehl
Chorus Festival Planned At Ames
Rural chorus groups from Ames will compete February 15 during Farm and Home week. Eligible registrants must include at least 12 members with 40 percent farm roots and no more than 60 percent of one sex. Tolbert MacRae will direct the festival with five choruses in a matinee and ensemble performance.
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Ames
W. H. Stacy
Extension Rural Sociologist
Stacy
Tolbert MacRae
Ames Music Department
Grange backs emergency payments and farm policies
The National Grange approved compensatory emergency payments for farmers and urged Congress to discuss the industrial mobilization plan. It backed an honest dollar, permanent and temporary farm programs, and urged conservation, cooperative marketing, and fair administration of extension services. The group urged railroad liberalization and railroad consolidation where not harmful, and called for agriculture to receive defense plan representation.
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Peoria
National Grange
Grange
Congress
The
Legislation Committee
Walter F Kirk
Ohio
Butterfat Price Set At 32 Cents For October
Maynard Cooperative Creamery paid patrons 32 cents per pound for October butterfat according to Secretary C. H. Paul.
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Maynard
Maynard Cooperative Creamery Company
C. H. Paul
A Country Woman Seeks Answers On Hog Prices
SOUL CONSERVATION Every day they have gone down, down, down. With dials tuned to get the market report, farmers wonder when and where the break will come if 4 hogs are in line if the price will climb after the New Year and if there is a possibility of curtailment of production. The farmer doesn't know the answer.
Hog Cholera Case Settled At Keota Damages Awarded
Harold Palmer, a farmer near Keota, was awarded 266.86 in a district court suit against G A Hess for hog cholera losses after two sons pigs contracted disease following a Trier Sales Co community sale. The jury heard five hours of testimony and awarded 10 for the harm of introducing cholera to the farm, plus 162.86 for feeder pig losses.
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the Gazette
Washington
Harold Palmer
Keota
G. A. Hess
Trier Sales Company
Palmer
P J. Sieger
E. F. Mick
Foreman
John Ganon
D. B. Twinam
Rachel Wilcox
Louella Dayton
Guy Hesseltine
Hubert Redlinger
Leonard Horak
Frances Slosser
William Beggs
Nina Stuisman
J. W. Rich
Jones Dairymen To Hear Floyd Johnson Dec 21
Anamosa Floyd Johnson Ames extension dairyman will address the Jones County dairymen on December 21 at an as yet unscheduled location. He will discuss dairy feeding and management problems.
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Anamosa
Floyd Johnson
Ames Extension Dairyman
Jones County
Maquoketa Valley REA Expands Rural Electric Service
Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric lines now serve 1 285 farmers with a total expected reach of 1 400 by year’s start. Edgar Beach reports a Ryan substation completed Oct 19 adds power, with supply from Maquoketa municipal plant and Iowa Light and Power of Cedar Rapids.
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Anamosa
Maquoketa Valley
Maquoketa
Iowa Light and Power Company
Cedar Rapids
205 Gov't Bins In Tama County Hold 400000 Bushels
Toledo reports the completion of 205 corn storage bins in Tama county owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation and built by local elevators. The bins hold about 400000 bushels with another 8000 stored in elevators, about 30 percent of Tama’s sealed corn. The Toledo and Garwin sites have the county’s largest bin totals.
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Toledo
Tama County
Commodity Credit Corporation
Garwin
Hamilton To Speak At Linn Farm Bureau Annual Meeting
W R Hamilton secretary of the Iowa Farm Bureau will keynote the Linn county Farm Bureau twenty fourth annual meeting on December 18 at 10 am in Marion A noon dinner follows. The arrangements committee includes A R Pearson F L Fuhrmeister Elmer Moore and Elmer F Burr with HM A W Koch chairing the resolutions panel and officers nominating Roscoe Blinks Arlo Stinger H C Conan H C Henderson and Henry Hood among others.
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W. R Hamilton
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Linn County Farm Bureau
Marion
A. R Pearson
Springville
Pearson
F. L. Fuhrmeister
Ely
Elmer Moore
Alburnett
Elmer F. Burr
Walker
HM. A. W. Koch
Central City
Ben Neal
Mount Vernon
L. C. Adams
Paul Powell
Elmer Burr
Roscoe Blinks
Arlo Stinger
H. C. Conan
Cedar Rapids
H. C. Henderson
Bentrad City
Henry Hood
221 Iowa County acres sold near North English
The Columbus Stong farm of 221 acres northeast of North English was bought by Gene Holden for 11 000 dollars, 49.86 per acre, tenanted by Grant Wetherer for 17 years. Purchase from the Iowa Methodist conference. Possession set for March 1, 1940. In Jesup, Kies estate settlements saw Roy Allen pay 1 800 dollars for a 40 acre tract and Matt Kies acquire the post office and theater building for 2 800 dollars while Mrs. Ernest Nemmer took two southeast Jesup houses for 2 500 dollars.
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North English
Gene Holden
Columbus Stong
Grant Wetherer
Iowa Methodist Conference
Jesup
Frank Kies
Cedar Crest
Roy Allen
Matt Kies
Ernest Nemmer
Plan for North English Creamery Expansion
The Amana Society has been contracted to add a 24 by 68 foot wing to the English Valley Co operative creamery in North English. The addition will provide storage for three carloads of butter and house offices, a cooler, and the receiving room on the north side. The old building will be remodeled, made as fireproof as possible, and brick exterior refinished to match the new structure.
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Gervette
Amana Society
English Valley Cooperative Creamery
4 H Clubs In Fayette To Hold Annual Party
L. A. Kiel of Fayette announces the county 4 H club party set for December 2. About 400 members leaders and parents are expected to attend with group games a stage show and a county champions recognition program. County 4 H boys club officers for 1940 will be elected and installed.
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Fayette
L. A. Kiel
Heavy Hog Run Triggers Price Decline Across Interior Markets
A four day interior hog run in Iowa and southern Minnesota totaling 179 800 head saw receipts drop about 9 300 from Thursday while the five day total reached 215 800, far above last week and year earlier. Prices fell 5 to 25 cents for butchers with premiums around 220 pounds, and overall market lows marked five year lows as buyers limit weights to 180 240 pounds.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Chicago
Farm Auctions Schedule For Late November
Coming farm auctions list events from Anamosa and Mt. Vernon area farms. J P Galleger and Pauline Gardner sales are noted with locations in Mahon and Springville indicating multiple closing out auctions this week.
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Anamosa Livestock
Executor
J. M. Bartosh Farm
Mt. Vernon
Navy
J. P. Galleger
S. Mahon
City Sales Co
Pauline Gardner
W. Springville
Alfalfa Hay Brings 8.50 A Ton At Elgin Farm Sale
At the Harry Frieden closing out sale southeast of Elgin on Tuesday, hay topped at 8.50 per ton. Corn moved 41 to 42 cents a bushel, oats 37 to 40 cents, cows to 72 dollars, young stock 24 to 28.50, ewes 8 to 8.75, a 4 year old mare 90, other horses 68 to 78. Chester White bred gilts 17.75. White Giant pullets 70 cents.
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Gazette
Elgin
Harry Frieden
Chester White
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