Record Hog Market Weekend Direct Sales Break Marks
Iowa and southern Minnesota markets processed 92 200 direct hogs over the weekend across 25 buying stations and seven packing plants. The total surpassed all previous Monday totals this year and last year, with Chicago listing 45 000 hogs that Monday and 25 000 direct hogs. Traders blamed the shift on the central marketing system’s weaknesses as hogs moved direct to slaughter, driven by high home bids and a late week spark from packers short of hogs. Farmers and packers weighed the factors behind the surge as feeders rushed to market while prices allowed.
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D* Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Chicago
Coming Farm Auctions Prompt Mixed Hog Market Shifts
Mildred E. Tomash executrix schedules a closing out sale eight miles west of North Liberty with a West Branch consignment sale. The piece analyzes a market trend toward direct sales bypassing terminal marketing as hogs sell at three dollars or less, with feeders and shippers moving hogs directly to avoid rising terminal charges.
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North Liberty
Mildred E. Tomash
Executrix
West Branch
4 H Congress Attended by Meier Girls of Fayette County
Florence and Hazel Meier of Farmersburg Fayette County travel to Chicago for the National 4 H club congress. Florence, in club work six years, won the five year record book contest and the girls will demonstrate the county championship presentation granted by Ames extension agent Mrs Josephine Arnquist Bakke.
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Monona
Florence
Hazel Meier
Fayette County
Farmersburg
Chicago
Josephine Arnquist Bakke
Ames Extension Service
Dairy cow numbers rise four percent in year
Special to The Gazette Chicago Dairy producers report a near four percent rise in dairy cows over the past year as culling remains insufficient. O E Reed of the U S Department of Agriculture notes higher herd counts balance reduced grain feeding and a dip in average output.
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Chicago
O. E. Reed
Bureau of Dairy Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers
Reed
America
United States
Arizona Man To Speak At Farm Bureau Meetings
Brooklyn farmer Brown of Arizona will be principal speaker December 8 at the Poweshick county Farm Bureau annual meeting in Grinnell. The Jasper county quartet will also perform on the program.
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Arizona
Farm Bureau
Brooklyn
Farmer Brown
Federal Farm Board
Poweshick County Farm Bureau
Grinnell
W. A. Geiger
Jasper County
Farmer Brown to speak at Washington County Farm Bureau meet
Federal Farm Board official Farmer Brown will be the principal speaker at the Washington county Farm Bureau annual meeting in Washington Iowa on December 17. County Agent Harold J. Montgomery announces the event.
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Washington
Farmer Brown
The
Federal Farm Board
Washington County Farm Bureau
Harold J. Montgomery
Walters and Schmidt Duel in Cornfield Husking Match
Raymond Walters defeated Paul Schmidt in a friendly husking contest on the Andy Hasley farm. Walters husked 2 465 pounds of corn in eighty minutes, Schmidt 2 340 pounds, with Walters winning by 125 pounds net and a 60 40 spectator split. The yield was about forty bushels per acre.
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Gazette
Watkins
Raymond Walters
Paul Schmidt
Andy Hasley
Watkins Grain Company
Walters
Schmidt
Northeast Iowa shippers push to lower Chicago stockyard costs
About 150 men from Fay ette Clayton Allamakee and Winnesiek counties met in Postville to demand reduced marketing charges at the Union stockyards in Chicago. A committee was formed to draft a resolution to present to the Stockyards company and Packers Stockyards Administration. D. L. Swanson noted a January hearing on commission charges will limit action now.
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Postville
Fayette
Clayton
Allamakee
Winneshiek
Union
Chicago
C. O. Bidne
Decorah
A. Stetter
Arlington, Co
C. Sanders
H. H. Dittmer
Garnaville
Donnan Farmers Suffer Livestock Losses By Dogs
Marauding dogs cause heavy losses in Donnan area. Mrs Bowen reports 97 turkeys killed and 17 injured in one night. Crowe notes the loss of a yearling heifer and Clough reports three sheep killed with several more injured last week. Farmers guard livestock and await capture, without success.
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Donnan
Bowen
Crowe
M. H. Clough
Soy Beans Yield Well In Vicinity Of Donnan
Donnan area farmers thresh soy beans with good quality yields around twenty five bushels per acre. Threshing charged at six cents per bushel.
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Donnan
Tama Poweshiek Cow Test meeting at Madison School
Tama Poweshiek Cow Test association members meet at Madison school No. 9 on Thursday to hear Floyd Johnston Ames extension dairyman discuss dairy management. Burdette F. Abel Grinnell speaks on benefits of cow test work with musical numbers by Evelyn and Irene Lang Brookyn.
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Brooklyn
Tama-Poweshiek Cow Test Association
Madison School No. 9
Floyd Johnston
Ames Extension Dairyman
Burdette F. Abel
Grinnell
Cow Test Association
Evelyn and
Irene Lang
Brookyn
Four County Farm Business Assn to Meet Dec 2 in Ackley
The four county farm business association includes Butler Grundy Franklin and Hardin counties and will meet December 2 in Ackley. Speaker will be William McArthur Cerro Gordo county breeder of Golden King seed corn and senator elect from Franklin Cerro Gordo and Hancock counties.
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Ackley
Farm Business Association
Butler
Grundy
Franklin
Hardin
Cleon E. Herriott
William McArthur
Cerro Gordo
Hancock
Mice Damage Fruit Trees in Washington County Orchards
Field mice girdle trees in Washington county orchards with young trees most affected. County Agent Harold J. Montgomery urges immediate inspection and painting wounds with raw linseed oil and white lead. A lime sulfur spray on trunks is recommended as a preventive.
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Washington
Harold J. Montgomery
Fayette county farm short course planned for winter
Fifteen Fayette county farm youths met at the Farm Bureau office to organize the second annual Fayette county short course. The program will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. one day weekly from Jan 1 to late February at Upper Iowa University gymnasium. Subjects include butchering, fruit tree pruning, grafting, general horticultural management, crops, seeds, weeds, dairy and beef and hog feeding, horse and poultry management, sheep care, and cooperative marketing. Officers will be elected at the first meeting to run the winter term. last year’s enrollment was 52 and higher attendance is expected.
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Gazette
Fayette
Fayette County
Farm Bureau
A. E. Bennett
Upper Iowa University
B. W. Lodwick
Rowley Farmers Co-op Pays 20 Cents Butterfat
Rowley patrons received payment for late October butterfat at 20 cents per pound and the first half of October also commanded 20 cents per pound. A. F. Sloan secretary reported the rates.
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Rowley Co-Op
Rowley
Early Winter Sunset in Iowa Farm Scene
A rural scene shows fence and drift tangled in woven wire with horses, cows, a dog and boy near barn stalls. Chickens protest relocation from crowded coops as corn rattles in wagon boxes at dusk in Iowa.
Sleeping Stock Intrigue at the International Amphitheater
Michael June a telegraph messenger boy who never lived on a farm explains how animals sleep at the stock show in Chicago. Horses sleep standing or lying down and rise front end first, cows and sheep sleep front end first then rise back end first, pigs fall over with legs tucked. Many cows and sheep wear short halters and sleep on their front knees as if praying. Sheep dogs curl up after turning several times before sleep.
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Michael
Horses dominate sale at Klotz estate near Columbus Junction
At the T. J. Klotz estate farm northwest of Columbus Junction auction results show horses selling from 42 to 95 dollars per head with two mares at 160 dollars. Old horses 40 dollars, twenty five cattle mostly 23 to 24 dollars, calves 18 dollars, sheep 4 to 4.50 dollars, hay five dollars a ton. Machinery sold well including a manure spreader 70 dollars, cultipacker 24, and harrow 24.
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the Gazette
Clumbus Junction
T. J. Klotz
Paul Klotz
Columbus’ Junction
H. M. Duncan
Columbus Junction
E. H. Dunlap
Wapello
Chester Gregg
West Liberty
Charles Brown
Washingee
Jake Hendrickson
Richland
Klotz
Fayette dairymen to meet on herd sire selection
Fayette county contest association members and dairy interests will gather December 7 at the Farm Bureau office to hear Earl N. Shultz of the Ames dairy extension service discuss selection of the herd sire.
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Fayette
Fayette County
Farm Bureau
Earl N. Shultz
The
Ames Dairy Extension Service
Webster Farmers Build Extra Cribs For Large Corn Crop
In this community most corn has been husked and many farmers were required to construct additional cribs to store the bumper harvest.
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Webster
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