Hog Prices Turn Upward After Bottoming A Week Ago
Hog prices in interior markets rebound to over $8 per hundredweight after a low last week. Iowa top market rose from $7.55 to $8.00-$8.10, up about 25 cents since Saturday, with 45,000 head today versus 307,000 head a week ago. Trade observers expect prices to stabilize near current levels through the calendar, as quality improves and weights rise, with lighter hogs favored in top grades. Interior receipts totaled 133,600 last week, seven-market run 206,000, pork market steady after a $1 drop, Chicago top at $17, New York $17.50.
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Tom
Iowa
Chicago
New York
FENCE DRIFT and city contrasts amid livestock expo notes
A fragment describes a cramped Chicago apartment with limited sunlight and outdoor space for a child, contrasted with expansive rural acres and pets. It also covers the International Livestock Exposition carlot show highlights, naming grand champions in Angus and Shorthorn breeds and mentioning local buyers and auction plans in Iowa and Illinois context.
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Chicago
Ferdinand Schmidt
George Schmidt
Delmar
Ferdinand
George
Pat Dolan
Schmidt
Hugh Morris
Ainsworth
Washington-Louisa County
Dave Mosier
Morris
Denver
Tare
Iowa
Farm Law Studied In Night Classes For Farmers At Olin
The vocational agriculture department at Olin launches a twelve week night school for farmers with a course titled Farm Law. Instructor E W Horr leads Mondays sessions and weed and seed laws are included. A new question box fosters farmer Q A. A separate farm women class led by Miss Esther M Kidder covers Spending the Family Dollar Wisely.
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Olin
Vocational Agriculture Department
E. W. Horr
Esther M Kidder
Vegetable Grower In Summer Fruit Grower In Winter
A Muscatine ISU Vege table Growers banquet highlights Florida grown fruits by R T Hummell a Muscatine Island truck farmer who winters at a citrus farm near Bartow Florida A display box of oranges grapefruit tangerines tangelo kumquats and lemons arrives this week alongside Island summer vegetables.
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Muscatine
Iowa State Vegetable Growers Association
R T. Hummell
Muscatine Island
Barto
Fla
Community corn harvest at the Franz Wroblewski farm
Neighbors and relatives gathered at the Franz Wroblewski farm near Amber on a Saturday to bring sixteen teams and wagons for a corn pick. Both Mr and Mrs Wroblewski have been in ill health, and many local residents helped with dinner and arrangements.
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Amber
Franz Wroblewski
Wroblewski
Frsin’ Wilkens
Carl Sichel
Harvey
Howard Saper
Lowe Bramer
JF Johnson
Otto Otten
William, Lawurence
Leonard Otten
Willard Sherman
Harriet Pieper
Lawrence Henderson
Henry Neunaber
Henry
Carl Wehling
John Coleman
Clarence Nielsen
Clayton Foster
Hank Strebel
August Andersen
John Grant
Myron Martin
Eddie Saper
Steve Wheelock
Will McNamara
Will Wolderback
Buck Veere
Harry Speee
Ernest Andersen
Hubertedersen
Wall Steenhork
Albert Obmans
Tan O
Tonie Rhinehardt Sed
Poultry Clinic Planned in Blairstown Wednesday
Special to The Gazette Blairstown hosts a United States Bureau of Animal Industry poultry clinic Wednesday. The morning 10 o clock program covers flock management led by Prof Vernon of Ames. afternoon diagnostic clinic directed by Dr J M Wineinger and Dr George Senior from Des Moines BAI.
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Blairstown
United States Bureau of Animal Industry
Wom Vernon
Ames
J M . Wineinger
George Senior
BAI
Des Moines
Potato Diversion Program Announced
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration outlined potato diversion into starch and flour with purchases by the surplus commodities corporation and diversion payments to manufacturers. The plan aims to raise grower returns on the 1937 crop and boost consumption of potato products through government and commercial channels.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
U. S
Michigan
Minnesota
Maine
Idaho
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Exports of U S Corn Reach Near Million Bushel Mark
Exports of United States corn for the week ended November 20 totaled 729000 bushels, lifting the season total to nearly 1 million bushels, according to the Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Washton
Hired Hands Earn $315 Year In Hamilton County Iowa
A joint Farm Security Administration and Bureau of Agricultural Economics report on Hamilton County Iowa field labor in fall 1936 details typical corn belt conditions. It notes young male workers under 30, mostly eighth grade education, stable tenure, and average cash income of $315 for the prior year with most earnings under $500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Farm Security Administration
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Hamilton County
Iowa
Tom Vasey
Josiah C Folsom
Coming Farm Auctions Schedule For Late November To December
A period list details farm auctions across Iowa with closing out sales led by John Stolba Jr and Effie Davis estate near Cedar Rapids and Stanwood. Events span Dec 1 to Dec 14 including McNamara Brothers Hagen Stinger Hense Harker and Woods estate farm near Coggan plus Aberdeen Angus breeders sale in Grinnell and a Belgian horse sale in Greeley.
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John Stolba, Jr
Cedar Rapids
Effie Davis
Stanwood
Bremer Livestock Reduction Sale
Paris
Hagen
van Horne McNamara Brothers
Anamosa
Stinger
Springville
Virgil Harker
Oxford
E. Hense
Coggan
Holbert
Greeley
Farm hands in Hamilton County receive perks beyond cash wages
Workers on family-operated farms in Hamilton County get not only cash wages but also perquisites such as housing, potatoes, fruit, vegetables, and firewood. The authors note the hired men are a young, fairly well-schooled group who often aspire to become operators, yet incomes remain low and full-time work is not guaranteed.
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Hamilton County
Sand Spring Creamery Pays 42c For Butterfat
Patrons of the Farmers Mutual Creamery company here received payment for October butterfat at the rate of 42 cents a pound, reports Manager Ed Cox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sand Spring
Farmers Mutual Creamery Company
Ed Cox
An Acre Paid For Farm At Auction
Troy Mills reports the 148 acre John Sehl estate farm sold at auction Friday to D Jones of Center Point for 53 dollars per acre. The property lies three miles southeast of Troy Mills with good land and improvements. Possession is set for March 1. George Price was the auctioneer.
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Troy Mills
John Sehl
D. Jones
Center Point
George Price
Fairfax 4 H Girls Stage Mother And Daughter Banquet
Fairfax Jolly Juniors 4 H club hosted a mother daughter banquet in the Legion hall with music talks and a club activity report. Club Leaders Mrs R D Burress Mrs Will Stallman and Mrs Adam Schulte led the meal. sixteen daughters and several mothers attended along with guests Miss Lucille Gove and Mary Conn of Cedar Rapids.
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Fairfax
Fairfax Jolly
Legion Hall
RD. Burress
Will Stallman
Adam Schulte
Frank Vanonny
Wallace Rogers
L. O'Connell
J J. Fox
William Michalek
John Lefebvre
A A Selzer
Edith Stanck
Evelyn Vanonny
Lorrine Selzer
Minnie Fox
Rose Fox
Betty Rogers
Doris Rogers
Mac Faltis
Margent Michalek
Rita O'Connell
Mary O’connell
Lila Stallman
Mary Schulte
Elaine Schulte
Dorothy Burgess
Irene Lefebvre
Lucille Gove
Mary Conn
Cedar Rapids
132 000 Acres In Soil Conservation Projects This Year
Ames reports 132000 acres under five soil conservation service projects with 856 farmers. Permanent day acreage rises from 3.1 to 7.7 percent as crop land declines and woodland and grass expand. Terraces contour farming and gully dams reduce erosion while farming shifts to conour around hills. Demonstration areas include McGregor Knoxville Marion Greenfield Shenandoah.
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Ames
Soil Conservation Service
Frank H Mendell
Mr. Mendell
McGregor
Knoxville
Marion
Greenfield
Shenandoah
1400 4-H Club Members at Chicago
Estella Ver Meer of Orange City and Junior Clayton of Van Meter represent ing Iowa as the national health contest begins in Chicago with 1,400 4-H members attending the congress. Results are awaited midweek as livestock judging, crops judging, and cooking contests crown top youths from many states.
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Chicago
Estella Ver Meer
Orange City
Junior Clayton
van Meter
Towa
United States
Paul C. Taff
Ames
Edith Barker
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Livestock Show Winners Announced at International Fair
Chicago reports results from the thirty-eighth International Livestock Show. Shorthorn bull ages three and two win for Mathers Bros. Mason City and Robinwood Farms Greensburg with top and fourth places. Berkshire barrow 160-200 pounds earns Oklahoma A M first with Iowa State second. Berkshire barrow pen of three 160-200 pounds sees Purdue first, Iowa State fourth.
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Iowa State College
Ames
Kansas
Nebraska
Clifford L. Breeden
Lafayette
Ind
Helen Michaels
Eugene
Ore
Doris Sullivan
Magnum
Okla
Evelyn H. Kern
Wadena
Minn
Mary Lou Paetzhold
Portland
C. Wayne Canterbury
Cantrilla
C. E. Nickerson
Beaman
Oscar Walstrom
Spencer
Gordon Gibson
Ladner
British Columbia
Alex M. Stewart
Ailsa Craig
Ont
John Wiener
Miami
Manitoba
Stewart
Chicago
Mathers Bros
Mason City
Robinwood Farms
Greensburg
W.C. Anderson & Son
West Liberty
Berkshire Barrow
Oklahoma A. & M
Purdue
Iowa State
Munitions Laid For Grasshopper War In Iowa County
Maregno reports from the chemical warfare division of the Iowa county agent show the county ammunition depot holds munitions to produce 85 tons of grasshopper bait for next year. Egg counts rise from last year with 128 pods per square foot, each pod holding 30 to 40 eggs, attributed to a long dry fall that extends hoppers’ life and breeding.
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Marengo
Chemical Warfare
Iowa County
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