Iowa State Wins Dairy Judging Contest At Ames
Iowa State College teams win the Intercollegiate Dairy Judging contest in Ames on the Dairy Cattle congress opening day. The ISU trio Russell Plager William Probert and Ed win Matzen posted 2053 with Ontario second 2031 and Wisconsin third. Individual high score went to Plager with 523 tied with Diamond and Abele for top in different events. Several county teams led 4-H judging with Franklin county first and Sac county second. Tuesday featured judging of bovine classes and horses with twenty five high school teams entering.
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Iowa State College
Ames
Dairy Cattle Congress
Russell Plager
William Probert
Edwin Matzen
Grundy Center
Plager
Waterloo
Ontario
Wisconsin
Missouri
Michigan
South Dakota
Franklin County
W B. Hamilton
Hampton
Iowa
William Diamond, Jr
Willis Danielson
Russell Wagner
Sac County
Hawk
Webster
Hancock
Fayette
Winnnebago
Clayton
Calhoun
Howard
Loren Abele
Hancock County
Kermit Teig
Story County
Marie Kaiser
Paul Miller
Black Hawk
Mason Schaefer
Sac
Marlin Brackey
Winnebago
James Currie
Clarence Kent
Franklin
Iowa County
Jersey
Frank ‘Ward
Joe ‘Knaupp
Holel
Guernsey
Martin Johnson
Albert Wallace
Francis Winslow
Grundy
Ray Nelson
Buchanan
Joe Laurel
David Pettus
Kentucky
Wayne Heil
Vin_ Ta
Fred Muret
Kansas
Record Ear Corn Displayed Near Wyoming
Fred Petersen, living two miles southeast of Wyoming, shows an ear of corn measuring fifteen and a quarter inches with twenty two rows of kernels. It is considered the season's record ear for the area.
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Wyoming
Fred Petersen
FENCE DRIFT Poem Fragments On Cedar Rapids Roads
Fragmentary verses describe fence drift and woven wire on a road at dusk. The speaker notes lights in Cedar Rapids, glimmering through dim skies, referencing economic highways and intermittent flickers as clouds lower.
Cattle Bring From 3.75 To 5.75 At West Liberty Sale
A Gibson barn consignment sale in West Liberty sold 376 cattle 225 hogs 38 sheep and 8 horses for over 12000 dollars. Herefords from O Neal Nebraska bought by Allen Brothers Des Moines ranged 700 to 1100 pounds with multiple buyers paying between 3 75 and 5 75 per hundredweight. Over 1000 people attended the event.
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West Liberty
Gibson Barn
O’neal
Neb
Allen Brothers
Des Moines
Pat Kaveney
Illinois
W. S. Beckner
Marion
Henry Vaulper
Stanwood
Henry Bremmeyer
Wilton
John Soukup
Riverside
J. A. Hinkhouse
D. Maker
Iowa City
Beekeepers In Fayette To Outline 1933 Program
Fayette County beekeepers meet with state apiarist F B Paddock at the Farm Bureau office to discuss projects for the coming year. E C Robinson of Oelwein is president and Sidney Bass of Fayette is secretary.
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Fayette
Fayette County
F. B. Paddock
State Apiarist
Ames
Farm Bureau
E. C. Robinson
Oelwein
Sidney Bass
Farm Auctions Near Cedar Rapids This Week
Eighty acre dairy farm three miles southeast of Cedar Rapids offered by Walter Pose in a Wednesday October 5 sale. A Friday October 7 consignment sale at DeClow is also listed.
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Cedar Rapids
Walter Pose
Pigs Fed Skimmisk Gain Fastest and Cheaper in Test
A Fayette County farm trial shows pigs fed skimmisk with clover pasture shell corn minerals and water gained fastest at 1.1 pounds daily per head. Tankage and mixed protein feeds yielded 1.07 and 0.78 pounds respectively with higher costs. Skimmisk use reduced feed cost to 2.83 per 100 pounds of gain versus 3.04 and 3.08 for other feeds.
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Fayette County
B. W. Lod
Lodwick
Hog Cholera Outbreaks Brought On by Farm Crews
Eastern Iowa Veterinary association bulletin links hog cholera outbreaks to virus carried by silo filling crews and laborers earlier in season. Reported affected areas include Green Island Lamotte Preston Bellevue Maquoketa Belle Plaine Luzerne Van Horne Keystone Newhall Shellsbury Vinton Dysart Monticello Ryan Dike Tripoli Langworthy Anamosa Long Grove Lowden Deep River Ladora Victor Keswick Sigourney Nashua Charles City Decorah Sunbury Wilton Junction Muscatine and other towns. Other livestock diseases noted include hog necrotic enteritis in several locales.
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Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Green Island
Lamotte
Preston
Bellevue
Maquoketa
Belle Plaine
Luzerne
van Horne
Keystone
Newhall
Shellsbury
Vinton
Dysart
Monticello
Ryan
Dike
Tripoli
Langworthy
Anamosa
Long Grove
Lowden
Deep River
Ladora
Victor
Keswick
Sigourney
Nashua
Charles City
Decorah
Bennett
Sunbury
Wilton Junction
Muscatine
Miles
Lowe City
Maquguete
Waterloo
Cholera Hits Swine Herds Near Dysart
In Dysart area farms, Frank Crudinsky counts about 150 hogs lost to cholera weighing 100 to 200 pounds each. Nearby Henry Dengler reports fifteen to twenty head of 200-pound hogs dead from the same outbreak.
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Dysart
Frank Crudinsky
Crudinsky
Henry Dengler
Fayette Farm Women Learn Soap Making Skills
Miss Martha Rath of the Ames extension service leads Fayette county Farm Bureau members in a series of ten demonstrations on soap chip toilet soap and laundry soap. The schedule lists meetings across Scott Putnam Fairfield Illyria Windsor Bethel Banks Fremont Center Westfield Oran and Jefferson with local hosts and church venues through Wednesday to Friday.
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Gazette
Fayette
Martha Rath
Ames Extension Service
Fayette County
Lloyd Tope
Banks and Fremont
R. Oo
Center and
Westfield
Ben Turner
Oran and Jefferson
E. W. Meyer
Snow apple tree on Platt farm blooms near Edgewood
A snow apple tree on the Platt farm, four miles north of Edgewood, owned by Otto Behrens, is in full bloom. The tree is loaded with apples visible through a white mass of blossoms.
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Edgewood
Otto Behrens
What’s What Out on the Acres East Farm Talk in Schenectady
Interview with F C Wetmore of J Frank Zoller estate at Valhalla farm Schenectady N Y discusses dairy prices in the east and costs for feeds. Wetmore notes farm taxes and economic outlooks, praising rising textile and shoe industries and predicting a 7 year cycle upward. He contrasts farm gate and retail milk prices and discusses Roosevelt Hoover and Al Smith in state politics.
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F. C. Wetmore
J. Frank Zoller
Valhalla Farm
Schenectady
N. Y
Akron, O
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Nine Cars Dysart Grain Shipped To Cedar Rapids
Grain shipments from Dysart to Cedar Rapids by Tama Benton Grain Co last week totaled four carloads of corn three of oats and two of barley. Largest farmer deliveries included Charles Petersen 2645 bushels John Gipe 1200 bushels Harry Nee 1350 John Mehlhaus 1400 L Thompson 1100 Louis Fry 300 all corn. Oats saw Petersen 1000 Lorenzen 2000 Walter Schreiber 1340 and barley totals included W C Keith 1250 Henry Manderer 1140 Walter Leo 1100.
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Dysart
Cedar Rapids
Tama-Benton Grain Company
Charles Petersen
John Gipe
Harry Nee
John Mehlhaus
L. Thompson
Louis Fry
Leroy Lorenzen
Walter Schreiber
W. C. Keith
Henry Manderer
Walter Leo
Clover Seed Hulling Complete at Amanas
High and West Amanas finished hulking clover seed with 1 440 pounds from twenty acres at High and 3 000 pounds from sixty acres at West. William Ellingson LF Norway performed the work. The rest of the hull ing will conclude this week.
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High Amana
High
West Amanas
William Ellingson
Norway
Middle
Tama farms lease crop shares for 1933
DYSART The Davis farm in Geneseo township has been leased for the coming year to Freeman Stahl on a crop share basis. The Guernsey estate farm in Geneseo vicinity is leased for another year to tenants W. and D. Taylor and Sumner Snell on crop share terms.
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Dysart
Davis
Geneseo Township
Freeman Stahl
Earl Dunlavey
Guernsey
Geneseo
W. and
D. Taylor
Sumner Snell
North Tama Cow Test Association averages 23 pounds butterfat
In September the North Tama Cow Test Association reported 418 cows with 564 pounds of milk and 23 pounds of butterfat on average. Twelve cows exceeded 50 pounds of butterfat. Hayward Brothers led with 783 pounds milk and 32.1 butterfat among 16 grade Holsteins. E. McElhinney and Hoppe Brothers logged 652 and 642 pounds milk in purebreds. Washington, Iowa records show E. P. Hayes’s 26 Guernseys averaged 781 pounds milk and 35 butterfat across 252 cows.
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Toledo
North
Tama Cow Test Association
Henry Nieman
Hayward Brothers
Hoppe Brothers
C. T. Mitchell
Robert Mitchell
A. D. Mitchell
Ralph Crawford
Louie Rehder
E. M. Mitchell
J. E. Howard
George Storjohann
Co. T. Mitchell
E. McElhinney and
Twenty Four Association
Washington, Ia
E. P. Hayes
Guernseys
Dale Liebig
Charles Ashby
Irwin
Pailyer
Apple crop heavy in vicinity of South English
Apple growers in this locality are completing harvests. A Fitzsimmons estimates 3000 bushels of Winesaps Jonathans and Ben Davis with exceptionally fine quality. Other growers report surprising yield and size after not spraying trees. Frank Euler harvested sixteen bushels of Jonathans on one tree and R P McLain reports first crop of Delicious.
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South Glish
A. Fitzsimmons
Jonathans
Ben Davis
Frank Euler
R. P. McLain
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del Monte
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Fayette Farm
LINCO
Farmers Supply Co
Third St
New York
In Eastern Manufacturing
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Dairymen’s League of
Rutland
Dairymen’s League
Dairymen's League
Roosevelt
New York State
Hoover
al Smith
Smith
Ae Hearst
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Thurman Chattam
Chattam, N. C
Rhangie Wathie
Eins
W. W. Fitzpatrick
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Sweden
England
Amanas
Tama
North Tama Cow Test Association
Washington
16Th Ave
S. 6Th St
3Rd St
St. Ave
Proctor & Gamble Laundry
Tittle Bros
2Nd
St. SE
Link Sausage
Boz
ROYAL
Toma
Navy Bea
Lima Bio
Brazil
Spain
Amana
Budweiser
Bacon
Amer
Green Peppers
MEAT
Lamb
Hamburg
Lydia E. Pinkham
Harry Craft
Apollo, Penn
Tylydia E. Pinkham
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