Survey Finds Wide Spread in Milk Distributing Costs
The AAA reports large variations in the margin between what dairy farmers receive for milk and what households pay at the doorstep. Margins ranged from 4.41 to 8.34 cents per quart across 26 markets, with tighter control in several cities under federal or state regulation.
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Ashington
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Farm Administration
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Raleigh NC
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Boston
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Davenport
Iowa
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Marion Township Okays 1935 Corn Hog Plan Referendum
Marion Township voters cast 101 ballots Wednesday on two questions. Seventy-one approved continuing the corn hog program in 1935 while thirty voted no. Question 2 asked adopting a simplified blanket contract starting 1936. sixty-two voted yes and thirty-three no.
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Linn County
Marion
Harry Dunn
Vane Thursdar
Reactors Detected In TB Tests
A fragment from a 20th century paper notes reactors detected in tuberculosis tests. The readable text mentions testing and detection figures, with unclear names and dates due to damaged OCR.
Fence Drift
A letter from a loyal wife and dairy inspector’s spouse laments partisan ties and job politics. She questions why political experience leads to firing and notes voters scramble their choices amid barbed wire metaphor.
Johnson County Cow Test averages 613 pounds milk 25.6 fat
Special to The Gazette Iowa City September results show 387 cows in the Johnson County Cow Test association averaging 613 pounds of milk and 25.6 pounds of butterfat. Dan M Yoder Kalona leads with ten grade Guernseys at 757 pounds milk and 36.7 fat. High Holstein herd E L Miller’s ranks second at 34.6 fat. George Mueller and Son Lone Tree Holstein herd produced 1 647 pounds milk and 626 pounds fat.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Clark Batchelder
Dan M Yoder
Kalona
Association
E. L. Miller
George Mueller and Son
Lone Tree
New Barn To Be Built On Parsons Farm Near Troy Mills
Parsons of Mar ons raaing the barn on this farm four miles south of Troy Millis. The farm is operated by De Witt Cameron Spe a ta Tie Gazette. Decorah Sovermion is on the son of Wampershick father etc. County Veer Wo Dak has arranged for voters to imonstrativen at the AW Ones farm pear Osa ors ron 12 and 1%
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Parsons
Troy Mills
F Parsons
Marons
Troy Millis
de Witt Cameron
Sheep CPU Elects Sournes At Web Ter Event
Fragmented OCR text shows a historical local scene with scattered names and places. The readable fragments reference a count, a mayor, and market notes amid garbled lines, suggesting a brief municipal or election item with unclear specifics.
Sugar Cane Answer to Drought Problem in Iowa
A Iowa farmer L H Appelman converts dry land into a sugar cane and sorghum operation near Clermont. He planted eighteen acres before late May and, with favorable weather, grew a productive cane crop. The sap is boiled in farm shops and processed with gas and steam engines to yield sorghum sold to passersby at about 60 cents a gallon, aiming for profitability despite poor prior drought yields.
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Clermont
Iowa
L H Appelman
Appelman
Appelmann
Appelman Fem
Wales
Abel Oboas
Jett Mole
New Wheat Ruling Affects Corn-Hog Farmers This Year
The farm administration ruled that corn-hog farmers may plant up to fifteen extra acres of wheat for 1935 harvest under certain conditions without violating contracts. The change targets farms in emergency drought areas and excludes wheat base contract signers, with grain beyond base to be fed on the farm.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Corn-Hog Checks Arrive In Johnson County
Johnson county farmers received the first regular corn-hog contract payments totaling about 209000 distributed at the post office on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday delayed by AAA contract checks. The Johnson total nears half a million with 205000 already paid on early rider contracts. In Jones county 225 farmers received 25300 in benefit checks bringing total in the county to 316000. a second payment is due late November. DECORAH John A. Bouska of Jackson township received the first corn-hog benefit check distribution in Winne shirk county.
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the Gazette
IOWA _ CITY
Johnson County
AAA
Anamosa
Jones County
Jones
$20 000 Offered In Horse Classes At Royal
The Gazette notes cash awards totaling $20000 for winners in horse classes at the American Royal Livestock exposition in Kansas City. Events include roadster, harness, saddle pony, hunter jumper, draft, mule pulling, rodeo stunts, and high school horses. The panel judges includes Thomas W. Clark, Sam Haines, and E A Proubridge.
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the Gazette
Kansas City
HO Ser Vallas
Thomas W. Clark
Mdgemont
Sam
Haines
Cincinnati
E A Proubridge
Columbia
Excess Pigs Turned Over To Delaware FERA
Delware county emergency relief agency reports 228 surplus pigs turned over by farmers in the Manchester region and surrounding areas. Most pigs weighed 50 to 180 pounds and are in good condition. about ninety have been given to unemployment relief cases, with the rest held at the latrerounds. A hog house is under construction near Troy Mills on the Joseph Finla farm.
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Fangitta
Manchester
Delaware County
Colesburg
Petersburg
Charrette
Troy Mills
Joseph Finla
Thay Mills
Ross Chester Carpenter
Uptrend in Farm Prices Continues With September Gains
September data show farm prices firm across commodities. Corn rose to 71 cents a bushel, hogs hit 6.20 per hundredweight, beef cattle gained, and oats, wheat, barley, rye, and buckwheat all advanced. Hay dipped slightly as rains boosted pastures, while chicken eggs rose to 12.6 cents per pound and butter held at 25 cents. Prices for pears and apples also edged higher.
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Des Moines
INS
Leslie M. Carl
Department of Agriculture Statistician
Thursay
Carl
Arlington youth profiles dairyman and aspiring cartoonist
Interview with Robert Putman of Arlington, a dairy farmer on eighty acres with a 13 head Guernsey herd. The 1915 Iowa 4-H dairy judge talks about farming, cartooning plans, cattle shows, herd value, and his preference for Guernseys while noting family help and early 4-H roots.
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Robert Putman
E. H. Putman
Arlington
Oclwein
Iowa
Waterloo
Keokuk Townships Back 1935 Corn Hog Plan
Voters in nine of Keokuk county's sixteen townships by Wednesday night backed continuing the corn and hog adjustment program for 1935. The nine townships reported 480 yes and 164 no.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Anamosa Dairyman Buys Notable Herd Sire
Anamosa dairyman Fred Kempshall purchased a herd sire from W D Robens and Son of Poland II. The Ormsby strain bull stems from King Ormsby Ideal, with 14 proven sons and 88 advanced registry daughters, 20 over 1000 pounds of butter. The dam's two-year record is 748.5 pounds, and the pedigree totals 1128 advanced registry daughters, including 130 over 1000 pounds.
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Anamosa
Fred Kempshall
W D Robens
Poland II
Ormsby
King Ormsby
Kempshall
Wemer Herd Tops Test Ass'n With 32.7 Average
For the fifth consecutive month the Claire Wemer herd of ten purebred Jerseys from Gibson ranked high in the Mahaska County Cow Test association. They averaged 556 pounds of milk and 327 pounds of butterfat in September and now have three first calf heifers. Stevens and Evans of Ottumwa placed second with purebred Guernseys, averaging 539 pounds of milk and 276 pounds of butterfat, while a Werner cow led the month with 774 pounds of milk and 619 pounds of butterfat.
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Delta
Claire Wemer
Gibson
Mahaska County
Stevens
Evans
Ottumwa
Werner
Colesburg Dairymen Plan Cream Improvement
Two hundred patrons of the Colesburg Cooperative creamery met to discuss improving cream quality with leaders from Dubuque Epworth and Des Moines in attendance. The session included district dairy inspectors and local officials as they reviewed proposed enhancements.
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Colesburg
Dairyman Buys Old Straw At Ten Dollar Ton
Louie Whede, farmer near Tipton, sold thirty tons of last year's straw stored in his barn to a local dairyman for ten dollars per ton. The straw was not baled.
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Tipton
Louie Whede
Murray Announces Supplies Ready For New Sealing Project
Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray announced receipt of 1935 corn notes from the Commodity Credit Corporation in Washington and said distribution to sealers would start immediately. Loans rise to 55 cents a bushel and call price to 85 cents. notes due July 1, 1935.
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DES Moines
Ray Murray
Commodity Credit Corporation
Washington
AAA
Murray
Jersey cow leads Iowa County Cow Test test in September
Marengo area purebred Jersey from the Leo B Smith herd in Williamsburg tops the Iowa County Cow Test association for September with 179.3 pounds of butterfat, reported by tester John Cray.
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Marengo
Leo B Smith
Williamsburg
Iowa County
John Cray
Business executive invests in Iowa land at $70 and $125 an acre
Olin R Wortman of Chicago bought a half section in Jones county at $70 an acre, combining two farms along a surfaced highway with an electric line. A W McGregor says the sales were spot cash. In a separate deal, Pete Griener bought the Niswander estate 160 acres near South English for $125 an acre, with his son Walter to farm it.
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Olin
R. Wortman
Chicago
Jones County
Stanwood
Milo Phillips
J. Housmann
Wortman
A. W McGregor
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Land
McGregor
Sigourney
Niswander
South English
Pete Griener
Walter Griener
Cows Bring 22 to 30 at Troy Mills Auction
Thirty-three cattle and forty hogs were sold by Starr Brothers two miles east of Troy Mills in the season’s first public sale. Milk cows averaged 22 to 30 dollars each, two-year-olds 19, yearlings 13. Top steer 29.50, herd bull 49.50, packer sows 10 to 10.15, heavy feeder shoats 9, others 3.50 to 8. Auctioneer G. Powell and clerk W. N. Boll.
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Troy Mills
Starr Brothers
G. Powell
W. N. Boll
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