Corn Market Eyes New Crop Basis After September Flutter
The market seeks a new crop basis as September flutter fades. No 4 yellow corn quotes at 69 cents in Chicago for five day delivery with eastern Iowa farm prices around 55 to 57 cents. Harvesting hampered by fog and rain in eastern Iowa while the Flutterings signal a shift back to domestic grain as soon as plants run at needed capacity.
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Fence Drift and Corn Prices Across Markets
Reading across markets shows drift in fence stocks and a mixed corn outlook. No. 2 yellow and white prices vary by region with declines noted in Chicago and Kansas City while Atlanta and Missouri offer steadier quotes.
Higher Egg Prices Foreseen Next Year
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics forecasts higher egg prices in 1938 due to fewer laying hens and lower production. A larger fall grain harvest and ample poultry feed are expected to boost chick hatch next spring, easing supplies later in 1938 and influencing prices. Turkeys also see higher costs with a predicted rise in hatch and production for 1938.
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Corn
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Midwest Poultry Show Scheduled Chicago Oct 15 19
Chicago hosts the first Midwest Poultry exposition October 15 to 19 at the International Amphitheater. E Thayer, manager, says the event will feature a full poultry and egg production display including incubation hatching feeding of chicks handling of mature flocks and displays of dressed products with cake baking contests and poultryery cooking programs.
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the Gazette
Chicago
International Amphitheater
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Clayton Women Win Blue Ribbons at Waterloo Cattle Congress
Clayton county led by Mrs. Joel Clark Elkader chairman of home project work earned seven blue ribbons in four years at the Waterloo Cattle congress and Iowa state fair. The Clayton county demonstration team Merritt Hamilton Elkader and Floyd Ditmer Strawberry Point showcased Know your fabrics. Other counties winning blue red and white ribbons included Linn Tama Marshall Buchanan Franklin Hardin Chickasaw Cedar Allamakee Mitchell Floyd Butler. Mrs. Ellis state leader praised strong Clayton organization and noted wide reach across districts townships and farm homes.
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Pumpkin Pie Delights From a Country Woman
A country woman extols pumpkin pie as seasonal fulfillment after labor and harvest. She praises the golden brown pie fresh from a country oven, enjoyed with coffee, offering comfort and satisfaction.
Canada Harvests Lowest Wheat Crop Since 1914
Canada’s 1937 wheat crop drops to about 188.19 million bushels, the smallest since 1914, amid the worst drought in Prairie history. Saskatchewan drought caused record low yields per acre, with 1936 output at 229.22 million bushels by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Veterinarians to Convene for Eastern Iowa Convention
The Eastern Iowa Veterinary association announced its twenty fourth annual convention to be held October 12 and 13 at Hotel Montrose Cedar Rapids. More than 350 practitioners from Iowa Illinois Minnesota Wisconsin and Nebraska are expected with a program including toxic plants exhibit and talks on livestock nutrition diseases and equine practice.
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Ilinois Department of Agriculture
Missouri Livestock Sold In Washington Auction
Veal calves averaged 21 dollars per head at the weekly Washington sale. Total receipts for two horses thirty-four veal calves 269 hogs fifty-three sheep forty-seven cattle and other items were four thousand dollars. consignments included two from one hundred fifty miles south of the Missouri line.
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Missouri Line
Farm Auction Schedule Listing Loads of Sales
The notice lists farm auctions across Iowa with schedules for October. E C Forest Poland sale at Mount Vernon on Wednesday October 6 and Ruess Brothers Poland China sale at West Liberty on October 7. Also Frank Washburn farm near Viola and Stephen Bena farm near Cedar Rapids host closings in early October.
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Vinton 4-H Demonstrators Win Grand Championship Honors
Kathleen King and Harleen Harper, Vinton, representing Harrison Busy Blue Birds 4-H club, won grand championship at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress in eastern Iowa after six days of competition. They received two medals and will attend the Iowa 4-H club convention in Ames next June.
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Vinton
Kathleen King
Harleen Harper
Harrison
Busy Blue Birds
Benton County
Iowa
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Dairy Cattle Congress
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Ames
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Kitch
Iowa Facts Highlight Des Moines Pamphlet Big State Exports
Iowa tops hog production and corn yield in the nation per Dr Thomas L Cur ran secretary of agriculture in a pamphlet titled Iowa Facts. It lists farm counts acres values livestock and comparative state strengths across crops poultry honey wool and horses.
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Towa
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Kos estate sells 240 acre farm at auction
Washington The Edward Kos estate farm of 240 acres eleven miles northeast of Washington was sold Saturday at auction to Yaro Sojka Washington for 69 dollars an acre. Sale is subject to court approval. Eighty acres are rolling pasture land while the rest is generally good. There is a good house and the other buildings are above average.
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District Court
Increase From Five Sows Cash At 948 With 3 Left Over
AURORA The increase from five sows brought 948.40 in cash to H. M. Ross, former three miles west of Aurora, this season. He still has two gifts and one hog for butchering out of forty head fare rowed from March 12 to April 15. Thirty seven head from the five litters were marketed late September and early October, one load at Waterloo for 11.25 a hundredweight and another at Cedar Rapids at 11.45. Total weight was 8,390 pounds, averaging 227 pounds per hog.
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Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
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