Price hard to beat farm product value says Peek in Iowa
Former AAA head George N. Peek asserts no substitute for price exists as farm product use expands slowly. He cites Quad Cities employment gains tied to farmer buying power and Triple A programs, urges better disposal of production and a quid pro quo foreign trade approach to boost exports and reestablish foreign commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peek
Moline
Peck
Quad Cities
Rock Island
Mississippi River
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Export-Import Bank
Washington
J. Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
National Congress
Foreign Trade Board
United States
Lewis
Fence Drift and a Farmer’s Show in Waterloo
A fragmented note reports Fence Drift caught in woven wire during a Waterloo event last week. It mentions a great horse show and a farm equipment show, but notes no suitable machines for hitching a horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Farmer Attitude Toward Administration Improves Says Peek
Peek notes a Dubuque region recovery and signs of growing farm income. He says farmers see the administration as making an honest effort to improve conditions and are willing to continue support, while resisting extreme production cuts. He foresees renewed factory operation and broader business in Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Iowa
Mr. Peek
First New Corn From Iowa Reaches Chicago
Roy J. Maddock of Farell Brothers reports the first new crop Iowa corn arrived in Chicago Tuesday morning. The shipment, consigned from Washington Iowa, had not been graded and price set at noon Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy J. Maddock
Cedar Rapids
Farell Brothers Grain Firm
Iowa
Chicago
Washington
Cedar Corn Test Plots To Be Picked Next Week
Harvesting of corn variety test plots in Cedar county will begin next week. Four plots at Sugar Creek Township Springdale Cass and Faure fields will be harvested starting 9 am with 100 hills measured for a standardized trial.
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Tipton
Cedar County
De¢kinson
Sugar Creek Township
Emers Hemingaes
Springdale
Glen Regne
Cass Township
Alsin Stonerook
Faurfield Township
Rowley Creamery Pays 28 Cents For Top Butterfat
Local dairy, Rowley Creamery, reports paying 28 cents per pound for top butterfat. The brief item notes a price paid to producers and mentions nearby dairy activity.
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Rowley Creamery
Iowa Apple Crop Estimate From Des Moines
Iowa harvests a fairly heavy apple crop with an estimated 1 890 000 bushels statewide. Grimes Golden Delicious and Red Delicious lead, fruit quality good, frosts not damaging, color aided by cold weather. Harvesting continues with Jonathans and other varieties, expected to finish by Oct 20.
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Des Moines
Herrick
State Horticulture Society
Grimes
Iowa
Jonathans
Ames Session Plans Corn Hog Referendum On Oct 26
More than 600 county agents and corn hog committeemen met in Ames after a state wide gathering to plan the corn hog referendum set for October 26. Speakers included R K Bliss Rex Beresford H H Kildee and Murl McDonald. Education materials and circulars were outlined as county groups prepare discussions for farmers and shipper votes.
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Ames
R. K. Bliss
Extension Service
Dr . W. Schultz
Rex Beresford
H H. Kildee
George Godfrey
R M. Hughes
R. M. Evans
William McArthur
Mason City
Arden McKee
Creston
Murl McDonald
Paul C. Taff
Evans
AAA
Iowa
Tipton Cedar County meeting on pork committee lists October events
A Tipton Cedar County meeting of town pork committee members is set for the evening of October 16. Township meetings for producers will occur before the October 26 referendum vote.
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Tipton
Ip Corm
Cedar County
Hoch Township
Tann County Conradong Association Meeting Called
A meeting of the Tann county Conradong association allotment Committee was called by Chairman Ben Neal for Wednesday at Cedar Rapids to map township mortgage of producers in advance of the referendum on October 26.
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Tann County
Conradong Association
Rmin
Ben Neal
Cedar Rapuets
Linn 4 H Leaders Train on Oven Products for 1935 36
Miss Helen Swinney Ames nutritionist leads Linn county training on Quick Breads as the first lesson of the oven products project for 4 H girls. Seventeen leaders and club members attend at Marion with eight others from Linn and twelve counties.
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Ellen Borghart
Helen Swinney
Ames
Linn
Iowa
Maribn
Country Club
Miss Swinney
Manchester
Waukon
Elkader
Cresco
Crop Reporters Set Moisture Tests Across Iowa Oct 10
Three hundred crop reporters will collect corn samples for moisture testing in all Iowa counties on October 10. The tests, conducted by the Iowa Department of Agriculture weather and crop bureau, determine if corn is dry enough for crb and help producers estimate dry yield by subtracting water content. A second sample will be taken in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Weather and Crop Bureau
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Pork per capita supply cited at 47 pounds in radio address
Secretary Wallace quoted Don Montgomery saying pork available for domestic use in the hog year starting Nov 1 will be about 47 pounds per person. He notes the 1920s level was 83 pounds and urges balancing consumer and farm equities under the Agricultural Adjustment act.
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Wallace
Don Montgomery
AAA
Feeder cattle shipments prompt local farm updates
Carl Alberg of Ladora near Ladora received a car load of feeder cattle from Kansas City last week. Orlo Stoner also received five carloads of feeder cattle from western Nebraska. One carload of corn and two carloads of cattle were shipped out of Ladora last week.
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Ladora
Carl Alberg
Kansas City
Orlo Stoner
Nebraska
English-Miss Mildred Wilson outlines home furnishing program
Special to The Gazette South English Miss Mildred Wilson home management specialist at Ames outlined four lessons for the county home furnishings project for the coming year to seventy leaders and members at a Keokuk county Farm Bureau homemakers meeting. She demonstrated draperies and made up articles, with sessions led by Mrs Rollin Brown county chairman. The first county leaders training school will be the week of November 11.
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Linn
Swinney
Aleene Wilson
L. Mildred Wilson
Ames
Keokuk
Farm Bureau
Lafayette
Clear Creek
Liberty
English River
Unimproved Haas Farm Sells at $82 Per Acre Near Marengo
The 100 acre unimproved Fred Haas estate near Marengo sold Monday to John Burgin for $8,200. Frank Colby of Marengo arranged the deal. The property has only a well and line fences. Burgin bought as an investment.
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Marengo
Fred Haas
John Burgin
Frank Colby
Mr. Burgin
Eldridge Man Among Champion Barley Growers
Six farmers were named outstanding barley growers of the country in Cincinnati. Among them is Henry Sierck of Eldridge Iowa. Winners received silver trophies in state contests as guests of the Master Brewers Association of America at its convention.
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Cincinnati
Harry Kuhl
Sebewaing
Mich
M. A. Erdman
Oconomowoc
Wis
David Mueller
Freeman
S. D
R. C. Leake
Dixon, Ill
H. E. Plocher
Mayer
Minn
Henry Sierck
Eldridge
Master Brewers’ Association of America
Terracing Demonstration Set For Fayette Farmer Farm Visit
Ames extension agricultural engineer GM Byron T. Virtue will supervise terracing for soil erosion control on the Guy Ernst farm near Elgin October 14 15 preliminary work and a public terracing demonstration on October 16 in Fayette county highlighting erosion control efforts with open participation.
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Byron T. Virtue
Ames Extension Agricultural Engineer
Fayette County
Guy Ernst
Elgin
Dethman Tops Chicago Hog Market with 79 Duroc Jerseys
Herman Dethman led the Chicago hog market buying headage Monday with seventy nine Duroc Jerseys averaging 216 pounds and selling at 11 15 per hundredweight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Bryant
Herman Dethman
Chicago
Duroc
Active Demand for Feeders Reported in Major Markets
Stocker and feeder buyers surged into Chicago and river markets amid fears of a shrinking western range cattle movement. September receipts were among the largest in years, with Chicago reporting 64 300 westerns versus 48 500 a year ago and 14 800 in September 1933. A drought-weary calf crop and reduced on-range cattle numbers support the outlook of a sharp drop in movements.
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the Gazette
Union Stockyards
Chicago
Farm Auction Schedule Opens October Run
A sequence of farm auctions announced for October includes Willard Hoffman closing out sale near Springville. Fayette county Holstein sale at Oelwein. Stanley & Hobson closing out sale near Whittier. W B Meeks Duroc Jersey hog sale near Martelle. W Logan lumber sale near Belle Plaine. W S Penn dairy cattle sale at Mount Vernon. 160 acre Dahms farm auction near Marion. Bert Millers Duroc boat and gilt sale at Lisbon.
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Fayette County
Oelwein
Stanley & Hobson
Whittier
W. B. Meeks Duroc Jersey
Martelle S
W. Logan
Belle Plaine
W. S. Penn Dairy
Mount Vernon
S. Dahms
Marion
Bert Miller
Duroc
Lisbon
Meeks
Woodlawn Farm
Martelle
New Era
Invincible Prince
Schneider
Mt. Carroll
Jones County Fair
Guy Petitt
Bloomfield
Audt
Erry Hanks
Feorla
Fieldman
B. Meeks
Iowa
Mt. Vernon
T.B
Bangs
Livestock Market Prices for Cattle and Calves
Quotations show cattle and calf prices by grade and class. Values range from $4.25 to $9 per hundredweight across steers heifers and calves, with feeders and cows cited. Shorthorns priced 25 to 50 cents lower than the general ranges.
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Ray Anderson
Rowley
Wake Plans
By Akern
Pat Oe
al- Jamakee
Delaware
Clayton
Howard
Shelby
Harrison, Lee
van Buren
Wayne
Decatur, Mills and Adams
Jackson Township
Be Natural
Evelyn Caldwell
A. W. Savage
Jackson
Harris Wilson
Dorothy Pratt
Putnam
Sunny Sparklers Club
F. L. Fuhrmeister
Boulder
Boulder Builders Club
G. F. LeClerc
Gladys McFarlin
R. E. Minehart
Happy Hands Club
Hazel Hand
Leota Oliphant
Bertram
Indian Creek Bluebirds
E. W. McCrackin
Eleanor Lorence
A. J. Krizek
Lloyd Carson
Marionettes
Alice Wallace
Charles Michel
Catherine Reinheimer
Linn's Best Club
Carrie Hanson
Betty Rhinehard
Ione Hanson
Otter Creek
Sunny Susies Club
L. E. Petrack
Earl du E, Petrak
Merry Sous Club
Burt Neal
Brown
Whittier Gleaners
Doris Newhard
Flora Horak
C. F. Root
College
C Square
F Square Club
G. M. Booth
D. B. Storck
Marion Township
Lenna Whitcomb
Brown Township
Williams
Iowa Daily Press Bureau
Eldridge Man
Fayette
Delaware County
Higley Building
Miller
Lincoln Highway
Proud Supreme
Wave Ace
Invincible Ace
Supreme Lad
Barrow
Bert E. Miller
Walt Cnallis
Willard Hoffman
Springville
Stuckenbruck
Lem Early
J. W. Logan
Col. S. V. Shirley
Citizens Nat
A. OM. Tlett
DIAL
Thermoid Rubber & Genuine Gandy
E. Cohn & Sons Inc
L Street
Penick & Ford
W. S. Penn
W. E. Challis
A. S. Burge
Mt. Vernon Bank and Trust Co
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