Sweet Potatoes Highlight Fruitland Show Dec 23
Sweet potatoes take the stage at the Iowa Vegetable Growers show in Fruitland on December 23 with contests for peeling judging and variety ID. E H Haas of Forest City announces $100 in prizes plus $5 $3 and $2 premiums for five potato varieties. Sweepstakes offer $5. meeting marks first annual session of the association with exhibits including Hollander cabbage and globe onions.
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Iowa Vegetable Growers Association
E. H. Haas
Forest City
Yellow Jersey
Nolte
Maryland
Vegetable Growers Association
E. P. Corwin
Ralph H. Olsen
N. V. Morgan
Harry Hahn
Ray Wolford
Lester C. McDonald
S. G. Younkin
Theodore Drake
C. O. Lisele
John Holliday
Emmett County
Council Bluffs
E. P.,corwin
Fruitland
Earl Deah
Mason City
Leo Elton
Fertile
C. L. Rice
Delta
Oscar E. Johnson
Kanawha
Iowa County Farmers To Marion Projects Oct. 14
Marengo hosts another soil improvement demonstration for Iowa county farmers on October 14 starting at 10 a.m. from the CCC camp south of Marion. The tour covers contour cropping strip cropping terracing and pasture furrowing with Iowa’s only pasture furrowing machine. Sixty five farmers attended the June tour.
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Marengo
Iowa
Marion
CCC
Iowa County
Fence Drift in Woven Wire and Hog Price Drop
The text notes a sharp fall in hog prices this week with no big increase in runs. It suggests psychological reactions to eastern agitation for cheaper meat and a Kosher strike that depressed pork prices. It contemplates packers bidding for hogs before the upcoming season and current emphasis on the fresh pork trade.
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Lotta
Pumpkins Packed For Cannery Near Muscatine
Pumpkins grown on the Cliff Bell farm northwest of Columbus Junction are being trucked to a cannery at Muscatine this week.
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Columbus Junction
Cliff Bell
Muscatine
Steers Top at 318 as Iowa Feeder Leads Chicago Sale
William Fouchek of Johnson county feeder topped the steer market in Chicago Wednesday with sixteen 1,284-pound steers selling for $18 per hundredweight.
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Iowa City
William Fouchek
Johnson County
Chicago
Price Break in Hog Market Without Warning
Des Moines reports a sharp, long downward swing in hog prices with the most drastic one-day drop, leaving prices about 2.7 dollars below the year’s peak. Receipts are light, hogs lean to market, and analysts expect greater weekly fluctuations as packing slows and corn harvestouts affect selling.
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Des Moines
Poweshiek and Scott Tournaments Set for Oct 23
Grinnell hosts Poweshiek county corn husking meet at Elmer-Carl farm Montezuma on Oct 23 with County Agent H. F. Miller and a committee including Marvin Lyndh L. H. Evans William Shadley and Elmer Hicks. Scott county 4-H to run its Oct 23 contest with no site yet chosen and registration due by Oct 20 at the Farm Bureau office in Davenport.
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Grinnell
Poweshiek County
Elmer-Carl
Montezuma
H. F. Miller
Mr. Miller
Marvin Lyndh
L. H. Evans
William Shadley
Elmer Hicks
Davenport
Scott County
Farm Bureau
Millerburg Farm Sells At Auction For 36.50 An Acre
The George Seaton estate farm of 144 acres near Millersburg was sold Tuesday to John Humphrey at 36.50 per acre. Possession passes March 1. The land is hilly, not near a highway, and improvements are only fair.
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Millersburg
George Seaton
John Humphrey
Seven Apple Varieties Displayed on One Tree
In Columbus Junction a J.K. Helmick orchard southeast of Columbus City showcases seven apple varieties grown on a single tree. The display highlights diverse cultivars and horticultural interest in the region.
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Columbus Junction
J.K. Helmick
Columbus City
Farm Auction Schedule Across Cedar Rapids Area
Upcoming farm auctions list events on Saturday October 9 featuring a 59 acre Stephen Bena farm five miles east of Cedar Rapids. Herman Martin Duroc and Poland China sale spans Tipton Anamosa livestock auction.William Knox closes out March 14 three miles east of Marion. Louie Scheetz Shorthorn sale at 4145 miles northeast of Belle Plaine.
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Stephen Bena
Cedar Rapids
Herman Martin Duroc
Poland
Tipton
Anamosa
Jhursday
OCF
William Knox
Marion
Louie Scheetz
Belle Plaine
Sixty Years A Thresherman
John Simpson, 80, near Rowley, claims a record run of threshing spanning about sixty years. He began as a youth driving horse power for his father Jonathan Simpson, bought his first separator share sixty years ago, and has never purchased a new machine. An expert repairer, he keeps his grain separator in top shape between seasons. Born on the family farms, Simpson never married and calls a life spent threshing his greatest achievement.
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Rowley
John Simpson
Simpson
Jonathan Simpson
Mr. Simpson
Farms Change Hands In Central Iowa Listings
Washington reports George Baird of Haskins bought the George Marr 80 acre farm, three and a half miles north of Ainsworth, for 11,500 dollars. Value set at 143.75 per acre. Mount Vernon notes William Ingold’s 90 acre farm, four miles west on Highway 30, bought by John Buresh of Tipton for 130 dollars an acre. Lisbon area sees John H Miller’s 110 acre farm, five miles northeast in Jones county, purchased by H C Keseberg of Anamosa for 100 dollars per acre.
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Washington
George Marr
Ainsworth
George Baird
Haskins
Mount Vernon
William Ingold
Here
John Buresh
Tipton
H. C. Keseberg
Anamosa
John H. Miller
Lisbon
Jones County
Paralta Joe W. Taylor sells White Rock cockerels
Joe W. Taylor, 89, formerly of Paraita, sold nineteen White Rock cockerels at four months twelve days old to Linn County Produce in Marion for 19.51 dollars. Fourteen birds weighed about five pounds after fasting and sold for 21 cents per pound. five weighed four pounds and sold at 19 cents. Eggs were sourced from his daughter Maud McBride northwest of Marion. They hatched May 26 and ranged freely over summer with a diet of soured skimmish and soaked oats, plus some corn for finishing.
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Ganette
Paralta
Joe W. Taylor
Paraita
Linn County Produce Company
Marion
Maynard to Open Cold Storage Locker Plant
Henry Warnke leads construction of a 24 by 56 foot cold storage locker plant in Maynard. The facility will house 240 lockers in two sizes with annual rents of 12.50 for the large lockers and 10 for standard size. A butcher shop will operate in connection with the plant and it is slated for use by November 15.
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Maynard—A
Maynard
Henry Warnke
Erosion Control Tour Opens in Farmersburg Area
Winneshiek county farmers will gather near Farmersburg at 10 a.m. October 15 for a tour of the Monona F armersburg watershed. The event will inspect soil erosion control practices and discuss methods to reduce runoff.
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Decorah
Monona
Farmersburg
Winneshiek County
Notice of Receiver Sale Compromise for Cedar Rapids Bank
D W Bates as Receiver for the American Trust and Savings Bank of Cedar Rapids Iowa files to compromise and settle a note of Mary FP Horak secured by a first mortgage on two thirds of a Linn County Iowa estate. Hearing set October 14 1937 at 9 am at the Cedar Rapids Courthouse to show cause why the application should not be granted. George C Gorman attorney for the receiver.
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American Trust and Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
District Court
Linn County
D. W. Sates
Mary FP. Horak
Carpenter
Seventh Avenue
Towa
D. W. Bates
The
American Trust and Savings Bank of
George C Gorman
Seed Improvement Association Ties to Scott County Farm Bureau
Scott County seed improvement association articles were approved at the Farm Bureau board meeting in Davenport. The group links with the county bureau to ensure direct benefits to members and aims to secure and provide improved seed varieties of oats wheat barley and corn to Scott County farmers as soon as developed.
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Davenport
Scott County
See Improvement Association
Farm Bureau Board
County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Celwein Creamery Pays 41 Cents For Butterfat
Patrons of the Celwein Farmers Cooperative creamery received 41 cents a pound for butterfat delivered in the first half of September, according to secretary Frank Schroeder. The month’s butter production was below normal due to poor pastures.
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Celwein
Celwein Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Frank Schroeder
Tile laid on O. Kramer farm near Troy Mills
A tile carriage is being laid on the O Kramer farm two miles west of Troy Mills this fall. The tile was hauled from Garrison and is being installed by workmen from Center Point.
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Gass Troy Mills
O. Kramer
Troy Mills
Garrison
Center Point
Hawkeye Sorghum Output From Hawkeye Deliveries
Four hundred eighty pounds of sorghum were produced from two truckloads of cane at the Clermont mill, delivered by Austin Wilbur of Hawkeye.
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Epecia
Hawkeye
Clermont
Austin Wilbur
Sleeping sickness reported on Walker farm horse
A horse on the A. J. Nelson farm was lost this week from a disease diagnosed as sleeping sickness. No other case of sleeping sickness has been reported in the Walker neighborhood. Save on apples pears grapes tomatoes honey and other good things to eat. Look under classification 33 in the Wart Ad section.
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the Gazette
Walker
A. J. Nelson
New Corn Grades 4 Sells for 57 Cents
Blairstown farmer Walter Thor man husked and shelled 1,400 bushels of corn and delivered it to the elevator where it graded No. 4 and brought 57 cents a bushel. Yield was 75 bushels per acre. Webster corn picking started the week with Jake Bowman and Son harvesting 1,700 bushels from 25 acres at Kinross. price 54 cents. Roy Sorden, Glenn Sorden, and E. E. Starry worked on different farms. moisture prevents cribbing and soybean threshing is set to begin next week. acreage small.
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Blairstown
Walter Thorman
The
Gazette
Webster
Jake
Local farmers inch into harvest as weather allows
Practically no cribbing of corn has been done in the area. Some farmers plan to begin next week or by mid October if drying weather continues. Soybean and potato harvests and fall plowing are already underway.
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Oewein
October Moods and Colors From a Country Woman
October brings bright blue skies, tangy air, and misty mornings over the countryside. Russet yellows and crimson leaves compete with fiery vines as daylight slips earlier, and the misty dawns lift to reveal a fresh autumn day, echoed by the observer’s wistful tone.
Kansas Feed Specialist To Speak At Marion
Hugh Gordon of Marion announces that J. S. Hughes of Kansas State College Manhattan will speak in Marion on the evening of Oct. 13. The open meeting should interest poultry and livestock feeders and dealers in Marion and surrounding areas.
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Hugh Gordon
Marion
J. S. Hughes
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Gordon
West Liberty farm sale tops with high price
Forty six boars averaged 50.50, fifty three gifts averaged 31, in the Ruesa Brothers Poland China sale near West Liberty. Ninetynine head averaged 41 with a top 107.50 paid by J A Shanda Son for a boat. Three hundred people attended. Illinois buyers bought forty head, rest to Wisconsin and Iowa. Milk price notes include oats 28 cents a bushel and corn 11.50 to 16.50 an acre. Top cow 59, eight pig cow 49, four months colt 45. sale total over 2100.
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the Gazette
West Liberty
Ruesa Brothers
Poland
China Breeders West
Top
J. A. Shanda and Son
Birmingham
George Nugent
Blue Grass
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
George Baldwin
Maynard Farm Sale Nets High Prices for Livestock
Beecial to The Ganette reports near Maynard the Dave Barnholt sale closed with top horse and top cow each fetching 78 dollars. Cows averaged 60 dollars, shoats 12, old ewes 5, lambs 7, old geese 150, young geese 1, pullets 0.66.
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Maynard
Dave Barnholt
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