Unemployed Relief Husking Corn For Food Trade In Grundy
Twenty five Waterloo Unemployed Relief members husked corn on W A Kinsinger’s Grundy county farm eight miles southwest of Grundy Center. Payment was in corn meal at a rate of 27 bushels per 1000 bushels, valued at $30.37, with an expected daily yield of 1000 bushels.
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Waterloo
Rundy Center
Tve
Unemployed Relief Club of
W. A. Kinsinger
Grumeéy Center
Grundy County
Ebay
Kinsinger
Relief Club
S. P Murray
Hereford steer tops 12.36 at 4-H sale in Chicago event
The final 4-H beef cattle auction reached 12.36 a hundredweight for a Hereford steer raised by 13 year old Jean Turnbull of Marshall County Illinois. Buyers from about thirty counties across Wisconsin Indiana Illinois and Iowa took part, with over 1,900 head sold.
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Chicago
Jean Turnbull
Marshall County
Wisconsin
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Dillon Re employed Linn County Agent
George Dillon was re employed for the coming year as Linn county agricultural agent at a Farm Bureau board meeting in Marion. Afterward the group adopted a 1932 program of work. Allan Kline, farmer near Vinton and Benton county Farm Bureau president, spoke. Mrs Josephine Bakke, state girls club leader of Ames, met with club leaders and women project chairs to aid planning.
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George Dillon
Linn County
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Marion
Crganigation
Allan Kline
Vinton
Benton County Farm Bureau
Josephine Bakke
Ames
Womens Project
Remarkable potato crop near West Branch reported
Frank J Kof ron’s patch east of West Branch yielded eighty four bushels from a quarter acre grown from 200 pounds of seed. The Rural New Yorkers averaged about one and a half pounds, with some as large as two pounds. The crop was cultivated three times with a corn plow and the care consisted mainly of removing button weeds.
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Bnee'at
the Gazette
West Branch
Frank J Kofron
Fence Drift in Open Country At October Midnight
A tranquil night scene shows a fenced landscape under a ringed moon. No movement except a mare and her foal in the adjacent pasture as corn shocks stand still in the open country.
State Husking Meet Set for Nov 4 at Jasper County Farm
The opening qualifiers for the eleventh Iowa state corn husking contest occur Nov 4 at the F F Lasket farm in Jasper county. Rock Rapids hosted the first round with Shelby and Polk counties to hold contests earlier. Lee Carey, 1931 champ from Laurel, plans to defend. W E Cripps of Wallaces' Farmer directs the event.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Rock Rapids
Lyon County
Farm Days Institute
Shelby
Polk County
Crand Junction
Greene County
Lytton High
Adams
Poweshiek
Jones
Johnson
Woodbury
Webster
Sac
Alamakee
Wright
Adair
Bremer
Wayne
Henry
Jasper
Floyd
Emory
Humboldt
Kossuth
Mahaska
Grundy
Crawford
Guthrie
Davis
Decatur
Fayette
Fremont
Lee Carey
Laurel
F F Lasket Farm
Jasper County
W E. Cripps
Wallaces
Farmer
Homestead
Hog cholera outbreaks reported across 33 eastern Iowa localities
The Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association bulletin lists 33 eastern Iowa communities with hog cholera outbreaks of varying intensity in the last week. Named towns include Belle Plaine Irving Waterloo Marshalltown Washington Nashua Cedar Rapids Cedar Falls New Hampton Charles City Muscatine Malcom Lisbon Anamosa Wellman and more.
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Towa
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Belle Plaine
Irving
Uartwick
Marshalltown
Washington
Ainsworth
Columbus Junction
Green Island
Preston
Charlies City
Nashua
New Hampton
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Falls
New Hartford
Dike
Parkersburg
Sunbury
Bennett
Durant
Witton
Isner
Man
Chester Reinbeck
Victor Wheatland
Calamus Maguokretn
Barnes Cate Waterlan
Lisbon
Anamosa
Milton Blackieg Partell Shewshugg
Milton
Iowa City
Ponttiyong
Lone Tiere
Melbourne
Ossian Waferty
Charles City
Cholera
Milter Wellman Woashington
Keota
Iowa Corn Remains Too Moist for Cribbing Reports Reed
Des MoinesAP Iowa corn is mostly too moist to crib in quantity after slow drying last week. Gharits D Reed, director of the weather bureau, reports little or no damage from freezes. Winter wheat progress steady, apples and potatoes harvested, soybeans thriving as rains and snow end week.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Gharits D. Reed
Weather Bureau
Tipton C T A records 29.5 September milking average
Tipton high school dairy judging reports show 421 cows tested in September yielding an overall average of 654 pounds of milk and 295 pounds of butterfat. Alex Buchanan led with 15 Holsteins at 1 035 milk and 391 fat. Ernest Gaul's purebred Jersey cow produced 1 095 milk and 64.2 fat.
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Tipton
Tipton High School
Alex Buchanan
Stewart and Cottrell
Guernseys
Hobstetter
T M. Straub
Jerseys
Ernest Gaul
Jersey
Guernsey
Victor Gaul
T M Straub
Milking Shorthorn Herd Tops Fayette Cow Test Scores
West Union reports E. O. Wagner's ten cow Milking Shorthorn herd led Fayette County Cow Test No 4 in September with 670 pounds of milk and 26.6 pounds of butterfat per cow. The high cow yielded 1 689 pounds of milk and 65.9 pounds of butterfat. Association wide average was 360 pounds of milk and 16 pounds of butterfat across 370 cows with 89 dry.
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West Union
E. O Wagner
Fayette County
Jones Fertilizer Plot Harvested Saturday in Anamosa Area
Corn on the Jones county fertilizer test plot at the L A Pospishil farm near Martelle will be harvested Saturday afternoon under W A Watkins of the Ames extension crops department and County Agent Lloyd E Hudson. It marks the second year of a three year test to study fertilizer effects on Carrington silt loam. Last year the plot grew corn. next year oats will follow, then clover and corn again.
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Jones County
L. A. Pospishil
Martelle
W A Watkins
Ames Extension Crops Department
Lloyd E Hudson
Carrington
Hogs Stolen From Ladora Stockyards Reported
Special to The Gazette in Ladora reports three hogs were stolen from the stockyards late Saturday night. Local buyer EE Matteron had purchased the hogs with plans to market them Sunday. the trio weighed 1680 pounds in total.
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Ladora
Matteron
Louis Rank Appointed Dickinson County Agent
Sperial to The Gazette reports Louis Rank of Belle Plaine former chib agent in Fayette county has been employed by Dickinson County as agent with fees stated. Amana reports a beet raised by William Foerstner in his maiden year measured nineteen and a half inches and thirty one and a half inches with a weight of four and a half pounds, the largest grown locally.
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Louis Rank
Dickinson County
Sperial
Cavett
Belle Plaine
Chib
Fayette County
Willam Foerstner
Manchester
Iowa City
Farm Bureau Party Planned at Anamosa High School
A Jones county Farm Bureau party is scheduled for Friday evening at the Anamosa High School gymnasium. The program includes games and a talk by a representative from the Ames extension service, announced by the county agent.
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Farm Bureau Party
Sprein
Anamosa
Jones County
Farm Bureau
Annamosa Indh
Bymnasium
Ames Extension Service
Lloyd E Hudson
What's What Out on the Acres
Interview with R J Duffey owner operator of 160 acres south of Manchester born 1870. He owns ten acres of timber and pays taxes of about 251 dollars for his quarter section and timber tract. He says taxes are too high given current farm prices.
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R. J. Duffey
Manchester
Farm auctions and tax talk across Iowa counties
A compiled list details Holstein breeder sales in Fayette West Union Sharon DeClow barn Cedar Rapids Marion and Knudson near 1 mile NE Marion plus statewide farm market figures in Muscatine Linn Fayette Cherokee Allamakee. A Manchester man urges tax cuts and critiques county spending while surveying supervisor costs mileage and printing across nine counties.
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Delaware
Linn
Buchanan
Muscatine
Fayette
Cherokee
Allamakee
Clayton County
Clayton
Dubuque
Iowa Pop Corn Yield Seen At 1600 Pounds Per Acre
Des Moines AP report says Iowa’s pop corn crop will be about 1600 pounds per acre with 10000 acres planted, the smallest yield since 1921. Jumbo popcorn, thriving in southern counties, grows in popularity in the east, hurting Sac and Ida county production.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Carl N. Kennedy
Sac and Ida Counties
Springville Farmer Burns Corn for Fuel
Springville E. N. Sherman, farmer four and a half miles northwest of Springville, uses old corn for fuel. He hauls corn by wagonload to the house and stores it in coal bins to replace $8 a ton coal. Mrs. Sherman supports the coal substitute for its quick, hot fire.
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Springville
E. N. Sherman
County Grows 3000 Bushels Potatoes for Needy
Three thousand bushels of potatoes were grown this year on a 20 acre Fayette county farm for needy families. Five hundred bushels stored in Oelwein and 200 in West Union. Remainder stored at the county arm.
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West Union
Fayette County
Oelwein
Wool bids in Mechanicsville rise with centage notes
A Muscatine wool buyer bought several local lots at 15 and 16 cents a pound, higher than the spring high of 9 cents. One farmer holds four years of clip, still stored.
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Gazette
Mechanicsville
Muscatine
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