Fairfax Stockyards Revived by North Western Rail Line
The Iowa farm page reports Fairfax stockyards revived after North Western Railway remodel. Station agent C L McCaughey notes 83 car loads of livestock moved since January, with 61 feeder cattle to Wes Trachta. Trachta now holds 1,292 head on feed across three farms after 15 carloads arrived Monday. Gerhardt King also received two carloads at Fairfax.
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Fairfax
Gazette Farm Page
North Western Railway
North Western
C. L. McCaughey
McCaughey
Wes Trachta
Texas
Trachta
Iowa
Gerhardt King
Cedar Rapids
State reports test seeds and feeds in 1939 inspections
A Iowa department of agriculture bulletin summarizes 2722 jam seed samples and seed and feed inspections. It lists dealers and their products, notes increases in feeds offered since 1938, and reports actions against misbranded or illegal items. La Follette urges farmers to guard against dubious tonic products.
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ES Moines
Iva Depar
Amiculture
Das
Etn
Pet
LaFolette
Regice Ferend
Ceed
Marne
Department of Agriculture
la Follette
Inwa
Lakollette
LaFollette
Actat
Chester Whites average $30 at Decorah sale.
Forty head of purebred Chester White spring farrowed boars were sold by Joe Shindelar near Catmar. Buyers came from Illinois Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa with most offerings taken by breeders from Chickasaw Alamakee and Winneshick counties. J B Sechuren of Center Junction paid a ton of $59 for the top animal. An average of $30 was obtained by Fred Ronan of Decorah, who denied the sale.
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Speria
Decorah
Chester
Joe Shindelar
Catmar
Illinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Chickasaw Allamakee
Winneshick
J B
Sechuren
Center Junction
Fred Ronan
Steers Sold by Luttman Brothers Near Grinnell
Luttman Brothers of Grinnell sold 30 head of 1.344 pound steers Monday at Cellar Rapids for 12.50 dollars per hundredweight.
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Luttman Brothers
Grinnell
Farm Auction Schedule For October Nearby Estates
Auction listings announce events on Wednesday October 16 for the George Novotny estate a 120 acre farm located 13 miles east of Shueysville. Thursday October 17 the 13 Ss Crock closing out sale takes place 6 miles south of Mechanicsville. Chester White sale 1 mile south of Center Jet and Beverly Cattle Co auction 5 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids. Friday October 18 Orden Scholl Hampshire boat sale Lost Nation.
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George Novotny
Shueysille
Ss. Crock
Mechanicsville
Seehhusen
Chester White
Center Jet
Beverly Cattle Co
Cedar Rapids
Orden Scholl Hampshire
Lost Nation
Voter Reflections On Parties and Prices In 1932 Farm Outlook
An extended interview covers party loyalties, McNary vs Roosevelt, Willkie, and Roosevelt Wallace, with focus on West agricultural policy, fear of production control, hog prices, farm taxes, and the era's economic strains. The speaker compares hog markets, farm income, and tax shifts, weighing political options and urging continued map-punching for voters.
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Dubuque
Willkie
Iowa state institutions report 12 million pounds milk year
Dairy herds at state institutions produced 12,018,245 pounds of milk in the last fiscal year. The Independence state hospital’s No 443 cow remained queen of the institutional bovines by yielding 21,901 pounds, while Glenwood school for feebles led herds with 1,392,203 pounds. Total milk value reached 240,368 dollars with feed costs 87,736 dollars, net profit 152,432. Mount Pleasant state hospital yielded 1,142,424 pounds at 22,848 dollars value and 7,985 dollars feed, net 14,862.
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PES Moines
INS
Board of Control
Can No
Independence State Hospital
Marshalltown
Ants
Glenwood School
Mount Pleasant State Hospital
Fence Drift Seen From Stock Car At Fairfax
A vivid early morning scene from the top of a stock car at Fairfax shows a locomotive shrouded in white smoke and steam against a rose and pink sunrise. The brief moment captured felt thrilling as multicolored trees framed the view.
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Fairfax
Five Buildings And Grain Lost In Dysart Farm Fire
A Dysart farm north east of town suffered extensive losses when a blaze destroyed a large barn a corncrib hog house tool shed two straw stacks and damaged a chicken house on August Reinke’s property operated by Howard Nutt. Fire origin is undetermined. The barn was under repair with workers finishing roofing work.
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Dysart
August Reinke
Howard Nutt
Winneshiek Corn Tests 30 to 35 Percent Moisture
Special to The Gazette reports a new moisture meter in Winneshiek County shows corn in samples from several fields at 30 to 35 percent moisture despite warm weather. Husking has not begun and a sharp frost could speed drying. Resealed corn in the county totals about 25,000 bushels.
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Decorah
Winneshiek
Clinton Husking Meet Near Wheatland Set Saturday
Clinton county hosts its annual cornhusking contest Saturday starting at 10 am at the Fred Witte farm east of Wheatland. Seventeen entries have been received with ten entrants to be chosen. defending champion Ben Wulf of DeWitt is among the competitors.
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Seerial
Wheatland
Clinton County
Fred Witte
Ben Wulf
DeWitt
VanderWerff Sells 46 Steers at Cedar Rapids Auction
Garrett VanderWerff of Sully sold 46 head weighing 1333 pounds each at Cedar Rapids for 13.30 dollars per hundredweight, securing a per-animal total around 178. The sale highlighted live cattle trading and local producer activity in Iowa.
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Garrett VanderWerff
Sully
Cedar Rapids
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