Plans For Expansion Of Junior Farm Clubs In Iowa
Iowa extension service plans statewide growth of junior farmers clubs modeled after Fayette county and Ben ton programs. Originating in Fayette three years ago, the forums engage youths beyond 4 H age, with county agents and vocational instructors aiding. Clubs aim to stimulate social political and economic thinking, provide education and community involvement, and organize county based groups with township meetings for study and social events.
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Iowa
Fea
Young Farmers
Fayette County
Junior Farm Bureau
Benton
Extension Service
Ames
Paul C. Taff
B. W. Lodwick
Black Hawk
Floyd
Cerro Gordo
Franklin
Howard
Chickasaw
Winneshiek
Allamakee
Clayton
Taff
College and Experiment Station
Smith- Hughes
FENCE DRIET Criticizes Crop Reduction Plan
An INS dispatch from Burlington reports at the Iowa Baptist convention Rev. E. C. Herrick of Newton Center mass denounces the AAA crop reduction program as Farm birth control calling it ruinous stupid and wicked The remark adds a provocative edge to the convention scene and sparks debate among attendees.
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INS
Burlington
E. C. Herrick
Newton Center
Mass
Iowa Baptist Convention
Pumpkins Grown In Sixty Acres Pay Rent On Farm
Troy Mills farmers harvest a large pumpkin crop from a sixty acre field planted to corn. Truckloads go to the Cedar Rapids canning factory as farmers receive 40 cents a hundredweight. Jess Sauer William Reece and Raymond Gosse delivered pumpkins this week. Sauer received a hundred dollar check for pumpkins harvested from the sixty acre field. The crop is expected to nearly cover the rent on the land.
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Troy Mills
Cedar Rapids
Jess Sauer
William Reece
Raymond Gosse
Sauer
Price Of Old Corn In Stanwood Vicinity
Old corn in the Stanwood area brings 71 to 72 cents a bushel as farmers harvest husked corn for feeders. Some grain is trucked into the drought area in southern Iowa while others husk and store corn. Mort Coppess and Sons have cribbed over eighty bushels. average yield is about fifty bushels per acre. Farmers use roughage mills for corn fodder. soy bean harvesting nears completion and sudafi grass is harvested. Plowing slows under dry ground. hickory and walnut crops are poor. potato crops fair.
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Stanwood
Iowa
Mort Coppess and Sons
Lafayette
Walker Soybean Threshing Underway at Troy Mills Farm
In Troy Mills last Saturday Byron Snodgrass hosted threshing of soybeans. John Simon reported twenty bushels per acre from beans he threshed Monday. George Snyder near Kiene picked a Wolf River apple weighing one and a half pounds and sixteen inches in circumference.
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Edgewood
Charles’Thomas
Greeley
Walker
Troy Mills
Byron Snodgrass
John Simon
George Snyder
Kiene
Wolf River
Tolley sees new phase in farm plan
H R Tolley chief of the Planning Division AAA Washington told 500 extension workers at the Iowa state extension conference that the adjustment program is moving from emergency to long term. He cited a shift from intensive to extensive farming with more land in pasture hay and woodlots to balance economy and conserve soil.
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Ames
H. R. Tolley
AAA
Washington, D. C
Iowa
Mr. Tolley
Iowa State College
Tolley
Wisconsin
Dr. Tolley
Tolley Saace
Leffort
Elgin Farmers Buy Sheep In Illinois And Kentucky
Elgin farmer Elmer Christen bought a Cheviot ram at Belleville Illinois. The ram, Grand Champion at the 1930 International Livestock Exposition in Chicago, was selected after a Kentucky trip where Rothlisberger chose four ewe lambs and a ram lamb from George Woodruff of Shelbyville. The lambs will found a purebred flock for Rothlisberger.
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Gazette
Elgin
Elmer Christen
Belleville
Chicago
Christen
Sam Holmes
Maynard
Otis Rothlisberger
Kentucky
Shelbyville
Rothlisberger
Hampshire
George Woodruff
Selt Psb
4 County Corn Show Held In Clinton Nov 1 2 3
Clinton Illinois hosts the second annual four county corn show with participants from Clinton and Jackson counties and Town Whiteside and Carroll counties. County reps compete for best corn varieties and a show sweepstakes prize across November 1 to 3.
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Clinton (Ap
Clinton
Jackson
Town
Whiteside
Carroll
Illinois
Farm Near Solon Brings $35 An Acre At Auction
SOLON The Joseph Smutny farm of 101 acres, sold at auction to settle the Smutny estate, was bought by Ernest Heinsius for $35 an acre.
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Solon
Joseph Smutny
Smutny
Ernest Heinsius
Machinery auction at Glenn Wagner farm near Lafayette
Auction at the Glenn Wagner farm four miles north of Lafayette offered fair prices for farm gear. A spreader fetched 75.50 dollars and a two year old 15 28 tractor sold for 392.50. Horses nine to twelve years old brought 50 to 100 dollars, twenty seven cows 25 to 70 dollars, hogs 3.50 to 4 dollars per hundredweight and 150 pullets 0.85 each.
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Lafayette
Glenn Wagner
farmer loses sixteen sheep to dogs north of Shellsburg
Frank Hat field, a farmer living north of Shellsburg, reports sixteen sheep were killed this week by dogs. Police or local authorities documented the incident, highlighting livestock losses in the rural area.
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Shellsburg
Frank Hatfield
What's What Out on the Acres Approves of Corn Loan
Interview with F W Fred Tiedemann owner operator of 320 acres three miles north of Blairstown. He has lived there since 1912 born near Luzerne in 1888 and discusses farm prospects drought price trends government programs and contract probes. He shelled and sold 6800 bushels of corn and notes more than 2000 bushels trucked to drought districts. He expects poorer crop yields but remains hopeful for the future.
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F. W
Fred” Tiedemann
Blairstown
Luzerne
Iowa
Missouri
Hogs Fall to Fresh Low After August Peak
Des Moines bureau reports hog prices slipping to the lowest since the late August peak as weeklong trade shows 15 to 30 cent declines. Heavy runs and a weak corn hog ratio pressure bids, with 200 to 300 pound butchers at 4.90 to 5.40 and lighter weights around 4.60 to 5.25.
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The
Gazette
Des Moines
Farm Auction Schedule From Ana mosa to Swisher
Auction notices list events on October 20 22 and 23 including a 60 acre farm sale. Consignments at Anamosa closing out sale near Toddville John Bowers sale near Toddville and A A LeGrand public sale near Walford plus a farm at Swisher presented by Mrs John Cejka.
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John
Bowers
Toddville
A. A. le Grand
Walford
John Cejka
Baled Clover Brings 70 Cents at Auction
Two and one half tons of baled clover hay sold Wednesday at 70 cents per bale, $19 per ton at a consignment sale in Columbus Junction. Pears and sweet potatoes fetched 75 cents and 85–90 cents per bushel. Hog prices ranged $3 to $4.65 per hundredweight, with broad sows at $15. Cattle totaled 100 head. Calves sold at $4.65 for Colorado white faced and $4.35 for Angus per cwt, fleshy steers and heifers $3.75 to $4.50, milk cows $20 to $35. Auctioneers Paul Klotz and H. M. Duncan. Farrel Smylie clerk.
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Columbus Junction
Colorado
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Farrel Smylie
Field corn sells cheap at Walter Nellist sale near Spencers Grove
At the Walter Nellist Jr farm sale one mile west of Spencers Grove corn in the field sold for 8.10 and 6.50 an acre on 17 and 20 acre tracts. Horses cows calves sows and glitters brought various prices. Farm machinery including binder corn planter mower hay rake and elevator sold with several bid prices. Loren Hite acted as auctioneer and Russell Shreeves as clerk.
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Spencers Grove
Walter Nellist, Jr
Loren Hite
Russell Shreeves
Four Hundred Chickens Stolen From John Pretz Farm
Four hundred chickens were stolen this week from the John Pretz farm located south of Columbus City, theft report noting farm setback and local concern.
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Columbus Junction
John Pretz
Columbus City
Buildings To Be Restored On Insurance Firm Farm
An insurance company will restore all farm buildings four miles southeast of Walker on the Brecht property. Work already done includes carpentry on the house and corn cribs. plans cover replastering, remodeling chicken houses, garage, machine shed, hog house and barn, and painting all structures this fall with completion next spring.
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Bpedal
Gazette
Walker
Bernard Brecht
Angus Cattle Bought by Dysart Pair from Donahue Herd
Walter Brandt and Otto Ehrich of near Dysart recently purchased twenty nine head of purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle from the T. J. Donahue herd near Parnell.
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Dysart
Walter Brandt
Otto Ehrich
T. J. Donahue
Parnell
Notice of Appointment Executrix in Iowa
Notice states Adal Baldwin is appointed and qualified as Executrix of Nathan Baldwin deceased in Linn County Iowa on October 2 1934. Creditors must pay debts to the Executrix and present claims to the Linn County District Court Clerk through attorney L D Dennis ADAL Baldwin Executrix.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Nathan Baldwin
Towa
District Court
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