Feed Supplies Seen Adequate for Livestock This Year
The agriculture department says feed supplies for cattle hogs chickens and other livestock will be a little smaller than in the last four years but per animal supply should equal 1951-52. Prices for grains and feeds remain broadly similar with southern regions facing higher costs due to drought, while hog production declines lift beef supplies and push retail beef prices downward. Corn prices may fall this fall on a bumper crop but rise later. barley and sorghum will be higher.
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Ashington
Agriculture Department
Bodensteiner Heads Fayette County Farm Bureau
Bodensteiner of West Union was elected president of the Fayette County Farm Bureau at the organization's annual meeting in the Upper Iowa University gymnasium. Maynard Menefee of Fayette was named secretary. Retiring president John W. Ingels and retiring secretary Reynold Strong declined renomination after years in their posts. Vice-president E. S. Pardee of Oelwein and Treasurer Hilder Gilbertson of Elgin were reelected. Mrs. Roy G. Potter of Fayette was elected county women's chairman and Mrs. Frank Downing of Fayette was named women's vice-chairman.
Aiken Blasts Demos Farm Vote Drive
Senator George Aiken accuses the Truman administration of scaring farmers into voting Democratic with threats of low prices. He cites alleged false statements by Truman and Brannan, a grain storage hoax, and alleged failures to curb overplanting and regulate imports. He lists five points against Brannan including price support and use of funds for non basic perishables.
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Wee
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Truman
Brannan
Aiken
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Coming Auctions In Faal The Gazette Oct 21 1 P M
Upcoming sales listed with times and locations across Iowa. Chester White boar and gilt sale by Mr and Mrs Herbert F Hoover near Oskaloosa. closing out sale including livestock and household goods by Bert Stewart near Whit tier. public sale of cattle hogs poultry by D D Liebe near Alburnett. dispersal of registered Guernseys hay grain machinery by Arthur A Satterlee near Independence. closing out sale machinery hay tools by Howard Gardner near Center Point.
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Chester
Herbert F. Hoover
Oskaloosa
Bert Stewart
Whittier
D. D. Liebe
Alburnett
Arthur A. Satterlee
Independence
Howard Gardner
Center Point
Farmers wary of another billion in Fair Deal hogs aid
Aiken warned that hog prices remain unstable and urged Brannan to declare price support. He argued farmers were misled in 1948 and do not want to sacrifice more billions to back the Fair Deal, noting congressional authority timing as crucial.
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Aiken
Brannan
Neighbors Harvest Spahr’s Corn for Ill Monticello Farmer
Monticello residents from Peniel Presbyterian church and others gathered Monday to harvest and crib corn on Austin Spahr’s farm five miles west of Monticello. Spahr has been ill and unable to handle his chores.
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Monticello
Peniel Presbyterian Church
Austin Spahr
Spahr
Four-H Lamb Project Members Listed in Iowa
Thirty-one Eastern Iowa 4-H and FFA members plus four Iowa Braille and Sight-Saving pupils received feeder lambs from Worland Wyoming. Lambs priced at 23.15 per hundredweight averaged 73 percent of target weight and each member got 18 head with two extra to drop. Distribution spanned Benton Linn Jones Cedar Muscatine Keokuk counties and the show sale is planned at Hawkeye Downs in January.
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Iowa
4-H
FFA
Iowa Braille and
Vinton
Deane Rinner
Wilson and Company
Worland
Wyo
Hawkeye Downs
Stanwood
Washington
Benton County
Delbert
Charles Koopman
van Horne
Ted
Arlo Becker
Watkins
Linn County
Joyce
Gene Novak
Gerald Huerter
James Drenkhahn
Mills cow sets record with 14727 pounds milk
Barbara Fobes a five year old Holstein cow owned by Wallace Y Millis and Agnes J Millis of Coggon produced 14727 pounds of milk and 587 pounds of fat in 306 days on two time milking, official HIR record.
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MILLS
Barbara Fobes
Maplewood
Wallace Y
Agnes J. Millis
Coggon
Farm Near Greeley Sold to Bockenstedt
Mrs. William Flick sold a 133 acre farm near Greeley to Thomas Bockenstedt. The sale details are recorded in local property records.
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Greeley Farm
Greeley
William Flick
Thomas Bockenstedt
Fayette County Fair Report Details Receipts and Expenditures
Fayette County Agricultural Society secretary Ed Bauder reports 30 042 16 in receipts and 28 711 81 in expenditures for the year with 24 338 98 from the Fayette fair and the rest from other sources. Outside gate receipts 8 281 90 grand stand admissions 7 583 35 concessions 4 833 30 and pens and stalls rent about 500. Premiums total 2 375 35 for adult events 1 459 80 for 4 H and FFA classes 550 for speed events. Music costs 9 422 90 and federal taxes cut 1 436 81. The board paid off 1 500 in debt and spent 1 427 95 on improvements. Election of directors and officers to be decided at the annual meeting.
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West Union
Fayette
Fair Board
Fair Association
Fair
Waterloo Meat Animal Show Set to Open Friday
Waterloo meat animal show begins Friday and runs through Saturday with record entries expected in cattle hog and sheep divisions. Cash premiums exceeding 5000 dollars will be awarded, organizer John W. Coverdale reports.
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Waterloo
John W. Coverdale
Duroc Boar Brings Record Price At Iowa Falls Sale
Gregor Walker and Sons of Dyersville paid 2500 dollars for the junior champion Duroc boar at the Klein and Neubauer sale in Iowa Falls. Officials of the United Duroc Record Association call it the highest bid for a Duroc boar this year.
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Iowa Falls
Gregor Walker and Sons of
Dyersville
Klein and Neu,bauer
United Duroc Record Association
What's What Out on the Acres
Orvel Cress, 54, a 190 acre operator near Toddville, discusses corn yields from the year with Rex Conn. He reports fields around 65 bushels with some at 90, 1200 bushels sold in Center Point, and 56 summer pigs. He backs Eisenhower and Beardsley, citing farm policy and the Korean War.
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Toddville
Glenn Reeder
St. Louis
Curtis Schnell
Darris
Rex Conn
Truman
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Beardsley
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