Strong Cattle Market Outlook From Chicago Trade Guesses
NION STOCKYARDS Chicago Ed J Frye and family entered the market with fifteen carloads of long fed steers. Prices around 11 per hundredweight on 1203 pound cattle amid heavy receipts as traders foresee continued strength with possible fluctuations in mid to late winter.
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Nion Stockyards
Chicago
Ed J. Frye
Keystone
Frye
Kenneth Frye
Benton County
Chicago Daily Drovers Journal
Corn Belt
Livestock Market
Maynard Creamery Pays 27 Cents For Butterfat
Maynard Co operative Creamery patrons received twenty seven cents per pound for September butterfat per secretary CH Paul A article notes installation of a new hyp beer at the creamery and mentions Maynard.
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Maynard Creamery
Maynard
Maynard Co-operative Creamery
CH Paul
Fence drift slows farm implement sales in Grundy county
A dealer said during a husking contest on a Grundy county farm that spreaders sold slowly this season due to a lack of straw last year. He noted oats production is unprofitable for grain value, and that livestock bedding issues affect farmer decisions though spreader sales should rise this fall and next spring.
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Grundy County
Outbreaks of Hog Cholera Reported in Iowa Farms
Hog cholera is taking a heavy toll on farms across eastern Iowa per the Eastern Iowa Veterinary association bulletin. The disease is reported as extensive or total losses in multiple counties and towns including Cascade Luxemburg New Vienna Grand Mound Vinton Earlville Davenport Blue Grass Durant Newhall Belle Plaine Elberon Keystone Dunkerton Independence Hazleton West Branch DeWitt Petersville Nashua Petersburg Maquoketa Cresco Elma Morning Sun Iowa City Kalona Anamosa Marshalltown Paris Central City Mount Vernon Barnes City Montour Toledo Clutter Grinnell Montezuma Deep River Walcott Ossian Ridgeway.
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Iowa
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Cascade
Luxemburg
New Vienna
Grand Mound
Vinton
Earlville
Davenport
Blue Grass
Durant
Newhall
Belle Plaine
Elberon
Keystone
Dunkerton
Independence
Hazleton
West Branch
DeWitt
Petersville
Nashua
Petersburg
Maquoketa
Cresco
Elma
Weather and harvest update from Brandon region
Cribbing of corn has started in the Brandon area with limited farmers cribbing due to wet corn. Some fields show frost damage while soybean combines are now active and report good yield and quality.
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Brandon
Sow Sale Brings 40 80 At Sigourney Auction
A sow delivered near Sigourney fetched 40 80 at a local auction held Thursday. The report notes the price as a standout in the Northwest Delta area.
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C. N “Omastihe
Delta
Sigourney
Steers Bring $10 A Hundredweight At Chicago Sale
Cascade farmer Tom Kleep marketed a load of short fed steers near Cascade. The animals averaged 1129 pounds and sold for $10 per hundredweight at Chicago on Monday.
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Cascade
Tom Kleep
Chicago
Husking contest entries limited to twenty in state event
Iowa officials cut the state corn husking field to about twenty after county contests were delayed by a late harvest. Arthur Thompson of Des Moines said roughly sixty county champions are still being selected as the state contest on Grover Hahn farm near Davenport nears November 1.
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Davenport
INS
Iowa
Arthur Thompson
Des Moines
Thompson
Grover Hahn
Here
Ray Murray
Robert W
Farmers Show Interest In Equipment At Husking Meet
Special to The Gazette Grundy Center Iowa farmers packed the 3 county corn husking contest on the Simon Bockes farm seven miles southwest of Grundy Center. Dealers showcased gear though no major new items emerged. A rubber-tired tractor pulled the sweep for the elevator demonstration. Spectators crowded around machines, showing keen interest in cost and operation. One dealer said weekly sales of new farm machinery surpassed last year’s total.
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Gazette
Grundy Center
Simon Bockes
Notable diplomats invited to contest with national entourage
Combs will attend the contest and be joined by official guests including Governor Clyde Herring Senator Dickinson Senator Murphy and Congressman B M Jacobsen. An invitation was sent to Henry Wallace national agriculture secretary but he wired that other engagements prevent attendance.
Five Year Game Conservation Program Established In Iowa
Ames Iowa State college will host a five year cooperative program to conserve game and align farmers with sportsmen. Logan Bennett of the US Biological Survey leads the plan with funding from the state commission, the college, and federal sources. Quail and pheasant areas will be created in southern and northern Iowa to boost populations and benefit both farmers and hunters. Bennett will study quail and pheasant habitats and reasons for Hungarian partridge low numbers in the state.
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AMES
United States
Iowa State
Iowa State College
C J. Drake
Department of Entomology
Fred Schwab
State Conservation Commission
Logan Bennett
United States Biological Survey
Bennett
The
Biological Survey
Winona Lake
Minn
Iowa
American Wild Life Institute
Forestry Service
State Conservation Commissions
Wildlife program aims to boost Iowa bird and animal populations
Bennett outlines a five year cooperative wildlife program at Iowa State College involving Professor Hendrickson studying the cottontail rabbit population in southeastern Iowa, Dr. Paul Errington examining muskrat life history, and E. R. Becker and veterinary staff researching diseases in birds and animals to establish a practical disease control method and a permanent wildlife institute.
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Iowa
Bennett
George O. Hendrickson
Iowa State College
Hendrickson
Paul Errington
E. R. Becker
Department of Veterinary Medicine
State Conservation Commission
Becker
Corn Not Yet Fit To Crib In Hawkeye Area
Special to The Gazette reports plowing underway after last week’s rain in the Hawkeye area. Most corn not ready for cribbing with little farming activity observed near Williamsburg. Clark Heitman sold a 1 284 pound steer load at Chicago Monday for 12.90 per hundredweight and his brother Herman sold a 1 289 pound steer load at the same price.
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Hawkeye
Williamsburg
Clark Heitman
Here
Chicago
Herman
Stallion work urged to keep horses fit and productive
Wayne Dinsmore of Chicago urges breaking stallions to harness at age two and using them year round for plowing and field work. He cites Glenn Thomas of Stanford, TJ, whose team placed fourth in a national stallion pulling contest. Dinsmore argues consistent work improves breeding readiness and farm economics.
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Chicago
Wayne Dinsmore
Horse and Mule Association of America
Dinsmore
Glenn Thomas
Stanford
Thomas
Crete
4 H Record Book Winners Announced
Mrs Josephine Arnquist Bakke state 4 H girls club leader today announced the winners of the annual 4 H girls state record book contest with trips to the National 4 H club congress in Chicago the first week in December eighty four outstanding 4 H club girls from forty three counties submitted their record books Judges were Mrs Bakke and other state extension 4 H club girls staff Winners include Lucille Duncan Dickins Clay county 9 year record Gladys Zabel Eldridge Scott county 8 year Kathleen Schwendemann Duncombe Webster county 7 year Marjorie Bannister Janesville Black Hawk county 6 year Maude Chapin Cedar Falls Black Hawk county 5 year Ellen Eyres LeMars Plymouth county 4 year Eva Kline felter Grundy Center Grundy county 3 year and Marguerite James West Liberty Muscatine county 2 year
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Ames
Josephine Arnquist Bakke
Chicago
Bakke
Lucille Duncan
Dickins
Clay County
Gladys Zabel
Eldridge
Scott County
Kathleen Schwendemann
Duncombe
Webster County
Marjorie Bannister
Janesville
Black Hawk County
Maude Chapin
Cedar Falls
Ellen Eyres
LeMars
Plymouth County
Sorghum Mill Near Clermont Closes After Three Weeks
L H Appelmans sorghum mill north of Clermont shut down after a three week run producing about 4000 gallons. Two eight man shifts worked during the run. The mill made sorghum from cane grown on his farm and for seventy two other farmers. All local cane was harvested before frost.
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Clermont
L. H. Appelman
Farm Auction Schedule October 23 26
Public sale by J R White one mile east of Toddville on Wednesday. Chester White boar and gilt sale by J B Seehusen four miles south Center Junction on Thursday. McClintock Gensicke dissolution sale five miles northwest Cedar Rapids. Sale of S D horses by Sam Dean at Marion. Milking Shorthorn Society cattle sale Independence on Friday. Cattle sale at West Union Saturday. Mayer and Rice Holstein sale three and a half miles west Central City on Wednesday November 6.
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Charlies McClintock
Genalcke Fatate
Cedar Rapids
Linn Junction
J. R. White
Toddville
Chester
J. B. Seehusen
South Center Junction
McClintock-Gensicke
S. D
Sam Dean
Marion
Shorthorn Society
West Union
Mayer and Rice Holstein
Central City
First New Corn Load Brings Fifty Cents Per Bushel
F R Schenke of Greeley brings the region s first new corn from Frank Schilling nearby. The load is of good quality but high moisture. Price paid is fifty cents per bushel of seventy pounds.
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Greeley
F. H. Schenke
Frank Schilling
Neap
Louisa Farmers Get Second 1935 Corn-Hog Checks
Wapello reports delayed Group 1 corn hog payments totaling 21,445.15 dollars were distributed to Louisa county farmers on Monday. This marks the second payment under 1935 contracts.
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Louisa County
County Husking Meets Scheduled Across Eastern Iowa
Clinton county corn husking contest set for Oct 28 at 10 a.m. on Mike Kearney farm near DeWitt. Louisa county event planned Oct 29 at 10 a.m. on Cotter Brothers farm west of Wapello. Lee Stodgell of Morning Sun, 1934 state winner, defends title. Other dates: Benton Oct 24 Grundy Oct 28 Jackson Louisa Johnson Black Hawk Washington Cedar Buchanan Jones Oct 29 and Fayette Oct 30. Separator speed may cause cream test variation.
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DE Witt
Clinton County
Mike Kearney
DeWitt
Wapello
Louisa County
Cotter Brothers
Lee Stodgell
Morning Sun
Iowa
Benton County
Grundy County
Jackson
Louisa
Johnson
Black Hawk
Washington
Cedar
Buchanan
Jones
Fayette County
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Higley Building
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Springville, Ja
Whit«fiel, An
Jesse Stiller
Oo. J. Emmons
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