Iowa Farmers Lost 1.95 Billion in 1921 33 Period
Iowa extension director R K Bliss told agents that between 1921 and 1933 farmers earned 1.95 billion dollars less for farm products than if prices had kept pace with prewar levels and non agricultural prices. The loss averages 19.7 million per county and 2.5 million per township, underscoring the need to restore farmer purchasing power through AAA programs including the corn hog plan. Bliss urged vigorous trial of these adjustments to boost rural and urban economies.
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Iowa
R K Bliss
Ames Extension Service
Bliss
A.A A
United States
Butterfat payments top Wheatland creamery reports
Wheatland Co operative creamery directors announce butterfat purchases at 22 cents per pound for the last thirty days. Mrs Ernestine Schneider received the largest check totaling 59.29 dollars, with Diedrich and Siefert second at 52.86 dollars.
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Bnedal
Wheatland
Wheatland Co-operative Creamery
Ernestine Schneider
Diedrich and
Siefert
Kidney Sufferers Find Quick Relief In New Flushes
An advertisement claims fast results for irritated kidneys and bladder with a flushing remedy. It promises rapid relief from burning sensations, frequent urges, and joint pains tied to kidney inefficiency, offering a money back guarantee and a 1933-style sales pitch.
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Nefferty
Foley
Seventy Preliminary Cornhusking Contests in Iowa This Year
DES MOINES AP seventy county preliminaries ahead of the state meet on Nov 3 report rising marks and many dark horse contenders. W E Cripps notes sixty more meets than last year as eliminations proceed by Oct 31. Newcomers include Roy Dinsdale Arthur Stumpf and Ernest Jensen. Lee Stodgell posts season’s top load in 80 minutes with 2,675 pounds gross. Clarence Bockes set last year’s high with 2,698 pounds. this year his net is 2,341 pounds. Nearly 1,000 shuckers expected to participate by elimination’s end.
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Des Moines
W. E. Cripps
Roy Dinsdale
Shucker
Traer
Cripps
Dinsdale
Tama
Arthur Stumpf
Calhoun County
Ernest Jensen
Fontanelle
Adair
Lee Stodgell
Morning Sun
Louisa County
Clarence Bockes
Grundy Center
Bockes
Iowa
Buller County
Market Trends Show Grain and Cotton Up After Oct
The Market News Service reports grain and cotton rising after mid October with gold purchase plans and relief agency wheat buying cited as major influences. Butter eggs cheese and poultry held steady amid ample supplies while livestock prices weakened and fruit and vegetables stayed firm as harvest finished in northern regions. Labor costs rose about seven percent, and September farm income rose 14 percent year over year.
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Washington, D. C
Market News Service
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
East
Middle West
Officers And Directors Of Assn Of Local Creameries
A Cedar Rapids based group formed the nucleus of the Iowa Association of Local Creameries during the final Iowa Creamery Operators convention session. They previously convened July 26 in St Paul to spur the move. The new protest group aims to secure National Butter Marketing board representation for non affiliated creameries.
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Iowa Association of Local Creameries
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Creamery Operators
St. Paul
Fresh Eggs Dressed Poultry Markets See Price Shifts
Seasonal shortages have tightened supplies of fancy quality fresh eggs with active storage buying. Prices edge 1 to 3 cents higher than two weeks ago as stocks decline at a steady rate. Dressed poultry prices move slightly downward amid rising turkey fowl and heavy chicken supplies.
Cold Remedy Ad Claims Complete Internal Cure
An advertisement extols Graves Laxative Bromo Quin ine as the complete internal treatment for a cold. It outlines four stages of a cold and asserts the product opens clogged passages, relieves feverish symptoms, eases headache and grogginess, and fortifies the system against further attack. It pushes substituted versions and requests full name for purchases.
Horses Top At 140 In Columbus Jct Consignment Sale
Thirty horses sold Tuesday at Midway pavilion Columbus Junction for a top of 140 dollars. A matched pair brought 250 dollars paid by Lester Nees of Washington. Bidders included M Buster of Grandview paying 200 for seven year old bay mares. Cattle, hogs, milk cows and produce also sold. auctioneers Paul Klotz and H M Duncan, Farrel Smylie clerk.
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Columbus Junction
Midway Pavilion
James Smith
Lester Nees
Washington
M Buster
Grandview
Chicago
Paul Klotz
H M Duncan
Farrel Smylie
Hampshire Pigs Sell Steady at Webster Sale Top 16 1/2
Sixty five Hampshire boars and gifts sold for a top of 16.50 at the Pete Huffman farm one mile south of Webster. Ten head averaged 11 50. Stock pigs weighing about 150 pounds brought around 6 a head.
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Webster
Hampshire
Pete Huffman
Rural School Agricultural Exhibition at Strawberry Point
A rural school agricultural exhibition will be held Friday evening in the gymnas ium of Strawberry Point high school. Ten rural schools from the trade area will enter with Superintendent R. L. Amsberry of Oneida acting as judge.
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Strawberry Point
R. L Amsberry
Oneida
Troy Mills Corn Yields 40 to 45
Farmers in this vicinity report corn averaging forty to forty five bushels per acre with good quality. Husking is in full swing and huskers are paid two to three cents per bushel. George Oldridge and Erwin Price among the first to finish fields. Buyers offer 17 to 20 cents per bushel for new corn, little sold. Old corn shelled for feeders to make room for new crop. Corn cobs used for fuel at $1.50 per truckload delivered.
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Troy Mills
George Oldridge
Erwin Price
Thompson farm corn harvest yields record in Blairstown area
Blairstown Oakley Thompson, a farmer four miles north of town, finished picking 120 acres of corn by Wednesday forenoon using a one row mechanical picker. A 12 acre plat yielded seventy bushels per acre, with eight hundred bushels gathered in a single day in that field by two men and the picker operator with a hauling team.
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Blairstown
Oakley Thompson
Thompson
Cattle Restraint Technique Described For Medical Use
A historical farming note explains a method to immobilize cattle for medical attention. It advises placing a rope around the neck, making a half hitch behind the forelegs and another in front of the hind legs, then pulling steadily to coax the animal to lie down.
Campaign to raise rural dairy consumption by Dairy Council
National Dairy Council plans a wide advertising and promotional drive to lift rural dairy use funded by a 4 cent levy per 1000 pounds of butter. M. D. Mund urged Iowa creamerymen to back the program at Cedar Rapids, warning of a growing 2.5 percent national surplus as butter stocks swell.
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National Council
National Dairy Council
M. D. Mund
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Creameries Association
Dairy Council
Farm Auction Weekend Near Cedar Rapids and Mt Vernon
The notice lists auctions Friday October 27 at Reload Yards Cedar Rapids for a livestock sale and Saturday October 28 for acreage on 43rd Street a quarter mile south of Mt. Vernon Road near M D McGraw.
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Cedar Rapids
Mt. Vernon Road
M. D. McGraw
Rural communities targeted for educational push
Mr Mund noted the nation’s rural population totals 54,000,000, highlighting the need to extend educational work beyond metropolitan centers. He stressed boosting outreach to farm and small town areas to match efforts in consuming centers.
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Mund
Students Husking Contest Scheduled In Cedar Saturday
TIPTON The Cedar County Schoolmen's club will sponsor a Boys Husking contest Saturday afternoon at the G A Lembaugh farm. Each school in the county is asked to enter boys to pick as a team in the same wagon. The contest will start at 1 30 p m. The following schools have entered their teams and it is expected that there will be other entries before the contest starts Tipton Bennett Lowden Springdale Clarence and Stanwood
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Tipton
Cedar County
G. A. Lembaugh Farm
Bennett
Lowden
Springdale
Clarence
Stanwood
Loughridge Family Harvests 1000 Bushels of Potatoes
Delta residents James Loughridge and son John harvest eight acres at the town's east edge expected to yield 1000 bushels this season. Their early pick produced 150 bushels on Monday and the crop quality is noted as fine. Last year they grew nearly 1500 bushels.
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Delta
James Loughridge
John
Loughridges
Doctors Promoted Creosote Cough Remedy Ad
For years doctors prescribed creosote for coughs colds and bronchitis Creomulsion with creosote and six other elements stops coughs and colds that may lead to trouble It is powerful yet harmless and easy to take Your druggist refunds money if not relieved Always keep Creomulsion on hand for instant use.
Husking Meet Entries Grow in Linn County Contest
Central City reports two more entries for the Linn County Corn Husking contest at Riverview farm next Monday. Floyd Etzel of Alburnett, winner of the last Linn contest, returns to compete. Forrest McCalley of Walker is tenth entrant. Local high school agricul tural classes from Walker to Alburnett will join as gleaners and helpers as five lands are prepared and parking arranged near the field. The event starts at 12 30 p m with alternate huskers starting from field ends.
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Central City
Linn County
Riverview Farm
Jim Forrest
Floyd Etzel
Alburneth
Linn
Forrest McCalley
Walker
Forrest
Coggon
Center Point
Alburnett
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