European Demand For U S Soybeans Shatters Export Records
European demand for American soybeans, boosted by wartime needs, drives record United States export levels. Midwest farmers ship large harvests as exports dominate grain trade, with prices near season highs. Analysts estimate 15 million bushels abroad this year and 10 million to producers, while lake shipments from Chicago area top 3 million bushels since Oct 1.
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United States
Middle West
Chicago
Middle Western
Manchuria
Europe
Kemp Of Marion To Exhibit Angus At International Show
I E Kemp of Marion pure bred beef cattle breeder will exhibit in the Aberdeen Angus classes at the 1939 International Live stock exposition in Chicago stockyards on December 29. Cash prizes exceed 100000 dollars across 30 beef cattle breeds horses sheep and swine with a large overall entry expected. Entries for the 21st annual International Grain and Hay show close November 20.
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Chicago
Linn
Iowa
Chicago Stockyards
E. Kemp
Marion
Referers Public Sale Of 240 Acre Farm Sets Auction Near Mechanicsville
By decree of Cedar County District Court the referee will sell 240 acres of W P Bate farm at public auction about 2 miles southeast of Mechanicsville Iowa on Saturday Nov 4 1939 at 2 09 pm. The description covers specific halves of quarters in section 19 township 82 north range 3 west with timber land and a 16 acre parcel. The soil types Muscatine and Tama silt loams. buildings include a dwelling barn and outbuildings. water supplied by well windmill reservoir and piped water. Sale under partition action with 10 percent down and balance due March 1 1940. Affidavit of title and merchantable title to be provided by referee. John F Boling auctioneer H E Gibeaut referee.
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District Court of
Cedar County
Towa
W. P. Bate
Mechanicsville
Iowa
Rance
P. Rate Estate
John F. Boling
H. E. Gibeaut
Linn County Linn County Board Proceedings 1939 October
Linn County Iowa Board of Supervisors met October 10 1939 with all members present. Resolutions include notices to depart under Chapter 267 of the 1935 Code, grant of easement to Marion Water Co approval of a water main on Davis and Brooks First Addition to Marion, and tax deed settlements. Reports for quarter ending Sept 20 1939 examined. road establishment final date set for November 14 1939. various estate and county claims approved or authorized. Board adjourned to October 17 1939.
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Marion Water Company
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A. E. Crew
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Marion Township
Arch Eakin
Insane Commission
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Fox Bounty
Beck Funeral Home
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Jackson County Beef Feeders Banquet Slated
MAQUOKETA The Jackson County Beef Feeders association will hold its second annual banquet on November 16 with H J Grimlich of Chicago, secretary of the National Shorthorn Breeders association, as principal speaker. The organizing team includes William Dohse Elmer Jones A G Nims Ed Schumann C V Burleson D D Fuller and F E Krause. Two blue ribbon 4 H calves were selected for the dinner Steven Schwager's 1060 pound Angus calf and Ambrose Ruchotzke's 1030 pound Hereford calf were aged in a cooler and dressed at 758 and 715 pounds respectively.
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Ambrose Ruchotzke
Husking About Finished Near Columbus Junction
Cornhusking near Columbus Junction is nearly done as farmers use mechanical pickers. Soybeans have been combined with an average yield of 35 bushels per acre.
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Columbus Junction
19 Farmers Seek State Husking Title Tuesday
Iowa's tall corn hosts a state husking finals with 19 entrants at John Jenks farm northeast of Fairfield. Veterans include former champions Clyde Tague and Lee Stodgell. favorites include Alan Skow and Ray Wilson with Ellred Stallman and Eugene Crouse among notable contenders. The event is sponsored by Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead with local management by Fairfield Chamber of Commerce and Jefferson County Farm Bureau.
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Batavia
Russell O. Parsons
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Henry Peterson
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Morning Sun
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Pleasant Valley
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Ernest Jensen
Harlan
Milton Kintzle
Bernard
Alvin Roberts
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Eldred Stallman
Fairfax
George Steffans
Wiota
Kenneth Wedemeyer
Adair
Ray Wilson
Webster City
Eugene Crouse
Conrad
Grundy County
Cedar Falls
Alan Skow
Rutland
Arthur Raisch
Geneva
Woodrow Deitrich
Monroe
Skow
Fairfield Chamber of Commerce
Jefferson County Farm Bureau
Peterson
Dubuque County
Linn County
Jasper County
Albert Pritchard
Altoona
Polk County
M. W. Pommer
Perry
Boone County
George Steffens
Cass County
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West Liberty 120 Acres Sold for 150 Acre
George Steen purchased the R. W. Brooke Jr. farm of 120 acres for $18,000, equating to $150 an acre. He will take possession March 1 and plans to use the property for hybrid seed corn production.
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West Liberty
George Steen
R. W. Brooke, Jr
Steen
Farmer Loses Hand After Shredder Injury Near West Union
Arthur Chens wold, 40, a farmer northeast of West Union, underwent amputation of his right hand at the wrist after a corn shredder accident a week earlier. He initially had three fingers removed, but gangrene required full-hand loss. his left hand had two fingers amputated years ago in a separate farm machinery incident.
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West Union
Arthur Chenswold
Population estimate hinges on regional bird comparisons
The statement argues that if Iowa hosts no more birds than the average humid region, its summer population would be at least 72 million. It links avian abundance to demographic outcomes and uses a comparative regional premise.
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Iowa
Corn Marketings Below Year Ago In Kansas City Week
Kansas City market review shows firmer corn prices as receipts stay unusually low. October receipts about 29 million bushels vs 42 million a year ago. third week October exports near 1.5 million. total three weeks around 3.25 million. No. 2 white corn 59 to 60.34 cents, No. 2 yellow 49.5 to 51.25 cents.
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the Gazette
Kansas City
Federal Grain Market Review
306000 Winter Wheat Farmers Take Insurance
The federal crop insurance program reports about 306,000 winter wheat farmers turned in 10,458,500 bushels as premiums for next year. Premiums are stored in 68 cities as a reserve to pay indemnities for drought flood hail or other losses.
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Washington
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Husking Bee Farms At Konicek Farm Near Bertram
Seventeen neighbors gathered at the Louis Konicek farm two miles south of Bertram to husk corn and saw wood last week. Konicek is confined to bed after a silo filling accident this fall.
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Louis Konicek
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Farm Auction Roundup for Davenport and Mechanicsville
Local sale notices announce In City Sales Co livestock auction on Tuesday October 31 in Davenport area. A Gearink farm sale is set for Saturday November 4 ten miles west of Davenport. W P Bate estate sale is planned two miles southeast in Mechanicsville.
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W. Davenport
W. P. Bate
Mechanicsville
Fifty Texas Feeders Arrive for Iowa County 4H Boys
Joseph W. Davis reports 50 Texas feeder calves purchased at 11 dollars per hundredweight for Iowa county 4-H members in Williamsburg. The calves, vaccinated for shipping fever and shot for blackleg, will be shown at the 1940 All-Iowa fair in Cedar Rapids. Calves weighed 19 805 pounds on arrival in Williamsburg, averaging 398 pounds each, with 20 calves still available.
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Joseph W. Davis
Iowa
Texas
Iowa County
Eastern
Hobart
Canadian
Tex
Dale Gahring
Lee Faas
Delmar Schulz
Victor
Donna Lortz
Burde
Keokuk County
George Stahl
Harold Peters
Dale Risdon
Keith Risdon
Alvin Eggert
Nebraska Sandhills
Chorus Rehearsal Set for Tipton Rural Women
Rural women of Cedar County plan their first chorus rehearsal on November 6 at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. James Britcher in Tipton. Mrs. Don Dallas of Tipton will direct the group.
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Tipton
Cedar County
James Britcher
Don Dallas
Iowa Ranks Second in AAA Subsidies
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration reported total expenditures of 153 million dollars for the quarter ending, with Texas leading at 25.3 million in former subsidies. Iowa came second at 15.4 million, Illinois third at 7.98 million, and other states listed amounts from Kansas to Wisconsin.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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Iowa
Illinois
AAA
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Missouri
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South Dakota
Wisconsin
Wellman Plant Dresses 3000 Turkeys Daily
The Maplecrest turkey plant in Wellman dresses about 3,000 birds daily for destinations including New York, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia. The plant employs 93 year round workers and 500 during peak season, with 8,000 daily dressed just before Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year 640,000 birds will be processed, raised by 175 local farmers after hatching at the Maplecrest hatchery. The first shipment of day old turkeys was sent June 25.
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Maplecrest
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Monona Creamery Pays 29-30 For Butterfat
MONONA E H Drahn secretary of the Monona Farmers Cooperative Creamery reports patrons were paid 30 cents a pound for sweet cream butterfat and 29 cents a pound for No 1 butterfat received during September. A total of 51 911 pounds of butter were made from 41 821 pounds of butterfat received. There was 46 144 pounds of butter sold on eastern markets and 5 767 pounds to local merchants.
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Monona
E. H. Drahn
Monona Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company
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