Hereford calf brings 979.70 at Iowa state fair sale
Herbert Olson of Norway Benton county sold a 1010 pound Hereford calf for 1 a pound to Robert O Connell Des Moines packer buyer, netting 979.70 after shrinkage. The grand champion baby beef price set a record at the fair and other 4 H judging results followed in Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Packer
Ottumwa
Des Moines
Herbert Olson
Norway
Benton County
Robert O'Connell
John Morrell and Company
Moines
Iowa
Dixie Shawver
Knoxville
Bagley
Thaine McClurg
Scranton
Robert Clause
Grand Junction
Chicago
William Hemm
Chapin
Richard Westphal
Traer
Lyle Olson
Newhall
David Dohrman
Gerald Munns
Coming Farm Auctions and Iowa State Fair Livestock Champions
Upcoming auctions list includes Anamosa on Sept 3 and Lisburny Lisburgh area on Sept 8 with estates and households auctioned. Iowa State Fair open livestock judging yields champions across breeds with Irvin Meyer McGregor and Kingsdale Farm Victoria IH among grand champions. Wisconsin and Nebraska breeders highlighted in dairy and red polled classes. Dorothy Woodruff Indianola captures junior dairy showman honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Killian
East Pottawattamie
Marianna Schwendeman
Phyllis Williams
Webster
Maxine Peters
Ruth Hamann
Scott
Maurita Darnell
Mildred Meyer
Washington
Iowa State Fair
Iowa
Irvin F. Meyer
McGregor
Kingsdale Farm
Victoria
F. A. Sloan and Sons
Burchard
Neb
Brown Swiss
Voegels Brothers
Monticello
Wis
Ralph L. Bowers
Arlington, Jr
Beans Must Be Cut Before Hard To Be Rated
R. B. Booth of the Linn county agricultural adjustment committee said soybeans must be cut in the dough stage or earlier to classify as non depleting. If hard at harvest the crop will be soil depleting and reduce grower payments. He urged farmers not to wait for a crop reporter and to cut the beans now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. B. Booth
Linn County Agricultural Adjustment Committee
Knight wins grand sweepstakes at Iowa State Fair show
Pigeon breeder Merle A. Knight of Marion captured the grand sweepstakes ribbon in the champion utility class at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this week with his entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merle A. Knight
Marion
Des Moines
Steers Sold At Chicago Feeder Sale Near Monticello
C A Mc Laughlin feeder near Monticello sold 20 steers averaging 1,175 pounds for $11.90 per hundredweight at Chicago Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
C. A. McLaughlin
Chicago
Hog Growers Bearish Attitude Despite Favorable Ratio
Iowa hog producers showed a bearish market attitude in August despite a record favorable corn hog ratio. Interior marketings totaled 433,100 head, with light hogs under 180 pounds comprising up to 15 percent in some areas and prices for light weights rising modestly while heavy hogs faced retention in top grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Directors Of Rural Singers To Meet Sept 7
Rural women’s chorus directors and county township music chairmen plan a second annual training school in Ames on September 7. Prof Tolbert MacRae will direct with home economics extension service sponsorship. Selections from next year’s music project will be used. Seventy two directors attended the first school in 1937. Iowa’s rural music program gains national notice as a Middle West cultural movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Tolbert MacRae
Ames Music Department
Home Economics Extension Service
Reading
Iowa
4-H beef show crowns grand champion in Delaware County fair
Virgil Wessel, 13, Colesbury, exhibited the grand champion baby beef in the 4-H club show with top Hereford, heavy Short horn and light Shorthorn all winning first. Top Angus from Una Adams Colesbury and first light Hereford by Harlan Appleby Delhi. 60 head judged by Frank Chandler Chariton. Robert Robertson Ryan won Angus in purebred beef heifer class, Muriel Maurer Manchester won Shorthorn. Open class grand champion Shorthorn shown by M. R. Maurer and Sons Manchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Virgil Wessel
Colesbury
Delaware County Fair
Una Adams
Harlan Appleby
Delhi
Frank Chandler
Chariton
Robert Robertson
Ryan
Muriel Maurer
M. R. Maurer and Sons
Neale Estate Farm Sale In Mount Vernon Approved
Court approval required for the sale of the Henry Neal estate farm near Mount Vernon. The 151.88 acre property north of Mount Vernon was bid at 113 dollars per acre by John Stout of Evanston. The farm is well improved and Stout previously purchased an eighty acre parcel nearby last spring with tiling granaries and a corn crib.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Henry Neal
Clarence Neal
Fete Vernon
John Stout
Evanston
Stout
AAA Announces Four Methods Of Closing Corn Loans
Producers who hold 1937 38 corn loans may choose one of four closing options. They can pay cash, reseal as ear corn at 57 cents a bushel, reseal as shelled corn at 57 cents, or deliver the corn to the Commodity Credit Corporation or its agent. Notes on the loans are not due until November 1, per Linn County AAA officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Triple A
Commodity Credit Corporation
Linn County
AAA
Sleeping Sickness Of Humans Found In Two Western States
Public Health Service investigator Dr. C. P. Philip begins field work in northern Montana as the concurrent sleeping sickness outbreak reaches humans and horses. Thirteen Montana cases with two deaths and about twenty Colorado cases with one death suggest possible insect transmission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western States
Helena
Mont
United States Public Health Service
Thomas Parran
Federal Health Service
C. P. Philip
Hamilton
Montana
Colorado
W. F. Cogswell
Wyoming Board of Health
Philip
Man
Eastern Iowa Fairs Schedule This Week
The notice lists fairs in Eastern Iowa for a four day span from Sept 2 to Sept 5. Elkader hosts a fair, Sept 3 features a Bennet horse show and a Ryan horse show, and Sept 4 through 9 includes the All Iowa Exhibition at Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Bennett
Ryan
Cedar RapiDs
Clayton And Linn Among Blue Ribbon Home Ec Counties
Nine of twenty five counties entered in the Iowa state fair home project division won blue ribbons. Clayton Marshall Warren Dallas Wayne Linn O'Brien Tama and Webster were named blue ribbon counties by Mrs. Sarah Porter Ellis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Home Project
Sarah Porter Ellis
Teader
Clayton
Marshall
Warren
Dallas
Wayne
Linn
O’brien
Tama
Webster
Hardin
Fayette
Louisa
Clay
Poweshick
Emmet
Appanoose
Franklin
Muscatine
West Pottawattamie
Boone
Pocahontas
Butler
Fremont
Allamakee
Adams
Lella Gaddis
Indiana State Home
Iowa Home Economics Extension
Linn County Cow Test No 2 Averages Milk and Butterfat
Mount Vernon reports August results for 583 cows in Linn County Cow Test association No 2. Average production was 552 pounds of milk and 23.5 pounds of butterfat with 87 dry cows included. The Bowman and Son Guernsey herd of 13 cows led with 1,014 pounds of milk and 44 pounds of butterfat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Linn County Cow Test Association
E. F. Nation
R. H. Bowman and Son
Private forecasts lower US corn crop in August
Private crop experts forecast a US corn crop of 2.458 billion bushels, about 100 million under the government August estimate and 76 million under their July projection. Drought and heat hurt Nebraska and parts of Iowa Missouri South Dakota and Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U. S
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
South Dakota
Kansas
B. W. Snow
Cedar Valley Farm Tour Schedule Announced
Stanley Nicol of Cedar Rapids announced the Cedar Valley Farm Business association annual tour for Sept 12 to 16. Visits include farms near Gilman Atkins Vinton Mount Vernon Monticello Anamosa and Springville with times starting 10 am or 1 pm each day to study cropping, livestock, labor, equipment, and marketing on high profit farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Nicol
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Conrad Roseland
Gilman
Herbert Lorenz
Lincoln
W. F. Schlotterback
Atkins
S. E. Wallace
Vinton
B. C. Neal
Mount Vernon
Farm trades for tavern in Volga City swap
In Volga City an 80 acre farm near Aurora owned by Ben Van Evelen was traded for Leo Nolan's cafe and tavern. Possession was transferred on September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Volga City
Aurora
Ben van Evelen
Leo Nolan
Cascade feeder steers sell at 12.65 per cwt in Chicago
Cascade feeder near Cascade sold forty four 1 179 pound steers at Chicago for 12.65 dollars per hundredweight. Music teachers and dancing instructors are invited to place notices in The Sunday Gazette Fine Arts Directory beginning soon, with Betty Brown reachable at Dial 2 1121.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Cascade
Ed Reiter
Chicago
Fine Arts Directory
Sunday Gazette
Dial
Betty Brown
Top Demonstration Team in Nutrition at State Fair
Maurita Darnell and Mildred Meyers of Washington were named champion demonstration team in the nutrition division at the Iowa state fair in Des Moines. Representing Jacksonite club they will attend the International Club Congress in Chicago in December with their canning chick demo. Maurita 19, daughter of Delbert and [illegible] Darnell, county club president with six years in 4-H. Mildred 17, daughter of John and [illegible] Meyer, Jacksonite club president with three years in 4-H. Club leaders coached by Mrs I D Quinn and Mrs Clayton Bear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodbury County
Darwin Coffie
Kenneth Krogh
Keith Cuthbert
Chicago
Iowa
Robert Clause
Grand Junction
Coffie
Sergeant Bluff, Jr
Russell Holt
Rippey
Marion Hendrickson
Brooklyn
Boone County
Dallas
Carroll
Greene
Grundy
Poweshick
Scott
Calhoun
Monona
Gazette
Washington
Maurita Darnell
Mildred Meyers
Des Moines
Jacksonite Club
Washington County
Maurita
Delbert Darnell
Here
Mildred
John W. Meyer
I, D, Quinn
Clayton Bear
Corn packing totals 36425 cases at La Porte City
The La Porte City canning company finished a corn pack totaling 36425 cases on Tuesday. Up to now 10000 cases of tomatoes have been packed. Last week saw the largest pack with 734 hours of work and a payroll of 3500 dollars, while on Aug 25 the plant canned 5300 cases of corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
LA Porte City
Canning Company
Digging Of Sweet Potatoes Begun In Conesville Area
In Conesville the sweet potato crop digging has started with excellent quality and prospects for a large yield, though most digging will occur later in the fall. Cantaloupes and watermelons are shipped daily by truck. In Millersburg and area, fall plowing continues, soybeans and clover yields vary, corn is dented, and peaches and pears ripen with fair crops. Loss of at least a dozen horses due to sleeping sickness is reported near Millersburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Conesville
Eester
ICC Says Lime Rates May Drop If Railways Wish
The ICC said Iowa railroads may reduce limestone rates for agricultural use without a Washington permission. Reduced tariffs can be filed with the ICC and take effect unless challenged, in which case a hearing will decide if the change stands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ICC
Washington
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hereford
Top
Anamosa Livestock Auction
J. E. Johnson Estate
Lisbou
Dean Thomas
Alburnett
Dorothy Woodruff
Indianola
All
Oxfords
Bargain Shoe Center
2Nd Avenue
Ast
Ray Anderson
Neal
Auto Parts CO
Fifth St
Seventh Ave
Adams School
Clayton and Linn
Home Ec
Linn C. T. A
J. E. Johnston
Franks & Sons
Lisbon
Town
Rock Road
Angus Hall
Mitcn
Guernsey
Hampshire
Aeicht
Twin Cider Press
Grace Graver
E. Johnston
W. E. Challis
Audt
Cheri
Cedar Valley Farm Businessmen
Bacon
Heinz
Ham
Sunkist
Kellogg’s
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!