Ryan Teams Excel in Delaware County Fair Pulling Contest
Six Ryan teams plus others competed in a dynamometer horse pulling event at the Delaware County Fair. Faulkner Lyness and Evers entered lightweight pairs weighing 2660 2760 and 2520 pounds, each reaching 1750 feet and then progressing to 2000 and 2250. In 2600 pounds, Faulkner reached 25 feet 4 inches while Mangold did 25 feet. A final 2800-pound run showed the dynamics of collar fit affecting performance.
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Anchester
Ryan
Delaware County
B. T. Virtue
Ames
D. J. Faulkner
A. L. Lyness
Mike Evers
Hopkinton
Nea
Faulkner
Lyness
Evers
B. P Faulkner
Ed Mangold
Frank Gienapp
Mangold
Virtue
Linn 4-H Angus group sells at Iowa State Fair auction
Five Linn county 4-H Angus calves sold for 9.75 per hundredweight to T. M. Sinclair and Co. of Cedar Rapids as Bennie Boddicker Donald Boddicker Carl Rockwood and Dora Rockwood exhibited. The sale saw brisk bidding with more than 325 calves offered and averages near 9.40 per hundredweight with a 3 percent shrink.
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Linn County
Des Moines
T. M. Sinclair and Company, Ltd
Cedar Rapids
Bennie
Donald Boddicker
Carl
Dora Rockwood
Swift and Company
Roland
Willard
Gordon Neal
Melvin Levasseur
Chicago
Trucks Cut Into New York Rail And Boat Food Traffic
Motor trucks reduce rail and boat food shipments in New York City area in August. Roughly 200 carloads of fruits and vegetables arrive daily by truck at Washington street markets, cantaloupes and peaches totals reaching thousands of carloads, milk tank trucks are being prepared, and live poultry receipts by truck have doubled in two years.
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New York City
Towa
New York
Washington Street
DeWitt Clinton Farmers Dominate Chicago Market
DeWitt Clinton county farmers sold cattle and hogs in Chicago early this week. Arnold Johannsen moved twenty steers weighing 1231 pounds at 9.70 per hundredweight. Henry Voss sold twenty-one steers at 1266 pounds for 9.25. LeRoy G Kruse consigned seventy-eight hogs at 182 pounds for 4.60 and A L Mommsen sold seventy-four hogs at 216 pounds for top price.
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Speedal
The
Gazette
Dewitt
Clinton County
Chicago
Arnold Johannsen
Henry Voss
LeRoy G . Kruse
A L. Mommsen
Farmers report corn out of frost in Delaware County and dented in Greeley
Special to The Gazette. Delaware county farms note about 50 percent of corn escape frost with remaining stalks green on heavy soils. Silo filling and fall plowing occupy farmers as rains improved soil. Melons, potatoes, grapes sell at modest prices while housewives stock up for winter. In Greeley, corn is largely dented and threshing yields exceed fifty seven bushels per acre for oats.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Delaware County
Greeley
Silo filling resumes at Carl Hay farm after rod incident
The first silo filling of the season resumed at Carl Hay farm Friday morning after a day and a half recess for repairs caused by an iron rod falling into the machine with the corn. The silo, owned by local farmers and operated by Carl Hay and Will Norton, will not be general in the area for several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Olin
Carl Hay
Will Norton
Remarkable Seven-Foot-One Cornstalk On Tom Dorlin Farm
A stalk of corn on the Tom Dorlin farm southeast of Oxford reaches seven feet and one inch to the first ear. The plant bears two ears on the same stalk.
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Oxford
Tom Dorlin
Stalk of Corn Reaches Fourteen Feet Nine Inches
A single corn stalk grown on the Ernest Diehl farm near Grundy Center this season stands at fourteen feet nine inches tall, showcasing remarkable height in local agriculture.
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The
Gazette
Ernest Diehl
Maynard Silo Filling Advances as Corn Near Maturity
Silo filling moved into high gear in the latter part of last week at Maynard. Corn stands in excellent condition for filling and shows only minor damage from firing. The crop is nearly matured with HW corn nearly ready for harvest.
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Maynard
Linn County Farm Bureau Calendar of Week Activities
The Linn county Farm Bureau lists events for the coming week including a Tuesday Farm Bureau board meeting at the Commercial club rooms in Marion and a Wednesday Otter Creek township meeting at Alburnett high school.
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Linn County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Board
Marion
Otter Creek
Alburnett High School
Marengo farmer sells 208 hogs at Chicago sale
Special to The Gazette William Meade Marengo County farmer sold at Chicago Wednesday 208 head of 239 pound hogs at 450 dollars top for that weight.
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Marengo
Wiliam Meade Town
Chicago
What's What Out on the Acres Heats Up in Garwin Area
An interview with O M Adair, heating engineer turned farmer near Garwin, LeGrand, and Tama County. He details leaving Chicago, starting with eighty acres, facing low mood in the economy, worker layoffs, and hopes for gradual recovery, plus taxes, strikes, and farm finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. M. Adair
Eighty Acres
Garwin
Forty Acres
LeGrand
Marshalltown
Prohibition Debate From a Regular Citizen Opinion
A reader criticizes current prohibition policy, arguing it is ineffective and calls for government control of liquor sales. The writer notes Al Capone wealth from illegal trade and questions whether enforcement harms youth while seeking revenue benefits.
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al Capone
Refrigerated Truck Delivers Buckhorn Butter to New York
Since mid July a Buckhorn creamery truck hauls butter and eggs to New York City. The first 1154 mile run took 64 hours, two days faster than the fastest train. The 300 tub capacity carried 241 tubs and twenty cases of eel, with temps held at 54 55 degrees and butter scoring 93 on arrival. Roy Galloway of Lost Nation owns and operates the truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Buckhorn
Buckhorn Creamery
New York City
Roy Galloway
Lost Nation
Hereford Grand Champion at Cedar County 4-H Show
TIPTON The Hereford baby beef shown by Geraldine Donahoe a 4 H club girl was named grand champion at the Cedar county fair. Donahoe also showed the second place Hereford Reserve champion an Angus entered by Meari Ejler of Olin. Arthur Domer of Stanwood exhibited the second place Angus. First and second place Shorthorns were shown by Billy Harr of Stanwood.
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Tipton
Geraldine Donahoe
Geraldine
Hereford
Angus
Meari Ejler
Olin
Arthur Domer
Stanwood
Billy Harr
Dysart Farms Leased At 6 50 An Acre For Next Year
The Otto Ehrich stock farm south of Dysart is tenanted by Johann Moeller and his son Henry and leased for next year to L P Matthieson at 6 50 an acre. The John Krebs 320 acre farm northeast of Dysart is leased to current tenant James Ceplak for the coming year at 6 50 an acre.
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Dysart
Otto Ehrich
Johann Moeller
Henry
L. P. Matthieson
John Krebs
James Ceplak
Is farming a paying business based on farm records
James J. Wallace explains how farm profits are measured through inventories and net farm income. The Cedar Valley Farm Business Association tracks 127 Ackley-area farms to illustrate wide earning variation between years and farms and the importance of proper record keeping.
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James J. Wallace
Fieldman
Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Ames Extension Service
Ackley
Washington
Uneven Price Marks Heavy at Union Stockyards Cattle Sale
Cattle run at Union Stockyards Chicago shows uneven trade heavy with weights up to 10 dollars per head, best steers steady to 25 cents higher, lighter offerings about steady, plainer grades down 25 to 50 cents. Hog prices recover but close lower. cattle and veal varied, with top fed cattle around 9 to 10 dollars and heavy feeding stockers down to 3 to 7 dollars.
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The
Gazette
Chicago
4-H Boys Of Benton And Washington Win Trips To Chicago
Seven Iowa 4-H club boys and eleven girls will represent the state at the International Livestock Exposition and national club congress in Chicago this fall. Winners include Everett Hayes and Donald Rinner for pig club, Newell Irwin for sheep, Vincent Gross for Shorthorn work, Keith Mathies for Angus, Max Schomberg for Hereford, John Fowler for poultry, and several others among the health, style, bread demonstration, clothing, home furnishing, and canning teams.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Chicago
Everett Hayes
Washington
Donald Rinner
Noble
Washington County
Newell Irwin
Vinton
Vincent Gross
Greenfield
Keith Mathies
Walnut
Angus
Max Schomberg
Letts
John Fowler
Blairsburg
Fowler
Ralph Skoog
Wayne Hell
L.G Albaugh
Ames Extension Service
Elrene Picken
Madison County
Jeanne Robinson
Marshall
Helen DePrenger
Mahaska
Virginia Edwards
Dorothy Meyers
Buena Vista
Viola Jeffryes
Lucile Haladay
Adair
Margie Byrne
Ruth McCarville
Webster
Carol Vinton
Helen Putnam
Hardin
Watermelon Crop Totals 50 Cars This Year at Conesville
Conesville reports eighteen carloads of watermelons this week, three quarters wilt resistant, with a total 50 carloads expected for the season. Cant aloupes total twenty three carloads shipped. sweet potatoes at 30 000 bushels. Watermelon Day anticipated with about 3 000 attendees and free fruit.
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Conesville
J. J. Wilson
Chicago
Wilson
Springville Farmer Heads Linn Holiday Movement
Mount Vernon report says Paul Moore of West Branch led a holiday movement meeting at Mount Zion Church near Mount Vernon. He blasted President Hoover as a wrecking engineer and urged support for Democrats, urging fair production costs and paying organizers. Art Hoover chaired Linn county, Howard Lyman was secretary treasurer, and 86 dollars was raised. Moore also spoke at Bertram, where Joseph Novak became Bertram township chairman.
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Mount Vernon
Paul Moore
West Branch
Mount Zion Church
Here
Hoover
Linn County
Art Hoover
Springville
Howard Lyman
Moore
Bertram
Joseph Novak
Bertram Township
Wilton Junction Farms Steady Amid Farmers Holiday
Farmers in Wilton Junction respond calmly to the holiday, ready to cooperate if needed but avoiding violence. They continue farm work, seek good seed corn, repair fences, prepare silos, and explore milk and cream markets milk to cheese plans emerge. The local produce house maintains similar buying and selling volume as before the holiday.
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Wilton Junction
Annual Buttermilk Day Program Lights Amber Monday
Final arrangements set for Amber annual Buttermilk Day with speakers Paul Moore of Des Moines Iowa Farmers Union secretary and Martin Leveson of Wyoming democratic candidate for Jones county attorney. Two morning ball games Langworthy vs Amber and Olin vs Onslow in afternoon. A picnic dinner will be served at W J Zimmerman place.
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Gazette
Amber
Paul Moore
Des Moines
Iowa Farmers’ Union
Martin Leveson
Wyoming
Jones County
Langworthy
Olin
Onslow
W. J
Greeley Creamery Pays 20c Butterfat Recently
Greeley The Greeley Co operative creamery has paid patrons 20 cents a pound for butterfat received in the last two weeks. Names listed include Victor DeKeyser H Esch Ernie Graham C J Bocken Stadt Fred Fensterman A F Mee Elmeel C C Lillibridge Paul Mc Elmeel F F Phillips and Raymond Lammers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Greeley Co-operative Creamery
Victor DeKeyser
H. 3. Esch
Ernie Graham
C. J. Bocken
Bennett Farmer Wins With Alfalfa At Tipton
Walter Rohit of Bennett showed the best alfalfa in the Cedar county fair legume day at Tipton. Henry Busching of Stanwood took second. In soybeans Carson Moffitt of Clarence was first and Gilbert Lembaugh of Tipton second. George Gaul of Tipton judged on color leanness and care. Eighteen entries.
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Tipton
Walter Rohit
Benenett
Cedar County
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Henry Busching
Stanwood
Carson Moffitt
Clarence
Gilbert Lembaugh
George Gaul
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Linn Farm Bureau Calendar
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Cormack
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Tama County
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M. Adair
Cedar Baby
Truart
Wallace
James J Wallace
Benton and
Springville Farmer
Greeley Creamery
Bennett Farmer
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