Chicago Hog Receipts Shrink as Government Purchases Dominate
Receipts of hogs at Chicago market Saturday totaled about 25 000 head with 20 000 for Uncle Sam and nearly 5 000 billed to packers. One carload of choice 210 pound butchers sold at 445 per hundredweight. other hogs traded at 430 to 440. Government buys skew weekly totals, with a 294 100 head week and 155 000 bonus hogs, leaving about 140 000 regular market hogs. Price trends show lower weekly averages and the season’s lowest levels for hogs, cattle, and lambs, while government purchases rise in Cedar Rapids and other markets.
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Chicago
Uncle Sam
Lawer
Pigs Slaughter Totals and Schoolhouse Echoes in June Week
The article notes 4200 government pigs processed for the Saturday period with over 4000 projected for Sunday and Monday. It mentions children returning to school and a scene at the schoolhouse door as pupils and teachers move through routines. Requests to ship to Cedar Rapids come from Nebraska and the Dakotas, though most receipts stay within Iowa, with many pigs from nearby communities slaughtered for tankage and byproducts.
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Cedar Rapids
Nebraska
Dakotas
Iowa
Licht Angus Calf Records Feed Cost At Cedar County Fair
Special to The Gazette from Tipton reports Martin Licht of the Licht farm near Lowden showed the grand champion Heifer calf weighing 510 pounds at the Cedar County fair before finishing at 920 pounds. The calf consumed 344.50 pounds corn 218 pounds oats 96 pounds barley 370 pounds other feed and 199 pounds of hay. Average daily gain was 18 pounds and feed cost per pound of gain was 0.43 dollars. The reserve champion Shorthorn shown by Carson Memeb is noted with its own feed mix and weight gain figures.
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Martin Licht
Licht
Lowden
Mahiesel
Carson
Ted Pita
Corm
Big West Branch Auction Admits Oddities Amid Milling Notes
A fragment records a large Thursday sale in 1933 with scattered phrases about items, weather, and names. The garbled text mentions a west green ranch, committee notes, and possible bidders, leaving the main event unclear.
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Shoats Turned to Corn Fields Across Eastern Iowa
In eastern Iowa last week, swine fed on discarded fodder as soybeans and alfalfa were harvested. Dry weather slowed field work with corn nearing readiness. yields look variable from poor to normal. Pastures faded and farmers continued hand-cutting corn to feed livestock. Local showers were sparse and no heavy plowing occurred.
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Iowa
Growth of Iowa County 4-H club shows wide expansion
Enrollment in 4-H clubs in Iowa County climbed to 280 with 168 boys and 112 girls, tracing a history from early 20th century county agents D H Zentmire and R W Ashby. The piece reviews leaders, show venues, and notable state fair and Waterloo dairy congress achievements across decades.
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Reginald Kenney
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Farm Bureau Opposes Sugar Growers Code
The American Farm Bureau federation urged members to reject any code under the agricultural adjustment act that would place American grown sugar on a quota. Western bureaus protested sugar production limits and new sugar manufactories while denouncing warden sugar producer considerations. President ONeal said tariffs on sugar are unwarranted unless benefiting American farmers and urged action with the Agriculture secretary and foreign representatives, including independence for the Philippines to influence tariffs.
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Western Farm Bureau
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Wallace Geass
Philippines
Fragmentary notes mix chaos with grim details from a troubled scene
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Milkmaid Marathon Highlights Waterlo o Dairy Cattle Congress
The Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress features a Milkmaids Marathon on Tuesday evening October 3. County milkmaid contests selected eight months ago via 4-H teams coached in townships. Winning teams from each county will demonstrate county progress in the women’s building with canned fonds textiles and home project exhibits also drawing attention.
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Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Dairy Cattle Congress
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Trade Talks On Packers Agreements Set For Sept 8
Washington D C Representatives of the meat packing industry will meet September 8 with Agricultural Adjustment Administration officials in Washington to discuss provisions of a proposed marketing agreement for packers. A tentative code from the Institute of American Meat Packers representing about 85 percent of U S commercial livestock slaughter is to be reviewed at the public hearing required by the Farm Adjustment Act.
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Washington
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United States
Railroads Cut Freight on Field Seeds in Iowa
H F Sundberg of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce says railroads will authorize fourth class rates within Iowa for less than carload shipments of field seeds. The proposed change would cut freight about 25 percent, with 50 mile hauls dropping from 31 to 23 cents and 100 mile hauls from 38 to 28 cents per hundredweight. The date is not set but may arrive in 30 to 45 days to restore rail traffic and benefit farmers and seed houses both ways.
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Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
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Cedar Rapids
Sundberg
Drought Bakes 6 Acre Clover Seed and Mixed Crops
In Manchester drought forces corn to silage and fodder as stalks brown and grain lags. Farmers shell corn, feed stock, and delay fall plowing for moisture. Cucumbers tomatoes cabbage melons and apples trade. grapes, plums scarce with mixed yields. Webster reports clover hulls midweek with fair seed and some alfalfa, corn drying to a fair crop, late potatoes good with rain needed.
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Webster
Neighbors Gather at Earlville Farm After Injury Incident
Twenty neighbors meet at George Kenny's farm south of Earlville for a pot luck dinner following an accident last month when a car backing into Ken ny injured him by dislocating his pelvic bone.
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Clover seed yield on Renfield farm near Marengo
Special to The Gazette six acres of red clover at the Renfield farm eleven miles southwest of Marengo yielded 1002 pounds of seed after pasture with seven sows five shoots and nine milk cows through June 1. Clover was threshers and hullers processed to totals.
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Renfield
Cloverhulling Underway With Promising Seed Quality
Central City reports Clover hulling has begun in the area and seed quality is exceptionally good. At the R. D Forrest farm the yield reached one bushel per acre.
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R. D Forrest
Buckhorn Folk Celebrate Start Community Assn
The Buckhorn Community Association marked its first anniversary with a Friday event featuring folk music, a two-act home talent play Mrs Carr's Summer Boarers, and an ice cream supper. Twelve local youths starred in the rustic comedy Irene Gombert Wayne Walker and others performed songs recitations and instrumental numbers. Mrs H Shott from Epworth spoke on the 1933 Town State for the flower show and 4 H club work.
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Rain Freshens West Union Pastures
A brisk Sunday morning shower in West Union relieved the drought edge and brightened pastures. Rainfall was under a half inch and did little for corn, but the moisture improved grazing conditions in the area.
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Notable nativity Doris Kenyon star in September profile
The column predicts a cautious, alert day for September 5 with risks from extravagance and new contacts. It notes potential unusual financial and personal events, urging safeguarding of money and privacy. A birthday-born child may show energetic yet unconventional tendencies and adventurous behavior. Doris Kenyon is named as a notable nativity.
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