Rambling Rams Market Opens at What Cheer with 65 head sale
What Cheer opens with 65 rams offered privately. 18 sold average 32.50, top 50 paid by Robert Owens of Riverside for a Shropshire from Cecil Riggle Osceola. Remaining rams to Marengo then Washington Bedford Atlantic Creston in a six week series aimed at improving breeding stock. A rambling ram tale ends with a sleeping sickness anecdote and a divine note.
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Rams
Marengo
Washington
Bedford
Atlantic
Creston
Towa
Robert Owens
Riverside
Shropshire
Cecil Riggle
Osceola
C. H. McDonald
Ames
Enterprise
McDonald
Iowa County
Iowa
Hampshire
Ftock
Expense Of Horse, Tractor Same Per Acre, Ames Reports
Ames AP summary of Wiley Goodsell study of 2000 Iowa farms finds no appreciable difference in per acre power and labor costs between horse and tractor farms. It notes tractors reduce labor costs on larger farms and that proper horse adjustment is key after adopting tractors.
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Ames
Iowa
Wiley Goodsell
Goodsell
Solon Polands To Be Used In Hog Experiment
Solon Kessler Brothers of Solon Poland China breeders sold ten gifts and a boar to the Iowa experiment station at Ames for line breeding to develop a more perfect market type hog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solon
Kessler Brothers
Poland
Iowa
Ames
Muscatine Roadster Wins at Indiana State Fair
Roadster, a record horse to bike, wins during the Indiana state fair horse show in Muscatine. Frances B. McKee of Muscatine, Ja. is noted among the winners as colors up.
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Muscatine
Indianapolis
Frances B. McKee
Packers Accept Only Hogs Fed Cooked Scraps Says Health Official
Washington AP report cites Dr Maurice C Hall of the U S Public Health Service warning that wasteful kitchen scraps fed to pigs have made trichinosis a major U S health problem. He urges meat packers to buy pork from swine fed only cooked scraps, noting 5 percent of garbage-fed hogs are infected. He says other methods are costly and impractical.
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Washington
United States
Maurice C. Hall
United States Public Health Service
Hall
Bear Meat and Export Trade Shape Trichinosis Viewpoints
Hall noted an export trade influenced official stance and that facts were shaped to suit export interests. He cited rare bear and dog meat sources as trichinosis risks but argued they did not justify a control program.
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Hall
Veterinarians To Discuss Sleeping Sickness Thursday
The East Central Veterinary association invites members to a Thursday dinner meeting at Hotel Montrose Cedar Rapids. Dr H A Seidell state veterinarian will summarize virus type equine encephalomyelitis in Iowa. Case reports will be presented by a list of veterinarians from Marion Norway Iowa City Deep River Williamsburg and more.
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East Central Veterinary Association
Montrose
Cedar Rapids
H. A
Seidell
Iowa
H. N. Strader
Marion
J. C. Glenn
Norway
J. S. Potter
Iowa City
C D. Hornbeck
Deep River
J. F McCabe
Williamsburg
F. R. Ahlers
Lamotte
W. S. O'Brien
Ryan
Frank L. Roach
Preston
James M Nelson
Sigourney
W. A. Moeller
Waterloo
Co. Hunt
Mount Pleasant
F. HesStalaker
Edgewood
C. L. Crider
Elkader
E. A. Rolston
Clinton
Clyde B. Oldaker
Kalona
L. W. Kellogg
Anamosa
James C. Carey
West Liberty
O'Brien Colt I Champion At Ryan Show
Braving drizzle, hundreds gathered for the annual colt show at Ryan as judge Harry Linn placed 75 entries from eastern towns. Grand champion colt was William O'Brien of Coggan. first mare foal Ronald Spear of Stanwood. first yearling Don Hennessey of Monticello. sire class won by Worthington Colt club. purebreds led by Bear Gleason of Brandon. First ten horse colt placings named, with O'Brien top and runners from Coggan, Center Point, Worthington, Rowley, Independence, Strawberry Point, Edgewood, Elkport. Filly colt placings led by Spear and Cottrell Rowley. other top finishers listed. hitched teams featured with Earl Hennessey second and Keegan Brothers fourth. Yearling class led by Don Hennessey, with multiple Ryan entrants and Peter Collins earning get of fire. Second in purebred class were Fisher Mechanicsville, McBryde Marion, Hillier Cedar Rapids.
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Eastern Iowa
Ryan
William O'Brien
Coggan
Bennett
Harlan Anderson
Olin
Ronald Spear
Stanwood
Harry Linn
Towa
Don Hennessey
Monticello
Kline
Catlett
Charles Kline
A. C. Catlett
Wyoming
Worthington Colt Club
Bear Gleason
Brandon
Peter Collins
Winthrop
L. M. Bacon
Manchester
Howard L. Fry
C. L. Cottrell
Rowley
Harry Hillibrid
Grundy Center
Albert Preussner
Dundee
John Collins
Keegan Brothers
Walter Kramer
Worthington
Howard Powers
Alburnett
Earl Hennessey
Harry Chrystal
Keegan
Harry Burke
Independence
Art Frank
Earl Peyton
Vince Harrington
Frank Wilson
Get of Fire
Eugene Smith
A. G. Fisher
Mechanicsville
Melvin McBryde
Marion
Guy E. Hillier
Cedar Rapids
Bennischek Threshers Outtag Propst Threshers At Keystone Picnic
In Monmouth at the Keystone picnic grounds Sunday the Bennischek threshing ring out-tagged the Propst Brothers ring in a tug of war during a joint picnic. The Propst crew held its third annual gathering with Jess L. Tomlinson, superintendent of Monmouth schools, as speaker. the program included a softball game and athletic contests.
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Gazette
Monmouth
Propst Brothers
Keystone
Propst
Jess L. Tomlinson
Monmouth Schools
REA Plant Dedication in Pocahontas Iowa
John Carmody, REA administrator, spoke at the dedication of a new generating plant in Pocahontas. The facility will supply power to Central Electric Federated cooperative and is one of two REA financed Iowa units, the other located at Iowa Falls.
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Pocahontas
John Carmody
Rural Electrification Administration
Washington
Central Electric Federated Cooperative of
Independence Canning likely to finish season pack this week
Spercial dispatch reports Independence Canning Corp. near finish of its 1938 corn packing as manager Carrie Wackerbarth notes quality is extra good. Meanwhile Tipton reports Ed Wulf in Cedar County selling hogs at Chicago for 8.75 per hundredweight, with R J Kadera also selling 18 Hamp shire hogs at the same price. The 1937 U.S. cotton crop reached nearly 19,000,000 bales, the largest on record.
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The
Gazette
Independence
Independence Canning Corporation
Carrie Wackerbarth
the Gazette
Tipton
Ed Wulf
Cedar County
Chicago
Hampshire
R. J. Kadera
Tama farmers receive 255628 dollars in farm program checks
About 40 farm program compliance checks totaling 255628 dollars have been issued to Tama county farmers reflecting 1937 program activity and payments.
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Tama County
Entomologists Count Grasshopper Eggs In September
Entomologists across twenty four states will conduct a grasshopper egg census in mid September. Enumerators will dig one square foot samples to estimate next year’s infestation and guide control plans. The program, aided by bran and sodium arsenate bait, aims to protect crops from future outbreaks.
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Washington
Grasshopper
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Illinois
Farm Auction Notices From September Events
J E Johnson estate closes out Thursday at Beverly Cattle Co north of Lisbon. Friday features Milking Shorthorns and baby beeves at the All Iowa Fair in Cedar Rapids, with market pigs and a sale at the Iowa Live Stock Exchange also in Cedar Rapids.
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J. E. Johnson
Lisbon
Beverly Cattle Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Grasshopper Control Proposals Faced Dust Bowl Concerns
North Dakota growers urge large scale plowing of unused lands to destroy grasshopper eggs but government experts oppose it citing risk of worsening dust bowl conditions. They favor targeted seed on safe lands and surveying infested areas with county crews to charge owners for baiting and guard strip plowing.
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North Dakota
Corn and Soybean Harvest Progress in Northeast Iowa
Special to The Gazette West Union observers report only two corn fields cut in northern Fayette and southern Winneshiek counties while five soybean fields are in shock. Some alfalfa haying concludes and clover seed cutting begins as fall plowing increases. Overall, fields show greener growth and ranker crops with soybean hay yields heavy and corn ripening unevenly after a dry week with mild temperatures.
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Gazette
West Union
Fayette
Winneshirk
Weather high and rainfall in Columbus Junction this August
August rainfall totaled 5.41 inches in Columbus Junction with temperatures ranging from a high of 99 degrees on August 3 to a low of 51 on August 27. The data reflects a hot dry spell followed by cooler conditions later in the month.
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Columbus Junction
Eastern Iowa fairs scheduled this week
Sept 4 to 9 features the All Iowa exposition at Cedar Rapids. Sept 6 to 9 includes Allamakee county at Waukon and Grundy at Grundy Center. Sept 9 to 10 hosts a Stanwood horse show and the Dubuque county 4 H show at Farley.
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Cedar RapiDs
Allamakee County
Waukon
Grundy
Grundy Center
Stanwood
Dubuque County
Farley
70-Pound Shoats Bring $9.70 In Washington Sale
Special to The Garett Washington Thirty 70 pound Hampshire shoats sold for $9.70 each in the community sale at Washington Ten sows to farrow in late September averaged $2.50 Thirty-nine veal calves topped at $20 a Guernsey cow reached $87.50 and yearling dairy heifers averaged $37.50 The sale included 344 head of livestock William Bruty and Charles Brown cried the sale.
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Garett Washington
Washington
Farrow
William Bruty
Charles Brown
Hog buyers sell 122 hogs at Cedar Rapids for 8.65
Dysart livestock buyers Art Silverman and Las Sen sold 122 head of 235 pound hogs last week for a packing company in Cedar Rapids at 8.65 dollars per hundredweight, in February.
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Art—Silverman and Lassen
Dysart
the Packing Company
Cedar Rapids
Stanwood Set for Hopley Judge Show
Stanwood horse show scheduled for Saturday with Warry Hopley of Atlantic named judge by Don Smith, horse committee chair. About 125 entries include six in the six-horse hitch with driver C M Curtis of Donohue, and over 200 horses expected in the ring for 9 am judging.
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Stanwood
Don Smith
Warry Hopley
Atlantic
Hopley
C. M. Curtis
Donohue
Heavy soybean crop reported by Troy Mills farmers
Farmers around Troy Mills report the heaviest soybean hay crop in years. Some of the harvest is cut for hay while the rest will be threshed later for seed.
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Troy Mills
Farm Bureau Service launches stock sale for Washington cash locker plant
Washington hosts a campaign by Farm Bureau Service to raise 3000 dollars through stock sales for the establishment of a cash storage locker plant. The effort aims to fund the project and expand local storage services.
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Gazette
Washington
Farm Bureau Service Company
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