Alsike Clover Seed Yields Shrink in 1932 Crop Report
The 1932 Alsike clover seed crop is about 10 percent smaller than 1931, with average yields around 26 bushels per acre. Crop reductions seen in Wisconsin Minnesota Indiana and Oregon due to drought and winter damage. Harvesting was delayed by rains though weather remained favorable in many districts. Prices to growers averaged eight dollars per hundred pounds.
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Ashington
US Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Indiana
Oregon
Michigan
Illinois
Canada
Dominion Seed Branch
Ontario
First Anniversary at Stockyards Celebrated in Drift Jozun Musouri
Special edition marks four day celebration for the opening of stockyards in a lead and zinc mining region. Reports show $2,000,000 business in fifty weeks with cattle and hogs central to commerce. Discussion notes evolving industry, weather impacts, and regional crop expectations in Canada.
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Ediion
Alfalfa acreage in Iowa tops 430000 acres says extension chief
Ames AP reports Director R K Bliss of the Ames extension service links the rise in Iowa alfalfa plantings to crop rotation adoption and cheaper livestock feed. Early 1900s figures show 25000 acres in 1910, 175000 in 1920, surpassing 450000 by 1930, with rotation boosting soil fertility and reducing erosion.
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Ames
Iowa
R. K Bliss
Ames Extension Service
Bliss
Death Of Men In Ill Health Because Of War Farms Near Mt Auburn
Interview with Albert Ponsar a 160 acre tenant farmer two miles north of Mount Auburn born 1891 in Maynard who served in the Fifth Marines second division in World War I. He discusses war wounds, veteran benefits, farm rent and production, politics including Hoover and reform, labor, and prohibition era issues.
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Albert Ponsar
Mount Auburn
Maynard
Fifth Marines
Vegetable Storage School Planned At Tipton Friday
Jones county farm women will attend a home vegetable storage training Friday in Tipton led by C V Holsinger of the Ames extension service. District conferences with leaders from Linn Jackson Johnson Cedar Clinton Muscatine Scott and Jones counties will be held to reach all counties before storage time.
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Anamosa
Jones County
Tipton
C V Holsinger
Ames Extension Service
Linn Jackson Johnson
Cedar Clinton
Hog raiser sells truckload of 380-pound hogs in Chicago
Tipton H E Pilatner of Cedar County sold a truckload of 380-pound butchers in Chicago for 370 a hundredweight. He completed the trip in eight and a half hours.
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Tipton
H E Pilatner
Cedar County
Chicago
Tama Poweshick Test Assn reports strong August milk yields
The Tama Poweshick Cow Test association tested 310 cows in August, averaging 591 pounds of milk and 23.3 pounds of butterfat. Twenty-eight cows exceeded 40 pounds of butterfat, with 28 high performers including eight purebred Holsteins in Lloyd-Brown’s herd. A top cow produced 1,829 pounds of milk and 69.5 pounds of butterfat. Names include Carroll Westfall, Rhinehart and Son, Harvey McFate, David Anthony, B. F. Abel, Ralph Reinig, F. M. Stark, and Jackson and Kelley. Members varied in silage, alfalfa, and grain feeding.
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Tama
Tama-Poweshick Cow Test Association
Herbert Kifess
Lloyd-Brown
Carroll Westfall
Rhinehart and Son
State Juvenile Home
Harvey McFate
David Anthony
B. F. Abel
Ralph Reinig
F. M. Stark
Jackson
Kelley
Association
George Minor’s Eighth Annual Dairy Sale Near Center Point
George Minor announces a dairy cattle sale at his farm seven miles south of Center Point and eight miles northwest of Toddville on Saturday September 10 at 1 30 pm. The catalog includes thirty five head from the Lacock herd with Holsteins Jerseys Guernseys Shorthorn Ayershire and mixed cattle plus dairy heifers and yearlings. Terms cash and arrangements with buyers through the Alburnett State Bank clerk Gene Fagan auctioneer.
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Center Point
Toddville
MED’ EU
Jerseys
Lacock
George Minor
Town
Alburnett State Bank
Gene Fagan
The Larger Farm and Profit or Loss
James J Wallace argues that farm size influences profit and risk. Data from 1929 shows larger farms yielded higher profits in good years but greater losses in downturns, while smaller farms were steadier. A 1931 comparison confirms larger farms can lose more in falling prices, tying business scope to happiness and fit. Wilton Junction notes Farm Union picnic at Durant with games, music, and dancing.
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James J. Wallace
Ackley
the Gazette
Wilton Junction
Farm Union
Durant
Here
Cedar Calf Tops Auction With $11 In Chicago
Cedar calf sale at Union Stockyards set a new high as a baby beef from Bureau county Ill brought $11. A Hereford consigned by Geraldine Donahoe of Cedar County Ia sold for $10.75. The 222 head average was $9.45 and the four auctions total 814 head averaging 881 pounds at $8.69.
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Union Stockyards
Chicago
Bureau County
Ill
Geraldine Donahoe
Cedar County
Delaware County
Howard Fry
Roland Wessel
Joe Tibbets
Evlen Maurer
Muriel Maurer
Vernon Heyer
John Burbridge
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Tru-Art
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F. J. Prout
First Ave
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