Mortensen backs 10 cents per cow dairy advertising tax
Ames dairy official Mortensen urged Iowa lawmakers to authorize a 10 cent per cow per year tax to fund advertising of Iowa dairy products. He cited potential $150,000 yearly and noted similar efforts in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He projected gains from DPMA market control and urged a cross state dairy advertising committee.
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Ames
Iowa
Ames Dairy Manufacturing
Mortensen
Minnesota
Dairymen of
Pier Ames
M. Mortensen
Wisconsin
Madison
Idaho
Florida
Dairy Products Marketing Association
United States
DPMA
Butter samples shine at state buttermakers meeting
Postville dairy official A J Rudnik graded eight butter samples excellent and sixteen very good at the state event. Winners included Ed Riser and G Mittlestadt for excellents while A Thoreson and K Elerich led the very goods and the women and men’s judging contests crowned winners, with KX Elerich top among men.
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Postville
A. J. Rudnik
Ames
Ed Riser
G. Mittlestadt
Maynard
A. Harms
Oelwein
A. Johnson
E. McEncelly
M. Bakke
Ridgeway
L. Laidley
P. Engen
A. Thoreson
Garnaville
B. Miller
M. Larson
Decorah
L. Lehmar
Elgin
J. Brunner
A Jurgensen
Grafton
K. Elerich
Alta Vista
F. Gernand
Volga City
F. Nefsger
West Union
L. Eben
B. Eckhart
M Clark
N. Fabricius
E Stoll
Mr. Seeman
O Kloock
Garner
H. C. Holthaus
Edgewood
KX. Elerich
Poweshiek County Corn Husking Contest Set for Oct 15
The Poweshiek county corn husking tourney is scheduled for October 15 in Montezuma and the nearby Car farm area. A county corn show will be held in Montezuma. The events are sponsored by the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau and the Montezuma Commercial Club.
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Montezuma
Poweshiek County
Poweshick County
Premium lists for 1938 Chicago Livestock Exposition released
Chicago International Show announces premium lists for the 1938 event. Secretary-Treasurer B H Heide says premiums exceed 100000 dollars. Entry deadlines are November 1 for individual livestock classes November 10 for train and hay show and November 19 for carrot cattle sheep and hog exhibits.
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Chicago
B. H. Heide
Iowa Farm Bureau Opposes Stored Grain Tax Plan
Francis Johnson of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation stated opposition to a state tax on grain stored on farms that were originally raised. He favored repealing the levy and considering it as a legislative plank for January. Estimates suggest a $200,000 1939 tax from resealed 1937 corn under a 57 cent loan, with debate over taxing grain saved for better prices.
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Towa Daily Press
Ass'n
Iowa
State Tax Board
Ed Ellison
Iowa Aaa
Wapsipinicon River Rises Floods Roads Near Troy Mills
Special to The Gazette reports heavy rains swell the Wapsipinicon River four feet above banks north of Troy Mills flooding low lands and blocking the new bridge road. Silo filling halted for days. ground suitable for plowing now.
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Roy Mills
Troy Mills
New Bridge
Tipton-Kelly Brothers Top Cedar County Hog Sale
The Tipton-Kelly Brothers feed ers in Cedar county topped the Chicago hog market Tuesday at 9.25 dollars per hundredweight for 60 hogs averaging 216 pounds.
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Tipton
Kelly Brothers
Cedar County
Chicago
Hog price set at top market for 75 head in Clinton county
J. C. Mortensen of Clinton county feeder sold 75 hogs weighing 232 pounds each at $9.25 a hundredweight, topping Chicago market figures Tuesday.
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Dewitt
J. C. Mortensen
Clinton County
Chicago
Interior Market Hog Prices Show Gains During Week
Des Moines reports hog prices rose modestly as the week closed with steady to 10 cent higher butcher hogs and sows up 10 to 20 cents. Receipts in interior markets remained around 14 000 head daily, with feeders likely selling lighter finished hogs at premium bracket prices. Analysts note September receipts trend toward lighter totals and compare current market patterns with last year’s mid September peak and October slaughters.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Chicago
Grange O' Delhi Elects Officers For Next Year
Grange O’ Delhi elected officers for the coming year with Raymond Lanning as Master and Robert Gaddiee as Overseer. Other posts include Maurice Billmeyer Steward Mrs Raymond Lanning Lecturer Harold Wilson Assistant Steward Mrs P L Connolly Lady Assistant Steward Mrs Roy Little Secretary Mrs Thomas Grapes Treasurer Mrs James Darey Chaplain Avery Smith Gatekeeper Mrs Glenn Petilon Ceres Flora Pomona Mrs HD Schnittjer Wheelers Hubert Grapes as Former Commander.
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Delhi
Grange O
Raymond Lanning
Robert Gaddiee
Maurice Billmeyer
Harold Wilson
P. L. Connolly
Roy Little
Thomas Grapes
James Darey
Avery Smith
Ceres
Glenn Petilon
Flora
A Hh, Wheeless
Pomona
HD. Schnittjer
Hubert
Iowa Farm Bureau to contest 17.6 percent rail rate hike
The Iowa Farm Bureau federation and the Iowa state commerce commission prepared to oppose a 17.6 percent rise in feeder cattle shipping rates sought by railroad companies. A farmer committee led by LeRoy Getting and others planned to draft the case for the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Chicago on Sept. 26 with counsel John C DeMar and Roger Fleming. Other hearings are set for Salt Lake City Oct. 24 Fort Worth Nov. 1 and Kansas City Nov. 7.
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Norbert Bliss
Des Moines
IDPA
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Iowa State Commerce Commission
LeRoy Getting
Sanborn
George Patterson
Burt
Wayland Hopley
Atlantic
Weary Dobbin
State Center
Charles C Hearst
Cedar Falls
Earl Elijah
Clarence
Lew Willams
Woodward
Farm Bureau
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Iowa Farmers
John C DeMar
Towa Commerce Commission
Roger Fleming
Farm Buureau
Salt Lake City
Utah
Fort Worth
Texas
Kansas City
Francis Johnson
Iowa Farm Bureau
Farm Auction Listings For September In Anamosa And Vinton
Coming farm auctions include a live stock sale in Anamosa by Harry G Powell featuring dairy cows and hogs on Sept 17 near Troy Mills. A second sale on Sept 20 in Vinton features Mathis Brothers closing out at 444 miles southeast.
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Anamosa
Harry G. Powell
Troy Mills
Mathis Brothers
Vinton
Rail rates to Iowa feeders spark farmer protest stance
Johnson summarized the farmers' case noting railroads wield police power to shield themselves from infringements, while feeder cattle from western ranges to Iowa pay 50 to 70 cents per hundredweight and Omaha to Des Moines routes are 20 cents per hundredweight. The locations Sioux City Spencer Storm Lake Tama Washington and Waterloo are mentioned.
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Sioux City
Spencer
Storm Lake
Tama
Washington
Waterloo
Omaha
Des Moines
Western Ranges
Iowa
Johnson
Farmers' Buying Power Declines in 1938
The bureau of agricultural economics reports farmers' purchasing power about 9 percent below 1937. Gross and cash farm income fell around 12 percent in 1938, offset somewhat by lower costs for farm inputs.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Corn in Good Condition for Ensiling at Stanwood
Stanwood reports silo filling underway as corn on the C. L. Rigby and Son farm yields a 100 ton silo from sixteen acres. Heavy rains last week delayed harvesting of the early soybean crop, slowing use of combines in the area.
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Stanwood
C. L. Rigby and Son
Radish Grown by Harry Buchanan Weighs 15 Pounds
Evidence of a fine growing season appears as Harry Buchanan reports a radish weighing 15 pounds. The giant root measures 254 inches in circumference and 18 inches in length.
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Maquoreta
Harry Buchanan
Special in The Gazette Sows Prices Hit High on Tuesday
Newitt Hugo Schroeder reports 710 dollars per hundredweight for 19 sows averaging 423 pounds at Chicano. Buyer numbers and market activity reflect a strong pork sire trade.
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The
Gazette Newitt
Hugo Schroeder
Clinton County
Chicano
Feeder Steers Top Chicago Market At $13 Per Cwt
Hugo Geffers of DeWitt Clinton County led the cattle sale in Chicago Tuesday with a load of steers averaging 1,215 pounds selling for 13 dollars per hundredweight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Dewitt—Hugo Geffers
Clinton County
Chicago
Neifers Sell At 9.60 Bet Cedar County Trade
Mrs Herman Bachus of Tipton Cedar county sold 13 head of 855 pound heifers for 960 dollars each at Chicago sale Tuesday.
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Tipton
Herman Bachus
Cedar County Feeder
Chicago
Farms Change Hands Across Tama and Crystal Townships
Traer agent J Wogan reports the sale of the Frank Lockard farm of 160 acres in Geneseo township Tama county to Joe E Ruzicka near Buckingham for about 20000. The William Paustian Jr farm in Crystal township sold to a Marshall county buyer at 135 an acre. Washington county sees William OLoughlin 120 acre farm sold to Wilbur Rath at 65 an acre. Eighty acres are good farm land with 40 acres pasture. The Canada 1937 tobacco crop was the largest ever. Iron production from 69000 acres yielded 71457000 pounds.
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Traer
J. W .Wogan
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States
Frank Lockard
Geneseo Township
Tama County
Joe E. Ruzicka
Buckingham
William Paustian, Jr
Crystal Township
Marshall County
Ganette
Washington
William O'Loughlin
Washington County
Wilbur Rath
Canada
Public Sale Items Include Hampshire Sows and Ducks
Auction listing for 10 Hampshire sows and 1 fall yearling Hampshire boar with 25 Hampshire and Hereford cross gilts and 40 Shonts crossbreds. AML cholera vaccinated pigs. 20 Pekin ducks. Sale Aug 2, 1938. Auctioneers M. J. McCalley and Elmer Gardhouse. Clerk F. W. Lindahl.
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Old Hampshire
Hampshire
Hereford
M. J. McCalley
Elmer Gardhouse
F. W. Lindahl
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