Forty Men Added To Farm Land Appraisers In Iowa
The Gazette reports that forty additional appraisers joined the federal land bank effort in Iowa, bringing total state staff to 150. Six new appraisers reported to Cedar Rapids for district No. 7, joining ten existing workers to cover Benton to Scott counties. New hires include Waverly’s W. H. Pockels and Tipton residents Reed Carl E L Escher and William Ott senior. The Iowa office notes large land bank loan commitments in Linn County with some loans above sixty dollars per acre. Authorities anticipate faster commissioner loans and quicker liquidation of frozen farm notes within six weeks.
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Ray Anderson
OWA
Federal Land Bank
C. A. Housh
State House
Des Moines
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
A. A. Burger
W. H. Pockels
Waverly
M. H. Dake
Lost Nation
Reed Carl
E. L. Escher
William Ottsen
Tipton
Benton
Iowa
D Johnson
Linn
Jones
Cedar
Jackson
Clinton
Muscatine
Scott Counties
Johnson Counties
Wiliam D. McTavish
Linn County Farm Loan Association
McTavish
Linn County
McTavish Bays
Commissioner
Loan Commissioner Agency
Omaha
First Mortgage Land Bank
Linn Test Association No 2 Averages Butterfat
The Linn Test Association No 2 reports 291 cows averaged 650 pounds of milk and 26.4 pounds of butterfat in August. H F Gensicke’s Cedar Rapids herd led with 34.9 pounds of butterfat from eight Guernseys. Robert Gensicke’s Cedar Rapids herd had the second high total at 31.4 pounds from twelve Guernseys, one dry. The top individual cow was a grade Guernsey in George Graver’s herd at 604 pounds of butterfat from 1,181 pounds of milk. Second high cow also from the Gensicke herd at 65.1 pounds of butterfat.
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Harold Kungler
H. F. Gensicke
Cedar Rapids
R. M. Menary
Fence Drift Caught in Woven Wire in Vagrancy Case
A Detroit gangster faced charges of conspiracy to commit vagrancy on Saturday. He was detained and bailed at $50,000 as the case drew scrutiny over the definition of vagrancy in local law.
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Detroit
Farm in Tama 15 Sold at Sist Acre
The Henry Silenknecht farm of seventy two acres two miles southeast of Lincoln has been sold to R M Hargin for $8 000 or approximately $111 an acre, possession to pass March 1 next. Mr Hargin now lives eight miles southwest of Traer.
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Traer
Henry Silenknecht
Lincoln
R. M. Hargin
Mr. Hargin
Ottumwa Packer Adopts Electrical Hog Killing Method
Ottumwa dispatch reports Morrell Packing plant using an electrocution chamber to kill pigs for the government driven pork drive. Water-soaked hogs are shocked with 220 volts, killing a group quickly and faster than sticking, with several pigs per shock.
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Morrell
Garrison Co-Op Pays 23 Cents for August Butterfat
Garrison Farmers' Co-operative creamery patrons received eight month August butterfat payments at 23 cents per pound. The creamery notes a 14 percent rise in butterfat volume for the month compared with the same period last year.
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Garrison Co-Op
Garrison
Garrison Farmers’ Co-operative Creamery
Cattlemen Face Worst Western Feed, Market Outlook in 30 Years
Western range feed conditions are described as the worst in thirty years as poor pastures and a corn shortfall shrink feeder demand. Cattle will move directly to markets seen as the weakest in three years, with August beef slaughter up from last year and May marking the start of the trend. Weather in South Dakota and other states brings late improvements, while decisions on winter sales hinge on farm credit programs and federal loans.
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Washington, D. CC
Agricultural Administration
Department of Agriculture
South Dakota
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Farm Credit Administration
Sixteen Wheat Growers Seek Wheat Contracts in Keokuk
In Keokuk county up to Sept 16, sixteen applications for wheat allotment contracts had been filed, representing about 7 000 bushels of wheat or 15 percent of the county's average production, per the committee in charge.
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Boccial
Lees
Sigourney
Keokuk
Flyer contracts to prevent frost over Waupaca potato field
George Parker a 22 year old aviator will be paid one dollar per acre this fall if he keeps John Erickson 400 acres of potatoes from freezing. He will fly over the swamp near Waupaca on still nights from midnight to 5 am to circulate air and prevent frost formation. If the potatoes freeze he receives no pay. He plans to fly about 100 feet high in this unusual experiment.
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Gazette
Waupaca
Wis
George Parker
John Erickson
Jack Frost
Wraupaca
Parker
High Herd In Jones Grazed On 3 Kinds Pasture This Season
Delbert Mayberry reports August dairy production dipped again. Alfalfa first year sweet clover and sudan grass pastures are in good condition while blue grass and second year sweet clover are dried up. The season saw sweet clover in spring sudan grass in summer and alfalfa after sudan depletion. Sudan grass will pasture again briefly. Schoonover and Oltmann’s twenty Guernseys averaged 746 pounds milk 31.6 butterfat in August. Other top herds include Men’s reformatory 102 Holsteins 29.9 butterfat W H Finn and Son seven Holsteins 29.5 Trom Shover 25 Holsteins 26.3 Byerly 26 Guernseys 26.1. The association average for August was 23.1 butterfat. High cow was A80 a purebred Holstein with 1 879 pounds milk and 65.8 butterfat. Nine separators lost $8.46 in August. the largest loss was $4.30 on a 20 year old model replaced by a new separator.
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AMOSA
Delbert Mayberry
Jones County Test Association
Sudan
Mayberry
Schoonover and Oltmann
Men’s Reformatory
W. H. Finn and Son
Trom Shover
J. M. Byerly
Association
Four Buildings Rise On Farms Near Littleton
Four new farm structures spring up around Littleton. McLaughlin and Sons erect a 38 by 50 foot corn crib two miles north. Slaughbaugh and Sons add a barn on the Ed Linter farm a mile and a half south. Jease brothers build a hog house on the Lenn Hayward farm six miles southeast. Kate Ozias starts a granary one mile north. George Rehberg builds a two room cabin by the Wapsipinicon river on new land one mile southeast.
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Littleton
H. C. McLaughlin and Sons
M. N. Slaughbaugh
George Rehberg
Wapsipinicon River
Liteton
Hay Market Shifts to Truck Transport Says Bureau
A Washington report notes 45 percent of hay from four leading shipping areas moved by motor truck last year. Trucking cuts costs and losses from windrow spoilage, but buyers often over supply markets, lowering prices for high grade hay. Receipts at terminal markets decline as surplus shifts to country points and horses decline.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Mississippi
Arkansas
Missouri
Bureau
Still Too Dry to Plow in Bethel Area
Farm activities in the Bethel locality include cutting and shocking corn harvesting cane and clover hulling and fall plowing after recent rains. A farmer who tried to plow after last week’s rain found the soil hard and had to stand on the implement to force it in.
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Bethel
Farm Auctions Notice for Central City and Iowa City
Auctioneers announce a 40 acre farm sale one mile east of Central City by George Fuller executor on Wednesday September 20. A livestock sale follows in Iowa City on Thursday September 28 with a 60 acre farm two miles north of town handled by John W Auman as agent.
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Central City
George Fuller
Iowa City
John W. Auman
Judge Orders Farm Bureau Fund Paid In Harrison
Logan Iowa Judge Homer A Puller orders Harrison county Farm Bureau to receive 2200 in county aid after the board of supervisors denied 2500 and forced the county agent to move. The suit seeks a writ of mandamus to compel payment claiming 200 paid up members as required by law for county aid. The ruling mirrors actions in nearly a score of Iowa counties.
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LOGAN
Farm Bureau
Homer A. Puller
Harrison County Farm Bureau
Board of Supervisors
Court House
Fuller
Iowa
Drop in Iowa egg production and prices in August
Iowa poultry keepers with Ames extension report a drop in August egg yield to 12.7 eggs per hen from 12.9 in July and a price of 11.4 cents a dozen, down from 11.8. year to date production lags last year by about five eggs per hen, due to insufficient cullings and poor feeding.
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Gazette
Ames
Iowa
Iowa Poultry Keepers
Ames Extension Service
Extension Poultrymen
Farm Bureau women study basket weaving
Seventeen Farm Bureau women from Liberty and English River townships met with Nora Workman, Ames home furnishing specialist, for a basket weaving lesson. Eighteen baskets were completed. The next lesson will cover tray making and will be presented at a later date.
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Farm Bureau
Liberty
English River Townships
Nora Workman
Ames Home
Jesson
Murphy to Address Farm Union Meeting in Des Moines
Final preparations for the Iowa Farmers Union inaugural meeting in Des Moines with speakers including Senator Louis J. Murphy of Dubuque and Milo Reno of the National Farmers Holiday Association. George Norris of Nebraska may also participate. The convention runs Wednesday to Friday with officer elections and Reno’s Thursday address.
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Union Auxiliary
Service and Old Association
Farmers Union Fraternal Organyacon
Reno
Robert H. Moore
Miller
John Chalmers
Madrid
West Branch
George DeBar
Aurora
C. J. Schultz
Merrill
Dennis Ryan
Corning
B. A. van Pelt
Ogden
Jack Osterman
Charles City
H. E. Rowe
Bonaparte
Walter Helden
Denison
Big West Branch Sale features hogs cattle horses Sept 21 1933
The notice promotes a large sale at Big West Branch on Thursday September 21 1933 starting at 1 pm. It lists Duroc sows Hampshire boar young Hampshire boars feeding hogs shoats and 400 hogs expected plus cattle stock cows steers calves and fat cows. Also mentions two to four bucks and farm equipment and horses.
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Hampshire
McCormick-Deering
West Branch Commission
Caliion
Achievement Day at Jackson Farm Picnic Highlights Exhibits
Maquoketa Saturday event combines Achievement Day with the Farm Bureau county picnic at Lakehurst. Exhibits will be judged in the morning with noon dinner, a speech by Ellsworth Richardson, and music. Waldo Mommsen and Elizabeth Hicks judge various displays while Emelda Kunan and Charles F. Martin oversee women and school exhibits. Prize awarded for tallest corn stalk.
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the Gazette
Maquoketa
Farm Bureau
Lakehurst
Ellsworth Richardson
Near
Albia
Richardson
National Farm Bureau
Waldo Mommsen
Baby Beef Club
Beeves
Elizabeth Hicks
Emelda Kunan
R. Lacy
Charles F. Martin
Thomas Dyas
Near Andrew
Farm for sale by auction near Windham Iowa
Sell my farm at auction with no reserva tion starts 1 30 o clock 73 acres near Black Diamond road west of Windham Iowa City Cosgrove Improvements include house barn corn crib granary hoghouse chicken house pine grove deep well water system orchard Soil deep black loam with clay sub soil well tiled fenced and cross fenced Mostly second creek bottom 70 acres cultivated rest timber and pasture Open for inspection Terms easy day of sale Possession can be given immediatelyetails at auctioneer.
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Black Diamond
Windham
Iowa City
Cosgrove
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Roscoe Turner
Reynolds Tobacco Company
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