Pork Cutting Demonstration Planned Oct 4 in Cedar Rapids
National board efforts to popularize pork products unfold across the Midwest. Max Cullen and Ames man Prat McDonald lead a Cedar Rapids event featuring new cuts like pork tenderettes and crown roasts to attract consumers to fresh meats and improved merchandising.
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National Board
National Livestock and Meat Board
Mr Cullen
Chicago
Ames
R. C Pollock
Beef
Cam
Visions and Baloney in Hog Industry Boost
The hog industry in the United States is described as a big business with annual revenue over one billion dollars. A series of demonstrations aims to benefit producers to consumers, with Pollock noting nationwide impact and the reach of the campaign.
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United States
Pollock
15 Multiple Hitch Demonstrations In Benton
Benton county farmers will see practical operation of new multiple hitches across 15 field demonstrations starting Monday. The 5 and 6 horse outfits will be used for fall plowing at all sites, with an 8 horse unit at the J C Shaw place and a 2 bottom tractor plow shown at Cecil Feller and Alfred Offt farms. Demonstrations promise 15 percent more draft efficiency and a flexible rear evener for a natural pull, reducing crowding and heat as horses work more freely.
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Vinton
Benton County
W J Norris
Cecil Feller
Alfred Offt
Norris
Wheatland Co-Op Sets Butterfat Price at 18 Cents
Wheatland Co-operative creamery directors met Tuesday evening and set butterfat price at 18 cents per pound for the last thirty days. Seiffert and Diedrich received the largest payout totaling $4732.
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Wehtland
Wheatland Co-operative Creamery
Seiffert
Diedrich
Corn In Elgin Vicinity Safe From Frost Damage
In Elgin area corn stands in excellent crop condition with low frost danger. Silos are filled and potatoes are plentiful. Grapes sold at auction last week. walnuts, hickory, and hazelnuts abundant. A large soy bean harvest underway and many fields left fallow or planted to soy beans after recent harvests.
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Elgin
Iowa Farm Union Re Elects Glenn Miller President
Glenn B Necker of Oskaloosa was re elected president of the Iowa Farm Union at its annual meeting in Des Moines. John Chalmers of Nashua was named vice president and Roby Meecee of West Branch was elected secretary. The group endorsed cost of production standards and urged national farm relief measures including a mortgage moratorium and censure of the state bovine tuberculin test law.
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Tiseesogs
Serence W de Bar
Aurora
Jason Osterman
Charles City
H J. Sew
Sonaparte
Col. Sit
Merrill
ET Kennedy
National
Ond Mai
Fomapsizns
Tvs
Fox
Miller
Hoover
Frader
Wheeler
Five Cedar County Calves Bring $9.57 Average At Chicago
In Chicago sales of 385 head of 4-H club beef calves included five from Cedar county. They averaged 928 pounds and brought 9.57 per hundredweight. Other counties and totals are listed with various weights and prices across the Midwest market.
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Cedar County
Chicago
Tipton
Carson C Moffit
Ronald Spear
Billy Harr
James Moore
Dale Smith
Wortman Describes Farm Operations at Anamosa Reformatory
MARTELLE Max A Wortman former Jones county agent spoke at a Farm Bureau meeting at the Sam Workman home about his duties as farm manager for the Anamosa reformatory. He noted walking cultivators used to diversify work and cited buying ninety gallons of cod liver oil for poultry. He said inmates average third grade education and age around 20. Other speakers included the Rev G W Self, County Agent Lloyd E Hudson, and Supt Donald Southard.
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Martelle
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Wortman
Jones County
Farm Bureau
Sam Workman
Anamosa Reformatory
Poultry
G W. Self
Martelle County
Lloyd E Hudson
Donald Southard
Keokuk County Farm Bureau Prepares 1933 Work Plan
Rep from Keokuk County and J W Merril Ames district extension agent draft the 1933 Farm Bureau program of work. Major projects cover organization and community activity livestock crops soils women’s work and 4-H clubs.
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Sigourney—Farm Bureau
Keokuk
J W Merril Ames
Jones County taxes and road costs dominate farm interview
Interview with Earl Peet, owner of 144 acres near Martelle, discusses high taxes, school levy cuts, and the Bergman road law. He estimates Jones County road maintenance costs at $1.25 per mile with 14 maintainer machines and a tractor fleet, comparing labor, fuel, depreciation, and horse-drawn history to current methods.
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Earl Peet
Martelle
Lanneo
Jones County
County Bridge Bids and Tax Questions in Wartime Budget
An Iowa county debates bridge costs and wartime pay scales. Local workers earn 80 cents per plank and the supervisors’ pay ranges from five dollars daily to travel allowances. Voters discuss taxes, income tax, and political candidates Turner Hoover and prohibition.
Wife Fat Shifts in Divorce Trial Headlines
In an April 4 New York hearing a witness noted the wife’s weight loss, linking physical changes to perceived loss of appeal. An advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a fat loss aid offering a four week supply with money back guarantee.
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New York
Farmers Help Neighbor After Operative Stay
Twenty three neighbors and friends of J. Y. Parkhill a Sigourney area farmer who recently had an operation at Iowa City gathered at the Parkhill farm to put up twenty eight loads of hay. Mrs Parkhill assisted by Mrs John Mitts and Mrs Glenn Noller served dinner to the workers.
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Sigourney
J. Y. Parkhill
Iowa City
Parkhill
Limestone delivered for local farmers plans
Three carloads of limestone arrived Monday for Poweshiek county farmers John McGill Ray Creps and Emmett Taylor who intend to apply the material to their farms this fall with field work ahead.
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Grinnell
John McGill
Ray Creps
Emmett Taylor
Poweshiek County
Horses Sell Well At Clutier Auction
At the Charles Dvorak place west of Clutier a 6-year-old sorrel mare sold for 145 dollars and a 6-year-old gray mare for 90. A smooth-mouthed aged mare 60, two 3-month-old colts 33 each. Stock cows 42.50, yearling steers 38.75, yearling heifers 31.25, spring calves 35.50 and 28.75, later calves 20.25. Machinery and harness priced well. Jack Tracy auctioneer, Albert Fischer clerk.
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Clutier
Charles Dvorak
Jack Tracy
Albert Fischer
Clutier State Bank
Muscatine H D A Summarizes Year's Work With Women
Wilton Junction report on Elizabeth Armstrong Muscatine county home demonstration agent notes 221 leaders across 14 townships held 1 224 follow up meetings attended by 2 921. 986 homes adopted at least one suggestion. 12 townships exhibited on achievement day 72 posters entered. Farm Bureau women placed second at state fair. 240 entries in 4 H at West Liberty fair. 1933 project focuses on nutrition with lessons on vegetable cookery cost of adequate meals new meat cookery bread making and mineral balance.
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Wilton Junction
Elizabeth Armstrong
Muscatine County
Muscatine
West Liberty
Wilton Busy Bees
August Butterfat Pays 20 Cents at Maynard Creamery
Patrons of the Maynard Co operative creamery are being paid 20 cents a pound for August butterfat, according to secretary Chester H. Paul. Local producers receive the August rate as the creamery sets prices for dairy fat.
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Gate Maynard
Maynard Co-operative Creamery
Chester H. Paul
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