Cerro Gordo Farm Bureau votes 105 to 2 for $5 fee
Cerro Gordo Farm Bureau members vote 105 to 2 in Mason City to favor a $5 yearly membership instead of $10 as urged by the Iowa Farm Bureau federation. The informal ballot urged lower costs and focus on legislative and educational work with plans to invite Congressman Fred Biermann for a national farm legislation discussion.
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Cerro Gordo Farm Bureau
Olson
State Federation
Cerro Gordo
Belle Plaine Festival Recalled By Flea Prize Tale
A Belle Plaine fall festival memories recall a prize for the most fleas on a dog. A New York paper amplified the tale claiming boys and girls planted dogs with fleas to win. Fiorello LaGuardia allegedly protested to local officials, drawing wide publicity for both towns and the candidate.
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Belle Plaine
New York
Fiorello LaGuardia
American Society For Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
LaGuardia
Belle Plaine City
Tama Farm Plan Results In 10000 More Legume Acres
Tama county farmers under the test tube AAA program seeded 60000 acres this year, 10000 more than last year, with clovers and alfalfa to build soil. Robert Lyon says about 80 percent have participated, based on farm inspection requests. Farmers spread over 25000 tons of limestone, up from 5000 in 1932, to improve soil productivity.
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Toledo
North Central States
Tama County
Robert Lyon
Tama
Strawberry Point Ag Judging Teams Picked
Strawberry Point selects livestock judging team for Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress next week with Junior Miller Charles Peick Harold Rankin and Warren Wood. Poultry judging at Waterloo show includes Donald Barrack and Clarence Fuhrman.
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Strawberry Point
Strawberry Point Vocational Agriculture Department
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Junior Miller
Charles Peick
Harold Rankin
Warren Wood
Waterloo
Donald Barrack
Clarence Fuhrman
Nearly 13 Inches Of Rainfall This Summer At Marengo
Special to The Gasette. The summer of 1937 in Marengo showed heavy precipitation yet did not reach the peak totals of prior years. July and August brought the most rain since 1929, with a year total of 29 9 16 inches by September, exceeding totals for several earlier years.
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Marengo
Gasette
Utumn
New Buildings Rise on Farms Near Maynard
Special to The Gazette. New barns and houses are going up on farms south and east of Maynard to replace structures lost in a summer wind storm and lightning. On the Dean farm southeast of Maynard a 37 by 72 foot barn and a two story house near completion. The house four miles east of town, bought by B W Patsey, has been remodeled and new farm buildings are under construction.
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Maynard
Rob McLeish
George McLeish
Here
Dean
B. W. Patsey
Seasonal gains in hog receipts and price trends in Des Moines area
Direct area hog receipts rose 9 percent to 51 100 head in the first four days, with 233 000 hogs across seven leading markets, up 12 percent from last week but 37 percent below last year. Prices showed a midweek rise then fell 5 to 15 cents, while hog finishing improved due to new corn feeding replacing oats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Belle Plaine Hosts High Quality Corn Show At Fall Festival
Belle Plaine hosts a corn show highlighting early season quality as part of the Fall Festival. Sweepstakes winners include John Cherveny of Belle Plaine and Carl Holden of Williamsburg area with ten ears and hill of corn. Ed Dyas of Ames judged the entries while women’s divisions featured eggs canned desserts and crafts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Plaine
John Cherveny
Farm Youth
Carl Holden
Williamsburg
Cherveny
Holden
Ed Dyas
Ames
Harold McCandless
B. A. Haijsman
Ed Swatosh
Will Greider
Kenneth Fry
Blairstown
Alice Ferkins
C. R. Snow
Alex Doupnik
M. J.hansen
Sam Harris
John Tatge
Martha DeBrower
Billy Henry
Northwest
Ed Blaha
Paul Hilton
Arthur de Brower
George Radcke, Jr
John Schild
L. F. Keep
James Benedik
Dick Schild
Neighbors Assist Farm Families Near Cedar Rapids
In Lincoln community nine miles west of Cedar Rapids neighbors helped Ike McAllister put thirty four loads of soybean hay in the barn while he recovers from a month long illness. A long list of neighbors assisted and local women prepared dinner for the crew. Nearby Phillip Smith remains ill with typhoid fever but neighbors helped with farm work cutting and shocking soybeans and finishing a pit silo.
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Lincoln
Cedar Rapids
Ike McAllister
Mr. McAllister
Ben
Harry
Ralph Drake
George Quaas
Clair Weir
J. C. Saha
Everett Owens
Charles Kocher
Glen VanNote
Lloyd Kahler
Graham McFarlane
Charles Volz
Howard Graham
John Gibney
Chelsea
Phillip Smith
Smith Farm
Gerald Gray
Russell Novak
George Melsha
Clayton Ross
Owen Hoyer
Albert
Leo Posekany
Jesse Baker
Joe Vratisovsky
Ira Henry
Charles Hartigan
Joe
Bill Benesh
Allan Graham
Harold McGlelland
Hey Haueschild
Walter Ich
Hogs Top At 12 56 In Chicago Sale
Tipton Wright and Blair Cedar county feeders sold twenty nine 221 pound Duroc Jerseys hogs in Chicago on Thursday for 12.50 top price.
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Gagette
Tipton—Wright and
Blair
Cedar County
Chicago
Duroc
Linn Farm Women Exhibit at Waterloo Congress
Linn county women from Linn township present a booth at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. The feature The Homemaker Buys to Balance Her Farm Products is led by Mrs Arlo Stinger with reader Mrs A D Brenneman of Marion and cast including Mary Evelyn Betty Jean and Hanna in the pageant The Homemaker.
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Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Linn Township Home Project
Linn County
Lucille Gove
Arlo Stinger
Mount Vernon
County Home Project
A. D. Brennaman
Marion
Heavy Crop Sudan Hay Harvested At Troy Mills
Sudan grass hay is being cut heavily this week at Troy Mills due to hay scarcity. An unusual amount of corn fodder is also being cut for winter feed as temperatures drop and frosts dry the corn. Some farmers are harvesting seed corn in the ripest fields while fall plowing proceeds amid dry soil conditions.
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Troy Mills
Sudan
Closing Out Public Sale In Springville
A large sale features Percheron and roan mares in foal, a herd of Holstein Guernsey and Jersey cattle with multiple calves, Poland China hogs, farm machinery by John Deere and others, wagons, hay, oats, corn, and household goods. The event starts at 10 am with Mares, cattle, hogs, machinery, and more offered. banking terms arranged. Lunch served by Ladies Aid.
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Warness
Jonn Deere &Foot
John Deere
Ock Island Aide
Oxford
J. J
Robinson
Rock Island
Ormick- Deering
Cows Averages Set At Rose Dairy Auction
Fourteen Guernsey and Jersey cows averaged 83 dollars at the Rose Dairy sale in Kenwood. Individual prices reached 137, 136, and 106 dollars with a low of 62. Oats brought 29 cents per bushel as Tony Schmitz acted as auctioneer for People Savings Bank Cedar Rapids served as clerk.
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Guernsey
Jersey
Rose
Kenwood
Tony Schmitz
van Horne
People Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Tour to Marion Watershed Area Planned
A series of eight fall soil tours to Iowa soil conservation service areas was announced by W F Watkins Ames extension soil conservationist. The Marion CCC demonstration area is scheduled for Oct 14 following tours to Greenfield Shenandoah Moorehead Eldora Knoxville Fairfield and Farmersburg between Oct 5 and Oct 15. County agents organize groups of visitors for the tours. Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb 12 1809.
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Ames
Iowa Soil Conservation Service
W. F. Watkins
Ames Extension Soil Conservationist
Greenfield
Shenandoah
Moorehead
Eldora
Knoxville
Fairfield
Marion
Farmersburg Demonstration Area
Farm Auctions on Sept 29 and Oct 2 Near Riverside
J H White closes out a sale near Whittier on Wednesday September 29. Frank Kos offers a 940 acre farm six miles southwest of Riverside at the Saturday October 2 auction.
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Whittier
Springville
Cenniy
J. H. White
Frank Kos
Riverside
1938 Baby Beer Project Starts in Buchanan
Six 4-H club boys in Buchanan county begin eight baby beeves for the 1938 show with Herefords and Shorthorns. Calves may be non purebred and will be weighed Jan 1 1938 for enrollment papers. Other Jesup boys join western market lamb feeding project to learn buying feeding grading and marketing.
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Independence
Buchanan County
Norman Rosene
John
Leo Donnelly
Lynn Yeager
Delmar Fairchild
Donald Mitchell
Dale E. Irwin
Irwin
Danny Strauer
Jack Crawford
Glen Miller
Jesup
Western Market
Slant Row Method Eases Harvest of Soybeans
Special to The Gazette from Mount Vernon reports Thomas M. Armstrong and Sons 40 acres of Manchus sown with a slanting method. Rows are cut across the field, reducing clogging and easing binder work. Border eight-row hay strips aid cutting. the system trims the field ends neatly and promises quicker harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Thomas M. Armstrong and Sons
Armstrong and Sons
Armstrong
Hog sale records set at Chicago market
Olin Harlan Miller feeder near Olin sold fifty seven 264-pound hogs at Chicago for 12.35 a hundredweight, top for the weight, and ten 310-pound sows at 11.20 per hundredweight.
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The
Gazette
Olin
Harlan Miller
Chicago
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