Rural youth education tour planned for Oct 5
A county level soil conservation tour for rural youth educators is set for Saturday October 4 and October 5. Rex Conn of the County Farm Bureau and the Soil Conservation Service will lead teachers from Linn County to three or four farms to study contour cropping terracing and erosion control practices. Walter A Shupp announced the plan, noting attendance by teachers is voluntary.
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Linn
Lone
Rex Conn
Bureat Auaet
Sail Conservation Service
Marian
Walter A Shupp
Twats
SCS
Cedar Raps
Conn
Schonima’ams
Egroup
Tann County
Ceantour
Soul Conservation in Autumn Maples
A lyrical note on maples turning red as autumn begins. The author compares maples to a cautious gypsy preparing for a first party, praising the courageous color change that signals fall’s arrival. HY A COUNTRY WOMAN.
Cornstalk Plastics to Be Shown at Husking Contest
Ames Iowa The cornhusking contest near Davenport on Oct 30 will feature exhibits from Iowa State College showing plastics and pulps derived from cornstalks. Dr ST Aronovsky said the by products lab and USDA engineering divisions will also display chemicals and resins from corn sugar.
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AMES
Iowa State College
Davenport
ST Aronovsky
Agricultural By-Products Laboratory
Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry, and Engineering of
United States Department of Agrculture
Towa State College
USDA
Aronovsky
Wilton Junction Cattle and Hogs Sold at Market Prices
Frank Laneley, a farmer near Wilton Junction, drove cattle and hogs to market in Chicago Tuesday. Iris steer averaged 1,090 pounds and sold at 1150 dollars, while 36 head of 409-pound sows brought 5.65 dollars per pound.
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Wilton Junction
Frank Laneley
Chicago
Marketing Pointers Handed Poultrymen at Iowa Convention
C B Denman, national association agricultural counsel, outlined a three point program for producer improvement in a speech to the Iowa Poultry Improvement association. He urged faster quality improvement, coordination with processors and retailers, and greater year round turkey marketing to boost volume. Thornburg urged poultrymen to organize, cooperate, and learn from dairymen.
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Des Moines
C. B Denman
National Association of Foot Chains
Iowa Poultry Improvement Assortion Convention
Mark GG
Thornburg
Iowa
Adviculture
Iowa Grange Opens Three-Day Manchester Session
The seventy first annual Iowa State Grange session began in Manchester with state master Ralph W. Smith presiding. Officers from across the state reported while the Grange endorsed commodity loan, conservation, crop insurance, and food stamp programs and urged parity prices for farm products.
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Manchester
Iowa State Grange
Ralph W. Smith
Newton
Mister Smith
James Carradus
Mancheter
Emma Parmenter
Gilman
Tala Cope
Prarie Center
Chaplan
Jetson Adams
Killduff
Etta Hadley
Clan B Klaus
Colesburg
Ceres
Harold Pave
Muscatine
Pomonit
Warren Bailey
Grinnell
Flora
Grangemaster
Pranie Center
Masonville
Oneida Chranges
Soil Contour Meetings In Allamakee This Week
Contour demonstrations were planned in Allamakee county this week on the Karl Simmons farm in Makee township on Wednesday September 25 at 1 30 PM and on the Will Thomsen farm in Center township on Thursday September 26 at 1 30 PM A field on the Summoans farm and a 22 acre field on the Thomson farm were to be used to show contour strip layout The meetings were to be led by Floyd Parks four county soils person in charge of the program.
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Waukon
Tuo
Allamakee County
Karl Simmons
Makee Township
Will Thomsen
Center Township
Lénere
Summoans
Waterloo Judging Event Attracts Iowan Staters
Six Iowa State college students chosen by BE. N. Hansen coach of the dairy cattle judging squad to attend the Waterloo Cattle Congress. Three will compete in the intercollegiate judging contest next Monday. Participants include Paul Elam of Plano Myron Johnson of Boone Harold Kueser of Waukon Grover Miche of Maynard Marvin Senger of South English and R. Alan Williams of Iowa City.
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Ames
State College
BE. N. Hansen
Waterloo Daws Cattle Congress
Paul Elam
Plano
Myron Johnson
Boone
Harold Kueser
Waukon
Grover Miche
Maynard
Marvin Senger
South English
R. Alan Williams
Iowa City
Ossian Creamery Pays 3212 Cents For Butterfat
During the last half of August patrons at Silver Springs creamery received 3212 cents a pound for butterfat, according to local reports. The note highlights a higher rate for dairy fat and reflects regional market pricing during that period.
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Ossian Creamery
Ossian
Silver Springs Creamery
Farmer Posekany on Roosevelt and Willkie in 1940s interview
Interview with Frank Posekany, a Tama county cash renter near Chelsea, discusses politics and farm economics. He backs Roosevelt for reelection, cites higher prices and safety, criticizes Republicans as pro east and money, and weighs war goals and destroyer sales amid farm concerns.
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Frank Posekany
Chelsea
MM. J. Kxresek
Toledo
Tama County
Posekany
Purdy
Roosevelt
United States
Germany
Willkie
Berkshire hog sale tops with $45 boar and $31 sow
Special to The Gazette West Union Iowa Top price at the W F Mittelstadt Berkshire hog sale went to Eugene Fitz Melbourne for a boar pig. The top female brought $31 from Shell Rock's Fillcrest farm. Harold Wehrman purchased 12 head as the heaviest buyer. Average prices ranged from $30 45 for spring boars to $23 70 for aged sows with 50 animals sold to bidders from Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and 13 Iowa counties.
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West Union
W. F. Mittelstadt
Eugene Fitz
Melbourne
Witnois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Butter Tubs To Compete At Waterloo Congress
Butter makers from 12 states including Wisconsin and California send 299 tubs to the Dairy Cattle congress at Waterloo running Sept 30 to Oct 6. Winning entries will be shown in large refrigeration displays with a dairy products exhibit by the dairy industry commission and state colleges. Sculptor J E Wallace of Deland Fla shapes more than 10 tons of butter narrating American agriculture. Belgian horses arrive at the congress from Fairacres farm Quebec owned by Mrs Henry Doorly.
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Waterloo
Wisconsin
California
Dairy Cattle Congress
Dairy Industry Commission
J. E. Wallace
Deland Fla
Fairacres Farm
Quebec
Can
Henry Doorly
Plow Match Blues Cherokee Indictment
Five farm youths were bound on charges of malicious mischief in Cherokee after damage to a contest tractor tied to Walter Shevill. The tractor at Thorward Fee farm was sabotaged with sand in the gas tank carburetor and missing spark plugs, hindering Duane Shevill from winning.
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Cherokee
INS
Liberty
Walter Shevill
Thorward Fee Farm
Duane Shevill
Shevill
Cedar Rapids Man Grows 2714 Inch Long Vegetable
Stanley Jonas a former probation officer at 548 Forest Drive SE grew a giant vegetable described as a butter vine at New Crimea. It measured 2714 inches long with a 21 inch girth and weighed about 15 pounds. B S Smith chairs the county relief gardens says the vine is edible when small and notes the odd specimen is a frequent garden curiosity.
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Stanley Jonas
Forest Drive
New Crimea
B.S. Smith
Finn County Relief Gardens
Mr. Smith
Jonas
Smith
Mr. Jonas
Chelsea Farmer Sells Steers Near Top Chicago Prices
Emil Varner of Chelsea shipped a car of 1326 pound steers to Chicago on Monday. The cattle sold at 13.00 a hundredweight, within 15 cents of the day's high.
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Chelsea
Emil Varner
Chicago
Corn 83 Percent Safe From Frost In Iowa
Iowa weather bulletin reports 83 percent of corn safe from frost up 23 percent from normal and ten days ahead. drought and heat accelerated maturity across the state. Shelling, cribbing, and silo filling active. fall plowing slowed by drought. moisture dropping, wells drying. soybeans cut and hay produced as winter wheat sowing increases in several counties.
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Des Moines
INS
United States Weather Bureau
Charles T. Reed
Weather Bureau
Woodbury
Monona
Harrison
Marshall
Scott
Clinton
Benton
Start Work In Allamakee On Farm Forestry Acres
Alamakee county launches its first farm forestry effort northeast of Wa tersale with Farm Forester MoA. Ellerhoff says four farms were soil mapped last week for timber and crop planning. Cooperating farmers include Leonard Hagen, Mrs. Hattie Collins, Theodore Jacobson, and Robert Gronn. Don Sheetz of the soil conservation service assists in outlining and setting up county projects.
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Waukon
Alamakee
Bein
Watersale County
Ellerhoff
Waterville
Leonard Hagen
Hattie Collins
Theodore Jacobson
Robert Gronn
Don Sheetz
The
Soil Conservation Service
U S Creamery Butter Production Holds Its Own
The USDA reports U S butter production for the week ending Sept 19 was unchanged from the prior week and 14.4 percent above the 1939 level. In the West North Central division output fell 0.2 percent from the prior week yet stayed 19.5 percent above last year, with Iowa within the division accounting for 49 percent of national production.
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Des Moines
INS
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
West North Central
Towa
Heifers Bring $12.40 At Chicago Sale
Otto Jens, a farmer near Lone Tree, sold a short load of heavy Hereford heifers at Chicago Monday for $12.40 a hundredweight. The cattle, home raised, averaged 995 pounds.
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Spreial
Lone Tree
Otto Jens
Chicago
Farm auctions schedule across Iowa sales
Coming farm auctions Thursday September 26 include the Edd Johnston estate farm of 200 acres near Yemi II of Lisbon and 85 acres timber with Beverly Cattle Company 5 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids at Belle Plaine Sales barn. Friday September 27 features the Iowa Live Stock Exchange sale in Cedar Rapids and Monday September 30 lists the Thomas E Mathews closing out sale seven miles southwest of Mechanicsville.
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Edd Johnston
Yemi II
Lisbon
Beverly Cattle Company
Cedar Rapids
Belle Plaine
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Thomas E. Mathews
Mechanicsville
Dysart Farms Lease Rents Set for 1941 at $7.50 Acre
Special to The Gazette reports Dysart area leases set for 1941. Leonard Siemens, near Dysart, rents the Henry Schlapkoht 128 acre farm at $7.50 per acre and will operate it with his own farm. The Will Thiele 114 acre farm southwest of Dysart is leased to Ray Hoeppner. Albert and Donald Peterson will operate 240 acres of the Herman Schlapkohl estate in Oneida township next year.
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Dysart
Leonard Siemens
Henry Schlapkoht
Will Thiele
Ray Hoeppner
Albert
Donald Peterson
Thiele
Herman Schlapkohl
Oneida Township
Cholera Found Again Near Dysart Hog Herds
Hog cholera is reported in Dysart vicinity. Herds of Ad Hach southwest of town and Marvin Dehrkoop northeast of Dysart are troubled, but only a few hogs have died.
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Spreial
Dysart
Clinton 180 Sells for 115 an Acre in East Iowa
Manchester field representative Lyle F. Shoot of Equitable Life reveals two farm sales in east Iowa. Luther Henley of Maquoketa buys the 180 acre McDonnell farm near Welton at 115 dollars an acre and will take possession March 1, 1941. Homer Stanley of Lamont buys the 80 acre Rossow farm 10 miles north of Manchester at 85 dollars an acre, with possession to be assumed by Stanley. The Rossow farm includes a new barn and corncrib and is operated by George Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Lyle F. Shoot
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States
East Iowa
Luther Henley
Maquoketa
McDonnell
Welton
Henley
Shoot
Rossow
Homer Stanley
Lamont
George Smith
Stanley
Washington Plans On 32 More Gov't Corn Bins
Carl R. Olds, head of the county soils conservation committee, announced 32 additional steel bins will be installed soon for government corn storage. This brings total bins to 157 with capacity of 287,906 bushels for the Commodity Credit Corporation corn loans in the county.
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Washington
Carl R. Oldsfield
Washington County Soils Conservation Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
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Shupp
Mrs Mary Stadala
Tom Thompson
Alburnett
Vernon Nelson
Widlife
Clyde Scott
Harold Nilsson
Marion
Harold Shold
Waterloo, Iowa
Iowa Grange
Allamakee
Chelsea Farmer
Hitler
Tsay
Eneland
Berkshire
Amos
Leander
Rocky
Uncle Bulgy
Alvin
Williams
OFC. D
Copa
TR Williams
Reed
Northwest
East Central
U. S
AAA
Denniston & Partridge CO
Fairfax
Norway
Blairstown
C. B. Clements ,A. F. Schmitz
Tony
George B. Basker
Better Livestock Auction
First Avenue East
Rayon
Men's
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