Iowa Farmers Face Canada Wheat Prices and Master Farmer Honors
The article contrasts Canadian grain prices with U S threshing costs and notes Iowa farmers reacting to federal farm board policy. It also covers Wallaces Farmer and Iowa Homestead selecting fifteen Master Farmers for 1930, detailing honorees, ages, counties, and family sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Union
Federal Farm Board
Canada
A. L. Gauthier
Corning
Adams County
Stations Along Great Lakes Pipe Line Across Iowa
Reports announce pumping stations every 50 miles on the Great Lakes pipeline across Iowa. Key sites near New Virginia in Warren County and six miles south of Grinnell in Poweshiek County will host large facilities costing half a million dollars each. Each station includes four 160 foot diameter tanks with leakage basins, a truck filling area, a big garage and shop, a pump house, and nine to twelve brick staff housing units, plus a deep well and local water system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Iowa
New Virginia
Warren County
Des Moines
Grinnell
Poweshiek County
Prices fall 3 percent in December 1929 bureau report
The Bureau of Labor shows retail prices dropped 3 percent in the month ending December 15, 1929, and were 13 percent below a year earlier. Major declines include oranges, eggs, butter, lard, beans, pork, milk, and prunes, with cabbage the only rise at 9 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Labor
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. W. Jarnagin
Hawkeye State
Wallaces’ Farmer
Iowa Homestead
Mark Thornburg
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture
A. G. Black
Iowa State College
Ames
Henry A. Wallace
Wallaces’ Farmer- Homestead
Jay Whitson
Hotel Savery
Who-Woc
John F. Wallace
Peper
Jesse J. Boatman
Montezuma
Henry J. Grunewald
van Horne
Benton
William A. Hollowell
Melcher
Marion
Rudolph C. Hupp
Glenwood
Mills
Edward W. Houston
Dunlap
Crawford
William F. Jager
Eddyville
Mahaska
Rufus G. Kinsley
McGregor
Clayton
Joseph Lengeling
Breda
Carroll
Henry F. Lubkeman
Coulter
Franklin
John McKeegan
Rock Valley
Lyon
Frank L. Miller
Germany
Ireland
O. Gwinn
Lucas County
Notre Dame
Decorah
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame University
Luther College
Rockne
Lindbergh
Voss
Norway
United States
Springfield Y. M. C. A. College
Oregon Agricultural College
Utah Agricultural College
University of Southern California
Abraham
Lincoln
Capitol Hill
Emmet L. Morris
Marquette
North McGregor
Joliet
Commonwealth
Morris
Town
Wisconsin
Leo. H. Caley
Cedar Falls
Leavenworth
Milwaukee
Manchester
Casey
Racine
Waukesha
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Earlville
New Hartford
Missouri River
U. S. Senate
South Omaha
Packing House
Omaha
Mississippi River
Congress
W. L. Eichendorf
Senate
Milwaukee Railroad
America
P. A. Jerman
Anthon
Woodbury County
Jerman
Babe Savings Bank
Robertson Bros
Rite-Way Grocery
Jones County
Charles F. Mohr
Peter Mohr
John C. Mohr
Hans W. Mohr
Willam F. Mohr
Fred Mohr
Herman Mohr
Elsie Parmenter
Dora Mohr Levien
Emma Luedeman
Maggie Mohr
Sneor
Viroqua
Morley
CM & St P Ry
James E. Remley
Edin
Jurgen Rathman
G. O. Lindley
Shaw
Ellen Wildman
Nellie Curley
A. G. Kampmeier
J. G. Rohrig
Margaret Mercer
J. P. Merrill
George W. Walton
Harriet Walton Garry
A. E. Walton
Scott & Skinner
Anamosa
Keefe
Fisher’s
West
D. O. BE. York
Siohnpet
Brazelton & McLaughlin
Monticello, Iowa
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