Sale at Swarm farm and county grain drive report
Wm R Dieleman held a large sale on the Swarm farm southeast of Oskaloosa Tuesday December 10 with property valued over 10000 dollars including a dealer’s mule herd from Missouri. At a Schakel barn stock sale broad sows brought 39 dollars and fresh cows and calves around 75 dollars. County Agent J J Wilson notes Farm Bureau drive yielded 751 Marion County members, with uncertain totals for Lake Prairie and Summit townships. A new short course for commercial canners will be held at Iowa State College in February the week of the 17th for managers foremen and plant personnel conducted by the Iowa Canners Association the National Canners Association and the college.
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Wm. R. Dieleman
Oskaloosa
Missouri
Schakel
Town
J. J. Wilson
Farm Bureau
Marion County
Lake Prairie
Summit Townships
Iowa State College
Iowa
Ames
Iowa Canners’ Association
National Canners’ Associational
College
Lake Prairie Township
Agricultural College
Milwaukee
Farmers Cooperative Shipping Assn to meet in Pella Iowa
A meeting of Farmers' Cooperative Shipping Association members will be held at the Old City Hall in Pella Iowa on Saturday January 10 at 1 30 PM. The purpose is to consider erecting or purchasing a grain elevator and handling other business. Members urged to attend and nonmembers are welcome. Jacob De Haan Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Cooperative Shipping Association
Old City Hall
Pella
Iowa
Jacob de Haan
Cooperative shipping gains pace with farmer backing
The article outlines rapid growth of cooperative shipping associations led by Iowa’s 400 plus groups and widespread county town participation. It notes ongoing farm product movement delays due to car shortages, strong farm security, and steady banker confidence despite late repayments. It details wartime shifts, farm education at the Agricultural College, and plans for mass meetings, shows, and banquets while urging a shift from cash rents to partnerships and state loans supporting small farm ownership. It also covers beef price projections from M F Homine, cattle receipt trends at Union Stock Yards, and recent shipping activity from Howell, Otley, Pella.
Closing Out Sale Near Pella on White Pole Road
Public auction scheduled for Thursday January 15 1920 near Pella features 4 head of stock including mares geldings a pony and a heavy cattle lot plus 35 cattle machinery and household items. Worth and Van Zante auctioneers with John Nieburg clerk. Also a wartime social vignette shows women’s war workers gathering at a member’s house with a daughter counting spoons as her daily task.
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Easf
Pella
White Pole Road
Southern Iowa Corn Show Set for Oskaloosa in January
The Southern Iowa Corn Show will be held in Oskaloosa from January 12 to 1. Premiums totaling 1500 dollars are offered and attendance is expected to be large.
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Oskaloosa
Making the Old Orchard Pay
The Old Orchard can be placed on a paying basis and boosts to 1920 crop yields depend on the farmer working the orchard now. Plans to spray trees at 60 to 70 cents each per treatment four times are advised. Sprayed orchards with good varieties may yield 8 to 20 percent on a $1.00 acre valuation, while unsprayed orchards generally do not make good hog pastures.
Local notices of Jan dates listed for residents and firms
The Chronicle lists upcoming January dates for residents and businesses including Fred van Nieuwenhuizen Tainter Jan 12 G B Ver Steeg Pella Jan 13 Lewis Van Wyk Prairie City Jan 14 Co W Huyser Pella Jan 14 H Slings Leighton Jan 14 Albert Colyn Pella Jan 15 Albert Reynen Monroe Jan 15 Neal Vermeer Pella Jan 16 Mrs Albert G Dykstra Pella Jan 19 Wm Van Rheenen and Son Reasner Ia Jan 20 Schutt and Vander Haar Prairie City Jan 21 A and M Nikkel Lynville Jan 22 Jacob Rook Leighton Jan 23 Jan van Neebros Cordova Jan 27 J Nikkel Killduff Jan 28 Watch next week's Chronicle for future dates.
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Fred van Nieuwenhuizen
van Rheenen
Pella Markets Report From Local Stock and Produce
Pella markets show butcher stock 8.00 to 12.00 per cwt and prices for beef and produce corrected by Van der Zyl Bros and Pella Produce Co. Phone numbers 64 and 50 listed. Eggs, old roosters, ducks, geese, and cream prices appear with varying cents per unit, reflecting a busy farm goods market.
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Vander Zyl Bros
Pella Produce Co
Allen's Woot-Kase Antiseptic Powder Ad
If your feet ache and head and body feel tired all over ask any druggist for Allen's Woot-Kase powder to bake in your shoes and walk all day in comfort Blisters or Callouses vanish as you wear the powder and soldiers of America Britain and France stay strong while marching in comfort.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Shipping Associations
Cooperative Shippers
Middle West
M. F. Homine
Union
Chicago
Department of Agriculture
United States
the Farmers Cooperative Shipping Association
Howell
Otley
Rhode Island
Pella Markets
Poland
China
G. B. Versteeg
Cook & Son, Clerks
N. Boland
Wm. Grooters
Sheldon, Iowa
M. B. Davis
Minnesota
Reynolds & Davis
Coal Ridge Church
McCormack
Coal Ridge Cemetery
Frank Walker
J. C. Collins
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