Wounded Soldier Raises Poultry
Edwin Jarvis, twice wounded in World War I, reeducated under U S Veterans Bureau training in Poultry Horticulture and Bee Keeping at Ames Iowa. After placement, he won five first prizes at Jasper County Fair and now runs Rainbow Poultry Farm on 22 acres with his wife and baby, proudly supported by Uncle Sam.
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Edwin Jarvis
Uncle Sam
Jarvis
Chateau Thierry
U. S. Veterans Bureau
Jasper County
Ames
Iowa
Baby
Rainbow Poultry Farm
Sam
Farm Women in Iowa Active in Five Months Clothing Course
Ames Iowa reports strong farm women engagement with the Agricultural Extension Service. Forty thousand seven hundred twenty seven attendees across counties, five thousand forty nine meetings, twelve thousand eight hundred thirty seven communities adopting the program, six specialists leading the effort. One thousand twenty four demonstrations established benefiting over thirty thousand locals with many exhibits shown. Mil dred Elder Martha Foster Alma Heiner Bertha Huber Marie Hall Mabel Rockhill led the project.
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Ames
Iowa
Mildred Elder
Martha Foster
Alma Heiner
Bertha Huber
Marie Hall
Mabel Rockhill
Radio on the Farm by Cyril Tut
The article argues radio will transform rural life by delivering market news weather reports and stock quotes to farmers. It envisions radio linking farmers with brokers and agents improving organization and understanding across countryside communities.
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Cyril Tut
Timlin County Potato Cooperative Leads Local Marketing
Hlamlin county ranks among South Dakota’s top potato producers. The Timlin county farm bureau formed a cooperative potato marketing organization that built two warehouses with grading sorting checking storing and loading facilities. Six local associations are in place and nearly the entire county crop is handled by the group.
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Hlamlin County
South Dakota
Timlin County
Grain Marketing A Farm Problem
Adam Middleton discusses the Iowa grain marketing system, contrasting cash and futures trading, and explains why farmers lack control over production and marketing. He cites 72 percent surplus dumped in 90 days, urges cooperative organization like other sectors, and calls for education to reclaim fair exchange and market power.
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Federal Trades Commission
Cooperative marketing can lift producers in grain belt
The text urges farmers to form a cooperative system to raise and market their products. It notes grain belt elevators that operate successfully save farmers millions and cites southern cotton and tobacco as models of collective handling to protect individual interests and control market volume.
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Adam Middleton
Iowa
Mississippi Valley
Bureau of Markets
Chicago
Burley Tobacco Growers
South
California
China
Commonwealth
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Pella, Iowa
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BUICK
DODGE
Byers Battery & Electric Co
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