History of the Iowa Farm Bureau Organization
The piece traces Iowa Farm Bureau history from 1912 county starts to the 1918 federation, noting leaders, office moves, and county agents. It highlights early organizers like Livingston and Libe, formation milestones, and the current agent Wm J Roudabush, with past agents Mollison Montgomery Brown and others.
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Wm. J. Roudabush
Wayne County
Washington County
Mollison
Crawford Township Farm Bureau
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Welcome New Farm Bureau Members The Benefits Are Yours
Greetings new members. The letter explains refunds on membership costs and benefits from limestone orders via the Farm Bureau office. It urges members to use facilities at the county office and emphasizes the value of official membership with the Farm Bureau and its Iowa and national federations.
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Farm Bureau
Court House
Journal
Press
Brookhart
East
Washington Street
City Square
Lemmon
Washington County
M. H. Fedderson
Harold V. Ellis
Wilbur Molison
Poweshiek County
Ellis
What Constitutes the Farm Bureau
The Farm Bureau is defined as you and your neighbor with one vote per membership. Any county resident or nonresident real estate owner may join, and all family members are considered members. Directors must be active farmers. moving to town disqualifies future candidacy. The county bureau funds itself from four dollar memberships, with a fifth dollar shared with state and national federations.
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Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Organization
County Farm Bureau
State
American Farm Bureau
Duensing Succeeds Water House Max Waterhouse
Clay resident Max Waterhouse is noted in a brief item indicating a succession or appointment related to the name Duensing. Further readable context is limited in the fragment.
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Max Waterhouse
Farm Bureau Lone Stands Up To Rail Rates Fight
In Chicago on July 15 1931 Farm Bureau representatives faced coal and lumber groups over a proposed 15 freight rate increase. The Farm Bureau pressed on alone the next day gaining a noted victory four months later saving Iowa farmers about 25 per year per farmer. The piece details ongoing Farm Bureau efforts since 1918 including tax savings and funding by county farm renters and landowners.
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Farmer's Institutes
Iowa
Clinton
Scott
Pattawattamie
Marshalltown
Iowa Farm Burn Federation
National
American Farm Bureau Federation Ae
Washington County
Rt. Ll. Livingston
Washington Township
Earle Libe
Franklin Township
Joe Wright
Jackson Township
Harley Hardin
Seventy-six Township
Joe Jones
Crawford
Lumber
Farm Bureau
Chicago
Lis
Spray Apples Now to Control Second Brood
Iowa growers should apply early sprays to combat the second brood of codling moths due to hot dry conditions. In Washington county apples should be sprayed July 16 to 20 with calcium arsenate mixed with lime sulfur or Bordeaux formula, while southern Iowa may require two or three sprays starting around July 10 to 17.
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Iowa
Washington County
Ohio
H. K. Nichols
Iowa State College
Nichols
Towa
Rhee Pom A Happy 4H Club Lesson
Instructional verse urges the 4H club to purge past bitterness and jealousy from twelve months, then divide the year into daily portions of twelve parts. It advises preparing one day at a time and keeping the batch for a year. The tone is moralizing and prescriptive.
Farm Bureau Reward Offered for Steady Farmer
A friend of the Farm Bureau will pay five dollars to the first bona fide quarter section farmer of the past five years who can prove within ten days that annual benefits do not exceed the Farm Bureau membership price plus the cost of the organization's work.
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County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Cattle Feeders Day at Ames
The fifteenth Annual Cattle Feeders Day at Iowa State College Ames invites readers to a July 21 1933 event. Seventy four steer calves started on feed last fall and sixty yearling steers began feed this season. Visitors will see cattle and hear their feeding story plus results with linseed oilmeal soybeans soybean oilmeal oats and pasture. Activities start at 10:00 a m at the Experimental Cattle Yards.
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Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa
Wheat growers to receive bonus under domestic allotment plan
Washington County prepares to issue 100000 checks daily to wheat farmers who cut acreage by up to 20 percent of their three year average. The plan promises about thirty cents per sold bushel above market for wheat used for domestic consumption. County committees will oversee the rollout.
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Washington County
Washington, D. C
A Recipe for a Happy New Year
A Victorian style list prescribes a blend of faith patience courage work hope fidelity liberality kindness rest prayer meditation and resolution. It adds spirits fun folly play and humor then folds in love ad libitum and a fervent heat of cheerfulness to guarantee a silent healthy New Year.
Bank Deposits Open to Any Amount, Reader Says
A reader asserts that anyone can deposit any sum in the bank with no stated minimum. The comment appears as part of a wider banking discussion continued on page 8.
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History OF the Farm Bureau
Low
United States
Harty
The
Landers
National Grange
Farmer's Alliance
W. D. Booth
Cedar Township
Grant Griffith
Lime Creek
E. L. Stewart
W. A. Gibson
J. M. Maxwell
Crawfordsville
Co. F. Letts
Highland Township
W. Kh Brown
Marion Township
Letts
Lee Hanna
Crawford Township
Stewart
Wallace
H. L. Walker
Emmett Hayes
Molison
Harold J. Montgomery
Washington High School
Walter Brown
Montgomery
Nevada
Story County
Party Bureau
American Farm Bureau Federations
Washington County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Board
Arthur Duensing
Mr. Waterhouse
Sfarm Bureau
United
Mace Motor Co
Washington City Square
International Harvester Company
Eelipse Lumber Company
Rex Beresford
Br. L. Quaife
Edith Barker
Washington
Rhee Pom
Parm Boreal
J. H. Jones
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