Production minded dairy head proposed for Iowa bull project
Burt Oderkirk of the Iowa extension service outlined aPurebred bull project at the Black Hawk County spring testers conference. The plan aims to curb hit or miss dairy herd development by extending pedigrees and rating bulls before sale. Testers will create extended pedigrees, photos, and notes to aid associations, with committees scoring bulls and sharing information to improve dairy breeding strategies.
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Iowa
Burt. Oderkirk
Iowa Extension Service
Black Hawk
Aires
Farm News
Sthe
Courier
Farm
Earl. Schultz
Dairy ‘Extension Department
Black's
West Union
Einer Anderson
Butler County
Story County Declared Practically Free of Bovine Tuberculosis
Story county has been accredited as an area practically free of bovine tuberculosis by the state department of agriculture. Less than one half of one percent of cattle tested county wide were affected. Farmers may receive a premium on hogs shipped to terminal markets following the cleanup.
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Nevada
Story County
State Department of Agriculture
Questions and comments for Editor Farm Dept
Inert ed readers address communications to the Editor Farm Department of the Waterloo Evening Courier. Water loo, Town. Phone 6100.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Town
Garden Gossip on seeders and wheel hoes impact
Iowa State College extension specialist C V Slolsinger says combining seeder and wheel hoe improves row straightness and seed distribution. With ordinary care the machines can last a dozen years and repay their cost many times. Plant onions radishes beets carrots parsnips salsify spinach Swiss chard and early peas as soil breaks up.
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CC. V. Dolsinger
Iowa State College
Ames
Slolsinger
Iowa Pastures Rapidly Improve From 1926 Conditions
April 4 spring survey shows Iowa winter wheat at 48 percent of normal, up three points since December 1926, with rye at 93 percent of normal. Pastures reach 92 percent of normal, five points above last year, as southern counties green up and northwestern areas anticipate strong improvement after the 1926 drought.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Federal
State
Secion
Missouri River
Leslie M. Carl
Lee
Louisa
Des. Moines
Warren
Union
Madison
Woodbury
Lowa
Apri
Iowa Farm Families Spend $1,875 Per Year
Ames Iowa April 13 212 farm families surveyed by Iowa State College home economies division show an average annual living cost of 1875 with 756 70 furnished by the farm and 1 119 380 purchased. Rent 10 percent of home value. fuel 415. rent 304. operating expenses outline the main categories and percentages for food clothing rent and other items with minor allocations for health savings and furnishings.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Wayne Rizer Becomes Buttermaker at Oskaloosa Creamery
Randalia Iowa April 13 Wayne Rizer, 22, son of Mr and Mrs Walter Rizer, has accepted a position as buttermaker at an almost new Oskaloosa creamery with a weekly output of 5000 to 6000 pounds. A Alpha High School graduate, he completed a six month butter making course at Iowa State College and previously worked as helper at the local farmers creamery where his father is also a butter maker.
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Courien
Randalia
Wayne Rizer
Walter Rizer
Oskaloosa
Young River
Alpha High School
Iowa State College
Harper
Elder River
Cattle Buyer Takes Air Route to Farm
Blairstown Virginia April 12 James A Strachin cattle buyer from Chicago arrived at the farm of Olin Rosencroft near here to view cattle. He found no motorist willing to guarantee a trip to Biskstown over bad highways and instead traveled by air.
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Blairstown
James A. Strachin
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Olin Rosencroft
Here
Rosencroft
Cedar Tanids
Biskstown
Stritchon
Decal Aviatay
Hind
Yante
Five Carloads Seed Handled By Farm Service Concern
Toledo Iowa April 13 farm bureau members organization serves area for two to three years. Five carloads of alfalfa sweet clover and soybeans seed handled for Tama and 40 counties. Nearly 900 orders for sweet clover and alfalfa. Largest Tama county order 910 pounds yellow blossom sweet clover and 100 pounds Grimm alfalfa by C Flamme Gladbrook. Tyden Anderson Brothers of Butler county ordered 1,200 pounds Grimm alfalfa paying over $400. About 1,800 pounds ordered by five Butler county farmers. Others from Bremer Buchanan Mitchell and Black Hawk counties place substantial orders. The service restricts purchases to farm bureau members at regular prices.
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Byhe
Toledo
C. Flamme
Gladbrook
Cme
Tyden & Anderson Brothers
Butler County
Greene
Waverly
Bremer County
Buchanan County
Charles Robinson
Jesup
Robinson
EE. M. Wilcox
Buchanan County Farm Bureau
Mitchell County
Tama County
Dysart
Walter Miller
Ed Schnell
Schnell
Walter Hark
Black Hawk
Wate
Lund
Reinbeck
Black Hawk County
Chickasaw County
New Hampton
Farmers’ Organization
Farm Bureau
Farmers Need More Liberal Education Declares McArthur
Mason City Iowa April 13 William McArthur master farmer urged farm boys to pursue a broad liberal education not only for farm work and wealth but to enjoy life. He opposed dropping liberal arts from Iowa State College courses and cited his own 360 acre farm, soybean use and leadership in Polled Herefords as part of his argument.
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Mason City
William McArthur
Iowa
Iowa State College
McArthur
Associated Press
Mr. McArthur
Tow State College
Polled Hereford Association
Harrow Conveyance Eases Field Transport by Farmers
Reported in local farming notes, Teo April-Wow and Waltmann engineered a transport frame using two 22 foot poles with boards to move a 20 foot harrow between fields. Teams hitch at one end to pull through gates under 20 feet wide, with some farmers adopting similar methods.
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Teo
Waltmann
Iccaliy
Corn and Wheat Prices Slide to Season Low in Chicago
Chicago April 13 All deliveries of corn and May wheat fell to season lows. Corn declined on expected higher May deliveries and Armour Grain suspension. Rains in Kansas and poor spring seeding weather partially offset by buying and potential ownership shifts in corn. Wheat oats and provisions followed corn’s weak trend with early declines and mixed closes.
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Chicago
Armour Grain Company
Kansas
Armour
Commission House
Kansas City Grain April Wheat and Corn Prices Report
Grain market notes from Kansas City show April wheat receipts at 50 cars with mixed bid quotes for No 2 dark hard and No 2 hard at about 1.24 to 1.33, 1.24 for selected grades, and corn prices mostly unchanged to slightly lower with No 2 yellow and No 2 mixed trading around 62 to 68 cents. receipts and bids vary by grade.
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Kansas City Grain
Kansas City
Minneapolis Flour Trade Report Unchanged Shipments
Minneapolis flour market notes April 13 shows unchanged flour shipments totaling 51,986 barrels. Bran prices range from 26.40 to 27.00 per unit.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Representative Sales in Chicago April 16
Representative livestock sales today in Chicago include hay and cattle listings with buyers and bidding activity noted by auctioneers, showcasing early market interest and bidding strength among traders and producers.
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Chicago
Board of Trade Cash Quotations April 13
Chicago prices for wheat corn rye barley and seeds shown in mixed numbers. Wheat No 1 red 1.322M No 2 red 1.817 7 No 4 red 1.22 sample grade hard abc. Corn mixed and yellow No 4 67c No 5 66c No 6 66 8c No 4 white 61c No 5 white 66c No 6 white 65 44c sample 63 55c. Rye No 2 1.02. Barley 68 84e. Timothy seed 4.75 5.2 Clover seed 29.00 33.73 Provisions lard 12.72 ribs 15.00 bellies 15.00.
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Chicago
Gemegiec
Hog prices firm on Tuesday with best hogs at 11.50
Chicago receipts 12 900 hogs steady to firm with top 11 50 for best underweights. 150 200 lb hogs averaged 11 00 11 40. 220 240 lb 10 85 11 50. 250 300 lb 10 50 10 80. heavier butchers 10 40 10 50. Cattle receipts 7 000 firm to higher for heavy steers, vealers 9 00 9 75, oats. Sheep slow. fat sheep and lambs steady. Hog dealactive. some 10c higher late for packing sows. calves weak.
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Auin
Tripoli
Switt & Co
Waterloo
Lens
Eghorne
Waterloy Sane
Rath Packing Co
B. Rath
Sas
Tbs
Barclay
See
Sean
Cohn Bros
Cattle Hogs Calves and Lambs Trade Reported in Twin City Market
South St Paul Minnesota April 12 cattle receipts about 2000 opening slow but steady for all classes weak to lower on spots fat stockers and feeders steady to higher few heavies to 7 00 stockers and feeders unchanged calves receipts 5500 vealers around lower good lights 10 11 hogs receipts 13000 about steady with Tuesday trade lights and early top 10 85 most 150 to 210 pound averages 10 60 10 85 bulk medium and heavy butchers 16 10 50 pigs mostly 10 50 average cost Tuesday 10 50 date 219 seeer receipts 300 fat lambs steady weak few loads wool lambs 15 75 one load 75 pound clipped lambs 14 50
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South St. Paul
Minn
Omaha Gratis Wheat and grain prices from Omaha market
Omaha April 13 report lists wheat at No 1 hard 1.26 to 1.27 dollars, No 3 hard smutty and No 1 mixed 1.22 1/2. Corn prices show No 2 white 68 to 69 cents, No 3 yellow and mixed 69 cents. Oats No 3 and 4 white 42 to 44 cents.
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Omaha Gratis
Omaha
Neb
Motors Gain But Oil Shares Drop in Early Trade
New York stocks opened with varied moves as motors rose on Mack Truck and Hudson while oils were liquidated amid a weak trade outlook. Renewed call loan rates pressured some averages but aggressive buying in industrials limited losses. Warner Brothers Pictures climbed near 6 points amid overall gains in Southern Railway Union Bag and Paper and Air Reduction. International Steel hinted at a 3½ point jump in its prior preferred shares as Commercial Solvents, American Linseed, and Warner Brothers followed with sizable advances.
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Motors
Mack
Truck
Hudson
Warner Brothers Pictures
Nash Motors
Dupont
Radio Corporation
Savage
Warner Brothers
Freeport-Texas
United
Cigar
Universal Pipe
White Motors
Texas
Missouri Pacific
All. Chem. & Dre
Car & Fdy
Teacomotiv
Sm. & Ret
Wks
Rtchison
Atl Coast Line
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Balt
Osho Ve
Barnsdall A
Bethlehem
Steel Wees
California
Pet
Pac
San Cerro de Pasco
Chesapeake & Ohio Wees Chic
Mil
St- P
Ptd
N. Paler
Chile
Chrysler Corp
Coca Cola
Colorado Fuel Bee Tee Tit Co
Consolidated Gas
Dodge Bros
du Pont de Nem
Pampus
Freeport-Texas General Asphalt
Elec
General Motors
Motors Mowth
Dilinois Central
Cam
Eng
Dales Eneeee
ALB
Harvester
Tel & Tel Peewee
Kan
City
Southern Pass
Kennecott
Lehigh Valley
Louisville & Wash
Atl
Ty Mack Truck Stee
Marland Oil
San
Awe
Missouri Pac
Nea
Montgomery Ward Nash _ MMotors enews
New York Central
N.Y
Nlhl & Hartford
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Packard Motor Car
Pan Am
Pennsylvania
Phillips Petroleum
Pierce-Arrow M
Southern Pacific IL
Southern Railway
Mere Tone
Standard Oil
N. J
Studebaker
Texas Coral
Texas & Pacific
Ee Agi Ie
Union Pacific
Foreign exchanges close higher in New York trading
Foreign exchanges closed higher in New York with the dollar set at 4.855 to 16 for sterling and firmes in francs at 3.90c. Other rates included live 4.97%c, Belea 13.89%, Czecho 2.955,0, Swiss 19,220, Holland 29.98e, Spain 17.67c, Sweden 26.78c, Norway 25.89, Danish mark 26.67c.
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New York
Belea
Swiss
Holland
Spain
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Market prices and receipts for dairy and poultry
New York and Chicago market summaries list April 13 prices and receipts for butter eggs cheese and poultry. Butter extra firsts range near 48 to 49 cents. eggs in the 22 to 25 cent area. cheese mostly 21 to 28 cents. turkeys around 30 to 40 cents and chickens 16 to 39 cents. Potatoes offered at 4.50 to 5.00 per 50 pound box in Florida ranges.
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New York
Pacific
Rio Bo
Santos
Hay
Chicago
Kansas City
Florida
New
Sioux City Livestock Rates and Receipts Report
Sioux City Ia April 13 cattle receipts 2000 slow kill ers steady fat steers yearlings 800 12.75 bulk 9.25 11.00 fat cows heifers 6.0 10.25 veals 6.00 10.50 bulls 6.00 8.00 feeders 7.50 9.25 stock yearlings calves 6.00 7.00 hogs receipts 4560 10 higher top 139.90 bulk sales 10.25 10.75 lights 10.60 10.80 butchers 9.60 9.50 packers 9.00 9.50 stags 9.00 9.75 pigs 10.00 14.06 sheep receipts 200 steady.
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Chicago
Cansas City
Omaha
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Sioux
City
New York Butter Market Report Apr 13 Prices Listed
New York butter receipts reached 14 606 tubs with a firm market. Extras led gains and demand improved for other grades. Creamery butter ranged from 53 to 94 score with varying prices. centralized car lots and packing stock noted. Continuous pricing details cover 92 to 89 score firsts, 90 to 52c seconds, and several bulk rates for centralized shipments.
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New York
Cotton prices steady as Liverpool market reports sales
Cotton trading at Liverpool on April 13 shows steady prices with 5,000 bales sold and receipts of 25,000. Midlands fair quotes range from 6.18 to 9.28 cents for various grades while futures open higher with May at 7.40 and July at 7.11 cents, October at 7.83. Chicago also opens higher with May 14.30 cents and July 14.45 cents, other contracts up modestly.
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Liverpool
Midlands
Chicago
Butterfat Comes in for Creamery Despite Mudholes
Butterfat receipts at Traer Co operative creamery for the last half of March totaled 16 400 pounds, the second largest half month period since the cooperative took over. Roads were nearly impassable delaying cream delivery on most routes, yet the 16 400 pounds equated to about 20 000 pounds of butter. The creamery continues to attract customers from a wide area, with two Marshall county farmers delivering cream to Traer. W S McBride, a leading patron milking 22 cows, delivered about 700 pounds of butterfat in the last half of March.
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Courier Special Service
Soualrner
Traer
Co-operative Creamery
Co-Operative Association
Marshall County
Green Mountain
McBride
Supreme Court Rules Law Favors Co op Creameries Unfair
Washington April 13 The Supreme Court today set aside as void Minnesota 1923 law barring discrimination in milk cream or butter prices paid by localities Fairmount Creamery Sioux City Iowa appealed contending the statute was unconstitutional restraint on interstate commerce and unfairly discriminated by letting cooperatives operate in one locality pay any price while centralized creameries in multiple localities must pay uniform prices nationwide with only transportation allowances.
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Washington, D
Minnesota
Supreme Court
Fairmount Creamery. Company
Creamery “Company
Sioux
City
Mud roads postpone township farmers meeting to April 22
Waterloo Township Farm Bureau meeting postponed from Friday to Friday evening April 22 due to bad roads. The event will be held at Virden schoolhouse with Orange township guests performing a two act play and music on the program.
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Waterloo
Township Farm
Bureau
Virden
Orange
Farm Bureau Pays Reward For Poultry Theft Conviction
Shenandoah Iowa April 13 The Page county farm bureau awards reward money to Edwin Sawhill Clarinda 35 for helping convict Elmer Brown in a poultry theft brown was convicted after twelve chickens were stolen from the Sawhill farm a farm bureau protective sign program has been sent to members
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Farm Bureau
Testers to Confer in Iowa County Spring Conference
West Union Iowa April 13 testers of associations in Jrayette Winneshiek Chickasaw and Alla makee counties will hold a spring conference in the courthouse here Thursday and Friday April 14 and 15 Representatives of the dairy husbandry service at Ames will be present Fayette county now has six associations.
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West Union
Jrayette
Winneshiek
Chickasaw
Allamakee
Ames
Fayette County
Minneapolis Grain Market Receipts and Prices April 13
Minneapolis Minn April 13 Receipts 62 cars down from 125 a year ago No 1 northern price 1.32 per bushel No 1 dark spring choice to fancy 1.34 1 42 No 1 hard spring 1.34 1 42 No 3 yellow 1.26 oats No 8 white 42 34 to 43 per cent futures prices for March 1.32 47 July 1.58 44 September 1.28 5.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Montana
Cern
Peoria Grain Receipts and Sample Prices
Peoria grain market notes receipts for April 15 show No 8 yellow corn at 65 to 66 cents, No 2 white oats at 60 cents, and No 3 white at 4 cents with mixed and sample qualities listed. Cern abbreviations indicate multiple lots, with 12 cars of oats steady and fluctuating white corn prices amid varied samples.
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Peoria
Focal
Toledo Seed Prices for Clover and Timothy Seeds
April 13 report shows Clover seed imported at 17.00 dollars asked and 16.80 dollars asked for October. Timothy seed lists old at 2.45, new at 2.69, April at 2.65, May at 32.70.
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Toledo -Seeds
Taleo. O
Timothy
Potatoes Receipts and Prices Noted in Chicago Market
Chicago April 15 potatoes receipts new price data show Spears old and new totals. U S shipments 2675 with supplies liberal and trading moderate. Wisconsin round whites priced 1.90 to 2.00 with bulk 2.00 to 2.10. Idaho Russets sacked 3.10 with mostly 1.15 to 3.25.
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Ptotatoes
Chicago
Spears
U. S
Wisconsin
Idaho
Futures and Eggs Prices Digest From Market Standstill
Market note lists futures for Mhicargo Nil WR Py-Futures closing and butter standards for April June and December. Egg categories include fresh gathered firsts for April and other April May June entries with packed firsts and storage terms. Refrigerator standards show November 28e.
Grain Prices Report From St Louis Market
St Louis grain market notes show No 2 red wheat at 81.2 and 128 mixed notes, No 2 yellow corn at 89 and white corn at 66. Price listings include numbers for various quality grades, with occasional abbreviations and unclear tokens reflecting a fragmented OCR feed. Entities include St Louis and wheat and corn grades with price figures.
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ST. Louis
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