Benson Creamery Scores as Farmers Boost Butter Quality
Cedar Falls April 21 Benson Co-Operative creamery patrons will soon learn each farm’s butter score after F M Sheldon of Ames sampled 250 farms. Scoring aims to improve quality to compete with foreign dairy shipments, with no grading and free extension service.
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Cedar Falls
Benson Co-Operative Creamers
F. M. Sheldon
Ames
Farm Bureau
Couunty
Benson Creamery
Black Hawk County
Renson
United States
Iowa Extension Service
Benson
Sheldon
Fertilizers pros and cons for garden use
Artificial or commercial fertilizers provide quick plant food but are short lived and can overfeed. Natural options like barnyard manure and bonemeal help longer term, while correct application avoids waste and soil damage. In Alington April 21 Miss Nella Ludeman returns home from missionary school for vacation.
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Ruth
Aplington
Nella Ludeman
Ted Préichs
Texas
Misa Kathryn Schoucman
Henry M. Kramer
Misa Swanetts Yunker
Mamta, Ladies
Ald Society
Arend Wreyer
Ed Wieland
Woden
Phi
Potatoes Planted When First Signs of Spring Appear
Seed dealers report a rush to plant potatoes as spring begins. Good Friday delayed many plantings, but warmth prompts early crops. Farmers and city residents alike show strong interest in garden seeds and lawn mixtures. Williford notes higher demand for early potatoes like Early Chips and Early Triumphs, with many families planting patches this season.
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A.C. Williford
Waterton
Williford
Farmers Questions and Comments in Vite
Letters from readers address the Farm Department in Waterloo Evening Courier Wa tering Iowa. Esitor is urged to forward inquiries and comments about agriculture and farm programs. The notice invites public input with a sponsorship note offering a $100 prize for useful submissions.
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Esitor
Farm Department
Waterloo Evening Courier
Watering
Towa
Thone
Kansas City Livestock Receipts See Mixed Demand Across Species
Receipts totaled about 13 000 calves and 14 000 cattle with feeders and heavyweights selling around steady to strong while others lagged. Top prices hit 11.40 for heavy steers, bulls and calves steady with packers paying 6.90 to 7.90 for certain lots and 7.15 to 7.30 per hundredweight for butcher weights. Sheep receipts reached 4 000 with lambs steady to strong and best bids around 18.25 for woolled lambs. overall offerings were light with no large sales early.
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Shestock Wvsi
Helen
Texas
Omana
Neb
Mack Ling
Bataan
Paul
Mina
Fleceipis
Spers
Lamson Bros. & Co
Marsh-Place
H. A. Morey
Chicago
Jabo
California
Taft
Chicagen
Sioux City Livestock Market Report
Prices for fat steers and heifers, cows and bulls show mixed trends with steady to lower bids. Hogs steady to lower as receipts and supplies push cattle prices. buyers note varying weights and classes, including feeders and stockers, with activity centered in Sioux City.
North Grundy farmer nets 85 spring pigs this season
O Danielsen, a north Grundy county farmer near Cedar Falls and Dike, reports 85 spring pigs from 12 sows averaging seven per litter. He keeps about 90 head of growing fall pigs ready for shipment, aiming earlier sales due to corn shortage. He normally sells to Dike Livestock Shipping and supplies Benson Co operative Creamery from 14 rows on his 160 acre rented farm west of Cedar Falls.
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Cadar Falls
O. Daniel North
Danielsen
Cedar Falls
Dike
Problems Of Waterloo Township Farm Bureau To Directors
A Waterloo Township Farm Bureau representative will attend county bureau board meetings to present township problems for discussion and help. The action followed a regular Virden meeting where Miss Elizabeth Hudson urged club work interest, a geography contest entertained, and Charon Mattingly read the final number.
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Waterloo Township Farm Bureau
County Bureau
Waterloo Township Farm Imiregu
Virden School
Wriday Vevenin
Elizabeth Hudson
Dates for Boys and Girls Short Course at Tews State College
Ames Iowa April 21 Special Dates for farm and home week short course and junior short course at Tews State college have been announced. Separate dates were set due to large attendance. Juniors attend during Christmas and February to June. farm and home course runs February to March. Junior sessions during vacation allow housing in college dormitories.
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Ames. In
Tews State College
Wwe
Chris Cation
Waverly Poultry Grower Sees Strong Demand For Birds
Waverly la April 21 Fred W Feldman proprietor of Wayside Poultry Yards reports disposing of over 2500 chicks this spring. He operates a 3000 egg incubator and a 1300 egg hatcher with seven units. About 325 chicks hatched two months ago will soon be ready for frying and daily egg yields run about twenty dozen with most used for hatching. Some eggs are bought to sustain the business.
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Waverly
Fred W. Feldman
Wayside Poultry Yards
Village blacksmith Hugh Hursey toils past eighty eight
Quasquelen Ta April 21. Hugh Nursey an eighty eight year old veteran blacksmith marks sixty eight years in the trade. He still works daily in the same house since 1862 and says he feels nearly as young as fifty years ago though he regrets not shoeing a horse as fast as in his prime.
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Quasquelen
Hugh Nursey
Milk Bottles Not For Flower Use In West Union
West Union Iowa April 21 Conditions in dairies supplying milk to the city are creditable. A state inspector urged re washing all bottles and keeping strainers clean. Infants receive milk from cows and about 60 children in the local school get daily allowances. Bottles should be emptied promptly and cleaned quickly. standing milk hinders cleaning. Dairymen complain of bottles used for canned fruit jam kerosene or cut flowers.
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West Union
Clayton county club program details in 1924 4H work
Elkader April 21 1924 Clayton county 4H boys and girls club program outlines a flying start plan and new dairy and heifer clubs modeled after 1923 dairy efforts. Calves born Aug 1 to Feb 1 will be judged. a draft colt club may form with high grade colts foaled March 1 to Aug 1. Meetings, fairs, demonstrations and judging teams will be organized later in Rangas City and Nita.
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Elkader
Clayton County
Ure Dairy Club
Livestock Prices Across Markets and Wheat Market Summary
East St. Louis and Peoria livestock receipts show steady to mixed bids on hogs cattle and sheep with prices around 9 dollars for vealers and 5 to 7 dollars for hogs. Chicago wheat opens lower amid Me ry Haugen delay talk as corn and oats slip on planting progress and weak demand.
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East ST. L Louis
Low
Lee
Hogs and Cattle Prices From Chicago and Omaha Markets
Receipts and price ranges show hogs down about 10 cents at Chicago with steady to active demand. cattle and fat hogs steady to higher in Omaha markets. Notes include steers 250 to 325 pounds at about 7.20 to 7.50 and fat sheep weaker, lambs firm, with various regional price levels and market activity across Chicago New York Minneapolis and Omaha.
Wheat and stock market drift on opening in New York Chicago
New York and Chicago saw selling pressure at the market open with notable losses across oils sugars chemicals and leathers. Rail shares showed strength with gains led by Canadian Southern Pacific and Chesapeake Ohio as various coal and steel issues drifted and midstream prices fluctuated amid broader trading, with new lows recorded in several groups.
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Associated Press
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Rew
Cab
Chicago
Capgoleum
Sechuite
American Tobacco HB
Coca Cola
Stewsart-Warner
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General Asphalt
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Marland, Pacific
Standard Oil
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Atlantic Refining
American Tide & Leather Preferred
American Woolen
Meridia Sugar
Daniel Boonefills
Castlet
General Petroleum
Eastman Kadlak
Order of the Federal Trade Commission
Southern Pacific
Chesapeat Ohio
Case Iran Pipe
Macking
Colorado
Allied Chemical & Dre
Gulf SW
Baltimore & Otto
Bethlehem Steel - California
Merredener
Canadian Pacific
Cather Ferro de Pasco
Chandler
Apeake && Min
Chicago & Northwestern
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Studebaker Corporation
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ae Westinghouse Electric Willy+Overland
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