Farmers Tour Emphasize Quality Cows for Profits
W F Parrott urges keeping fewer but superior cows and using strong sires to build a profitable dairy herd. A joint Buchanan and Black Hawk county tour visited farms near Jesup and Moon to study herds and discuss dairy practices, with rain dampening turnout but spurring discussion on production, cleanliness, and testing butterfat.
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Kean
W. F. Parrott
Contests Association
Uchanan
Black Hawk
Dormer
Altho
Aine
W. J. Campbell
Jesup
Campbell
Moon
State Hospital
Here
Mr. Parrott
JA. Walters
Buchanan County
Waterloo
Iowa
Delasare
H. J. Aliensin & Sons
Mont
Black Hawk County
Rainville
Delaware
Mrs Miller named decoration chair at Poultry Congress
Mrs. Miller of 444 Reber Ave was chosen decoration committee chair for the fourth American Poultry Congress after the Waterloo Poultry Association meeting at Greater Waterloo Association rooms. Decorations will include large outside flags. The show runs May 22 to 28 featuring Dairy Cattle Congress and National Belgian Horse show. Directors will meet later to transact business.
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Aln. Miller
Reber avemuUe
American Poultry Congress
Waterloo Polity Association
Greater Waterloo Association
Work and Play Club meets at Lucile Brant home
The Dunkerton Iowa group gathered at Lucile Brant’s house for an afternoon of fancy work demonstrations followed by a business session. Mrs F W Childs gave a talk on cotton fabrics for club girls dresses. The next meeting is set for Wednesday August 13 with Netha Messer. Nome Alaska is farther west than the Hawaiian Islands.
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Dunkerton
Wwork and Play Club
Lucile Brant
Netha Messer
Farmers Questions And Comments Invited
Adkbese communications to Editor Farm Department at Waterton Evening Courier Wa tertoo Iowa inviting readers to send questions and comments to the farm department for publication.
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Adkbese Communications
Waterton Evening Courier
Watertoo
Iowa
Louis Frost’s Calf Show Preparation Tales
Louis Frost recounts the steps taken to procure and prepare his Ayrshire calf for show at Cedar Valley fair. He describes buying the calf for 126 dollars with 67 paid, earning funds from strawberry picking, selling rabbits, feeding the calf daily, cleaning the pen, and grooming the animal with baths, sweating, horn scraping, and a pumice polish for a glossy finish.
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Black Flank County Club
Cedar Valley
Louis Frost
Laura
Tuberculosis Findings From Nationwide Cattle Testing
Washington reports broad cattle testing results from the U S Department of Agriculture. About nine tenths of premises show no tuberculosis. In 10 states infection exceeds 45 percent, one in four herds. Some states average under five percent infection. Readers may request tuberculin testing via veterinarians, while studies explore tests needed to free herds. Des Moines notes Winnebago county joins 27 counties nationwide as a modified accredited area for tuberculosis eradication.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
Des Moines
Winnebagg
Michigan
North Carolina
Indiana
Tennessee
Tiinois
Sociable to Aid Butler County Girls Club
Hazel M Black and Miss Inez Schuler attended Brushy Mound school to view a girls club meeting on parliamentary procedure. The event featured a film Mr Microbe’s Waterloo and a basket social that raised over seven dollars to fund girls attending the Ames short course.
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Ames
Premium lists for Butler fair ready for distribution
Premium lists for the Butler county fair to be held September 1 to 4 are ready and being distributed to recent exhibitors. Additional copies may be obtained from Secretary J. C. Carter in Allison. The sixty ninth annual fair is anticipated to be the biggest and best, with officials meeting Saturday to finalize exhibition plans.
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Allison
Butler County
J.C. Carter
The
Fair Association
Heidt Sisters TQ Enter State Fair
Grace and Alice Heidt representing Husky Hustlers at Waterloo township won the countrywide tryout for the girls demonstration team to enter at the state fair. They demonstrated a dress making sequence in sixteen minutes. They will have forty minutes at the state exposition with judge Mrs Pred BE Fergus Son presiding.
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Grace
Alice Heidt
Husky Hustlers Club
Waterloo Township
Y. W
Fergus Son
Idie Nots
Cedar Falls Township
Army Glasener
Dorothy Sisson
Cloverleaf Club
Barclay Township
Lois Walker
Beulah Smith
Kountry Kiocthing Klub
Cedar Falls
Mildred Minishi
Louiss Muncy
Minies
Roy Middlekauff
Ralph Mitchell
Elizabeth Hudson
Des Moines
Natives of Africa Get Iowa Farming From R T Wagner
Rush T. Wagner a Iowa State graduate will go to Rhodesia to teach native preachers and others in agriculture under the Methodist Foreign Mission board. He will help natives improve food supplies, especially vegetables, and supervise their farming methods alongside George Roberts, a Rhodesia veteran from Iowa State College.
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Ames
Iowa
Rhodesia
South Africa
Rush T. Wagner
Iowa State College
George Wagner
Northwood
New York
Methodist Foreign Mission Board
George Roberta
Wagner
the Colege
South Dakota Agricultural College
M. C. A. Colege
Chicago
Former Charles City resident elected VP of grain marketing group
Charles City Iowa August 6 Harry Keefe son of Mrs M J Keefe and former Charles City man has been elected vice president of a $26,000,000 grain marketing association formed in Chicago to take over five large elevator holdings for operation by farmers. Keefe, now living in Walthill Nebraska, will serve alongside Gray Silver, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, with Silver as head of the new corporation.
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Charles City
Harry & Keefe
M. J. Keefe
Charles Cy
Chicago
Keefe
United States Grain Growers' Inc
Keafe
Gray Silver
Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Spring Creek farmer to be tried tomorrow
A prominent Spring Creek farmer was arrested and will be tried tomorrow evening at the home of Ed Arthur for robbing the soil. An ice cream sociable will follow, with women invited to take cakes. The item appears in Porte City, Iowa, with the World War era style newsprint mixed in.
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Porte City
Spring Creek
Ed Arthur
Wheat and Corn Markets See Mixed Moves at Open
From Chicago on August 6, wheat futures weakened late after hedging sales to take profits. September and December contracts showed slight declines before a rally that varied by up to 3 cents per bushel. Manitoba black rust rumors and live-buying talk buoyed modest advances, but gains faded. Corn rose with wheat then retreated as markets shifted. Oats gained early, but closed mixed. Provisions remained steady with no major changes.
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Associated Proms
Chicago
Manitoba
Ityerate Sxtert
Hog market slips as hogs uneven and slow pricing shift
Slaughter hog receipts near 19,000 with slow, uneven demand. Top steer prices reach around 10.75 as buyers show cautious activity. packing hogs and slaughter pigs vary from 8.00 to 10.40 with some weights and cuts holding firmer. Cattle receipts about 13,000 with steers and yearlings steady to weaker. sheep receipts around 16,000 with steady to higher tendencies for lambs and ewes.
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Sioux City
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Bro
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Nehelghte
Stenay
Texas Wethers
sTe
Sprite
ST. Joseph Livestock
St. Joseph
Associated
Premg
Chicago
Aus
Bing
Atlantic Seaboard
Uly
Wales
PAUL
St Paul
Mann
Ogna
Stock Exchange Gains Narrow Early Trading Slide
The stock market showed uneven opening as United States Steel and others edged down while Congoleum and General Electric recovered. Foreign exchange opened higher with steady demand for oil and leather stocks, as several 1924 highs were noted and Pittsburgh and West Virginia merger rumors caused marginal moves.
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Steel Common
Edithe
Stela
Congoleum
General Electric
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Ebececo
Philadelphia & Reading Coat and Iron
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
van Swer
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Central
Norfolk & Westerm Atlantic Refining
Althe Atlantic Refining
Standard Oil
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Central Leather
Fisher
Allied Chemical & Dyn American Can
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American International American Locomotive
American Smelting
American American American American Woolen
Atchison
Atlantic Coast
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimors & Ohio
Bethlehem
California
Petrole du Pont
iGulf
Illinois Central
Internations! Harvester , T
Marine Pid
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Invincible
Kelly-Springfield Tire
Kennecott Capper
Gulsville & Ashville Mack
Mariana Ol'Maxwell Motors
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Pennsylvania
Standard Oil of
N. J. Studebaker Corporation
Texas Co
Texas & Pacific Tobanto
Union Pacific
United_ Drag
Ind
Alconol
Trbag States Steel
Utah Copper
Weatinghouse Electric
Miliss-Overland - Woolworth Central
eLather Cerro de Pasco
Chandler Motors
Chesapeake & Oh
Chicago
Ees
Reynolds Tobasos
Seaboard Air Line
Lepars Roebuck
Sinclair Con
Sloss
Sheffield Steel & Tron
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Southern Railway Ptd
Cai
Husband and boarder fight ends with fines and orders
A triangle of husband, wife, and boarder led to a late night brawl at 3221 Commercial street. After pleading guilty, Bo Swanger and Arthur Short were fined $10 and costs, with fines suspended to keep the peace. Swanger must leave the boarding house. James Hays received three days jail, but imprisonment was deferred to allow him to depart town. Two traffic violators paid $3.50 and costs.
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Commercial Street
BO. Swanger
Arthur Short
Swanger
James Hays
Prices at Chicago and New York Marts
New York reports mixed dairy and cheese pricing with creamery butter and firsts firmness, milk and cream values, and varied skim milk ranges. Chicago notes receipts and price bands for butter eggs cheese with multiple grades and packers. St Louis prices listed for butter and sugar reflect regional markets and commodity shifts.
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Chicago
New York
St Louis
St .Louis
Oldtimers Baseball Tourney Set at League Park Next Week
City luncheon clubs prepare for the second annual city baseball tournament opening at League Park on Tuesday, August 12. Rotarians versus Lions at 2 15 P M, Kiwanis and Y's Men at 3 30 P M, with winners advancing to the championship. Proceeds go to the community chest fund.
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League Park
Rotarians
Lions
Kiwanis
Receipta
Clare Heald
FL. Murrill
Joe Raymond
T F. Thornton
Waterloo Heat Reaches 92 Degrees Teasing Thunder Clouds
Waterloo endured a third straight day of 90 degree heat as a government thermometer hit 92 in the early afternoon. Humidity was high, with last night's minimum 7 above. Storm clouds formed but no thundershower materialized. Tonight cloudy, tomorrow cooler, state bureau predicts.
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Waterloo
State Bureau
Can
Mosquito barrage comforts crowd at tent meeting
A mosquito barrage kept pests away during Buell-Dahl tent meeting at Broadway and Riehl last evening, allowing the large crowd to enjoy the service. Rev W A Buell preached on Perfidious Times and Timothy’s warning, while Mr Dahl led music. The event, sponsored by St Paul’s May church, includes daily morning prayers at nearby homes from 10 to 10:30. In Floyd co Iowa two remarkable corn stalks on display at Farmers Trust Bank reach 12 and nine feet, measured by George Mitchell who brought five stalks.
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iBroadway
Dahl
St. Paul's May Church
Floyd Co
Charles City
Farmers Trust & Savings Bank
George Mitchell
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