Iowans dethrone butter kings at annual national show
At Sioux Falls South Dakota Minnesota and Iowa vied for the National Buttermakers banner. Iowa, four times in five years holder, finished narrowly behind Minnesota with 54 4550 overall while Minnesota topped both fresh and storage butter. Waverly Behrens won top fresh butter with 36, and Iowa earned gold and silver diplomas for fresh butter scores.
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Sioux Falls
Waverly
National
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Iowa
Hawkeyes
Tharely
Sioux Palis
Towa
Waverly Man Wits
Wil Bahrens
Seigel Co-Operative Creamery
Bremer County
Waterloo
Oh. D. Reynolds
Mason City
James Sorensen
H. C. Larson
Ore- Gon
Schmadeke Owns Sire of Chester White Champions
Clarksville Iowa December 18 The sire of the grand champion barrow at the International Livestock Exposition is owned in Butler County by Schmadeke a farmer and livestock breeder Maur here Senmar doko exhibited the Chester White boar at Bremer County last season winning on him and a party of his progeny Rainbow Buster is the name of the sire. In addition to the champion barrow at Chicago Rainbow Buster was sire of the champion pen of three barrows. They were purebred.
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Clarksville
Butler County
Foo
Pen
Chertern
Gribben to Speak at Benton County Farm Bureau Meeting
Ray Gribben secretary of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and Mrs. W D Miller member of the state executive women's committee in the fifth district will be the chief speakers at the Benton County Farm Bureau annual meeting at Turner Hall Keystone on Wednesday June 5. The program includes the annual dinne r, financial reports, and discussions on women’s work and county agent’s work.
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Af. Bildridge
Albert Neve
Wome
J. GO. Fisher
Articera
Ray Gribben
Iowa Warn Bureau Federation
Guthrie
Capaeily
Iowa Stay College
Milkey
Brandy County
American — Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Beef Calves Feed Program Grows in Benton County
Sixty beef calves of Aberdeen Angus Hereford and Shorthorn breeds are being fed in Benton County as 35 youths participate in the 1927 county beef club. Leaders expect stronger county and state fair showings next summer due to improved calf quality. Club members include Frank Burrell Center Point and others from Keystone Blairstown Vinton and Newhall with multiple family names listed.
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Vinton
Benton County
Aberdeen Angus
Frank Burrell
Center Point
Howard
Arthur
George Franzenburg
Edwin
Wille Hansen
Henry Dsehlerich
Keystone
Leland Schoonover
Marvin
Lloyd Selk
Garrison
Raphael Schmueckar
Blairstown
Mark Ingel
Charles Rahn
la Forte
Hereford
Balth
Kenneth Chris
Hansen
Norway
Monard
John
Alfred
Donald
Wilbert’ Heilman
Elmer
Adeline Schild
Henry Oehlerich
Stanley Keep
Fred
Clifford Schilst
Belle Plaine
Glenn Rieke
Keith
Julia Tow
Harold Underwood
Arnold
Walter Olson
Newhall
Shorthorns
State Shippers Assn Closes Seven Years of Service
Des Moines reports seven years of Touch Cooperative Livestock Shippers improving marketing conditions. Secretary Knute Espe notes aid in solving legal, traffic, records, auditing, and rail dealings. Annual convention Jan 10–12 plans several hundred shippers, with a joint session with the state farm bureau federation on day three.
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Des Moines
Touch Co-operative Livestock Shippers
Knute Espe
Ivestock Shipping
Atute Farm Bureau Federation
Q. J. Kalsem
State Shippers’ Organization
D. Is Swanson
Meaga Producers’ Organization
Ape
Espe
Iowa
Creamery Raises Price for Sweet Cream Butterfat
At the annual meeting Hawkeye Chesungery camping voted to pay four cents per pound more for butterfat in sweet cream than in sour cream and two cents more this summer two more cents to follow. The change takes effect January 3 and aims to boost creamery prices on the eastern market.
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Vwawkeye
Hawkeya Chesungery
All Officers Dairy Congress Re-Elected
AME officers of Dairy Cattle Cong Bess were re-elected at the annual meeting. They are A W Brown president J D Brown vice president FR Stewart treasurer EE istel secretary manager. No reports were heard. The meeting of stockholders adjourned without further business. Dec 18. Enten county will send a large delegation to the Junior short course at Amos Dec 28 29 and 30. Members of three 4lia clubs in Taylor Eden and Cedar townships plan to attend the short course as well as winners of free trips offered in the dairy and home and other clubs. The Junior short course will focus on farming and homemaking education with some banquet time.
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AME
A. W. Brown
J.D. Brown
FR. Stewart
Istel
Vinten
Enten
Amos
Glia
Talor
Eden
Cedar Townships
Earn
Grange Supports Income Tax Plan at Iowa Convention
At the four day Iowa Grange convention Cedar Rapids won the 1927 meeting site. Resolutions favored guaranteed bank deposits and an income tax on incomes of five dollars or more replacing millage. Farm relief support backed the Libia plan, inland waterway bill endorsed, and prohibition maintained. F P Watters, national deputy, spoke and praised growth.
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Manchester
Wifly
Town
State Grange
Cedar Rapids
State Orange
Grange
F. P. Watters
Traer Winter Fair Sets Corn Grain Show Records
Eight hundred twenty one gars of corn entered in Traer Iowa grain show with 13 in 30 car class 34 in 100 chisses 456 single cars six entries in longest cars 10 freak cars and nine in largest-number-of-kernels contest A G Larson Cedar Falls judge called Traer event the largest aside from one exception and noted quality rivaling the state show.
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Gratin
A. G. Larson
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids Co-Op Names Manager Smythe
Harold G. Smythe of Cedar Rapids has been elected manager of the Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy Company, an association covering over 83 percent of local milk producers. He will base at the county farm bureau office until the co op office opens and will handle pricing, weights tests, butterfat payments, and surplus arrangements with a firm possessing condensing equipment. Smythe is a Towns State College alumnus and former Blue Valley Creamery employee.
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Cedar Rapids
Harold G. Smythe
Corn Auctioned at 65 Cents and Cows Reach 81
Dunkerton Iowa December auction on the J. T. Allen farm by T. C. Sigernor saw corn sell from 56 to 65 cents per bushel. One team of horses fetched 185 dollars and an eight year old Percheron stallion sold. Cattle ranged from 46.40 to 81 dollars. chiefkoans sold at 17 cents per pound.
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Dunkerton
T. C. Sigenore
J. T. Allen
Bashel
Sumner Poultry Show Nears End With 300 Birds on Display
More than 300 birds were shown at the seventh annual Sumner Poultry Association exhibit at Cass County. Winners included FE Rethel & Son for White Plymouth Rocks, M. Barth for best hen tree with Silver Laced Wyandotte, and O C Creager's First Prize White Wyandotte pen as top overall. Judge was Oscar Grew of Cedar Point.
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Sumner, Ta
Sumner Toustry Association
Cass Pati Tous
FE. Rethel & Son
Plymouth Rocks
Marsh
Rhode Islay
Im. Wi
Wyandotte Young
Avie Mather
Oscar Grew
Cedar Palle
MISS HUDSON TO JUDGE HOME ECONOMICS EXHIBITS
Wallstown Ta Dee 18 Farmers and community workers plan a county institute January 10 to 20. A. W. Clyde will demonstrate movable hog houses January 19. J B Outee Mt A Hauser will judge grain exhibits and Elizabeth Hudkan will judge home economics exhibits.
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Dee
Farmera
Stdalrs
A. W. Clyde
Uoys
Mt. A. Hauser
Tha Rrain
Mas Inabeth Hudkan
Homa Demonstraon
Black Hawk County
Tha
Wheat Market Strength Guides Chicago Cash Grains
Chicago reports a steadier wheat market as prereport positioning and higher Liverpool quotes push futures. Corn and oats firm after early selling with light country offerings, while cotton fluctuates with New York and Liverpool moves. potatoes show very slow trade with limited sales.
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Chicago
United States
Liverpool
Omaha Livestock Market Reports Mixed Prices and Receipts
Omaha figures show steer and heifer prices near week-ago levels with varying stocker and feeder bids. Receipts include 160 to 2000 head of cattle and lighter bull and fat lamb trade. Sioux City reporting mixed demand and steadier calf and cow markets. statewide packing and feeder bids listed with price ranges and averages.
Board of Trade Cash Quotations Decline in Mixed Grain Prices
Chicago December 18 Wheat quotes listed across grades with No 3 red at 41.34 and No 1 hard near 1.00 while corn values show mixed readings and various white and yellow grain grades with differing cents per bushel. Rye not quoted and barley listed with sparse figures. timothy and cloverseed prices noted alongside provisions.
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Chicago
ClaeGet
ST. Louis
HOG AND CATTLE PRICES ACROSS MIDWEST MARKETS
Chicago reports steady hog receipts around 4 000 with strong demand and top barrows around 11.00 to 11.25 while fat cattle show mixed movement and yearlings easing slightly. Kansas City and St Paul markets record steady to weak hogs and variable cattle prices with veal, calves, and feeders fluctuating alongside sheep alongside weekly totals.
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Kansas City
Femlers
St, Joseph
St Joseph
Wall Street Stock Rebound Mixed As Trade Sees Profit-Taking
U S Steel and other industrials faced selling pressure while Atchison Railway surged to a record high amid hopes of a large stock dividend. Rock Island Reading and Erie joined gains as pool actions boosted film stocks. Closing was irregular with about 1,000,000 shares traded and U S Steel near 159 1/4 amid mixed moves across sectors.
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Taliroadieres
United States Steel
Unitea States Steel
American Smelting
Allied Chemical
Syupont
Madson Motors and
U. S. Steel
Sloss-Sheffield
Crucible
American
Dupont
Southern Railway
Weekly Grain and Provision Review
Market notes from Chicago and St Joseph report corn prices showing a busier net low move with oats reaching a season high and wheat down. Poor corn quality and strong feeding demand influence values while old stocks and new arrivals keep lard and meat futures mixed. hogs and cattle receipts at St Joseph are steady to higher with gains in calves and stockers.
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W.bhey
Tuly
Wose
New York
Finn
Chieago
Chicago
Wold Werther
Rc UN
Canada
Peoria Livestock Roundup Hogs Steady on Receipts
Peoria Illinois market reports hog receipts at 1 500 with prices steady top veal noted at 11.35 to 11.60 per hundredweight. Neavles and packers show ranges from 10.00 to 14.50 with several listings around 11.65 and 29.50 in miscellaneous categories.
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Peoria Livestock Peoria
Neavles
Market notices and commodity prices in New York
New York market roundup lists butter creamery prices and pork lard sugar coffee and tallow quotes with variations by region and grade. Receipts and price ranges appear for butter dairy products and grains in Minneapolis and Chicago reports, plus Kansas City and Duluth grain values and sugar refinements.
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Midwest
Chicago- Chicago
Hwanan City
Kansas City
Heat cows drink coal heated water not hay says expert
Columbia Dec 18 UP Farmers should heat cows drinking water with coal rather than hay or clover. John Meeker cites a bank heater as a cheaper method to warm water, helping cows drink more and increase milk production. Real estate transfers listed include HH Wagner to Farmers Loan and Trust Co and Caward Investment Co transfers and a Latrettin McAvick lot purchase.
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Columbia
Mao
Thalr
David Resker
Johnson County
Missouri‘ College of Agriculture
Meeker
HH. T. Wagner
Farters Loan & Trust Co
Rainbow
Caward Investment Company
Tr J
Biller
Kingbard HH Fug
Ee Eee Tinlala
J. Miller
Kingbard Hill Add
Ed Madisin
Laurettin
McCavick
Home Park
Butter Prices Rise on Holiday Demand and Stock Reports
Butter markets remained firm week overall with prices advancing on central car and wholesale butter amid holiday buying. Chicago demand ran below availability keeping prices steady to higher while the December 1 US storage report showed a 10.3 million pound shortage versus last year. Grain and feed notes show oats and wheat price movements with mixed data from Omaha and Toledo markets.
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Chicago
Fim
United States
Winter eggs and poultry feed advertisement
An old advertisement touts Mash for winter eggs kept before layers and Brain sparingly fed an hour before roosting. It claims Egg Mush yields about 65 cents per production from Angell's feed. Remittance to McNally at Waterlao, Jaws. Albert Angell Jr, Box 438 Waseca, Minnesota.
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Neb
Wis
McNally
Coturnshin St. Waterlao
Jaws
Angell
Albert Angell JR
Waseca
Mhin
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