Washburn Co op Hogs Tattooed for Chicago Market
Washburn Iowa May 23 hog tattoos spread amid two carloads shipped by Washburn Live Stock Shipping Association. Black Hawk county hogs get a 10 cent bonus if TB free, aiding a few farmers Ed Entz Jake Bewler and the Dane brothers. Five Chicago packers pay the premium. Tattooing uses serial marks I and A through Z with township and farm letters, stamped on the shoulder with lamp black and linseed oil. Market prices show higher returns. past year hogs net $9.64, cattle $8.03 per hundred, with 34 cars handled this year totaling 54 544 pounds split across hogs cattle and sheep in mixed consignments.
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Washburn
Washburn Livestock’ Shipping Association
William Dirkes
Black Hawk Association
Ed Entz
Jake Bewler
Dane Brothers
Altho
Chingo Packers
Agar
Roberts & Oaks
Swift, Armour and Wilson
Dirkes
Black Hawk
Washburn Association
Delaware Alfalfa Day to Demonstrate Planting Steps
On May 23 in Manchester Indiana a special alfalfa day will show field preparation and seed placement at 1 30 pm. Charles Hutcheson from Des Moines Iowa will lead with County Agent Paul Burson assisting. Demonstrations include seed bed firming seed inoculation lime soil tests and seed sowing with horse and tractor powered equipment. A limestone spread will occur in the forenoon on primary 13 one mile north of the city.
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Manchester
Farmen
Charles RB. Hutcheson
Iowa
Des Moines
Paul Burson
Hutcheson
Ball Park
Ed Daniels
Hitch Demonstration Planned in Chickasaw County
Harry Linn, secretary of the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders' association, will visit Chickasaw county next week for hitch and horse breaking demonstrations at the Reuben Kalishek farm in Aten township and the W F A Rabe farm in New Hampton township. Farmers who want horses broken may bring them. Linn uses no whip or brutal methods. Attendance last year was high and is expected to grow.
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Courier &Pecial Service
New Hampton
Harry Linn
Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders' Association
Chickasaw County
Reuben Kalishek
Aten Township
W. PF. A. Rabe
New Wampton Township
Linn
Hatchability and Pedigree Work in Poultry Breeding
Denver IA May 23 Pedigreeing of poultry reveals traits across lines. Willard Prestein hatching and pedigreeing 130 birds plus 600 chicks, tracking female lineage, egg hatchability, and chick livability. Some top producers yield poor offspring, others excel. several hens show high egg counts while a few fail to hatch. White Leghorns, Brown Leghorns, and White Rock pedigrees pursued. Brown Leghorns won first at Ames show with 31.7 score. Egg production runs about 700 weekly for hatching. weather improves hatch rates this spring.
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Denver
Willard Prestein
Prestein
Mike
Deady Ames
Ames
Ames Head to Make Survey of Farming in Russia
Prof. J. B. Davidson of Iowa State College will join a U S mission to Russia and Siberia for four months to study farming conditions and race relations. The commission aims to assess colonization potential as the Russian government plans 10 million acres for Jewish settlement with religious and industrial freedom.
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Ames
Russia
Siberia
J. B. Davidson
Iowa State College
United States
Prof. Davidson
Commission
Ames Agricultural Engineering
Franklin S. Harris
Brigham Young Unniversity
Benjamin Brown
North Carolina Agricultural College
K. B. Sauls
Oats Acreage Less Planting More Corn Delays
Quasqueton May 23 corn planting is delayed by wet and cold weather. Oat area is reduced as farmers shift to corn, hoping to avoid further delays. Some corn may need to be planted in June. A frost last Saturday damaged tender garden crops.
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Courier Special Service
Quasqueton
Tama County Farm Bureau Picnic Set for June
The Tama county inter-township debates finals, postponed by bad roads, will be part of the Tama County Farm Bureau picnic in June in Tracr Ia. County Agent FR Mills states the topic is Resolved That the direct country buying of hogs by packers is a detriment to the producer. Picnic date around June 20.
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Tracr
Tama County
Tama County Farm Bureau
FR. Mills
Corn Acreage in Iowa Townships Shows Variation
Iowa townships display wide variation in corn acreage and merchantable yields. A recent Iowa State College bulletin by Edgard B. Hurd shows counties with 8 to 59 of every 100 acres devoted to corn and merchantable crop percentages from 54 to 91. It notes rising overall corn acreage since 1890 and cites sweet clover and drainage as factors for future yields across regions.
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Iowa
Agricultural Economics Section
Iowa State College
Corn Enterprise
Edgard B. Hurdand
Page
Fremont
Mills
Mills County
Pattawattamie
Calhoun
Sac
Hurd
Towa
Farm Life Wins Debate in Bremer Township Meeting
May 23 Bremer Ta The Warren township bureau met to answer if the average Iowa farm boy has greater opportunities in farming than town jobs. The affirmative vote favored farm life with remarks on independence wholesome surroundings and fresher produce. Seth Koeh agreed to run a corn yield test plot and A C Epley discussed soybeans noting Manchu and Black Eyebrow varieties as superior in Bremer County over a decade of trials.
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Bremer
Iowa
Warren Township
Altho
Seth Koeh
A. C. Epley
Epley
Bremer County
Mrs Bullemer Hospitalized After Gallstone Operation
In Waterloo Iowa May 23 Mrs R B Bullemer of Marbie Rock is a patient in St Francis hospital Waterloo following an operation to relieve gallstones.
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Waterloo Hospital
Marbie Rock
R. B. Bullemer
St. Francis Hospital
Waterloo
Palace and Paramount Screenings Offer Variety of Talking Pictures
A West gunfight comedy with Don Coleman and The Mystery Rider ninth chapter headline a mixed bill at Palace. Paramount presents Gentlemen of the Press with Walter Huston and Eddie Cantor in Midnight Follies, plus Ruth Etting in a Vitaphone number. Strand features Show Seat from Edna Ferber and Ziegfeld, with Kern music. a detailed Paramount news in sound wraps the program.
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Tonight Palace
Don Coleman
Paramount
Walter Huston
Eddie Cantor
Ruth Etting
Columbia
Paramount News
Show Seat
Edna Ferber
Ziegfeld
Laura la Plante
Joseph Schildkraut
Otis Harlan
Alma Rubens
Emily Fitzroy
Helen Morgan
Jules Bledsoe
Jerome Kern
Paramount Theatre
Mexico
Huston
New York
Katherine Francis
Charles Ruggles
Betty Lawford
Norman Foster
Duncan Penwarden
Laurence Leste
Midnight Frolics and Ruth Etting On Stage in New York
The review highlights a sketch titled Midnight Frolics with songs like I Faw Down and Whoo pee. Ruth Etting performs My Mother's Eyes and That's Him Now. Sam Katz discusses change he seeks for Publix houses under a new all screen policy.
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Ing
New York
Ruth Etting
Sam Katz
B. E. WL
Funeral for Isabel Wilson Held Near Fredericksburg
The 13 year old Isabel Wilson died Monday and funeral services were held yesterday at the home of Mr and Mrs Erva Wilson northwest of Fredericksburg. Rev Winifred C Clemo conducted the merak burial followed by a memorial service planned for Sunday at the M E church with Rev G Ih Heiserman delivering the sermon at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Fredericksburg
Erva Wilson
Isabel
Winifred C. Clemo
Rose Hill
M. E
G. Ih Heiserman
Rural mail carrier injured on route in Dunkerton
Clifford Hayes filled in on the rural mail route of Arthur Holdiman after Holdiman hurt his left arm when a splinter penetrated the flesh at his home. The injury occurred last evening and Hayes worked today as substitute carrier.
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Dunkerton
Clifford Hayes
Arthur Holdimen
Holdiman
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