Iowa corn crop forecast shows large shrinkage in 1927
Iowa state and federal crop reports forecast 1927 corn production at about 377.9 million bushels, 11 percent below the five year average, with an average yield of 34.5 bushels per acre. 1926 harvest was 413.6 million bushels. Oats barley and hay yields are also reported with changes from 1926.
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Des” Moines
Iowa
Leslie
Carl
United States ‘Department
of Agriculture
Lowa
Iiss
Federal
United States
Towa
Avery
Wcrops
Benton County Farm Bureau elects officers for next year
At the Benton County Farm Bureau annual meeting, A. D. Kine was named president for the coming year. G. Be. Grunewald was chosen vice president, Louis Greaser secretary, R. M. Baldridge treasurer, and Mrs. E. Fisher named home project reader. The program was carried out as scheduled.
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Vinton
Benton County Farm Bureau
A. D. Kine
Harrison Township
G. BE
Grunewald
Blairstown
Louis Greaser
Jackson Township
R. M. Baldridge
E. ©. Fisher
Mules' Web Halters Shrink in Rain
In Garrison Iowa on October 13 B L O Neil explains how rain caused web halters on a herd of mules and horses to shrink into their flesh at George Baker pasture. The owner and caretaker spent hours cutting the halters off ten mules after noticing the unusual growth during fence repairs.
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Garrison
B. L. O'Neil
George Baker
Boar Sale Tops $142.50 At Waverly Polish China Sale
At east of Waverly Iowa the Thurm Spotted Poland China herd sold 32 head with Handy Holland paying the top price of 142.50 for a boar. The sale totaled 141 dollars and close to 44 dollars average. buyers came from Wisconsin Michigan and Nebraska.
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Courier Special Service
Waverly
Handy Holland
Hartley
Here
Nebraska
Towans
William Groening
Denver
Hand & Holland
Bartley
John Metcher
Massied& Massie
Nashua
R. V. Barnes
Wateriog
Harold Repte
Humboldt
Ed Zelle
Melcher
Charles City
Alfred Bess
Monticello
L. H. Lacosta
Rudd
B. H. Reimer
Clearfield
G. P. Phillips
Bellevue
Mich
Ben Jungling
Parkersburg
H. J. Starrett
Bloomington
Wis
G. Heedger
Wellsburg
Robert Burroughs
Clarksville
H. Schaefer
Oelwein
Oelwein Holstein Sale Set by Fayette County Group
Fayette County Holstein Breeders announce a county sale of 40 to 50 grade and purebred Holsteins on Wednesday November 2 in Oelwein Ta. The lineup includes about 10 males and 35 females from top local herds led by L H Oldfather Arlington who consigns 20 head. Other consignors include Frank Seeley Otto Rumel George Fox P P Stewart Oscar and Floyd Gilley with more herds to be added as selections continue.
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Frank Seeley
Arlington
Otto Rummel
Stanley
George Fox
Oelwein
P. P. Stewart
Oscar
Floyd Gilley
Maynard
Turner
Fayette
Lester Meeting at Lester Township Farm Bureau
In Dunkerton Iowa on October 13 the Women of Lester Township Farm Bureau met at Mrs Will Clubine's home with twelve present A picnic lunch followed a design in dress lesson by Mrs P L Friedley county project leader Mrs Conrad Happel demonstrated color and design aided by Mrs Friedley The group elected Mrs Ralph Clubine chairman and chose to replace Mrs Will Clubine as secretary treasurer
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Dunkerton
Lester Township
Club Girl's Way to Memphis Paid
Leona Mayer of Stacyville will travel to the National Dairy Exposition in Memphis Tennessee October 15 to 22 as the Iowa 4 H dairy calf club representative. The Osage Courier reports the Mitchell County entry includes Mayowood Bess Lola Lass and Tritomia Ninon Colantha and a ferry of expenses by the local club. A second note from Jesup Iowa October 13 states a railway firm offers free transport for four Jesup boys in the high school dairy cattle judging contest with an oyster supper fundraiser at Colonial Hall to cover remaining costs.
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Franklin County
Franklin
Dairy Cattle Congress
Memphis
Tenn
Hampton
National Dairy
Courier
Osage
Leona Mayer
Stacyville
Mitchell County
Waterloo
Leona
Iowa Holstein Club
Iowa
Paul. P. Stewart
Paul Sauerbry
Oelwein
Fayette
Stewart Herd
Paul
Jesup
Colonial Hall
Holstein sale to feature cow test butterfat records
The Dairy Cattle Congress sale on Monday Oct 24 at Iowa venue will showcase top Holstein cattle. E M Wright notes seven cows from Thomas Hansen Cedar Falls and many Iowa breeders including Loveland Janesville Shover Monticello Hoag Finster Mason City Iowana Farms Davenport and Martag Farms Newton. The event lists 60 females and 15 bulls, each from a dam with 400+ pounds in cow testing.
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Dairy Cattle Congress
Iowa Holstein
W. B. Loveland
Janesville
Thomas Shover
Monticello
E. E. Hoag
Roy Finster
Eldora
Iowa
Gildner and
Edel
Mason City
Iowana Farms
Davenport
Martag Farms
Newton
Farm Bureau Plans Conference Across Districts
Grundy Center Oct 13. Ac curate Reports will be the subject of a task on Oct 29 by Mrs W D Miller chair man of the farm bureau women s home project work in the Fifth congressional district Grundy county resident at the annual conference of extension workers county agents and community leaders. Floyd county delegates from Floyd county townships will attend the Ames extension conference Oct 26 to 29 including Lee Pattschull Pleasant Grove William Henry Floyd George Salzman Niles Seth Cheney Rock Grove and County Agent William Dietrich. Mrs C E Tracy Charles City is among the women chosen.
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Grundy Center
W. D. Miller
Farm Bureau Women’s Home Project
Fifth Congressional District
Grundy County
Ames
Charles City
Floyd County
Lee Pattschull
Pleasant Grove
William Henry
Floyd
George Salzman
Niles
Seth Cheney
Rock Grove
William Dietrich
C. E. Tracy
Farmers At Wa terloo Evening Courier Readers Page
Questions and comments invited by the Farm Department. Address communications to the Editor Farm Department, Waterloo Evening Courier, Waterloo, Iowa. Phone 5100.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo
Iowa
Wheat and corn market day in Chicago and Winnipeg reports
Chicago traders cited strong Winnipeg demand and a belief that much of arriving wheat is low grade. Early corn prices hit season lows amid widespread selling. wheat rallied but gains were mostly temporary. Iowa frost damage estimates eased fears, and cattle feeding this winter across the corn belt was expected to be lower than last year.
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Chicago
Winnipeg
Canada
Commission House
Iowa
Tse
Grain quotes from Peoria and Omaha exchanges
Peoria grain receipts show mixed yellow and mixed yellow grades with no. 2 and no. 4 whites quoted. In Omaha on October 13 wheat prices range from 1.24 to 1.38 for various hard, mixed and No. 1 grades. corn and oats follow with assorted white and yellow varieties and prices around 46 to 47 cents.
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Peoria
Til
Omaha
Neb
Kansas City Grain
Kansas City
Board of Trade Cash Quotations October 13
Wheat futures mixed with no. 4 red at 1.3444 and no. 1 northern spring at 1.30. Corn prices range from no. 2 mixed 90 2c to no. 6 mixed 83 84c, with yellow and white varieties quoted. Oats, rye, barley, timothy seed, clover prices listed. provisions show lard ribs and bellies values.
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Chicago
Enees Po
Aeeereree Ween
Timothy
Rise of 1826¢ in Most Hog Prices
Chicago broke the market on October 13 with hogs rising across weights as buyers paid more. receipts 20,000, light to heavy hogs 10-15c higher. top at 12.10. 230-290 lb averages around 12.10. sow and slaughter pig ranges mixed. cattle steady to 25c up. sheep firm with lambs 13-14 dollars. hogs led gains as buyers pursued better hogs and packing hogs held around 10.50 to 12.10, with feeders uneven.
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Chicago
Nebraska
Ieme
Waterloo
Hanten “Mulls Co.i
Tree Stevens
Tripoli
Seersssee
Swift 4
Rath Packing Co
B. Rath
Iui
Prom Ylowa Flour & Feed Co
Emall
Toledo Seed Prices For Grain and Timothy Seeds
Toledo market report lists clover seed cash and import prices for October and December and March delivery, with domestic and imported rates. Timothy seed shows cash price for December and March bid at $2.00, with December bid at $1.80.
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Toledo Seeds
Toledo
Timothy
Advances in few popular stocks on New York exchange
Isolated gains appeared in select shares with Colorado Fuel up about four points while Hudson Motors and Green Cananea Copper slipped. American Machine & Foundry and Russia Insurance surged, funds showed gains in Radio Corporation and General Motors, and market closed strong after uneven early trading.
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New York
Colorado
Hudson Motors
Butterick Company
American Machine &Foundry
Russia Insurance
Houston Oil
Chesapeake & Ohio
American’ Water Works
New
Mercantile
Motor
Oil and
Radio Corporation
Coty
Rossla Insurance
Hollander
General Motors
Dupont and International
Hoffman Machinery
Interhoro Rapid Transit
Green Cananea
Bank of Netherlands
al Chem
Car & Fdy
Op Aedaglgenis
Tob
American Water Works
American Woolen
Scseeeee Ewes
S.ee
Esas , Atchison
Atlantic Refining
Baltimore & Ohio
Barnsdall A
Bethlehem Steel
Celfornia Petroleum
Canadian Pacific
Cerro. de Pasco
Ghic. Mil
St. P. Pfd
Chic. & N. West
RL & P
Chrysler
Coca Cola
Colorado Fuel Col. Gas & el
Ae Consolidated Gag
Gten, Ir
Orectfs
Gt North
DuPont de Nem
Dodge Bros
Hudson: Motors
Com
Harvester
Inter
Kansas City Southern
Bennegots
Washville
Seeseesttrte Marland Oil
Kan
Missouri Pacify
Montgomery Wards
Nash Motor
Eueysee Cedares
Gentral
N.Y. W. BH
Hartford
Norfolk& Western
North American Northern Pacific Packard
Pano. Am. Pet
Paramount
Pennsylvania
Phillips Petroleum Pierce-Attow
Postum
Radio Reading
Southern Pacific
Seaboard Air Line
Sears Roebuck
Beteng
Sinclair Con
Standard Oil
New Jersey
I Standard Oil
Ben Seananee
Texas Corporation
Scseeeersere
Texas Gulf Sulphur
Escerserere
Texas && Pacific
Texas Pac
Ld. Tre
Union Carbide
Sane
Union Pacific
Willys-Overland
Wees
Pegeboryit
Erin Tee
Sugar Market Report Shows Steady Prices in New York
In Sugar, New York, Oct 13 44 raw sugar prices held at 4.65 cents per pound duty paid. Undertone remained firm while refined sugar softened by 10 points. Fine granulated sugar traded around 5.86 to 6.10 cents per pound.
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New York
Minneapolis Flour Prices Hold Steady Amid Shipments Drop
Minneapolis Minn Oct 13 A flour market report shows 20 cent lower prices in car lots and family patents quoted at 7 55 to 7 68 a barrel in 98 pound cotton sacks with shipments totaling 53 956 barrels as buyers watch demand and supply dynamics.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Chicago
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Bank Debits Deeds Week Ending Oct 13 1927 Summary
Bank debits and deeds for the week ending Oct 13 1927 show totals of 45 deeds valued at 12 080 29 and 54 with 36 326 00 previous week. Mortgages 19 with 40 380 33 and 42 06 45 the prior week. Chattel mortgages 1 end Oct 12 1927 135 61 and 10 558 39 prior week. Date totals show 10 595 instruments filed to date versus 10 183 last year, up 412.
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Asec Eeanee
Provisions and Cotton Market Notes From New York and Chicago
New York reports October 13 butter and egg receipts with creamery grade prices and near by stock levels. Poultry and cheese prices vary by grade with unchanged dressed butter values. Chicago lists butter eggs cheese and poultry receipts with standard prices and deviations. Liverpool cotton market shows steady futures and spot demand with price tiers from Midlands and demand totals.
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New York
Express
Chicago
Futures closes with varied butter and eye standards
Chicago futures report shows butter storage standards for December at 43%gc and January at .4314 cents. Refrigerator grade eyes for November at 33% and December at 34%, with refrigerator firsts for November at 30 cents.
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Chicago
Dito
Ditto
Livestock receipts at 11 markets across the nation
Estimated livestock receipts at eleven markets today show cattle hogs and sheep totals varying by city. Chicago reports about 8 000 cattle 20 000 hogs and 49 000 sheep while Kansas City around 4 500 cattle 4 500 hogs and 7 000 sheep. Omaha totals 4 000 cattle 5 000 hogs 8 500 sheep with other markets in St Louis St Joseph Sioux City and more showing mixed counts. Week and year ago figures are listed for context.
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Chicago
Kansas
Omaha
E. St
Louis
St. Joseph
Sioux City
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
40 Chester White Boars Bring 84 Average at Sale
Albert H. Stuart sold 40 Chester White boars at auction for an average of about 84 dollars. Top price was 275 dollars for White Hawk Jr paid by Wiemer Brothers of Diller Nebraska. Buyers from Nebraska North Dakota Illinois and Ohio attended.
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Courier Special Service
Newhall
Albert H. Stuart
Chester “White
White Hawk, Jr
Wiemer ‘Brothers
Diller
Minnesota
Peoria
Andrew
Didne
Lake
Mills
H. MM
Intre
Hamilton
Ind
Wallum
W. T
Horton& Sons
Rushville
Robert Allen
Hale Center
Tex
North Dakota
Ilinois
Ohio
Stuart
Fatra
Peaches and pears yield abundantly in Eldora
Eldora October 13 reports a homegrown fruit shortage for apples but an abundant crop of peaches and pears. The peaches are medium sized, rosy, and hardy, while Bartlett and Keiffer pears yield well and should store well through winter with proper handling.
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Eldora
Bartlett
Kieffer
New Buildings and Cement Work Part of Rural Progress
Traer Iowa October 13 George Dugan near Traer plans a 26 by 40 tile hog house for his farm. Clarence Archer will build a similarly sized frame hog house. Fred Cherveny will haul sand and cement for a concrete feeding floor on his farm with Wesley Stepanek. A cement floor will be laid in a hog house with other repairs and improvements contemplated.
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Courier Special Service
Traer. Ta
George Dugan
Traer
Clarence Archer
Fred Cherveny
Wesley - Stepanek
Potatoes market report from Chicago trade data
Chicago market report shows potato receipts 132 cars on track 395 ships total U S shipments 1363 cars trading fair market firm Wisconsin sacked round whites northern section 170 to 180 Minnesota North Dakota sacked round whites best 145 to 160 sacked Red River Ohio s 150 to 150 Idaho sacked rurals 160 to 170 sacked Russets 165 to 190.
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Chicago
Ars
U. S
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Best
Red River
Russets
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Aterloo
Aterloo Evening Cou Courier
A J. Marken
Ralph Thompson
Robert Mallory
J. S. van Wert
W. B. Hamilton
KLINE
Benton CO. Farm Bureau
Severci
Kansas City Bay
Thurs Sale
Holstein
Lester
Osage Commercial Group
Farm Bureau
Board of Trade
T. Louis
Insi
The
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Switzerland
Spain
Greece
Poland
Caecho
Slovakia
Jugo-Slavia
Austria
Roumania
Argentina
Brazil
Tokio
Shanghai
Montreal
Liberty Bonds
Liberty
Cs.seresee Ase
Liberty Pre
Black Hawk County Abstract, Co
Waterloo Bank
Waterloo Clearing House
Dees Eaaad
Staan Nenes
Liverpool
Midlands
Forman
George M.forman & Company
West Adama Serect
C. H. Wise
Black Hawk Bloc
Chester
State Loan Co
E. 4Th St
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