Iowa Butteries Gold Medal Prize at National Show
Indianapolis Ind Ort highest award a gold medal for best cold storage butter at National Dairy exposition here this week. An Iowa Diller, maker for the second consecutive time, won with a score of 344 4 for Strawberry Point Creamery. Ninety four entries from 11 states and Canada. Initial scores were in June, butter stored under commercial conditions until Oct B scored for keeping qualities. Purdue dairy department analyses. Other winners include Minnesota entries with silver medals and multiple Iowa creamery entries scoring 93 or above. Ames Dairy Team won the sweepstakes prize in collegiate judging, first time a team has won both major national judging titles in the same year.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Iowa Diller
Strawberry Point Creamery
Conm- L. Fa
Pany
States
Canada
W. Frehofer
St. Paul
Minna Hagen
Chicago
H. Crezory
Lafayette
Dairy Department
Purdue University
Minnesota
Lowry Cap- Operative
Creamery ' Association
Lowry
Minn
Extra Creamery Company
Extra
Pinto Dairy Association
Pinto
Pioneer Creamery Company
Champaign
New Haven Creamery Company
Osage
Ellendale Creamery Company
Ellendale
Ames
Iowa State Colleges
Iowa
Dwight M. Leash
Flord ‘Arnold
R.C. Ferguson
Waterloo
Seath
Guernsers
South Dakota
Grston Helsteins
Kentucky
L. Blakeslee
Min
J. EB. Craig
Wisconsin
WX. Webb
Ohio State
EB. Battle
Amés
State College
Indiana
Polis
High Price Cow Tops Hansen Merner Fall Sale
Cedar Falls Oct 13 A sale of Hansen Merner cows near here averaged 76.50 with a top of 330 for an eight year old cow the highest producer last year in the Hansen Merner herd Ike Hasbrock Grundy Center bought the high priced cow total sale 21657 50 bidders from at least four counties attended the annual fall sale mostly of heifers and cows with several profits noted per cow test records and notes on individual cow performance
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Cedar Falls
Hansen Lerner
Hansen & Memer
Ike Hasbrock
Grundy Center
Ransen & Merner
Act
My. Hansen
Farmers modify comments invited in Waterloo Evening Courier
Questions and comments invited on farming topics. Address communications to Editor Farm Department Waterloo Evening Courier Waterloo Iowa. Phone 5160.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo
Iowa
Centerville Man Picks Three Large Pears
Centerville resident Tom Jobe selected three pears described as exceptionally large, totaling three pounds ten ounces with one fruit measuring twelve and a half inches in diameter. The item reads as a quirky, local-voice report on unusual fruit sizes.
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Centerville
Tom Jobe
Butterfat Prices Buoyed by Erratic Wheat Slump
Producers of butterfat report optimism as prices hold near ten cents higher than last year. A survey by the Iowa Creamery Secretaries and Managers' association notes shortages in storage, strong demand in large centers, and potential price stability unless consumption curtails or make rises. Average August butterfat price among co operatives is 48.75 cents per pound with highs to 53 and lows to 40, listing top fat handlers by pounds.
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Clyde Bechtelheimer
Iowa
Canada
Bechtelheimers
Jesup
Sioux Center
Decorah
Monticello
State Center
Postville
Hudson
Strawberry Point
Preston
Oelwein
New York Marts Reports Mixed Dairy Prices Across Markets
New York and Chicago trading pages note varied dairy and poultry prices with creamery butter around 50 to 54 cents per pound in New York, eggs near 79 cents to 64 cents per dozen, and cheeses in the mid 20s to 25 cents range. Chicago and St Louis receipts show mixed butter and egg quotes, with poultry and cheese offerings listed for regional buyers. Strong entity mentions include New York, Chicago, St Louis markets, and products like butter eggs cheese and poultry.
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New York
York
Butler
Ir Battle
Wade
Janey Young
Hennery
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Chicrgo
Peeence
St. Louis
APP OFFERS HELP TO POULTRYMEN IN ROUTING DIGERAT
Prospects for the price of eggs in coming months are encouraging to poultrymen with flocks in good laying condition. Disease in many flocks hurts production, boosting egg demand. In Black Hawk county reports of poultry disease and European fowl pest recurrence reach Miss Elizabeth Hudson. W Lapp cites three main causes of low vitality: intestinal parasites bacteria and improper feeding. Remedies include copperas, alicatin sulfate, and mineral feed mixtures to curb parasites and acidity, plus disinfecting yards and neutralizing feed acidity with minerals.
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Black Hawk County
Elizabeth Hudson
W. Lapp
Iowa State College
American Poultry Congress
Lapp
Poultry Congress
Strayer Likely Cedar Falls Fair Secretary
W D Strayer of Hudson was offered the secretary post for next year at Cedar Falls Cedar Valley Fair and Exposition. He has not decided. If he accepts and the fair continues, he would begin April 1. Local commercial club members vote by postal card with results due by November 2.
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Cedar Falls
The
Commercial Club
Cedar Valley Fair and Exposition
W. D. Strayer
Hudson
Strayer
C. Wy. Lutz
Cedar Rapids
Mes Commercial Club
Iowa Farm Bureau to Convene In Des Moines January 12
Des Moines reports the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation annual convention will be held January 12 with the State executive committee announcing plans to invite several national figures to speak.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Scholarships Offered to Iowa Farm Youths
Ames Iowa Oct 15 UP donations by groups and individuals support Iowa State College to award 399 scholarships valued at 110 each to Iowa farm youths. Scholarships start Jan 4 1926 and run for three months. Local county committees select the most deserving applicants. Also notes a tuberculosis stamping school in Jones county Anamosa Monticello and a large corn crop in Lafayette Indiana with 42.2 bushels per acre estimated for the year.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa Stele College
Towafama
Apalicenis
Monticello
School of
Jones County
Anamosa
Wroming
NLA
Lafayette
Ind
Indiana
Prospects for continuing strong feeder cattle market
Washington Oct 15 AP Prospects for a continuing strong feeder cattle market were reported by the agriculture department. The statement cited heavy marketing of Western cattle and improved southwest feed conditions. It noted reduced stocker and feeder shipments into the cornbelt in July September versus last year, with 898,000 head moved from 15 leading markets compared with 986,000 a year earlier due to pasture shortages.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Southwest
Department
Cornbelt
Greenhouse Aids Holstein Calf in Fight for Life
Davenport Iowa October a greenhouse provides shelter for a Sick Holstein calf born in August. The calf contracted a disease like the human intestinal flu and required protection from drafts and steady warmth and sunlight. Superintendent Treat arranged a straw bedding under the rotunda and the calf, nicknamed Miss Calf, is kept comfortable among flowers and ferns.
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Davenport
Supt
Treat
Calf
Supply of huskers bigger than needed on farm
Farm bureau reports more supply than demand for coin huskers. In the past ten days, an average of three men per day inquired about work, while farmers seeking help were fewer. Some applicants did not leave names or addresses for matching work.
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Farm Bureau
Domestic Milling Demand Declines in Chicago Trading
Wheat futures opened steady to lower as millers in the United States cut demand. Liverpool quote strength briefly lifted Chicago prices but a dampened demand trend soon returned, with oats and corn following wheat’s downward drift. December and May wheat values fell after initial gains, while oats and corn showed modest declines. Provisions saw a temporary uptick from buying for nearby deliveries.
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Chicago
Liverpool
Rand
Dromth
Australia
United States
Ichier
Grain and Provisions and Foreign Exchange Report
New York price reports for wheat corn oats rye and barley show December wheat at 71.434 fay and 31.4235 No 2 red winter at 24 elf. Oats steady with 2 price points 2 5132¢ and 1 84 No. L nominal. Foreign exchange lists rates for Britain 4.85, Belgium 51 94, Italy 3 Sie, Norway 20.21c, Spain 11.32e, Denmark 24.16c, Holland 40.17c.
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New York
Foreign Exchange
Great Britain
Paine
Belgium
Italy
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Greece
Spain
Holland
Board of Trade Cash Quotations
Chicago October 16 Wheat No 2 redurt... No reliable tabulated prices for corn oats barley appear in readable form. the fragmentary quotation list includes No 2 mixed corn around 81 to 83 cents, No 3 yellow 63 to 65 cents, No 4 mixed 50 to 53 cents, No 6 yellow 69 cents, No 2 white around 3 to 4 cents, and oats and barley prices only partly legible.
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Ipfom Lamson Ros
Chicago
Lantson Bros
Durham
Uneven Range of Hog Prices Reported全国
Chicago market notes uneven hog price movements with receipts of 26 000 and bids ranging $11.00 to $12.00 for various weights and categories. Cattle and sheep were mixed with fat steers steady to higher and lambs weaker, while Sioux City reports activity and price spreads across hogs cattle and sheep with top hogs at about $11.23 and cattle steady to higher trades.
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Chicago
Omaha and Kansas City Livestock Receipts and Prices
Omaha and Kansas City markets report mixed cattle hog and sheep receipts. Cattle prices range from about 2.75 to 15.00 for steers and calves, with hogs trading around 9.40 to 11.45 per hundredweight and top premiums near 11.30. Sheep show lambs around 14.25 to 15.00 and ewes 6.00 to 7.75, with noted weak demand in Omaha.
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TNS
Toxi
Kansas City
Representaive
Lamson Bros
H. A. Morey
Chicago
Hi Price Waterloo
Drices
Brem
Todas
Sean
Waterloo Mills Co
Sinnard
Bers
Waterloo Loop
Blackleg
East
Npackdeg Co
Barclay
Cone Srros
Carle
Rae
ST. Louis
ST. Paul Livestock South
St. Paul, Minn
Catile
Public stock buying drives shares higher on brisk turnover
In New York heavy public demand pushed stock prices up this afternoon. Transactions topped a million shares in two hours as United States Steel and United States Cast Iron Pipe rose, General Motors edged higher, and McCrory Stores led a broad mercantile upturn amid steep rate expectations and favorable Locarno outcomes.
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New York
Get
Cal Monty
United States Steel
United States
McCrory
Kel Sey Vehual
General Motors
Uye! Steel
Germany's Oil Output Shrinks to 0.05 Percent
In Nuernberg on October 15, Prof F Schonderf told the German Society of Chemists that Germany now supplies only 0.05 percent of world oil, covering about 5 percent of its own needs after losing Alsace Lorraine wells. Wieze Hanover wells show promise with a modern regular pit replacing older derricks, achieving output comparable to many former rigs.
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Nuernberg
Germany
Prof
F. Schonderf
German Society of Chemists
Alsace-Lorraine
Wieze
Hanover
Potatoes and Wool Prices Reported Across Regions
Oct 15 AP report notes potato receipts totaling 54 cars with prices up to 154 2c higher for Wisconsin round whites and Minnesota round whites trading around 2.40 to 2.54 per 100 pounds. New York shipments listed. Wool market remains firm with domestic fleece and clean basis prices quoted for Pennsylvania, Texas, and other regions.
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New York
Chicago
G. S
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Naon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Iowan Slave Turned Noted Chemist Dr George W Carver
A detailed profile of Dr George W Carver born a Missouri slave, later educated at Simpson College and Ames, who rose to international chemical fame. It notes his roles at Tuskegee Institute and Iowa State College, his botanical expertise, and recognition with the Spingarn Medal and a Royal Society fellowship.
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Jundionola
Missouri
Jing
George W. Carver
Simpson College
Royal Sciety of
Great Britain
Spingarn
Carver
Ames
Royal Society
Sir Henry Johnson
Tuskegee Institute
Bam
America
Simpson
Towa State College
Towa
Booker T. Washington
400 Tons Limestone Bought in One Order for Butler Farmers
Allison Iowa Oct 15 Tyden and Anderson Brothers Bennezetta township Butler county set a record by ordering eight carloads of limestone at once. They test soil needs before liming and joined the farm bureau for a 1c per ton discount saving about 40 on the 400 ton order. Shipments go to Greene in 50 ton cars with local trucking to fields.
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Butler
Farm Bureau
Greene
Troutner Brothers Do Large Stock Business at Nashua
Troutner Brothers, longtime cattle buyers in Nashua, sold two carloads of choice renders to Mr. Weier for shipment to Blairsburg to feed for the Chicago market. Cattle averaged 1,100 pounds. Their checking business once averaged $1,000 daily for 19 years.
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Nashua
tTroutner Brothers
Weier
Blairsburg
Chicago
Troutner Brothers
Iowans Advance in Farm Advertising
Ames Iowa October 1 Arch Crawford and Merlin L Sader graduates of Iowa State College in 1910 and 1916 respectively have been advanced into important positions in the advertising field Crawford who for the past nine years has been identified with the advertising staff at The Farmer and The Farmers Wife widely known journals published in St Paul has joined the staff of the Curtis Publishing Co His work will be with The Country Gentleman and his headquarters are to be in Chicago Seder who also has been connected with The Farmer and The Farmers Wife first in an editorial capacity and later in special sales promotion work will assume the position vacated by Crawford Both Seder and Crawford were active in journalism while here and both are members of Sigma Delta Chi professional journalistic fraternity.
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Ames, Ta
Arch Crawford
Merlin L. Sader
Iowa State College
Crawford
Farmer
St. Paul
Curtis Publishing Co
Country Gentleman
Chicago
Seder
Sigma Delta Chi
Bureau Meeting to Harvest Corn Plots in Waverly
Dayton Township Paris bureau members of Bremer County plan a big day Friday October 16 at P H Hanson’s home. Morning harvest of corn test plot will be followed by a noon picnic served by the women. The annual township bureau meeting occurs in the afternoon. Women will study machine finishes and decorative studies.
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Waverly
Dayton
Township
Paris Bureau
Bremer County
P. H. Hanson
Hanson
Township Bureau
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Iowa Butteries
Hanlontows Creamery Company
Hanlontown
Harland Creamery Company
Magnara
Fairbank Creamery Company
Fairbank
Whittemore Creamery Company
Whittemore
Tripoli
Titonka
Eden Valley
Hansen, Merner Herd
Cedar Falls Fair
Towa Farm Bureau
Greenhouse
Darrate
Mexico
Guadalajara
Winterloo Bank
Waterloo Clearing
Avi
Bledie
Board of Trade
Sioux City
Omaha Livestock
ST. Joseph
Simson Bros
Allied Chemical & Dye
American Can
American Locomotive
American Smelt
Bethlehem Steel
California Petroleum
ens Central_ Leather
Cerro de Pasco Chandler Motor
Chesanthe & Ohio
Chicago & Northwestern
Mil & Stav
Ptt
R. I. & Pacific
Coca Cola
Colorado Fuel
Crucible Steel
Davison Chemical
Erie
Famous Players
General Asphalt
Ecenns
General Electric
Great Northern
Hudson Motors
Illinois Central Int. Harvester
Saeeres Kennecott Copper
Acesescees
Lehigh Valley
Mack Truck
Seaboard
Missouri Pacific
Montgomery-Ward
New_York Central
NH. & Hartford
Norfolk & Wester
American
Northern Pacific
Pacific Oil
Pan. Am
Pennsylvania Pure
Radio Corporation Reading
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S. Teubber U.S. Steel‘Wabash Ptd. A . Westinghouse Eley - Willys-Overland
Ween
Iowan
London
Philippines
Bureau
Liberty Bonds
New Yorks
Orr
Hanna-Shreves Co
Burlington, Iowa
Leo I. Mak
Harry Fee
6Th
Sycamore Streets
Redfield
Dakota
Sey Flotee
F. W. Bastian
Bastian
Dakota Central Telephone Co
Amel
Cominerejay Nat'l Bank
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