Neighbors Offer Iowa Creameries Record Challenge
St Paul reports Minnesota creamery operators at the annual convention, with 700 to 800 attending, exhibiting 372 butter tubs and claiming top production. The event crown, judges, and banquet highlight cross state play as Iowa creamery groups eye competition with Minnesota. Lorenzen wins third in Waverly scoring contest with 95 1/2 points.
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St. Paul Hotel
Minnesota
Agers’ Association
James Sorenson
Iowa
Holmberg
Commissioner -of -Agriculture
Towan
Sorensen
Howard. Reynolds
Mason Guy
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Charles
Bohlig
New
Munich
Minn
Land O'Lakes
Iowa Buttermakers
Great Northern Railway
E F. Flynn
Great Northern Organization
Lorenzen
Courier Special Services
Waverly
Iowa Monthly
State
Benson creamery maker takes third in Cedar Falls judging
A maker at Benson creamery Cedar Falls won third with a product scoring 95. Judges included R. D. Storvick Ames Roy Scoles Nashua and J. J. Brunner Jefferson. H. C. Ladage Tripoli presided over the afternoon program in Community hall. State department officials spoke and Guy Van Derveer bankers presided at a banquet last night.
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Cedar Falls
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Ames
Roy Scoles
Nashua
J. J. Brunner
Jefferson
H. C. Ladage
Tripoli
Guy van Derveer
Rat Eradication Program to Start Week of November
The Black Hawk County Farm Bureau announces a rodent eradication drive beginning the first week of November with a five cent bounty per rat scalp delivered to the county auditor at the courthouse until $500 is paid. The program includes demonstrations on calcium cyanide methods, with a cost estimate of about $2 to feed a rat, and a bulletin from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The county board appropriates funds for 10,000 rats, aiming to curb breeding rats in the county.
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Board of Supervisors
Black Hawk County Farm Bureau
J. J. Uban
United States Department of Agriculture
Butler County 4-H Team Places Sixth at Dairy Exposition
Memphis report notes Iowa Butler County 4-H juniors Vernon Schoeman and Claire Chapman placed sixth among 23 teams in the National Dairy Exposition 4-H demonstration contest. Coached by County Agent John Mullans, they demonstrated horn removal on calves by caustic stick method. South Dakota won the event. Osborne of Hampton Iowa won multiple Brown Swiss awards, highlighting a strong Iowa herd judged by H H Kildee of Iowa State College.
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Butler County
Iowa
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Memphis
Tenn
Butler
Courier Special Service
Vernon Schoeman
Claire Chapman
New Hartford
South Dakota
John Mullans
C. F
Osborne
H. H. Kildee
Towa State College
Fall and Winter Poultry Diseases Warn Flocks Menace
New Hampton Iowa October 20 fall and winter poultry troubles rise says County Agent Frank Hunt in the farm bureau newsletter. Cold damp weather fosters colds and pneumonia along with coccidiosis and intestinal worms carried by young birds. Avoid drafts overcrowding moldy feed and ensure balanced rations. Feed epsom salts at one pound per 100 birds monthly to ward off diseases.
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New Hampton
Frank Hunt
Farm’ Bureau
Bond Issue Pays for Farmers' New Creamery Plant
In Church, Allamakee County, a cooperative creamery plans a 10 900 dollar bond funded project to finance a new plant along Highway No 9 between Waukon and Lansing. Calhoun Creamery will produce pasteurized butter with 240 patrons and 525000 pounds of butter yearly, powered by electric lines and steam heat. Officers include William Zimmerman president and D D Ronan vice president with F V Ferris as buttermaker.
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Church
Allamakee
Towa
Waukon
Lansing
Iowa
Calhoun Creamery
Altho
Willam Zimmerman
D. D. Ronan
W. G. Marti
Ben Decker
F. V. Ferris
More Legumes Seen Boosting Dairy Profits in Iowa
Maynard Indiana October 20 Believing the slogan more legumes mean greater profits to dairy farmer members of Fayette County Cow Test association No 3 have limed 200 acres of land for alfalfa and sweet clover. Thirty acres of alfalfa were seeded this fall. There are 130 acres of soybeans on farms in the association. most are in shocks and will average two to three tons per acre.
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Maynard, In
Fayette County
Swine Production Meetings Set For Delware County
The Delware County Farm Bureau sponsors a second round of swine production meetings from Oct 31 to Nov 4. Topics cover selection feeding and handling of brood sows for next spring farrowing. Animal husbandry specialist W. McDonald will present.
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Manchester
Delaware County Farm Bureau
W. McDonald
Women Study Home Furnishings in Chickasaw County
New Hampton Iowa October reports that starting in May 1928, Chickasaw County Farm Bureau women will take a home furnishings course. Ruth Cessna of Ames presented a final third year nutrition lesson. Meetings were held in various township homes with local hosts and speakers.
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New Hampton
Chickasaw
Manchester
Farm Bureau
Honey Creek Township
Ben Takin
R. H. Davey
Earlville
Joseph Hermann
E. H. Lawrence
Cedar Falls Good Luck club to study dress design
The Cedar Falls Good Luck club meets Friday October 21 at 2 p m in Mrs Gage s home at 117 Greeley street to study the farm bureau lesson on design in dress.
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Cedar Falls
Good Luck Club
Wheat prices fall to season low on weak corn and big Canada deliveries
Chicago price action shows wheat dropping to a new all around low for the season as selling by houses with northwest connections dominates. Weather favors threshing and large Canadian county deliveries push supplies up while corn follows wheat downward. Provisions ease with hog markets and grain.
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Chicago
Canada
Cotton markets ease as Liverpool and Chicago open lower
Liverpool spot cotton sees fair demand with prices down across the board. Sales reach 7,000 bales, with Midlands mids and low mids quoted around 11.29d to 12.10d. Futures open easy with December near 10.84d and Chicago cotton also down. December 20.41c, January 20.38c, March 20.48c, May 20.66c, July 20.70c.
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Midlands
Chicago
Board of Trade Cash Quotations Chicago October 20
Wheat and grain prices listed by category with No. 2 red wheat at 1.54 and other futures quotes across corn oats rye barley and seed markets. Prices include oats at 49 1/4 to 50 cents, timothy seed at 2.95 to 3.70, cloverseed 20.00 to 26.70, lard 12.40, ribs 12.37 and bellies 13.87.
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Eerenartenes
Wees Stee
Ewe Keene
Hog and cattle prices swing as market receipts rise
Chicago reports heavy hog receipts around 26,000 with 8,000 higher grade hogs. Prices lift for 225 pound hogs to near 10 cents higher, lighter weights soft, sows uneven and past declines. Cattle receipts about 12,000 with steady to firm demand, yearlings up to 17.25, western steers near 16.30, vealers and bulls softer. Sheep receipts 18,000 with fat lambs active and mostly higher, natives near 13.50 to 14.00, westerns above 14.15, feeding lambs steady near 13.75 to 14.25.
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St. Paul Livestock Market Report October 20
Cattle receipts 5500 slow to steady with steady demand for fat steers and stockers. prices mostly 6.00 to 8.50 for heifers and feeders. Calves 2500, vealers 50 to 0.50 lower, good lights 12.00 to 12.50. Hogs 11000, better grade lights steady to weak, 170–240 lb pigs 10.75 to 11.00, sows around 9.50, bulk pigs 10.00. Sheep 10000, lambs opening slow with 13.25 for best native and Dakota lambs, heavies 11.50 to 12.0, ewes 5.50–6.00.
Stocks Rally On Loan Rate Cut Amid Mixed Trading
The market recovered after a rate-cut renewal on call loans touched mixed, late-day gains. Leaders held near yesterday’s close with International Tobacco, Abraham Straus, and American Tobacco B advancing, while American Beet Sugar and several others opened weak then trimmed losses. Foreign exchanges closed firm with several currencies at notable quotes.
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Coty
Abraham Straus
Houston Oil
Coca Cola
International Silver
New Peacetime Top Price on Steers Set in Kansas City
Sixteen head of record steers sold at $16.50 per hundredweight in Kansas City cattle market trade marking a new peacetime price record. The Oct. 20 report from Kansas City notes the rise reflects robust demand and price levels in the region.
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Steers
Kansas City
Dairy and egg prices and receipts across markets
New York and Chicago markets report steady butter and firm eggs with receipts around 9 077 tubs and 11 463 cases respectively. Cheese mostly firm. poultry prices vary by region with fowls and turkeys noted, while St Louis lists unchanged prices for eggs butter and cheese and slightly lower spring chickens.
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New York
Hennery
Express
Chicago
St. Louis
Wheat price summary from Minneapolis market report
Minneapolis market report for October 20 shows wheat receipts at 397 cars versus 460 a year earlier. Prices listed for various grades include No 1 northern around 1.21 to 1.28 and No 1 dark northern spring 1.42 to 1.53, with on track and forward months noted. Corn No 3 yellow around 80 to 81 cents and oats No 3 white about 42 to 43 cents.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Montana
Potatoes Market Treads Lightly in Chicago Trade
Chicago October 20 potatoes receipts 107 cars on track 417 total 0 8 shipments 1 406 cars trading slow market dull Minnesota North Dakota sacked round whites 1 40 1 50 bulk 1 30 1 35 Red River Ohips sacked 1 40 1 45 bulk 1 15 1 20 Colorado sacked Brown Beauties 1 50 1 75 Idaho sacked Russell 1 60 2 00 according to quality
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Chicago
Minnesota-North Dakota
Red River
Colorado
Idaho
Russell
Futures closes on butter and bees storage standards
Chicago reports futures for butter and bees storage standards with monthly quotations. December butter 42 c storage standard, January 43 c. Bees refrigerator standards show November 32 c, December 33 c, November 30 c.
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Chicago
Minneapolis Flour Prices Decline in Carload Lots
Minneapolis flour market notes a ten cent drop with family patents listed at 7.30 to 7.40 a barrel in 98 pound cotton sacks. Shipments reach 49,373 barrels as bran prices run 25.50 to 26.00.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Clermont Valley Creamery Boasts Butter and Pride
Clermont Valley creamery in Fayette county sits along the Turkey river near an old watermill. H. F. Hangartner, the butter maker, won first prize at the Iowa state fair with Clermont butter, and the product ranked in the national cold storage contest in Minneapolis. The cooperative dairy serves 200 patrons with eleven routes and produced 372,111 pounds of butter last year, with premiums ranging up to 1-1/2 percent.
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Clermont
Clermont Valley
Fayette County
Turkey River
William Larrabee
H. F. Hangartner
Hbangartner
Clemont Creamery
Farmers’ Creamery
Poetville
New High Averages Set At Chicago Club Calves Auction
At the Union Stockyards final club calves sale of the season officials of the International Livestock Exposition announced a new high average. Fifty seven head weighing 879 pounds sold for 16.30 per cwt with top price 17.75 paid by Swift & Co for a 30 pound Angus fed by Burdette Frederick of Humboldt County Iowa.
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Union
Swift & Co
Burdette Frederick
Humboldt County
Iowa
Boys See How Gas Horses Are Made
Maynard officials took a group of boys to Waterloo to tour a packing house and a tractor factory. Participants included Gerald Brownell, Clarence Fulmer, LeRoy Henniges, Max Hall, George Alderson, Merritt Cummings, and Dale Mears, with J C Orth and J L Walter organizing the trip on October 20.
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J. C. Orth
J. L. Walter
Waterloo
Gerald Brownell
Clarence Fulmer
LeRoy Henniges
Max Hall
George Alderson
Merritt Cummings
Dale Mears
Seed corn storage brooder house noted in Fayette
R F Turner south of Fayette, Indiana, built a brooder house last spring arranged to dry seed corn. His foresight proved valuable this fall as weather made a seed storage house essential.
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Fayette, In
R. F. Turner
Here
Omaha Livestock Prices Mixed at Omaha Market
Omaha Neb Oct 20 hogs receipts 4000 good and choice butchers steady to 10c higher others steady to 10c lower bulk 160 to 200 pound lights 10.25 11.00 200 to 300 pound butchers 11.00 11.35 one load strictly choice 232 pound butchers top 11.40 packing sows 9.60 9.857 average cost 10.28 weight 290 cattle receipts 4000 fed steers and yearlings slow mostly steady other killing classes fully steady stockers and feeders scarce steady fed steers and yearlings 11.50 13.50 yearlings 15.75 grass heifers 7.75 9.00 grass cows 6.00 8.00 bulk of cutters 4.90 5.75 medium bulls 6.25 6.50 veals 13.50 heavy calves 8.50 9.50 stockers and feeders 8.75 10.75 sheep receipts 6000 lambs strong to 18c higher fat range lambs 13.10 13.55 top 13.65 natives 12.50 13.00 five loads fed clipped lambs averaging 90 pounds 12.00 sheep and feeders steady one top 6.00 none feeding lambs included
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Waterloo Mills Co
Tripoli
Swift & Co
Rath Packing Co
F. O. B. Rath
Doverrne
Tbs
Town Flour & Feed Co
Cohn Bros
Anne
Ted Eaeee Wees
Bebe
Ater
Aes
Estes Shee
Chicago
Omaha
Neb
Sugar market report from New York Oct
Be New York October 20 sugar prices show easier movement with no sales reported and no change in refined sugar. Finely granulated grades quoted between 5.80 and 6.10 cents.
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