Farmers decline to sell plant to Foster Company
More than 100 stockholders of Waterloo Co-Operative Dairy opposed selling to Producers Milk company. Directors put the matter to shareholders. no price offered. Plant to expand dairy and creamery trade, install milk drier, and curb waste via drying skim milk. A stockholders meeting will be held in a few weeks to discuss dry milk production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo Co- Operative Dairy Company
Producers Milk Company
Waterloo
Waterloo Co-Operative Dairy Company
W. O. Foster
W. B. Foster
W. C. Cumming
Cumming
St. Paul
St. Paul Company
Guernsey Cattle Sale Planned by Buchanan County Breeders
Buchanan County Guernsey Breeders association schedules sale at Independence on November 1. Forty five head consigned including two purebred bulls from Cowan and Hendrickson Dunkerton and Henry Allenstein Lamont. other consignors include R A Nelson Charles Hind M Joyce John Mueller Joe Herrick and more. Sale manager is R A Nelson with Joyce Hind Mueller on the sale committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanan County
Guernsey Breeders’ Association
Independence
Black Hawk County
Cowan & Hendrickson
Dunkerton
Memenio
Highland Place
Dairy Cattle Congress
Joe Golinvaux
Lamont
Iowa State
R. A. Nelson
Contest Association
Charles Hind
M. Joyce
Henry Allenstein
Cowan& Hendrickson
John Mueller
Clark Madison
O. G. Forman
Joe Herrick
George Sperley
Chris Christenson
Arthur Satterlee
Albert Cox
R A. Nelson
Buchanan County Guernsey Breeders’ Association
M. J. Joyce
Champion American hen lays 344 eggs in yearly record
Corvallis Ore Oct 27 INS The poultry department at Oregon State College crowns the champion egg layer of America. The year’s contest ends at midnight Thursday as No 1496 A barred Plymouth Rock hen tops the mark with her 334th egg surpassing the prior 333 egg record owned by the French Brothers of Ontario GRE
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Corvallis
Ore
Oregon State College
America
French Brothers
Ontario
Mt Vernon Township Farm Bureau Meeting Planned
Mt Vernon Township Farm Bureau will meet Monday evening Oct 31 at the county farm. A %& program is planned. Women are asked to bring sandwiches and pumpkin pie to contribute toward refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Vernon. Township
Mt. Vernon Township
Farm Bureau
Farmers letters invite comments to editor
Readers may send questions and opinions to the Farm Department at the Waterloo Evening Courier in Waterloo Iowa. Address communications to Editor Farm Department and call the paper at the listed phone number.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo
Iowa
Tews
May Take Movies of Combine Used in Soybean Field
In Toledo Iowa on October 28 two demonstrations will show how a combine cuts and threshes soybeans in Tama county. The Lichty farm near Toledo hosts at 10 a.m. and the Young farm near Traer hosts a 2:30 p.m. event. Exhibits by Iowa Homestead Wallaces Farmer and ISU will attend along with news pages and college representatives. Moving pictures of the demonstration are planned.
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Toledo
Tama County
H. H. Lichty
Robert Young
Traer
Iowa Homestead
Wallaces’ Farmer
Iowa State College
Grundy County cow testing group adopts flat membership fee
In Grundy Center Iowa on October 27 the Grundy County Cow Test association held its annual meeting at the farm bureau office with Earl N. Shultz of States College in attendance. Officers re-elected included Guy Coulter as president and Clyde Wilhelm as secretary treasurer. Directors named were Hans Anderson, Edd Slight, E. W. Hasbrouck, and M. J. Connell. A flat fee of 3.70 dollars per member per month was approved, applicable to all members regardless of herd size. Hans Anderson will leave testing after a year. Harry Haling is expected to take over November 1. A second Tama county group organized in Toledo with C. G. Moore as president and Harry Clough as vice president. Marshall Hopper becomes secretary-treasurer. Lee Corns and Harry Tomlinson serve as directors. The plan includes all cows in a herd, and Evan Norman was hired as tester.
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Grundy Center
Grundy County
Farm Bureau
Earl N. Shultz
The
States College
Guy Coulter
Conrad
Clyde Wilhelm
Hans Anderson
Edd Slight
Aplington
E. W. Hasbrouck
M. J. Connell
Association
Dike
Harry Haling
Anderson
Toledo
Tama County
C. G. Moore
Harry Clough
Marshall Hopper
Lee Corns
Harry Tomlinson
Tama
Evan Norman
Thompson
Hollandale
Minn
Farm Auction Reopens After Sixteen Years Near Dysart
Auctioneer William Holland of Waterloo reports bids received for two Dysart area tracts, 80 acres north of Dysart at 180 dollars per acre and 160 acres northeast at 120 dollars per acre. The land, formerly the William Lincoln and Abe Miller places, is unimproved but in good condition with livestock feeding ongoing. An auction is planned next week, November 2, at the Abe Miller farm south of Waterloo on Eagle Center road.
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Dysart
William Holland
Waterloo
William Lincoln
Mr.Holland
Roscoe Tiffany
Eagle Center
Abe Miller
Holland
Nation's Future Depends on Farm and School Man Says
Ames Iowa October 27 President R M Hughes of Iowa State College told county agents and extension workers at the fifteenth annual extension conference that America’s future depends on keeping the right kind of people on the farms He warned cities like Des Moines New York and other centers rely on farm born citizens to sustain their populations and stressed the national importance of rural character and ideals.
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Ames
America
R. M. Hughes
Iowa State College
Yeser- Gay
Iowa County
Dr. Hughes
Des Moines
New York
Corn in Field Sold for 25.25 an Acre at Cedar Falls Sale
Cedar Falls October 27. The closing out sale of Mrs. R. M. Scott on the Pixley estate near Cedar Falls grossed between 3400 and 3500 dollars. Corn in the field brought 25.25 an acre. Shoats averaged about 10 dollars per head. Common milk cows sold around 70 dollars each. The top horse brought 123 dollars. Chickens sold for 70 cents each.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
R. M. Scott
Pixley
Here
Grundy County 4-H Girls Win in Sewing Records
Grundy Center Ia Oct 27 Grundy county 4 H club girls have had record books judged and winners announced. Sixty four girls completed work returning records with 718 garments sewn saving an estimated 1244 49. Gladys Cone Bessie Wheelock Leona Brown Ferner Pemberton named top scorers with several earning trips to Ames Chicago and the Iowa state fair. Honorable mention listed for many others.
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Grundy Center
Grundy County
Fairfield
Washington
Palermo
Melrose
Felix
Clay
German Township
Florence Forbes
Ames
Gladys Cone
Bessie Wheelock
Leona Brown
Ferner Pemberton
Gladys Cones
Chicago
Ferne Pemberton
A, Hosiery Mills Company
International Club Congress
Farm Bureau
Frances Runner
Thelma Clemons
Mabel Bristley
Gail Gurnsey
Mary Ann Slate
Helen Newell
Mildred Winslow
Velma Minor
Beulah Plager
Ada Bockes
Lillian Diehl
Dorothy Miller
National Farmers Union Convenes in Iowa Next Month
The National Farmers Union plans a three day convention in Des Moines starting November 15 at Garrick Theatre. Delegates from over twenty five states will discuss farm relief, legislation and cooperative marketing with C S Barrett likely to win re election as national president. Speakers include Milo Reno Fred Hunter Mark Thornburg and others as plans consider placing cooperative units under the parent organization.
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Des Moines
National Farmers’ Union Convention
Garrick
Iowa
C. S. Barrett
Georgia
Mr. Barrett
Milo Reno
Fred Hunter
Mark G. Thornburg
John A. Simpson
Oklahoma
W National Farmers’ Union
A. C. Davis
Missouri
C. E. Huff
Kansas Farmers’ Union
James Monahan
St. Paul
Jowans
Insurance Companies
Livestock Commission
Moeller and Grobe Elected Heads of Township Bureaus
Sharles City October 26 officers were elected at Rudd Township Farm Bureau annual meeting for the ensuing year. Directors include J. W. Moeller and Walter Baughey with various vice directors project leaders and secretaries. Co-operators and local leaders named, with multiple names listed for both Rudd and Rock Grove townships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mourier
Sharles City
Rudd Township Farm Bureau
J. W W. Moeller
W. J. Frevert
L. H. Bishop
Martin Jung
Herbert Scott
Sim Holtz
Alvin Dietrich
Friebert Heusmann
J. H. Brandau
Ed Bartz
Morphew
Ray Helmers
Will Roberts
Andrew Marth
Ed Pribbenow
Ed Hoeffer
Cari Behne
Futures close on butter and refrigerator standards
Chicago futures close for butter storage standards show December at 47 50 cents and January at 42 cents. Refrigerator standards listings include November at 32 1 2 cents and December at 29 1 2 cents.
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Chicago
Foreign demand boosts wheat as exports rise
Chicago reports large Canadian wheat exports aiding a firmer market. North American export business was about 1,700,000 bushels, chiefly Canadian, while corn hit a new low on deferred deliveries. Wheat closed steady to 79 cents higher, with mixed results for corn oats and provisions amid favorable belt weather and ongoing husking in Illinois and Indiana.
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Chicago
Liverpool
Ilinois
Indiana
Gulf
Germany
Cotton market steady with active Liverpool sales
Liverpool spot cotton bids steady as 8 000 bales sold and receipts reach 2 000. Midlands grades quoted from 12.90d down to 10.40d. Futures opened firm with December near 11.22d and Chicago prices up across the board to around 21.50c.
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Liverpool
Midlands
Chicago
Minneapolis Flour and Sugar Prices Report
Minneapolis flour trade shows a 15 cent rise in carload family patent rates to 7.25 to 7.45 per barrel in 98 pound sacks with shipments totaling 45,465 barrels. Bran quoted at 25.50 to 25.75. New York raw sugar steady at 4.71 and refined fine granulated at 5.80.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis Minn
New York
Board of Trade Cash Quotations Report October 27
Chicago prices show Wheat and Corn bid ranges with multiple grades and values. Oats, Rye and Barley quotes listed alongside fats like Lard Ribs Bellies with specific cash figures for each grade.
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Board of Trade
Hog market slips as hogs and cattle move lower
Chicago market reports show hog receipts at 40,000 with overall prices about 50 cents lower than Wednesday. Early top hogs reach 10.25, with various weight classes selling from 7.00 to 10.25. Cattle receipts total 12,000 as feeders and vealers ease. fat cattle weak to steady, vealers down 25 to 50 cents. Sheep receipts 17,000 with fat lambs bid higher by up to 25 cents though demand remains cautious. bulk native lambs around 13.75 to 14.50.
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Chicago
Uptone
Nebraska
Cattle and Hog Prices Steady to Lower in St Paul Sale
Receipts total 6 000 cattle and 15 000 hogs at St Paul with steer values around 10.25 and cows to 7.30, heifers to 8.25, cutters 4.75 to 5.50, stockers 7.50 to 8.75, calves 11.50. hogs opened 50c to 1.00 lower, 185 lb tops at 9.00, 160–185 lb 8.25 to 8.75, 140–150 lb 8.00 to 8.25, packing sows 7.25, pigs 8.25 average 9.18 per cwt.
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ST. Paul
South St. Paul Minn
Potatoes market report from Chicago stock trades
Totatoes. Chicago. Oct 27. Potatoes receipts 151 cars on track 510. Total U S shipments 1 210 cars. Demand and trading slow. Market weaker. Wisconsin sacked round whites No 1 1 35 1 50. Minnesota North Dakota sacked Red River Ohips 1 25 1 40. Sacked round whites 1 30 1 40. Idaho sacked Rus sell Burbanks 1 50 11 75. Sacked Rurals 1 40 1 55.
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Chicago
U. S
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Red River
Idaho
Russell Burbanks
Stock Market Slips Amid Mixed Industrial News
New York shares retreated as pivotal stocks came under pressure while some issues held firm. U.S. Steel fell to 135 1/4, Crucible Steel and Bethlehem slipped, and General Motors dipped after earlier strength. Continental Insurance rose to a record, and foreign exchange softened with pesetas and francs easing.
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New York
Motors
General Motors
Childs and Shattuck
Bethlehem
General Electric
General Asphalt
International Harvester
Continental Insurance
National Tea
Abraham & Straus
Allied Chemical & Dye
ART American Can
Adobees Babeocene
American Car & Foundry
American Locomotive
Sdeibeee
American Smelt
Wveen
American Sugar
American T, &T
Nickel
Kansas City Southern
Kennecott Copper
Teeveene
Lehigh Valley
Ssseeeeeerese
Louisville & Nashville
Deere
Mack Truck
Marland Ot
Seaboard Air Line
Sears Roebuck
Oben Ste Pet
Sinclair Con
Southern Dairies Arat
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Standard OU
California
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Studebaker
Ene Neenenmen
Texas Corporation
Escessseevees
Texas Gulf
Texas & Pacific
Weee Bee
Texas Pac, Ld
Timken Roller Bearing
American Tobacco B
American Woolen
Anaconda Copper
Sreeereveees Atchison
Tlebythte
Atlantic Coast Line
Atlantic Refining
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
Barnsdall A
Wea
R. I. & Pacifle
Chrysler
Amteen
Ge Pee Oy Mae Coca Cola
Enan
Col. Gas
D& el
A Consolidated Gas
Crucible Steel
Dodge Bros. A
du Pont de Nem
Fleischmann
Freeport-Texas
General Railway Signal
Houston
Hudson Motors
Thinois Central Int
Harvester Mo
Kan
Tex
Missouri Pacific
Montgomery Ward
New York Central
N.Y
N. H
Hartford - Worth American
Northern Pacific Packard
Pan
Amn
Pet
Paramt
Fam
Las
Pennsylvania
Pierce-Arrow
Postum Radio Reading Rep
Reynolds Tobacco
Union, Carbide
Union, Pacific
United States Rubber
United States Steel
Wabash
Maryland
Weatinghouse Electric
Nea
IGS
Willys-Overland
Air Reduction
National Sea American Water Works Chic
É& North Western
Colorado
Ehravemae
Sea Eleees General Electric
Northern Pfd
Senceeane Otr Int
Nash Motors
Norfolk & Western
Phillips Petroleum St. L
San Fran
Ind. Ale
Woolworth
Standard Gas & Electric
Wu. & Bonds
U. S
Liberty Zus
Liberty First
Liberty
Liberty Fourth
Treasury
Sioux City Livestock Market Report October 27 Sioux City
Receipts total 3 500 cattle 5 000 hogs 2 000 sheep with steady to higher trading. Cattle ranges include fed steers and yearlings 19.00 to 16.25 per cwt with feeders 8.00 to 12.28 and veals 7.00 to 13.50. Hogs top 9 78 with 160 to 200 lb 5.00 9.00. sows 7.00 8.25. pigs 7.09 9.00. Sheep natives 13.50 lambs 13.65 and ewes 6.26.
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Sioux City
Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
E. St. Louis
St. Joseph
Market Report for Butter Eggs and Cheese Prices in Major Cities
New York reports firmer butter with 9 711 tubs receipts and extras at 48 to 49 1 2 cents. Eggs show 13 700 cases with fresh gathered extra firsts at 46 45 to 0 cents, firsts 38 43 cents, and other grades. Chicago notes butter receipts 5 971 tubs, extras at 45 1 4 cents, firsts 41 2 4 cents, eggs steady with various first and checks prices, cheese ranges across several varieties. St Louis lists slight shifts with fresh firsts at 35 3 4 cents and poultry prices varying by type.
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New York
Hennery
Chicago
Omaha Livestock Hogs and Cattle Prices Fall and Hold
Omaha market report shows hog receipts at 4000 with prices mostly 50 cents lower, 160 to 210 pound hogs at 8.50 to 9.25, butchers 9.25 to 9.50, sows 7.25 to 7.75. Cattle receipts 5500, direct 2000, fed steers 12.00 to 14.00, yearlings 12.00 to 14.00, heavy calves 8.50 to 9.50, stockers 8.75 to 10.25, westerns 5.75 to 6.00, grass cattle 6.25 to 8.25.
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Omaha
Neb
East St. Louis Livestock Report October market results
Hogs receipts 9500 slow. prices 25 cents lower. 160-179 lb mainly 9.25 to 9.50, 180-200 lb 9.65 to 9.75, lighter weights 8.75 to 9.25, sows 8.00 to 8.25. Cattle receipts 3000. calves 2000. vealers steady, steers and red heifers scarce, medium heifers 8.00 to 10.50, cows 6.25 to 7.25, low cutters 4.75 to 5.00, bulls 6.75, bulk 6.00 to 6.50. Sheep receipts 8800 about steady. lambs top to butcher 13.50, packer 13.25, fat ewes 4.50 to 5.50.
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East St. Louis
Peoria Livestock Hogs Sell A Top Of 10.10
Peoria Illinois market reports 2000 hog receipts with prices 40 cents lower on the day. Top hog price reached 10.10 dollars while bulk sales ranged from 9.50 to 10.10. Cattle receipts numbered 150 for the session.
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Peoria
Bell Company Rents Farm East of Holland for Three Years
Holland Ia Oct 27 Bell Can ning company again has rented the Pete Meyer farm located just east of here for three years at a rental of 12 dollars an acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courier
Holland
Bell Canning Company
Pete Meyer
Here
Cholera subsides in Chickasaw county farms report fewer cases
New Hampton Iowa October 27 cholera subsides as veterinarians report continuing but declining hog cholera outbreaks in Chickasaw county. Two or three farms each week show new infections, and several farms are vaccinating to control spread.
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New Hampton
Chickasaw County
Bank Debits and Instruments Filed for Week Ending Oct 26 1927
Waterloo bank debits totaled 4 560 800 for the week ending Oct 26 1927 per Waterloo Clearing House. Deeds mortgages and chattel records show substantial activity with instruments filed to date 11 095 versus 10 691 last year, up 404. Names of days and amounts from the period are listed in the weekly report.
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Black Hawk County Abstract Co
Waterloo Bank
Waterloo Clearing House Association
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Ceca Cere
Eeeaas
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Eee Eens
Scacscnuvescacass
Hogs partly lower as Kansas City cattle market slows
Kansas City hog receipts reach 8000 with buyers slow and prices drifting down 25 to 50 cents from Wednesday’s averages. Light weights and packing sows show larger declines while stock pigs fall 25 to 60 cents. Top on 225 to 240 pounds at 9.90, 140 to 170 pounds range 8.25 to 9.00, packing sows 7.00 to 7.75, stock pigs 9.00 to 10.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Feed markets ease slightly across the United States
Washington reports the weekly feed market review shows prices drifting lower as feed grains decline and pasturage limits demand. Carload prices on October 26 list standard and soft wheat bran and middlings, linseed and corn gluten feeds, white hominy, alfalfa meal, and related products across Minneapolis Chicago St Louis Omaha with modest regional variations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Minneapolis
Chicago
St. Louis
Omaha
J. Louis
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Foster Company
National Farmers’ Union
Moeller and
Grobe
Baeeres
Wreteer
Denis
Hogg
Chalice
INS
Lvestock
Og. Light— No. Welsht
Eeepwneseer
Bans Sew Annans
O. Neces
Ae Dee
Waterloo Mills Co
Pk. R
Siti & Co
Leghorn
Eeeaee
Tee Enews
Weitawe
Tees
Prom Rath Packing Co
F.o.b. Rath
Sree
Cohn Bros
Pivotal
Resistance
France
Belgium
Belga
Italy
Sweden
Norway
Rechma
Spain
Northwest
Duluth
T. Louis
Omaha Livestock
East ST. Louis Livestock
Peoria Livestock
Bell Company
Kansas City Livestock
State Loan Co
E. 4Th St
Forman
George M.formaan & Company
West Adama Strcet
C. H. Wise
Black Hawk Ridge
Towa
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