1918 American Swineherd magazine
Purchased on the Internet

Besides being our local photographers, the Lyden family raised hogs, and fancy dogs too.

Lyden Studio - negatives

Catherine Brunnier - MHS 1903 graduation name card

Wilhelmina (Ohde) & Alfred Lage

DEDICATED TO
MINNIE NEE OHDE-ALFRED LAGE
MY PARENTS IN THEIR GOLDEN SPAN

In the, age of 1886, that long ago year
Near Manning, babes were born to parents dear.
Their homes were only miles apart
Dedicated to God, from an early start.

To school, they trod in separate ways.
In youth they had fun, so they say!
On "buggyed-horse," their paths took plight
And romance soon bloomed, with marriage in sight.

On Wednesday, February 18, 1914, came the day
Pastor Johann Ansorge heard vows of "come what may."
They lived on the farm of Dad's birth site
An began to till the earth up-right.

Early Thresher crews Dad "engine-neered"
From home to Dakota, with gusto and gear.
Some times were good and some were slim
Sometimes tears came to ever-flowin' brim.

Whenever-production, farm BUST'S were a mess
The Hog-Corn Program came with calling's for less.
With chairman, Alfred, his crew at the "cut-out" helm
Made western Iowa, a first, to achieve in this realm.

For a farmer's life, their days were busy
On Sundays, rode to Church in a tin-lizzie.
Where once we had an embarrassing spark
When matches ignited in Dad's pocket, left its mark.

To Mom, her home and I by birth
God's will, sent Ruth (Lage) from heaven to earth.
Through all the years we were never alone
For somebody's kid was in need of a home.

With Dad, came dreams of power, and juice
On poles came forth, for all farm use.
For years he toiled and justly won.
SOUTH CRAWFORD lights the setting sun!

To NORTHWEST POWER advancements were laid,
But Doc. said "quit" and no "ifs" were made.
Ole rockin' chair has set much younger a man
For now, he's reached that golden span.

Some work came hard and some with ease
To God, family---community they worked to please.
I could relate many-many family jokes
But rather, Thank God, for these, "my wonderful folks."
By Frances Lage Fielweber
Manning, Iowa

The Hog-Corn Program
In 1933, the government enacted the corn-hog program in an attempt to limit the number of hogs going to market and the grain being sold. One year later, Daviess County farmers received a total of $450,000 for participating in the program and they would receive another $175,000 at a later date. Some of the program's features were:
In 1933, the government enacted the corn-hog program in an attempt to limit the number of hogs going to market and the grain being sold. One year later, Daviess County farmers received a total of $450,000 for participating in the program and they would receive another $175,000 at a later date. Some of the program's features were:
1. The participant must participate in both contracts.
2. The corn producer who had less than four litters of hogs could sign a corn contract.
3. If the farmer was a large hog producer and raised less than ten acres of corn, he could enter the hog contract and agree not to increase his corn acreage.
4. The participant could not increase the number of any kind of livestock, except the designated hogs.
5. The farmer could not increase his wheat acreage over 1932 and 1933 and participate in the program. The only way a person could get into the program if the wheat had been increased, was to plow up the wheat.
6. The purpose of the corn allotment was to get 20% of the land out of production. The producer would get 30 cents a bushel on the average that the land rented to the government produced. He would receive 15 cents a bushel when the contract was accepted and 15 cents a bushel in November, 1934.
7. The rented land could not be used to raise crops or livestock.
8. If a farmer entered the corn-hog program, he was eligible for a government corn loan of 45 cents a bushel. In the fall, the corn was to be shelled and delivered to the nearest shipping point.
11/12/35 "Payment on corn 35 cents a bushel in 1936"