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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1933
Page
10
New York City report notes egg market caution as farmers and dealers await farm bill effects. Price increases could curb consumption across eggs and other foods, while storage ahead of last year grows to 700000–800000 cases. Easter demand and Passover customs boost fine white eggs, live poultry, and butter markets amid fluctuating prices and carrier constraints.
Hopkinton celebrated its corn bank launch after 4000 bushels were weighed in by Weighmaster Jack McAllister. Farmers from up to 56 miles away brought in corn and received 27 cents per bushel in scrip usable for Hopkinton merchandise until April 12, then redeemable until June 1. The cash market price was 17 cents, creating a 10 cent premium. One load was rejected for quality, and a reception-day plan limits farmers to 100 bushels each.
Central City officials from the Central City Farmer Mutual Creamery and Town Electric Light and Power company reached an agreement to reduce electric rates from 11.5 cents to 7 cents per kilowatt including the demand charge. The article notes butterfat pricing at the creamery and lists top patrons by butterfat production for the period.
The Linn county Farm Bureau releases a weekly calendar of activities. Monday lists poster training schools in Brown and Linn townships with Hazel Kennedy and Merle Goudy, plus a boys club leaders meeting with John Quist at the Farm Bureau office. Tuesday features poster schools in South Marion and Fayette, a board meeting at the Commercial club rooms in Marion. Wednesday includes a Spring Grove poster school and Otter Creek Farm Bureau meeting at Alburnett High School. Thursday evening covers Fayette Clinton Farm Bureau Palo High School. Friday evening notes Washington Farm Bureau at Center Point Methodist Church basement.
R. K. Manley near Albia reports volunteer lespedeza spreading across a 20 acre timothy field after seed packets from other crops were mixed in. Soils expert Wiechmann and professors Hughes and Dyas tested stands in fifteen plots, noting heavy growth at field ends and sparse middle growth. Tests explore reseeding potential and use in pastures and soil rehabilitation, with cautious expectations for Iowa conditions.
Harry Linn of the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders association warns that over 65 percent of sore shoulders and sore necks in horses stem from ill fitting hames rather than collars. He explains how proper collar and hame fit distributes pull over the shoulder and reduces injuries.
The 80 acre Orley Wal mer farm three miles south of Lisbon owned by Charlies Alexander of Mount Vernon sold to Willard Light for 9000 dollars. Light is the youngest son of George Light, who with five sons owns 590 acres south of Lisbon and operates 206 acres owned by Mrs Light's mother.
Six dads and fourteen lads attended the Benton county 4 H dairy calf club round-up Saturday at the Glen Van Nice farm near Vinton. County Agent W J Norris and Ernest Wright of Waterloo led discussions. Club boys Bob Van Nice Calvin Reiss and Charles Birker spoke on lessons from the show ring production records value and feed records.
Coffman a farmer near here consigned forty Hampshire sheep through the South English Shipping association on Thursday. They sold at four dollars per hundredweight, the top price for the market in Chicago. Sam Brower managed the association.
The index of farm prices rose one point from Feb 15 to Mar 15 reaching 50 with a pre war base of 100. Cotton hogs and wheat led 21 improving farm products while dairy and poultry fell. Eggs and hay hit 23 year lows. hog price rose to 3.22 per cwt. Buying power of farm products up 2 points to 49 percent of pre war levels.
Hogs near St Baldwin Tabor and Tabor sold at Chicago on Thursday a load of 230-pound hogs at four dollars per hundredweight, the extreme top of the market.
An Ames agricultural circular offers practical garden advice from a friendly voice. It covers plot sizes for a family, soil quality, manure use, seed bed prep, and spacing rules for cool and warm season crops. It also notes transplanting tips and weed control with guidance from the Iowa garden calendar.
Under district directors, cattle testing for bovine tuberculosis will resume Monday in Iowa. State Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray ordered reopening after a bill to make compulsory tests optional failed. One state veterinarian will direct each congressional district with two in the Fourth. Twenty-four counties not accredited and those needing retesting will form the 1933 program across many counties, with a list of district directors and counties slated for testing and retesting. Alfalfa yields 2.3 tons per acre in Illinois.
Doojiggers n Whatyoucallems by Mary Bricklet offers a craft note on building a burlap rug frame from four boards with two inch hole spacing. It humorously recalls drilling mishaps and provides practical assembly tips and an editor note inviting farm women to share time saving ideas.
The St Olaf Shipping association sold 325 pound butcher hogs at 3.75 and lighter weights at 4.05, the day’s extreme top in Chicago market.
Linn County farm bureau women finish the fifth year clothing project with a style revue at the Marion Presbyterian church on April 12. The program includes exams led by N May Larson and a baccalaureate sermon by Ellsworth Richardson, plus notes on prior lessons, garment makeovers, and trimming strategies benefiting 1,116 participants across 420 follow-up meetings.
Unusual conditions in March pushed hog prices higher despite low receipts. Snow, then a banking moratorium, tightened supply as direct hogs at Iowa and southern Minnesota plants totaled 615000, up 9 percent from last year. Markets expected larger runs. heavy hogs and breeding stock showed strong demand with breeders commanding premiums.
Union Stockyards Chicago reports broad market strain in all livestock types with mixed results. Cattle saw some higher closes in select lots while others declined. lambs and hogs finished below last week. Receipts were moderate and pork and lamb dressed beef trade remained slow amid weak consumer demand.
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