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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1933
Page
4
Eastern Iowa farmers report oats mostly unsowed as a week of rain and cool spell delays field work. Seeding runs about one week behind in southern and central counties with little progress in northern districts. farmers expect to start Monday if dry weather holds.
Local dairy reports rehiring creamery employees as production resumes after a period of reduced operations. Management cites restored demand and steady supplies as key factors guiding the restart and retention of workers.
Hopkinton merchants exchanged 10500 bushels of corn during a special program ending Saturday night. From April 1, corn buyers paid 27 cents a bushel in scrip redeemable until June 1. Bank cashier A J Miller said the plan proves worthwhile and scrip may be cashed at a 5 percent discount at the corn bank.
Fred Stark, seven miles west of Cedar Rapids, reports a crossbred Chester White Yorkshire pig with two tails. One tail sits at the back, the other on a hip, both curly. The animal is from a litter of ten born around April Fool's Day.
Vernon Haff, owner of 1 300 acres in Kansas, reports wheat prospects only fair in his immediate area. He notes 650 acres in wheat and widespread dryness across Kansas, following a recent purchase of a 2200 pound Belgian stallion from Holbert company. He transported the horse to his Kansas ranch by auto trailer.
Cedar Rapids area dairy in Iowa markets vitamin D charged milk from two herds, including Penningroth and McCann operations. Irradiated yeast in feed aims to boost health benefits, with patent licensing and pricing reported.
The piece notes profit taking distorting egg prices and a Chicago butter price surge as centralizers buy for storage. It reports attempts by New York and Chicago traders to push prices, with farm groups urged to curb producer costs and avoid price manipulation. Two Iowa men expose a hotel scam targeting farmers in Chicago.
Special to The Gazette Ames Iowa cow testing associations report lower losses from poorly adjusted separators totaling $110 year over year versus $180 in March last year. The bulletin covers 58 associations, 1 053 herds and 15 342 cows, noting higher butterfat per cow in high herds though fewer cows tested.
Patrons of the Rowley Farmers' Co-operative creamery received payment for the first half of March butterfat at 17 cents per pound, with the last half of February also at 17 cents.
J J Mills and Son Holstein breeders near Coggon report steady demand and prices from 15 to 50 dollars. Since Oct 1 they sold nine purebreds including cows to Averill and Benda Ely William Treichler Troy Mills and Carl Thiller Manchester. King's Ormsby progeny sold as bull calves heifers and daughters to buyers in Central City Marengo Gilman and Waterloo.
The Linn county Farm Bureau women plan a Wednesday April 12 program at 10 a.m. in Marion's Presbyterian church with Albia state committeewoman Mrs Ellsworth Richardson as principal speaker and Ames extension service judge Mrs N May Larsen to judge exhibits. A feature will be dresses remodeled under the fifth year clothing project. Other Linn county Farm Bureau events next week include a county board meeting in Marion and township meetings at Bertram and Maine with Charles Norris hosting the latter.
Special correspondent notes March egg receipts in New York and Boston show a modest spring lag with New York above last year but below average and Boston the lightest in years. Butter prices rise due to holiday trading and meat packers demand while passover and Easter influence consumption.
West Branch hosted the second trade acquaintance day in a month spearheaded by local business men. Several hundred rural residents visited despite bad weather and poor roads.
Mary Brickley shares a whimsical piece about a pedestal crafted from an incubator leg to hold a Wandering Jew plant. She describes construction details, color, and future plans to place it on a porch with a matching chair. Readers are invited to request plans.
Francis Johnson former speaker of the Iowa House and current vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau federation will address a Farm Bureau conference in Fairfield on April 25. Local leaders R K Bliss Ames extension director George W Leffler Mrs O E Milner and O W Beeler will lead discussions with attendees from Jefferson Washington Muscatine Keokuk Louisa Des Moines Henry Lee Wapello Davis and Van Buren counties.
Hi-Bred Corn company of Grimes has bought the P. M. Mettlin grain elevator at Reinbeck and will install a seed corn drying plant. The facility will serve seed corn raised on local farms under Hi-Bred supervision.
One of the first seeding tasks in the locality was completed this week as F C Heinrich planted eighty acres in Newhall.
March production across 459 cows in the North Tama Cow Test association averaged 978 pounds of milk and 37.3 pounds of butterfat per cow with 211 cows above 40 pounds butterfat. E. M. McElhinney led herds with 1604 pounds milk and 58.5 butterfat, while Joe Chizek had the top individual cow at 2223 pounds milk and 1089 pounds butterfat.
In Washington Iowa March dairy results show cows on test producing high milk and butterfat. Irwin Failger herd topped with 908 pounds milk and 36.6 percent butterfat, while E P Hayes Guernsey yielded 4 566 pounds milk and 72 pounds butterfat. Holsteins for Fred Palmer and W Fiely herds posted strong outputs as well.
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