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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1940
Page
6
Government figures show March hog slaughter in inspected plants at 3,981,165 head, the largest for March in 12 years and boosting year to date total to 13,614,170. Cattle and calf kills were also up slightly but cattle total remained the smallest for a March since 1935, with sheep and lambs down from a year ago.
An excerpt describes fence drift caused by woven wire on the Schild and Visquain farms near Belle Plaine. The breach hid a horse and required blading and adding sod to Thatch the gash. CCC and SCS labor reduced costs, but land abandonment remains within a mile and a half of town.
The East Central Veterinary Medical Society will host an after dinner program at Hotel Montrose Cedar Rapids Thursday with five speakers on cattle and swine diseases. Speakers include Dr W W Bronson Wyoming Dr W Kellogg Anamosa Dr O F York Monticello Dr Albers Meanticello and State Veterinarian H A Serdell Des Moines plus an executive board session at 4 pm to plan the tenth annual Clinic.
Independence sale tops include 51 broad sows at 124 per hundredweight and 100 feeding shunts at 80 pounds averaging 4 per hundredweight. The auction gross nears 5000 with Hereford heifers 425 pounds at 4025 each and steers around 52.50 per hundredweight.
Marengo Future Farmers of America under RW Gruenwald will oversee four potato test plots this year. C L Fitch Ames horticulturist helped plan the plots. Participants include Max Cronhaugh Warne Schmidt Warren Thomas Russell Thomas and Richard Denzler.
Nineteen of 304 Linn County cows produced over 60 pounds of butterfat in March per L C Adams tester. High herds reached 90 pounds. ten herds averaged 33 pounds. Iowa County report shows 126 cows above 40 pounds butterfat with high herd at 513 pounds.
E R McGrew presents 14 grade Guernseys with one dry and 344 butterfat. E W Stanley reports 10 grade Holsteins with one dry and 337 butterfat. A Ro Pearson 8 grade Holsteins with two dry and 332 butterfat. Prosser and Smith 14 grade Guernseys with one dry and 332 butterfat.
Five herds in the Southeast Winneshiek Test association averaged more than 40 pounds of butterfat in March. Martin C Bergan Holsteins led with 481 pounds, Glen O Reed Holsteins 81 pounds, Willard Torgrim Holsteins 457 pounds, Gilbert Salveson Guernseys 426 pounds, and M R Ringoen Brown Swiss 419 pounds. The 505 cows on test averaged 730 pounds milk and 272 pounds butterfat. Dickman Kneeskern of Frankville had the high cow a grade Holstein with 754 pounds butterfat.
A brief note compares rosebud servings in historic England to modern radish offerings, suggesting similar table customs and social habits across eras. The glimpse highlights continuity in dining practices and communal eating.
Two neighbors, John Schild and Howard Beyer, posed for a farm editors photo two miles north of Belle Plaine as a line fence was torn out to allow seven terrace runs spanning 100 acres. A soil conservation effort with the Renton county board and CCC workers revamps ditch banks to curb erosion.
A Iowa State survey shows dairy herds averaging near 300 pounds of butterfat yield nearly twice the labor income of 230 pound herds. High producers, fed more protein and nutrients, gain about $2,071 per cow compared with $1,135 for medium producers and $1,061 for low producers. Dual purpose cows earn even less, while feeding strategy and market factors explain much of the profit difference.
Special to The Gazette reports Charles Cecil of Keokuk county sold cattle weighing 1.491 pounds at Chicago Monday for 10.50 dollars per hundredweight.
Traer Conant and King report the sale of 33 acres south of Tracer owned by William Eneel to D M Voetberg Traer veterinarian for 135 dollars per acre. Possession will be given at once.
Keith Myers resigns as Louisa County club agent effective April 30 to assume Ida County agent duties starting May 1. The Lotsa Farm Bureau board approved his resignation and supports hiring a home demonstration agent to assist home project women and 4 H girls clubs, freeing the county agent to focus on boys 4-H clubs.
Indications point to Cedar county sign-up for 1940 matching 1939 levels when 77 percent of crop land joined the AAA program. County AAA chairman Hy Von Muenster cites 1640 participating farmers in 1939 and notes 1,189,781 bushels of corn sealed in Cedar county.
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