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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1934
Page
8
Wilton Junction reports a new cheese factory will install a larger vat for cheese making and a pasteurizing plant in the near future as part of its expansion.
More than $7,000 was realized from the sale of 335 head of cattle and other livestock at the Gibson sale barn in West Liberty. Top on yearlings was 585 a hundredweight and on butcher heifers 527. stockers and feeders 84 to 585 per hundredweight. grass cattle 3.40 to 510. milk cows 35 to 39. five Shorthorn heifers 27.50 a head. Holstein springer heifers 3.20 per hundredweight. a mule 92.50. a sow and litter 14. Full details reflect a robust local livestock market.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration reports higher week by week hog prices in Chicago for 1932-33 and 1933-34, accounting for the processing tax. Admin Davis notes prices have risen every week since the tax, with the farmer’s value up 30 to 76 percent year over year as tax funds support the 1934 program.
Dry weather hampers planting with oats sown on fall plowing removed by high winds. Ground preparations for corn proceed slowly as soils stay bare. Pastures show little growth and farmers anticipate a light hay crop due to drought.
Clifford Denkman of Wilton Junction sold a matched team of black horses to a Wisconsin dealer for 235 dollars last week.
The Ida county 4 H dairy club committee bought six Holstein heifers in Fayette County for delivery next Monday. Ages ranged four to six months and prices spanned 25 to 45 dollars. Four cattle came from the A M Doughty herd near Fayette three miles away, one from the MVV Necomer herd south of Fayette, and one from the John Wilkinson herd seven miles west of Arlington.
AMES Iowa AP a new bulletin the first to be published in Iowa on chinch bugs is now off the press at Iowa State college It was written by Dr J Drake state entomologist and A D Worthington extension entomologist The bulletin notes the pest is sensitive to weather and that heavy rains during egg laying and hatching from late April to early June are nature s best control Rains kill young bugs and mud eggs preventing hatching After hatching control focuses on killing bugs moving to corn fields in late June Dust and chemical barriers are recommended Some crops resist infestation and should be included in crop rotation during heavy outbreaks.
Oelwein Farmers Co operative creamery paid twenty eight cents a pound for butterfat for the last half of March reports secretary Frank Schroeder.
Des Moines dispatch reports hog prices continued to fall for a tenth straight week due to heavy receipts and weak demand for fresh pork. Quotations were ten to fifteen cents lower than last Saturday with prices near the lowest since February. Trade observed lighter weights and quality, while corn on farms remains abundant and largely under government loan, signaling potential shortages for summer hog feeding.
Special to The Gazette reports Millersburg orchardists warn no peaches this year because of freezing temperatures and prolonged drought. Other fruit trees are set to bloom, gardens show growth despite months without rainfall up to Thursday morning. asparagus and piscine crops are developing.
The Elgin Farmers Dairy company marks forty years of service and articles of incorporation are published for the third time. Since 1894 the co operative has grown from a ten man forming committee to a full board with Melchair Luchsinger and Fred Reichart long serving in top posts. The original building remains in use after modernization.
Monona Co operative creamery patrons received 26 cents net per pound for March butterfat. During the month 46 970 pounds were manufactured with 1 958 pounds bought by patrons, 2 324 pounds purchased by Monona stores, and 42 688 pounds shipped to market.
Forty head of Aberdeen Angus cattle sold by T. L. Goeldner and Donald Herrick at Plateau farm near Webster. Cows averaged 55 dollars, heifers 34 dollars each. The pair have raised cattle together since 1927, with Goeldner celebrating years in farming.
Irving Stewart of Maynard returned from Bolivia with 176 Holstein dairy cattle delivered to a South American millowner. He, with Herbert Lemkuhl and James Horridge, loaded cattle January 15 at Fort Atkinson Wisconsin sailed February 1 from Norfolk Virginia and reached a port in Chile after twenty one days at sea.
Grundy county farmers are to receive government checks soon as more than 700 corn hog loan contracts are prepared for dispatch to Washington. A large staff is copying the contracts to expedite delivery. The Cleveland stadium seats about 80 000 people.
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