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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1942
Page
7
Crop reporter Charles D. Reed notes corn planting under way across almost all sections of Iowa with less than 1 percent planted. He cites danger from frost, explains moisture patterns, and reports dust storms from dry surface ground hampering field work.
Farms report extensive structural damage from the storm including barns corncribs and hog houses blown over and windows shattered. Linn county beekeepers undergo a state cleanup as 69 of 588 colonies in 18 apiaries are diseased. owners advised to destroy affected bees disinfect equipment and burn hive furniture using cyanogas.
Friends and neighbors of LeRoy Musgrove plowed and harrowed 43 acres at his home in four hours. Twenty two men with tractors worked to help him while he is laid up with a broken leg.
Albion Nebraska church plans a fall corn crop. Guy Bowman donated seed and Rev. R N Blough will delivery to farmers willing to plant an acre each. Women volunteers will husk the corn and hold a harvest festival to celebrate.
USDA reports butter output across the United States rose five percent for the week, aided by favorable pasture weather and more cows freshening. In the west north central region covering Iowa and Nebraska the week ended April 23 saw a 3.3 percent rise versus the prior week but a 5.6 percent drop from the year before.
Des Moines report from state veterinarian Dr. C C Franks shows spring pig losses in Town during April were far lower than earlier forecasts. Vaccine applications for swine erysipelas rose tenfold in March 1942 compared with the same month prior year.
Lincoln Nebraska used farm equipment today was hailed as the answer to the shortage of farm machinery on Nebraska farms. Preliminary returns from county AAA committees show in 15 counties many good implements for sale including horse drawn and tractor adapted gear such as two row cultivators go digs listers gang plows binders and combines.
In Des Moines a federal court jury hears the Fitch company appeal over the war department offer of 113200 for 558 acres taken to build the Ankeny ordnance plant. Iowa State's Prof. Bruce J. Firkins testified the farm has four soil types with most land classified as fertile loam.
In Decorah Winneshiek county rural women gather for the annual home project achievement day. Mrs. Roy Joslin of Clarence urges streamlining housework to free time for extra war duties. Dr. Edmund Zimmerer speaks on cancer control. Nutrition study notes total year results and county exhibits are praised by Mrs. No May Larson.
Henry De Boer of the agricultural marketing administration announced that butter and eggs stay on the blue stamp foods list for May, identical to April. The May list includes butter, shell eggs, citrus fruits, pears, apples, oranges, fresh vegetables, corn meal, dried prunes, hominy grits, dry beans, various flours, and whole wheat flour.
An old advertisement touts Uden Tablets as a cure for stomach and ulcer pains including indigestion heartburn and gas. The copy cites Cleopatra and a pearl in wine as lore while promising relief or money back.
The United States Department of Agriculture projects a July 1 1942 total food supply of 1.425 billion bushels with 795 million produced this season and 630 million carried over. Higher crop production, larger livestock marketing, and record milk and eggs output are anticipated to meet wartime needs, with prices to farmers rising and storage and transport stretched.
Ed Penningroth of Tipton plans to market 75 Hereford fat steers in spring. B Hampton of Springville rehabs fences. Cattle Feeder Loans at The Peoples Savings Bank Cedar Rapids grow yearly. Gillmore of Center Point keeps 30 Hereford steers plus light steers and a Shorthorn herd. Safety bull pen urged to prevent bull injuries and improve breeding records per Town State College Bulletin 187. Mark Baty of Walker raises 84 pigs with nine sows remaining.
In Bloomfield Iowa Judge Edward L Simmons granted a permanent injunction for Goode Produce Co restraining the state ag secretary from revoking its cream buying license The court ruled the firm did not buy cream for butter making but resold it to an Illinois firm and had no control over its use The constitutionality of the cream grading law was not decided State Sen Dewey Goode is a member of the firm.
Forty two Cedar County Beef Producers association members met in Tipton to hear results of a Chicago Producers' survey presented by Herman Aaberg Iowa fieldman and to receive the general outlook from Herb Powell Mississippi Valley Farm Business association. The executive committee holds over for another year.
A country woman laments March winds and the upcoming April winds that plague farmers. She describes dust in the eyes, seed scattering, chickens disturbed, hats blown away, laundry whipped from lines, and clothing skimming about the yard, contrasting with the respite of listening to music inside.
Francis Johnson of the Iowa Farm Bureau says bale tie metal allotments are divided into four parts, causing a serious shortage during the haying season. Cedar Rapids bale tie dealers report partial orders being allocated as fairly as possible to customers. The federation seeks a larger immediate release to meet demand.
Special to The Gazette notes two clinics in Allamakee County. Thursday at the Ed Thiele implement building in Waukon and next Tuesday at the Ruckdaschel garage in Postville feature carburetor adjustment fuel saving lubrication and ignition emphasis.
Beaty, a Benton county farmer, sold a load of prime whitefaced cattle weighing about 1535 pounds in Chicago. The top price achieved was 16.90 dollars per hundredweight.
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