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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1957
Page
16
National Home Demonstration week highlights Iowa extension work aiding homemakers and farm families. Articles cover benefits of extension education, shifting grain measurement from bushels to weight, tax rules on involuntary land condemnation versus voluntary exchanges, and changing U S demand affecting wheat and flour consumption.
U S. Department of Agriculture report shows 63 percent of 2,819,000 farm trucks are pickups as of January 1 1956. About 442,000 are stake type, 247,000 grain bodies, 173,000 platform bodies. More than two-thirds operate on farms with lower farm product values. Grain sorghum may yield well with proper moisture retention and pre season irrigation.
County board met to adjourn, set April 21, reviewed weed control orders, and authorized expenditures for payroll, office supplies, and equipment. Named officials included Dudley Enderson, Charlee Salvation Army reference, and various county clerks and dep uties. actions covered weed destruction orders and budget appropriations for April.
An administrative note from Des Moines reports bean growers may sell their 1958 crop to the government under price support loan settlements. Purchases and loan repayments relate to May 31 deadlines, with market prices closely watched for relief.
Ezra Taft Benson said that the belief prices are set by Washington ignores the broader market forces. He spoke Monday in New York clarifying federal influence on farm pricing and urging consideration of regional factors.
Six Holstein-Friesian Association of America members from Iowa were elected to attend the 22nd annual convention in Indianapolis Indiana June 4 5. Delegates listed include Arthur Gerlach Saint Ansgar M J Levi Graettinger Rehder Gladtrank Stewart Maynard Ernest Wright and Claude E Lamplam. Agriculture secretary Benson warned against oversimplifying farm problems noting that acreage allotments fail as a sole control on output and that modern tech reduces the effectiveness of land limits.
Exports of lard from the United States reached 612 million pounds in 1956, up 50 million pounds or 9 percent from 1955. About 53 percent went to Cuba and the United Kingdom, with the remainder sent to Yugoslavia, West Germany, Austria, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru.
County ASC Chairman Lester E. Mitchell announced Linn County has 1,426,932 bushels of 1956 corn under price support with May 3 as the loan deadline. He noted many farmers have yet to file and that state totals may reach 110 to 115 million bushels. Iowa set a record with over 19 million soybeans under support and redemptions rising since March.
A Fayette county Holstein Breeders Association committee will score all 4-H first year registered Holstein heifers Saturday. The event will be scored again at the Fayette county fair with awards to 4-H members whose heifers show the most improvement. A related contest for yearling heifers uses a one year scoring interval. Scoring committee includes FP Stewart Archie Schroeder Ernest Miehe Howard Smith Rueben Steffens County Extension Director Melvin Wangsners and Yoats Assistant Harold Boulton.
The Citizens State Bank of Wyoming filed suit against the Massillon Cooperative Creamery Association Inc and its directors seeking judgment on a ten thousand dollar promissory note plus supporting real estate and charter mortgages given by creamery officers in March 1855. The bank also requests the appointment of a receiver and asserts its claim as superior to those of Desland Lumber Company Henry Hentiott Walter Hartwig LeRoy H Schutt and Cedar County. The creamery, now defunct, was located in Massillon village four miles north of Lowden.
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