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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1936
Page
11
Iowa dairy cows produced 8.9 billion pounds of milk in 1935 valuing dairy products at about 106.5 million dollars. Butter output fell nearly 19 million pounds while prices rose, boosting income for farmers across the state alongside widespread employment in processing and distribution.
Weather notes aside, data show 1935 creamery count fell to 1,345 due to the new cream grading law and consolidation. Butter output reached 218,821,673 pounds in 1935 while 1934 peaked at 237,824,900. cheese production totaled 3,042,920 pounds valued at 448,437.60.
Special to The Gazette reports Tom Scott of Perry was hired by the Tama county Farm Bureau as assistant to County Agent Burns Byram. Scott, 22, has nine years of 4-H club experience and recently worked on his father’s farm. He will replace Roy Olson, who leaves Aug. 15 to become county agent in Wapello.
Dubuque county 4 H clubs hold achievement day in Farley community hall on August 7. Miss Helen Swinney of Ames will judge demonstrations and pick the team to represent the county at the state fair. The health girl will also be announced.
L C Adams reports the July test results for Linn Cow Test association No. 1. A member saving on feed by omitting oil meal saw a net loss of 22.98 dollars due to reduced butterfat output. Another member cut feed costs from 43.80 to 29.52 with a corresponding income drop of 15.67. The group of 301 cows across 19 herds averaged 29.2 pounds of butterfat in July. Orlin Hann led with 39.4 pounds from nine grade Guernseys. Highest cow was a 77 year old grade Jersey in Carl Carver's herd at 81.8 pounds. Other notable cows included a grade Holstein in A R Pearson’s herd at 79.1 pounds and a grade Guernsey in C B F Michel’s herd at 71.9 pounds.
Anamosa Cow Test reports ANAMOSA BALSTER BROTHERS of Monticello had the highest herd average in July with 734 pounds of milk and 36.6 pounds of butterfat. J E Ahlrich of Monticello ranked second with 34.4 pounds of butterfat. A purebred Holstein from Tom Shover’s Monticello herd was the top cow of the month at 1,872 pounds of milk and 63.3 pounds of butterfat.
Robert Jones reports C Earl Smith led the West Branch Cow Test association in July with ten grade Guernseys average 939 pounds milk and 41.4 pounds butterfat. Ivan Gates’ herd ranked second at 41.1 fat. drought and heat depressed production and feed shortages pushed farmers to oats corn soy bean meal hay and ensilage.
In Clayton-Delaware Cow Test, 479 cows with 45 dry averaged 571 pounds of milk and 20.9 pounds butterfat in July. Howard Sampson of Colesburg led July with 12 grade Guernseys at 861 pounds milk and 37 pounds butterfat. others from Colesburg also posted top figures. Eight members fed grain, four legume hay, two ensilage.
Maquoreta's Kirchoff Ice Cream company pays a bonus of 6 cents above the sour cream price to secure enough sweet cream. The prior week price for butterfat in sweet cream was 40 cents per pound. Morning delivery is required to qualify for the bonus.
Lamont fire crews fought several farm blazes over the weekend. Weekend fires damaged the John Kenna and Pogue farms along the railway, destroyed a straw stack and machine shed on Albert Dozark’s farm, scorched about a third of a field of oats on Fred Green’s land, and a tractor hay rack fire occurred at George Helms’ threshing site after a bale load tipped.
Winthrop fire company answered four calls over Sunday night into Monday morning. Grass fires flared near the railroad right of way, including a blaze on the Alex Campbell farm the third on the property in four days. A car fire of unknown cause damaged a car and double garage owned by George Brubaker. Spontaneous hay combustion reportedly destroyed two barns, a corncrib and sheds, and four horses on the Jar vis Smith farm seven miles southeast of Winthrop at 1 a.m. Monday.
Two cows three calves and twenty two hogs perished in the blaze that consumed the Matthias McDermott farm barn two miles south of Epworth Monday evening. Epworth and Farley fire units checked the fire and stopped it from spreading. Suspected cause is spontaneous hay combustion in the haymow. The family dog died in the fire.
Denmark reports 3,374,000 hogs on June 13 1936 up from 3,025,000 a year earlier with brood sows at 413,000 the highest since 1932. Germany lists 22,201,000 hogs on June 6 1936 up 10.8 percent from 1935 with 6,449,000 pigs over six months and 2,174,000 breeding sows including 1,384,000 in farrow.
Louis Lorenzen, farmer in Hale township Jones county, places a 4 inch vertical tile near each tree to water roots during drought. He pours water down the tile to soak soil at the tree bases while heat and drought threaten windbreaks on nearby farms.
Survey shows 30 Iowa groups applying for rural electrification loans to build 8 000 miles of highline for about 21 000 rural customers. Nineteen projects tentatively approved may need 3 500 000 dollars for 3 500 miles serving 11 000 farm customers. unapproved eleven projects require another 3 500 000 dollars for 4 000 miles serving 10 000.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace will be principal speaker for agriculture day at Council Bluffs four day centennial celebration. He will address the crowd at 2 p.m. in a downtown park as part of the citys 100th birthday observance starting Sunday.
Reports from the Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association show hog cholera outbreaks in fifty areas over the last two weeks. Locations include Keystone Belle Plaine Brandon Vinton Blairstown Dysart Jesup La Porte City Hudson Independence Lamont Oelwein Hazleton Mechanicsville Stanwood Tipton West Branch Bennett Elkader Charlotte Clinton Low Moor Delhi Ryan Hopkinton Lamotte Cascade Maynard Mount Pleasant New London Bellevue Preston Maquoketa Iowa City Lone Tree Anamosa Monticello Springville Central City Columbus Junction Wapello Letts Muscatine Deep River Montezuma Grinnell Sears Walcott Eldridge Traer.
Construction on the R. W. Dysart farm near Dysart began Monday for a semi circular concrete stave double corncrib with an overhead granary. It measures 23 by 35 by 24 feet and will hold 4 800 bushels of corn and 2 000 bushels of small grain. A Waterloo firm handles the contract for materials and labor.
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