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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1940
Page
6
July hog kills reached 3,218,904 head, down 600,000 from June but the month’s largest since 1934. Year to date hog slaughter totaled 28,219,678 head, near seven year high, with cattle 821,795 head and sheep and lambs 1,447,528 head slaughtered in July, the largest monthly total this year outside January.
The Farm Bureau festival in Traer featured a soft ball doubleheader with Traer defeating the Farm Bureau team 14 to 12 while the county All Stars beat the Farm Bureau squad 14 to 11. The girls 4-H softball saw the north half win 4 to 2. Other events included nail driving, free throw, wood chopping, chautts, and horseshoe pitching for men and women.
The fragment describes Aly Wesley under a mulberry tree with a boy in a hat, a purple dyed face, and a stream of purple from his mouth. Velma Gray Sunderman signs the piece, suggesting a poetic or theatrical context.
Mrs Abbie Berger of Traer purchases an unimproved 160 acre farm two miles west of Lincoln from Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York for 16000 cash with possession given at once. The deal completed through Conant and King agency of Traer.
Holstein herds owned by Paul J. McErmeel of Greeley and Alton Voelker of Ryan led open class cattle ribbons at Delaware county fair. Hereford herd owned by Russell Preston of Ryan topped placements. 4-H poultry show overseen by Harold Robinson with winners listed by breeder and location including Delhi Hopkinton Manchester Oneida and Ryan participants.
The Farm Credit Administration reports total financing by its agencies at 313.454 million dollars for the first half of 1940, up from the same period in 1939. Loans to cooperatives reached 33.996 million, vs 27.217 million a year earlier.
Special to The Gazette reports July dairy and beef results from Iowa county 4-H events. Muller and Bell of Monticello led North Jones Cow Testing with high herd and top cow. Dale Gahring of Williamsburg awarded best 5 head commercial feedlot calves weighing 4 990 pounds with average gain of 2.08 pounds daily.
Fourteen demonstration teams competed at the Vinton fair with blue ribbon winners earning trips to state and other fairs. Canton township 4-H girls Betty Steffenson and Jean Pangborn will go to Des Moines August 23 to 30. Eden township Rozella Hessenius and Ruth Hessenius head to Cedar Rapids August 15. Eldorado Marjorie Meyer and Lois Schulze and Polk Neta Smith and Della Beyers also earned trips to Cedar Rapids and Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress respectively. Judge was Mrs. Jane Nelson Knup of Vinton.
The Wapello fire department responded at 3 am Thursday to Upper Mill farm where a combine a large amount of straw and a cattle barn were destroyed. The cause of the fire was undetermined.
Special to The Garvette reports Conesville growers see a normal watermelon crop as fruit ripens. The annual Watermelon Day celebration is scheduled for September 6 in Conesville.
Randalia report notes Emil Schmidt is constructing a 26 by 56 foot barn to replace a recently burned structure. The project began with a Wednesday work session and is described as a necessary replacement.
A carnival worker erupts in rage as the tent machinery fails and ropes slacken. A young boy calmly offers help, asking to hold a stake. The vendor relaxes, choosing a gentle response over anger, showing restraint amid a near disaster.
Marjorie Dickinson and Dorothy Lenker of the Cedar Pep 4-H Girls' club won first with "I'll Come Out In the Suds" at Cedar County Fair 4-H achievement day and will go to the state fair August 23 to 30. Irene Gallmeyer and Norma Chapin second with "Laundry De Luxe" and go to the Mississippi Valley fair Davenport. Gerda Evelyn Safley and Veille Crock of Live Wires club took third with "Spanking Spunky Spots" and advance to the All Iowa fair Cedar Rapids next week. Ruth Eleanor Eiler and Verna Lee Dircks of Fairfield Ramblers earned blue with "Better Light Better Light." Judge was Miss Selma Ekquist of Ames.
Iowa City reports the second batch of parity payments totaling 26 124 75 dollars will be paid Saturday. County AAA chairman Joe G Raim announced the disbursement Friday.
Hog prices moved higher this week across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota, gaining 15 to 25 cents with some cases up 40 cents. Most increases occurred in butchers weighing 180 to 270 pounds, while heavy weights showed wider gaps and lighter demand for heavier hogs.
A Shorthorn cow owned by Glenn Sands near Columbus Junction produced four heifer calves in ten months. The dam has twin calves three weeks old and twin calves ten months old, all females.
Chester White breeder Al Stuart of Newhall is slated to judge all hog breeds and the pig club barrow and breeding classes Tuesday and Wednesday at the Mississippi Valley fair in Davenport.
Eastern Iowa hosts a series of fairs and 4-H livestock events from Aug. 9 to Aug. 18. Central Iowa fair in Marshalltown runs Aug. 9 13, All Iowa Livestock Exposition in Cedar Rapids Aug. 11 16, Jackson county fair in Maquoketa Aug. 12 16, Louisa county fair in Columbus Junction Aug. 13 16, Buchanan county fair in Independence Aug. 13 16, Allamakee county fair in Waukon Aug. 14, Winneshiek county fair Aug. 14 18, Iowa City 4 H show Aug. 14 16, Tama 4 H show in Gladbrook Aug. 15 17, Clayton county fair in National Aug. 16 18.
Sixty six 4-H club baby beeves sold for an average of 11.25 dollars per cwt at the Benton county fair auction. Top price reached 13.50 dollars paid by Wilson and Company of Cedar Rapids for the champion Hereford exhibited by Joseph Parr of Blairstown. Calves sold without shrink and were well-fed. Morris Long presided as auctioneer and George McElroy recorded the transactions.
Postville reports show no serious yield loss from recent heavy rains. John Barnes yields 71 bushels per acre on a 12 acre field, Folsom 50 bushels on 12 acres, and Heusman 48 bushels. sale values drop slightly but feeding use buffers financial impact.
Junior Mommson Miles won the purple ribbon with an Angus in the 4 H beef show at the county Farm Bureau festival in Clinton Dewitt. Jack Wilkinson of DeWitt took reserve champion with a Hereford in the heavy division. Judges were J C Holbert Ames with multiple first place winners across Angus Hereford and Shorthorn classes. Grand dairy calf champion Rueben Miller Clinton with reserve dairy heifer Geraldine Kiahn Wheatland. Charles Gregoire Charlotte claimed grand champion yearling and reserve foal with another title for his foal.
Six hundred attend Buckhorn creamery picnic with a Buckhorn 4-H dairy calf club achievement show. Maxine Hartvigsen wins grand championship with a Milking Shorthorn. Francis Siders earns reserve with a Holstein. Blue ribbons go to Donna Myatt, Maxine Hartvigsen, Francis Siders, Dean Bowman, William Wilcox, and Donald Roe.
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