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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1932
Page
10
Bechtelheimer optimistic about dairy prices says August butterfat may pay creameries 5 to 6 cents a pound more than June. Iowa June butterfat averaged 17.52 cents, May 18.99, June 24.38 in 1931. Cites drought impact and fall production risks, urges demand growth and dairy product consumption at the source.
An amusing Clinton column reports on Mayor James J. Walker and Mrs. Walker owning a modest Iowa farm near Low Moor. The piece contrasts city life with rural reality noting limited modern amenities, a pending new house, and humorous lines about dairy and manure. It also lists June butterfat totals from ten Iowa creameries led by Jesup and Hudson.
A large dairy farm west of Oelwein burned Saturday afternoon, likely from a gasoline engine backfire. Hog house, poultry house, silo, two straw stacks and the barn contents including hay, oats, harness, milking equipment, and livestock were lost. Injured workers Mr. Rechkemmer, James Sparks, Vincent McLaury, Leo Slater, and Hawley Miller received medical care. The owner is Mrs. Zelma Rechkemmer. insurance partially covers losses. rebuilding planned.
The J. LeRoy Farmer Canning plant near Cedar Rapids began the 1932 tomato pack. From 225 acres, tomatoes are paid per federal standards with US No 1 at 11 dollars a ton and US No 2 at 6 dollars. The facility, capable of fifty tons daily, will hire 150 women and 50 men at peak through the season.
In a broad interview, Lyle V. Sutton of Delaware county discusses his 130 acre farm three miles southwest of Delaware. He projects a hog surplus in 1933, cites corn yields, and explains market strategies and views on tariffs, Hoover, and the economy amid the depression.
A farmer discusses the National Grain Marketing Corporation controversy, farm boards, and market manipulation by Chicago brokers. He warns against direct marketing plots, critiques commission men as sharks, praises some Packers as fair, and notes budget cuts and tax changes in his district. The interview covers pricing, trucking effects, and potential repeal of a minimum wage law.
North English creamery reports July butter production at 65 532 pounds, up 69.5 percent from 1931 and within 4 038 pounds of June's 69 570 total. Eleven of 550 patrons are observing the farmers holiday in marketing. Top July producers include Anna Bauer, Sparrow, Rowe, Morse, Brittian, Peiffer, Jordan, Bohrofen and Son, Fry, VeVerka.
Glenn Miller of Des Moines, president of the Iowa Farmers Union, will speak at a Tama county Farmers Union meeting in Clutier on the evening of August 23. He will discuss the farmers holiday. The meeting will be open to the public.
Strawberry Point reports show farmers who planned a farmers' holiday now sending milk to Strawberry Point as before. Otto Weger notes the change in dairy flow and butter production amid the local observance.
Iowa farmers can trial the new high yielding winter wheat named Iowin. Seed samples in 1.5 bushel lots cost 85 cents f.o.b. Ames, including bags. Notable growers include John M. Jensen Loveland Homer Wood land Burlington and Collins Farms Cedar Rapids. Trials at the Iowa Experiment Station show Iowin yielding 38 bushels per acre, higher than Turkey Red by 2.75 bushels. First distributed in 1930 to 66 growers with harvest in 1931.
Cedar county Farm Bureau women staged an achievement day pageant depicting Cedar county history from Indians to the present. Springdale township wore Quaker dress to portray West Branch events when President Hoover was a boy, with a baby Hoover in a cradle. Five nutrition project exhibitors Cass Center Dayton Fremont Red Oak were invited back to the Cedar county fair. Mrs. Ellsworth Richardson addressed the gathering as principal speaker. H. S. Smith and Mrs. Smith received a wedding anniversary gift marking thirty years.
Oakdale reports the Johnson Test Assn July averages from 386 cows with 56 dry, totaling 622 pounds of milk and 245 pounds of butterfat. Clarence Jensen and W P Marner lead a high herd of eight Guernseys at 42.8 pounds butterfat. a Holstein in the sanatorium herd produced 2040 pounds of milk at 67.3 pounds butterfat.
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