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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1937
Page
9
Favorable statistical trends push butter prices higher with NY and Chicago up 1 cent. November options reach season high as market receipts drop and cream demand rises amid hot weather. European prices stay ahead, easing imports while feeders expect liberal late summer production.
Knight of Springville and Orlin Hann of Marion were chosen to represent Linn County Con Test association No 1 at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress with Henry Scheer as alternate. The team emerged from contests at farms near Central City and Marion. The association's annual picnic followed at Thomas Park with Floyd Johnston addressing attendees. about forty people attended.
A fragmentary verse fragment by R F A contemplates mornings greetings and cattle talk. The speaker recalls a banker’s comment and a hob o saying that without ham or eggs nothing is possible. He notes eastern Iowa hosts the choicest cattle amid scarce herd numbers.
In Iowa county fair events, Marengo Roy Newkirk's 2920-pound lightweight team towed 2500 pounds 24 feet 10 inches to win. They later placed second in heavyweight behind Frank Allen of Oxford, whose 3500-pound team led with 2 750 pounds 5 feet 10 inches.
ANAMOSA The Anamosa Livestock Shipping association has appropriated 175 to promote 4 H club work in Jones county. President L I Har grave announced this week. Fifty five dollars is to be used to purchase equipment for fitting and showing 4 H livestock.
Twenty heads of dairy cattle consigned by John Henderson of Morning Sun sold Tuesday at the Columbus Junction sale pavilion for an average of $55 a head. Top price reached $79. The sale also moved 200 hogs and 100 Hereford calves. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and H. M. Duncan of Columbus Junction and E. H. Dunlap of Wapello.
The Iowa City Sales Company announces weekly cattle sale every Tuesday led by a large Aug 24 offering of about 700 cattle. Highlights include 180 head weighing 1600 to 1156 pounds and Texas yearlings plus Colorado steers and local consignments of cattle lambs and feeding hogs. D J Gatens, Manager.
Barbara Witter of McGregor poses with her champion Guernsey Keifer at Elkader fair while Danny Strauer of Jesup displays his grade Duryea market barrow at Independence fair. Both are 4-H club members.
Hopkinton and surrounding area saw its first good rain since June, soaking Benton county fields. The rain helped late gardens and promises a bumper crop of sweet and field corn after pastures dried and much corn had fired.
Special to The Gate reports corn denting in fields around Millsburg with hybrid ears visible. Rain this week aided corn and other crops while canning of sweet corn apples beans beets and tomatoes peaks. Tomatoes yield heavily at 50 cents a bushel as early plums pears and a heavy peach crop are anticipated. threshing finishes this week.
In Keswick area J J George farm reported 4750 bushels of oats from 95 acres the largest local small grain total. At Columbus Junction threshing nears completion with yields from Humphreys and Davis families ranging 1400 to 3800 bushels from 20 to 50 acres. Prices at Columbus Junction: oats 24 cents wheat 1.02 dollars corn 1.00 rye 0.70.
Lloyd Probst repeated his championship by winning the breeding club class at the Johnson county 4 H livestock show in Iowa City. The event featured a horse show with 29 horses and 23 ponies across eight classes. Friday judges included Mrs Josephine Bakke of Ames for girls 4 H demonstrations and baby beeves judged by W F LaGrange of Ames.
Twenty seven ministers, rural school teachers and farm leaders attended a rural life conference in Cedar Rapids led by William Stacy Ames extension sociologist. The Cedar Rapids meeting was one of a series of such sessions to be conducted across the state.
A 2-pound White Rock pullet at the William James company plant in Cedar Rapids shows a fully developed third leg. The unusual fowl, produced near Independence, does not use the extra limb for scratching or movement.
Four livestock feeders north of Monticello sold seven carloads of fat cattle on the Chicago market for a total of 29313 dollars. Shippers were John P Kurt George Kurt Lawrence Bur iage and George Manternach. Kurt’s thirty eight head averaged 1318 pounds selling at 17 90 per hundredweight, near the August peak for steers since 1919.
O. J. Hess of Worthington Iowa won junior and grand champion Poland China sow at the Illinois state fair. W. C. Anderson of West Liberty showed reserve champion Poland China boar. Iowa winners included F. W. Hubbell Des Moines summer yearling Shorthorn, W W. C. Anderson junior yearling Shorthorn heifer, E. M. Mitchell and Sons Reinbeck summer yearling milking Shorthorn, Elliott Brown Rose Hill Angus herd governor's trophy, and O. J. Hess junior yearling Poland China sire and produce of dam. Co. O. Giltner and Son Ottumwa exhibited grand champion Duroc Jersey boar.
Marengo factory opens for five week run with over carload output in four hours. Manager H. L. Paulson reports more than 1,000 acres under contract and an expected yield near three tons to the acre. Rain paused operations. next week plant may run 15 to 16 hours daily with two new husking machines and a husking shed boosting capacity. Sixty workers are employed.
Muscatine county fair at West Liberty enters its seventy fifth year with a packed schedule. Opening events include a union church service and rural women’s chorus. Monday features livestock judging for open beef, dairy, hog classes and 4-H hogs and sheep plus a women’s home project and girls 4-H judging.
Lloyd Blofield, 17, son of R F Blofield, won Linn County 4-H Health contest. He finishes top in health judging and will represent Linn at the state fair in Des Moines.
The estate farm of Charlies and Anna Vanerny comprises 110 acres three miles south of Ely and four miles northwest of Selon, ten miles south of Cedar Rapids and fourteen miles from a seed gravel road. Improvements include a five room brick house with full basement, a basement barn, cattle barn, chicken house, two combined corn crib and hog house, all in good repair. Three wells and a well stock farm with tillable land except five acres of timber mulch. Terms are 10 percent down and balance March 1, 1938, with possession then. other terms may be arranged.
In Des Moines area hog receipts rise sharply this week while fresh pork demand weakens, driving live hog prices down 55 to 75 cents from last Saturday. Weights 180 to 250 pounds fetch top money, but buyers narrow premium weight ranges and 20 to 25 extra pounds bring 15 to 30 cent cuts. Packing sows demand stays stronger and overall early week receipts exceed last year, with seven markets showing 15 percent more hogs than last week but 27 percent less than year ago. Pork prices slide with loins and shoulders easing in major markets.
The listing outlines fairs in Davenport, Vinton, Independence, Elkader, Columbus Junction, Des Moines area fairs, Decorah, Marengo and Gladbrook plus Muscatine County fair at West Liberty from Aug 15 to 25. Market notes say feeder hog demand faltering due to low weight, while heavier hogs above 250 pounds sell steady. Peak season believed passed. light receipts expected in coming weeks as spring pigs head to market and later pigs finish on corn.
Farmers in Wyoming prepare a permanent stable for fifty horses and temporary stalls for at least one hundred as the Wyoming Community Horse Show association plans a Sept 17 event. The show is organized by the local association and aims to feature a major community equestrian display.
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