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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1941
Page
16
Beef cattle marketings for the week reach the strongest level in over a year, with Chicago reporting the heaviest five day receipts in seven years near 48 000 head. Demand centers on slaughter stock as river markets see gains and high quality steers top at 12 to 13 dollars, boosting averages.
One hundred three head of 4-H baby beeves were sold at auction at the Union district fair in West Liberty. They brought a total of $3,932.30, averaging over $38 per head. The top bid was 15.50 per hundredweight for a Shorthorn calf exhibited by Paul Johnson of Muscatine county, totaling $162.75.
Nebraska's 1941 corn output is projected at 116.64 million bushels after an Aug 1 to Aug 15 drop of 9.72 million from 126.36 million. Production in 1940 totaled 106.913 million. The U S Department of Agriculture cites lack of rainfall in early August as the main cause.
Des Moines AP reports 17 Iowa counties receive new aerial maps for AAA farm reports on wheat and corn programs. Maps reduce field work and cost, with accuracy within one percent, reflecting changed boundaries and roads.
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery pays 41 cents a pound for July butterfat with $35,889.23 due to dairy farmers, up $14,195.37 from July last year. Butter production reached 109,717 pounds from 88,378 pounds of butterfat, aided by a good hay crop despite heat and drought.
Under sponsor Leslie M. Carl a federal statistician and Works Progress Administration workers survey farms in Iowa. Enumerators from Linn Jackson Delaware Johnson Tama and Jones counties meet Cedar Rapids supervisor William Roudabush to plan a late September and October survey of farm employment machinery repairs and utilization. The data will support the Agricultural Marketing Service estimates of Iowa agriculture and include town surveys on prices paid by farmers for food tobacco and household goods.
An 11 year old purebred Holstein Friesen cow named Cherokee at the Oakdale state sanatorium yielded 838.3 pounds of butterfat from 19,365 pounds of milk in a 365 day lactation. The record, supervised by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America with Iowa State College, was announced this week.
Des Moines AP The state agricultural adjustment administration reports 18 446 mattresses delivered to 16 045 families under the cotton mattress program to cut the national surplus. All counties participate. full start came in 1941 with 27 counties under the companion fortifier program. Each family can make one comforter per mattress. 1 297 completed and delivered. Eligibility targets families earning under 500 yearly, half from agriculture. Materials came from surplus. centers coordinated by AAA and extension service. Sac and Fox Indian reservation provided 88 mattresses.
Henry Gisleson of Postville received a $4,766.56 check from Folsom and Washburn for livestock sold. The shipment included 28 packer hogs, 53 butcher hogs, and 27 steers with a cow and calf and a bull, totaling 28 packer hogs at 11,340 pounds, 53 butcher hogs at 11,970 pounds, and 27 cattle at 2,427.80 dollars. Eggs note to be cooled before packing in cases.
Ralph Brown bought 120 acres on the northwest edge of La Porte City from Ralph Runyan for 17,500 dollars, about 145.83 per acre. L L Froning bought a 200 acre farm in Spring Creek township near Jubilee school for 11,000 dollars, about 55 per acre. List of singers includes Harry, Reuben, Esther, Oscar, Mamie, Hope, Elizabeth Benarden, Selma and Edwin Hoppe, and Amanda and E. W. Jesse.
The 85 year old Octagonal Floral hall, first major county fair structure in northeast Iowa, was razed to make space for a new midway. Exhibits move to the Industrial and Exhibit building for a Centennial fair in McGregor area.
H J Dane of Iowa City owns two purebred Holsteins that set fat records over 540 pounds. Oona Opal produced 549.3 pounds butterfat and 14,289 pounds milk in 327 days. Music Master yielded 540.7 pounds butterfat and 16,729 pounds milk in 365 days. Both cows milked twice daily. tests supervised by Iowa State College with the Holstein-Friesian Association.
Jones county farmers will discuss and vote on forming a soil conservation district after action by the county Farm Bureau board. The district formation will drive the major farm program for the coming year with township and community meetings planned to explain the law’s provisions.
H I Eiler Jr a Tipton farmer in Cedar County sold 30 heifers averaging 870 pounds at Chicago on Wednesday for 12.25 dollars per hundredweight.
Boone Oats achieved the highest average yield of 76.3 bushels per acre among 11 varieties in the Benton county Farm Bureau test plot at the Alfred Greaser farm. C I 3350 weighed the most per bushel at 34.9 pounds and stood tallest at 42 inches with zero lodging. Columbia oats ripened first on July 4, and Vanguard and C I 3350 tied for second in yield at 73.1 bushels per acre.
Cement is poured this week for a 28 by 84-foot barn foundation on the Frank and Isaac Thurn farm five miles northeast of Edgewood. The full basement will have a concrete floor, hollow tile walls, running water, and 14-foot high posts on an 8-inch square native oak frame. The barn will feature a hip-line roof to replace a barn that burned on July 8.
Monticello Iowa Jones county fair named Mary Dorothy Pospishil and Donna Busch as champion demonstrators. 4 H girls home furnishings winners include Twilla Chatterton Ruth Reuter Bonnie Rae Denniston Edna Mae Derga Dona Busch Jean M Broderson Doris Livingston Esther Mae Reese Elizabeth French Betty Jean Davis Lorraine Hern Ruth Reuter Lorraine Schmidt Ruth Reuter Jean Freese Velma Carroll Verla Carroll Dorothy Harderson across multiple categories such as reseated chair book cover and decorative pillow.
West Liberty closes its seventy ninth annual fair with a record crowd of 40 000 over four days. In 4-H girls’ work finals Dorothy McBride of the Sparklers club wins all around club girl and best one year record and earns a state convention trip. Doris Hermann of Fulton Royal Workers earns a state trip and best long time expense account. Virginia Smith of Wapsie Best earns best long time expense account.
William Quirk returns from Norris Montana with carloads of sheep for sale to Oxford Junction. About 1000 head will be shipped within the next few weeks.
J. G. Andrews, a Clinton County farmer, shipped 18 head of steers weighing about 1,454 pounds to Chicago Wednesday. The cattle sold at $12 per hundredweight, reflecting a strong market for beef cattle.
The hog market gained strength this week with interior prices near 11 dollars on Thursday and wholesale fresh pork values higher. Demand remained strong as first hands and out of state shippers competed for hogs, especially light weights, while receipts were heavy but down from last week’s peak. Top loins in Chicago reached 27 dollars per hundredweight, up from 25.50 last week.
A white haired elder recalls westbound pioneers in Du Buque who watched the first coal oil lamp glow in a lace curtained tavern parlor. Her sister, lone female of the household, lit the lamp each evening as the family waited for a possible explosion or the lamp's warm yellow light. The writer notes today’s lighting and warns of eyestrain. By a Country Woman.
Advisory committees from more than ten eastern Iowa counties gathered with state and county farm security supervisors in Cedar Rapids. Howard Dodge, district supervisor, led the session joined by George Heikens, state FSA administrator. The meeting served as an introductory briefing for newly appointed county advisory committeemen with a panel discussion on issues facing low income farmers.
A hard rain and electrical storm moved through the Brandon area Wednesday night ending over a month of dry weather. The rainfall is expected to help pastures and late soybeans, with some farmers already cutting corn for cattle.
Plans for Cedar County Fair in Tipton Sept 2 to 5 move forward with a nearly finished grandstand ready for the Sept 3 dedication by Gov George Wilson. A cleanup effort cleaned the grounds as old barns came down and fencing was installed. Entries rise with swine pens half reserved and box stalls booked for saddle horses. An amateur boxing event Sept 5 and a Thursday Solon versus Cedar Bluff ball game add to fair week activities.
Mrs. Verne Hanft, a farm woman near Columbus Junction, displays pastries fruits and jams at fairs. She won 16 first premiums and 60 firsts on 63 jam and jelly entries at the Louisa county fair and earned 223.50 in premiums on 224 entries across four fairs last year. She began baking bread at age 11 and plans to exhibit at Des Moines and other fairs including Burlington West Liberty Waterloo and Mount Pleasant.
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