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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1935
Page
4
Major influences, both psychological, are indicated as causes of the sharp break in hog prices this week. The rout of Secretary Wallace from his Washington office by a delegation of Detroit housewives protesting meat price increases is cited as a key factor, amid sluggish pork trade.
Market notes show sudden producer hesitations and a rapid price drop in hog trades. Reports indicate heavy weekly marketings, rising receipts, and a shift toward underfinished hogs as buyers depress live hog prices amid a glut.
The report from the Department of Agriculture projects about 4,000,000 head of range cattle shipments from seventeen western range states in the last five months of the year. Shipments may be about half of 1934, with calves Jan 1, 1935 at the smallest in over fifteen years. Much of the yearling and heifer mix will be reduced and dry cows may dominate sales depending on fall feed conditions and prices.
DES MOINES INS Averted threat of a Chicago embargo on butter from nine Iowa counties. Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray said delays would hold the embargo until tuberculin testing is completed and counties accredited as free from bovine tuberculosis, with nine counties expected to be completed by January 1.
MAQUAKETA F E Kuiause county agent reports from truck gardeners and farmers in parts of the county that grasshoppers are damaging cabbage tomatoes and corn and alfalfa show minor damage. Farmers use poison mash of bran white arsenic molasses water and lemon placed on the ground to kill hoppers.
At Buckhorn Co operative creamery annual picnic in Maquoketa advancing grade butter policies were discussed. A representative noted second grade butter failed to sell after grading law, proving consumers prefer quality. Six cream samples earned prizes, with a tied pair from the same batch. The creamery aims for 1,000,000 pounds this year amid a day of events for about 500 attendees.
Monticello Jones county fair judged 4-H poultry in pens. Winners include Arline Hughes Scotch Grove with Barred Rocks and White Rocks from Edward Kromminga Castle Grove, Donald Caspers Castle Grove, and Irvin Husman Scotch Grove Rhode Island Whites. Garden project saw Dale Mayberry Wyoming take first with Olin Howie Jr Castle Grove second.
Julius Bergmann, living near Clarence, shipped 1 125-pound long yearling steers to Chicago and sold them Wednesday for 12.50 a hundredweight, a high price for the weight. The load yielded about 365 dollars more than similar cattle sold a month earlier.
Todville reports a year foaled colt from a Belgian dam and Belgian sire arrived June 12 without a tail but otherwise faultless.
Fayette county 4 H dairy and livestock winners listed with champions in beef cattle pigs lambs and colts. George Whitley Fayette won grand championship in 4 H baby beef for the second year. Roy Oakes Fayette topped market pig, Jack Adams Waucoma top lamb, Vern Popenhagen West Union top Percheron colt. Dairy honors to Charles McLeish Oelwein Jersey and Elwood Mabon Randalia Brown Swiss. Grover Miehe Maynard led Holstein champs with grand champion, Paul Harrison grand champion Guernsey, Elwood Mabon grand champion Brown Swiss. Two 4 H demonstration teams to state fair. Edna and Elsie Frish Banks township girls and Dean Platt Joseph Hall Oelwein boys.
Grinnell area 16 year old Stanley Brown son of Mr and Mrs Frank Brown was named Poweshick county 4-H health boy at the annual club fair concluding Wednesday.
A Benton county fair scene shows 4-H club boys preparing livestock for the state fair. Parents offer practical reminders as trunks, pails, feeds and show sticks are loaded onto a large transport truck. The piece highlights lessons in cooperation, self reliance, and seeing agriculture as a future profession.
Eleven general purpose tractors sold to local farmers this summer by a local firm. Numerous other farm implements are being purchased and are badly needed on many farms.
Max Ferguson, once northeast of Mechanicsville, last weekend harvested about ten acres of timothy yielding seventy five bushels of seed.
Three land sales near Clarence closed in the past week with prices from 100 to 125 dollars per acre. Carl Levsen paid 125 for 160 acres tenanted by Freeman Ethrage, near Clarence. possession with crops passes Oct 1. Louis Toerber bought 80 acres of the Robert Stanlake homestead north of Clarence for 115 per acre. O E Stonerook sold 40 acres to Fern Mack for 100 per acre, near Clarence. The Kahler Levién and Stanlake Toerber deals were brokered by Gene Morehead. In Mechanicsville, Mrs T L Fegen bought from the trustee the 39 acre Rose Evelyn Baker estate at about 150 per acre.
In the von Schrader orchard at Maquoketa a russet apple tree toppled after bearing fruit for sixty five years following this year’s exceptionally heavy harvest.
Myrtle Sersland, nineteen, daughter of Carl and Mrs. Sersland of Frankville, won Winneshiek county 4 H health contest with 98.7 percent, narrowly over Lucille Seland of Springfield township at 98.2 percent. Mildred Mundt placed third at 97.3 percent. Myrtle will travel to Des Moines Sunday to represent Winneshiek in the state health contest with county leaders Miss Lillian Lewis and Mrs. Elmer Rosa.
Tama county plans say the first corn hog checks will arrive in three weeks. About 1 350 of Tama county Group 1 contracts were sent to Washington DC this week under R M McElhinney chairman of the county committee. The remaining 450 Group 1 contracts will be forwarded soon. Groups 2 3 and 4 contracts totaling 300 were sent to the state board of review at Des Moines this week.
Sixty eight 950 pound steers sold to John Kubik of Traer for 11.10 dollars per hundredweight. The sale occurred this week near Keystone at the Franzen barn, with buyers and sellers engaging in a regional cattle lot transaction.
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