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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1940
Page
2
The Live stock Situation reports that 1940 demand for meats remains strong while 1941 marketings are set to fall, especially hogs. Cattle on feed in the corn belt drop about 3 percent, with feed grain supplies tighter and prices rising for slaughter cattle, likely lifting hog prices.
Retired local man Mr W H Winkenwerder praises Natex after weeks of constipated bowels and nerves, saying his sleep improved and strength returned. He urges others to visit Podzimer's Pharmacy for a sample and notes a $100 reward for honesty in advertising.
A verse where a narrator asks about historical food coloring choices before the carrot era. The speaker pairs curiosity with humor about salads and roasted meats, lamenting modern abundance versus earlier simple meals in rural life. The piece reflects a country woman’s voice from a New York context.
The Ames area home orchard cooperators invite fruit growers to the third annual field day on September 7 starting at 10 am at the horticultural farm buildings. A vineyard and fruit tour will run morning activities with a noon basket dinner and a speech session followed by tours of apple, stock, and soil management plots. A separate commercial apple growers field day is set for September 9 at the college orchards.
Cedar county farmer Richard Werndt sold 43 hogs weighing 217 pounds each at Chicago on Friday for 7.25 dollars per hundredweight the top price of the market.
The Agriculture Marketing Service reports al si ke clover seed output this year will rise about 38 percent from 1939 and 22 percent above the 1929-38 average, with an estimated 432,800 bushels produced. Acreage climbs mainly in Ohio, Indiana, and Oregon, while yields average 2.47 bushels per acre.
In Wahoo Nebraska Pegg Moore shows a 10 day old chick with four legs, sparking talk of novelty poultry for the family table where drumsticks are scarce. The unusual chick raises questions about biology and poultry farming in small towns.
A yard long bean grown by O B Sharp of 2811 First Avenue Cedar Rapids measured 45 inches, nine inches longer than its label. Sharp, who planted seeds from Mrs Florence Engle of Hedrick Iowa, displayed the pods among about fifty others from four hills. The pods resemble seersucker cloth with red beans at 2 inch intervals and change to black when fully grown.
The Agriculture Department will wait on Europe’s food blockade before fixed 1941 crop goals. Wheat seedings set. other major crops’ acreage decisions deferred. Blockade outcomes may shift production incentives and benefit payments, with about $775 million authorized for planting and soil conservation payments.
Ames hosts a music directors school for 4-H county girls club committee chairmen and Ames extension staff on Sept 10. Prof Tolbert MacRae of Iowa State College leads instruction with a Latin American theme for the upcoming year. District music training schools will follow the state event.
DECORAH The new county community building on the fair grounds will begin public use on Sept. 5 for an educational meeting and on Sept. 11 for township delegates to elect county committee men. Township committees and delegates to the county convention will be chosen Sept. 10.
The McGregor soil conservation program, part of flood control efforts, survived its first severe test after a 54 inch July rain. Emerson Wolfe led the project and reported conditions showing the system’s effectiveness amid McGregor’s record rainfall.
A practical note on feeding a family of five on twelve dollars weekly. The column promotes using tomatoes in multiple forms before season ends, encouraging readers to adapt the luncheon menu and improvise with available ingredients.
A reader's list shows sliced bananas cereal and eggs with toast coffee and milk for children. Includes deviled tomatoes stuffed cabbage creamed potatoes and apple turnovers with notes on white sauce and onion broiling techniques.
In Des Moines and nearby towns, rainfall records show a five decade high flood event. Detention reservoirs built by CCC and McGregor with SCS oversight reduced runoff and protected highways railroads and farmland. Land use changes and conservation practices cut erosion and sediment in inflow, giving a safety margin against heavier rains.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Kyetensky of 1342 Third street NW Cedar Rapids report a sunflower plant reaching 11 feet 2 inches in their garden along with several cotton stalks about 3 feet tall in boll.
Arden F Schulze sold his 160 acre farm located 234 miles southeast of Van Horne to Henry Grote for 150 dollars per acre. Schulze had lived there 20 years, the farm is well improved and 4 miles from a rural school.
Keystone Henry Junge purchased the KS acre Bieck farm one mile south of Luzerne from Equitable Life Assurance Society for 4750 dollars or 41.30 per acre. Robert Harder of Belle Plaine brokered the sale. Tenant Herman Sierk will continue farming until March 1 when Junge will move in. The rolling, well improved property lies on a gravel road.
Independence livestock sale totals $4 200 with 50 veal calves selling to $22.50 top and bulk at 14 to 18 dollars. Hogs 100 head sold, shoats average 110 pounds top at 8.25 each. Brood sows sold at 16.25 each. Cattle 135 head including Hereford heifer at 125.25 and steers at 42, 32.5, and 31.5 for 12 black steers.
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