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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1932
Page
7
November hog prices opened near the low in fifty years as heavier supplies and weak fresh pork trade weighed on markets. Prices fluctuated 2.75 to 3.25 with delivered 2.90 to 3.40, while winter run is forecast smaller and overall receipts fell sharply across major midwestern markets.
Advertisement touts HEM-ROID as an internal medicine to treat piles by correcting blood circulation. Dr J S Leonhardt allegedly tested it on 1000 patients with over 900 successes and offers a money back guarantee if misery persists. May Drug Co and other druggists endorse the product.
A fragmentary, humorous relic recounts a mishap with a woven tire and a boiled shirt. The narrator riffs on oversleeping and feverish attire, mentioning coffee cooling and hidden pins while lamenting hardships of earlier dress standards.
November 1931 report shows October hog slaughter totals falling to 454 579 head with shippers buying 67 097 head. Twelve markets received 1 832 426 hogs, down from 2 621 584 a year earlier, while hog prices hit a yearly low. Sheep receipts at Chicago totaled 296 208 as overall twelve markets carried 1 153 757 head.
Neighbors near Newport on the Graft farm hauled a load of wood for Ross Murray and his family. Murray suffers from a dog bite infection while Mrs Murray and four children are ill.
Clarence area residents aid Ingwer Christophersen in husking a 25 acre corn field with fifteen teams and wagons. Christophersen suffered a dislocated elbow last week and cannot work. Women serve a picnic dinner as the community helps.
Twenty three residents gathered Thursday afternoon at Mrs. John McShane's Paralta area residence to help finish the corn harvest.
A 4-H girls club organized at Spring Grove school south of Troy Mills with nine members. Officers include Esther Evers president Wilma Hagerman vice president Eleanor Evers secretary treasurer Blanche Evers historian Evelyn Price reporter. Leader Miss Daisy Chismore assisted by Mrs Clarence Evers. Next meeting December 10 at the Evers home to name the club.
On the Lawrence Floyd farm west of Urbana a fresh cow failed to fill the milk pail as four young pigs rushed her in the barnyard. The cows stepped aside and the pigs began to work, yielding only a scant supply for the pail.
Monticello Iowa farmer M A Kromminga eight miles southwest of Monticello has built a dual purpose device that works as a live stock chute and as a hand cart for hauling straw feed or other farm items. The chassis uses wheels from a junked dump rake with the rack detached and can rest on the axle or ground for loading and unloadings.
In Linn County No 3 Cow Test records for November 286 cows produced 402 pounds of milk and 18.7 pounds of butterfat per cow on average. B Martine’s 11 grade Guernseys led herds with 495 pounds milk and 26.1 butterfat. George Slater’s Holstein cow yielded 1779 pounds milk and 80.1 butterfat.
Rural mail carrier Dyrst Howard Dickson purchased the 80 acre farm known as the John Johnson place east of Pratt Creek church in Cedar township Tama county for 6500 from the Federal Land Bank of Omaha. The property is improved.
The twenty third annual Four County fair will run December 5 through 9 with judging demonstrations discussions and officer elections. L G Allbaugh Ames extension service will speak on agricultural outlook ES Olson will discuss the tax dollar Rex Beresford will judge livestock and speak on home grown seeds L C Burnett will discuss seed treatment and host a hybrid corn round table C V Holsinger Ames horticulturist will judge fruits and vegetables W R Whitfield will judge poultry exhibitors from Hardin Grundy Butler and Franklin counties are eligible to enter.
Dr L B Graham milk inspector Cedar Rapids announces a meeting of dairy product distributors Tuesday evening at City hall to design a definite program to promote use of milk cream butter and other dairy products Clyde Bechtelheimer of Waterloo secretary Town Creameries association and pene Dairy council will attend.
Farm auction results show corn at 17 cents a bushel at Mrs. John Ruff sale near Garwin while Spencer's Grove sale reports corn at 11 cents, oats 10, and hay 1.75 a ton. Greenblatt farm sale near North English features corn 15 to 14 cents, cows 18 to 30 per head, feeder pigs 3.50 to 4 per cwt, and four hundred chickens sold above market.
DES MOINES Iowa A R Corey longtime secretary of the Iowa State fair for twenty two years was elected president of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions at a Chicago meeting Fred A Chapman of Ionia Michigan was chosen vice president
TRAER A. R. McElhinney of Geneseo township, a leading northern Tama cattle feeder, purchased eighty white-face cattle weighing 560 to 580 pounds. They will be fattened on his Dysart area farm, with the deal arranged through a Cedar Rapids cattle company.
A passing locomotive is believed to have set fire to an 18 acre alfalfa field on the F F Cold farm near Lincoln south of Grundy Center on Wednesday. The owner fears the stand may die out with incoming cold weather and loss of the crop.
Mrs Arthur Meeks, a farm woman living east of Anamosa, sustained multiple neck dislocations Monday when she fell from a wagon. She is improving at present. Meanwhile estimates place the gypsy population in Great Britain at over 100000.
Union Stockyards Chicago reports an eight and a half dollar per hundredweight general average for 100 carloads of fat show cattle. Top prices include a $125 per pound record for a Texas Special grand champion steer and a $15.50 hundredweight Angus champion from Miles Iowa. Feeder cattle averaged $6.85 with Herefords leading. lambs topped at $18.25 for a Canadian bred Southdown pen. Bulls and other sires posted strong prices, with notable winners across Iowa, Indiana, Colorado, and Ontario breeders, reflecting healthy demand.
A closing out farm auction is planned for Tuesday December 6 two miles northeast of Springville by E. W. McGrew. The sale features equipment and inventory from the farm.
Marshall Wayland Farms junior champion Marmar Quality. Miller Kemp win junior bull calf with Bell Boy M. Holbert Horse Importing Company and B F Barber display top Belgian entries at the International. Holbert tops with two stallions in a five-stallion group. noted sires include Charles d'Eyne Walnut Arbor Mike Maple Grove Omer Marcus De Collier and Calvin De Schiervelde. Barber showcases Rex Valeur George Du Bois and Rex Donel.
Patrons of the Farmers Mutual Creamery in Monticello receive 24 cents a pound for butterfat in the first half of November, the highest in a year. The price rises one third from July’s 18 cents, while last year’s price was 35 cents.
DYSART Gragy and Sawyer ran a combine in the locality this season and finished threshing soy beans on Wednesday. More than 400 acres were harvested with yields from ten to thirty seven bushels per acre.
Auction announces 5 head of horses including bay gelding and mares aged 8 to 17 with weights around 1250 to 1600 pounds. 26 head of hogs and 30 bushels of fall wheat seed plus 8000 bushels of oats and hay in barn. Numerous implements and dairy equipment offered with free lunch at noon. Sale by E W McGrew at Exchange Bank of Springville in Lisbon Iowa, clerk W E Challis.
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