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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1934
Page
2
A midsummer drought cut profits at Iowa fairs. A. R. Corey reports 25 fairs profited in 1934 vs 40 in 1933, with 51 losses down from 76 fairs. State aid remains $105,000, and county aid totals $42,869, expected to rise to $47,085 in 1935.
Des Moines AP reports the twenty seventh annual Iowa Fair Managers convention opens with discussions on complimentary tickets and the role of county fairs in agriculture. Key speakers include John G Meyer, Senator Charles E Malone, and Leo C Dailey. The program features reports, officer elections, an afternoon business session, and a Tuesday banquet with Gov. Clyde L. Herring. The state agricultural association convention follows Wednesday with fair board officers in charge and congressional district director selections at the final meeting.
A sequence of farm and public sales listed by date and location. Sellers include William Pflughaupt, Walker and Dolan, Mrs F A Kirk, H G McConaughy, Frank L Stone, M Feyerabend, Milton Squiers, J F Heefner, Charles J Voorhies, John Trojorsky, Theo Martin. Locations cover Cedar Rapids Prairieburg Center Point Marple Toddville Ohn Norway Mount Vernon. Dates span December 11 to December 20 with multiple venues.
Ames Iowa planning board reports rising soy bean oil use in paint and varnish supports growth of the state soy bean milling industry. Acreage has surged from 500 in 1919 to over 400 000 by 1934, with plants at Cedar Rapids and Centerville and calls to back existing mills rather than new ones.
An Ames Iowa notice shows government funds to start cornstalk product manufacture. It records a corporate meeting in Cedar Rapids on the January 8 filing, listing director business and cashier W. R. Lindfreine as official, published December 16, 1934.
Domestic grain markets remained firm through the week ended Dec 7 led by strong demand for feed grain and lower new crop prospects in the southern hemisphere. Wheat and corn rose, rye and flax gained, and Canadian and Argentinian imports supported prices. receipts were light while shipments ran well ahead of them.
Soy beans sold for $1.50 a bushel and soy bean hay at $16 a ton at the Elmer Thode farm sale two and a half miles west of Arlington. Corn brought $0.80 a bushel. Shredded fodder $9 a ton. Horses reached $154. Ewes $7.25. Cows topped at $4.50 and $37.00.
At a sale near Wheatland Dr Charles Heckard and Richard Minnaert sold corn at 92 cents a bushel, alfalfa hay 14 dollars a ton, yearling colts 60 and 50 dollars, suckling colts 30 and 32.50, cows 20 dollars, pigs two to 2.40 each, and a buck sheep four dollars. Auctioneer E J Hopkins led the event.
DES MOINES AP reports state Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray expects 15 to 20 million bushels of new corn to be sealed as the crop becomes eligible for storage Saturday. The rate is 55 cents a bushel on the farm under the revised federal sealing program, up from 45 cents. About 10 million bushels of old corn have been resealed.
Patrons of the Coggon Creamery received 32 cents per pound for first half of northern butterfat and for last half of October butterfat. The price is higher than last year when butterfat sold for 23 cents. Production this year also extends the prior year's output.
A country woman offers practical frugal gift ideas for Christmas. She suggests fruit cake in cans, eggs wrapped in paper, jars of preserved fruits and vegetables, dressed poultry as gifts, nut meats in cello, popcorn, and bitter sweet bouquets, emphasizing gifts from the heart.
Four members of the agricultural economics staff at Town State College are slated to speak at the American Farm Economics Association’s twenty-fifth annual meeting in Chicago from December 26 to 29. Acting department head Dr T W Schultz will discuss Agricultural Adjustment administration and recovery. Geof Shepherd presents The Incidence of the Processing Tax on Hogs. Dr W G Murray discusses Research on Rural Appraisal Problems. Prof Millard Peck leads Part time Farming Near Industrial Areas.
Sigourney Keokuk county Farm Bureau receives 500 prize for its year book in a national contest held in Chicago. The ten year entry marks first time entered. year book committee members are Mrs. Frank Brown Harry Shanafelt and A H Bakehouse.
Ad promoting Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a safe diuretic for weak kidneys and irritated bladder. Claims help with backache, getting up nights, puffy eyes, leg cramps and moist palms. Urges asking druggist for the 35 cent box, notes Haarlem Holland origin.
In Washington Ia at the annual county Farm Bureau meeting Joe Knotek was named president Wade Gardner vice president Lester Macon secretary Earl Smith treasurer H L Walker named 4-H chairman Mrs Cloyd Knapp girls 4-H chair Mrs Homer Birney women’s home project chair and board directors including Alva Miller James Gardner Ed Hotle Wade Gardner Lloyd Foster Robert Nicola Richard Stephens H C Finney Leslie Gates John Laithly and Max Waterhouse. Maquoketa speaker Allen Kline to address Jackson county meeting December 18.
DeWitt Clinton cattlemen plan a beef dinner at 6 30 p m with R C Pollock of the Chicago Livestock and Meat Board as principal speaker. Clinton county exhibitors at the Chicago International Livestock Show won prize money with champion Hereford car lot and top placings in Hereford and Angus classes.
Frank Bliss county president and Maurice Soults county agent attend the National Farm Bureau convention in Nashville Tennessee representing Keokuk county Farm Bureau.
Paul Quaas was elected president, Dean Thomas vice president, Leila Flitsch secretary, and Carl Rockwood reporter at a recent meeting of the Auburn Happy Workers 4 H club.
Special to The Gazette reports Tama County records at the Toledo courthouse show more than 155 000 bushels of corn have been sealed to date with 136 sealings recorded.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports improved world wool prospects with increased U S and European buying and expanded woolen manufacturing. Boston markets see higher volumes while prices show little change and no material price advance expected through April 1935 due to ample supplies.
President Edward A. O Neal of the American Farm Bureau urges further devaluation of the commodity dollar to restore prosperity for U S farmers. He outlines a ten point program including equal farm and industrial prices, lower interest rates for agriculture, and broader distribution cost cuts, with Roosevelt Hull and Warren present at the Nashville convention.
A new barn was constructed on the Dale Floyd farm located three and a half miles west of Arlington, marking a notable addition to the rural property.
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