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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1936
Page
11
Eastern Iowa hatcherymen fret over a 'licking' market trend since September. They expect to shift chick sales earlier to February and March next season and push fall hatchings more, due to high feed costs and drought induced glut. Turkeys show high cold storage but cheaper prices expected at Christmas. turkey shipments to New York hit a record Thanksgiving move.
Des Moines AP report shows 55 Iowa corn loans granted since late last month at 55 cents, covering 41,223 bushels. With corn around a dollar, borrowers are scarce. most loans go to farmers who need to hold corn for feed next year or similar reasons.
Morley H D Smith feeder farm, one mile north of Morley, sold twenty two 960 pound Hereford yearlings in Chicago at 11.75 dollars per hundredweight.
A reflective column celebrates the Christmas season from shop windows to rural schools. It recalls family preparations, tree decorations with a Michigan spruce, lights, and holly, and the joy of giving over material wealth, noting the shared warmth beyond children’s gifts. The piece ends with a call to cultivate generosity and communal spirit.
Lost Nation chapter elects John D. Scott as president with Gus Behrens as vice president. Other officers include Alvin Mohl Otto Hahn Lloyd Wulf and Adolph Herst man as directors secretary treasurer and county director. Women’s auxiliary picks Mona Kiel as president Sophia Mohr as vice president Lilly Wulf as secretary treasurer Dena Mohr as chaplain and Winifred Clapp as reporter.
The federal bureau of agricultural economics reports 400,000 bushels of Argentine corn imported during the week ending December 11, total imports at 450,000 bushels. Argentine corn shipments to the United States reached 1,354,000 bushels, with Canadian barley in bond at Duluth exceeding 3,000,000 bushels and Canadian wheat in bond at Duluth at 2,758,500 bushels.
A Washington bureau report details 7 955 miles of Iowa rural primary roads surfaced and breaks down 8 278 miles statewide by surfacing type. It notes 331 867 miles of rural primary roads nationally were surfaced by end of 1935 with 279 807 miles surfaced.
Prices for soybeans increased 10 cents per bushel between November 3 and December 1 per the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The Dec 1 average was 1.25 a bushel for thresher-run beans, up from 0.70 last year, 0.85 in 1934, and the 5-year 0.92 average. Overall crop quality seen as fair with 55 percent sold by Dec 1 and November movement to mills the largest on record. In Illinois 60-65 percent sold, North Carolina about 20 percent.
The Benton county Farm Bureau credited heavily to county women and girls for its top national agricultural program. Miss Ann Nygaard led training, 4-H clubs, and school outreach. 128 local leaders and 129 district co-operators worked with 2,714 women across 17 townships, reaching 811 homes.
Mrs. Joel Clark chairs a county wide home project for women noting 1936 as the best year. Twenty two township chairmen and 124 local leaders and cooperators held 418 follow ups reaching 1,809 women and 2,514 total attendance. 1,471 homes were reached, highest in the state. The report shows increases in consumer buying interest and family living changes, with funds on hand and premiums totaling 311.46 and expenditures 131.14 leaving 180.32.
New wind charger plants have been installed on the Kasser farm north of Walker and on the Zabortsky farm three miles southeast of here. Frank Zabortsky is erecting a 70 foot tower for his generator.
C B Finley a Minneapolis field man for the National Guernsey Breeders association and C Y Cannon head of the dairy division at Ames will speak in Cedar Rapids next Friday afternoon. The district Guernsey meeting is set for 1 30 p m at the chamber of commerce.
Two hundred local leaders in women s home project work attended training schools in Linn county last week led by Miss Lucille Gove home demonstration agent They will run neighborhood study groups this week The buying branch is first of four topics this year under foods and nutrition with the theme cutting costs but raising standards
Tom Carris was reelected president of the Washington county service station cooperative sponsored by the Farm Bureau at a stockholders meeting. Directors are Tom Carris W E Frame John A Stewart Carl T Anderson and Lloyd Walker. Manager Glen Holden said volume rose 58 percent last year and $1000 in dividends was distributed.
New York City reports smoked and cooked hams arriving from eleven countries during the week ended December 11. Poland provided the largest lot with 178 218 pounds of cooked ham. other sources include Czechoslovakia Denmark Estonia Germany Holland Hungary Irish Free State Lithuania and Poland with Argentina and Canada also sending smaller shipments. Polish and Irish hams are prominent and competitively priced. imports of sausage are substantial, catering to holiday demand and priced above domestic products.
M. F. Dvorsky and Sons of Johnson County received 10.10 dollars per cwt for sixty seven hogs averaging 271 pounds at a Chicago market sale on Thursday.
Tipton Harlan Vincent of Cedar Valley received 10.25 dollars per hundredweight Thursday in Chicago for a carload of purebred May furrowed Poland China hogs averaging 251 pounds.
Auction lineup lists farmers selling at multiple sites over four days. Cornette near Marion and Cleghorn near Norway kickoff Tuesday, followed by Joe Reid near Center Point and others near Alburnett Kalona and Newhall Wednesday, Lisbon Thursday, and Tipton Friday.
The Washington County Cow Test association reported 284 cows in November with an average 560 pounds of milk and 23.9 pounds of butterfat. The high herd, 13 Holsteins owned by A. C. Gingerich, averaged 1,194 pounds of milk and 39.9 pounds of butterfat. A grade Guernsey owned by E. P. Hayes and Son topped individual records with 1,440 pounds of milk and 89.3 pounds of butterfat.
Fred Hink of West Branch reports feeder steers priced at 12.50 per hundredweight. A load weighing 910 pounds is offered at the quoted rate for buyers seeking cattle input.
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