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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1932
Page
8
Iowa Livestock Shippers Sentiment delegates condemn member use of co operatives as clubs to press packer bids. Speakers urge housecleaning and stronger marketing, with focus on eduction of members and better director oversight across Mason City and Ames districts.
Des Moines report shows hogs selling at the lowest prices in over fifty years while packers push pork into consumption rather than storage. November stockpiles fell 26 million pounds or 6 percent, with year over year gains in some items offset by long term averages.
The fragment narrates two roads, Cedar Rapids to Iowa City and Cedar Rapids to Center Point, counting curves and changes of direction. It ponders which road is more crooked, which lasts longer, and if either will outlast bonds until redemption.
On a farm four miles east of Oolwein, Phillip Mattlee notes a new emphasis on White Pekin ducks. A four year flock grew to 180 birds from 193 hatched, with care including staged brooding, bread and corn feed, and three daily meals. The piece details husbandry methods and ongoing poultry discussion.
Anamosa Iowa report shows ten girls in the Madison Tru Blu 4 H club remodeled eleven bedrooms three living rooms a dining room and four kitchens during the year. Ten of eleven completed the first year home furnishing project and forty two articles were made or refinished saving about thirty six dollars. The club organized this year and demonstrated to about one hundred people while adopting health measures for the members.
Hay sold for 348 dollars at the Reisner farm sale near West Union. Oats brought 15 cents a bushel and corn 15 cents. Cattle averaged thirty dollars, horses forty dollars. A drove of 140 pound pigs averaged fifty cents a pound.
Pictured are most new Linn County Farm Bureau officers and directors chosen at the Wednesday meeting. Roscoe Blinks of Marion is president with H A W Koch of Alburnett as vice president and Clarence Neal of Mount Vernon as treasurer. Other officers include E R McGrew secretary and Mrs Frank Beddl publicity chair. Several directors from townships are listed. Miss Stella Forrest and Ralph Little were not in the photograph.
Waterloo dairymen did not increase production as predicted in fall with stable consumption and larger than expected withdrawals from storage. Weather hints further curtailment. butter prices rose with a forecast of continued gains in December. The Iowa Creameries Association secretary Clyde Bechtelheimer cites October butterfat at 21.96 cents per pound, up from September and well below 1931 levels, with top handlers Oelwein and Monticello listing large fat amounts.
Professor Clyde Tull of Cornell college will judge the county wide drama event organized by township Farm Bureau groups in Cedar county. Contests run December 15 16 and 17 with Center Red Oak Inland Cass and Linn townships performing December 15 in the high school auditorium. Springdale and Fremont towns at Springdale school December 16. Dayton Fairfield and Rochester townships at Stanwood school December 17.
Paul Burson, longtime Story county agent and former Delaware county agent, resigns to take a farm manager role with the Bankers Life Insurance company of Des Moines.
Plans are being completed by the vocational agriculture students at Vinton High School for the annual corn poultry and egg show to be held February 16 17 and 18 in the high school gymnasium. Lyle Crisman is general secretary with Newell Erwin and Ralph Skoog in charge of the corn department Gale Johnson and Robert Thompson in charge of the poultry exhibits and Francis Reiss and Glenn Beresford in charge of eyes. Judges include Professor Eldredge Ames farms crops department and secretary of the Iowa State Corn show and W M Vernon Ames poultry specialist.
Mount Vernon jobless farmer Joe Caraway, living four miles west of Mount Vernon, ill for weeks and with a home burned earlier, received corn picking help from eighteen neighbors on Saturday. Helpers included Ollie Duncan, Alvin Russell, Edgar Neal, Clarence Neal, Myron Neal, Robert Beckman, Lester Caraway, Thomas Armstrong, Mervyn and Austin Armstrong, Leo Mitchell, Merrill Hoffman, Than Dean, Don Goodyear, Jess Travis, Roy Elkin, Clarence Saunders and Oscar Haesler. Mrs Caraway and Mesdames Armstrong, Elkin, and Peet provided dinner at Clarence Saunders home.
The first 4 H girls club in western Jackson county held its organization meeting Monday at Hans Skott’s home. Mina Frances Walker was elected president with Hilda Skott as vice president Signe Skott as secretary and treasurer. Mrs M B Whiker leads the group and Velma Skott acts as assistant leader. The clothing project will be undertaken this year.
Des Moines lenders should form a state committee to aid farm owners in temporary receiverships while boosting farm product prices. Prof. Murray of Ames outlined a twofold plan for creditor and farmer cooperation, with insurers leading the effort and banks and investors providing support.
A consignment sale at DeClow barn on Friday December 16 and a 55 acre farm sale on Saturday December 17 near Cedar Rapids are announced by J L Drahos who holds about a quarter of the mortgages. Professor Murray urges cooperative action between creditors and debtors as many mortgages are at risk due to low farm income after years 1921 to 1930 left a small liquidated group.
Ralph E. Ammon of Milwaukee praised the state fair as the greatest educational exhibit in the state at the Des Moines agriculture convention. He argued fairs are educational institutions not profit driven and criticized plans to suspend the Iowa state fair despite it returning $3 for every dollar of cost.
Charles E F Hearst president of the Iowa Farm Bureau federation will address the Delaware county Farm Bureau annual meeting on December 19 in Manchester as announced by County Agent Kermit Huehn.
Oxford Junction Iowa firm begins dress ing poultry for market this winter hiring thirty or more persons for work.
Clarence Shipping association sold seventy three 238 pound hogs and forty nine 230 pound hogs on Tuesday for three dollars per hundredweight.
A health ad promises rapid relief from rheumatic pain and inflammation using Allenii a non opiate formula. It claims to reduce uric acid within 24 hours and offers a money back guarantee through May Drug Co Podzimek Pharmacy and other major druggists.
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