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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1939
Page
7
At the Linn Farm Bureau meeting in Marion 343 boys and girls enrolled in 4-H livestock projects, a county record. Of these, 305 completed projects valued at $29,826, with 125 club members exhibiting at fairs and achievement shows and $32,247.50 in premium money reported.
A farmer announces a closing out sale at the Hayen homestead located near Amber and Center Junction, northwest of Center Junction and west of Jones County Wame. The sale marks retirement from farming at the listed farm site.
Auction notice for December 20 at noon listing 15 head Wereford Shorthorn cows eight fresh with calves, seven heavy springers, five horses with multiple geldings and weights, 8 tons hay in barn, 25 tons alfalfa plus 20 tons mixed hay, chickens, farm machinery, lunch stand. Owner Lee Bebee. Auctioneers Anamosa Monticello State Bank, Clerk.
Special to The Gazette Earlville The Ben Lubben 80 acre farm north of Earlville has been sold to Clarence J Drees at 135 dollars an acre. Drees will take possession March 1.
Elgin Farmers Dairy reports year ended Oct 31 1939 saw an average net butterfat price of 28.11 cents per pound. 596 096 pounds of butter made from 479 899 pounds butterfat fed by 2421 overrun percent. Manufacturing cost fell to 1.49 cents per pound due to new machinery and fibre bulk packing. Officers reelected include Robert Wilson Sr president Fleet Frieden secretary treasurer Fred Schnieder and B H Brackin directors.
Eight Jones county 4 H club boys guided by county club agent James F Kearns will attend the annual 4 H boys short course at Ames from December 27 to 29. The named youths include Melvin Sievers Richard Eichhorn Marsin Seehusen Dale Danneman Merle Janson Dale Newman Richard Carlana and Willis Fairbanks with trips funded by the Jones County Fair Association and the Holstein Breeders Association for one recipient.
Six Chicago and Davenport firms file for an injunction in Sangamon county court alleging interference by the International Hod Carriers and Teamsters and Chauffeurs unions with rural electrification line work in more than 40 Illinois counties. The suit names locals and officers and cites projects in Shelby Calhoun Scott Christian Morgan St Clair and other counties. Earlier a federal judge granted a permanent injunction to out of state firms to stop similar union activity in southern Illinois.
At Mrs Florence Berns farm near West Union oats brought 40 cents a bushel, 3 cents above new corn and 5 cents above old corn. New corn 37 cents, old corn 35. Work horses 50 to 91 dollars. Gifts weighing 186 pounds sold for 850 to 1050 dollars. Feeder pigs 75 to 100 pounds 650 each. 880-pound steers 70.50 a head.
At the Fayette county Farmers Union annual meeting Herman Jacobson of West Union was elected president. Herman Bower of Elgin became vice president with Ted Reisner of Hawkeye as secretary and treasurer and Albert Stahr of West Union as county councilor. The group adopted resolutions opposing the AAA program, favoring a graduated land tax and supporting the cost of production bill senate file 570 and the Frazier Lemke refinancing bill offering 3 percent interest 1 percent for interest and 1 percent for principal
Government report shows exports of corn for the week ended Dec 9 at 362000 bushels, bringing total exports since Dec 1 to about 6500000 bushels. Prices listed include No 2 yellow at Baltimore 73 5/8 cents, Argentine corn fob 58 1/2 cents, and No 2 white African at 49 1/8 to 49 1/2 cents.
Don Radda, eight and a half miles northwest of Washington, earned top honors at the WHO corn contest in Des Moines by winning the largest number of exhibits, first for longest ear, and third for heaviest ear.
Maquoketa farmers resealed more than 98000 bushels of 1937 and 1938 crop corn in Jackson county according to Charles Van Gorder chairman of the county AAA committee. Additional corn was delivered to the Commodity Credit Corporation and placed in steel storage bins throughout the county.
W Harry King of Washington DC inspected the Linn county AAA offices in Cedar Rapids on Monday and complimented the county committee on office condition. King is director of county agricultural conservation activities in the north central region.
A series of farm auctions listed with dates from Tuesday December 19 to Wednesday January 3. Sellers include Ed Man, F. W. Bear, Gen N Graves & Son, Dorr Rawson, L E Evans, H H Hagen, Tiernan and Sullivan, Freeman D Mason, Lynch & Brown, Lehdigh & Chandler, Carl McArthur, and Fred Wawkins Estate. Locations span near Ryan, Martelle, Blairstown, Alburnett, Shellsburg, Amber, Cedar Rapids, Mount Vernon, Clarence, Center Point, and Cedar Rapids.
Donald H. McCrabb becomes the first Washington county farmer to buy land under the Farm Security Administration tenant purchase plan. He bought 100 acres four miles northwest of West Chester from A H. Corcoran for 11,500 with a 40 year amortization loan from the FSA and a rehabilitation allotment. The plan includes 50,000 in county allotment this year, with three more farms under option and one to be selected, from five of 141 applicants.
Fayette C T A No 2 and South Jones Cow Test associations released November results. Fayette group of 278 cows averaged 455 pounds milk and 19.7 pounds butterfat with notable cows over 50 pounds butterfat. Anamosa test herd of 281 cows averaged 498 pounds milk and 18.8 pounds butterfat. high herd produced 23.4 pounds butterfat from 600 pounds milk.
Ninety five dairymen from Washington county and nearby townships attended winter educational conferences in Washington and Wellman. Floyd Johnson of Ames spoke on dairy feeds and announced future sessions with topics on breeding dairy diseases sanitation hay and pasture management for dairy herds and speakers including Arthur Porter and Dr K A Stouder.
The Institute of American Meat Packers warns that hog supplies have returned to normal, prompting concern over price levels. Eastern Iowa hogs traded at 5.10 per hundredweight, valuing a 220 pound prime hog at 1.22 dollars, with broader implications for farmers and town merchants. Storage pork and lard figures show shifts, while a Des Moines meeting led by Ralph Smith of the state Grange gains importance for farm leaders.
In La Porte City a giant white radish over a foot long and eight inches thick, dug by William Lesh, is on display this week. Unusually mild weather has kept garden stuff from freezing at this late date.
Mason says nearly 200000 Iowa farmers join cooperatives to market products or buy supplies. He notes that Town cooperatives handled over 120 million dollars in business last year at the fourth annual stockholders conference of the Omaha bank for cooperatives.
Clarence W G Smith a farmer near Clarence sold a team of Belgian horses to Staughton Brothers of Osco NL for 300 dollars.
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