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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1932
Page
3
Market reviewers cite farmers need for ready cash for Christmas as a factor in the hog price slump. Large runs of direct hogs last Monday and heavy poultry stocks pressured buying centers, with top hogs around 2.20 and weights up to 2.70, while feeder pigs sold 2.50 to 2.75 amid many small consignments.
The Farm Editor reflects on December price trends with slight wheat gains and low corn at Chicago around 20 cents for No 3 yellow. Hog producers feed heavier weights as market prophets expect larger January February runs. Beef cows drop to a record low, while canners and cutters struggle to cover costs. veal calves and lambs face cheap prices, butterfat improves seasonally, and eggs respond to past supply curtailment.
Ill health sale listing 40 acre farm to rent with live stock including 15 head cattle 14 hogs and 3-1 team of bay mares. Machinery such as Robinson manure spreader wagon disc plow and cultivator plus 300 bushels corn and 8 tons fodder. Auction at the farm 1 pm on December 1 40 acres located 5 miles north of Cedar Rapids or 14 miles south of Center Point on highway 11.
Inventory by the Benton county board of supervisors shows a total valuation drop of 6 189 60 from 1931. The 201 acre farm is now valued at 100 per acre down from 125 reflecting lower grain and livestock prices while improvements stay at 80 000. The change reduces overall land and personal property values compared with 1931.
Mount Vernon staged Hiring a Teacher in District No. 4 Frog Hollow an original play by Herbert Hogle produced Tuesday evening at C. W. West home. Performers included Lee Stinger Ben Neal Merton Kepler and Miss Margaret Kepler with a chalk talk by Miss Nama Lathe Cornell College art department music by Howard Neal and Adolph Biderman and an oyster stew.
Special to The Gazette Des Moines Iowa The State Fair shows a net profit of 916485 for 1902 through 1932 with two loss years in 1931 and 1932 totaling 130833 The report notes state appropriations for buildings and insurance premiums and shows improved efficiency with a 25 percent cost retrenchment over the two years ending 1932.
At the Union Stockyards Chicago a weekly horse sale saw no rail shipping for the first time. One hundred sixty head were offered and sold with demand strongest for medium priced farm chunks weighing about 1,400 pounds. Top teams sold $275 and individual horses brought $65 to $125, with common chunks $30 to $60 and plugs as low as $15.
E. E. Pearson and Miss Pearl Ehlers organized twelve night schools for the locality. Men study farm management and women study clothing. Four groups performed readings music and dramatizations at the kickoff meeting.
Forty head of cattle including Guernseys sold from 14 to 33 a head while calves brought 10 and 11 at the Harry Evert and Ed Sigfred sale ten miles northwest of Manchester. Sheep brought 2.60 to 3.60, twelve shooks 4 to 5, corn 14 1 2 and 15 cents, oats 12 to 13, barley 19 14 cents per bushel, hay 2 a ton. E J Hopkins of Manchester was auctioned.
Hopkinton Farmers' Creamery paid patrons for November butterfat at 24 cents a pound, 3.5 cents higher than October. The move reflects a continued rise in dairy prices and recognizes farmer contributions to the cooperative.
One hundred commercial samples of corn for the Vinton corn poultry and egg show have been collected by the EnSgeens class of the Vinton agriculture department. Samples come from nine townships, weighed in 35 pound lots, and stored in a dry place. Moisture content will be checked again before the February 15 to 18 event.
Eastern Iowa livestock auction notes 576 head sold last week and 24 202 to date this year. For Monday December 26 cattle sheep hogs and horses listed with white faced calves stock cattle milk cows and a flock of ewes brood sows including 14 yearling Duroc males. Also junk farming tools and some horses.
Ames Iowa announces Farm and Home Week short course February 6 to 11 with daily mass meetings at 11 am. Speakers include Dr Edmund Brunner on rural social trends, M L Wilson on the domestic allotment plan and agricultural planning, H A Wallace on international relations and agriculture, and T W Schultz on the farm price tariff effects.
Grundy Center Manning Howell, county agent since February 1, 1930, resigns to accept a similar role in Franklin county succeeding W. B. Hamilton. Hamilton recently left to become farm manager for an insurance firm.
KEWANEE Illinois farmers near coal mines trade corn for coal bushel for bushel at the mine. Heavy haul costs push some to burn corn, while others prefer the trade. Some use coal for home heating and burn corn in tank heaters.
A ton of pork sausage was produced at the Un employed Relief club headquarters in Waterloo from 2675 pounds of live hogs donated by Grundy county farmers Henry Kruse C. C. Alexander Henry Poe and J. C. Dicken as payment for corn husking this fall. Some of the meat will go to members cutting and sawing wood near Waterloo.
In Vinton Benton county the first session of the adult farmers night school, sponsored by the Vinton high school agriculture department, drew twenty five attendees. Howard T. Miller led the lesson on profitable poultry production citing feed, vitamins, minerals, straw loft housing, and green feed as essentials. The next class on dairy feeding is set for January 11.
Waterloo AP Rath Packing Co reports 1 207 000 animals slaughtered during the just closed year at the annual stockholders meeting led by President John W Rath.
Iowa beekeepers defend a $3,000 annual state appropriation for bee inspection against a proposed repeal in an omnibus bill. J G Jessup warns cutting the fund would harm a $3,000,000 industry, noting beekeepers manage 300 to 1,500 hives and produce up to 75 tons of honey yearly.
A farm sale five miles north of Cedar Rapids hosted by Mrs. Fred Helman is planned for Tuesday. The notice argues for continued state beekeeping support, citing gains in honey production, disease control, and pollination benefits to crops, urging efficient funding to sustain agriculture.
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