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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1934
Page
6
A Chicago market report shows 1934 cattle receipts at 2 733 000 head valued at 123 373 000, hogs 6 491 000 head valued at 66 925 000, and sheep plus lambs averaging higher prices than 1933. Truck arrivals rose and direct shipments exceeded prior years, while overall stockyard totals fell from 1877 levels amid feed shortages and higher costs.
A 1934 outlook notes May 19 Chicago area fire losses near 5 million and ongoing grain and feed shortages. Drought reduces livestock and feed to historic lows, prompting lean stock marketing and substitution of other feedstuffs. Chicago stockyards strike disrupts car trading. government slaughter programs and hog purchases trim later market supply. millions paid to cooperating farmers under corn hog reduction.
The Gazette reports a first batch of second checks paid in Washington, with details on payment timing and amounts, including a noted error about butter prices and a correction to the reported raise. The article mentions farm payments and state figures, and references a Fortre Wutan Creamery and local producers.
Ames economists forecast higher egg prices this winter to spring and higher feed costs. Farmers may profit by keeping top flocks and feeding balanced rations with protein and minerals. Emphasizes milk scraps, tankage, lime, grit, and farm-grown feeds with extension guidance No 200.
A survey of 1307 Iowa youths in 13 towns and surrounding farms finds about 61 percent of farm youths and 62 percent of urban youths not currently educated would return to school if suitable courses were available. Among respondents ages 15 to 29, average schooling duration was 16.0 years for rural youths and 17.3 years for urban youths.
Sand Springs Farmers Mutual Creamery pays 34 cents per pound for November butterfat. Manager Ld Cox confirms the price and notes steady demand from patrons.
Iowa Livestock Exchange Cedar Rapids hosts a Friday sale on December 28. Anamose consignments offer a Saturday sale on December 25. G J Byerly closes out a sale on December 3 at 242 miles northeast of Lisbon. Midway Sale Co presents an Angus auction on January 2 at Columbus Junction.
Southern commissioners report New Deal crop control put millions into farmers pockets in 1934 across Virginia to Louisiana. Georgia Alabama Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Florida and Tennessee saw higher crop values and incomes with better farm conditions and plans for 1935.
About 80 percent of the alfalfa seed crop has moved from growers this year, faster than usual. By November 6 prices to growers averaged 17.25 per 100 pounds, higher than recent years. Quality reports show 31 percent good to very good, 15 percent fair, 32 percent poor, with price gains mainly before October 20.
Leonar Talcott of Randalla Fayette county 4-H member had the high cow in Fayette County Cow Test Assn No 3 for November with 118 pounds butterfat. Tester Robert Stohr notes the cow fed 67 pounds ensilage 24 pounds 10 percent dairy feed and 16 pounds skim milk daily. The Nov 305 cows on test averaged 521 pounds milk and 20.5 pounds butterfat. Carl Miche of Maynard led the month herd with 914 pounds milk and 342 pounds butterfat.
After a month idle the Midwest Packing Company in Albia Iowa reopened with 124 head of cattle from Minnesota received as the first installment of 1700 head to be processed at the Albia plant the drought era facility aims to restart operations promptly.
Iowa farm boys at the 4-H short course were urged to undertake corn breeding as a project. Prof H D Hughes announced seed for plots including four inbred lines and two hybrids will be provided by the Farm Crops department. Bags for seed selection and crossing will be issued. Registration neared 500 with Boone and Blackhawk counties providing large delegations. Lewis A Nelson of Goldfield was first to register.
Paul C. Taff of Iowa State College Extension and the Iowa Planning board says part time farming could help unemployment in Iowa cities. He notes surveys across multiple cities show over 70 percent of part time farmers moved to small tracts to grow food and earn a decent living while not all family heads are employed full time. He argues we may need part time farming or low wage full time work as industry recovers.
DES MOINES Iowa agricultural officials debated a quarantine on Nebraska alfalfa amid a feed shortage and weevil outbreak concerns. State Secretary Ray Murray and entomologist C J Drake met at the capitol but made no decision.
A nostalgic verse recalls a masked romance in a frosty window scene. A fair damosel, a handsome knight, and stringed imagery evoke pre cinema dreams and private imagination before modern mass entertainment.
Johnson county Farm Bureau will honor 4 H club boys and girls at its annual meeting in Iowa City Saturday. Nineteen girls and twenty four boys earned awards for 1934. Awards presented by Miss Rose C. Reeve and Emil Meyer. Joe Caputo named assistant county agent. Allen Kline to speak. Scott township play to entertain.
Washington AAA officials said extension of compulsory crop controls to crops beyond tobacco and cotton could occur if farmer demand rises. The Bankhead cotton and Kerr-Smith tobacco programs will continue for another year after grower support. Voluntary programs lose traction as compulsory plans gain momentum, with Kerr-Smith appearing as a model for other crops if adopted.
The article notes Marco Polo the Italian adventurer is said to have discovered ice cream in Japan and other parts of Asia during the 13th century.
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