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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1943
Page
9
The Vinton Produce company building was destroyed by a Wednesday fire of undetermined origin. Losses included $20,000 in eggs and $60,000 in dressed poultry, with 100 workers left unemployed. Insurance expected to cover most damages. no injuries reported.
A list of farm auctions with closing dates and sellers across Iowa. H J Huss at Alburnett, William J Bailey near Morley, Walker Livestock Exchange near Stanwood, Iowa Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids, plus multiple notices in Marion Urbana Tipton Cedar Rapids Mt. Vernon and more. Listings include closing out events for assorted buyers.
Des Moines announces Miss Marian Edwards of Ames to the naval reserve as a lieutenant junior grade. She has worked with the Iowa State College agricultural extension service and earned a master of science from Columbia University. Edwards will report to the naval training school at Northhampton, Massachusetts, on January 13 after graduating from Iowa State in 1930.
A Chicago dispatch reports that 7.08 percent of hogs slaughtered under federal inspection in 1943 were retained for tuberculosis, down from 7.9 percent in 1942. About 4,030,207 hogs were tubercular, with estimated losses near 4 million dollars including state and city inspections. The report cites complacency in flock owners as a major obstacle to reducing losses in poultry and swine.
Ames extension forester Odell Julander urges selecting and cutting fence posts in winter to dry properly, resist insects and disease, and be ready in spring. He notes heartwood durability, split versus round posts, tool care, bark removal, and four months seasoning with layered piles and a protective roof.
Otis Tuttle, president of the Benton County Farm Bureau, reports the resignation of Laura Holst Extension Home Economist for the county. Her departure becomes effective Feb 1 or when a successor is named. She will stay with her parents, Nic and Mrs Holst, farmers near Center Junction, for the remainder of winter.
Washington officials from the Office of Price Administration will meet January 13 at the Morrison hotel in Chicago with hog raisers and packers' representatives to discuss the ceiling price regulation on live hogs.
Machinery in demand at Bernard Soebakken auction near Waukon with a tractor and plow selling for 768 dollars and others: milking machine 197 dollars, binder 81, drill 91, side delivery rake 65, hay loader 51, cream separator 31, harness 56 a set. Agricultural commodities traded with oats 75.14 cents per bushel, corn 77.4 cents, hay 11 dollars per ton. live stock included a team of horses 150 dollars, feeder pigs 16.50 each, cows 6150 to 75 dollars, calves 28.
A Washington report shows Iowa commercial hatcheries produced 92,000 baby chicks in November. For January through October, Iowa hatched 103,758 chicks, with 88,871 in the same period in 1942. National hatchery output in November fell 7 percent to 23,533,000.
Ames extension meats specialist C. W. McDonald urged earlier hog butchering on town farms. He warned curing must occur in cold weather and improper warm storage risks sour hams. A new publication Home Butchering in Iowa offers cutting guides, curing methods, and canning and lard rendering tips.
An unsigned Des Moines statehouse story quoted Clyde Spry criticizing Board of Control practices on state farms at Anamosa Independ ence Fort Madison and Mt Pleasant. The piece noted yields and topography while urging fair soil saving and conservation efforts ahead of a January 12 conference with the state conservation committee.
Henry Boesenberg of Mt. Vernon winters 84 head of yearling steers on silage and hay and will feed them on grass next summer. The 1944 emphasis in pork production shifts to breeding efficiency and pigs raised to market weight with good feed and management of pregnant sows.
MAYNARD Dr. Walter C. Stewart state veterinary inspector died Dec. 26 in Dubuque where he had been hospitalized since last winter for tuberculosis. Burial was at Maynard Thursday. Survivors include his widow, a son Dr. R C Stewart a Lamont veterinarian, a daughter Marion Stewart a Washington D C government nutritionist, and five brothers.
The passage notes several people named Stewart including Ed Sam Stewart and Mrs Mable Knight of Maynard, Dr Dale Stewart a veterinary meat expert, W J Stewart of Des Moines, and Dr Walter Stewart formerly stationed at Maquoketa as a state veterinarian and previously practicing at Independence land West Union.
Butter production in Iowa rose seasonally last week but remained 9 percent below the prior year. Wisconsin and Minnesota showed 3 percent gains but year over year declines of 31 percent and 24 percent respectively. Nationwide output was 19 percent lower than the 1942 week, with a 3 percent week-to-week increase.
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