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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1936
Page
15
Stockyards traders link 1936 lamb price decline to record poultry output while cattle and hog gains provided countervailing support. Yearly average lamb price reached 9.65 per hundredweight, highest since 1929, with top near 9.85 as year ended. Demand for wool remained strong and lamb slaughter estimated around 21.9 million.
In a Tuesday convention at Ames Patrolman S N Jesperson admonished 4 H boys to drive safely. He urged an Automobile drivers 4 H club of 23 100 000 for 1935. Trends in ewe and lamb prices show a peak near 6 75 and a dip to 3 50 in July before a late year recovery to 4 65.
The U S bureau reports November creamery butter production at 113,985,000 pounds, up 18.1 percent from November 1935 and 15.6 percent below October 1936. Through eleven months in 1936 output totaled 1,501,552,000 pounds, 1.7 percent under the January–November 1935 total. Iowa produced 14,504,100 pounds in November with October at 17,266,800 and November 1935 at 13,037,000.
Chicago hog prices peaked at 12.05 per hundredweight in August 1936, slipped to 9.50 by October, and rose again toward year end. December marked the highest monthly level in ten years as storage pork stocks surged. Imports of foreign pork and lard reached record highs, while sow marketing shifted from drought months to late year restraint.
Alvin Thoreson, former assistant at West Union creamery and Fayette Cow Test association cow tester, is hired as buttermaker at Westby Wisconsin starting Monday. Donald Neumann succeeds Thoreson at West Union creamery.
At the E. T. Smith farm sale near Hawkeye corn sold for 1.07 a bushel, this year's price at 20.50 a ton for feed corn, feeding pigs at 8.50, and cows bringing up to 59.
Three new officers were elected for Iowa boys 4 H clubs Arthur Wallace of Williamsburg president Harold Parsons of Humboldt vice president and Lawrence Gross of Greenfield secretary. Treasurer Arthur Brisbin Eagle Grove and historian Victor Miller Bloomfield were not pictured. A record 1015 boys attended the Iowa 4 H convention with 125 club leaders and more than 12 000 members statewide. Nelson Kraschel governor elect spoke at the 4 H dinner as about 750 boys took part in livestock and grain judging amid anticipation of contest results tomorrow afternoon.
The Tama county co operative corn canning association will hold its annual meeting in Toledo on January 9. Harry Lichty, president, announced. The co op has operated two seasons with ninety grower members. George Kelly serves as manager.
Lorenzen Brothers feeders near Olin sold a load of 1 156 pound steers in Chicago Monday for 12 50 per hundredweight. The transaction involved a regional market showing steady demand for heavy cattle from the Olin area.
Belle Plaine Benton county producers join a planned litter testing program led by J. L. Lush Ames animal genetics specialist and James C. Green county agent. The plan includes litter marking record keeping to develop desirable breeding traits and larger litters. Next summer designated litters may be shown at the Benton county fair for breeder and judge review. Lush will also meet three groups on Jan 4 in Vinton with vocational agriculture students at 9 15 a.m. and Jersey breeders at 10 30 a.m.
A sequence of upcoming farm auctions is announced for late December and early January. Events include a December 31 sale at Bev y, January 1 at the Iowa Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids, January 2 at Anamosa Livestock Exchange, and January 4 a Walser closing out sale four miles southwest of Alburnett.
At 1 30 p m he will confer with members of contest associations in Benton county as part of an experimental farm research visit to Hannibal Missouri.
Ann Nygaard, home demonstration agent at Vinton announces Benton county 4 H girls will hold an annual frolic and party on the evening of January 8 at Keystone. Local 4 H club members and families expected to attend.
A herd of nine registered Jerseys owned by F. B. Leighton of Ottumwa topped the Ma haska County contest for December with an average production of 579 pounds of milk and 31.1 pounds of butterfat. A Holstein owned by Otis Taylor of Delta produced 1,956 pounds of milk and 70.4 pounds of butterfat in December.
The article projects stronger domestic demand for farm commodities to persist into 1927, suggesting sustained market strength for farmers and related industries. It notes expectations of continued appetite for agricultural products and potential pricing implications.
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