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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1941
Page
6
In 1941 Chicago sold 9 051 850 head of livestock with a $346 900 000 value, up $77 000 000 from 1940 while receipts fell 7 percent. Hog prices rose to a peak around mid year and fell back. hogs totaling 4 602 236 were 14 percent below 1940. Prices for other classes reached highs not seen since the late boom, with steers averaging $11.32 and heavy steer demand shifting through the year.
A public sale at a farm 414 miles north of Alburmett and 144 miles north of Central City offers 63 hogs 21 cattle and assorted machinery and stock. Seller highlights Guernsey cows and choicest heifers with an emphasis on baby beef potential and dairy stock. Auction Tuesday January 6 starting at 11 a.m. with proceeds to Burt Tritle owner and Price and McCailey as auctioneers.
A compact reflection notes a proverb from Proverbs 30 about balance and sustenance. It credits Rev. David Berger for a sermon linking a universal prayer to pacify wars, in context of New Year’s day observance urged by President Roosevelt.
An advertisement touts making a home remedy for rheumatic arthritis and neuritis using four lemons mixed with water and Ru-Ex Compound. It promises two spoonfuls twice daily with relief within 48 hours and offers a money back guarantee if symptoms persist.
Listing of farm auctions across Iowa from January 2 to January 8. Cedar Rapids hosts Iowa Live Stock Exchange cattle sale on Friday January 2, Oxford Sales Co horse sale on Saturday January 3, with multiple closings near Mt. Vernon Alburnett Marion Fairfax Atkins and other towns including Linn County homes and dairy cow sales.
The final year saw best profit margins since 1937 with high cattle and lamb values. Bolognas sold to 10.10, cutters top at 7.50, calves to 15, and light stock steers near 15. Lamb feeders averaged 11.11 with a peak of 13.25. Farm demand remains strong as hogs rise and cattle movement climbs into the new year.
A large house once home to Aaron Brown on the Howard Nealson farm north of West Liberty burned Wednesday between seven and eight o clock. Contents were lost, firemen saved adjacent buildings, and insured value did not cover the roughly 5 000 loss. Nealsons had only recently taken possession of the farm.
Springville hosts the seventy fourth annual meeting of the Brown Township Mutual Insurance Association Saturday starting at 2 p.m. Secretary F M Bailey announced today.
Special to The Gazette Toledo hosts officers and directors of a new implement dealers and welders association formed after a meeting with farm equipment handlers. Walter Beem is president G A Olsen is vice president and Leonard Cherveny serves as secretary. An advisory committee includes William Rowden and Ed Paustian. Machinery repair week in Tama county is Jan 12 to 18 under Don Struthers.
Special to The Gazette Maynard sale near here Monday saw oats at 68 cents a bushel, Barcorn 76 cents, mixed hay 15 a ton, and cattle and equipment prices including two horses at 50 and 90 dollars. Auctioneers Paul Klotz and H M Duncan of Columbus Junction led the sale.
Illini soybeans from Hardin county ranked high in oil content in December state laboratory tests. Secretary of Agriculture Mark G. Thornburg reported official samples showed oil content from 12.62 to 19.06 percent while moisture ranged from 4.39 to 14.52 percent.
Fayette 4-H groups won the county championship at the state 4-H corn show held with the state boys 4-H convention and short course. New 1942 state officers were installed. prize emphasis shifted to food for freedom. Barry Barger and Charles Cottrell won hybrid classes. Plymouth and Linn counties led in paint contests. 1,200 youths heard talks on war impact and 4-H roles.
One hundred ten more compliance checks arrive at the Delaware county Triple-A office totaling 25088 dollars. The seventh consignment is being distributed this week.
Ames Iowa announces its fifth annual posture training series starting January 24 in Ottumwa led by Edith Barker state 4-H leader and Ella Gardner from the federal extension service. The program branded measuring me will cover physical posture and recreation as aids to mental health with demonstrations and discussions. district sessions follow January 26 Atlantic January 27 Indianapolis January 28 Iowa City January 29 New Hampton January 30 Clarion January 31 Ida Grove.
Work nears completion on a 34 by 70 foot barn at the Marion Satterlee farm near Masonville. The structure features a full tiled basement, steel stanchions for 18 cows, four single stalls, a double box stall, and a separator room. Walter Harris and James Hickey are the contractors.
John A. Meyer Keystone feeds 38 steers and 22 Hereford calves to be fed next summer. Charles Jones Walker stocks 103 Nebraska yearling Hereford steers to market in spring. William Fry Van Horne plans full feed after yarding 120 feeder cattle. The Peoples Savings Bank Cedar Rapids offers sales clerking. R H Porter Iowa State College Seed Lab reports 1941 soybean germination 40 to 95 percent and urges tests now. Dry beans with under 25 percent moisture are safe for seed. if germination tests fall below 75 percent consider new seed.
Des Moines Iowa farmers produced 472 million dollars in crops in 1941, up 17 percent from 1940. Secretary Mark Thornburg cited division figures covering field crops and added corn alone valued at 316 million with farm supplies totaling 733 million bushels.
Creamery butter output in the United States fell 4.9 percent from the prior week due to one fewer churning day for Christmas week. The decline also leaves production 12 percent below the same week in 1940, with the West North Central division including Iowa dropping 4.2 percent from the prior week and 3.3 percent from the year-ago week.
Independent Dale Irwin was reemployed by the Buchanan County Farm Bureau as an agent during a board of directors meeting held Saturday.
Benton county led the combined livestock and grain judging at the state 4-H convention with 4 688 points. Harold Lindahl Charles Cottrell and Wallace Markland of Vinton led the Benton team which placed among the top individual finishers alongside Kenneth Knudsen of Marshalltown. Markland tied for fourth in combined judging as Donald Anderson led livestock judging, and Markland Knudsen shared first in grain judging with Carl Levers of Parkersburg.
A second farmer shipper meeting is planned in Monticello on January 14, sponsored by the Milwaukee railroad. Last year about 500 attended. A lunch will follow a special program with speakers Charles Sutherland of Chicago and John Hughes of Des Moines.
Brooklyn Cooperative Creamery will hold its annual meeting in the school building gymnasium on January 24. W. I. Wasson, manager, announced today. H. J. Lindahl of Cedar Rapids will read group singing.
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