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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1933
Page
3
The January Iowa direct hog market shows an unmistakable upward trend with prices closing 25 to 35 cents higher than the opening, despite weak demand in provision and fresh pork markets. Supply factors, including optimistic feeding ratios and lower than expected slaughter, supported the late month gain as packers expanded storage purchases.
Market report notes steady to higher hog prices through January with light receipts in Iowa and southern Minnesota and seven major midwestern markets showing a 28 percent drop in total. Demand for bred sows remained strong while feeder pigs and light hogs sold at modest but improving prices amid thinning supplies.
Two farm sales listed for February 4 1933 with details of cattle horses hogs and implements at Joe Dvorak farm 74 miles southwest of Swisher and 3 miles northwest of Coufalls plus a second auction of Jaroslav Sirovy’s 120 acre Iowa farm at 2 PM with improvements orchard plow land and pasture described Investments include a 1926 Ford pickup and 500 bushels of corn.
Center Point hog buyer reports January activity of fifty car loads purchased and shipped, with most hogs sent to the Cedar Rapids market.
A series of feeds and feeding discussions for live stock producers led by BE L Quaife of Ames is scheduled in Poweshiek county from February 14 to 17.
In Poweshiek county farm folk headline a county drama series with 600 watching a semi final in Grinnell and 1 000 expected for the final at Grinnell high school auditorium. Jefferson cast wins with Billy's Coming and faces Lincoln Chester and Union with judges from Ames and Montezuma.
DES Moines AP Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray notes declining demargarine tax receipts in late 1932 signal rising butter use. He cites first half and second half receipts and says butter sales in Iowa exceed prior years, with lower butter prices boosting demand and the tax protecting the dairy industry.
The 160 acre George West farm three and a half miles west of Fairbank was sold to Louis Fettkether for $66 an acre.
Note holders meeting Saturday decided to extend the association’s notes for two more years at eight percent interest, same rate as before. In recent years the cooperative has reduced its indebtedness by twelve thousand dollars. Harry Lynn serves as president John Desmarins as secretary and Ed G Mellem as manager.
Annual meetings set across towns February 2 through February 14. Listings include North Forks Farmers creamery near Wiley, Hopkinton, Monticello, Jesup, Buckhorn, Littleport, West Liberty, Anamosa, Arlington, Coxton, and Cedar Rapids Co operative Dairy. Dates span February 2 to February 14 with multiple events per week.
Ray Murray secretary of agriculture announced the appointment of Dr. N. O. Bevins of Hawkeye as head of the state division of animal industry and state veterinarian effective immediately. Murray also named Wade Sullivan of Algona as a heavy scales inspector.
Thirty three Jones county 4 H boys and girls have forty baby beeves on feed including fourteen Shorthorns fourteen Angus and twelve Herefords County Agent Carl Smith says this is the largest baby beef club in Jones county history A county tour is planned in June to visit members of the baby beef and other livestock clubs Doris Fairbanks Anamosa reports gains of 100 pounds in November and 110 pounds from December 1 to January 7 List of enrolled boys and girls across Anamosa Monticello Center Junction Wyoming Olin Hale Morley and other towns is given.
Reports from fifty counties show more than 1,000 additional boys join baby beef clubs. C A Oldsen of the Iowa Beef Producers association says about 5,200 baby beeves will be handled by town boys and girls this year, a 25 percent rise.
Brooklyn M. A. Kinneman announces the Poweshiek Jasper Farm Bureau Service company annual meeting. The oil cooperative will gather in Brooklyn on February 11 to discuss operations and plans for the year.
Iowa’s 1992 licensed stallions and jacks number 1619, down from 1806 in 1932, a 10.4 percent drop, per Assistant Secretary Carl N Kennedy of the Iowa Department of Agriculture. Horse market notes show rising prices for draft horses and a tightening supply, with buyers in Des Moines and farm sales pushing prices. A horse importing firm in Greeley reports high demand for farm chunks and mares, with buyers traveling up to 100 miles paying $100 to $125 per head.
Des Moines AP Des Moines Iowa March 6 1936 Testing of cattle in Sac county has progressed enough to earn a recommendation for accreditation by the federal Department of Agriculture State Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray announced He spoke as he ordered a halt to statewide testing until the legislature acts on current enforcement law Murray said the department will share all facts with supporters and opponents to aid the legislature in choosing the best policy for all involved.
Greeley Co operative Creamery pays December butterfat at 25 cents per pound. Top patrons include J W Matthews with 666.8 pounds followed by H H Stone 520.9 and Mead Brothers 511.4 pounds. others listed include Victor De Keyser 463.7 and H B Esch 446.2 pounds.
Farm sale 5 miles north of Cedar Rapids by A. P. Burgess and horse sale 134 miles northeast of Monticello by W. A. McDaniel are listed for Thursday. A consignment sale is scheduled Friday at the DeClow barn.
A sequence of farm and personal property sales is announced. Jaroslav Sirovy and Emil Dvorak hold a 120 acre farm and personal estate sale 344 miles south of Swisher with a consignment sale on Tuesday February 7. William Caraway advertises a farm sale three miles southeast of Marion. F. E. Harrington’s closing out sale is four miles northwest of Watkins. M. E. Dice lists a farm sale four miles west of Walker on Thursday February 9. Stark and Miller promote a farm sale seven miles northwest of Cedar Rapids.
Ames Iowa farmers and engineers plan a broader Farm Machinery Repair Week expansion from March 6 to 11 1933. Extension agent W B Peterson says fixing equipment before spring saves money time and avoids breakdown losses. Two day training schools will teach repair and adjustment in several counties with about thirty farmers each as local leaders.
The Farm Warehouse Company cooperative marketing association in Chicago sold a consignment of 217 pound butcher dogs Tuesday at 3.30 dollars per hundredweight.
Maurice W. Soulis 26 of Clarion was hired Tuesday as county agent in Keokuk County to replace Leonard Zahn who resigned Feb 15 for a Jasper County post. Soulis, a 1930 Iowa State College graduate, farmed with his father near Clarion. He never married and was a notable athlete, ranking fifth high in livestock judging at national events and serving as president of Iowa State’s track team, famed as a pole vaulter.
Governor Clyde L. Herring is invited to give the main address at the Farm and Home week banquet on February 9 in Ames. If legislative business allows, he will leave Des Moines to attend. The banquet caps the short course, with talks by P D Farrell of Kansas State College and H L Eichling, plus C F Curtiss on European farming.
Summer shoats sold for 6 and a half dollars and cows at 40 dollars a head at the Frank Franta sale three and a half miles south of Lisbon. Four head of horses brought 69 dollars each. Summer calves 10 dollars a head. Corn 18 cents a bushel and oats 13 cents. Machinery sold well. W E Challis of Lisbon was auctioneer.
Hopkinton Cow Test results show the 13 cow herd produced 5061 pounds butterfat with 795 cost and 702 net. the 30 cow herd yielded 7447 butterfat with 1415 cost and 720 net. January test notes 671 pounds milk and 33.9 butterfat per herd. 38 cows dry.
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