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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1937
Page
21
Forty four diplomas were awarded at the Marengo farm school ending winter classes. The average attendee age was 40. The 140 enrollees averaged 60.2 in attendance. Plan include erosion control, contour planting, and future night classes on feeds. Guests from Oneida attended the ceremony with Amsberry and Glen Ellis presiding.
S W Rothlisberger of Illyria township was reelected chairman of the Fayette county agricultural conservation association and chairman of the county committee at a meeting of township directors. C B Holtzman of Jefferson was renamed vice chairman L D Hitch of Union township third member H M Brownell of Harlan alternate County Agent Paul McElroy secretary and I D Hitch treasurer.
VINTON. A Vinton couple, Roy and Beulah Manley, resigned from the Benton County Farm Bureau. The report notes their long involvement and references a local manager and related farm work, though reader fragments obscure full details.
The Benton County Farm Bureau lauds Beulah Saul Manley for years of cheerful accurate service as office assistant to the county agent at Vinton. She and her husband plan to move to Indiana, and Benton will miss her dependable cooperation.
Ames extension economists note butter prices are easing after January gains as high stocks and sluggish demand press on prices. The feed butterfat ratio remains unfavorable, with 33 cents per pound butter fat equating to 20 pounds of feed grain, hinting production may not hold through early 1937. Egg markets show a mixed picture with storage stocks down and expected continued winter production.
Forty men participated in the Marengo farmers night class graduation with thirty seven earning diplomas. Ineligible were instructor R L Amsberry, board member Glen Ellis, and Ames agricultural relations director George Godfrey.
Monticello Farmers Mutual creamery voted to donate 300 pounds of butter to the Red Cross for flood areas. The annual report showed 884,594 pounds of butterfat delivered in 1936 yielding 808,789 pounds of butter manufactured. Total dairy income reached $353,649.83 with expenses of $18,508.22. Officers elected for 1937 included H. M Carpenter Jr as treasurer and Emil Stutt as secretary.
Special to The Gazette reports Benton county kicks off meetings to study 1936 crop figures and their effect on livestock, soil conservation, and tenancy with Lewis Greaser named chairman. Anamosa committee lists regional members while Washington hosts farm management specialist Herbert Folken addressing county planners.
Lawrence closing out sale near Prairieburg and Oxford dissolution sale near Oxford plus horse sale at Anamosa sale pavilion on February 4. Consignment auction at Beverly February 5 and auction at Iowa Livestock Exchange Cedar Rapids February 6. Yenter Livestock Sale at Oxford February 9. Dodge closing out sale near Fairfax February 9.
The executive committee includes Ed Hlote Seventy-Six township chairman Carl Oldfield Lime Creek vice chairman Joe Knotek Jackson township third member and W J Roudabush county agent secretary. County organization members listed: Cc Anderson Lime Creek Marion Stransky English River Claude Flynn Iowa Riley Grecian Highland Earl Smith Cedar T H Carris Dutch Creek Charles Berdo Franklin R E Brown Washington Wayne Norman Oregon Hal Huston Crawford Will Longer Marion Amos Stout Brighton John Luithly Clay.
Calmar creamery paid 38 cents a pound for December butterfat in the first half of the month and 40 cents in the last half. From 21,000 pounds bought, 26,300 pounds of butter were manufactured.
New York freight receipts for live poultry fell to 4 210 cars in 1936 from 5 387 in 1935 and 7 641 in 1934. Causes include changing diets, handling racketeering, and rising truck movement. Iowa shipments dropped to 56 cars in 1936 from 189 in 1935 and 419 in 1934 as dressed poultry becomes common.
Anamosa Iowa Jones county 4 H club agent Max Sauerbry resigned his post to join a Chicago packing company in the provisions department. The resignation took effect February 1.
VINTON The 307 cows on test in Benton C. T. A. No. 1 during January averaged 26.8 pounds of butterfat up from 20.9 in December according to Association Tester Harold Porter. Charles Will of Vinton had the top herd and top individual cow with 43.2 pounds of butterfat and 1 075 pounds of milk from thirteen registered Holsteins fed a balanced ration of corn oats soy bean meal and alfalfa hay.
The essay traces how poppies linked to European battlefields span centuries, predating the World War I era and shaping remembrance traditions across generations.
Sixty Jones county soil conservation committee members at a training school meeting voted against the Cedar Rapids jackrabbit import proposal. Irving Hintz introduced a resolution opposing bringing jackrabbits into Jones and neighboring counties due to pest risk and potential loss of control.
New York City area milk receipts rose in 1936 reaching the heaviest total since 1932. Total cans of forty quarts reached 34,049,254 versus 31,963,696 in 1935 and 31,562,922 in 1934. Rail and truck deliveries shifted, rail still supplying the majority though less than half, while truck shipments rose. Cream receipts also increased to 1,512,632 cans from 1,450,948 in 1935.
The item lists a price of 9200 dollars or 115 dollars per acre with possession set for March 1. The brief notes the date and terms without additional context.
Glen Mittelstadt was rehired as buttermaker and Cc H Paul as secretary at a Maynard Cooperative Creamery board meeting this week.
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