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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1949
Page
8
Rep Jensen of Iowa introduces legislation to redirect federal conservation payments into a board program that rewards farmers for rotating crops with native grasses and woodlands. He says incentives would restore soil fertility, cut crop overproduction, and use about one third of current payments, roughly $100 million annually.
National farm groups urged the President to appoint a man with agricultural background to the Interstate Commerce Commission. They said one vacancy exists and called for a candidate with knowledge of agricultural problems to help address freight rate decisions.
Ames Iowa State College extension farm economist W Arthur announced the 1948-49 sliding scale farm lease index at 321. The figure represents the average of prices received by Iowa farmers for March 1948 through January 1949, used to set cash rent under flexible leases.
The Linn DHIA No 1 dairy herd January average was 670 pounds of milk and 273 pounds of fat from 309 cows. Association supervisor Louis Taber notes nine cows exceeded 60 pounds of fat for the month.
A long list of February sales and auctions in rural Iowa towns. Frank Morris Estate sale near Toddville at 11 30 a m on February 9 with livestock hay grain machinery. Russell Sherlock sale near Oxford at 12 30 p m. Thomas Shover near Monticello at 12 30 p m a closing out sale. LaVerne Christian near Mt. Auburn at 12 30 p m. Ben Shellhammer near Springville at 12 30 p m. Kenneth Burger estate near Ryan at 11 30 a m. D J Beidenbach near Solon at noon. Fred G. Kimm near Norway at 11 a m. Lewis Maske and Sons near Iowa City at 7 mi. Feb 11 1 p m. Floyd Young near Central City at 11 a m. Russell Anderson near Anamosa at 1 p m. John O Connor near Cedar Rapids at 5 mi. Feb 12 L C Harrison near Marion at 12 noon. Fred Kimm near Norway at 11 mi. S of Norway at 1 p m. Chester White sale Hawkeye Downs Feb 15. Duroc sales Feb 16 17 with multiple breeders. Co Op garages at Ryan. Witwer and Haak near Marion Feb 17.
Senator Guy M Gillette of Iowa asks for a parity price and price support for soybeans quoting the crop as now major in Iowa and the Midwest. He presented the idea to Secretary Brannan who said USDA economists will study it for recommendations to Congress.
Senator Butler thanks Secretary Royall for halting foreign beef purchases and urges a permanent policy. He notes beef cattle prices rise by a dollar per hundredweight and asks if U S Army buys beef domestically for bases.
A farm sale is scheduled at the Wm. Sonka farm located 414 miles 4 percent mile north of Fairfax and straight south of Cedar Rapids on Rockford Road. The sale will be held on Wednesday February 16 at 12 30 PM.
Iowa State College plant pathologist C S Reddy says seed oat treatments against soil organisms yield about 3 bushels per acre over 10 years of trials. At 80 cents a bushel, treatment returns about 2 40 per acre for nine cent costs. He recommends New Improved Ceresan or Ceresan II with specific per bushel dosages and timing.
Farm Bureau editors from Tama, Benton, Poweshiek, Iowa Scott and Linn counties met district leaders and Iowa Farm Bureau officials at the Roosevelt hotel. Howard Hill outlined road and school funding positions, flexible price supports, and goals for all weather rural roads with a uniform funding split. Thirty six editors and leaders attended as similar meetings roll out statewide.
Extension Horticulturist Ed Cott of Iowa State College outlines three methods to shield fruit trees from rabbits in deep snow. Build guards one and a half feet above snow, prune branches to lie on the snow, or paint trunks with a resin solution to deter nibbling. Even then hungry rabbits may still chew bark.
Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery elected John King E A Dunlap and Frank Digman as directors at its annual meeting. The creamery produced 478110 pounds of butter last year with an average butterfat price of 95 cents. Speakers included Russell Weaver Mason City and Claude Marsh Dubuque.
Fieldman Clifford Wilkins reported Saturday that Linn county Farm Bureau membership last week surpassed 2,100. The 1949 goal is 2,400 members, with Buffalo Franklin and College townships meeting quotas. Franklin township shows eight percent more members than farmers.
Delaware dairymen filled the Better Milking Clinics for a record attendance of 760 in Manchester led by the artificial breeding association. Scott county drew 500 at Davenport amid bad roads and fog. By week’s end over 5,000 dairymen had attended the 14 clinics, with five more scheduled this week in Cresco Charles City Decorah Postville Oelwein.
Calmar four farm boys joined the Calmar chapter of FFA. The initiates were Ronald Albertson Floyd Buchell Sherman Sluka Vernon Frana and Spencer Williams.
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