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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1938
Page
5
Ames AP reports R C Bentley notes a preliminary Iowa census found 1952 cooperatives last year. Of these 1102 were farm marketing and purchasing groups handling about 120 million dollars in 1937. The rest include electric, mutual insurance, and mutual telephone co-ops. growth trends favor larger units and rising membership.
A new cow testing association will be organized in Jones County during April and start operations May 1, County Agent Carl Smith announced. Delbert Mayberry reported herd butterfat progress for the Prentice and Streeter herd of HalSteins across several monthly tests, with butterfat increasing from 31.8 to 39.1 pounds as feeding regimens changed. In Fayette County, the No 3 Cow Test association reported January milk and butterfat, with the Decker herd at 1,408 pounds of milk and 49 pounds of butterfat and a top individual from the Simpson herd yielding 1,540 pounds of milk and 78.6 pounds butterfat.
The Brown Swiss herd of M. R. Ringoen at Ridgeway is listed in this agricultural notice. The entry notes the Ridgeway location and breed details without further sale or auction context.
A Purebred Holstein owned by Willard Torgrim near Nordness topped January production with 60.9 pounds as the group swung back into first place in the Southeast Winneshick Testing association.
Des Moines AP reports Southern Iowa farmers can finance a limestone program through soil conservation allotments from the federal government. Lt Governor Valentine told a six county meeting that Appanoose County farmers have piloted a limestone plan under the county limestone act funded by sale of warrants. The program lowers price 30 to 50 cents per ton and 10,000 tons have been ordered with 3,000 tons already purchased.
The legislative committee of the Farmers Union of Nebraska telegraphed lawmakers Tuesday urging opposition to production control. They support soil conservation as farming aid, not regulation, and warn against regimentation of farmers. Chairman H. C. Elwood of Creighton announced a resolution backing the action.
Auctions set for Thursday February 10 include Clifford Gott sale three miles south of Center Point and Frank Riedesel closing out 213 miles east of Rochester plus Beverly Cattle Company livestock sale. Friday February 11 features F A Kempshall sale two miles southwest of Shueyville.
Saturday February 12 sales include Stuart's Chester White bred sow and Dale McEnany sale locations 2 miles north of Newhall and Marion at the Iowa Livestock Exchange Cedar Rapids. Tuesday February 15 features Walter McNamara closing out sale 2 miles north of Walford.
Auction notice for A. R. Embree Angus dispersal sale scheduled Tuesday February 22, located 24 miles south of Morley. Sale includes a lineup of cattle to be sold at public auction with details in the notice.
State Center exhibitor GOECKE named grand champion ten ears of corn at the thirty sixth annual State Corn and Small Grain show in Ames. Williamsburg’s Roland Holden won the amateur championship in the 10 ear class. Redfern of Yarmouth won the sweepstakes half bushel of oats. Liebke of Walcott best peck of oats. Haider of Laurens showed best peck of flax and George Thom of Sloan best peck of wheat and red clover seed.
In West Liberty a weekly sale saw 63 head of veal calves average 1138 per head. Top price reached 10.50 per hundredweight with feeding sholas at 10.40 and butchers at 8.35. Heifers topped at 710 steers 7.40 and beef cows 5.35 per hundredweight. The 445 head total grossed 8930 dollars.
Special to The Gazette Ames Anmcerica should redis cover the farm home and its contribution to national life Mrs Raymond Sayre of Ackworth told Farm and Home week visitors at Ames in a mass meeting address One of the most important her itages of this country is the farm home which has largely been left out of thinking It's time we begin thinking about it She asserted We should discuss in every city and rural community whether we can preserve our civiliza tion unless we maintain the farm home and the concept of farm and home life The speaker listed these five essentials which must be preserved to maintain the position of the farm family Farm family solidarity the cooperative spirit of the family neighborliness wider spiritual values of country living and the home s responsibility for faith ideals and philosophy of life Family living was the main theme of the women s program while the men s program focused its attention on sheep horse and poultry production Claude Harper professor of animal husbandry at Purdue university emphasized the importance of feeding legume hay to ewes producing immediately before and after the lambing period Experiments at Purdue university he said show that ewes fed non leguminous roughage during the winter produce a crop of lambs that are small unthrifty and seldom choice or prime at marketing time Ewes fed a liberal amount of legume may produce a majority of choice market lambs
Bennett to host a calf club show with dairy and beer classes as part of the Bennett fall festival and calf show on September 3. Sponsored by the Rixe Lausen post 104, it will be managed by Dr A R Stephenson Veno Conrad and William Ruser. Calves to be weighed March 1 with complete records kept through the event.
The Jesup creamery reports high butterfat content in special orders for Jewish and other trades, boosting income. 1937 figures show 1,390,509 pounds of butterfat processed into 1,727,719 pounds of butter with overrun around 21 24 percent. Average butterfat prices and per pound costs given, with directors reelected.
Buchanan county farmers will gather at Woodman hall Independence at 2 p.m. Monday to discuss soybean production and use. The session aims to share practices and market insights among local growers.
Cedar Rapids cooperative dairy reported average patron payment of 442 cents per pound of butterfat for 1937. Total butterfat 1 004 8772 pounds. milk and cream deliveries reached 18 747 108 pounds. Directors Dell VanNote and Rudolph Fitzgerald reelected. holdovers include G M Booth William Ceynar and Martin Sturm.
New York based national farm chemurgie council schedules its fourth annual meeting in Omaha on April 25 26 and 27. Wheeler McMillan editor of Country Home magazine announced the selection and presidency succeeding the late Francis P Garvan who headed the American Chemical Foundation.
In Allamakee County thirty one 4 H beef club members fed seventy two calves. Farm Bureau office records list members including Earl Chamberlain Harlan Chamberlain Harald Dee Irvin Flage Jeo Flage George Fer ring Theodora Ferring Zita Ferring Ernst Kenneth Kenney Willard Kenney Robert Kenney Donald Leppert Leo McNiel Morris Mathis Raymond Mathis James Mooney Vincent Mooney Robert Nash Cur
Reading includes names such as Kathryn Pigott Harlan Swenson Rose Weymiller Frances Robert White Erna Ernst William Wallner and Frederick Zimmerman listed in community notices.
Fall pigs sold for eight dollars a head at the Lester Means farm auction one and one half miles west of North Liberty on Monday. Young hogs brought thirty five dollars, old hogs thirty eight dollars. two horses fetched one hundred dollars each, cow forty dollars, sheep seven hundred fifty dollars a head. Corn brought forty eight and forty nine cents a bushel, oats twenty nine and thirty four cents, hay seven hundred fifty dollars a ton. George E Parit ackened the sale and A S Albright clerked.
Slaughter of cattle in January totaled 928,802 head under federal inspection, down from 867,465 a year earlier, even as eleven corn belt states report 15 percent more cattle on feed as of January 1, 1938. Calf and lamb slaughter also declined while hog slaughter rose sharply to 4,200,988 head, the largest for January since 1934.
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