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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1945
Page
4
Special to The Gazette Urbana Illinois D G Carter University of Illinois professor reports farm building replacement costs rose since 1940. warns against overbuilding and outlines cost saving ideas using semipermanent structures local lumber and labor. He notes plows require high draft and improper maintenance wastes power.
NORTH LIBERTY Edward Langenberg Wednesday sold his 50 acre farm one and one half miles east of Tiffin to John Stahmer of Iowa City for $6,000. The improvements are good and land fair. Langenberg had previously purchased an unimproved 80 acre tract four and one half miles west of North Liberty from Mrs An toinette Kloubec for $5,500. Possession of both farms will be given March 1. The Land company of Ive City handled the transactions.
Hugh Gordon of Marion will address the Cedar Rapids Farmers' club luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel Tuesday. Gordon, past president of the Iowa Poultry Improvement Association and the International Baby Chick Association, will discuss the 1945 poultry outlook and update on poultry raising. Lt. Col. Charles Penningroth, club chair, invites all interested to attend and make reservations at the Chamber of Commerce by Tuesday morning.
Special to The Gazette reports Rancheria Cattle Company of Butte Falls Oregon bought 41 Aberdeen Angus cattle from R. Miller and son at View Lawn farms north of Decorah. The Charles M. Miller herd consignment included 30 cows eight calves and three young bulls shipped by rail from Calmar. Founders R M Miller and son Charles Harmony built View Lawn stock for about 41 years supplying buyers in 14 states.
An auction notice for a closing out sale at a location 34 miles west of Mt. Ver on Paved Highway No 30 on Monday February 12 1945 at 1230 includes livestockcattle hogs horses and machinery. Horses include multiple mares greys and a 3 and 4 year old pair weighing around 7200 pounds. Cattle total seven heavy milk cows bred to Hereford with Guernsey and Holstein varieties. Hogs include 13 Berkshire Poland sows bred to Poland China with fall pigs. Purebred Duroc breeding stock also offered. Equipment list features McDeering equipment tractors plows binders rakes planters and seeders. Grain hay and straw also available. Auctioneers Amos LeGuire owner with Challis and Plattenberger and Jay Fordyce clerk. Mt Vernon Iowa.
Listing shows 225 Hampshire pullets in good condition with a James Way electric brooder, 8x10 brooder house, two electric waterers, several feeders, a Galloway cream separator and related cream cans and milk pails. Also offers 100 bales clover and timothy hay, 400 bales alfalfa hay, 39 tons mixed hay, 600 bushels Ames tested seed oats.
AMES Iowa egg shippers were urged to act now amid a looming egg case shortage similar to last spring. A D Oderkirk a Iowa State marketing specialist cited a War Food Administration report noting scarce wooden cases and army drawdown for overseas shipment. The release urged orders for fiber cases since the WFA program buys only eggs packed in good wooden or fat fiber containers.
Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric cooperative re elected Leo Skahill and C. J. Stokesberry to three year terms and elected G. J. Armstrong to the board to succeed John Lamey. Officers named John Cousin president Ralph Childs vice president A Park Ogden secretary Clarence Thompson treasurer H H Merrick director Manager Edgar Beach reported over 200000 dollars of electricity sales in 1944 with average 134 kilowatt hours per member. 324 new connections were added bringing total to 3232 services on 1347 miles of line. Allan B Kline Iowa Farm Bureau president spoke. Boyd Chattertog won Westinghouse 4 H rural electrification contest introduced by C B Jessen.
A Gazette advertisement lists farm sale closings and public sales across multiple Iowa locations from February 12 to February 22. Names include Amos Leguire Walter Heineman Alfred Drexler Earl Smith Frank Stadler W. E. Powers Horace Thompson Harlan Reeder Wesley Zach John Strosahl Fred Butschi James Stadler Macheck Klinger I R Drake Charles Grovert Gerhard Wenndt Leona Kirk Art Rathje with distances to Mount Vernon Central City Lisbon Vinton Swisher Anamosa Coggon Chelsea Cedar Rapids Marion Clarence Alburnett Shellsburg and others.
Isaac Thurn was elected president of the Farmers' Creamery company at the organization’s annual meeting Tuesday. Theo dore Bassett was named vice-president, Ralph Rizer secretary, James F. Adams treasurer, Earl Culbertson and Fred Fisher directors for three year terms. The creamery produced 505,819 pounds of butter with butterfat priced at 55% cents. Howard Holthaus is butter maker and Lewis Tilp assistant.
Farm briefs report prices from two local sales seven miles south of Columbus Junction. John Williams and Philip Evans sold work horses at 30 to 65 dollars, Guernsey cows 95 to 105, heifers 90, sheep 13.50 to 60, White Rock pullets 1.50, hedge posts 0.50. Broader farm structures and tools sold well. Snitker Meier near Postville tallied high machinery prices with disc 200, drill 186, corn plow 200. Cows 165, heifers 75, horses 106, sows 44, straw 54 cents per bale, hay 55 cents, loose hay 12 per ton, oats 0.72, corn 1.02.
Des Moines AP reports AAA fieldmen indicate farmers are expanding the pig crop. Town will exceed its 1945 goal of 2,075,000 sows for spring farrowing after early shorts in 1944. Hazen notes breeders keeping sows, sold breeding stock bought back, boosting production amid high feed costs.
Linn county AAA committee men will hold an all day conference at the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce on the 1945 farm program John F Wager county AAA chairman announced. Starting Tuesday they will contact every farm operator to aid him in planning to meet 1945 production goals. They will also distribute applications for non-highway gasoline allotments and assist farmers in preparing them. A registered Holstein Friesian cow in Matt Birker herd near Vinton completed a 267 day production record of 507 pounds butterfat and 12 973 pounds of milk milking twice daily at age six when she began her test period.
Gov John C Vivian directs Colorado draft boards to observe the Tydings amendment and grant blanket deferments for essential farm workers. The order, issued to Lt Col Howard E Reed, defies a presidential directive to induce farmers 18 to 26, following Sen Edwin C Johnsons call to halt essential-farmer inductions.
Ames ISU extension sheep specialist C. W. McDonald advises six weeks before lambing to start a ration of grain oil meal and legume hay. Mix six parts oats three parts shelled corn one part linseed meal or oil meal with soybeans. feed one half to one pound daily plus hay, tapering grain near lambing. Ensure 12 to 15 square feet per ewe and good shelter. Experienced handlers trim wool around udders to aid care.
A fragmentary poem or dispatch by R B C features a wry line about marching and the stomach in battle. Velma Gray Sunderman signs off with a vivid line about soldiers building stomachs through hardship and little joys like sledding.
A week or so before the lambs are due, use individual lambing pens to prevent lambs from sucking on loose wool and reduce losses. If lambs are expected in February or March, this method supports saving more animals and improving survival.
The Iowa State Aberdeen Angu s breeders association holds a two day event at Hawkeye Downs with 62 bulls and 68 females from 52 Iowa herds. J B McCorkle of Columbus will judge Friday afternoon and the sale begins Saturday at noon with Roy G Johnston and J E Halsey handling the auction. The association banquet is set for Friday evening at the Montrose hotel, per Herbert Cline sale manager.
Des Moines AP reports groups including state AAA officials study converting hemp plant drying gear for corn in north central Iowa. Boone plant finished hemp, three more near ready. capacity 300 to 400 bushels per hour. Defense Plants Corp approval needed. benefit to farmers with wet corn, especially north central. Also Postville market: horses $200, 26 head cattle avg $130, oats 83c, corn 93c, hay $15/ton.
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