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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1936
Page
2
The January 1936 cattle slaughter reached 906 189 head, the largest for the month since 1919, with hogs up about 400 000 from last year to 3 427 799 head. Sheep and lambs totaled 1 539 735 head as calf slaughter dipped slightly to 464 831. The rise in cattle slaughter follows more cattle put on feed in fall 1935 and liquidation of short feeds after year start.
Calmar Creamery patrons were paid an average net price of 31.8 cents per pound for butterfat in 1935, totaling 96,000.99. The year saw 403,524 pounds of butter produced from 324,144 pounds of butterfat. average butter sold price was 28.3 cents per pound. D J Farnes reelected president. A A Olson secretary-treasurer. Henry Fyilstul named buttermaker. Edgewood Creamery meeting postponed due to road conditions. Delaware county roads remain closed.
Special to The Gazette NAMOSA Mas Lavertis of Oelwein was hired as 4 H club agent in Jones County replacing the Butler of Ames. Lavertis attended Stanhood High School and further training at Sepyer Teese University and Iowa State College. He will receive a degree in agriculture in March and assume duties in Jones County.
Public sale by Mrs Emma Jordt four miles southwest of Van Horne. Shorthorn cattle sale by CA McCormick five miles southeast Mechanicsville. Hampshire hog sale by Orben Schoff at Lost Nation. Public sale by Albert Vogt four miles southwest of Watkins. Closing out sale by Mrs Mary Kulhavy admix fourteen miles north of Western.
A one acre postal farm will be auctioned Saturday February 15 five miles south of Cedar Rapids. Public sale conducted by Ray Challis three miles north of Tipton.
A public sale is set for Monday February 17 conducted by George Randak located 24 miles northwest of Atkins and Owen L McConaughy holding a sale 22 miles east of Martelle.
Local sale announcements list events from February 18 to February 21. Items include Geo W Griffith at Cedar Rapids Weingrd and J Ave NE, J F Kilberger closing out near Beverly, Blaine estate sales near Bertram and Lisbon, Zack McArthur wood sale NW Shellsburg, J W Pichner estate NE Oxford, Jerry Lesher south of Marion, Reiss estate near Garrison, and Mina Kroger admin sale near Tipton.
The Reiss estate sale near a rural county 44 miles south of Garrison has been postponed from February 15 to February 20. Local notices urge bidders to check for updates and timing details.
The Linn County Junior Farm Bureau postpones February meeting and will meet Thursday evening at the YMCA in Cedar Rapids. Rev Herold C Anderson of Brazil will speak and Nevin Nichols Cedar Rapids playground supervisor leads the evening’s recreation.
Anamosa announces the Jones County Holstein Breeders association will hold its meeting on February 18. William Vincent, president, says officers for the coming term will be elected and Finest Writy will speak on European travels from last year with members of the 4-H judging team in attendance.
Ray A. Potter of Tipton reports Cedar county livestock thefts dropped after a vigilante reward system began. Affected since December, the program aims to convict petty and grand thieves, with $25 petty and $50 grand or burglary rewards.
The Cedar Rapids Co operative Dairy company annual meeting was postponed due to scant attendance from blocked roads. It will be held at 1 pm on March 10 in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in Cedar Rapids.
Special correspondent reports that a proposed Argentine Sanitary Convention before the Senate would allow zoning of meat from disease free zones and could alter the Smoot Hawley act. The piece warns of reintroduction risk of foot and mouth disease, citing past outbreaks and costs, and argues against lifting embargoes on dressed meats from Argentina.
A reflective squib notes droughts and dust storms of 1934 35 and 36, crop failures, cold snaps, and a harsh Washington climate. It ponders farmers’ backbreaking toil and renewed snowstorms while fearing missing fences and bridges, and calls the era an endless wager on the land.
In Columbus Junction the Hendricksen auction sold 100 bushels of seed oats at 36 cents per bushel. Other items fetched mixed prices: 400 bushels of corn at 52.5 cents, 50 bushels of soybeans at 80 cents, 600 ears of seed corn at 3.5 cents each, and farm equipment and household goods in multiple lots. Auctioneer Paul Klotz led the sale, held after roads were cleared post a death in the family.
Snow blocked roads in Jones County forces indefinite postponement of the second nutrition lesson titled Peeding the Sick in the series of women's home project meetings scheduled this week.
An old advertisement touts a guaranteed prescription Cystex to cleanse acids and wastes from blood via kidney filters. It claims relief from nocturnal urination, nervousness, back pain, eye circles, dizziness, acidity and itching within a week, priced at 3 cents a dose with a money back guarantee.
A warned ad counsels against cutting corns and callouses. It promotes Ice Mint as a safe quick remedy from a druggist that relieves pain and loosens the corn, leaving surrounding skin intact and feet cooler and more comfortable.
Oelwein report shows 400 cows in Fayette County No 1 averaging 901 pounds of milk and 32.6 pounds of butterfat for January. Twenty one cows produced over sixty pounds of butterfat. high cow is a Guernsey from Arlington yielding 97.8 pounds of butterfat. Brownell and Sons own the high herd with 52 pounds butterfat average. cost to produce butterfat averages 15.7 cents per pound.
J. E. Matthews, a farmer one mile east of Urbana, rescued a horse that had fallen into an eight foot cistern on his farm. The well contained about three feet of water and the horse was pulled to safety by a team after being tethered with ropes.
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