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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1941
Page
10
The monthly output hits 2.831 billion eggs, a January record aided by milder weather. The article notes weather impact and broad production figures, with references to agricultural market terms and farm-related notices alongside a closing sale for a farm near Central City.
Alfred Koch owner hosts a closing gut sale featuring cattle steers calves heifers and purebred stock along with farming machinery and implements. The event includes a detailed listing of animals and items such as tractors wagons plows and corn equipment. Sale location is near Newk and Highway Woods with timing set for Thursday February 27.
An auction line notes a bare forty at ninety dollars an acre with references to a notable sale area. The fragment mentions related figures including a person named Frank Adidle with a four thousand dollar tag and a location near Nota Liber.
Fragmentary item recounts a sow's labor on a farm tied to Mr Wickard. Page text notes local farmers and families, with scattered references to a village setting in Pennsylvania and nearby towns. The piece conveys a rustic, contemporaneous rural scene.
A public sale will be held on the farm eight miles north of Tinton, featuring Thorpe horses and mares in foal, a Relzian stallion, and assorted cattle including Shorthorn and Hampshire stock. The event includes horses, cattle, milk cows, calves, bred cows, a list of farm goods, harness wares, and farm equipment. Avery W. Steele owners and John Fo Bateng clerk will oversee the sale starting at noon with items up for bid and horses halter broke. a Monarch mare and other stock described among the lots.
An Ottawa editorial at a North American farm forum questions how long Canada can sustain a farm program costing at least four billion dollars since inception. Editors warn heavy farm subsidies may hinder defense and preparedness funding, urging a shift toward a balance between agriculture, wartime needs, and peace economies.
A Des Moines bill proposes labeling standards for seeds sold in Iowa. It requires plant variety identification, weight percentages for weed seeds and inert matter, and germination tests with calendar month and year of testing. It lists seed components such as alfalfa, clover, field corn, and excludes hybrid corn when origin is unknown.
Anamosa Nesscott Posch Orme dy leads Iowa Holstein dairy record set at the Mens reformatory, milking 17 960 pounds for 680.3 pounds butterfat in ten months. Holstein-Friesian Association of America announced the new champion.
Tipton Iowa records show Cedar County 4-H members with 159 baby beeves enrolled for the year the largest 4-H baby beef club on record. Led by Crist County 4-H boys and girls, the project includes 39 Angus Rutlerefords and 20 Shorthorns among the headcount.
Grundy Center will host the Grundy county farm women annual achievement day on March 25. Mrs D O Miller, county home project chairman, said the location has not yet been decided.
ALBURNETT closing nut sale sees Holstein herd sell well. Amana Soviets buy top cow for 104 dollars. Cows range 101 to 39 dollars. sows and gilts fetch 20 to 235 each. Feeding shunts high. All are Hampshires. corn at 0.51 a bushel. Other sales: Louie Reserson farm 12 cows 70.50 average. feeder pigs 1140 each. oats 41c. alfalfa hay 12.25. mined hay 18. A Muscatine sale reports horses 210. cows 77-100. steers 65-70. sheep 950 a head. hens 0.72. Tractor 400. cultivator 60. wagons 15-20.
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States reports the sale of three northeastern Town farms. The 24 acre Cleason farm in Cedar County sold to Frerett Puffer. price over $58 per acre. J P Berry operator. The 189 acre Wilmer farm in Renton county sold to Harry C Green of Ta Porte City for $112 per acre. Green takes possession March 1. The 400 acre Rutenbeck farm southeast of Lost Nation sold to Orville Ruggeberg for $100 per acre. Arnold Rutenbeck to remain through 1941.
The listing notes auctions on Saturday February 22 including Beckshires at Viola M C KF Green sale at Marion horse sale at Oxford Anamosa Livestock auction church and parsonage at Lisbon Monday February 24 A H man sale west edge of Manchester Hunsecker closing out 216 miles west Central City Tuesday February 25 Schmickle closing out 7 miles SE Center Point Towers closing out 6 miles SE Marion
The Agriculture Department reports nearly 16 000 emergency crop and feed loans totalling 19 470 625 dollars in 1940, up from 1994 loans for 15 079 509 dollars. The article notes high repayment rates with 89 percent of funds from 1918 to 1940 repaid and over 3 000 loans repaid that year.
Elgin M Hard Gilbertson and Mchael Blockhuser began building a combined garage work shop and machine shed on the Gilbertson farm east of town. The structure will measure 40 by 40 feet and the pair do all the work themselves. They have made cement blocks for the foundation and cut all the lumber at the Gilbertson saw mill. Millard, once without a basement workshop, plans to use the new building for wood work.
Hog prices in interior towns and southern Minnesota moved erratically with Thursday finishing steady to 15 cents higher for butcher hogs and 4 to 15 cents up for sows, while Friday fell 15 to 25 cents. Receipts remained ample and trading slow, with some packers lifting loads from late last week. Five day interior receipts hit 800 head, up from last week, and state markets reported firmer wholesale pork prices with top loins at Chicago near $18 and New York at $17.50. Inventories on Iowa farms as of Jan 1 were 34 percent smaller than a year earlier, suggesting lighter marketings in 1941 and potential breeding stock retention.
Linn County Iowa Board of Supervisors adopts multiple resolutions approving property sales to private buyers including Elmer D and Lena L Price and Henry F. Ashby. The board also authorizes deed conveyances, tax sale certificate assignments, and releases as part of county finances and relief actions.
A country narrator lists rural irritants and observations about farm life. The piece comments on untrimmed hedges, rotted straw piles, and odd practices like shocking corn then stacking it. It notes commercial signs, green roofs, fence posts, and cattle in muddy lots with goats mentioned.
John P. Kurt, once a few miles northwest of here, sold a load of steers on the Chiwago market Wednesday. The steers averaged 1350 pounds and brought $1425.
At Chicago market Wednesday Mof fit and Son from Mechanicsville sold 33 saws averaging 400 pounds for 7 dollars each and 18 butchers averaging 293 pounds also bringing 7 dollars each.
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