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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1936
Page
6
Snow settles about fifty percent with the thaw. dirt shows through the slush on eastern Iowa farms. Roads grow hazardous with slick side streets and ruts. Farmers move equipment as fields thaw. many are still blocked by snow and mud. Unharvested corn and soybeans linger in southern counties while feed supplies hold, hay mows remain well filled.
Special to The Gazette Decorah despite wet weather and a sale a day all week good prices prevailed. At the Charles Johnson auction Thursday six sons brought 162 dollars a spring holding 62 and two spring colts 75 each. Nine cows and encdivee sold for 359135 and a grade bull brought 60. The sale total 2400 dollars.
A Clayton nutrition course attracts local participants with a focus on healthy eating and community engagement. Organizers report steady attendance and interest in ongoing sessions led by community health educators.
The report outlines sow and litter clubs in Jones County preparing for a spring season. It notes expected signups, board roles, and judging practices, including purebred hog registrations and feeder methods to guide moving litters.
Fragmented verse describing fence drift and humor about hammer and hamstring terms. Mentions tires piling in soggy snow and slipping on glassy pavements. Notes causes of horse ailments like spavins and sidebones and nevicular trouble.
The Agricultural Adjustment administration reports over 23 million dollars of surplus dairy products bought since August 1933 have been distributed to the needy and unemployed. Since Oct 1 1933, a total of butter cheese dry skim milk and evaporated milk were purchased and distributed nationwide with New York receiving the heaviest butter and evaporated milk allocations among states.
The United States sets an 8,367,000 pound nine week pork quota for Great Britain. The quota allocates ample weekly imports and notes adjustments for period January through February.
Hopkinton C T A reports January results from the Hopkinton Cow Test Association noting 516 cows milked 131 dry and an average 616 pounds of milk with 20 pounds butterfat. Sixty four cows exceeded forty pounds butterfat, Freemon Smith’s herd produced 1257 pounds milk and 397 pounds butterfat, and Orin Richard She produced 1063 pounds milk and 595 pounds butterfat.
Washington AP report covers government warnings on soil erosion losses and dam silt risks. Conservation official H H Bennett argues for watershed protection while predicting a shift to conservation based land use. Other officials note farm status gains and future crop innovations like paper from cornstalks. Public Roads Bureau cites 18,594 miles of highways completed under public works in 1985.
The 80 acre improved Curtis Mowbray farm in Monroe township Tama county northeast of Dysart changed hands to nearby farmer Lawrence Brown for 100 dollars per acre. The sale reflects the local farm market in Tama.
Argentina reports a record 18,854,000 acres planted to corn this season, up 86 percent from last year’s final estimate. Five year average stands at 15,586,8700 acres with drought, heat, locusts, and good yields noted. final 1945 crop production at 451,943,000 bushels and exports totaling 273,146,000 bushels through February 3, 1936.
DFLTA Elliol Brown and Bill Augustine, livestock showmen from northwest Delta, Gulf Coast—returned from Tampa Florida with the Brown Angus show winning eleven firsts out of eighteen in the Tampa Livestock Exposition held Friday.
County supervisors and landowners from fourteen drainage districts meeting in Burlington urged to keep the CCC camp at Oakville. They note 200 miles of levees costing over 10 million dollars and dangerous ice conditions threaten property and lives, and say CCC presence is essential to protect levees and aid the nine foot channel project.
Monona Patrons of the Farmers Co-Operative Creamery were paid forty cents a pound for January butterfat. A total of 41 989 pounds of butter were produced from 33 728 pounds of butterfat received. 508 tubs of butter were shipped to eastern markets. Estimates indicate 4 400 deaths in 1934 from accidents in agricultural work, comprising 27 percent of total accidental deaths across all occupations.
About seventy five farmers from Louisa Scott Clinton and Cedar counties attended a rural electrification meeting with REA representative D C Barnhill. A Cedar county survey shows 1716 potential customers served by 502 miles of line averaging 3.42 per mile. Permanent Cedar county officers named Friday include Carl Mitzner president LaMar P Foster vice president E F Jordan secretary and Alfred F Meyer treasurer. Permanent directors named for seventeen townships include Dodds Mitzner Weatherwax Reeve Gust Meyer Petersen Jordan Crees Schroeder Steinke Nicoll Challis Hain Foster Von Muenster and Kiser with H J Strong supervising.
Federal administrator Morris L. Cooke announced allocations totaling 2 110 600 for nine rural power projects in Iowa Georgia Indiana Minnesota Nebraska North Carolina North Dakota Ohio and Vermont. Loans total 6 373 362 across 16 states. Nearly 22 000 rural customers will gain central station electricity across 6 000 miles of line. Iowa allotment 260 000 to Scott County Rural Electric coop Davenport for 265 miles serving 900 customers. Clinton Davenport and Muscatine Railway to supply wholesale power.
Enrollment in the 4-H baby beef club in Iowa County for 1936 shows fifty four boys and girls with eighty four calves on feed. Herefords predominate with fifty one animals, nineteen are Angus and fourteen Shorthorns.
A sequence of postponed and upcoming farm and horse auctions spans multiple Iowa locales. Dispersions, closing outs, and public sales are set near Mor ey Cedar Rapids Tipton Central City Shellsburg Center Point Maquoketa Coggon Fairfax and Maquoketa with numerous buyers expected.
A series of upcoming public and estate sales is listed with dates from February 27 to March 6. Entries include W A Brugman NH Center Point Reiss estate sale 4144 miles south of Garrison Secor Brown dissolution details Blaine estates near Bertram and Lisbon J F Kilberger closing out sale SE Beverly George Randak Atkins Owen L McConaughy sale east of Martelle and Shorthorn cattle sale by C A McCormick SE Mechanicsville.
M. L. Bowman of Iowa Rural Rehabilitation Division told county conciliation committees the Iowa Supreme Court ruled deficiency judgments become null after two years. The ruling followed a challenge to a 1945 act outlawing such judgments after two years and clarified that judgments remain in effect while a bank is in receivership but end at its closure.
FASTEETH powder sprinkles on upper or lower plates to keep false teeth from sliding or rocking. It reportedly prevents slipping and popping without a gummy taste and leaves breath sweet. Available at May Drug Co and other drug stores.
Central City hatcheryman Verne O. Phelps reports eggs bought by hatcherymen were hauled by team and sled to Main highway points for pickup due to heavy snow. He expects a marked decrease in eggs set in February and March and notes farmers ran out of mash, feeding corn instead. Egg production will lag three weeks after mash resumes, delaying chick shipments likely until April.
Special to The Gazette DYSART The first hatch of the season at the local hatchery is scheduled for March 12 per manager R A Kullmer. Hatchery operations began last Tuesday. A note explains how to measure grain in a bin by multiplying length width and height in inches and dividing by 2160.42.
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