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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1936
Page
10
The Knickerbocker Belgians sold 24 head for an average of 32270 with stallions averaging 36875 and mares 27666. Top stallion price was 700 paid by John Skala. Auctioneers were N G Kraschel and J E Halsey.
Prominent Iowa dairy farmers contribute ideas to a new dairy barn at the Iowa State College dairy farm replacing a fire destroyed structure. The block and frame barn will house the college herd with fourteen experimental stalls and sixty chair-tie stalls. Milking is by mechanical milking machines in a dedicated room with observation access through glassed panels.
The report shows the Feedstuffs Index rising to 70.8 as weather and prices push grain markets. It notes lower than average 1935-36 feed costs, favorable hog and corn relations for feeding, and declines in cattle prices while livestock numbers remain below long-term averages, with oats and hay production shifting outlooks for 1936.
An ad warns a persistent cough signals danger and promotes Creomulsion as the remedy that reaches inflamed membranes. It claims rapid relief, guarantees satisfaction, and offers a money back refund if there is no improvement from the first bottle.
A graph from the U S department of labor shows retail costs for all foods from 1919 to 1935. Last year retail food costs were 257 percent above the 1932 low but 219 percent below 1929 levels. Data come from 51 cities across 42 foods before 1935 and 84 foods after, using 1923 25 as the index base.
A sequence of farm auctions listed with dates from Friday February 28 through Friday March 6. Entries include dissolutions, closing out sales, consignment consignments, and public sales across Iowa locations such as Mechanicsville Cedar Rapids Bertram Lisbon Ely Martelle and Coggon with sellers Secor Brown Harrington Blaine Kilberger Ran dak Edwards Brothers Fin ley Koch and Mc Cormick.
Walter Kaiser, longtime member and former officer, was elected president of the Monona Farmers Co operative Commission in a recent meeting. Officers include Bernhard as vice president and Baskerville as secretary, with Leath Jr. and Wagner named to fill director seats and Bacon succeeding Ferguson.
Ames farm women seek more guidance in extension clothing courses on intelligent buying of ready to wear and yard goods. Ruth Webster Brown notes synthetics plus label awareness drive demand as wardrobes reset after years of low income.
Frank McDonald, a Rock Island County cattle feeder, owns a pair of Shorthorn oxen carved in Mississippi and raised in Arkansas. The curve of their history includes a 1933 Chicago World's Fair display and later use in farm work, parade appearances, and exhibitions.
Hazleton Farmers Creamery paid patrons 41 cents a pound for January and for the first half of February butterfat, as reported by secretary M. C. Coy. The notes reflect monthly prices used by the creamery for dairy patrons.
Washington AP reports an agriculture department summary showing 1935 livestock prices at their peak in three years with overall gains across meat animals eggs poultry and dairy. Hog prices rose markedly to $8.36 per 100 pounds live weight from $4.14 in 1934, driven by tight hog supplies.
Ames hosts a flax growing club for older 4-H boys to be inaugurated this spring. A linseed oil mill donates 210 to state fair exhibits and a 25 trophy will be awarded at the 1936 4-H convention. Enrollment by March 15 is urged.
Williamsburg March 5 annual meeting of the York Co operative Creamery is postponed, announced manager C L Wilson.
Earl Dennison, a resident east of North English, prepared to assist in butchering a 350 pound hog using sharpened knives and heated water with two neighbors George Mohr and Charles Weimer. The hog died suddenly before any cutting began, leaving the men puzzled by the death.
Ames. B J Firkins associate professor of soils at Ames says there is no immediate danger of serious soil erosion from Iowa snow runoff. He notes alternating freeze and thaw reduced risk and that only heavy spring rains could create erosion, while winter snowfall seems to have ended moisture shortages since 1934 in some areas.
Joe G. Boddicker sold thirty nine head of steers in Chicago on Wednesday at 7.75 dollars per hundredweight. The cattle averaged 1,057 pounds each.
A Marmola weight loss remedy claims to reduce fat without dieting or exercise. The ad promotes Marmola tablets taken four times daily, asserts physicians endorse it since 1907, notes over 20 million packages sold, and encourages readers to buy now and stop when enough progress is reached.
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