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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1946
Page
4
Rex Conn urges farmers to keep complete farm records as a business tool and tax aid. Start Jan 1, inventory livestock and forage, track income and expenses, and use simple account books. Include crops, yields, fertilizer, and equipment depreciation to uncover insights and improve next year’s operations.
A long list of farm auctions and closing out sales advertised across Iowa towns with dates from January 2 to January 23. Entries name sellers such as A E and Glen Miller Cessford and Voss Edward Hayek Jacob Paulsen Harvey Chrisman Jesse Travis Glen D McCall Arnold Henning and more along with location clues like miles from Linn county home Tipton Belle Plaine and Cedar Rapids.
The University of Nebraska announced two staff scientists isolated several new bacterial amylases that will lower costs and raise output of commercial alcohol and improve sizing for textile producers. The amylases turn starch into sugar, a key step for distillers and textile manufacturers.
Omaha handled about 6 million head of livestock worth roughly 350 million dollars in 1945 to become the nation’s second largest livestock center for the third straight year. Cattle receipts neared 2 million as arrivals surpassed hogs and sheep for the first time since 1884. Packinghouses processed over 1 million cattle and 1.5 million hogs with similar sheep totals, totaling about 30 thousand carloads of meat products.
Dissolving partnership sells at public auction at the farm near Cass Center 514 miles NW of Anamosa on Thursday Jan 3 starting 12:00. Items include 3 horses 41 hogs 31 cattle machinery tools hay grain and miscellaneous farm goods with a lunch stand and terms to be announced. Auctioneers WM Oltman and Carl Ortgies with clerk Lee Bebee Citizens Savings Bank.
A University of Illinois study shows corn grain and leaves hold the highest protein and mineral content. Dry-weight figures compare protein and mineral by part: grain 190 lb protein and 21 lb mineral per ton. leaves 92 lb protein and 61 lb mineral. cob 56 lb protein and 14 lb mineral. husks 54 lb protein and 36 lb mineral. sheath 50 lb protein and 51 lb mineral. stalks 46 lb protein and 45 lb mineral. Protein percentages rank grain 9.5, leaves 4.6, cobs 2.8, husks 2.7, sheath 2.5, stalks 2.3.
Purdue extension poultryman J. W. Sher warns that battery brooding, popular since 1925, has limits. Indiana farmers mostly prefer floor brood, citing higher building costs, artificial conditions, breast injuries, soft meat, and little long term savings. He urges caution before large scale battery operations.
Alfred Boss announces a sale on Saturday January 5 at 1 00 PM at 2387 10th Avenue Marion featuring Holstein cows one fresh with calf and one due in March plus farm implements a trailer rack drag hog waterers feeders a table model separator oats straw crates furniture and miscellaneous items consignments invited by P C Lassen auditor.
Illinois Central announces Capt. Maurice W. Boney as agricultural agent with Waterloo HQ. Native of Sac City and Iowa State College graduate, he brings 4-H and FFA experience to boost feeding, crops and livestock in Iowa Wisconsin and northern Illinois along the western IC lines. Boney is a former bomber pilot with the 15th Air Force in North Africa and Italy.
CHICAGO AP F. R. Bennett of Union county Iowa will receive the W. G. Skelly award for superior achievement in agriculture. The honor recognizes outstanding all around farming as a wartime effort to boost food production, with Bennett noted for rebuilding a worn farm after 1934 and leading conservation efforts.
A farmer received 600 acres purchased through a program that used alfalfa sweet clover red clover timothy lespedera alsike and brome plus lime and phosphate. He terraced fields built grass waterways planted trees for gully control and added a livestock program earning a $100 victory bond, scroll, pennant and gold lapel button.
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroad ordered an embargo on all grain shipments into the St Paul and Minneapolis terminals due to a manpower shortage with contributing factors from heavy snow and a truck drivers strike. The ban aims to last about a week and affects grain passing through or to be unloaded locally while outgoing shipments remain unaffected.
Manchester area reports show 11 of 14 Delaware county farms will continue conservation farming after five years under CCC soil programs. Survey notes two undecided and one farm with ownership changes did not fully implement the plan.
Pulse noted that certain maintenance work requires a specific funds or effort. He said assistance in planning such maintenance will be provided by the soil district upon request.
W F Graham of Purdue University cautions against tightly closed dampers and stoves as poison gas fatalities rose to 1950 last year. He advises opening shed doors before starting gasoline engines, trucks and tractors to prevent gas buildup.
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