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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1933
Page
2
Monmouth Livestock Co op officials announce a flat rate system to simplify costs for shipments to Chicago. Manager Lee Ripperton notes reduced expenses for farmers, eliminating per-consignment prorating and cutting terminal sales costs by up to one third.
Complacent motorists worsen road woes from Cant on to Monmouth as cattle margins run 24 cents and 39 cents on sheep while hogs see 29 cents. Government audit at the terminal market sparks debate as Monmouth consignments face careful feeding and minimal corn costs. The Monmouth association recently shipped 147 hogs with light corn use and notes livestock gains in transit. The article ends with an odd note on mosquito life.
Special correspondent notes hog receipts at Iowa and southern Minnesota yards and packing plants rose to 7.815 million in 1932, a 3 percent increase from 1931. Central markets totaled 39.439 million head, down 15 percent from the prior year. Prices fluctuated widely through 1932 with lows around 2.30 and highs near 5.55 in Chicago, while export demand remained weak. December receipts fell 6 percent year over year.
Boston reports a confident wool market as December trade rises over November and prices firm in late December. Receipts at Boston for the week ending December 31 reached 438.4 million pounds versus 353.1 million a week earlier, with 1932 total receipts about 213.0 million pounds compared with 256.0 million in 1931.
Community farm clubs announce upcoming meetings across January and February. Events include the Shipping Association at Lincoln Mon Jan 8 and Monmouth Sat Jan 21, the Farm Bureau at Sis urAe Tue Jan 10 and WHI damshoro Fri Jan 13, and creamery sessions at North English Wed Jan 25 and Anamosa Thu Jan 26, with additional dates in Amber Sat Feb and Hopkinton Mon Feb. 20. An editor note invites officers to send a card to the farm editor.
Hopkinton farmers return to barter trading wood corn pigs chickens and cows with local merchants. Corn sells for 14 cents a bushel oats 12 cents and green hardwood four dollars a cord. Few farm sales planned this winter as landlords extend contracts to help tenants recover.
About 200 hogs and 100 cattle sold Tuesday at the Midway pavilion consignment sale. Shoats brought 1 50 to 4 10 a head, brood sows 5 to 7 75, boars 6 to 11, milk cows 18 to 37 50, calves 7 to 22, horses 35 and 39, chickens 25 to 50 cents, straw 16 cents, hay 23 cents, corn 15 to 16 14 cents. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and H M Duncan. Colne Junction State bank clerk.
Houston plans the 1933 Fat Stock Show from March 3 to 9, aiming to be twice as large as prior years. President J W Sartwelle is noted in association with the event.
Special report: Bernard Ship ping association sold 109 hogs at Chicago Tuesday averaging 205 pounds. The top price reached 320 dollars per hundredweight.
The Toledo Reload marketing group reports 476 decks of hogs handled in 1932 up from 302 in 1931, totaling 27,876 head weighing 6,571,095 pounds and netting producers 212,646.35 dollars. Markets included Waterloo, Chicago, New York City, Detroit, and more. Ninety percent were graded for wholesale sale. under 160 pound hogs were sold as feeders to farmers.
A pair of farm auctions set for January. On Thursday January 5 a 100 acre Abel Cory farm near Marion hosts a consignment sale at Wilson barn Mechanicsville. On Friday January 6 a Shorthorn bull sale near MarteNe by Theo Martin and Son with consignment at DeClow barn.
Charles A. Gary of Montour is president with Frank C. Earley of Traer as first vice president Charles E. Brandt of Toledo as second vice president Robert Lyon of Traer as secretary and Henry Thede Jr of Gladbrook as treasurer for the organization.
Special to The Gazette Monticello Iowa February 6 Monticello Co operative Creamery hosts annual meeting editor John Thompson of Wallaces Farmer and Iowa Homestead Des Moines will speak to members at the event.
A fragmentary verse snippet presents a narrator describing his niece who married her employer and faced poor treatment at home She plans to return to the employer’s office to prompt better behavior and restore harmony in their relationship The tone is regional and informal with a touch of humor.
On the house floor Rep. Cyrenus Cole of Cedar Rapids warned against monetizing farm liens. He argued a lien is only a promise to pay and that farmers would bear repayment when government collects. Rep. Lankford of Georgia defended a bill to monetize farm liens to let farmers file liens and obtain currency based on them.
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a barn and several livestock on a farm three miles southwest of Whittier. A goat, a bull owned by Sam Palmer, and three calves perished, with possible silo damage. Neighbors and Springville fire department saved other buildings. no one was home. Insurance through Brown Township Farmers Mutual. Loss undetermined.
Roy Hildebrand a Louisa county farmer sold twenty five yearlings weighing 917 pounds each at the Chicago market on Tuesday at six dollars eighty five cents per hundredweight.
Des Moines Iowa Farm Bureau federation gears for its annual convention January 18 to 20 with a distinct women program. A special opening day meeting will feature prominent Iowa farm women and leaders and include a model township Farm Bureau gathering plus daily 4 H club luncheons at the First Methodist church and other women focused events ahead of the general sessions.
A. R. McElhinney sold 73 white-face cattle averaging 900 pounds to Schroeder and Harwood for Sinclair at Cedar Rapids. The sale brought $2,847 at the farm and the cattle were trucked to Cedar Rapids.
Public sale on a farm two miles east of Mare Tellie on a gravel road one mile south offers the 1932 crop of Shorthorn bull calves. The event details the sire group and calf lot numbers for buyers.
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