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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1935
Page
4
A Des Moines market feature notes hog prices and meat futures rising through mid December to mid January. Light lights led gains with some moves up to 75 cents per hundredweight, while heavier cuts and packing runs lagged behind.
Prices of standard grades in prominent central markets show extreme ranges for 1934 per the federal bureau of agricultural economics. Wheat, corn, oats, barley, butter, cheese, eggs, fowls, apples, potatoes, calfskins and hides display wide fluctuations across Minneapolis Kansas City New York Chicago and other hubs.
Joe L. Robinson secretary of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association cautioned farmers about buying hybrid seed corn not certified. He noted some hybrids can yield seven to ten bushels more per acre than local open pollinated varieties.
Stalled hog quota debates spill from out-of-state pressure led by John B. Wilson of Ohio. Iowa counties face 1935 contract signings under newly established bases. Benton county residents celebrate not accepting flat cuts while warning on who controls the show.
Robinson urged buying only certified seed from reliable concerns. The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association certifies hybrid seed by tracing seed stock origin, inspecting detasseling quality, and bin germination. A seedman list will include growers with certified seed after Feb 1 via county agents and Smith-Hughes instructors.
On a windy New Year Eve Glen McFarland held a soil erosion lesson for six pupils instead of celebrations. The illustrated talk traced soil history and stressed conserving fertility and energy for a good start in the year. Attendees included William Pruess and his son Melin Alfred Pruess, George Bonjour and his son Maurice, and Harry Miller.
Hartwick Co-operative Shipping association schedules its annual meeting for January. The 1934 black walnut crop is reported above average in both quantity and quality.
A long list of discounted staples and assorted foods with prices, including sugar 50¢ for 2 lbs, oleo, canned fish, flour, coffee, cereals, and fresh produce. The ad notes free delivery and Saturday through Thursday specials at 1295 Third Avenue SW. It highlights Nestled items like Colby cream cheese 17¢ per lb, 1 lb cocoa 18¢, and multiple flour brands with bulk 49 lb sacks.
Paul McElroy of Sidney is appointed acting county agent in Fayette for six months while B W Lodwick serves as agricultural administrator in rural rehabilitation in Iowa. McElroy, a former 4 H club agent in Franklin county, coached the winning livestock judging team at the Iowa State fair and graduated in agronomy from Ames in 1931.
W. F Christopher of La Porte City was named chairman of the policy committee for 1935 by the Eastern Iowa Veterinary association executive board in Cedar Rapids. I. W. Moranville of Durant was chosen as secretary with a teen advisory group chaired by W. C. Vollstedt of Dixon and John Bryant of Mount Vernon. The session, attended by 32 practitioners, featured lab technique and microscopy by Dr. E. A. Benbrook and artificial insemination discussion by Dr. George R. Fowler.
Federal weather official J B Kincer cites human actions as amplifying last year’s drought through improper land use and overgrazing. He argues vegetation loss and soil erosion worsened dust storms while rainfall deficits reflect broader climate patterns rather than mere drainage. He notes moisture in air exists, but moisture removal governs rain outcomes with regional contrasts such as July low in Arkansas despite April rains.
Nine pups with collie markings were found in a corn shock at 12 degrees below zero on a Marion field. Basil, Bernita and Norman Zier and Danny Sills crossed the 13 acre tract owned by R. B. Eckhart to see a dam’s nest. Eckhart notes he never heard of a mother dog bearing pups in a field mid winter.
Mr. Kincer notes July moisture rose 86 percent over April as a sign that rain suppression stems from the first phase of rainmaking failing. He explains that tropical air masses moving poleward rise against polar air, cool, condense moisture, and release rain when polar flows arrive, with drought relief arriving only after mid August.
OLIN Lorenzen Brothers and Everett Koppenhaver swept the annual corn and legume show staged by the Olin high school vocational agriculture department. Lorenzen Brothers won ten ears of corn and Koppenhaver won for commercial corn. Other winners included Will Pruess for alfalfa hay, Fritz Engleking for soy bean hay, Ed Beck for clover hay, and George Bonjour for soy bean grain.
The two day conference outlines permits for excess corn and hog production under the 1935 base rules. It details county allotment appeals to raise corn acreage and how ratios from the 1930 census determine allowed plantings. Hog permits follow a formula using adjusted corn bases and yields, with payments not issued and the entire unit on one contract.
DECORAH The Winneshiek county Farm Bureau and Luther college faculty co operate in young farmers meetings. The first session Jan 10 features Bernard Travis wildlife conservation specialist as principal speaker. Attendees must be aged 16 to 26.
At the M. T. Lacock auction north of Lisbon a Percheron team sold for 390 dollars to Charles Wickham. Other livestock brought solid prices, with dairy cows up to 44, seven yearling Shorthorns at 36, calves 22.50, hogs 2.60 a head, and various poultry and seeds auctioned. A Crawfordsville sale closed out with clover and timothy hay selling for 20.50 a ton and a black mare at 105 dollars. Additional livestock and farm gear fetched multiple sums, including 200 bushels of corn at 87 cents a bushel and Angus cattle averaging 48 dollars per head.
The county recorder reports $4,693.10 in loans on fourteen cribs of 1934 corn sealed in Jackson County since December 1. Seventeen cribs of 1933 corn totaling 13,031 bushels have been resealed. Banks also lend on other farm commodities and one farmer secured $3,025 on corn at 75 cents a bushel.
Closing out sale by Frank Cahill at 24 percent miles southwest of Fairfax. Public sale on Tuesday January 8 by Mrs. Austin Mc Queen five miles northwest of Marion. Wednesday January public sale by Mrs. Alice hn worth five miles east of Marion. Public sale by S. E. Arbingast two miles northeast of Lisbon.
Government farm flock data show 75.5 hens per flock on December 1 down from 80.2 a year ago and 84 five years earlier, while eggs per hen rose to 11.9. Egg production up about 8 percent from 1933, despite fewer layers, with price trends and feed costs outlined.
Randalia cooperative creamery patrons received 34 cents a pound for December butterfat the highest price in many months reported by the Randalia creamery board.
Thirty-two Linn county dairymen earned National Dairy association honor roll certificates for 1934 with herds averaging over 300 pounds of butterfat per cow. Five herds surpassed 400 pounds. E. C. Forest led with 482 pounds.
In district court activity Thursday the transfer of 160 acres in Iowa county was recorded at 68.25 dollars an acre. Henry Weiss purchased the property from Ole H. Olson acting as referee in the suit Etta Willis versus Jessie Owen et al with 7320 dollars cash and 3000 dollars mortgage debt noted.
Members and stockholders of the Central Co-Operative association, a livestock selling agency on the south St. Paul market, will divide 123,673 dollars after a 1934 business year. Directors declared a 30 percent refund and an eight percent stock dividend for member farmers and livestock growers across Minnesota and neighboring states.
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