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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1933
Page
4
A 45 acre pasture trial at Mount Pleasant state hospital farm records cow-days for six plots with varied treatments including lime phosphate potash nitrate and reseeding. The study mirrors a Wisconsin Hoards Dairyman experiment to gauge profitable pasture improvement for farmers.
Specini reports a local corn sale east of here this week with Davis and Sauerbry buying 1 000 bushels at 17 cents from Adolph Schubacker s farm. The grain described as good quality and cribbed, while corn in outer cribs and on the ground changes hands as low as 15 cents.
A popular home cough remedy blends Vinex with a sugar syrup to make a pint bottle. The recipe requires 2 y ounces Vinex and sugar syrup to fill, yielding quick relief by thinning phlegm easing airways and healing throat membranes with pine extract. It promises money-back satisfaction if not effective.
Drift of fencing posts around the town square rises as a postwar demand. Some towns may be obliged to resurrect theirs.
Thirty five farmers and dairymen met in Waterloo to discuss forming a milk price stabilization group. A four member committee was named to develop the plan and twenty four Waterloo dairies with a 4000 quart daily output plan to cooperate. Beutel and Bronson listed costs of producing milk with butterfat testing at 42 percent and suggested an 8 cent per quart retail price. Committee members include C M Bronson Earl Bronson L F Bronson and George Jergensen.
Fayette county assessors met in West Union to debate their pay. P C Buckman of the state board said the goal is equalization, not higher taxes. Seven of thirty five assessors refused to take home their supplies until compensation is settled.
Special to The Gazette reports County Agent F E Krause says a hog vaccination school will be held in Jackson county as soon as ten farmers request it. Several farmers have already asked for the educational session.
Tipton area farmers market hogs as pork and butcher at home, meat cut into sausage chops and roasts. A sale is reported. Frank C Bowdish is re employed as butter taker for the Hawkeye Co operative creamers.
Washington reports that farm leaders, aided by stabilized business, shrinking commodity stocks, and new legislation hopes, expect improvements in agricultural demand and income in coming years. Experts foretell cheaper hogs and cattle, with poultry steady, while wheat and tobacco stocks stay tight.
Iowa county Farm Bureau and several dairy groups announce their annual session dates. Events occur at Williamsboro Monmouth North English Anamosa Amber Hopkinton Monticello and Cedar Rapids with an editor’s note inviting officers to send a card to confirm the date listed above.
Arthur Tefft sought aid from the Farmers Union in a dispute with landlord Henry Moehler of Marshalltown. Union members from six counties urged foreclosure warning be withdrawn and pressed for a compromise: half the corn, two-fifths the grain crops and cash rent for pasture land.
Boyd Foster a Democrat was named chairman of the Washington county board of supervisors, filling the unexpired term of the late Ed Kos. Other members are Roy Mapel and R. E. Brown. The board approved deputies and officers, with Alta Wyse deputy clerk and Mildred Patterson deputy auditor among others.
ANAMOSA The Jones county delinquent tax sale set for January 2 was postponed until January 20. At the courthouse in 1932, four thousand two hundred fifty nine instruments including deeds mortgages chattels and releases were issued, and one hundred fifty two marriage licenses were issued with eighteen divorces granted.
Marvin Wilcke a Jackson county farmer sent 1175 pound steers to Chicago on Tuesday selling at six dollars per hundredweight.
The 1932 Chicago horse market showed stronger demand than 1931 driven by cheap feed and lack of power equipment funds. Farm chunks dominated sales, with most loads weighing 1300 to 1600 pounds fetching 60 to 90 dollars, up to 145 for top young animals. Saddlers and society horses fell sharply from 1931 peaks, while draft horses averaged 125 dollars and matched the previous decade’s steady range.
Delmar Farmers' Shipping association sold 165 hogs weighing 165 pounds each in Chicago on Tuesday. The top price reached $320 per hundredweight, marking the day's high.
A pair of farm sales slated for Friday January 6 include a Shorthorn bull sale two miles east of Martelle by Theo Martin and nun and a consignment sale at DeClow barn. Saturday January 7 features a consignment sale at Meyer barn in Lisbon.
At the St Lucas Co operative creamery annual meeting in 1932 patrons received an average of 22 cents per pound for butterfat. The year produced 250000 pounds of butter with a 23.7 percent overrun. Officers listed include A C Schlichte president Will Mihm vice president G H Hackmann secretary Math Perry treasurer. Directors named Louis Mihm Victor Reicks Conrad Wurzer Peter Stam Meyer John Ameling. Fred Mitchell re employed as buttermaker.
About thirty neighbors of Martin Nieman, a farmer east of Manchester, shushed and cribbed more than 1000 bushels of corn for Nieman who has been bedbound with a broken ankle.
Harry F. Codlin county agent for Dallas county for fourteen years announced his resignation on Thursday. He will join the farm management department of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Codlin led the Iowa County Agents association as president in 1929 30.
Maquoreta Meier Brothers feeders from Jackson county sold a load of mixed yearlings weighing 858 pounds at seven dollars per hundredweight, the top bid of the day. The cattle were purebred Herefords.
Wapello county farmer C. Moore sold light yearling heifers in Chicago on Tuesday at 4.75 dollars per hundredweight, top for load lots, as reported by The Gazette.
Mrs. Mac West of St. Louis reports dropping from 170 to 150 pounds in four weeks after using Kruschen Salts. The ad claims safe weight loss with half teaspoon in hot water each morning and offers a money back guarantee after the first bottle.
Max Saltsgiver of two miles east of here sold to Frank Smoch near Festina a three quarters Belgian mare for 175 dollars. The mare is four years old, sorrel, about 1650 pounds and is coming five years. The Saltsgivers have bred draft horses in roves county for three generations.
Oxford A produce company traded a case of eggs to a local grocer for eight large sacks of flour and twenty pounds of sugar. The value of the eggs matched the value of the flour and sugar to the cent.
A team of 10 and 14 year old horses sold for 170 dollars Tuesday at the John Psota farm sale one mile west of Tipton. Cattle prices ranged with mixed milk cows 12.50 to 40, calves 21, young calves 5 to 13. Sows 11 to 12, fall pigs 1.80 to 3. Machinery sold well. corn 15 cents, oats 14 cents a bushel. William Dinse was auctioneer. National Bank clerk.
OELWEIN patrons of the Farmers' Co operative creamery have received November butterfat payments at 25 and 27 cents a pound. The annual meeting of the organization has been scheduled for January 9.
Four hundred four members of the Black Hawk county Farm Bureau adopted resolutions condemning deficiency judgments after farm mortgage foreclosures and endorsing agricultural credit councils to curb foreclosures. Henry Wallace was urged for secretary of agriculture. S. O. Smalling was re elected president and named voting delegate to the state convention. Students at Iowa State College competed in their eighteenth annual corn and small grain show with twelve corn classes and other grains, sponsored by the agronomy department and seed firms.
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