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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1952
Page
2
A farmer’s family records a New Year week in 1951 with chores and humor. Jim repairs a feed rack, calves and sheep roam, and visitors bring cap pistols and prayers. A war and mobilization context frames daily life amid snowbound roads and holiday gifts.
Floyd Booth of Cedar Rapids was re elected president of the Cedar Rapids Co operative Dairy board at its first meeting after the annual membership meeting Dec 28. R B Condit Springville was named vice president and Frank Begnick Ladora was elected secretary treasurer. Other board members are Harold Neve Vinton and Miles Sutera Robins. James D Cramer is the manager.
Estimated Monday livestock receipts in Chicago include cattle 15000 hogs 21000 and sheep 2500 as reported by market officials.
Butter price gains soften a seasonal cut in the Class I over Class II premium in the Cedar Rapids Iowa City milk market. The Fed order determines Class II price from Illinois condensaries or a Chicago butter and cheese value mix, with January Class I at 4.502 per hundredweight and a 1.05 premium for July-December.
Washington reports the agriculture department estimates dwindling feed grain reserves will fall to 18 million tons by October 1, 1952. That short supply means meat per consumer likely stays at about 140 pounds for 1952 and could drop in 1953.
Cows producing 500 pounds of butterfat last year earned their owners eight times the average dairy cow labor value.
In a wartime style verse, Carlson questions trust in British support while urging Americans to guard finances. The piece references Churchill possibly flying from a ship to meet Truman and evokes Paul Revere to warn of danger to dollars amid Allied loyalty and national resolve.
Government scientists report a test using radioisotopes and Geiger counters to gauge phosphorus in soil. Researchers L A Dean and Maurice Fried devised the tracer technique to track nutrient uptake by plants, enabling fertility assessment.
Brooklyn Iowa Stanley Stover of Toledo is named Poweshiek county extension director effective February 1. He succeeds Loren Brown who resigns to farm March 1. Stover, a Tama county youth assistant since 1950, is ISU graduate and Navy veteran with a wife and two children. Brown previously led extension work after Harold Miller's 1940 death and served four years in the Air Corps ending as a major.
Rural Linn county farms were inspected for fire hazards by 239 students under C E Herriott. Two hundred hazards were found and addressed, with follow ups and re inspections to ensure removal. Pupils also presented fire prevention programs and safety demonstrations during Fire Prevention week.
In Hopkinton 480 cows tested in the South Delaware DHIA in December averaged 497 pounds of milk and 19.7 pounds of butterfat, with 159 cows dry. The high herd was Wetter and Thomas’ grade Holstein at 1095 pounds of milk and 39.5 fat. William Haeussler and Bernard Ryan ranked second and third.
Iowa State economist Francis Kutish will speak Monday evening at Monticello High School. The event is hosted by William Vance Stead, a vocational agriculture advocate, and aims to inform students about economic topics.
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