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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1933
Page
2
Frederick B Murphy argues farmers, as primary purchasing power source, must recover to lift national income. He cites 1932–1933 farm values, mechanization, horse loss, oil imports, and tropical competition as key factors, urging expansion of primary income to revive industry and employment.
Closing out sale on January 17 at 10 30 A M seven miles north of Cedar Rapids on Primary No 11. Items include four head of horses 29 head of cattle 65 hogs 2000 bu corn 800 bu oats 15 tons mixed hay 60 tons ensilage 500 White Leghorn chickens and a full line of farm machinery including a Fordson tractor. Auctioneer Pp C Lassen.
The Farmers Grain Dealers association of Iowa will hold its 29th annual convention in Fort Dodge January 24 to 26. An open forum on agricultural and grain marketing problems replaces the usual addresses, with Orramia'ions affiliated with the association meeting concurrently.
Public sale scheduled Wednesday January 18 at 1 00 PM due to quitting farming. Auction lists 412 mules east of Marion plus five horses, 15 cattle, 17 head of hogs, 1000 bushels corn, 700 bushels oats, 18 tons hay and farm machinery including a Ford coupe.
A schedule lists meetings from January to February across multiple towns. Farmers' creamery events occur at Clermont Oolweth Brooklyn North English Anamosa Center Jund ues Amber Williamsboro Hopkinton Rowley Monticello Coscon and Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy. The dates run January 9 through February 14 with groups including Farm Bureau Shipping Association and Johnson County Farm Bureau participating in various communities.
Special correspondent reports auctions expanding in eastern states with New York and Philadelphia markets seeing top grades fetch 1 to 3 cents above city prices. New Jersey sales exceed 1 million dollars, while overall volume remains small but growing and auctions promote better grading and packing for higher value.
The farm editor reports the egg market remains favorable overall but storage holdings are at their lightest in two decades. Prices range from 15 to 23 cents a dozen in Iowa and New York, with production below normal and shifting distribution patterns.
The article portrays lively auction scenes with a young mare sale and auctioneer banter, then shifts to the DeClow sales yards near Cedar Rapids. It highlights the auction as a barometer for economic change, urging a regional stockyard to ease transportation costs and boost farmers’ income. Gene Fagan notes attendance across Cedar Rapids area towns, while W. L. DeClow pushes open market ideals for livestock growth.
A Clarence area auction on the John Bauman farm sold a popcorn crib for 68 cents a bushel Friday. Two hundred bushels of ordinary corn brought 15 and a half cents, and 1,200 bushels sold at 15 and a half cents. Timothy hay brought 4.50 a ton. Heifers ranged from 12.50 to 33 a head. A 2 year old sorrel colt sold for 75 and a team brought 144. John Boling of Stanwood was auctioneer with Clarence Savings Bank clerk on duty.
At the Kaeppel farm sale near Hawkeye oats sold higher than corn with corn at 15 cents and oats at 15 14 cents per bushel. A shock of corn brought 15 14 cents. Hay went for 2.60 a ton and horses peaked at 77. Sheep averaged 2.60 a head and cows 28. About 1500 attendees paid cash for items.
A 14 year old blind mare brought 41 dollars at the sale of Albert Kautz five miles northwest of Tipton. A 12 year old team sold for 172 dollars and a Shetland pony 27 dollars. Milk cows brought 15 to 30 dollars a head calves 15 and 2 year old steers 24. Vaccinated feeding shoots weighing forty to 125 pounds sold from 1 50 to 5 dollars a head. Two thousand bushels of corn sold at 15 cents.
Twelve head of yearling feeder cattle sold for $5.50 a hundredweight to Clayton Kline at the consign ment auction managed by Sam Young. Twenty sheep brought $3.30 a head, pigs $3.15 each and a Duroc boar $11.25. Fifteen horses sold up to 83, one team brought 166.
Conant and King sold 240 acres five miles east of Gladbrook to James Mitchell of Dysart for 20000. The land adopts the Thomas Whannel homestead name.
An analysis of hog supply and shipper demand at Chicago shows no clear trend in direct hog deliveries over three years with a large drop in shipper channel usage in 1932. Direct receipts fell to 14.6 percent of totals in 1932 as feeders shifted to direct shipments to eastern packers, affecting central market competition and prices.
Cedar County Farmers Union annual meeting resolutions oppose the domestic allotment plan in its present form. They advocate scrip as exchange, demand cost of production based on the American standard of living, seek a mortgage moratorium, repeal tuberculin test law provisions, repeal county agricultural agent levies, repeal the emergency act, and amend the Bergman road law to restore road maintenance to township trustees.
A 30 000 acre game refuge was proposed in Spring Creek township Black Hawk county and adjacent Jefferson township Buchanan county. The plan emerged at a meeting of 35 farmers at Buzzard school organized by John Jago deputy fish and game warden of Waterloo. Roy Ashley of La Porte City was named committee chairman to organize the project and the La Porte City Isaac Walton league aided by Dr L F Bailey offered to provide signs marking the refuge.
Monmouth Shipping association manager Lee Ripperton sold twenty four Berkshire hogs weighing 256 pounds each for Frank Fagan of Cascade at Chicago at 3.15 per hundredweight. The consignment also included fifty-one butchers averaging 243 pounds at 3.00, for L. Buckholtz of Wyoming. Francis McMalley offered thirty-three hogs at 301 pounds each for 2.90.
Thendersigned will sell at public auction on the Frank Hendrickson farm located six miles north of Cedar Rapids on Highway No 11. The sale is scheduled for Tuesday January 1.
Farm auction notices list sales on Thursday January 12 by F. J. Sonka eight miles south of Cedar Rapids and on Tuesday January 11 the closing out sale of L. W. Bump seven miles north of Cedar Rapids.
Directors of the Farmers Union Livestock Commission in Omaha denounced interstate commerce commission freight rates as harmful to markets on the Missouri River. They noted Denver profits from through stock shipments and reported 1932 Omaha yard livestock totals down from 1931. C E Childe prepared data for an ICC hearing in Denver on transit privileges set for January 23.
Johnson County Farm Bureau session in Iowa City features a township drama contest with four casts advancing from eliminations. Lincoln township performs Not Quite a Goose, Clear Creek presents Elmer, Oxford township offers The Neighbors, and Sharon Union Washington compete for a finals slot with officer reports and resolutions planned later.
Clarence Creamery set Jan 25 for its annual meeting at 1 p.m. in the Shipping Association office. Secretary Clarence F. Bachman reports butterfat returns of 24 cents per pound net for the last half of November and 23 cents net for the first half of December, with one cent per pound set aside in a sinking fund for patrons.
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