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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1958
Page
13
Grade A milk producers in the Cedar Rapids Iowa City market will be paid a minimum blend price of 4.75 per hundred pounds for milk delivered in December. Price adjusts by 7.2 cents per hundredweight for each tenth of a percent butterfat above or below 3.5 percent.
ELKADER The Clayton County Artificial Breeding Association will hold its annual meeting at 8 p.m. January 29 in the Elkader municipal building. Nick Fabricius of the Flabeau Valley Farm Cooperative Dairy at Ladysmith Wisconsin will speak, along with Lyle Jackson and Burns Byram, Eastern Iowa breeders representatives.
Reinbeck's Reinbeck Lievel Plachn is re-elected president of the Grundy County Fair Board. John Geenken of Grundy Center and W T Hecht named vice president and treasurer. Hussell Newell of Columbus Junction will speak on legal problems at 7 30 p.m. Monday at the agricultural building.
Strong opposition to extending the wool act faces Western lawmakers in Congress as testing results from Nevada predict a January 16 boar sale at the 4 H pavilion. Iowa State experts will discuss swine production and test ratings to aid buyers.
Swift and Company will shift Chicago slaughtering activities to its Omaha and other Midwest plants. The Chicago scarf, dumb and sheep slaughtering operations will close January 25 due to limited calf and lamb supplies.
A dense OCR listing details numerous farm auctions across January and February in Iowa. It names bidders, locations, times, and items including livestock machinery grain hay poultry milking equipment and household goods for farms near Mechanicsville North Liberty Center Point Anamosa Tipton West Branch Walker Monticello Atkins Marion Gar rison Robinson Tipton and surrounding areas.
WHITTIER Linn county Farmers Institute will be held January 22 and 23 at the Whit tier community hall. Day and evening programs are planned both days. A home talent play is scheduled for the night of January 23. Feed oyster shell and hard grit to laying hens for strong eggs and better feed efficiency.
At the Maynard annual meeting of the Harlan Cooperative Creamery Company George Betz Raymond Crettsch and Delbert J Glew were reelected to three year terms. Betz was named president Glen vice president and Dale Schrader secretary. The board includes E H Borehers Gar Hand Trower and Gene Browzell. Manager Maurice Hurd said the last fiscal year produced 263 633 pounds of butter sold for 159 925 59 with skim milk sold to Maquoketa Valley Cooperative and Arlington bringing in additional income.
Des Moines report notes corn and soybean harvests nearly finished by year end while grain sorghum remains in fields. Poor weather and high snare masteruns continue to hurt, with farmers shelling corn for drying and seeking salvage by grazing. average sorghum price around 58 cents per pound, about 1.28 cents higher than last year.
The creamery calculated butterfat payments at a rate of cents per pound and paid producers 147103 for butterfat 125338.83 for grade A milk and 30323 for skimmilk. Net savings or underpayments for the year totaled 697.20 with all bills paid. Hurd disclosed staff additions including William Eldridge assistant secretary Robert Schrader trucker and Richard Guenter plant helper.
Soviet Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich said Russia will surpass the United States in milk production this year and catch up in meat later, as Khrushchev calls for an all out push to outproduce the U S in meat milk and butter by 1960. He noted milk production rose 11 percent to 55 million long tons in 1957 versus 37 6 million in the United States.
Itsee for 1957 notes that the 1953 Soviet farm mission to the United States found cooperation far from satisfactory with only eight of a hundred visitors accepting invitations to Russia. Soviet officials to San Francisco irrigation talks reported denial of a tour invitation. US visas for 11 Soviet water experts were not replied to. Anamosa dairy banquet set for January 15 with speaker A Iverson. Buckhingham: Margaret Anderson sold 8 acre Black Hawk county farm to Lamyrd Schoentrup at 537 dollars per acre.
The International Federation of Agricultural Producers reports rising meat intake across most countries. Argentinians eat about 235 pounds per person annually the highest globally followed by New Zealand 324 pounds and Australia 218 pounds. United States 167 Canada 148 Greece 33 Mexico 39.
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