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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1936
Page
6
The report shows total cold storage holdings of beef pork and mutton reaching 432 698 000 pounds on Jan 1 1936 up 85 664 000 pounds from Dec 1 with pork leading gains despite a small December hog kill. Poultry rose to 107 206 000 pounds while butter and cheese declined and beef held 106 044 000 pounds.
Amid reflections on Sherman Wallace and geopolitical rhetoric, the article reports dramatic 1935 imports of beef pork and canned meats. It notes 1935 beef imports at 9,449,720 pounds versus 917,309 in 1934, pork at 9,257,841 pounds foreign, canned meats rising 76 percent, and live cattle imports reaching an all time high since 1930.
In Crd 4, Tip Toon RF and townships compete in the VertT Py Pos event starting January 28. Tipton Copter and Pre tay ostips are noted participants with top counts expected as teams vie for farm buys and titles.
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation delegates opened their Des Moines meeting amid discussion of a substitute program for farm control. A four man committee prepared resolutions likely endorsing Washington farm policy actions and urging renewed government control efforts. 4-H girls and boys from Iowa were scheduled for events during the federation meetings with leaders and state officers featured in teas and luncheons.
Rural folk from fourteen township Farm Bureau organizations in Fayette county will travel to Des Moines for the annual State Farm Bureau Federation meeting this week. Anamosa delegates from Jane County Farm Bureau plan to attend after similar sessions in Des Moines, with about sixteen attending in total.
A sequence of public and consignment sales runs Jan 15 through Jan 21 near Newhall Cedar Rapids Morley Marion Anamosa Onslow Conroy Onslow DeWitt and other Illinois Iowa towns. Listings include S Weyer J H Blackford August Zu ber Petersen Warriner and Courtney Neilson.
Ames Iowa dairy association meets during Farm and Home Week at Iowa State College with each department reporting progress and a state corn show also staged during the event.
Des Moines report shows Iowa government sealed corn stock totaling 11,222,572 bushels valued at 55,050,?40. Counties listed include Scott 46,761 and Linn 43,155 with other eastern counties posting smaller counts.
December results from the Washington County Cow Test Association show 303 cows with 68 dry on test averaging 532 pounds of milk and 234 pounds of butterfat. The high herd owned by Dean and Dan Johnson of Brighton averaged 892 pounds of milk and 36.5 pounds of butterfat from 14 grade Holsteins, with a top cow yielding 2,003 pounds of milk and 821 pounds of butterfat.
Approximately fifty delegates from Fayette county will attend a northeast Iowa district 4-H meeting at Oelwein on January 23. Leaders from boys and girls clubs, county agents, club agents, and 4-H committees from eleven counties plan to discuss policies and methods to improve and expand club work in 1936.
A cream grad ing school for applicants for cream graders licenses and Babcock testers licenses is set at Maquoketa High School on January 21. L. A. Horstman of Davenport and H E Skott of Epworth, state dairy and food inspectors, will lead the school and conduct examinations.
Iowa State College land-use studies underscore soil conservation as essential to farm policy. Erosion is tied to tenancy, debts, cropping systems, and farm size with over half of Iowa’s land losing topsoil. Farmers in debt tend to overcrop, and tenant vs owner practices affect erosion control.
Thirty Delaware county representatives from corn-hog committees and others met in Manchester to plan agricultural relief after AAA discontinuation and to form a county planning board. They, led by County Agent Kermith S Huehn and Warren S Bissell, sent letters to Senator Murphy and Congressman Fred Biermann seeking payment of 1935 corn-hog contracts and expenses to date.
Fifty-one corn-hog checks totaling 5593 dollars were distributed to Cedar county producer-signers as part of the week’s allotment payments. A minor change in receipting methods accompanied the distribution, coming shortly before the AAA Supreme Court decision.
Sixteen yearling Hampshire brood sows sold for $34 each at Edward Pitlik sale near Mount Vernon. Other livestock items included gilts $23-$25, shoats $11.50-$13.50, boars $25-$30, pigs $5.25, milk cows up to $86.50, stock cows $45-$60, Hereford heifers $41, calves $30.25, summer calves $24-$28, Hereford bull calf $80, and Buff Orpington pullets 94 cents. Bidding on farm equipment and feedstuffs also noted. Auctioneers were W. E. Challis and Gerald Hill.
At the Kivell sale in Aurora top yearling mare brought 175 to Buck Humbert of Volga City. The top seven month old suckling colt sold for 120 to J. C. Offer of Waucoma. An Ohio buyer purchased twelve good mare colts. About sixty head of native horses and colts were sold. A 3 year old Holstein Keifer sold for 77.50 with others around 70.
A J Johnson of Moorhead was named acting president of the Farmers Union on Tuesday. Johnson will lead the organization while G B Miller of Oskaloosa is on paid leave due to ill health.
Soothing Zemo provides relief for itching burning skin including rashes ring worm eczema and pimples. The ad urges use on tender skin insisting on genuine Zemo approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau No 4874 and priced 35 60 or 1 for druggists.
West Union farmers creamery reports 1935 butterfat paid 30.16 cents per pound amid a drop in total butter production from 1944 to 1935. Revenue details include butter sold to patrons and stores, shipments to New York, and creamery sales with bank balances and dividends noted. Officers and directors listed.
About twenty delegates from Louisa county will attend the Iowa Farm Bureau federation annual meeting in Des Moines on January 15 16 and 17.
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