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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1934
Page
12
Reaction in eastern Iowa to the corn and hog production adjustment plan is nearly 100 percent favorable. County and township sign-up committees are to be named by contract signers and travel expenses will be handled later. Kick-off in most counties starts next week after preliminary informational meetings and home visits in some places.
A vivid narrator recounts a chaotic farm scene with a calf in milk, a dogged calf herd, and multiple bovine intrusions. The speaker fends off squawking cows as milk and fur fly, while a protesting dogie fights back with tail flips and frantic flailing.
Authorities describe a total benefit plan in Iowa totaling about 75 million dollars with payments expected by February 1 or shortly after. The plan outlines when beneficiaries will receive the funds and how the large sum will be disbursed across the state.
Wilton Junction Shipping association reelected William Herr president Bert Gill secretary Emil Schroeder treasurer and manager and Bert Snider Henry Moeller and Charles Shuger as directors at its annual meeting. The year’s report shows 14064 hogs 306 cattle and 819 sheep with receipts totaling 25000.
Otto Harms assistant buttermaker at the Oelwein creamery resigns to become manager of a privately owned dairy plant at Savanna NL. The son of Fred Harms he has two years dairy study at Iowa State College and years assisting his father at Oelwein.
More than 4,000 individuals are expected to attend the Iowa Farm Bureau federation annual convention in Des Moines January 24 to 26. Noted speakers include William Myers Farm Credit administration Washington J F Porter American Farm Bureau federation G J Mecherle State Farm Mutual Insurance and R M Evans Iowa corn hog committee chair. The program emphasizes agricultural recovery and government progress with contests, judging, and awards for high-scoring quartets orchestras and membership achievements. Friday features corn hog program talks by Evans and ISU official Bliss.
Mark Brandt of Davenport, field representative for the state committee, will discuss the corn hog program at Buckhorn during the two day farmers institute set for Tuesday and Wednesday. Ernest Wright of Waterloo, field secretary of the Iowa State Dairy association, speaks Wednesday on The Future of the Dairy Industry in Iowa. A better scoring contest will be held Wednesday.
Three truck loads of choice cattle shipped to Chicago Sunday by Durham and Potter, farmers nearby. Two truck loads sent to Chicago Thursday by Durham and Flannigan.
Notice is given that on January 6 1934 the undersigned was appointed and qualified as Executor of the estate of Mary Adeline Kepler late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All debts should be paid to the undersigned and all claims filed with the Linn County Iowa District Court clerk. E A Johnson Executor. E A Johnson Attorney.
BETHANY Mo Three hundred thousand pounds of legume and other grass seed are to be used for planting to stop soil washing and aid in runoff control on farms in the Missouri Iowa demonstration erosion control project under the federal land improvement program. Seeds include lespedeza timothy blue grass red clover alsike clover sweet clover alfalfa and sudan grass. Eight hundred thousand pounds of fertilizer and several thousand tons of limestone are also contemplated to help grow legumes and grasses on land that would otherwise erode or yield poor crops.
West Liberty market reports show milk cows topping at 37 dollars, fat steers at 5.40 per cwt, Herefords 1200 pounds at 5.20, stockers and feeders averaging 3.25 to 3.60, fall pigs 2.25, owes 6.50 to 7.50, and a ram at 6.40.
Yearling short horn bulls were purchased for the baloney herds at High Amanna and Home stead, reinforcing cattle stock.
Washington AP report notes President Roosevelt aims to lift prices via a commodity dollar and related measures to boost farm profits and bear debt. Farmers' crops rise in value with price increases, with corn and oats gaining hundreds of millions in farm value weekly.
A sequence of farm auctions scheduled in January across Iowa details sales by multiple sellers. It lists Hereford and purebred Shorthorn and Holstein consignments near Dubuque Alburnett Cedar Rapids Martelle Monticello Atkins and Cedar Rapids with dates January 18 19 23 25 26 and related locations.
The text explains that creating debt or credit functions like creating money because loans generate bank deposits. It notes the financial system relies on lending to expand money supply and emphasizes the link between borrowing and monetary creation.
Washington AP reports Rep. Gillette of Ta urges lower farm mortgage rates and ending the requirement that farmers must become stockholders in federal land banks to obtain loans.
W. J. Beatty of Atkins sold thirty six steers weighing 1396 pounds each at Chicago on Monday for 5.90 dollars per hundredweight, topping the market for that weight cattle.
Sixty creamerymen and officers from Iowa counties met in Oelwein as part of a statewide series. J H Anderson of Thompson reported on a Washington conference with Secretary Wallace who promised producers would be consulted on dairy regulation. The meeting followed earlier sessions at Extma Spencer Ottumwa and Mason City with more planned.
Corn loans recorded by Wednesday noon raise Linn county total to $228,184.20 on 507,976 bushels. Twenty three loans since Saturday noon total $9,018 on 20,040 bushels.
Tipton corn loans total 207843 73 with 333 loans filed to date. Marengo county Iowa loans reach 160000 with 282 farmers credited. Six weeks remain to increase the loan figures.
George Heitman and Frank W Heitman feeders near Williamsburg sold fat cattle in Chicago Monday. George sold twenty one 1231 pound steers at 5 50 per hundredweight and Frank sold a carload of 1051 pound steers at 6 50.
Annual report shows Des Moines residents bought 3,000,000 fewer pounds of milk in 1933 than 1932. Total milk handled 47,476,748 in 1933 vs 49,386,589 in 1932. Surplus plant processed 28,266,935 pounds, with butter and byproducts totaling 2,460,300 pounds and business over one million dollars. AAA policy shifts emphasis to producer prices and production control, with licensing changes possible to strengthen the cooperative.
The prospect of tax exemption on processing has spurred home hog butchering this winter across the colonies and local farms. Farmers and residents expect to benefit from lower costs as they prepare meat for household use.
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