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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1949
Page
13
Iowa lawmakers push to amend the CCC charter to acquire and hold real and personal property for expanded storage. Bills would let CCC construct storage facilities and accept private funds, addressing shortages that have cost farmers corn and wheat storage.
Weather-heavy chores strain a farm as fence drift catches in the woven fire. Cattle moved from stalk fields for feed. tank heater fires. feeders filled. more bedding and frozen pipes demand attention. Solid winter conditions persist on the farm.
The Inbred Swine Registry Association will hold its third annual meeting Thursday at the Lowry hotel in St Paul. L M Winters of the University of Minnesota swine dept is secretary. Two directors will be chosen, with a banquet at 6 pm. Officers with expiring terms are Arthur Likes and Die Todnem. Members raising Minnesota No 1 and 2 and Montana No 1 hogs are in 28 states. Over 100 breeders from six states plan to attend. The meeting is open to all swine raisers.
Masonville Grange debated possible methods to control crop acreages if action becomes necessary. Twenty four members attended the meeting held Tuesday evening at Rocky Ridge school.
Auction offers wagon gear hay racks harness and collars farm implements all in good condition plus dairy equipment including a Delaval cream separator and milk cans. The 100 acre farm near Anamess Frairieburg features a dairy barn house silo and good all weather road access. 20 percent cash sale day with balance in March upon title abstract.
Washington reports that the western Corn Belt likely would house most government funded grain storage if Congress approves an ever normal granary plan. The plan aims to stabilize meat and livestock by smoothing feed grain supply amid regional variations, particularly in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas.
Jan 20 1 p m dissolution sale at Eugene Doe estate and Fred Bowdish 6 mi SE of Central City. 11 a m public sale of livestock hay grain machinery at Otto Dennison 2 mi S of Solon. Jan 21 12 noon closing out machinery Frank Prizler estate 3 mi NE of North Liberty. Jan 24 10:30 a m closing out machinery A W Schafbach 1 mi W of Marengo. 11 a m 100 acre farm live stock hay grain machinery Harold Eden 7% mi NW of Anamosa. Jan 25 11 a m dissolution machinery Housel and Coover 4% mi SE of Ladora. Jan 29 purebred Hampshire sale 80 gilts Fruehaus Farms Cedar Rapids. Feb 2 1 p m purebred Duroc sale 61 head Gregor Vaske and Sons Dyersville sale barn.
Farmers in Independence Benton Buchanan and Delaware counties with FHA loans posted about a ten percent income decline in 1948. Supervisor Kenneth Hyde reported that incomes rose from 1943 to 1947 but fell in 1948 while family living expenses operating costs and capital expenditures also failed to rise in that year.
Karl and Jack Hoft of Ida Grove Iowa won top honors in the carload fed cattle class with Herefords at the National Western Stock Show in Denver Their exhibit also won grand and reserve champion titles in past shows Ault Colo bidder Kilpatrick brothers claimed reserve Hampshires hogs saw James I Henry of Longmont win grand honors while cross bred sheep reserve went to Woods brothers of Ault Readings on auctions noted slower bids signaling possible market normalization with first Hereford sale averaging 1025 dollars per head and a top bid of 2000 for Lady Skylark I
Trails End ranch at Hillsdale Colorado was sold to Switzer and Field of Gunnison. Average for the first ten sold was $163 below the overall average for females at the 1948 show. John T. Cain, stock show manager, said bidding was dispirited but prices were fairly good. A major Western ranch operator warned that fair range conditions could spur competition among feeders.
West Liberty meets as Jack Blair is elected president of the young farmers class with Robert Smith as vice president Jay Steen as secretary treasurer and councilmen Raymond Pel zer George Lewis Don Owen Ronald Brown and Wayne Noring. Cecil Bowie reports six more meetings planned this year beginning with Monday on soil testing.
Des Moines reports December 1948 hatchings reach over 950000, the largest on record, with 74985000 chicks for the year, down from 91440000 previous year and 120000000 in 1943. National hatcheries sold 63 percent more chicks than 1947, and prices for straight run and sexed pullets are listed for 1949 starts.
A dissolution sale is being held at the partners premises located two miles east and twenty one percent south of Ladora or five miles west and two hundred fourteen south of Marengo. The notice indicates an exit from the partnership with sale of remaining goods at the described location.
Tuesday sale lists 100 head of livestock including Holstein cows and calves, bred stock, pigs, and farm machinery from Oakdale. Equipment includes tractors, plows, corn planters, binders, mowers, wagons, feeders, waterers, and brooder stoves with terms cash or arrangements. Lunch served. Harte and Eckert auctioneers. Town County Savings Bank clerk.
Gene Hampton of Whittier traveled to Denver to attend the national chinchilla show at week’s end. Over 200 top chinchillas from across the country entered the event. Hampton started his chinchilla ranch after moving from California to Whittier.
A Porter and Sons feed lot west of Walker showcases a group of 500 pound Hereford calves along with fat heifers and cows. The ad highlights a 5c Check Plan by Peoples Bank and Trust in Cedar Rapids with offices at Newhall and Center Point. It promotes statewide Better Milking Clinics hosted by Iowa State College extension service, including a Cedar Rapids Coliseum session on Thursday January 27 focusing on mastitis prevention, herd management, sanitation, milking equipment, and demonstrations by extension dairy staff.
Benton county 4-H safety program named state’s most outstanding. Award includes a General Motors plaque. Don Koopman of Newhall won county medal. Larry Siddall of Laurens won state and national 1948 Farm Safety honors. Twenty-six other county medalists named.
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