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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1937
Page
15
Iowa farmers embrace refrigerated meat lockers enabling year round butchering and higher quality meat. Managers like Frank C Smith cite rapid freezing, odor control, and uniform temperatures from 14 degrees below zero to 10 above as key to preserving meat and vegetables.
Forty men attended the final session of the farm school at Blue Plaine Tuesday. The event was conducted by Lewis Falek, high school agriculture instructor, with Thomas Garton also noted. Details are fragmented but indicate a completion of a local farming program.
At the annual Mer ion Livestock Marketing meeting Roscoe Blinks was elected director for two years. Irving Scott and Leste Dunn were chosen for three year terms. Sam Thompson of the Ames extension service and Jo Do Williams of Chariton spoke, detailing cattle hogs sheep and totals across 1925 to 1938 with various gross and net figures.
Ridgeway Lincoln Creamery reported 1936 butterfat bought total 322,070 pounds at 36.8 cents per pound while 400,404 pounds yielded butter at 31.62 cents per pound with 2.43 percent overrun. Officers Benson Seim Pronk Vahea Heeven, Paetheam and Wied e noted at Ridgeway.
Fayette Township committees announce upcoming meetings in County for 19397 season. Local officials list venues including Center West and surrounding towns with dates in the midweek period acknowledging community notices and attendance.
Achievement certificates were awarded at a Farm Bureau gathering in Tawa with categories for individuals and organizations. The article lists winning townships across multiple counties in eastern Iowa and notes 4-H membership and office secretaries contest results among named counties and townships.
At about 2 am fire destroyed a Wallace farm barn and crib, burning 1000 bushels of corn, 209 bushels of soybeans, nine tons of cottonseed, a tractor and grinder, and a chicken house with 200 chicks. Sheep and hogs were saved. Loss partly covered by insurance.
C H Van Vlack Ames extension engineer will conduct rural electrification meetings in Allamakee County on February 2 and 3, per Farm Bureau office report from Waukon.
Anamosa buyers Straka Brothers and Jones County feeders sold sixty five 289-pound Poland China butcher hogs at 1020 dollars per hundredweight in Chicago on Tuesday.
Ames extension specialist Alma H Jones will lead a series of home project training schools in Allamakee County next week. Meetings are set in Lansing Tuesday Waukon Wednesday Jan 27 Waterville Jan 28 and Forest Mills Jan 29. In Decorah Harold V Beatty will discuss rural electrification before the rural youth group on Jan 26.
Flax crops face a serious soil borne disease called flax wilt. Growers are urged to monitor for symptoms and implement management practices to limit spread and protect yields.
An advertisement touts kidney cleansing and acid removal treatments with dubious medical guarantees. It pressures readers with fear of pain, night sickness, and fatigue while promising modern procedures and guaranteed results through a drugstore product.
Economists predict a vigorous 1937 effort to replenish breeding stock, especially west of the Mississippi, as cattle prices stay high. They cite declining cattle climbers since 1934, a recent shift toward cows and heifers in marketings, hogs not yet normal for two years, and rising consumer buying.
Kenneth Frye of Benton county fed er sold a load of 1 216 pound steers in Chicago Monday at 13 dollars per hundredweight.
Auctions announced for January 21 to January 25 include Joe Stock at 5 miles east of Cedar Rapids and other closes in Tiptor, Beverly, and Alburnett with sales at Iowa Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids and Proeck sale 144 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids.
Solon area farm transfer reports James Ham’s property near Solon sold to Sosegi J. Deersay at 88 dollars an acre for about seven acres four miles east of Solon. Title transfer scheduled for March 1.
Prices for lespedeza seed rose about 50 cents in December with bids around 13 to 14 dollars per 100 pounds. Dec. movement was brisk and by Jan. 5 roughly two thirds of the crop had been sold. regional quotes varied by state with Tennessee Kentucky and Kentucky listings cited among others.
Grain and farm items dominate the sale near Hopkinton and Tipton. Corn fetches $1.1334 per bushel while oats sell at 58 cents and clover hay earns $13.75 to $14 per ton. Cows with calves bring up to $63 and horses and poultry prices are listed. Auctioneers include Heri Haigh and W. E. Challis with Henry Walters as clerk.
Fred Baker sale north of Mechanicsville clears 1000 bushels yellow hybrid corn at 1.07 a bushel. Oats 0.56 a bushel, baled straw 0.26 a bale. Cows up to 50, yearling steers 41, yearling heifers 36.50, veal calves 10. Poland China brood sows 35.59, boar 30, fall shoats 7.60. Shropshire ewes 7.40. Auctioneer W. E. Challis of Lisbon, clerk John Carville of Mechanicsville.
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