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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1963
Page
12
Iowa growers aim to raise 8,454,000 turkeys this year, a 9 percent rise from last year's 7,756,000 and 15 percent above the 1957–61 average. Production for heavy breeds is up 12 percent while light breeds drop 14 percent. nationwide, U S growers expect 3 percent more turkeys in 1963 with heavy breeds rising 3 percent and light breeds up 2 percent.
Maynard Cooperative Commission Company logged 1 953 872 dollars in 1962 sales at its 50th annual meeting. Net savings reached 42 565 dollars as Joe Rhoads Arnold Paul and Sheldon Fox won new three year director terms. Holden directors include Harold Ehlers Ivan Garnier Heinz Lewis. Thompson elected president Rhoads vice president Paul secretary treasurer.
Officers listed include George Wilson of Elberon as chairman, Robert Lovig Jr of Gilman as vice chairman, Mrs Loris Stump of Tama as secretary, and Frank Meggers of Traer as treasurer.
Jacqueline Grieg of Clarence shows a summer yearling heifer that placed third in her class at the Iowa Hereford Association show in Des Moines. The animal sold the following Monday to Russell Bourne of Moweaqua Illinois for $580.
George A. Minish 35 of Springville was named the outstanding young farmer of the Marion area at the Marion Jaycees awards dinner Monday night. He farms 433 acres in Whit tier with his father in law A. R. Pearson and operates under Pearson and Minish. The farm hosts 22 grade Holsteins with DHIA milk 11 925 pounds and butterfat 422 pounds per cow in the last year.
A dense sequence of farm auction notices outlines multiple closing out sales and public auctions. Entries include Vernon Erenberger near Solon, Roy Ralston near Blairs town, Leo Yeries near Alburnett, and others with livestock, machinery, hay, grain, and cattle items. Hawkeye Downs hosts Berkshire gilt and Polled Hereford events with noted organizers and locations across Benton, Linn, Jones, and surrounding counties.
George Minish cites Holstein calves selling for nearly as much per pound as Hereford stock and warns against letting calves pass 1000 pounds. He plans to expand hogs to 45 sows, resume four yearly farrowings, and notes 300 sows due March 3. Cheviot sheep, bred by his father Archie, add income with 75 registered ewes.
George and Zelda Pearson manage a mixed farm with four children and part time help averaging about $100 monthly last year. They emphasize soil conservation, contouring, heavy liquid fertilizer use, and careful budgeting to pay land and support family activities including 4-H, scouting, church, and farm groups. Despite hail reducing home corn yields, they report over 100 bushels per acre at other sites and value frugal maintenance like overhauling a tractor for $300 rather than buying new.
Four Iowa State extension specialists will speak at a three day pork production short course in Delaware county starting January 30 at the American Legion hall in Manchester. Sessions cover feeding and management, hog facilities, and veterinary and economic topics with registrations due by January 26.
A sheep clinic for farmers from Johnson and Washington counties will be held January 29 at 1 p.m. at the Farmers Savings Bank in Kalona. Speakers include Dr. John Herrick, extension veterinarian, and Tom Wickersham, extension livestock specialist.
Ronnie G. Honn of Marion has been appointed Iowa inspector for the Palomino Horse Breeders Association of Mineral Wells Texas and the Iowa Palomino Exhibitors Association Inc. He will inspect and approve all Palomino horses in Iowa before registry eligibility. Honn is laboratory manager for Eastern Iowa Breeders Inc. at the Robins headquarters.
Nearly 500 county extension staff members and 4-H leaders are slated to attend the thirteenth annual leaders recognition day on January 28 at Iowa State. The event, sponsored by the Iowa State extension service and the Iowa Retail Federation, will feature luncheon tours of campus and a symposium on 4-H in the 60s. Julia M. Faltinson, assistant dean of home economics at Iowa State and a National 4-H Alumni Award winner, is the featured speaker.
In 1962 U.S. consumers spent about 19 percent of after tax income on food, the smallest share of income for food by any nation in history, according to USDA's Statistical Reporting Service.
The Cedar Rapids Pro-Ag club will hear Dr. Harold Gunderson entomologist and Dr. E. P. Sylvester botanist and weed specialist on The Role of Agricultural Chemicals at a dinner meeting Thursday at 6 30 p m Tony's Steak House 1846 Sixteenth avenue ISW. The club consists of men with agricultural training and farming ties.
Marengo officials announce the Iowa County Farm and Home Management school will run January 30 and February 6. Sessions start at 9:45 a.m. at the Farm Bureau building in Williamsburg with instructors Leslie G. Kral and Merle T. Hillson, both Cedar Rapids extension staff.
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