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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1949
Page
10
The US Department of Agriculture reported a 68 percent jump in total corn supplies on January 1, 1949, from a year earlier. Corn on farms remained the largest share, with oats, wheat, rye and barley stocks also detailed by storage position and changes from 1948.
A closing out sale is planned at the farm located two miles west and north of Hills or one mile north and four miles east of Sharon Center. The sale will liquidate remaining farm assets on site.
Friday sale lists 40 head of cattle with Guernsey and Holstein calves due May, February and September, 15 hogs and sows, saddle bred colt, hay and grain totals, farm machinery from John Deere and McCormick-Deering, miscellaneous farming tools, household goods, and cash terms. Proceeds to be collected on grounds. Tomorrow. Owners Parisek and Donohoe. Auctioneers.
Report notes 84,556,000 bushels in farm stocks versus 45,883,000 a year ago. Farm stocks total 52,095,000 bushels with the remainder in commercial storage.
Elmer Willenborg of Dyersville was elected president of the Delaware County Artificial Breeding Association at its annual meeting in Manchester. Officers include Verne Hermann vice president Leslie Gibbs secretary treasurer and Dale Timmons Lawrence Lillibridge A V Swanson and William Harder as directors. The report shows 612 members served in 1948 with 174 new, breeding 4114 cows, receipts of 23195, and a new owner-sampler testing program to be handled by Mundy with headquarters at 727 East Union Street.
County soil district commissioners SCS technicians and extension directors from Benton Linn Buchanan and Delaware counties met at the Montrose hotel for a district conference. Emerson Wolfe of Marion chaired. Melville Cohee of Milwaukee led the main talks on expanding soil conservation work in the four counties.
Rep Lemke of North Dakota introduced a bill to guarantee a minimum support price at 100 percent of parity for most farm products, aiming to stabilize farm incomes and markets. The measure moves through early congressional consideration this week.
An auction sale of a centered residence in Center Point Iowa is scheduled for Saturday January 29 at 130 PM. The house offers seven rooms, basement, cellar drain, lighting and a large 270 by 160 foot lot near Main Street with fruit trees berries and a garden. Possession given March first inspection invited. Household items include a theater cabinet kitchen cabinet laundry store barrels and various articles. Herman W Mollenhauer GEO Price Auctioneer.
The blizzard across western ranges devastates livestock, especially sheep, signaling higher meat prices. Cattle markets tightened last fall while farmers expect abundant spring water and soil moisture from snow. Ankeny agricultural research farm funding request seeks 100000 annually for two years to expand livestock studies, justified by Iowa's heavy livestock income.
Conservation farming proves financially rewarding as benefits accrue within one to four years. Farmers adopting soil improving practices report cost savings and higher yields, boosting profits and resilience against weather shocks.
Barnyard chatter notes Wendl Rehder of Palo feeding 1000 lambs for the spring market and cattle on feed. It highlights using an electric pig brooder as a safe efficient heat source, with plans from county extension and guidance from E L Quaife Iowa State College swine specialist.
The open class champion Hereford bull H & D Lone Lad Ist sold for $2,700 to Philip E. Winslow and Harold Albert. Reserve open class and futurity champions sold for $1,900 and $1,525 respectively. The four top bulls brought $7,425. total cattle sale grossed near $60,000 with strong futures interest.
Urbana Ill dairy experts say cows rarely show clear profit in first two years. true gains begin in a cow’s third year. Emphasizes breeding high producing cows to superior sires, proper feeding from calf onward, disease control, and sanitation when buying heifers.
Iowa State College asked the Iowa legislature for a 100000 annual appropriation for the next biennium to develop a 1400 acre livestock research center near Ankeny. Plans cover beef and dairy cattle swine and poultry with a six year 600000 request for development and housing facilities. The center will also host a corn borer research station and uses salvaged ordnance buildings for livestock housing.
AMES Iowa March 21 to 24 will host the second annual tile drainage contractors short course at Iowa State College. G O Schwab course supervisor announced arrangements admit 72 contractors. The Midwest Drainage and Conservation Contractors Association will hold a meeting on March 22.
H R Meldrum, Iowa State College agronomist, will discuss fertilizer recommendations at a leaders meeting in Buchanan County. The meeting at the courthouse starts at 10 am Thursday with five farmers from each township invited. County Extension Director Jay Partridge announced the event on Wednesday.
Farm Bureau office in Toledo will host a poultry clinic on February 4. County Extension Director Pathe Byram announced the event and urged farmers to bring diseased birds for diagnosis. Dr C B Lee, assistant extension veterinarian, will conduct the clinic.
A series of farm auctions and sales dated January to February list locations near Conroy Ben Tipton Hill Linn County Marion Cedar Rapids and Dyersville. Items include livestock hay grain machinery and household goods with multiple purebred animal sales noted.
The agriculture department estimates the European corn borer reduced the 1948 U S corn crop by 85.5 million bushels causing 103 million dollars in damage. The 1948 crop total reached 3.6 billion bushels, double the loss recorded for 1947.
The Tama county DHIA will meet Thursday night at the Legion hall to honor retiring supervisor Dale Gerlach and to welcome Leo Kendall as his successor. Gerlach will begin farming near St Ansgar.
An old advertising snippet explains liver bile helps digestion and warns against blockage. It pitches Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy to restore bile flow, claiming quick relief and urging readers to ask for the product at 33 drugstores.
A shift in Iowa to peak egg production aligns with high price periods. W R Whitfield Iowa State College extension poultryman notes demonstration flocks already yield peak fall and winter output. He cites housing, feeds, lighting, and year round confinement as key factors.
Whitfield notes both ordinary and demonstration flocks in Iowa have gained five eggs per hen annually over the past decade. He projects average annual output could rise from 162 eggs to about 187 eggs in five years for the demonstration flocks.
Harold McTavish secretary treasurer announced the Iowa National Farm Loan Association of Cedar Rapids will hold its annual meeting on February 14. The notice confirmed the date for members and related parties.
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