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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1936
Page
6
U S dairy market analysts note butter price movements since mid January mirror last year’s rise and fall pattern. Imports, stock levels, and production in New Zealand and Australia influence expectations as January cold storage shows lighter US inventories than 1934.
Postville patrons of Farmers Co operative Creamery received 39 cents a pound for December butterfat from 44 829 pounds of butterfat used to produce 55 791 pounds of butter. Forty one patrons got checks of 100 and over led by a 414 payment. Gale Welzel was rehired as book keeper for year five and Edgar Riser as buttermaker for year nine. Also London creamery paid 39 cents for sweet cream butterfat 38 cents for first grade and 35 cents for second grade butterfat from 35 883 pounds of cream producing 13 881 pounds of butter with 172 tubs shipped east.
Ames Secretary A L Chimptin announced Thursday that the annual meeting of the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders association will be held February 5 in Ames.
Ames extension economist R C Bentley says corn prices will stay higher in Kansas City and western markets than in Chicago until the new crop is harvested in 1936. He notes irrigated western feeding areas endure sparse production, lifting KC prices relative to Chicago despite seasonal shifts and freight effects.
In Mechanicsville a 4 year old Hereford herd bull sold for 310 dollars to lead a dispersion sale by Secor and Brown. Don DeVoss of Cantil bought the top animal. The sale was held in a tent amid cold weather with limited attendance and slower bidding. Other prices included cows with calves at side avg 138, top 160. seven bull calves under a year avg 71.80. nine calves about eight months avg 57. eleven service-age bulls avg 15.50, top 230. seventeen 9 month heifer calves avg 530.
A sequence of farm auctions planned from Friday January 31 through Thursday February 6 across Iowa towns including Solon Cedar Rapids Newhall Mt. Vernon Anamosa Center Point Martelle Marion and Central City. Sellers include G W Raim R P Harrington L E Morgan J N Wiese Carl R Weber Jerry Lesher W H Brugman G John Van Note and O L McConaughy.
A summary of sales lists shows a white mare at 85 dollars and a 6 month roan mare colt at 82.50. Thirty bred mares sold for 25 to 30 dollars each, ewes fetched 6 to 9 dollars. Soybean hay moved at 7 dollars a ton. Corn sold 47 to 50 cents per bushel for 2,500 bushels. Oats brought 30 cents per bushel for 1,000 bushels. Boling and Colby acted as auctioneers with H. E. Gibeaut as clerk.
Corn brought fifty three cents a bushel at the Spoettger and Rothbart closing out sale five and one half miles southwest of Wheatland. Cattle averaged fifty dollars a head. pigs nine dollars eighty cents each. sows twenty three cents a pound. heifers three thousand two fifty. hay seven fifty a ton. oats thirty cents a bushel. Steve Hart of Toronto acted as auctioneer.
Brooklyn Co operative Creamery patrons averaged 31.4 cents per pound for butterfat in 1935. The annual meeting drew about 500 attendees where W. I. Wasson was manager and J. N. Carlson was re elected director and Allen Lang named a new director. Total butterfat paid out reached $320,825.31 from 1,121,523 pounds produced.
An advertising notice in The Cedar Rapids Gazette claims the Want Ad message appears before about 40 000 Eastern Iowa families, highlighting broad reach for local listings.
Washington D C action on a proposed 38 000 acre land purchase in southern Iowa for a 500 000 acre national forest was delayed by the national forest reservation commission. Rep E C Eicher said funds are exhausted though resettlement admin may offer a route. the land is under option in four units along the southern Iowa border.
Des Moines reports farm prices for hogs up 30 cents per hundredweight while corn gains just a cent per bushel. The corn hog ratio edges to 19.4 bushels from 19.1, with eggs dropping to 19.5 cents per dozen and other staples lifting. Beef cattle and veal rise, potatoes and butter up, soybeans steady.
Notice of a private household sale detailing Weelsy Kouba farm holdings near Center Point and Walker. Readily described assets include multiple horses and colts, 384 head cattle with Hereford stock, 40 hogs in various stages, 11 ewes and a buck, and extensive farming machinery such as McCormick binders, mowers, disc, hay loader, corn equipment, and miscellaneous gear. The inventory lists weights, ages, and condition of each group.
Garrison news reports the 120 acre farm of Mrs. Henry Sturtz four miles east of Garrison was sold recently to John Whitmore of Stanwood for a price around 120 dollars per acre.
Whitmore who has tenanted the Fred Kahn farm of 240 acres northwest of Stanwood for twenty years offers a leasehold purchase at $120 an acre with possession to pass March 1. The report notes damage to U.S. farm products from insect pests costing over two billion dollars annually.
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