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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1935
Page
16
The Iowa farm price index fell to 120 in June from a February–March peak, led by drops in cattle prices and grains. Purchasing power of farm products slipped to 94 while the index for items farmers buy stayed at 128, with a forecast of further declines in July.
A brief note records an incident of fence drift entangled in woven wire. The item appears under a miscellany of playful phrases by R F A and fireworks themed lines, with no further details.
About 3,300 persons will be licensed to serve as cream graders in Iowa when the new cream grading law takes effect Friday. Authorities expect the number to rise to 3,500 to 4,000 by fall as tests and instruction reach all counties. C. S. Bogle calls the law the greatest forward step in two decades, and no new inspectors will be hired.
More than 100 head of cattle in Washington were tested for tuberculosis last week by state inspector H. Johnson. He reported no reactors among the cattle tested.
C Patterson, chairman of the Washington county corn-hog committee, announces 1,179 Group 1 contracts are ready to be sent to Des Moines.
High Chicago market price of $12.25 paid for a load of 1259 pound steers consigned by George Maternach.
North Tama Cow Test Association reports June results for 373 cows in 22 herds. Average milk 912 lb and butterfat 34.1 lb per cow. 130 cows produced over 40 lb butterfat. High cow was E M McElhinney with 1728 lb milk and 96.8 lb butterfat. High herd was Roy Hotzel with 24 grade Guernseys and 43 lb butterfat. Feed cost per lb butterfat 15 cents.
Harold Klingler reports June results for Linn County Cow Test Association showing 526 cows across 18 herds averaged 631 pounds of milk and 28.2 pounds butterfat, with 116 cows over 40 pounds butterfat and 2 cows over 70 pounds. E C Forest led with 1,094 pounds milk and 41.7 butterfat from 15 Holsteins. G D Graver ranked second with 824 pounds milk and 37.8 butterfat from seven Guernseys. High Jersey cows at Cows Maniti Dairy posted 1,401 pounds milk and 75.7 butterfat and 1,056 pounds milk with unspecified butterfat.
In June the 430 cows averaged 763 pounds of milk and 29.9 pounds of butterfat, down from May 786 pounds and 31.7 butterfat. Arvid Magnusen posted the high herd with 1,186 pounds of milk and 46.9 butterfat from nine grade Holsteins, including the top cow yielding 2,160 pounds milk and 69.1 butterfat.
The Fourth of July in eastern Iowa sees farmers beginning haying and cultivation as clouds threaten. Corn shows a strong comeback after heat. hay and small grain look excellent, though corn remains late and not yet safe from weather. Rains delay haying and local reports note large strawberry harvests with one picker yielding 320 quarts.
Readable excerpts show better farm conditions in north Tama county with remodeling and new construction. Charles Manley near Dinsdale upgrades his farmhouse while the Clark estate southwest of Traer renovates. Hubert Kahler in Crystal township re roofs his house and Will Podhajsky near Traer builds a new barn.
Farmers in South Bethel undertake extensive work including painting all Albert Martin rented buildings and house interiors, painting the South Bethel church and Pleasant Hill schoolhouse, building a new barn on Verl Nebergall farm, adding a foundation to Bert Graham’s barn, shingling Lloyd Nebergall’s house and Sandy Hook school, and constructing a new Brennen Brothers barn to replace a recent fire.
Harold Radke of Owatonna Minnesota arrived to begin the new vocational agriculture department at Traer High School. Traer starts three courses farm shops crops and soils and farm management with student projects under the Smith Hughes act.
Frank Rehberg and Earl Wilson, local farmers, loaded three loads of finished cattle totaling 117 head and hauled them to Cedar Rapids on Wednesday.
A dairy farmer in Cedar Rapids reports a chicken displaying both male and female traits. The bird lays eggs and crows, yet has henlike body form with a cock head and comb. The history involves cross bred Rhode Island Reds and White Wyandottes from Central City stock.
Prices for alfalfa dropped in central western markets to an average of 13.19 per ton for No. 1 hay, down from 16.19 in early June and 18.50 at the year’s start. Kansas City receipts for June were 59 carloads, far below last year’s 1,305, reflecting weaker demand and less baling in the field. Hay offered in the Platte Valley district Neekear as low as 4.50 to 50 in stacks last week.
Forty-one applicants from Dubuque to Scott counties were approved for licenses under the new cream grading law. The cream graders school drew forty-two attendees as inspectors L A Horstman Davenport M H Hand Center Point Frank Butter Williamsburg and H E Skott Epworth oversaw the session amid a shift to require district requests for future trainings.
Des Moines reports light hog receipts for the first three days of the week with little trading activity. Better grade light and medium weight butchers found demand and firm quotes, while heavy weights and packing sows weakened. Prices ranged from about 8 to 9 dollars for various weight classes amid thin overall movement.
Decorah Farmers Ice Cave creamery produced 181,037 pounds of butter in June, surpassing all previous monthly marks and topping June 1934 by 40,000 pounds. Daily records followed with peak days of 9,625 pounds on June 11, 9,569 on June 18, and 9,599 on July 2.
Three Iowa boys from Fayette and Ma ynard entered the international young farmers dairy judging contest in Newcastle upon Tyne placing fourth with 1234 points while England led with 1286. They met the Duke of Kent who spoke informally about conditions in America. The group will tour the continent, returning July 24 on the Normandie. Participants were Robert D. Putman 18 Grover Miehe 16 and Paul Harrison 17 judged 32 cows and heifers against teams from Ireland Scotland Wales and England.
Iowa City auctioneer reports sale of an eighty acre Furhma farm in Lincol township Johnson county to Barbara Lenz for 155 dollars an acre cash. X rays can produce weak radioactivity in lead.
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