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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1938
Page
6
A Farm Credit Administration survey of 15 500 cooperative organizations in the United States reports over 3 000 000 farmers belong to cooperatives. Half of farmers participate in marketing farm products or buying supplies and services through co op networks with growth in stations feed stores and purchasing groups.
Thirteen banks for cooperatives report 3,200,000 farmers buy insurance from 1,909 cooperative and mutual companies while over 2,000,000 are members of 10,752 marketing and purchasing associations. Dairy co-ops exceed 650,000 members. grain and cotton groups also reach six figures. Threshing time echoes rural public opinion shaping elections.
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The agriculture department estimated Friday farmers received 559 million in June from sale of their products plus government benefit payments. First six months receipts totaled about 3.341 billion, down from 3.829 billion a year earlier with six month benefits at 247 million versus 330.008 million. Cash income from crop sales was 25 percent below last June and livestock receipts were 9 percent lower.
A round barn and a hog house on the Charles D Perry farm southeast of Maynard burned Wednesday afternoon due to spontaneous combustion. Nine loads of new hay, some cats and eight hogs were destroyed. A corn crib caught fire but was saved. The buildings but not their contents were insured.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT reports a two way hog market trend in Des Moines with butcher hogs up to 250 pounds hitting a new yearly top while heavier hogs and sows fell from early March peaks. Prices for 250 to 270 pound butchers were steady to five cents higher, heavy butchers down ten to seventy cents, and heavy sow weights down. Receipts totaled 66,000 head over four days, eight percent lighter than last week, but 38 percent higher than last year.
An old style ad invites readers to try Raisin Bran as a new breakfast option tomorrow. It promotes a crispy whole wheat flake mixed with California raisins and claims the bran is both tasty and healthy, noting growing popularity.
Ed Beach of Anamosa, manager of Maquoketa Valley REA, explains oil-filled circuit breakers protect single phase lines and restore service quickly after lightning. The test linked poles 60 circuit miles apart, showing three rapid cut-offs in eleven seconds. New 125 mile extension approved into Jackson Jones Dubuque and Delaware counties.
Special to The Gazette reports oats in the Traer vicinity yielding low in quantity and quality with prices around 12 cents a bushel for tested grain. Barley and wheat fare better, corn and soybeans remain promising as rust-infected fields in Dysart show lighter yields. threshing ongoing and rains helped crops in the territory.
Yields range from thirty to thirty five bushels per acre. The first rye sold here on July 15 yielded twenty five bushels per acre. The initial new wheat sale occurred July 18 with a good grade. Corn progress is rapid, much of it tasseled and just beginning to shoot ears.
An outbreak of sleeping sickness has killed at least twenty horses in Cass Audubon and Shelby counties in western Iowa. More than 100 animals have been struck by the disease.
Maynard Cooperative creamery patrons were paid 29 cents a pound for butterfat delivered in June, per secretary C. H. Paul.
Poultry clinics by Poweshick county Iowa Poultry Producers Marketing association will be held Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in Grinnell and Montezuma. Grant Lindsey, fieldman for the cooperative, will speak at the meetings.
New officers of the Big Four 4-H Livestock Club are Dale Turner president Willard Schroeder vice president and Keith Smith secretary and treasurer.
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