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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1935
Page
4
A May 15 1930s government price review shows corn cottonseed wool and cattle above parity. Hog parity exceeds after adding a $225 processing tax. Parity figures include Desi cattle at 857 per hundredweight and corn at 82 cents per bushel with other prices listed.
A 19s2 report discusses auctioning and selling practices leading to waste and price effects. It contends farm program rules violate sections of the Iowa code and challenge penalties tied to waste and food product handling. The language reflects critique and legal argument over agricultural policy.
The principal products from 100 pounds of hogs brought in £1063 on May 18. The Agricultural Adjustment administration notes retail meat prices rose about 39 percent in the first four months of the year versus 1933, yet were around 29 percent below 1929 levels.
Feed markets in the United States fell in the last week of May as pastures improved and the heavy feeding season waned. Wheat feeds weakened with bran down 2 to 3 dollars per ton and middlings 1 to 2 dollars. Central western linseed meal eased 1 to 2 dollars, cottonseed meal demand slackened, and mulls dropped 50 cents. Corn feeds stayed nearly unchanged with white homey feed slightly lower in some markets.
POSTVILLE The Farmers Co operative Creamery company at Postville paid patrons thirty six cents a pound for April butterfat. A total of 67 421 pounds of butter was manufactured from 54 188 pounds of butterfat received Forty eight patrons received checks ranging from 10036 to 398 84.
Argentine corn quoted 80 cents and oats 35 cents. No shipments arrived to the United States this week though several shipments of Argentine corn were noted. Cargoes from Poland arrived at Atlantic ports, while oats and wheat from Argentina were offered in New York and other markets.
Over the last two weeks hog cholera outbreaks were reported to the Eastern Iowa Veterinary association in sixteen areas including Aurora Hazleton Oelwein Maynard Westgate Vinton Keystone Hopkinton Traer Gladbrook Muscatine Clarence West Branch Durant Lost Nation and Walcott.
About 300 dairy cattlemen are expected at the Town Guernsey Breeders association annual picnic on June 13 at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress grounds. Dean H. H. Kildee of Iowa State College will be the principal speaker, with a representative from the American Guernsey Cattle club also attending. A Guernsey show will accompany the event. registration starts at 10 a.m. The arrangements committee includes Homer Fike, chair, Joe Golinvaux, and R. A. Nelson of Independence.
Plowing of corn becomes general in Buchanan county this week with some cultivating already done. Corn planting nearly finished with an even stand and good color. Soybean planting to begin this week with inoculation of most seed. New seedings and pastures progressing, oats exceptionally good, and prospects for a large strawberry crop are favorable.
Brandon farmers report corn nearly planted with replanting needed due to faulty seed. Oats prospects look good and gardens show better growth after a cool wet spring that brought many cutworms.
Rainfall reached 1.85 inches Saturday with Otter Creek flooding low-lying Chelsea districts. The excess moisture delays corn planting and cutworms are damaging gardens.
Rex Beresford from the Ames college animal husbandry department will speak at feed lots in Eden and Camanche townships during the Clinton County Beef Producers association annual tour. A noon picnic at Shafton will include the election of officers.
Independence The Buchanan county Farm Bureau announces 175 new members from a two week membership drive. Eleven townships were partly worked during the canvass.
Joe Chezik Jr and brothers Frank and John build a Tama County Holstein herd that posted a national record 18 004 pounds of milk and 6557 pounds of butterfat for 12 months. The herd of about 14 cows moved into improved facilities with careful feeding and sire selection amid Depression era challenges.
Rural co operatives in Dubuque and Delaware counties gathered to debate a uniform price differential by cream grade under the new Iowa law set to take effect July 4. No policy was set. a second session will be held June 11. Herman Burger chaired the meeting with L. J. Sigworth as secretary.
Messrs. E. G. Lasche Clarence and Joe Kurt returned from Randolf Nebraska after selling a truckload of potatoes weighing 8 000 pounds for 1 50 a hundredweight They report Iowa crops far ahead of Nebraska crops while Nebraska gets ample moisture.
Record shows Stewart Holmes of Cedar Rapids buying two Benton county farms from Stewart Farms for 50 000 dollars. One farm spans 200 acres eleven miles west of Cedar Rapids on the Lincoln highway, the other covers 154 acres twelve miles west plus 40 acres one mile south.
May dairy tests show Linn County No. 2 average 663 pounds milk and 29.2 pounds butterfat from 534 cows eight dry. E. C. Forest led with 1,276 pounds milk and 47 butterfat from 15 Holsteins. Witwer and Haak's 79 cows second at 911 milk and 38.7 butterfat. Twelve members fed balanced rations. R. F. Smith elected association president. other officers named.
Jackson county 4-H members plan Rally day at Lakehurst Maquoketa June 12 with guests club leaders members and parents. Carol Riedinger will deliver welcome address registration starts 10 a m and roll call includes a one minute status picture followed by officer installations reports introductions song festival and presentation of The Bohemian Girl by club members.
County Agent George E. Dillon informs Linn county fruit growers that the first cover spray should be applied two weeks after the calyx spray, around the week of June 3. He warns recent rains favor scab and notes codling moth is slowed. He prescribes lime sulfur with lead arsenate for scab or adjusted mixtures if scab is absent, and urges spraying fruit only.
William B. Tiedt of Minneapolis, a federal inspector, is visiting creameries in cooperation with local state inspectors. He has condemned cans of cream that did not meet legal requirements during his inspections in this territory.
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