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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1942
Page
10
United States hatcheries produced 244 062 000 chicks in May a new monthly high up 9 percent from last year May 1941 and May 1940 benchmarks show a rise for the first five months total 911 596 000 chicks up 16 percent from 784 933 000 a year earlier.
George Bradley of the Commodity Credit Corporation said several million bushels of old wheat from Kansas and other wheat belt states will be shipped into Iowa to free storage for the new crop. Iowa officials report about 25 million bushels of storage space, but CCC expects only up to 5 million bushels will be moved now. Transfer of steel bins from Iowa and other states to Kansas Nebraska and South Dakota is nearly finished. Bradley warned that despite adjustments, large amounts of grain may end up piled on the ground.
Fences are described as woven wire on the Witwer farm twelve miles west of Cedar Rapids where corn stands tall. The crop is heavily fertilized and well cultivated in a favored town area with adequate rainfall compared to much of the state.
Interior hog receipts totaled 643100 head for the first 17 marketing days of June, up 43 percent from a year ago. For the first five days this week receipts were 193800 head, vs 184500 last week and 105100 a year ago, with demand active and prices around 14 dollars after midweek.
Special to The Gazette Mechanicsville reports a farmer on the Frank Stepanek farm hatched a brood of fourteen quail after he gathered eggs from a quail nest and placed them under a setting hen. The unusual adoption leaves the family visible from the kitchen window.
Donald Hager reports for Ludlow Farmers Cooperative Creamery that May output reached 48,378 pounds of butter from 38,806 pounds of butterfat, slightly below May 1941 figures. Butterfat payments were 42, 40, and 4 cents respectively for sweet cream, first and second grade sour cream.
At Walter J Brandt farm five miles south of Dysart six bluegrass stripping machines operate with three tractors. Dale Humes of Tracer runs the outfit supervised by Theodore Steuben. Heads trucked to Traer for curing then Grinnell for separating. Grinnell HQ for the company with about 40 strippers locally. Pasture owner receives $1 per acre. About 1 200 acres to be stripped in the Dysart area.
Choice cattle 13 per cwt and up remained prevalent with about 25 cent declines while medium grades under 13 held steady amid scarce supply. Fat steers mostly 1250 to 1300 pounds at Chicago. top 16 for two Herefords. heifers hit 14.40 on 1080-pound Herefords, bulk 12.50 to 13.25. Cows limited and steady. top 11 for choice cows. Bulls 15 to 25 cents higher to 12 on heavy bulls. light calves 15 to 14.50 with market unsettled by beef price ceiling fears. Demand weak, stocker and feeder trades down 25+ cents.
The Buchanan county Farm Bureau directs a county wide inflation control program. Wayne Tyler and Arthur Satterlee led the meeting and organizers plan meetings June 23 26 at Independence Hazleton and Rowley to address inflation.
Pumping was resumed Thursday at the Port Louisa pumping station in drainage district No. 13 in Louisa and Muscatine counties after a brief shutdown due to Mississippi River high water. The joint board of supervisors met to devise methods to relieve pressure from the high waters.
Three sales from the John R Alderson estate were completed in Strawberry Point. Robert T Alderson purchased 640 acres at 25 dollars per acre with possession on March 1 1943. Thomas L Alderson bought a two story brick house for 2700 dollars. George Miller bought a frame house in the town’s southwest for 1200 dollars. Auctioneer was John Thiele.
Rain-soaked fields hinder cultivation with corn drowned in low spots and yellowing, oats in low ground turning. high ground corn looks sound and hay is good though frequent showers delay mowing. Potatoes and beans mature while strawberries near end.
Ten educational anti inflation meetings are scheduled in Johnson county this month to train school district cooperators who will lead sessions in their districts. Events include sessions in North Liberty Shueyville Oxford Tiffin Morse Sharon Iowa City Solon Hills Lone Tree with dates in June and July all in the evening.
Iowa farmers could triple soybean acres by 1943 without reducing soil conserving crops, a survey of 900 farms per county found. Oats for feed yield far less than soybeans, and 42 percent of oats this year won’t be used for hay in 1943.
At the J. S. McBride and Sons farm near Muscatine Guernsey breeders gather for their annual picnic. A 15 year old cow with a seven year testing record of 3622 pounds of butterfat is the center of attention. Clif Finley and Elmer Hanson discuss selection by committee for entry in the All-Iowa Cedar Rapids Guernsey classes.
Renx Beresford Ames extension animal husbandry will judge livestock at the Johnson county 4-H club show set for August 13 to 15 at the armory and community building in Iowa City. The 4-H baby beeves auction will be held the afternoon of August 15 at the Iowa City sales barn.
The Gazette reports that wartime limits on burlap and shipping space push farmers to use Osnaburg and sheetings cotton bags or paper bags. Mills adapt by weaving odd widths and boosting Osnaburg and bag sheetings production under WPB orders after Pearl Harbor.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard stated opposition to a Senate plan demanding 100 percent parity loans for major crops including wheat corn and cotton. He supported two price loans wheat parity for food use while the rest would bear a lower rate, arguing full parity would restrict wheat use for feed and industrial needs and burden the treasury.
A Johnson County hog feeding and disease control meeting is set for June 25 from 1 to 3 pm at the C. M. Fountain farm three miles south of Iowa City. E. L. Quaife and Dr. K. W. Stouder will attend.
Jin Poole, Chicago livestock market reporter and broadcaster, is slated to speak in the Buresh implement building at Western University the evening of June 24.
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