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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1933
Page
3
Taxes and heat split hog marketing as Iowa farmers rush to meet July 1 tax deadlines. Drought and weak corn push buyers to favor lighter, better finished hogs while heavy, poorly finished hogs face discounts. The market shows mixed prices with prime hogs around 4.20 to 4.35 and poor finish at 3.25 to 4.00 per hundredweight.
In Iowa debates over livestock market information loom as the Agriculture Department ends the central stockyards service. Critics argue overlapping federal and state offices duplicating crop, weather, and eradication duties. Proponents note key figures Barger, Carl, Reed, Beidell, and Fraser oversee critical data, with Fraser singled out as essential for market date collection.
Special to The Gazette reports Ben Dixson, a farmer southeast of Amber, lost a horse from overheating Friday while at work in the field.
A boiler explosion in a Will Reese farm brooder stove caused a fire that killed 300 chicks at the Amber southwest farm. Mrs. R. D. Whitney of 421 C Ave NW reported the blaze and mentioned the incident in a local ad while noting piano storage services offered by her newspaper.
Special to The Gazette reports that 400 acres of peas are being packed at the Iowa Canning company plant in Vinton while heat and drought cut yield in half. Forty workers process peas from windrowed fields using cutters and vining machines as tractors haul them to packing lines.
Lister Brothers near Anamosa report cutting and stacking thirty five acres of alfalfa averaging two tons per acre. Heavy local yields expected with three cuttings possible, weather permitting. Red clover alfalike and corn show uneven growth. some fields knee high others in early stages. drought affects small grains strawberry season nearly finished with half previous yield. Potatoes and garden vegetables require moisture.
Special to The Geratts. WEST UNION The average valuation of an acre of Fayette county farm land is fixed at 43.81 dollars varying from 42.08 in Scott township to 45.76 in Jefferson township according to figures on land valuation for taxation completed Monday in the office of County Auditor J. H. Cline after decisions by the board of supervisors. The average assessors figure was 44.54 compared with last year’s 53.72 a 20 percent drop. The board lowered valuations in nine townships and raised them in seven with four unchanged. City lots were raised in Oelwein and Hawkeye and lowered in Arlington Clermont and Fayette. livestock valuations showed mostly downward adjustments.
Dr J Brownlee Davidson of Iowa State College will receive the Cyrus Hall McCormick medal for engineering achievement in agriculture at the 27th annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers at Purdue University June 21 24 He will present a paper titled The Economic Low Mood as a Challenge to the Agricultural Engineer and serves on the committee on Methods of Appraising Increased Values in Farm Machines Other sessions cover land reclamation machinery and rural electric issues with extensive educational exhibits planned.
Economists Paul I. Miller and Geoffrey Shepherd argue farmers oil co ops and other buying groups are weak, while selling associations act as genuine market representatives. They note Iowa shifts from shipping to central markets to trucking and packing plants, urging co ops to sort grade and secure best buyers to boost farmer profits.
Twelve or more members of the Fayette County Young Farmers club depart Sunday at 4 am for the Chicago World's Fair. The group will spend three days visiting stockyards Lincoln Park Field Museum and a major league ball game. A second group plans a later trip. The Fayette county 4 H girls rally and baby beef tour are also scheduled with local officials and civic stops. O Neal notes farmers seek action to reduce surpluses and cooperate for faster steps.
In Chicago President Edward A. O Neal of the American Farm Bureau federation orders state Farm Bureau presidents and extension directors to act promptly to organize members for farm relief benefits. He urges county bureaus and agents to survey interest and appoint administrators for the relief act in their states.
Fourteen Cedar county farmers consigned 102 lambs to the graded pool sold Monday by Cedar County Livestock Marketing association manager Ralph Wingert. B. F. Emberling, for Sinclair packing, bought the lot at Cedar Rapids for 87.50 a hundredweight. primes led the grades with other lot pricing listed and consignors from Tipton Stanwood and West Liberty. A second pool was planned for Tuesday at Iowas City.
The Jesup Co operative creamery will ship butter to Chicago and New York in labeled cars stating Jesup Creamery Company Iowa's Largest Co operative Creamery. Five refrigerator cars will be painted yellow with black lettering. Nineteen burnings produced 16 151 pounds of butter on Tuesday.
Hazleton township won the Buchanan County Farm Bureau women achievement day with a score of 1000 finishing ahead of Buffalo and Westburg tied for second at 998 Perry township placed third and Byron fourth Mrs N M Larson of the Ames extension service judged the event More than 100 women attended the program at the city hall a display of old blankets and dishes highlighted the event Larson spoke on the home furnishing project A pageant featuring a five member family presenting ten gifts of organization service economic balance health beauty of wildflowers and waving corn romance friendship faith and education was staged by Mrs Potwin Mrs L A Walters Pauline Soules John Walters and Bernice Anderson
Women from Benton county Farm Bureau plan a public speaking event with one participant from each active township. The winner advances to the state contest at the state fair, with the local contest scheduled for August.
Receipts of domestic wool at Boston for the week ending June 17 reached 24,449,300 pounds, up from 5,592,400 the prior week. Ohio fine delaine wool sold Monday with most offerings above 30 cents a pound greased and 72 to 75 cents scoured. Three-eighths and quarter blood wools remained favored at 33 cents, while mills continue buying to meet worsted fabric needs as prices rise across lines.
More than seventy teachers of vocational agriculture in Iowa gathered in Ames Monday for their annual conference. J. A. Link, regional agent for the federal board for vocational agriculture, spoke Monday evening. Tuesday evening Dr. Ray Fife of Columbus Ohio, president of the American Vocational association, was to speak on Education for Reconstruction. Miss Agnes Samuelson, state Superintendent, would speak Wednesday morning on The Emergency in Education.
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