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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1942
Page
4
MES-P. C. Taff reports 1941 Iowa 4-H enrollments show 16 461 boys in clubs, a record high, while 11 610 girls enrolled, down nearly a thousand. Total enrollment 28 071, with over 20 000 boy projects started and more than 17 000 completed, led by baby beef and dairy related projects.
C J Fawcett of Boston will judge and demonstrate wool grading at the Des Moines state wool show on August 10, with county winners to be exhibited. Top five fleeces advance to a national 4-H wool show in Chicago during the national 4-H congress.
The Iowa real estate association backs uniform farm sale commissions. A 5 percent fee up to 10000 and 2 percent on the excess with a $2 per acre minimum, plus a 20 percent cap on distressed owner equity. A fall meeting will decide on action.
Hopkinton farmer Donald Grieff twenty six left a tractor in gear while attached to a rotary plow and was seriously injured when the machine ran over him. He sustained a broken leg two broken ribs and severe cuts and was taken to Monticello hospital.
The Agricultural Marketing Administration reports May farm product purchases totaling 154 404 000 under lend lease and other needs. Meats and staples lead, with canned pork and lard among large buys, lifting cumulative 14 4 month totals to about 1 225 660 315 ending May 30.
A gathering labeled as a miss meeting with representatives from every corner of town has been called for Wednesday in Des Moines to conserve transportation. The note jokes about consuming more rubber than two county fairs and quotes a line on consistency.
Special to The Gazette. WAUKON Howard Gordon, secretary of the Farmers Waukon Creamery, reports May butter production of 99,573 pounds from 80,052 pounds butterfat, vs 92,083 pounds from 74,332 in 1941. The 1942 May payroll reached $35,838.88. For the last half of May patrons paid 42 cents per pound for butterfat and 41 cents for the second half.
Washington AP reports the agriculture department estimates 11,917,000 people employed on farms as of June 1, up 232,000 from a year earlier. A larger share were inexperienced and family workers with farm wage rates about 20 percent higher than last year.
Edward Gibbons of Berlin New Hampshire shipped twenty eight Belgian and Percheron draft horses from Decorah. The horses averaged 1900 pounds and were sent to the Brown company at Berlin. Pat and James Rowan aided in obtaining the horses. Gibbons has visited Decorah for 25 years to procure horses for the Brown company.
Mrs. Ellsworth Richardson of Albia will lead a Wednesday afternoon discussion on the relationship between small towns and farmers in the food for victory program. Twenty farm women from Wyoming township and twenty invited town women will participate. Arrangements were made by Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry and other county AAA committee members.
Farm work resumed after rain and high water along the Wapsipinicon River. Some cornfields were still too wet to cultivate while others were replanted where seed washed out. Alfalfa hay molded on the ground and other fields were cut Monday.
The Iowa Sheep and Wool Growers association announced downward revisions to advances on several grades of pooled wool. The changes apply to medium peade wool previously at 42 cents a pound, with new rates of 36 cents for most categories. The revised advances now total about 75 percent of the ceiling, reflecting filled April orders and marketing cost deductions for ten pooling farmers.
Independence area reports cornfields in Buchanan County ruined by dry weather. County Agent Dale Irwin says fields must be plowed and replanted to other crops due to drowning, washout, or weed damage. Some oats and soybeans show promise but weeds hamper progress, while gardens are mostly good but weedier.
Special to The Gavette reports a week with little rainfall aiding Winneshick farmers in weeding corn fields. Many fields look good though some sod problems hinder cultivation. Alfalfa is rank and not high quality. Some cutting has occurred due to rotting. Small grain and pastures remain in excellent condition.
The Commodity Credit Corporation loaned 80,388,658 dollars on 110,148,897 bushels of 1941 crop corn through June 16, with Iowa accounting for 34,343,469.19 dollars on 47,294,511 bushels. CC held about 61,000,000 bushels of corn as of June 13 and about 311,000,000 bushels of wheat, two thirds of which were 1941 crop.
Stewart and Miehe and Son dominated the Fayette Winneshiek district Holstein show at West Union fairgrounds. Paul Stewart and Carl Miehe led with multiple top awards including grand champion bull and several cow classes. judge Jens Bollerup presided.
Four sets of twin calves were born in the last year in a six cow Milking Shorthorn herd on the Charles Kuhn farm near La Porte City. The herd now comprises eight calves, four females and four males, sired by a purebred LA bull.
A country woman extols wartime self sufficiency praising scarce goods from home grown corn and sugar to farm labor. She imagines Germans hearing tractors, blackout routines, and round the clock farming with full pantry supplies.
The Paul McElmeel herd of Greeley, 12 purebred Holstein cows, yielded 12,243 pounds per cow in the last test year, enough to serve 47 families with four quarts daily. Butterfat averaged 41.9 pounds per cow, far above the national dairy average. The top producer was Paumel Lila Piebe, 7 years old, with 14,633 pounds milk and 596 pounds butterfat.
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