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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1937
Page
8
Governor Myers of Farm Credit warns farmers seek subsidized credit as a peril to cooperative credit. He speaks at the thirteenth annual session of the American Institute of Cooperation held in field Massachusetts region, with leaders from California and other states presenting remarks on cooperation aims.
Delegates from thirty two states gather as discussions focus on permanent interest subsidies and the future of cooperative credit. Governors urge farmers to choose between subsidized rates and a cooperative system while stressing the role of service oriented cooperatives and advertising in expanding markets.
C B Denman, agricultural counsel for the National Association of Food Chains, says chains seek direct dealings with Iowa egg co operatives to improve farmer markets. He notes savings on transport and better handling, but stresses need for quality packs and uniform grading to access lucrative markets in Chicago and beyond.
Officials warn apple growers against heavy third cover spray. Recommended timing splits counties by date: southern counties by June 24, central by late June, northern by July. Suggested mix includes Neu lime sulfur and hydrated lime with lead in 50 gallons of water. Observers report a spray trial conducted in several counties including Des Moines and Polk.
A four hour county tour in Benton County featured demonstrations led by Carl Olden of the Livestock Producers Association and County Agent James C. Green. The event drew about twenty five attendees and covered beef production topics.
County Agent James C Green reports cutworms fiercely damaging Benton county crops around Keystone. Alfalfa suffers greatest harm with spread risk to corn. farms of Franzenburg Junge Hansen Hanneman Benson Christianson and Ernst near Newhall affected as ears begin to tassel and gardens yield strongly in other regions. Weather and harvest notes show oats and wheat headed, canning peas thriving, and straw and hay crops progressing amid rains.
County Agent William J. Rouda bush reports 115 sacks totaling 11 500 pounds of poisoned grasshopper bait issued to 15 townships in Washington county by Monday night. Farmers received from one to nine sacks each, with an average of four sacks.
Lincoln Neb Sunday officials of the federal dairy bureau faced strong disapproval from dairy manufacturers as they heard a proposed change in the butter grading system. Representatives from Nebraska Iowa Texas South Dakota Colorado Kansas New Mexico Arkansas attended the conference.
Frank Decker of Cedar County sold a load of 121 pound feeder steers in Chicago for 312.10 per hundredweight.
The seventh annual East Central Iowa Veterinary Association clinic drew 277 practitioners from nine states to Mechanicsville. Iowa contributed 208 registrations, followed by Illinois 51 and Wisconsin 7 with other states represented. Demonstrations covered pigs, cattle, equine work, poultry disease, and a Goats debicating exhibit, with Dr. Kay presenting a federal pathology exhibit from Cedar Rapids.
Fred H. Larson announces a semi annual soil conservation tour for farmers from Jackson, Jones, Clinton and Dubuque counties to inspect farms in the territory with special soil conservation work by the CCC camp. County Agents Krause, Smith, Kerrigan and Lacy join, along with W. S. Wilson, president of the Jackson County Soil Improvement association.
The Oelwein cooperative creamery celebrated its 50th anniversary at the city park with about 1600 attendees. The day featured eats and games, including a farmers versus townsmen hall game won by the farmers 9 to 6, with Keifer and Klink on the farmers' side and Rathgaber and Malre for the townsmen. The creamery has grown over fifty years into a major local business, currently paying patrons from 30000 to 40000 dollars monthly.
State brand butter is the principal product though cottage cheese is produced extensively. The creamery markets unsalted butter for ice cream in an eastern city and sells unsalted flavored butter to the Jewish trade there. Fred H. Harms has been butter maker for sixteen years. his sons Albert and Otto are assistant buttermakers and his daughter Alvina is bookkeeper. A. W. Stewart has presided for fifteen years. The plant employs nineteen people. Peak output was 1,864,086 pounds of butter in 1934 and 1936 saw $536,515 in receipts. In late May this year production exceeded 6,000 pounds daily.
A four-county lamb grading demonstration and sale is set for June 28 in Belle Plaine. Lambs from Benton Tama Poweshiek and Iowa counties may be entered. Rex Beresford and C. W. McDonald of Ames extension animal husbandmen will lead the event under James C. Green.
A 243 pound hog load owned by Charles Guhl of Jones county feeder sold for 11.55 per hundredweight at Chicago on Monday.
Patrick Henrys and Daniel Websters will represent Iowa at the regional Future Farmers of America public speaking contest in Ames. Twelve Midwestern states enter, with Claude Gifford of Muscatine Iowa to speak on Americas Medieval Tenancy.
Washington A Hereford bull topped the weekly community sale at 79.50. Veal calves brought as high as 21.25. Light calves 100 to 125 pounds sold around 13.75. A total of 158 head of livestock sold for 2800 dollars.
Vern Hute marketed twenty head of steers in Chicago Monday. The animals averaged 1 327 pounds and sold at 13 60. He bought them in Wyoming last fall and carried them on ensilage until February 1. He now has 106 head of the best steers remaining from the original drove of 200 head.
A country woman recalls a gray haired man who argues that modern education and progress shield people from raw nature and hard knocks. He insists the speaker has not missed a thing by not experiencing the harsh early times.
Claude Von Sprecken, three and a half miles south of Wyoming, bought a 120 acre farm one and a half miles east of Martelle from John Hancock Insurance via Midland Mortgage of Cedar Rapids. Price was 110 dollars per acre. Possession on March 1, 1938. farm well improved.
Ames economists report May distribution of 92,000,000 pounds of pork from cooler rooms, lowering June 1 storage to 664,000,000 pounds. Hog receipts fell below 1936 levels for May, with reduced slaughterings continuing into June.
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