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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1939
Page
7
Exports of pork jump to 11,686,852 pounds in May, the highest since November 1934, with year to date pork exports at 47,300,127 pounds. Beef and veal exports rise in May to 1,035,610 pounds, while May pork imports total 4,829,472 pounds. The report notes lower pork prices fueling exports and overall smaller beef and veal totals year to date versus prior years.
The Jolly Juniors 4-H club met at the Brown residence for a home furnishing study. Ruth Ingels was named as the club's candidate for county office, with talks by Miss Ingels and Alberta Brown.
Mrs. E H Miller, private crop expert in Chicago, forecasts a wheat crop of 672 000 000 bushels and corn production at 2 550 000 000 this year. Last year’s wheat total was 931 000 000 and corn 2 542 000 000. She cites moistures improving some wheat areas and drought damage prior to relief. She also projects oats at 894 000 000 and rye at 38 000 000.
Forty members of the Fayette County Guernsey Breeders association and their families picnicked on the Upper Iowa University campus. Speakers were Joe Gallinvaux of Waterloo and Ed Estel of the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. They discussed dairy production advertising and promotion.
Growers and buyers will meet in Iowa on July 6 at Orange City and July 7 at Spencer to discuss routes for moving barley. The Farmers Grain Dealers association of Iowa sponsors the talks urging certificates of origin and quality for maltsters to win favorable Iowa barley reception. Attending will be malt industry representatives from Milwaukee and Minneapolis and Ames agronomists.
The annual short course for seed analysis will be held in Ames from July 17 to 28. R H Porter head of the college seed laboratory announced the event.
Receipts of hogs in June on interior Iowa and southern Minnesota markets totaled 656,900 head, the second highest June on record since 1931. Comparisons show 479,100 last year and 825,100 in June 1933, with Friday alone at 28,900 and a five day total of 124,800. Prices edged up from midweek highs but overall held above last week, with light weights and sows showing gains and heavy butchers steady to higher before Friday declines.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports the hog to corn feeding ratio fell in late May and early June as meat prices eased. US average shows 100 pounds of live hog worth 11.9 bushels of corn on June 15, down from 13.2 a month earlier. The mid-June corn belt ratio was 13.5, Iowa at 14.8, with declines from a month earlier and last year.
Tama county Farm Bureau officials and the AAA committee were moved on Thursday and Friday to a recently purchased Farm Bureau building in Toledo.
Carroll McKusker notes two alfalfa crops on the John McKusker farm five miles west of Marengo. The first cut May 30 yielded nineteen loads from ten acres, and the second crop, knee high and fairly thick, is not as good as the first. This is the field’s third harvest year.
West Union butter sample led by Floyd Nessger scored 94 in the Iowa Creamery Operators association district meet at Fairbank. Fred Gernand Volga City and Joe Barnes Alpha followed with 93.5 and 93.25. Women’s judging crowned Ed Behnke Westgate winner and attendees estimated 50.
Clarence farmers report oats turning color and plan to start harvest next week. Haying nears completion and corn stands reach about waist high in many fields.
Thirty-five Iowa county dairymen and their families attended the annual picnic at the J. R. Wallace farm east of Williamsburg. Arthur Porter of the Ames extension dairy service spoke on dairy prospects and herd maintenance, with Henry Dye of Cedar Rapids, secretary of the Cedar Rapids Production Credit association, also addressing the group.
Postville reports an additional $5,000 wiring allotment to Allamakee Clayton Electric cooperative, supplementing the $214,000 allotment in March for construction of a miles of line serving 624 meters.
Seven members of the Ames poultry husbandry department will attend the Seventh World Poultry Congress in Cleveland from July 28 to August 7. Attendees include H. L. Wilcke and E. W. Henderson with others such as George F. Stewart R. E. Phillips W. M. Vernon W. R. Whitfield A. D. Oderkirk plus Miss Belle Lowe L. G. Allbaugh and N. F. Waters. Henderson Oderkirk Stewart will take part in the program along with Wilcke and Waters.
Farm tours to the Iowa State college campus attracted 1,000 farmers and their families during twelve days ending Friday. Grant Chapman, superintendent of tours, announced the event. The state was divided into twelve districts with each district visiting campus buildings and experimental farms on its designated day.
Jesup Farmers Day is scheduled for August 29. The organizing committee includes Val Bahl W J Campbell W W Biasier J B Boldt C E Stewart J A Miller and G N Thompson.
The Eastern Iowa Light and Power cooperative based in Davenport receives a $340000 federal REA allotment to build 279 miles of high line serving 759 members across six counties. Of the funds, $111448 covers initial operation expenses. remaining money funds 95 miles in Clinton, 14 in Scott, 98 in Johnson, 40 in Cedar, 16 in Muscatine and 16 in Louisa. The coop also serves Linn and Jones counties, with total allotments reaching $1529712 for 1254 miles of highline to serve 3612 farms.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports a one point fall in the Farm Price Index from 90 to 89 between mid May and mid June. Meat animal prices fell, while grain cotton fruits and dairy rose and hogs and lambs led the decline. Prices paid by farmers for non agricultural commodities rose by one point.
Ames experts report an abnormally large amount of smut in sown oats due to dry soil and cool sowing weather. Tests show untreated oats have 10 to 40 percent smut. Treatment at sowing with formaldehyde solution or new ceresan is advised to prevent infection, says R. H. Porter, head of the seed laboratory.
A country woman reflects on the memory of cool June days with weddings showers graduations and gardens. She foresees July with heat grain cutting ice cream socials hay making and fresh farm produce as seasonal highlights.
The Wisconsin joint finance committee introduced a bill in Madison to repeal the 15 cent per pound oleomargarine tax. They cited cottonseed oil trade issues and southern retaliation, noting Wisconsin firms have opened branches in other states to sell products. Governor Heil has called the tax a trade barrier.
A Canadian dairy newsletter shows total butter consumption in Canada for 1938 at 356,797,062 pounds with per capita use 31.83 pounds versus 32.31 in 1937. Cheese 1938 usage 40,555,515 pounds and per capita 3.62 pounds, up from 3.58 in 1937.
Nearly thirty 4-H girls reported for the Washington county chorus in the county, with Miss Alice Hunter named director and Mrs. J. W. Chandler as accompanist.
Nine growers consigned seventy five head of lambs to the grading demonstration and marketing pool in Decorah for Winne shi e county sheepmen. Nine lambs graded prime averaging 80 pounds sold at $11 per hundredweight.
The Waterloo bean processing plant will add eight storage tanks, each 20 feet in diameter and 106 feet high, at a cost of 40 000 dollars. President C. E. Butler said a contract was let to Chalmers and Horton of Hutchinson Kansas. The upgrade raises storage to about 500000 bushels.
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