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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1937
Page
10
Nineteen Benton county farmers and township committees ordered 40 628 pounds of TVA superphosphate from Muscle Shoals for March delivery. Demonstrations on all farm cooperators plots will run five years with 10 percent of land left as untreated checks and limestone applied recently.
Jim Benda and Mrs. Benda split from Averill farm on Ivanhoe road south of Cedar Rapids moving to Moline. They dairy and plan to hand the business to sons Charlie and George. Neighbors bid farewell as they seek new work away from the milking routine.
A Bruce township meeting named Bruce Boosters the Benton county sixteenth girls 4-H club. Eloise Green of Garrison was elected president with Marguerite Lasher La Porte City as vice president and Alice Jebe as secretary. Helen Eggleston and Irene Dehrkoup, both of La Porte City, were named treasurer and reporter respectively. A follow up gathering at Mrs. Harley Lasher's home near La Porte City will map the year’s program.
Roy J. Luka netsch of Cedar Rapids Production Credit Association was to address the second weekly meeting of the young farmers night school in Belle Plaine Monday. Twenty five young men are enrolled, taught by L. L. Falck the vocational agriculture instructor.
Gazette readers who move to a new farm must inform the circulation department at once. Please provide the old address, town, and the new address including the rural route number.
Twenty purebred Holsteins averaged 90 dollars per head at the Alshouse and Day sale near Oelwein. A six-year-old cow with a 403 pound butterfat CDT record led the bidding at 153 dollars. Other prices included 126 110 and 103 dollars. The sale totaled 5000 dollars.
At the A. L. Tyler sale near Decorah last week oats sold for 69 cents a bushel, corn brought 1.13, and alfalfa hay 14.75 a ton. Six horses averaged 104 dollars with a top price of 122.50.
Top team at the Hopkinton sale brought 280 dollars with a second team at 260 and the highest individual at 152. A yearling colt sold for 60 and other horses around 100. B A Hopkins of Manchester acted as auctioneer with E L Wright of Hopkinton as clerk.
Dysart plans a 1000 acre operation with higher price per ton and laxer grading for farmers who contract to raise sweet corn. Acreage to be split between hybrid yellow and white varieties, announced superintendent Charles W. Fort.
In tests of belt fasteners at Kansas State College four of the five most durable were of the steel hook type.
February Chicago cattle receipts reached 146000 head, up from 135374 a year earlier, while hog receipts totaled 380000, well above last year. Lambs and sheep moved slowly, with February beef and veal markets influenced by heavy meat in storage and high feed costs affecting price trends.
The Gazette reports on a winter well pulling near Marion on the C. B. F. Michel farm. As water failed in the bottom of the well, C. B. F. Michel and son George used a block and tackle with an automobile to haul up more than 250 feet of pipe while a hired man steadied lines from the windmill tower.
A sequence of farm auctions is listed for Tuesday March 2 including a postponed sale near Springy He 31 percent miles southeast, Stok equipment and livestock auction 1 percent mile east of Belle Plaine, and Hansen horse and mule sale at Dixon.
The Kanawha based Northern Iowa Experiment Association station adds a first of its kind chemical seed dusting unit to its seed and service building. The apparatus includes an automatic scale for precise mix ratios and baffle boards for thorough blending. A new seed cleaning machine is installed to feed cleaned seed into the treating hopper for combined operation.
C B Denman president of the National Live stock Marketing association will address the Chicago Producers Commission association annual meeting on March 9 The program also includes R C Ashby from the University of Illinois speaking on British Livestock Production and Marketing
Thirty two Riverside farmers organized to purchase an imported Belgian stallion. Officers include Otto Novy president Louis Veggy vice president Henry Kiefer secretary and treasurer. Directors are Ralph Kleppfer Frank Libenguth and Alva Bell.
Record breaking imports of Argentine corn and Polish pork are noted for the week ended Feb 26. South American corn arrivals total about 2,250,000 bushels with Polish pork at 1,208,227 pounds. Tinned ham shipments and butter consignments from several countries are also cited with prices and ports affected.
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