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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1943
Page
2
Swine grower secretary H Pemberton lauds the 1943 purebred sow sale season as the most profitable in history. Cash sales with strong demand featured uniform, high quality sows and price tops around 350 to 500 dollars, while buyers preferred larger, growing brood sows for efficient pork production. He warns against overpaying and urges keeping to practical type amid wartime needs.
The West Branch community hall served as a versatile venue for town and farm groups, social clubs, and gatherings. Fifty people enjoyed Sunday evening activities including a film showing and slides from Mexico and across the United States before midnight as March began.
John Armstrong of Springville, longtime elevator operator since 1918, considers retirement if his business is bought by a farmer cooperative or shareholder group. Don Peterson stood nearby as Armstrong proposed the idea to customers. A seven member committee was formed to finalize transfer details and present shares to local farmers, with a week of promotion underway.
Ames plant pathologist P Sylvester urges buyers to read seed labels. Labels must show weed seed limits, primary weed exclusion, weed seed counts per unit, and germination percentages. Farm seed sold must also disclose germination, weed seeds, and primary weed exclusion.
Seed oats and soybeans tested in Marengo Iowa show germination as low as 45 percent. County agent D H Zentmire urges growers to verify seed quality. Six oat tests ranged from 45 to 94 percent and seven soybean tests from 63 to 92 percent.
Iowa Farmers Union accuses a Washington bloc of planning to abolish the AAA and FSA along with other USDA agencies. The statement says the move would scrap the nation’s experienced farm programs and threaten food production, calling the effort grave amid wartime conditions.
The Wisconsin cheese exchange reports a 1942 sales record of 1,778 car loads totaling nearly 56 million pounds. The government was the principal buyer, with average prices around 21.89 cents for cheddars and 22.17 cents for twins.
William Janss sold a well improved 160 acre farm two and a half miles south of Troy Mills to F Edwards of Oxford for 80 dollars an acre cash. Possession will be given March 5.
Auction results from Decorah, Columbus Junction, and Waukon show top Shorthorn cows selling up to 152 dollars with calves and other cattle fetching 110 to 165 dollars. Hay and grain prices are listed with oats at 66 to 71 cents a bushel and corn around 87 cents to near a dollar.
A record 130 beef calves have been started on feed in Jackson county. County agent Jake Stimson said the total includes 87 Hereford 22 Short Horns and 21 Angus.
The notice describes tax loan options from Household including salary auto and furniture loans to cover quarterly tax payments. It outlines repayment over 2 to 12 months with rates of 3 percent per month on balances under 100 and 2.5 percent on amounts over 100, stressing quick private transactions and no co signers.
Public notice explains how to complete a return form and submit a mail coupon with no obligation. It references providing a name address and city, though the readable text is fragmentary and unclear on details.
A mixed crossword style list presents numbered horizontal and vertical clues including names of people and places such as Hollywood producer and Long Island, with definitions ranging from Shout to Compass point. Many entries reference mythological, linguistic, and astronomical terms, plus abbreviations and foreign words.
A series of farm auctions scheduled across Iowa starts Tuesday with the Iowa Livestock Exchange Cedar Rapids horse sale and the Iowa City Sales Co. sale. On Wednesday S G Smith Est offers 2945 acres at a public auction with 344 miles NW Cedar Rapids and Marengo Sales Barn Co. handles machinery. Thursday features Walter Nanke public sale 444 miles north Mechanicsville and Priday hurdles Bill Janss closing out 24 miles southeast Troy Mills on March 5.
The Agricultural Statistical Service in Des Moines reports on February 125 Iowa farm prices. 100 pounds of live hog cost 17.7 bushels of corn and 1 dozen eggs equaled 14.3 pounds of standard poultry ration. Butterfat bought 31.5 pounds of balanced dairy ration. Ratios were above the 1937-41 February average and higher than a year ago. Scientists note 1 500 known North American bird species north of Mexico.
Hudson top at Vaughn Craft's Duroc sale fetched 192.50 dollars paid by Lloyd Dill of Vinton for a spring gift. The offering of 40 head farrowed by nine sons drew buyers from South Dakota Wisconsin Montana Texas Minnesota and all parts of Iowa.
Miss Mary Grigs, women's editor of Britain's Farmer's Weekly, travels Iowa meeting farm people. She attends a Des Moines luncheon for farm women, a Warren county home project school, and is hosted by Mrs. Raymond Sayre near Ackworth. In Ames she discusses with home economics faculty and extension women and delivers the Theta Sigma Phi matrix table dinner address.
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