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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1933
Page
4
Iowa 4 H baby beef club members fed 3 057 calves over 276 days gaining 185 pounds daily and delivering an average profit of 18 87 per head above feed and purchase costs. Premiums totaling 19 825 were won at local state and national shows.
A poem fragment portrays caravans wandering roads in Iowa as elderly couples abandon homes and cart chattels. It asks about future March firsts, seeking security and settled contentment amid displacement and uncertainty.
Wilton Junction reports the Muscatine County Farm Bureau is planning to organize a Farm Bureau band, aiming to promote community activities and agricultural outreach.
Fifty-one Iowa high school instructors attended February meetings on summer program planning said F. E. Moore director. Conferences focused on supervising all day pupil projects, class projects, evening school activities, Future Farmers organization work, exhibits demonstrations, tours, test plots, contests and relief programs for the summer.
United States Department of Agriculture poultry investigators report no reliable link between a hen’s external body shape or head features and egg production. They measured about 400 White Leghorn and Rhode Island Red hens, finding no conformation indicators for high laying capacity. Effective selection should focus on earliness, rate of production, absence of broodiness, and persistence of laying.
Secretary Ray Murray announced a reduction of the dairy and food inspection staff from thirty to twenty-five inspectors. The state has been redistricted to minimize public inconvenience. A related note states a bushel of dried apples weighs 24 pounds.
Consignment sale at Mechan icsville on Thursday March 2 and a second consignment sale at West Branch on Friday March 3. Livestock auction slated at DeClow barn.
The U S Department of Agriculture offers five guidelines for seed purchases to prevent fraud and poor germination. Buy early for testing, demand germination and test date, require variety statements, avoid abnormally cheap seeds, and keep all records while reporting misbranded seed to state authorities. A cited case shows mixing alfalfa with red clover led to complete loss due to poor germination.
Des Moines AP The Iowa House considers Rep. C L McKinnon measure to require hogs and livestock be fed and watered at concentration points within the state to force shipments to competitive markets. Supporters claim 12,432,000 hogs in 1932 could yield 25 to 30 million dollars more for hog raisers. price gains could be 1 to 2 cents per pound.
A hatchery announces six additional incubators and reduced rates for custom hatching starting today. Price is one cent per egg and one cent per chick with Turkey eggs at four cents straight. They will set up to 160 000 eggs every three weeks, split to two sessions weekly, with eggs accepted on Tuesdays and Saturdays. They promote high quality started chicks and offer discounts on feeds, peat moss, brooder stoves, and other equipment with chick orders.
A team of black geldings four and five years old weighing 3900 pounds sold for 280 dollars at the Luckey and Harbison horse sale in Haskins stockyards Columbus Junction. Prices ranged with a bay seven year old team at 91 dollars and single horses 20 to 87.50. Cattle, hay, and equipment also traded, with Edward Hughes and Ham Dun can serving as auctioneers.
Taylorville merchants hold the second annual three old fashioned bargain days sales with over sixty stores. Some credit old accounts using the current price at purchase, dating back to war times when wheat neared $3 and corn around $2 a bushel. One store offered 20 cents for eyes in trade while an auto dealer tossed live chickens and another gave away two live pigs at the showroom.
More than 95 percent of Jackson county soil samples tested last year across eighteen townships were sour, up from 88.2 percent the prior year. Farmers applying lime stone based on test results report savings on alfalfa and clover seed by ensuring sweet soil before seeding.
Independence event where Dr. K W Stouder Ames extension veterinarian notes there is no cure for Bangs disease in livestock. Dairymen hear on herd health and productivity, with Earl Shultz leading sire selection to avoid reducing milk output.
Des Moines AP Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray told farmers seeking loans from the regional agricultural credit corporation at Sioux City that warehouse certificates on corn require fire insurance. He noted examiners say certificates may be accepted without tornado or wind coverage, but fire insurance remains mandatory.
DES MOINES AP A 50 per cent rise in registered stallions and jacks with the department of agriculture was reported by H C Aaberg assistant secretary of agriculture. One inch of rainfall means 100 tons of water per acre.
The Lowden Farmers Mutual Creamery reports 1932 butterfat averaged 20 cents per pound on 143 661 pounds with 466 483 pounds of cream and total butter make of 177 217 pounds. Overrun 23.7 percent. 94 carloads of livestock sold via Lowden Shipping assoc 1932 gross 55 279 72 net 54 273 83. Henry Mente Jr elected president and other officers named.
D. E. Rogers, manager of the Jesup creamery, notes February production rose from January with 196 686 pounds of butter manufactured. Butter receipts for February totaled $34,362.23 with patrons paid an average of 20 cents per pound for butterfat.
Stanwood in Stanwood on the William Tenley farm How ard Tenley began harrowing a 40 acre field of fall plowed sod Tuesday to smooth the soil before disking for corn It is a good time to accustom horses to field work ahead of spring rush.
In Pella Iowa the sale of chattels on Will Van Dusseldorp’s tenanted farm was postponed on the request of more than 400 farmers. Sheriff declines Van Roekel bid of 165 dollars for chattels near 1000 dollars value as no bidders or appraisers appear.
Morley E Phelps sold a 6-year-old Percheron gelding weighing 1500 pounds in the Walnut Grove area, four miles southeast of Morley, for $135 last week to a buyer.
Morley Harlan Russell trucked eighty three head of Spotted Polands to Chicago Sunday night. They sold Monday for three fifty a hundredweight and averaged 230 pounds. Hog consignment through Morley Shipping association. A bushel of sweet potatoes weighs fifty five pounds.
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