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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1939
Page
2
Government data from 1,160 country shippers shows 1938 red clover and alsike seed prices much lower than 1937 and above or near the five year averages for some seeds. Alfalfa prices rise above average. timothy remains near two to three dollars per cwt with smaller on hand stocks.
Raymond Ole Sorensen of Anamosa has been hired by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation to direct its new rural youth division. The community wishes him well and notes he will be missed in eastern Iowa, a likely reason for his selection.
A 1300 pound Iowa pig named Lindberg owned by Martin Berg of Kiron Iowa is set to appear at the New York World’s Fair alongside polar bears and African lions. An inquiry into Lindberg’s pedigree and weight was completed on Wednesday and arrangements were made for the animal’s exhibition.
The February test of 409 cows in the Southeast Winneshiek Cow Test Association shows an average butterfat of 20.4 pounds. J. C. Bodensteiner herd of grade Guernseys leads the association with 32.8 pounds per cow, while M. C Bergan's Holstein tops individuals at 66.9 pounds.
Manchester analyst Robert J. Keck reports February test results for 450 cows in the Greeley Cow Test association. The high herd owned by H. H. Porter averaged 1,101 pounds of milk and 39.4 pounds of butterfat, with one Porter cow producing 1,464 pounds of milk and 70.3 pounds of butterfat.
Robert Nowachek was elected president of the newly organized Oxford Live Wires. Donald Starr named vice president and Lester Turner as secretary and treasurer. Ed Sazma serves as 4 H leader.
A country woman imagines the day a farmer may write the great American farm novel. She envisions a farmer who sees beauty in hard labor, battles erosion, and endures harsh winters to sustain cattle and crops, revealing longing and courage on the page.
Thirty five farmers from Jones Linn and Cedar counties gathered at Olin for a testimonial meeting on grass ensilage. Key points include molasses use not exceeding 40 pounds per ton for proper fermentation water intake higher with grass than with corn ensilage and no proof that higher protein grain is needed with grass ensilage.
Annual meeting of the Montour National Farm Loan association is set for Toledo at 1 30 pm Tuesday. Norman Landers assistant secretary of the Federal Land Bank of Omaha Raymond Sayre of Ackworth one of the bank directors and B I Harms secretary treasurer of the combined Marshalltown Beaman and Montour farm loan associations will attend.
Ames extension specialists will lead three farm meetings in Washington county. An all day planning board session on Wednesday with farm management expert Herbert Folken, a Washington County Sheep and Wool Growers gathering Wednesday evening with C. McDonald, and an all day Thursday training school for fruit growers led by horticulturist S. W. Edgecombe followed by an orchard pruning demonstration.
HALE Howard Jones son of Cc C Jones and former Jones county 4 H club boy has been hired as tester for the Story county cowtest association. He will have his headquarters at Nevada.
The Allamakee county 4-H program holds its second training school for girls on March 6 at the Farm Bureau office in Waukon. Miss Selma Ekquist of the Ames extension service will supervise the event.
Congress established the department of the navy in 1798 to protect United States shipping and trade on the high seas.
A series of postponed and upcoming farm sales announced for March includes J A Reed sale at Springville rescheduled. Walter Hemphill sale near Center Point delayed. Anamosa Livestock Auction near Anamosa. Canney and Mickel dissolution dairy sale near North Liberty. Ia Livestock Exchange sale in Cedar Rapids featuring horses and other livestock.
R B Booth who heads corn loans for Linn county agricultural conservation committee in Cedar Rapids says a temporary shortage of chattel mortgage forms from the state AAA office is delaying loans. Farmers will be notified as soon as supplies arrive.
The Volga City feed mill operated by Ted H. Leete since 1926 was sold to Louis Oldfather, owner of a Strawberry Point mill. Lyle Moats, Oldfather's son in law, will run the plant starting March 6.
Hog receipts in February on interior Iowa and southern Minnesota markets totaled 582,300 head, down 3.7 percent from February 1938. First five months of the marketing year show a 12 percent year over year rise, with prices around 25 cents above February 1 levels. Storms slowed loadings early in the week and some plants received no hogs on a day, with Friday receipts at 109,700.
Ray Sorensen 4-H club agent for Jones county since 1937 was chosen as director of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation's new rural youth department. He planned to move to Des Moines to begin work early next week. Sorensen led Jones county 4-H to become one of Iowa's strongest clubs and will work primarily with Junior Farm Bureau groups.
The Aurora Farmers Creamery paid patrons 28 cents a pound for butter fat received in January, as reported by Secretary A. J. Hahn.
Postville farmers will attend the annual banquet of the Postville Commercial club Thursday evening in their honor. H L Dieterich of the state AAA committee will be the keynote speaker.
J. H. Stander Ames extension plant pathologist will discuss crop disease control in Waukon on March 9. The meeting, previously scheduled, was postponed.
L Grove extension horticulturist from Ames led three meetings in Jackson county on Wednesday and Thursday. He advised on selecting varieties for home gardens and proper planting irrigation pruning mulching and pest control for strawberries raspberries blackberries currants grapes cherries plums pears and other small fruits.
Brown Swiss breeders gathered in Postville to stage a district show on June 30 and invite the Iowa Brown Swiss association to hold the state picnic there. Hugh Mabon of Randalia was reelected district chairman and Harold Iserman of Waverly became secretary. E. M. Wright of Waterloo attended for the Iowa Dairy association in place of ill Fred Idtse of Beloit Wisconsin.
Ames audience heard extension landscape architect J R Fitzsimmons urge a relaxing view of gardening at the sixteenth garden short course. He warned against rubber stamp plots and urged tying gardens to home features for a pleasing view. About 150 people attended.
The record notes an English inventor Hammond and his partner Crane made early attempts at lace-making machines in 1768, marking the initial development in loom technology.
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