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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1937
Page
28
Eastern Iowa farmers report winter grain and grass seedings in good condition after a solid ice cover. Experts caution about potential damage from freeze thaw cycles, but optimism grows as sun returns and fields green. Road conditions remain poor from deep frost and mucky surfaces. oats sowing may begin in three to five weeks depending on region.
West Union Co-Op reported a 30 percent increase in livestock shipments to 196 980 dollars for 2036 with total receipts 7 121 710 dollars. Net profit reached 3 311 19 dollars, led by livestock gains and merchandise sales, with officers reelected including JS Crowe as president and I H Neumann as vice president.
In Cedar Rapids the Linn County Farm Bureau reemployed Percy Letson as 4 H club agent. He will start his second year in Linn County on April 13. Enrollments for 1987 include 247 youths in live stock and crop projects, with 83 beef calves on feed and 58 dairy heifers. Letson notes prior success with a 1936 grand champion and a Waterloo 4 H Milking Shorthorn winner from his clubs, plus a poultry judging team that ranked second at the Iowa State Fair.
The Oelwein Farmers Cooperative creamery paid patrons 41 cents a pound for butterfat delivered in the first half of February. The report highlights prices paid to producers and reflects dairy market trends in Oelwein.
Farm Bureau calendar lists nutrition training schools on Tuesday at Otter Creek township with Mrs Bruce Ardusger and at Fayette on Wednesday with Mrs DeWitt Oser B&B. A Junior Farm Bureau meeting is at Dattydale School. Thursday offers nutrition school at Boulder and Jackson with Mister Gunderson. Friday features 4-H posture training at YWCA. Saturday brings 4-H music training at YMCA.
Iowa farm women totaling about seventy thousand joined Ames extension courses last year to pursue better homes and communities through home furnishing management foods nutrition and child development. County projects spread through five study fields and yielded tangible improvements in rooms color schemes and furniture.
The Linn County Farmers Holiday Association will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening in Marion. Officers said there will be no business session this month.
The conservation committee treasurer in Independence reports 511 checks totaling 57,455.76 dollars for Buchanan county soil conservation contracts for 1936. Distribution will occur at the Farm Bureau office on Monday, with most payments going to Buffalo Byron Cone and Fairbank townships and a few to Homer Jefferson and Perry townships.
Tipton James Reeve the Cedar county agricultural conservation committee chair reported Saturday that checks totaling 83000 were received during the last week in benefit payments to farmers who complied in the 1936 farm program. This amount is about one fifth of the total due in Cedar county.
Federal building in Marengo distributes first batch of about 1 600 conservation program checks totaling over 200000 dollars. The initial allotment amounts to 38531 26 dollars representing 90 percent of the grant on December 22 applications.
A Traer auction near Buckingham saw gray mares aged ten and eleven fetch $289, topping cattle at $70. May sold for $14.25 per ton, corn $1.03 a bushel, oats 55 cents and barley $1.16.
In Columbus Junction at the Midway sale pavilion auction a two year old Percheron filly topped the market at 162.50. Other prices ranged from 80 to 135 for horses and weanling colts brought 45 to 67.
A 100 acre farm five and one half miles southeast of Dysart owned by Ed King and Vernie Mehlhaus was sold to Martin Landgrebe for 150 dollars an acre cash. The new owner now holds a section of land in the community and the former owners will work the farms this season.
Foreign butter arrived in liberal quantities in New York last week. The week ended March 6 saw about 702 464 pounds imported from Poland Siberia Latvia New Zealand Austria Holland Argentina and Denmark. January and February totals reach 3 778 758 pounds with March expected to exceed 1 000 000 pounds.
The Gazette reports in Edgewood that a survey of seventy three farms on one mail route shows fifty one are operated by their owners with the remainder run by tenants or managers.
A public auction of horses and mules scheduled for March 11 1937 at 1 66 PM at Tipton. Auctioneers note well broken natives and teams with listings of specific horses mares geldings and mules with weights ages and conditions. Purchases may be refunded at Tipton State Bank within three days if item not as represented.
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