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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1939
Page
8
Government report shows January cattle imports into the United States reached an all time high for a single month, more than five times January 1938, with about half under 700 pounds and Mexico-origin of most full duty cattle making up the bulk. Canadians contributed sizable heavy cattle under quota rules.
Ivan Trottnow of Dysart Benton county REA and Howard Masteller of Cedar Rapids spoke Tuesday at a Jackson County Farm Bureau gathering, addressing the insurance problem for members and farms in the area.
Farmers in the territory report that brood sows fared well through winter and that February saw more than the usual number of litters. Early pigs had a strong start and many herds look headed for late farrow after grass comes.
Miss Frances Hettler announces the annual Iowa county women's home project achievement day set for April 11 in Williamsburg. Judge from Ames will assess exhibits on foods and nutrition. Features include the farm women's chorus playlets demonstrations and a music memory contest. Mae Stanserson leads overall planning.
Lorenzen Brothers feeders southeast of Olin topped the Chicago market with hogs Monday. Ninety prime Hampshire butchers averaged 329 pounds and sold for 7.75 dollars per hundredweight. The single check totaled about 2100 dollars.
Willie Willis jokes about studio couches being neglected by adults and used only as kid couches when guests occupy the better beds. The quip reflects family living room humor and casual domestic wit.
A series of farm auctions near Washington Brandon North Liberty Columbus Junction sold horses cattle hogs and hay. Top price 5 year old roan mare 1600 lb brought 115. 4 and 5 year old gray mares 3300 lb sold for 330. Cattle hogs and sows fetched varied sums with 17 cows averaging 77 and many head moving to buyers in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Cedar County drama festival awarded blue ribbons to three short plays Monday and Tuesday. Mrs O Leary s Cow by Red Oak township In the Suds by Sugar Creek and Rochester townships Swept Clean Off Her Feet by Fairfield township received blue ribbons. Red ribbon went to Iowa township and white to the Cass Linn cast.
The twelfth annual interstate junior livestock show will run April 2 to 8 at the Golden Gate exposition site in San Francisco. More than 5,000 head of livestock from 1,700 4 H club members and Future Farmers will be exhibited, with 900 baby beeves, 3,100 hogs, and 1,000 lambs entered.
Mrs. Sarah Porler Ellis and Paul Taff of the extension service planned an all day home project meeting Tuesday in Victor for workers from Poweshick and Iowa counties.
A cryptic crossword style puzzle listing across and down clues for a former U S president and related terms. Includes clues like hair ornament sea eagle and goddess of discord with a mix of dates and wordplay hints.
Rep Thomas E Martin of Iowa seeks to let Amana colonies receive full soil conservation payments by adjusting the farm act limit. An amendment would cut the limit to 5000 dollars but exempt leasehold owners meeting requirements, with potential floor amendments if unsatisfactory.
A 4-H girls posture training school will be conducted at New Hampton on March 28 by Miss Ella Gardner a United States department of agriculture posture specialist. Club leaders officers and county club committee members will attend the school.
The Southeastern Iowa Agricultural Experiment association will hold its annual meeting March 20 in Conesville with Dr O H Elmer from Kansas State College speaking on sweet potato culture and disease control. Ames specialists W H Pierre E P Sylvester S W Edgecombe and B S Pickett will join, and Stuart G Younkin will present the annual report. A Muscatine Island Truck Growers meeting follows March 21 with the same speakers.
The federal crop insurance program reported over 94 000 spring wheat growers applied for insurance this year and total applications reached 299 501. States show Illinois 21 881 applications 12 228 premiums and Kansas 26 712 14 910, Missouri 31 695 15 875, Nebraska 29 119 12 742, Minnesota 15 000 3 550, South Dakota 20 000 2 266, Wisconsin 248 152.
Directors of the Poweshiek County Poultry Produce and Supply Co op, Ottumwa branch, were reelected at the annual meeting in Malcom Tuesday. Named are Clem DeMuelenaere Brooklyn Leslie Douglass Malcom Gaylord Dempster Grinnell A D Hopwood Deep River Mrs Verne Ocheltree Vic tor and L H Pickard Malcom. William Heckendorn Ottumwa co op manager spoke as the principal speaker.
Ames pathologist C D Lee is among nine poultry scientists named to an advisory committee guiding the new federal research laboratory at East Lansing Michigan.
Twenty five members met at Mrs. Bertha Card's home to hear two Iowa state highway patrol officers discuss safe driving. The group's next meeting is slated for April 3 at George Call farm.
AP reports at Iowa State College the engineering hall lobby held a team of horses tied to a stair railing with straw bedding and a fertilizer spreader outside. Pledges of Alpha Zeta honorary agricultural fraternity were blamed for the prank, causing the initiation dinner to be postponed while authorities consider discipline.
Representative Harry Coffee of Nebraska predicts sweeping changes to the farm program in the next Congress. He criticizes marketing quotas and discriminatory loan rates, urges curbing imports, and calls for freight rate reductions to boost farm distribution and profits. He opposes restricting crop choices and says corn will remain common in the Corn Belt.
Mrs A J Hansen of Cedar Falls Farm Bureau committeewoman for the First district will conduct an organization meeting for home project workers in Delaware county Wednesday at Manchester.
Framingham Massachusetts reporting Elbridge C Barber an 81 year old farmer has enrolled in a university extension personality course at State Teachers college. Barber who graduated Framingham academy in 1877 says he enjoys going to school all over again and believes you are never too old to learn.
The Strawberry Point Farmers Creamery reports 1938 data with average butterfat in milk at 32.29 cents per pound including hauling and 34.18 cents per pound total income. The creamery processed 25.55 million pounds of milk and 281 thousand pounds of cream, manufactured 1.21 million pounds of butter, and shows a 32.07 cent per pound balance after expenses. Annual meeting reelects L Fredrick to a three year term. Weger reemployed as secretary. Stamp as president. Dunfrund as treasurer. Otto Weger as buttermaker.
DES MOINES RP A Hamilton county man loses his bid to block removal of seven trees along a county road near E. P. Harrison’s 160 acre farm. The court rules the trees are too far apart to form a windbreak and would hinder drainage. An appeal also dismisses a separate school district suit over officer spending.
W H Thompson vice president of the Omaha Bank for Cooperatives will conduct a discussion on finance and good business practices Thursday evening at Maquoketa city hall County Agent F E Krause announced the meeting is open to all interested persons Consumers are being urged to look in the Want Ad section to find good used cars as dealers offer big values.
Two farm auctions planned in Iowa with Milo Stover sale near North Pekin and Mrs Joe Fremel sale near Cedar Rapids, both at the Livestock Exchange. Events run Thursday March 9 and Friday March 10 with location details and distances.
Norman Landers and Raymond Sayre led the annual Montour Farm Loan association session in Toledo Tuesday afternoon. Other speakers included E. W. Youell J. L. Wylie D. C. Rest and B. I. Harms with Delmar Latham reelected as Montour director for three years. Charles Gary chaired the event.
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