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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1934
Page
4
Federal reports show March 1 cold storage holdings higher than a year ago across meat products with pork at 735,903,000 pounds and lard at 177,560,000 pounds. Beef, lamb, and miscellaneous meats also list storage totals, while five year averages are cited for context.
A poetical piece on handling stubborn fence barb wire. It praises weaving zig and zag motions to tangle the barbs and ease the task. The narrator likens the method to dealing with ornery people and notes the process can ruin a worker's shirt and pants if mishandled.
Dr William G Murray outlines four priorities for Iowa farm mortgage relief. Reduce debt, adjust land appraisals, allow variable principal payments, and end commission led lending. He notes Iowa's mortgage debt is a major national share and argues for price-sensitive loan terms and safer lender practices.
The undersigned will sell at public auction on the S. L. Stamy farm four miles north of Cedar Rapids, fourteen miles off No. 11 on the Robins road.
A March 19 1934 sale listing details: 7 Jerseys 1 Holstein 1 Guernsey 2 year old Jersey bull 2 yearlings and calves plus 2 bay mares and extensive equipment including 2 sets of harness 7 14 ft box hay tack 2 wagons harvesters plows harrows rakes spreader fodder cutter and more items for farming and dairy work. Local implements and building supplies also described.
The report notes butter stocks and relief purchases: 75,995,000 pounds on February 1. 11,580,000 pounds in storage on March 1 versus a five year average of 23,187,000. Government bought 1,100,000 pounds for relief in February and relief butter stocks on March 1 totaled 4,114,404. Prior to March 1 the government had purchased 48,059,437 pounds and distributed 43,945,033 pounds.
Special to The Gazette Des Moines figures show 12 678 herds containing 226 930 cattle tested for tuberculosis in February the all time high for the state. 1 245 herds infected and 2 323 reactors removed. Prior peaks listed: April 1925 with 178 597 head, February 1931 with 223 710, and March 1931 with 206 882.
Brood sows sold for 12 dollars each at the Dysart sale held Saturday. Calves brought 12 dollars, feeder pigs averaged 350 dollars, and young heifers and steers sold from 4 to 5 dollars per hundredweight. Dave Wilson acted as auctioneer.
Mrs Betty Luedcke of Dayton writes about losing ten pounds in seven days using Kruschen. She says to take one half teaspoon in hot water every morning before breakfast. An 85 cent bottle is marketed with money back guarantee if not convinced. Available at May Drug Co Podzamek Pharmacy or inv drug store in America.
Keokuk county Farm Bureau will hold landscape planning and home planting schools the week of March 1923 with Norman Morris from the Ames extension service as instructor Meetings are set for Ollie March 19 What Cheer March 20 Hedrick March 21 Kinross March 22 and Sigourney March 23
Leslie M. Carl, federal statistician in Des Moines, named chairman of Iowa's new state board of corn and hog contracts. J. L. Boatman and R. M Evans also named to board. Board certifies contracts, adjusts county production figures, and sets quotas.
Tipton Cedar County report links corn and hog price contracts to a spring housing shortage across towns and farms. Farmers cutting labor needs under reduction contracts reduce local demand for housing, while farm labor seeks housing in towns or rents farms, creating a shortage of available homes and farms.
Earlville scheduled program features Jim Poole radio livestock market reporter from Chicago and Guy Whitford president of a Chicago commission company speaking at the Earlville Opera House Saturday afternoon.
Miss Lulu Moser of Waterloo will preside at a Buchanan county Farm Bureau women meeting in Independence. The session will gather county officers township project chairmen and publicity chairmen, and will be held here Thursday.
Reports from the agriculture department in Chicago indicate the current lamb crop is slightly larger than 1933 across several regions. Conditions vary by area with mild winters and plentiful feed in the corn belt, favorable conditions in California, and weather challenges in Texas and the southeast. Eastern shipments from the west coast and northwest regions are expected to rise this spring with larger April consignments.
A sequence of farm auctions is slated for March 15 to March 19. B. J. Powers, trustee, closes out a sale 31 miles southeast of Lisbon. A commission sale is held at West Branch. C. R. and I. C. Stockyards in Cedar Rapids host a livestock sale. S. L. Stamy closes out a sale four miles north of Cedar Rapids.
Independence reports a Saturday deadline for signers of corn hog contracts in Buchanan County. About half of the appraisal work for contracted acres is done and expected to finish this week. To date 1,800 contracts have been signed, about 90 percent of operators with twenty acres or more in the county.
Fred E. Dennie of Winthrop five miles southeast of town holds the largest corn hog reduction contract noted, totaling $1,130 for twenty four acres and 226 pigs after a twenty five percent cut was applied.
Corn loans have dwindled in eastern Iowa with only five Linn County loans in the last two days totaling $2,054.25 for 4,565 bushels. Overall, $371,763.55 has been lent to date for 828,019 bushels. Loans end March 31 with notarized certificates due by 4 p.m. Officials urge farmers to apply now. In Winneshiek County two cribs hold 400 bushels, bringing total distributions to 109 recipients and 65,033 bushels totaling $29,264.85.
Special report from Marengo shows Iowa county corn loans totaling 270501.30 dollars on 601114 bushels sealed by nearly 500 farmers. In the last ten days 12938 bushels were sealed for 5822.10 dollars.
Special to The Gezette reports Louisa county corn loans totaling 144771 dollars, issued to 215 farmers.
Des Moines report from R. S. Bob Herrick secretary of the Iowa Horticultural Society to the department of agriculture notes minimal winter damage to trees and shrubs. Cold weather slows growth and early reports suggest a promising fruit bloom in spring.
An old advertisement touts 666 remedies including liquid tablets salve nose drops and laxatives claiming rapid cure for colds headaches neuralgia malaria and other conditions within minutes to days. It presents the product as a universal fast acting cure-all without medical approval.
The Iowa Nebraska Farms association annual meeting at Hotel Savery Des Moines features talks by Joseph F. Cox on planning the use of rented acres and S F Westbrook on institutional landlord issues and farm land sales. The 11 a.m. session includes remarks from F C Waples of Midland Mortgage Company Cedar Rapids and others.
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