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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1937
Page
21
February storage stocks of lard at packing houses and cold storage rose to 202,460,000 pounds, the largest on March 1 in records. Beef in storage declined while pork, poultry and edible offal rose, keeping total meats in reserve at 1,075,535,000 pounds, up about 13,000,000 from a month earlier.
The Iowa Test Association reports February butterfat and milk production held near January levels across 1,271 herds in Iowa. Extension dairy specialist Floyd Johnston notes daily outputs remained about the same as January, with only minor shifts among herds and regions.
Center Point Guernseys topped the test herd as 293 cows were weighed at Center Point in February. Von Smith’s herd showed strong butterfat gains, with 497 pounds of milk and 78 pounds of butterfat reduction noted over twenty two days.
Lamb prices rose $2.40 in two weeks with Chicago top at 12.65 per hundredweight and Cedar Rapids at 12.25. The gain brings Chicago near the 1936 high while a government spring lamb forecast notes a 10 percent crop decline due to weather and feed shortages. Slaughter and supply trends suggest lighter fat lamb availability through spring.
A conference will be held Monday in Marengo between directors of the seven county rural electrification association of eastern Iowa counties and officials of the Iowa Electric Light and Power company. James C Green, secretary of the affiliation, announced Saturday.
A WPA project began last week in Washington county to eradicate barberry bushes. A crew of eight men under the U S department of agriculture will conduct a months long program to remove the bushes believed to spread black rust of grain.
The Scotch Grove association board members G J Hughes Berard Faugar Edward Herron Leu A Oltrean and Forrest Craig Mores approved a sinking fund of 44 dollars. The distribution allocated 20 dollars to the Red Cross and 24 dollars to the Scotch Grove band.
Boys from LWA City LWA and their fathers attended a meeting at the office of County Agent Emmett C Gardner. They gathered Saturday afternoon to decide if the youths would raise hybrid corn or another variety.
West Branch Elwood Mundy won the feed judging contest for adults at the West Branch community grain show on Friday. W H Estle and A I Ellyson took second and third. The event, sponsored by West Branch service clubs and the Future Farmers chapter, featured lectures by Harry Naumann and George Godfrey. Awards were given for commercial corn, corn ears, oats, wheat, silage, clover seed, timothy seed, soybeans, soybean hay, clover hay, and other exhibits.
Speval in The Gazette reports the canning factory Dssert oN will pay 10.50 a ton for Nelle hybrid corn grown under contract in 1937, up from 9.50. Payment for corn will be made soon after the close of the 1937 season, probably by September 25.
The Gazette reports two pruning demonstrations in Poweshiek county on March 18 by S W Edgenmbe. Morning session at Jefferson township and an afternoon run in Madson. County Agent H F Miler announces the event.
For dairy cattle, ground barley is about equal in energy to ground corn on a pound for pound basis, but when used to fatten lambs and hogs its value is appreciably lower, affecting feed choice and cost.
Senator Guy Gillette and Representatives John Gwynne and Lloyd Thurston reject linking farm loan programs to Roosevelt court reform. Gwynne says crop control laws and constitutional constraints require careful handling, while Thurston argues no connection exists and any tie is obvious false. Other Iowa lawmakers declined comment or avoided public quotes.
Miss Ella Gardner of the United States department of agriculture directed posture correction demonstrations in Cedar Rapids after nine Iowa sessions for 4 H club girls and leaders. The model Miss Core Mae Houston is daughter of John Houston a Poweshiek county farmer near Grinnell. A second pose features Miss Ella Giese of near Walcott president of Scott county 4H club girls and former health champion.
The Anton Heits husen herd of eleven Holsteins top the Iowa county C. T. A. figures in February with an average 47.12 pounds of butterfat and 1,163 pounds of milk per cow.
W J Kemp owner and P C Lassen auctioneers advertise a lunch stand on grounds with sale details implied by the notice.
VINTON William C Kray a Vinton farmer was re elected president at the Benton County National Farm Loan association meeting of about fifty stockholders here Wednesday Directors elected are Kray Marion Montgomery Fred Hensing George Stickney and Harry H Fagan George D McElroy was renamed secretary treasurer
Linn County agricultural conservation committee chair John F. Wager announces a series of meetings for farmers to learn about the 1937 farm program and aid in completing work sheets. The schedule lists dates and township venues from March 17 to March 22 across Otter Creek Fairfax Buffalo Linn Brown Franklin Mount Vernon Union Coggan Monroe Toddville Covington Ely Prairieburg Center Point Troy Mills Walker Palo Marion Bertram.
New York City March 1 cold storage figures from the United States Department of Agriculture show butter holdings at 20 657 000 pounds, up from 8 217 000 a year ago and above the five year March 1 average. February storage drops totaled 22 077 000 pounds amid lighter domestic stock and rising demand. Strong market and rising prices reflect smaller receipts and foreign butter entering consumption. Continued gains anticipated as imports sell at concessions due to low foreign prices.
At L M Koch's closing out sale on his Wyoming farm hay sold for 16 dollars a ton oats 69 14 cents a bushel and corn 1 08 a bushel Seed corn brought 1 70 and 2 10 a bushel Shorthorn cows sold 52 to 74 a head a 3 year old Shorthorn bull 81 five yearling steers 36 each seven paler yearlings 33 each Purebred Poland China sows 28 each a gray mare 130 and a smooth mouth gelding 15 Auctioneer Frank Story of Olin supervised the bidding.
Roy Eifert auction near Monona featured fifteen Holstein cows topping at 75.50 with an 11 month old Holstein bull at 67. A roan mare led 23 horses to 174 and a 2 year old horse sold for 159. Six hundred bushels of corn fetched 1.17 a bushel.
A three year old colt brought 199.50 at the William Kuehl auction near Garber on Thursday. Cattle topped at 80, hens at 0.90 each, corn 1.15 a bushel, oats 0.60, hay 15 a ton.
Oscar J. Smeby administrator's sale seven miles south of Waukon fetched varied prices. Two teams of old horses brought 236 and 254 dollars, cows 46 to 72 dollars, four 600-pound steers 50.50 each, heifers 46, calves 23, a 14 month bull 61. Corn 1.14 a bushel, oats 60 cents, barley 1.32, hay 13 a ton, chickens 0.63 each. A mower sold for 68 and a spreader for 60.
A sequence of farm auctions is listed from March 15 to March 18. Key sales include Netolicky closing out near Cedar Rapids, Rollins closing out near Central City, Hansen horse and mule sale at Dixon, Burt livestock auction near Coggon, and Kemp Angus dispersion sale near Marion.
D E Livingood observes a quarter century in his harness repair shop in Elkader after starting with neighbor D F Willmes who remains a longtime customer. He began as a schoolteacher, learned harness work, then opened his own shop in a 16 by 32 foot building, later moving to a 22 by 50 foot facility with six power driven machines. He, with F W Steen, produces harness and binder canvass to order, runs a repair department serving the county, and operates a retail harness leather goods and footwear business.
Farm Bureau schedule lists nutrition training schools each morning in multiple townships from Monday to Friday with various coordinators. Cement meetings are slated in Marion Fairfax Mount Vernon Whittier Coggon Alburnett and other locations. A Saturday session covers a county home project contact meeting at the Y M C A.
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