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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1939
Page
8
Rural economics reports 92.8 million pounds of butter in U S cold storage as of March 1, down from February and 1938 levels while eggs beef pork and cheese totals rise in cold storage. The report notes inclusion of government reserve stocks and relief agencies in butter totals and compares March 1 figures to year-ago data and five-year averages.
In Linn and Cedar counties, Mr and Mrs Ben Stephenson former county agent now of Sioux City announce the birth of their daughter Caroline on March 11. The baby weighs five pounds ten ounces and is reported healthy except the father who is described as a nervous wreck after twenty years of waiting.
The report shows March 1 stocks of meat and dairy items including lamb and mutton, miscellaneous meats, lard, and cheese. Lamb and mutton total 2,764,000 pounds, down from 2,925,000 a month earlier. Lard declined to 125,372,000 pounds from 132,078,000 on Feb 1, though up 18,000,000 from Jan 1. Cheese at 91,625,000 pounds falls from February, with year ago and five year averages noted.
Miss Ella Gardner of the federal extension service will visit Iowa this spring for a third year to conduct 4-H girls posture training schools. The troupe includes Minnie the Manikin leading actors Fraidy-Cat Worry-Wart Bossy Bungler Sneaky Snooper and Complaining Canter to demonstrate how bad thought habits affect attractiveness. A posture clinic will be held in Tipton on March.
Local ad copy touts Natex sales in Cedar Rapids with claims of better health from users. It promotes a new Podzimek’s Pharmacy HQ at 100 Second Ave SE opposite the post office and urges visitors to obtain testimonials and ingredients, offering a $100 reward for new endorsements.
Ames Iowa AP Average income of 24 poultrymen who kept full records was 10.70 dollars a day spent with flocks. Average annual production of 34 flocks reached 147 eggs per hen, higher than the state average of about 85, Whitfield Ames extension poultryman said.
The White Rock hen No K 128 from Collins and Ripper of Seymour led the 1938 Iowa poultry record of performance. W M Vernon Ames extension poultryman announced the champion posted 269 eggs and 347.3 points under a federal algorithm.
Reorganization meetings for the South Jones association in Anamosa on April 4 and the North Jones meeting in Monticello on April 5 have been announced by their presidents. Floyd Arnold the Ames extension dairy specialist will attend both meetings.
Louisa county 4-H club plans their annual Fun Night at the schoolhouse in Wapello on March 25. A planning meeting is set for Monday at the Farm Bureau office.
On account of the death of our husband and father we hold a closing out sale at our farm west of Cedar Rapids on highway 30. The sale includes two head of horses two milch cows Holstein heifer veal calves and other livestock plus machinery dairy supplies and miscellaneous farm items in good condition. Terms cash day of sale. Auctioneers Schmitt & Lowe. Clerk Waltfax State Savings Bank.
A series of farm auctions in March including Charles Conner closing out at 342 miles southwest of Solon on Wednesday March 15 Frances Buresh closing out five miles west of Cedar Rapids at Bever ly cattle auction on Thursday March 16 and a live stock exchange event in Cedar Rapids on Friday March 17.
Ames notes show 300 extension workers at their spring conference opening remarks by Dr. Charles E. Finley Clyde W. Hart and J K Galbraith. Galbraith argues that greetings cards and services drive competition and widen margins between producer and consumer, calling middleman excess a fact of life.
Waterloo meeting of the Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association drew 45 practitioners from 17 counties. D. Lee of Ames cited Iowa chicken mortality rising from 5 percent to 35 percent since 15 years earlier and urged vets to guide producers on management and sanitation. He praised a Lansing Michigan poultry laboratory and Iowa clinics. Plans for a Waterloo veterinary clinic in June were discussed.
Butter markets steadied in Chicago after four days of decline and edged up slightly in New York. Chicago for 92 score butter held at 21.34 cents, while New York rose to 22.1 cents amid a prior week peak of 26.4 cents. The FSCC withdrawal triggered the drop, with Chicago down 3.44 cents and New York down 4.44 cents.
Benton county 4-H plans its father and son achievement banquet for March 22 at the Presbyterian Church in Vinton. Har mon Cropsey, 4-H club agent, announced the event.
Jess Lackender drove 100 head of fat steers to a railway loading chute near Hills amid soft roads. A state highway patrolman and a deputy sheriff guided traffic on pavement, helping secure high prices at Chicago. Forty head averaged 1,404 pounds sold at 12.65 per hundredweight. other lots averaged 1,274 and 1,144 pounds selling at 11.50.
Manchester breeder E F Dygert paid 225 dollars for a two year old Percheron stallion at the Wisconsin Horse Breeders association sale in Madison. The sale reported 76 head sold for 14 705 dollars, averaging 193 50 per animal, with Belgian and Percheron consignments and one Clydesdale in the mix.
NAMOSA S W Edgecombe Ames extension horticulturist will conduct two pruning demonstrations in Jones county on March 23. One at 10 a.m. at the Schmidt and Baird farm Greenfield township and the second at 1 30 p.m. at the reformatory farm Anamosa.
You have suffered with itch and burning from eczema. Poslam works faster by penetrating outer skin layers and soothing first. Use it tonight for relief and gradual improvement. Available at drug stores for 50 cents.
Gazette photo shows Sharon Center Johnson county AAA committeemen Lee Niffenegger John Thomas Levi Stutsman and Lee Schwimley sorting worksheets as they plan farm calls for farmers missing sign-up. Amish and Mennonite farmers in Sharon township may limit participation though county estimate puts 90 percent of farmers in Johnson county signing up for the 1939 program.
Thelma Mae Weils Fayette county home demonstration agent presented the fourth lesson in the child development course to home project women at Mrs. Carl Owen's home in Randalia Miss.
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