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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1941
Page
10
A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT notes a new daily hog marketing record of 55,300 head on Wednesday, with five days totaling 162,600 and Friday receipts at 28,100. Observers question farm supply levels while quality hogs appear strong and weights rise. Fall farrow is emerging in parts of the interior, possibly affecting future runs.
A quirky column notes a newsboy who chews ten cent cigars and amuses locals, while an understated market update hints at slow buyer activity in pork and stable prices in Chicago. The piece blends humor with a glimpse of daily commerce.
Plans for the annual Onslow Jones county 4-H mother-daughter banquet on March 22 include talks by mothers and daughters and an outside speaker.
Five tubs earned a superior 95 score at the state butter contest in Oelwein judged by A W Rudnick. Seventy-two tubs entered with 23 excellent and 35 very good ratings. next contest set for April 9 at Brooklyn.
Forty two members attended the Linn county Junior Farm Bureau meeting at Marion. Plans for April May and June include Homemakers and Farm Managers, Farm Business Profit and Farm Home Living, and Citizenship in the Defense Program. Five youths were chosen to represent Linn at the two day district session at Oelwein: Melvin McBride Marion Floyd Booth Claire Booth George Berghart and County Club Agent Bill Horr Cedar Rapids.
Special to The Gazette reports a district extension school in Manchester one of 16 held in Iowa during the week. About 60 farmers from Benton, Jones, Jackson, Dubuque, Buchanan, Black Hawk and Delaware counties attended. Dr John M Gaus led defense and political topics while Dr McFarlane led economic discussions. The session closed Friday with talks on building a just world order after the war and defense implications for agricultural production and prices.
Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel warned that a wartime defense buildup costing ten billion dollars annually will expand domestic industry and farm demand despite a harsh foreign market. Dr. Earl H. De Long urged empowering the executive to decide policy swiftly, criticizing Congress for delays on lease lend amid emergency.
Anamosa county agent Carl Smith reports 33 mattresses were turned out during the first week of the surplus cotton mattress project in Jones county at Monticello and Olin.
Four Iowa 4-H girls will travel to New York City in May to visit Lincoln High School in Manhattan and exchange ideas with city youth. Three 4-H boys will join to start rural urban ties. Delegates chosen for strong club records and multiple community criteria with funding from Carnegie Endowment and Iowa Economics committee.
Washington reports eight acres are needed to feed one person on average in the United States. Census figures show the average farm supports about 21.6 people in food output, improving from 1850 when 12.7 acres fed one person. Belgium is cited where one acre feeds one and a half people.
February production data for 484 cows across 26 herds in South Jones DHI shows an average of 725 pounds of milk and 28.4 pounds of butterfat. The men’s reformatory herd of 56 Holsteins topped the charts with 1,099 pounds of milk and 39.9 pounds of butterfat per cow, with cow No. 620 yielding 1,764 pounds of milk and 935 pounds of butterfat for the month on three times daily milking.
Washington editor reports R M Spike Evans national Triple A administrator says a favorable corn quota marketing election next fall will bring orderly marketing and a stable price level. He warns without a favorable quota vote farmers may be the goat as industrial production rises and farm costs outrun prices during wartime. He notes agriculture has excess supplies while industry is short and urges using available machinery to combat formidable wartime agricultural pressures.
Forty four adults at Coggon night school received diplomas after meeting at least seven of ten classes in agriculture or home making. Ten graduates had perfect records. Speaker Robert O. Bickel of Cedar Rapids discussed Eastern Iowa rivers by canoe with color movies. Willard Robinson led toasts at a 125-person banquet as Roy Chilmore, board of education president, presented the diplomas.
Linn's entry in the 1941 state 4 H record memory book contest features the 7 year record of Virginia Sloan of Marion, member of Linn's Best 4 H girls club. Miss Lucille Gove county home demonstration agent announced today that two winners will be chosen and will receive a trip to the national 4 H club camp in Washington D C this summer.
Washington report notes total FCA supervised loans since 1933 exceed 6.87 billion dollars with December 31 1940 outstanding loans at 3.069 billion. Long term mortgage credit tops 2.548 billion, short term credit 381 million, and cooperative association lending about 93 million.
A country woman muses on whether her family are farmers under income tax rules. The text defines a farmer as someone cultivating or operating a farm for pleasure yet sustaining losses may negate farmer status, leaving them potentially 50 percent farmers while enjoying the pleasure.
The article notes that federal credit unions extended loans totaling more than 100 million dollars. It highlights the scale of lending and implies growing activity within the federal credit union sector.
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