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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1936
Page
13
Storage operators hesitate to buy at current egg values to avoid repeats of last season losses totaling 12 million dollars. Bullish signs include rising production, shrinking storage stocks, and a government pledge not to let producer prices drop below a floor.
County planning boards statewide meet this winter to survey cropping practices and draft soil fertility friendly land use guidelines. Eleven sectional sessions are planned to coordinate county recommendations for a state report to Washington, led by Murl McDonald of the Ames extension service.
Poetic fragment notes fences caught in woven wire and a countryside turning green with March mood. Imagery of verdant blades, shamrocks, and the season’s pall of winter receding. The speaker invokes rural fields, meadows, and fall grain as the land gears up for renewal.
The article notes 2,000,000 chicks to handle this year with orders described as numerous and largely accompanied by cash in advance.
Special to The Gazette Manchester reports farmers bore the burden of sheltering and feeding game birds in Delaware county during severe cold. Authorities estimate pheasants and quail mortality at about 20 percent. The state game commission will survey remaining birds soon. The Delaware County Fish and Game association distributed several tons of feed while farmers supplied grain locally.
Poweshiek county rural resettlement committee met Tuesday to review twelve applications for rural rehabilitation projects. The new cases, added to those already approved, push the tally toward the county quota of twenty five to forty. Committee members include Judson Blakely as chairman Grover Eisele Dr. O F Parish and W H Stone.
A reorganization meeting for the Anamosa Con Test association is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at the courthouse. William Vincent, president, announces the plan. Floyd Johnson from the Ames extension dairy department will assist, with Wendell Donnelly serving as tester.
Plans for outdoor festival of music and folk games by a 2 500 member rural family cast to be staged June 26 on the Ames campus as part of the state girls 4 H club convention. Rehearsals begin with 40 in Ames and district sessions set in Washington Fayette Atlantic and Storm Lake. A 1 300 girl chorus and a 1 000 voice chorus will perform with county groups in costume presenting diverse nationalities. Tolbert MacRae will direct the choruses and Fannie Buchanan will direct the folk games assisted by the state 4 H club organization.
Pete Sieveka of Jackson township sold eight head of hogs averaging 242.5 pounds on the Chicago market for 10.15 dollars per hundredweight. Hogs were on feed five months and eight days, a cross Hampshire and Chester White, with daily gain of 1.52 pounds. Feed cost averaged 5.60 dollars per hundredweight.
The postponed annual meeting of the Linn County Co-operative Oil Company is scheduled at Marion Thursday. Three directors will be elected in the annual business meeting.
Ryan hosts Farmer's Day on March 17 with Harry Linn secretary of the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders association showcasing horse hitching and breaking demonstrations.
International Harvester of Chicago shows a 57 percent rise in 1935 sales to 217,583,447 with net profit of 19,618,238, the largest in five years. Earnings equal 3.28 per share after dividends on 7 percent preferred stock.
Lone Tree resident John O Connor elected president of the minute men association in Johnson County. The group acts as a farmers forum to discuss agricultural problems and pass information and legislation to neighbors.
More than thirty farmers in Jackson county met in Maquoketa to discuss farm welfare and hear a broadcast by Congressman Marvin Jones. Charles Van Gorder outlined the 1935 adjustment program progress, Ed Schumann discussed soil types, and County Agent F. E. Krause explained 1936 crop recommendations and rent benefit payments under the new program.
Des Moines reports farm income in Iowa for 1935 at $446,849,000, up 10 percent from 1934. The AAA rental and benefit payments account for about 11 percent of the total, according to the Iowa office of the National Emergency Council.
Maquoreta F. E. Krause county agent in Jackson reports one farmer withdrew his name from the seed corn for sale list after a second test last week showed germination below desired levels. The December test had indicated excellent germination.
Jones county 4-H club committee for 1936 named with Mar tella Harry Newman as chairman, J W Nichols of Olin, Ed Helgens of Monticello, and Fred Kromminga of Anamosa. County club agent Max Sauerbry serves Jones.
Linn Test Association No 3 reports 346 cows 603 pounds of milk and 27.6 pounds butterfat in February across eight herds in Linn County. W L Smith of Central City leads with 1 368 pounds milk and 46.7 pounds butterfat from 28 Holsteins. single high cow produced 95.6 pounds butterfat.
Argentine corn continues to dominate Pacific coast trade with March and April delivery at 75 cents a bushel delivered duty paid in San Francisco. About 140000 bushels were imported to west coast ports last week while shipments to the United States fell to 20000 bushels. Harvest of the new crop has begun in Argentina and prospects are weaker than early season. total 452 million bushels were harvested last year.
West Union and Decorah sales saw strong turnout with multiple horses exceeding $200. A 6 year old dapple gray gelding sold for 207, a roan gelding brought 206, and a team of black geldings sold for 348. other horses and a Guernsey cow also fetched respectable sums.
Twenty two North Dakota horses sold at Decorah Friday for about 2650 dollars. The high horse fetched 165 dollars and a team brought 315 dollars. The sale was conducted by Goodno and Ronan.
A Waukon area sale on the Marsden farm seven miles northwest saw horses bring strong prices with three mares at $260 and six fresh heifers at $80. Pigs averaged $12.75 each and oats sold for 30 cents a bushel. Top cow price was $56. The event drew scant attendance due to blocked roads.
In February the Johnson County Cow Test Association records 465 cows, 79 dry, averaging 600 pounds of milk and 25.5 pounds of butterfat. S. A. Hunter led the high herd with 15 grade Holsteins, while Joel H. Yoder ranked second with nine purebreds. Oakdale hospital cows posted high butterfat outputs of 89.3, 83.1, and 82.2 pounds.
Brood sows brought $30.50 per head while a standout four and a half miles east of Alburnett saw a ten year old horse top the bidding at $119. Two smooth-mouthed animals were also sold, highlighting the modest aucti on.
The ad claims piles stem from poor internal blood circulation and only an internal medicine can cure. It promotes HEMROID from May Drug Co with a money back guarantee, saying external treatments and operations are unnecessary.
The Tama Marshall Cow Test Association reports February results for 378 cows with 48 dry, averaging 555 pounds of milk and 24 pounds of butterfat. David Anthony of Tama had the top cow a purebred Jersey yielding 1 334 pounds milk and 69.4 pounds butterfat. The Anthony herd led with 636 pounds milk and 35.6 pounds butterfat from more Jersey cows.
Marengo A grade Holstein in the Iowa County farm herd tops the test during February with 1749 pounds of milk and 75.2 pounds butterfat, tester Ross Engle reports. Another Holstein in the county home herd ranks second with 73.5 pounds butterfat. W P Marner leads Guernseys with an average 36.7 pounds butterfat per cow.
Estate of Charles Moel offers a 50 acre farm three miles east of Solon on Tuesday March 17. On Thursday March 19 Page livestock sale at Beverly and Glen Jones sale at P Platten berger farm near Lisbon. Saturday March 21 Anton Womacka lists a five acre tract one mile southeast of Cedar Rapids.
Auctioned livestock and farm gear drew mixed bids with horses selling for 80 and 91 dollars each, cattle bringing 45 to 83 dollars per head, a side delivery hay rake at 6 dollars, a well kept corn binder selling for 3.50, and a harness fetching 19 dollars.
A variety of farm sales reported in Wilton with teams of horses selling for 185 and 175 dollars, cows up to 50 per head, calves 20 to 25, feeding shoats 13 to 18, corn 50 12 54 cents a bushel, timothy hay 7.50 a ton, and a tractor at 705 dollars. Edward Otto sale shows horses at 130 each, brood sows 25, feeding shoats 17, cows 50, chickens 1.15, corn 50 cents a bushel and oats 0.35.
Cascade Fagan Brothers near Cascade in Jones county sold sixty nine butcher hogs averaging 257 pounds on the Chicago market for ten dollars and twenty cents per hundredweight.
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