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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1940
Page
8
Government report shows 69 321 cattle imported in January with 87 percent from Mexico and 13 percent from Canada. The majority from Mexico weighed 200 to 699 pounds, with Canada supplying the rest. Total meat imports and federally inspected slaughter figures are noted, reflecting domestic market effects.
Poweshick county 4 H club members in meeting here Friday evening reelected county officers Merle Lang president Burdette Farles vice president James Lang secretary treasurer Harold Brotherson historian.
Eugene Meyer of Gurd township was elected county president of the 4-H clubs in Clastan. Other officers include Eugene Whitford Volta Pio neers club vice president Lyle Zieman Biet club secretary treasurer and Alvin Leath Monona Junior Feeders club historian.
Sign-up meetings for the 1946 Triple A program will be held for the south half of Tama county this week after schools of instruction for township committeemen at Toledo Tuesday and Tracer Wednesday. Robert Lyon chairs the Tama county agricultural conservation committee.
George Johnson was rehired as manager of the Toledo Corn Canning Company. Officers elected include H. Ho Lichty as president, William Blazek as vice president, C. E. Brandt as secretary treasurer, with J. D. Thorne and Ray Fowler named as directors for three years.
The readable fragments describe unclear or garbled content about illness and disinfection with references to Malta, animals, and people. No concrete events, names, dates, or organizations are discernible to form a factual summary.
Series of soil conservation meetings held in Winneshick discuss legume silage pastures and erosion control. Events run 8 pm evenings and 1:30 pm afternoons at Floyd Parks Decorah CCC camp county agents host. locations include Castaha Festina Kendallville Decorah Spilfsville Ridgeway with sessions listed for each day.
Clay county hosts a series of soil and sail improvement meetings led by Flaader Floyd Parks and Emerson Wolfe of the Soil Conservation Service. The schedule lists sessions on March 22 26 with times at 1 30 pm 8 pm and 4 30 pm in Garnavill Elkport and Strawberry Point, featuring lantern slides and sound films on soil work.
TIPTON The tenth annual eastern Town veterinary clinic will be conducted at Waterloo in June with date to be determined. Executive board members include Scott of Waterton Stesartal Tripoli and LF Bacon of Cedar Falls. The East Central Veterinary association meeting drew four practitioners from fourteen counties. James C Carev of West Liberty Farm Bureau relations committee chairman noted tax moanes used by Farm Bureau affect veterinarians.
Six young horses pictured were sold by Pruess and Son three miles south of Mechanicsville for a total of 1025 dollars. The leftmost mill horses, aged 3 and 4 years, went to a New York buyer for 380 dollars. The third from the left, a 24 year old, the fourth a year old, and the sixth a 3 year old, sold for 510 to a New Jersey buyer. The fifth from the left, a 2 year old, sold to George Wentzel of Mechanicsville for 1235 dollars.
The sixth annual Nat Farm Chemurgic conference in Chicago March 27 to 29 includes a morning session on soybeans and their industry uses. Topics cover laboratory findings, protein applications, soybean meal and oil developments, processing problems, and the farmer's cash crop with speakers from Ohio Indiana and New York.
The Wisconsin state advisory committee of the butter industry met to form a special committee to study alphabetical grades for butter A B and C and to seek federal cooperation for national adoption. They also plan to consider a Wisconsin state brand grade for creamery butter under the state quality improvement program and to review dairy plant sanitation rules.
Representatives for Omaha livestock commission firms told a USDA examiner they cannot profit under the Omaha rate schedule set in 1926. They urged approval of a 10 to 12 percent fee increase as operating profits declined from 122 / in 1925 to a loss in 1938, with per head net profits shrinking across cattle hogs and sheep.
A sub committee report on needs and equalization of AAA payments will be submitted at the fourth and last Buchanan county agricultural planning meeting. County Agent Dale Irwin and planning specialist J B Wiegle will attend. They may discuss completing a map of all noxious weed patches in the county.
Washington Iowa article outlines a three day corn festival in October led by Rev. Carl W Klein. Merchants were asked to decorate storefronts with corn colors, and the committee seeks colored corn seed from any source. The Ames college replied no seed locally but suggested possible availability from Indigenous communities in New Mexico and Arizona.
Washington AP A G Black governor of the farm credit administration estimated the annual shifting of farm tenants at 150 million dollars. He warned that unnecessary moves discourage improvements waste soil and reinforce single crop farming. He urged wider use of written leases and tenure reforms to preserve the agricultural base.
Waukon neighbors and Allamakee county 4 H girls attend a sewing machine demonstration at the Farm Bureau office. An expert leads the session starting at 1 30 p m. Four club girls study a third year clothing course under Miss Gladys Adams Ames extension clothing specialist.
Francis Johnson of the Iowa Farm Bureau is set to speak in Dysart the evening of March 26 on the 1940 AAA and related county committees. Tama and Benton county Farm Bureaus join the Dysart Commercial Club in sponsoring the meeting.
J W Standen of the Ames extension service will discuss methods of treating small grains for diseases and planting seed with known germination at a small grain treating meeting. He will also show movies on the subject of treating small grains.
The Chicago Tribune reports a device by Frank W. Andrew of Palmyra Illinois to steer a tractor without a driver. A vertical wheel and wire system lets the tractor move in a circular spiral as it pulls an implement across frozen ground, demonstrated last season and again last week.
Livestock and horse auctions listed for March 19 to 22 across Iowa. City Sales Co. hosts livestock sale March 19, E L Riley sale March 20 at Linn Junction, Ia Livestock Exchange horse sale March 21 in Cedar Rapids, Gibson Commission Co. horse sale March 21 West Liberty, and Mrs Henry Sage closing out sale March 22 five miles southeast of Troy Mills.
The Tribune notes a central tractor device costing under ten dollars to avoid overlap or gaps in plowing. Mr Andrew doubts its performance on rolling and trashy fields and has applied for a patent. Burdock root used medicinally sold for about ten cents per pound this past year.
Guide explains choosing a loan and payment plan using a table. It advises selecting the cash amount in the first column, then reading across to find a affordable monthly payment. It notes smaller payments are allowed and repaying early reduces costs.
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