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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1942
Page
17
Seventy four Holsteins sold Thursday in Waterloo for a total of 13890 dollars, averaging 18.70. Demand was keen for young stock as eleven yearling bulls averaged 230, nine calves 113, and eighteen heifer calves under one year averaged 152. Top price reached 335 for a senior yearling bull consigned by the state reformatory.
The 20 month old bull was delivered to Cedar Rapids on Friday by the Linn county cooperative artificial breeding association. His dam holds records of 512 and 508 pounds of butterfat, while her dam shows 851 796 and 758 pounds of butterfat. The grand dam test averaged 4.2 4.4 and 4.6 percent butterfat on three records.
The Fort Madison sale featured yearling bulls at 310 and 300 dollars and a cow with four butterfat records selling for 230 dollars, her calf at 265 dollars. Top cow brought 300 dollars with four production records over 400 pounds of butterfat. Consignors included Claude E Wyte and Sons of Waverly and 36 milking cows averaged 210 dollars. Over 400 people attended.
In Anamosa section 13 meeting forty seven members heard a Ames broadcast on the milk situation and war emergency. Iverson noted no new plants likely due to evaporated milk price cuts while four Iowa condensaries operate. Johnston discussed government dairy goals and leaks in the milk pail. Rudnick spoke on cheese price drops and skim milk drying, Fabricius warned of scarce rubber and ammonia, Cowden urged creamery cooperation, and Beck directed the program from WOI. Theron Smith led the butter contest with 94 percent, Arduser 93 percent, and a tie for third. Next meeting May 14 at Central City.
Dr Frank Cyr urged at Cedar Rapids that rural schooling must train individuals for community life with social economic scientific and humanitarian focus. Dr D E Lindstrom and Miss Jessie M Parker echoed that schools should base and broaden community life and cultivate broad understanding and healthy attitudes.
Education cooperators for the Amana Society’s Garden for Victory program are listed by district. East Amana includes Richard Schaefer and Mrs. Walter Schaefer. Amana and Middle with Phip C. Geiger and Mrs. Theodore E. Hertel. High with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bendorf. South Amana with Herman Shoup and Mrs. Theodore Selzer. Homestead with Louis C. Selzer and Mrs. William Ehrle Jr.
Locker plant managers from northeastern Iowa will meet in Independence Tuesday evening to discuss business problems caused by the war. W. C. Rohrkasse, manager of the Independence locker plant, will preside at the gathering.
Section One of the Iowa buttermakers association met in Elgin on Thursday. Judges named butter quality scores with Francis Giblin Ossian 94 percent, Milton Wild Church 93.4 percent, Edwin Drahn Monona 93. Three-way ties marked men's and women’s judging. Next meeting set for Ossian May 21 at the opera house with a Butter ball finale.
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Chicago market saw little change with steers and yearlings steady to strong and others down 10 to 15 cents. Two loads averaged 1,364 and 11,238 pounds sold for 15.50, the week's top. The Angus heifer top reached 14.50, highest since 1937, as light feeders and western yearlings moved at 13 or above.
Rural Iowa dairy talk discusses milk usage limits for cheese dried milk and condensed milk. It covers plant economics high investment costs for condensing and drying and the minimal effect on butter production, plus the cash value of skim milk and butterfat for farmers and current prices for butterfat milk drying and cheese.
Des Moines reports 12 000 Iowa farm families with FSA loans plan record 1942 production gains. About 1 562 families report increased hogs wool poultry eggs milk soybeans sorghum potatoes gardens with livestock rises and larger gardens for the year.
Hog receipts in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota dropped to 134 600 head in the first five days of the week, the smallest for a comparable period since last October. Slump blamed on muddy roads and barns, reduced pig supply, and late fall crop readiness. live hog prices rose about 35 cents per cwt though top loin prices fell 2 to 4 dollars. Practical top in east Iowa was 134.5 per cwt for hogs 180 to 320 pounds, while Chicago posted 134.60.
Lloyd Lala, a farmer southeast of Walker, finished an air-conditioning system for his barn that maintains 65 degrees year round and provides continuous fresh air. The device was invented by George Pirnie.
A Country Woman muses on whether the people can find their own voice if radio news commentators editors and syndicated writers stop airing or printing for a week, and whether such a move would prove William Tell's lines true.
Buckingham Clyde Trent of Waterloo bought 80 acres in Orange township Black Hawk county from Equitable Life Assurance Society New York at 160 dollars per acre. Another sale saw Charles Dvorak sell his half of a 200 acre farm to Frank Dvorak for 12500 dollars. The farm spans Tama and Black Hawk counties.
Clarence Moore a 62 year old Dexter Iowa farmer was bitten by a mule on March 10 in his barn. The mule died the next day and tests at the University of Iowa hospital confirmed the animal had rabies. Moore began rabies treatment before symptoms appeared marking a first such case treated at the hospital.
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