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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1941
Page
9
WarH Anderson notes Iowa’s average week temperature 67 degrees with corn emerging early and alfalfa growing rapidly. Farmers expect a first cutting soon and some fields may cultivate by mid month despite uneven small grain progress and late spring conditions.
Guernsey cows graze on rye pasture on the Adams farm in Guernsey near Waucoma. Nineteen animals including 17 cows and five sows with 45 pigs benefit as Paul E McElroy and other experts observe. The farmer plans to plow rye for corn in late May and notes rye affects milk, prompting milking after grazing.
A county woman extols clover fields noting the inviting soft cover, delicate white leaves, and sturdy stems. She highlights four leaf luck, nodules beneath the surface, and Clover’s role in boosting soil productivity and rural delight.
Des Moines reports 75 candidates for the Iowa Farmer degree at the state FFA convention in Ames with 17 from eastern Iowa. Eastern delegates listed include Bernard Aldeman West Branch Gale Baldridge West Branch Loren Broad Jesup E Brudtkuh Muscatine Gordon Bruns Sigourney Dean Eichlb erger Muscatine Oren Hagen Marenga James Howie Monticello Newell Hutchinson Montezuma Robert Johnson Belle Plaine Ronald Linkart Tipton Joseph Meeker Muscatine David Noller Sigourney Paul Pederson Grinnell Gene Walker Monticello Lawrence Williams Tipton and William Woods Tipton.
Lyle C Capper of Lisbon Co op Creamery argues against a one cent per pound butterfat tax in June. He suggests holding the fund for a future need to support dairy prices, noting higher prices and potential mid May price fixing legislation. He urges using the fund for price improvement when needed and delaying tax collection.
Frank R. Galer a senior in technical journalism at Iowa State College was named executive secretary of the Iowa state dairy commission in a commission meeting. He will assume duties after graduation next month succeeding Burr Willitts. The commission collects about $95 000 a year from butterfat producers to fund advertising to boost dairy consumption.
Senator Bankhead of Alabama forecast a good chance of parity or near parity for crops this year given mandatory government loans at 85 percent of parity and conservation and parity payments totaling 712 million dollars. He cited current parity prices for cotton corn wheat tobacco and barley and outlined loan-derived prices at 85 percent parity.
In What Cheer 14 neighbors plowed 35 acres and spread 30 tons of lime for C. E. Courtney who has been ill with a knee infection. Eleven tractors and one team assisted. seven women helped with dinner.
Twenty seven men gathered at the Mrs John Scott farm northeast of Rowley with nine tractors and seven teams of horses with spreaders to prepare her corn ground. Eighteen neighbor women served a favorite dish dinner.
President Roosevelt accepts Chester C. Davis's resignation as agricultural member of the national defense advisory commission. The transfer of defense agriculture activities to the Department of Agriculture follows Davis's plea for decentralizing defense industries and protecting farmers from wartime impacts. Davis will head the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank continuing his public service elsewhere.
Weiler Brothers operate a meat market in Ryan and farm 28 head of 1300 pound steers. John Driscoll near Williamsburg runs about 45 Angus cows with a top herd bull and feeds 60 head of black cattle. J Keith Noll of Cedar Rapids Farm Service offers farm financial advice. Mrs Thomas Kennedy of Ryan rears 502 chicks on oats ground. Heat waves affect hogs in early warm days. ensure market loads are not overcrowded and trucks are clean.
A new 4 H girls club named the Alethea club of Madison township was organized in Jones Center Junction with 15 members. Officers include LaDean Wessels president Ruth Ethel Andrews vice president Selma Alyea secretary Darlene Schone treasurer Shirley McDonald reporter Jeanne McDonald historian. Mrs Mark Reisinger is club leader and Mrs Irving Eilers assistant. The second meeting will be a picnic on May 13. Jones now has 13 girls clubs and 152 members enrolled.
B C Brownlee of the Iowa department of agriculture announced 31 cream grading schools to be held statewide from May 12 to May 26. Eastern Iowa dates include May 14 Cedar Rapids Fairfield May 15 DeWitt Fort Madison May 16 Maquoketa Muscatine May 20 Sigourney May 21 West Union May 22 Waterloo May 23 Dyersville.
At a Keokuk County Fair Board meeting the dates for this year's fair were announced as August 16 through August 19. The board confirmed the event schedule and related preparations.
Rowley Farmer's Cooperative Creamery patrons receive payments for butterfat delivered in early April. Prices: Grade one 36 cents, grade two 35 cents, grade three 34 cents, matching the prior half of March for all grades.
Neighbors of Homer Dewey and Sarah Davis assisted in field work plowing and discing 60 acres of corn ground southwest of here. The work was delayed by the long illness and death of their mother Mrs Evan H Davis.
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