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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1938
Page
13
Eastern shippers and buyers push dressed meat prices higher as cattle receipts in Chicago and large western markets show gains. Analysts note limited fat cattle supply, strong country demand, and a rising hog market boosting overall livestock prices despite ample corn.
Grinnell area hosts an annual Ayrshire breeders show and judging school on May 24 at Russell Lang farm. John Cochran and C T Conklin will lead the session and discuss breed promotion ahead of the All Iowa Livestock Exposition in Cedar Rapids September. The program begins at 10 a.m.
Ames hosts the annual Cattle Feeders Hey day with AMES Ray Walsh of the Chicago Producers Commission and P. C. Burns of Armour and Company to appraise the college experiment cattle Friday. C. C. Culbertson and W. E. Hammond present feeding details. talks follow by state and industry leaders.
V C Ramseyer of Oskaloosa Iowa captured both grand and reserve sweepstakes in the egg show at Veishea Iowa State College exposition. Mrs N H Jacobson of Ames won grand sweepstakes in the cake and cookie show while Ruth Eleanor Carr a student won reserve sweepstakes. In poultry show Robert O White of Laurens won sweepstakes and Herman W Paap of Des Moines was runner up. The Stormberg hatchery of Fort Dodge won the nest display.
Mechanicsville vocational agriculture class under Floyd Rokenbrodt established a corn variety test plot on Otto Pruess farm. Twenty five varieties were planted including twenty one hybrids two second year hybrids and two open pollinated varieties with 100 hills per variety.
Peter Hosch marketed a load of 1 194 pound steers at Chicago Wednesday for ten dollars per hundred weight.
Brown Swiss at Henry Sherman farm Iowa Falls on June 5. Guernsey at Kilpatrick and Sturgeon farm Woodward on June 21. Holstein state show and picnic at Waterloo on June 30. Milking Shorthorn at Helmer Larson farm Wallingford on June 16. Jersey picnic planned for Des Moines with date to be announced.
A Delaware company promotes the Matska method for pasteurizing fruit juices using a silver ionized inner tube to preserve juice at 135 degrees. The silver ions supposedly reduce taste change and avoid cooked flavors, with stainless steel and glass components in a three-tube apparatus.
The article weighs whether the recent uptick in livestock and produce prices signals genuine demand or a temporary bounce. It cites storage figures, government policy, and farmer sentiment as factors, while noting conflicting signals about the AAA program and administrative overhang.
Elmer Denkman of Stanwood sold a shipment of Hereford heifers weighing 927 pounds at the Chicago market for 9.35 per hundredweight. The sale occurred Wednesday three miles southeast of Stanwood.
The Linn county Farm Bureau calendar for the week shows a single event a rehearsal of the county farm women's chorus at 2 pm Tuesday at the Marion library.
Ten Linn county farms across ten townships report real estate taxes for 1936 and 1937. Data from County Treasurer Milo J. Sedlacek to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics show seven instances where 1937 taxes are lower. Townships listed include Boulder Brown Buffalo College Fairfax Grant Jackson Marion Monroe and Spring Grove with acres and tax amounts for lands and buildings.
Washington AP reports the Commodity Credit Corporation loaned 20,558,197 dollars on 42,464,491 bushels of corn as of May 12. The action reflects ongoing credit support for farmers through the CCC program.
John S. Ames of Boston was reelected president at the annual sale and meeting in Chicago. Charles L. Hill of Madison and William M. Caldwell of Peterboro were named vice-presidents. Directors include John Clark Huntington of New York and Granville Hibbard of Brooklandville. Karl B. Musser again named secretary with headquarters at Peterboro New Hampshire.
Delayed Jake and rail arrivals helped steady prices in New York last week as the butter market halted its slide. Trade confidence grows alongside possible government support, with 90 score butter in Chicago rising a cent and storage demand increasing. Eggs show a looming shell-egg shortage by August, while frozen turkeys stay firm and turkey supplies lag. Delaware leads broiler shipments amid oversupply elsewhere and slow dressed-fowl growth.
Fayette county achievement day drew 350 farm women with Mrs Raymond Sayre of Ackworth as speaker. She urged collective action through organization to solve farm problems, highlighting two township booths and multiple township groups that earned high ratings from judges N May Larson and county officials.
A country woman gazes at a counter, choosing a flower-decked bowl with pink apple blossoms and gold edge. She weighs practicality against beauty, buys the bowl, and carries it away lovingly, affirming that the soul needs nourishment as well as the body.
Farm editor reports 451 carloads of corn through Cedar Rapids inspection in early May, 117 reconsigned to Chicago for export via the Great Lakes. Export demand supports the market as shelters stay active in eastern Iowa grain areas. Chicago and Duluth export shipments surge with the Lemoyne ready to load 525000 bushels.
The Dysart elevator received 11 175 bushels of corn last week led by a 4 600 bushel shipment from the Des Moines Joint Land Bank for Ira Hook's farm north of town.
Enrollment in Winneshiek county boys 4-H clubs reaches 115 this year nearly doubling 1937 figures. Dairy calf club includes 45 heifers with purebreds. Guernseys Holsteins Brown Swiss Ayrshires Milking Shorthorns represented. Baby beef club has seven Hereford seven Shorthorn seven Angus feeders. Poultry club grows with a large brooder unit and two boys raising 500 chicks.
Manchester based Delaware county 4 H clubs will study hybrid corn production this year. One group handles inbred lines and single cross hybrids while the other focuses on double cross production. Members include Merle Cox Milner Cox James Rector Leonard Hakenson Robert Nelson Kenneth Keith L J Williamson Paul Petton Louis Guetzke Robert Littlefield Raymond Joseph Donald Thomas Frank Hunt and Richard Ryan.
Arthur C. McGill of a Des Moines insurance firm will speak on fixtures vs. personal property at a Cedar Rapids meeting of the Farm Supervisors of Group 4 Southeastern Iowa scheduled for Monday evening. A dinner will precede the session at the Hotel Roosevelt.
Tipton William Penningroth near Tipton reports receiving $9.56 a hundredweight for forty Angus steers weighing 1,138 pounds, sold in Chicago. The feeder previously noted $9.50 a cwt for another lot, reflecting steady feeder demand.
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