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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1939
Page
2
The soybean market rose sharply amid the U S harvest of the heaviest crop on record with December futures up 4% cents and May and July smaller gains. Traders cited war demand and speculative fever as key drivers while other grains also showed gains.
Soybean activity surged on central markets led by Chicago as futures records fell and October receipts rose sharply. Volume reached 12.89 million bushels in Chicago with peak day of 1.06 million, while lake cargoes near 10 million bushels loom as harvest runs fast and crop quality described as excellent by Cedar Rapids processor Joe Sinaiko.
The fragment discusses fence drift caught in woven wire and compares fats from soybeans to fats and oils for bodily heat and energy. It highlights soybeans as packed with fat per given size and suggests lard butter and cottonseed oil as alternatives for energy in armies.
Special to The Gazette Des Moines inspectors tested market milk sold in many Iowa cities to judge quality. Tests measured bacteria count solids and butterfat, sediment, mastitis, and pasteurization completeness. Redfern said most results show dairymen strive to produce clean safe milk. unsatisfactory dairies are inspected and corrected.
West Union report from Fayette No. 4 Cow Test association lists 443 cows with 495 pounds of milk and 21.1 pounds of butterfat on average for October. Top cows include an 81.2 pound butterfat Holstein in Harry Turner’s herd and a Guernsey herd averaging 819 pounds milk and 41.9 pounds butterfat.
Nine Poweshiek County entries join the International Livestock Show in Chicago on December 29. Four-H baby beefs include John Jarboe, Wallace Lang, Marvin Cai, Harold Brotherson, Norman Hall, Bruce Bolen, Burdette Farley and Glen Hall with Angus and Shorthorn entries. Hampshire market barrows are shown by Harold Brotherson, Wallace Lang, and Allen Lang with open-class entries.
Interior Iowa and southern Minnesota recorded 590 500 hogs sold in October, the second heaviest October movement in nine years. Last year’s October total was heavier. Market signals show feeders delaying sales until favorable prices, with weights trending heavier and weekly receipts up sharply.
Thirty five neighbors gathered at the John C. Strohman farm near Sigourney to husk 17 acres of corn while Mr. Strohman recovers from a broken shoulder. Aiding in meals were Mrs. Raymond Adrian Mrs. Pete Wehr Mrs. George Adrian and Mrs. Frank Brown.
Thirty neighbors and friends husked 2,009 bushels of corn for Harry Einfeldt a Wilton farmer who has been in the hospital for two weeks with five fractured ribs and a punctured lung from trying to stop a runaway team in his cornfield.
Four pickers and many neighbors helped farmer Harry Rehberg near Grinnell harvest his corn crop after a recent operation. Shirley Puls Walter Hanssen Eldon Lidzka Fred Timm Albert McKeag Henry Debondt Walter Puls Frank Anderson and Adrian assisted in the cribbing effort.
Two Arlington youths, John Elliott aged 17 and Charles Webb aged 20, represented Iowa in the finals of the national 4-H dairy production demonstration at the San Francisco World's Fair and won blue in the central states. Coached by Bill Diamond, they were chosen from 19 county entries at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. They demonstrated mastitis prevention using findings from Iowa State College veterinarians and explained detection with the thymothymal test and methods to eradicate and prevent the disease.
A list of upcoming farm and livestock auctions across Iowa in November. Includes Geurink farm sale near Davenport, W. P. Bate estate near Mechanicsville Anamosa auction, Wallace Bash Holstein sale near Wellman, W. H. Morehead estate sale near Maquoketa, Mathias Nemecek closing out near Ely, and In City Sales Co. livestock sale in town.
Members including McKeag Fred Lidtka Arthur Hanssen Lester Pichardt Wayne Puls Kenneth Gross Johnnie Puls Earl Lidtka Raymond Mithelman Stanley Ahrens Ervin Schultz Theodore Schultz and Raymond Broders hosted a meal for the university team as women of the group prepared and served the dinner for the huskers.
About 45 farmers attended a husking bee at Mrs. Clifford Bryan’s farm. Using 14 wagons they husked and cribbed 1,713 bushels of corn while 12 women prepared a noon meal for the workers. Mrs. Bryan was widowed recently when her husband died in a runaway team accident.
Ames plant pathologist R. H. Porter will attend a federal hearing in Kansas City on rules for the new federal seed act. The act, enforced by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, requires interstate seed shipments to meet destination state standards and keep records. Porter represents the Iowa State College seed laboratory and the Seed Analysis Association, of which he is president.
Auction notice for a productive farm known as the W H Morehead Estate with a seven room two story house, barn, stock sheds, grain bin, well and windmill, timberland, and corner for oil station. Personal property includes 30 feeding shoots, a buckskin mare, plows, wagon, collars, hay and wood. Terms require 18 percent down, balance in March. cash for personal property. Auctioneer Otto Seeberger oversees sale.
Henry Horstmann bought 160 acres three and a half miles northeast of Gladbrook from the Equitable Assurance Society of New York for 24009 dollars, 150 dollars per acre. Possession will be given March 1, 1949. The sale was handled by Conant and King real estate dealers.
John Wacha of Traer buys the 80 acre Frank Pulkrabek estate farm from heirs for 10200 dollars a rate of 127.50 dollars per acre. Possession is set for March 1 1940.
Zook buys the Hummer stock farm of 267 acres northeast of Wellman for 26700 dollars, about 100 dollars per acre. He will run the property with help from his sons.
The Wes Smith farm of 250 acres two miles north of Volga City tenanted by Harold Bergan sold to Dr. C. C. Hall of Maynard for 4000 dollars or 16 dollars per acre. Sale conducted by trustees W. J. Bertelson Charles Meder and Henry Jennings.
Elgin Creamery paid 34 cents a pound for sweet cream butterfat and 33 cents for the next grade for the first half of October, with the last half of September also at 34 and 33 cents. Secretary Fleet Frieden noted recent changes to articles of incorporation and announced that all patrons will be eligible to vote at the annual meeting.
Western Silo Co announces a limited run of Champion Cribs for quick delivery to farms in Des Moines Iowa. Special low prices and easy terms promise erection within a day and 48 hour delivery by wire phone or mail.
Clark Wayson closing out sale near Urbana saw Urbana area Holstein cows grade tested and record 90 average with 100 top. Two year olds to calve in January earned 80, horses 100, sucklings 35, pigs 5.25 to 7 each, pullets 91 and 65 cents, hay 3 and 5.10, seeds 10.75 per bushel. Harness 25 a set, corn planter 60, cultivator 15. Tony Schmitz acted as auctioneer Ralph Remer clerk.
Forty five purebred Shorthorn cattle cows and heifers sold for an average of 73 dollars a head at the George Hebron sale near Strawberry Point. Eight bulls also sold. Top price on cows reached 165 dollars and on bulls 220 dollars.
In the Walker area most corn has been cribbed by Navy crews. Dry weather and mechanical pickers allowed unusually early storage. Soybeans are also being harvested, with yields from 20 to 38 bushels per acre.
In Independence 33 parity payment checks totaling 1675.41 arrived at the AAA office this week, bringing county totals to 172508.89 from 2959 checks. Delegates from 15 northeast Iowa counties met with Hervey Hazen and Homer Soules to discuss 1940 AAA forms and the 1939 corn sealing program after Dec 1 1939.
Ames agronomy expert H. D. Hughes urges straw mulch on fall sown wheat and legumes in drought areas to protect germination and winter survival. Horticulture chief B. F. Pickett cautions watering and mulching woody plantings, with wax coating and trunk protection against cold and rodents.
Fire believed started by a tank destroyed a large machine shed on the Fred Weltzin farm east of La Porte City. A La Porte City rural fire truck saved adjoining buildings and limited damage to surrounding structures.
K W Stouder Ames extension veterinarian will address the farmers evening school here next Wednesday on Swine Diseases.
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