Cedar Rapids Packers Faces Floor Tax On 7 Million Pounds
Cedar Rapids based M. Sinclair and Company prepared to remit over 70000 a floor tax on pork stocks as of midnight Saturday. The plant held over seven million pounds of pork raw and processed goods with 171 tax classifications. Processing tax on slaughtered hogs will start Tuesday, while floor tax is payable immediately. The firm slaughtered 9000 hogs last week. 821000 hogs killed in Cedar Rapids last year. 600000 expected this year amid government cuts and shifting exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Sinclair and Company, Ltd
Cedar . Rapids
Uncle Sam
Cedar Rapids
Sinclair and Company
Palmer
Sinclair Company
Great Britain
Creomulsion Promises Quick Relief for Coughs and Colds
A vintage ad touts Creomulsion as a quick cure for persistent coughs and colds. It claims soothing, healing, and germ-inhibiting effects with a safety guarantee and broad medical endorsement.
Fence Drift Tax Hits Hogs With Price Rise
A.Fla reports a processing tax on hogs effective now. Packers will forward revenue to the government, and the impact on hog prices is seen as a fifteen cent rise the first day. Receipts are held, and observers expect an interesting winter.
Cow Testers Fall Conferences Begin November Seventh
Spencer hosts the Ames Cary Extension Service led event with Fort Shate and Washington officials. Topics cover how cow testing fits the adjustment program, feeding problems, and methods testers and association members will face. Meetings run through November with dates in Mason City Watertown and Ames areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speen
McH
Anhouness
Fioyd Johnston
Ames Cary Extension Service
Ips
Berg
Mason City
Waterton
Washington
Mare
Mr Johnston
Fort Shate Extension Dairy
Ames Eyes $300000 Wastes Laboratory Proposal
The Agriculture Department recommends a $300000 laboratory at Iowa State College to centralize national experiments for new uses of agricultural by products. The building would expand the current station already housed in ISU chemistry and engineering buildings with a proposed board of directors including Dr Henry G Knight and Dean T R Agg. Public Works Administration consideration follows discussions with college representatives. land would be leased from the state board of education. Dr O R Sweeney and Dean Buchanan pioneered this waste reuse work, having identified over 1000 new uses for discarded farm by products under Dean Sweeney’s direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AMES
Public Works Administration
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Iowa State College
P. B Jacobs
Henry G Knight
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
W W Skinner
T R. Agg
R. Sweeney
R. E Buchanan
Agriculture Wallace
State Board of Education
O R Sweeney
Dean Buchanan
Dean Sweeney
Neighbors Plow and Husk for Sick Farmer
Harry Nielsen and Albert Martin plowed eighteen acres for Ivan Domer near Whittier who recently had appendix surgery. More than twenty neighbors joined to husk Mr Domer s corn but rain halted work. An unrelated Bible verse note follows.
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Whittier
Harry Nielsen
Albert Martin
Ivan Domer
Mr. Domer
Corn Acreage Data For Jones County Townships
The Gazett requested Leslie M. Carl, a federal statistician in Des Moines, to compile 1932 corn acreage data for eastern Iowa counties in view of a campaign to reduce corn acreage. The following figures apply to Jones county by township.
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The
Gazett
Leslie M. Carl
Des Moines
Iowa
Jones County
Attachment for Plowing Under Stalks Devised
Federal engineers describe a sheet metal trash guide for plow attach ments to turn under tall crops like cornstalks and sweet clover. A U shaped funnel guides stalks into furrow bottoms with the furrow slice fully covering them. Each plow bottom carries a guide with pivoted right and left sides and a top connected by chains to a lever for automatic lift when pulled or backed up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Washington, D. C
Pugilist Quiz Puzzle Clues Span Phrases and Answers
A horizontal and vertical word puzzle lists many clues across boxing themed items. Each entry from age to sponge spicule and to vilify or defend, with references to a pugilist who held a world title and related wordplay. The puzzle blends definitions, cross references, and cryptic style hints.
Manchester corn show awards six hundred words?
Approximately $500 in prizes were awarded at the Manchester corn show held November 1 to 4 under the Community and Service club sponsorship. About 300 exhibits were entered including 59 ten ear corn samples. County Agent Kermith S. Huehn judged the grain, while Mrs. Charles Baker judged fancy work and other displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Manchester
Community and Service Club
Kermith S. Huehn
Charles Baker
Farm Groups Unite in Iowa Wheat Adjustment Drive
In Iowa, farm organizations join forces with extension staff and county agents to run the wheat adjustment program. County committees include Farmers Holiday and Union, Farm Bureau, and independents, with 90 percent of regular wheat growers signing contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa
Raymond M. Hughes
Town State College
Extension Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Monona County
Farmers’ Holiday
Farmers’ Union
Farm Bureau
Page County
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Farmers Union
Packer Pays 6 Cwt for 80 Herefords in Cedar Rapids
Harold Ross of T M Sinclair and Company reports eighty long yearling Herefords from Ernest Meeker of Letts averaging 1000 pounds, dry lot fed from 350 pounds, with 72 head at 6 cents per pound and seven at 5 cents. Slaughter yield 64.1 percent and Ross hails them as best cattle in years. He also bought 163 head from Frank Trachta near Koenigsmark, averaging 1300 pounds, with three loads at 5.25 per hundredweight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Ross
T. M. Sinclair and Company, Ltd
Cedar Rapids
Ernest Meeker
Letts
Texas
Mr. Ross
Murray Urges Slaughter of T B Dairy Cattle First
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association cites a letter from Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray proposing that if slaughter or product reduction is needed for bovine tuberculosis eradication, T B infected cattle should be slaughtered first. Murray supports targeting diseased districts rather than assigning fixed counts to counties.
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Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Secretary of
Ray Murray
RFC
Iowa
Federal Department
TVB
Towa
Ames
Chicago
Mohler
Washington
Linn Test Ass'n No. 2 reports October milk and butterfat averages
The Linn County cow test association No. 2 averaged 491 pounds of milk and 23.4 pounds of butterfat across 309 cows in fifteen herds in October. A.J. Minor Cedar Rapids reported the high herd with 1,012 pounds milk and 33.6 butterfat. E. C. Forest Mount Vernon had the second high herd with 827 pounds milk and 22.6 butterfat, and his two cows produced 747 pounds of butterfat. Another Forest cow ranked third in the association with 60.3 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Cow Test Association
Harold Klingler
A.J. Minor
Cedar Rapids
E. C. Forest of
Mount Vernon
Farm Auction Near Monticello by Kiburz Tue Nov 7
A farm sale is scheduled for Tuesday November 7 four miles east of Monticello conducted by Joe Kiburz. The event details describe the property for sale and the location to assist prospective buyers in locating the site.
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Montisello
Joe Kiburz
Olin Farm Youth Awarded Trip To National FFA Convention
Delbert Graft a 15 year old Olin High junior in vocational agriculture is one of five Iowa youths to win a prize trip to the National Future Farmers of America convention in Kansas City during the American Royal Livestock show from November 18 to 24. He has completed animal husbandry and farm crops courses and studies farm management under Morrell Leeds. His Duroc Jersey litters averaged over a ton at six months and netted over $30 per litter. His potato project yielded 200 bushels from eight acres selling at 1.80 a bushel. He helped plant waste land to blacklocusts and maintain a small orchard, strawberry bed, raspberries and blackberries. He is on the Tipton corn show winning team and on the champion grain judging team at Maquoketa and was a top judge at Brown Swiss and Ayrshire cattle at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress.
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OLIN
Delbert Graft
Olin High School
Future Farmers of America
Kansas City
Milwaukee Railway
Morrell Leeds
Smith-Hughes
Craft
Delbert
Tipton
Maquoketa
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Veterinarians Hear Hog Flu Research Talk in Linn Co Meet
The Linn County Veterinary Medical association will hold a 6 30 p m dinner meeting at Hotel Montrose Cedar Rapids. Dr Richard E Shope of the Rockefeller Institute Princeton N J will discuss Flu in Swine. Other veterinarians will present on hog flu field experiments and a talk on a new dog disease in epizootic form by Dr L F Bacon Cedar Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Veterinary Medical Association
Montrose
Cedar Rapids
Richard E. Shope
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research
Princeton
N. J
C. H. Banks
Tipton
W. C. Vollstedt
Dixon
F. J. Crow
J. S. Potter
Benton County Corn Hog Growers Listed
County Agent W A Geiger reports within one week of sending letters to co operators in each Benton county school district the names and addresses of every farmer in the district were collected. Ninety two replies with about 1200 names show keen interest in the corn hog program and meetings will be scheduled in all townships once contracts are printed. Farmers also visited the Farm Bureau office for information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
Benton County
W. A. Geiger
Dairymen Register Purebred Jerseys with Club
Eastern Iowa farmers named for Jersey cattle registrations include George Gaul of Tipton and R. G. Kinsley of McGregor with the American Jersey Cattle Club. Also listed is the Indian reservation at Toledo as a registered site or owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
American Jersey Cattle Club
George Gaul
Tipton
R. G. Kinsley
McGregor
Toledo
Ingrown Nail Turns Right Out
An ad copy touts Outgro a harmilesa antiseptic for chiropodists. It claims a few drops in the nail crease reduce inflammation and pain and toughen skin so the ingrown nail turns outward overnight.
Chinch Bug Control Planned In Muscatine
County Agent Carl Rylander announces that A. D Worthington an Ames entomologist will be in Muscatine on November 8 to outline plans for chinch bug control. The pests caused substantial damage last year, especially in the eastern and southern parts of Muscatine county.
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Bprcjal
Gavett Wilton Junction
Carl Rylander
A. D Worthington
Ames
Muscatine
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