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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1939
Page
5
The Federally Inspected hog kill for October reached 3,545,147 head, the heaviest month in five years. Cattle slaughter totaled 893,070 head for October, with year-to-date beef kills the smallest for the period since 1935, while hog, cattle, and sheep trends point to shifting feeding and shipment patterns through October.
The piece notes a cooking school as a setting where 800 women are captivated for hours by cookery as an art. It comments on the allure of culinary craft and its enduring status in society, while playfully remarking on its appeal to attendees and the challenge for hosts.
OLIN Willis Fairbanks Ana moso was elected president of the 4 H boys organization in Jones county at the annual meeting linked to the third annual 4 H father and son banquet. Two hundred fourteen boys and dads attended. Leo Waggoner was elected vice president with Leo Levsen as secretary and LaVern Kuhns as treasurer. Melvin Sievers was named outstanding 4 H club boy earning a trip to the 4 H short course in December. James Miller of Martelle won the Holstein champion wristwatch and LaVern Nagel of Scotch Grove earned the Holstein showmanship award. Dean Newman of Martelle took the record book contest prize. The Wyoming club received a Jones county Farm Bureau cup for best club record. Nine boys graduated with certificates and pins.
Des Moines dispatch notes shipments of feeder lambs into Iowa during October this year. Details on volumes or originating regions are incomplete in the surviving text.
A full closing out sale by Thomas A. Davis near Martelle and Lisbon features horses and mares, mules, cattle including milking Shorthorns and Holsteins, pigs, nearly new farm machinery, wagons, hay, corn, oats and barley, plus livestock dogs and poultry. Auctions by W E Challis. Sale day terms. Lisbon, Iowa.
The Iowa crop and livestock reporting service reports October 85 percent of the prior year total. Direct shipments rose 7 percent from 1937, while central market clearings dropped 57 percent. July and August drove most gains. year to date July–October feeder lamb receipts were 17 percent higher than 1937, with September near flat.
A lightning strike at 6 am Thursday set a large barn chicken house and machine shed ablaze on the Will Mooney farm one mile north of Grand Mound. Fire crews from Grand Mound and Calamus prevented further spread. Several animals perished and losses were insured.
Decorah Floyd Parks four county soils agent will speak on Successful Pasture Crops at the seventh adult evening session at Decorah High School November 22.
C Konecny of 2731 O Ave NW reports receiving 10 to 15 inquiries about a team of horses he advertised in The Gazette Farmers Market Place Want Ad section and states the team was sold. Hundreds of farmers read livestock and equipment offers daily in the Market Place.
France plans to buy 6000 horses for export from the United States as soon as cargo space allows. Purchases will be split between riding and artillery horses from three major markets, with size ranges and ages specified. England has not yet moved, and additional horses may be needed if the war continues.
At Marion on Wednesday evening forty two members selected Claire Booth of Cedar Rapids as president for 1940. Officers named include Virgil Minor as vice president Marjorie Albaugh secretary Russell Hughes treasurer and Helen Rose publicity chairman.
Ian Ed Syndergaard assistant state 4 H club leader met with County Agent J W Chandler county officers and 4 H leaders to plan the coming year. Provisions set require swine project participants own their breeding sows before farrowing and dairy heifers to be owned by the exhibitor. A poultry project may be added if five members request it.
Miss Florence Forbes Ames extension home furnishings specialist will present the first in a series of lessons to leaders of 4-H girls clubs in Benton county at a meeting in Vinton on November 16.
A series of upcoming farm and livestock auctions announced for Friday to Tuesday. W H Morehead estate sale near Maquoketa with livestock exchange in Cedar Rapids. Mathias Nemecek closing out near Ely. Iowa City Sales Co. auction and Thomas A Davis closing out sale near Martelle.
Twenty two neighbors and friends husked over 1200 bushels of corn on the Ben Senft farm near here. Mr Senft was recently injured quitting the hay load and Mrs Senft is recovering from a major operation. A basket dinner followed. Assistants included Emmet Lint Pete Hopper Ed Hopper Allen Adair Bill Stodola Bill Andrews Roy Andrews Vern Donels W Sanders Jim McArthur Harry Vogt George Miller Walter Sebrecht Frank Fullmer Leo Pickerill John Stodola Emil Stodola Charles Stodola Evelyn Fishel Walter Senft Wilbur Lint Ralph Wright.
The Iowa Vegetable Growers' Association will conduct its twenty sixth annual meeting in Garner on December 1 and 2. The group was founded at St Ansgar in 4.
Emma Parizek of Solon Iowa recounts severe constipation causing gas nausea cramps and backaches and credits Natex with rapid relief and restored appetite sleep and energy. She urges shoppers to seek genuine Natex through Podzimek's Pharmacy in Mason City and warns against inferior substitutes.
Independence announces the annual field day picnic of the Iowa Guernsey Breeders association set for June 18 1940 in Cedar Rapids. A double header parish show for Districts 2 and 3 will feature Breeders from several counties with six parish shows planned statewide. R A Nelson is reelected District 2 chairman Henry Genskicke Cedar Rapids as vice president Arthur Satterlee Independence as secretary and treasurer and Arnold Pancratz Dubuque Homer Fike Waterloo named directors.
Sixty eight registered Holsteins sold for 10 670 dollars at Waterloo. Maytag Farms Newton paid 400 dollars for a 3 year old high female with a C T A record of 467 5 pounds butterfat and 12 972 pounds milk in 305 days as a 2 year old. Bulls sale averaged 181 dollars with 15 bulls and 5 over 200. Finster Eldora had one bull call at 230 dollars. Henry Baske Dyersville paid 285 dollars for a yearling dam with 800 pounds butterfat. 34 consignors represented breeders statewide.
Fire of undetermined origin burned a double lean-to on Mrs. L. O. Reed's farm four miles south of Decorah along with 35 tons of hay and 200 chickens Wednesday night. Estimated loss was about $4,560. The Thoman-operated farm suffered the damage.
The federal market news reports timothy seed prices averaged $3.45 per 100 pounds on Oct 17, down 5 cents from Sept. 19. This equals $1.55 per bushel, clean seed basis, below $2.60 last year and $6.35 five-year average. September exports totaled 877,073 pounds, up from last year and above the five-year September average, marking the largest September export in nine years.
A final count shows 409806 bushels of corn resealed in Buchanan County valued at 233589.42 dollars. The tally comes from a report by the AAA office.
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