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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1933
Page
8
The government report shows over 6 million head slaughtered under federal inspection in October across all classes except hogs. Cattle numbers reached a record for October, hog slaughter rose year over year, with calves, sheep and lambs also high. The ten month totals include 7,157,591 cattle and 4,080,812 calves.
Fragmented text notes a fence drift entangling woven wire and chickens. Mentions relief programs, illness, and a tentative note on restoring access. The garbled source limits clarity but centers on a farm scene with improvised fixes and ongoing discomfort.
The government launches a nationwide soil erosion program with eight projects led by H H Bennett. Seven projects cost 125000 to 200000 dollars, the eighth around 1 million. Projects will demonstrate practical prevention methods on watersheds in Wisconsin Iowa Missouri Texas and South Carolina.
The initiative covers the Pacific northwest Palouse area near Pullman Washington into Idaho and Oklahoma Ree plains near Sul water and a million-dollar program on Navajo Nation lands in Arizona New Mexico and Utah. Officials say cost estimates are unavailable but field work already employs about twenty thousand workers with a policy to hire local residents. Analysts estimate thirty five million acres of cultivated land ruined by erosion over the last fifty to sixty years.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace plans a Des Moines speech at 8 p m in the coliseum to outline federal agriculture plans. A large rural crowd is expected with delegates from Iowa farm organizations and broad regional interest.
The Chicago livestock show lists twelve entries for the event. Details are unclear due to damaged text but references to horses and outlines of participants appear.
Consignment sale features work horses Jerseys Guernseys and Holsteins with milking quality and calves. Also listing 7 Duroc Jersey 4 Poland China boars plus Chester White and Hampshire breeds. Includes shonts and open saws, an assortment of furniture and machinery. Auction starts at 1 o'clock. D El Bricklly is manager with Lee Bober as auctioneer.
A study by T W Schultz evaluates the corn hog program's public benefits and burdens. It notes credit expansion, soil conservation gains, and potential consumer costs, then outlines farmers' choices and break-even price ranges for corn and hog adjustments, with emphasis on soil fertility and long term national welfare.
A Clayton County farmer weighing hogs at 225 pounds weighs the profit of reducing from 60 to 45 head. The government payout totals 6.66 per cwt plus 6.66 in base payments, with extra cost savings estimated at 10–15 percent. The farmer seeks a breakpoint price above 8 to 9 per cwt to avoid reducing her 60 head operation, considering risk and required subsidies.
About 100 people attended the Greda Grange meeting in Oneida Tuesday evening. Delaware and Clayton county grange officers and members spoke and performed, with music and talks by R. L. Amsberry master of the local grange, John S Knight overseerLive and Let Live grange Strawberry Point Dean Sauerbry master Prairie Center grange Manchester and Miss Edna Ross lecturer Prairie Center grange Manchester.
A sheriff's sale notice issued from Linn County Iowa directs sale under a special execution issued October 1 1933 in favor of Jannie Hepker McNieland against R S Minor Effie D Minor Ralph B Sheldon Ella Louise Sheldon Jonathan Pani and Lara E Paul for 2000 1 25 plus costs 125 19. The property in Robins Town Linn County including parts of W 1 2 SE 4 Section 21 Township 84N Range 7W and additional lots in Stamy's Third Addition is offered at public auction for cash in hand on December 2 1923 in front of the Cedar Rapids courthouse at 10 15 a m with the sheriff and attorney listed.
Washington merchants sponsor a county corn show in Washington Iowa from November 20 to 25. County Agent William J. Rothabush chairs arrangements with Better Washington club aid. Entries accepted Monday and Tuesday noon. Ed Dias will judge. Corn displayed in store windows then moved to city hall for sweepstakes. Banquet Friday with trophy to grand county champion. George Godfrey of Ames to speak. Ralph Scott to present trophy.
An advertising notice touts AL LENRY from May Drug Co Podzimek Phey and leading druggists as a powerful remedy for rheumatism backache sciatica neuritis and lumbago. The ad guarantees an 85 cent bottle with a money back guarantee to all sufferers.
A 1932 analysis by Cedar Valley Farm Business members compares power costs on sixteen tractor horse farms with eleven horse only farms. Tractor farms averaged 2.78 per crop acre while horse only farms averaged 2.38 per acre.
Weekly consignment sale at Cedar Rapids on Friday November 11 and a consign ment sale at Amnasa on Saturday November 11. The article weighs tractors versus horses for farm power, urging farmers to study own costs, equipment, and field conditions to improve efficiency and lower power expenses.
At Columbus Junction 60 to 70 pound shoats sold for 3.25 to 3.50 a head. Sows with litters brought 17 each. The top price on six milk cows was 17. Spring calves grade cattle sold 3 to 3 375 a hundredweight. Twenty sheep sold for 2.95 each. Four dozen Leghorn and Buff Rock roosters 40 to 60 cents. Potatoes 1.10 a hundred pounds apples 60 cents pears 70 cents a bushel. An oil heater 4.50. Auctioneers Paul Klotz H M Duncan.
Louis Whede of Tipton begins harvesting 120 acres of corn this week. He farms four miles southwest of Tipton and operates a threshing outfit, a clover huller, a corn picker, a saw, and two tractors on his 400 acre property. Outside work delayed an earlier start.
A fresh cow sold for 50 dollars at the farm sale of Joe Kiburz four miles east of Monticello. Twenty seven grade Holsteins and heifers sold from 30 dollars upward. two 1200 pound hay geldings brought 152 dollars. a 1300 pound black gelding 96 dollars. Clover hay 5.10 a ton timothy 4.50. Old corn 95 cents a bushel oats 34 35 cents. Wagonbox 33.50 engine 46 6 foot grain binder 79 feeder 46. Auctioneers L. P. Waddick and H. H. Null.
Mo nona county farmers are first to finish contracts and receive payments 485 checks totaling 52147.60 mailed to Monona county producers The average check is about 107 dollars The first check went to Oroville J Elsele and Mary McNeill.
The text urges waking the liver to release two pounds of bile daily to avoid a toxic feeling. It promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as a gentle vegetable extract remedy to stimulate bile flow, calming digestive issues and improving energy.
A local advertisement profiles Mrs. C L Van Dorn of Cedar Rapids praising Gly-Cas for ten years of painful rheumatism. She claims four weeks of use ended her pain, improved sleep, appetite, and health, urging others with rheumatism to try Gly-Cas from the Thrifty Drug Store on 1st Street and Ard Avenue SE. The ad lists Gly-Cas as a remedy for rheumatism neuritis nervousness and other ailments, noting the Gly-Can Man frequently speaks to the public at the store.
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