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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1936
Page
16
US federal slaughter of cattle in October reached 1,124,175 head, a record month second only to 1918 and 1919, with totals up from October 1935. Hog slaughter totaled 3,491,671 head for the year to date, while calf slaughter set a record for the month. Year to date cattle and calf slaughter compare unfavorably to last year in sheep, lambs, and overall hog totals.
A fragmented notice portrays a county resident, labeled as a hitchhiking slattern, hauled into a sheriff’s notice as not a bona fide resident. It laments taxpayer burdens and dwindling farm youth prospects, condemning social decline and county home risks. It notes a population headcount over six million larger than last year.
Fourteen leaders and two dozen 4-H girls from Linn County met in Cedar Rapids with Edith Barker and Lucile Gove to map a 1937 program. The major project is clothing and grooming with economical buying. activities include music health work and conservation studies. Each girl will make at least five garments and five grooming improvements, keep a record book, and clubs aim to grow enrollment to 250 with new clubs and state convention delegations.
La Porte City hosts its first Harvest Home this week with a poultry show and grain and corn show run by the high school vocational agriculture department under E. E. Pearson. Other attractions include band concerts Armistice day celebration and night shows.
The East Central Veterinary Association will hold a dinner meeting in Cedar Rapids Thursday evening. Speakers on the technical program include Dr. L. E. Willey of Sioux City Dr. M. L. Spear of Oelwein Dr. V. B. Van derloo of Dubuque Dr. C. A. Stewart of Tripoli and Dr. Clayton L. Crider of Elkader.
Special to The Gazette reports farmers in Troy Mills finishing husking with some still to go. Yields range from twenty to forty bushels per acre and huskers are paid four to five cents per bushel for husking.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics projects smaller marketing of poultry and turkeys in 1937 after heavy 1936 production. Egg marketings rise slightly. storage stocks of frozen poultry are expected to be very large. Turkeys show higher output in 1936 with 1937 prices likely lower in fall and higher in fall due to demand shifts.
Aiisa Kline vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau federation will address the Fayette county Farm Bureau meeting on November 24 at 10 a.m. The event will include discussion of proposed dues raise, officer elections, and committee reports.
Ladora E. E. Matteson, a La Dora shipper, earned 13400 for ten carloads of hogs shipped to Chicago on Sunday. He previously shipped three carloads last week for 4400 dollars.
Des Moines probable governor elect Kraschel heads east to meet with Henry Wallace and AAA officials on a national farm program. He argues for full Iowa production within soil conservation limits and warns against spreading production to marginal areas, fearing price instability and economic disruption.
Fact states that manufacturers of independent parts provide more than 60 percent of all components used in automobile production in the United States.
Mrs G A Carlson of Vinton is named chairman of the Benton county home project group succeeding Mrs Ernest Reiss of Garrison The election of county officers was held at the annual meeting of farm women leaders in Newhall Saturday night Other officers include Mrs Forrest King vice chairman Mrs Ralph Robinson secretary treasurer Mrs Will Thorman publicity chairman Miss Cora Rieke health chairman and Mrs M D Fry music chairman The newly elected officers will be installed about Jan 1.
Maquoketa bulletin reports the sixth annual 4-H club banquet set for Thursday evening. Charles Butterworth, county president of the boys clubs, will preside and Doris Wilson, county president of the girls clubs, will serve as toastmistress. Mrs. Will Dohse is county chairman of club activities.
A closing out sale of the Herman Norbohm estate is planned three miles west of Alburnett. A community sale will be held at Tipton. Stockers and feeders are listed for Beverly sale.
A. J. Pisney auction on Saturday November 14 at 144 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids. Ana mosa sale pavilion hosts livestock sale. Theo Martin and Son hold a Short horn sale on Wednesday November 18 six miles east of Coggon.
Winneshiek county women plan a husking meet in 1937 with six contestants allowed. Two tentative entries have been made. The women will contest after the county men’s husking event.
Sixteen hundred bushels of corn were husked and cribbed last week at the farm of the late William Sonnemaker. Friends and neighbors gathered for a two day event with three mechanical pickers used by John Ibsen Frank Decker and Harry Crist and teams handling husking where needed.
Walter E. Anderson vice president of the Production Credit Corporation of Omaha will be the principal speaker at Benton county beef feeders meetings. He will address a county 4-H meeting at Newhall High School and a beef cattlemen banquet in Vinton. Chris Kinsel chairs the county cattlemen committee.
Benton County Rural Electrification cooperative moves toward realization as Iowa Farm Bureau attorneys Carl Stephens and Earl Wisdom of Des Moines are named to represent the group legally. E R Brown of Rockford Illinois will handle engineering plans for an electrical franchise as the project awaits REA approval. The plan includes 418 miles of rural lines and a $200 000 grant upon formation of a permanent cooperative.
The Iowa State poultry show in Clinton December 14 to 18 will award cash prizes and trophies including an engraved loving cup presented by William S. Jacobsen of Clinton, a Second Iowa district representative. The cup honors the best Second district display of poultry in the event.
Advertisement urges six glasses daily of boiled or distilled water to flush acids and impurities. It promotes Bukets tablets made from buchy leaves juniper oil and six other drugs, with a promise of refund at May Drug Store if not satisfied in four days.
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