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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1941
Page
21
Des Moines area farmer J. J. Newlin with Vice President Henry Wallace promotes crossbred Landrace Tamworth hogs and King Ranch Santa Gertrudis cattle. Field tests show mixed results with several showy, high quality shoats and growing cattle. Chicago exhibition planned for white Short Horn and Santa Gertrudis stock from Newlin farms.
John Hendriks a hog farmer near West Liberty will speak Monday evening to the Tipton adult night school men’s class under J Morris Christy. He will show colored slides and movies on hog raising on concrete. Grace Anderson will teach a homemaking class on harmonizing accessories in Color in Clothing. Night school classes begin at 8 p.m.
Beatrice creamery will open a cheese factory south of the city hall with capacity for 30 000 pounds of milk daily It will operate by mid December Trucks will collect milk from Grandview Richland and Riverside townships for processing and shipment to Dubuque for curing and packing The note on starch production in the corn wet milling industry appears as a separate statistic in the text.
Public sale begins 12 30 sharp featuring horses a bay mare a well broken pair and a yearling. cattle all Angus with cows calves yearling steers and bulls including a registered five bulls. Duroc Jersey purposed sows shoats and hogs with pigs. catalog lists weights ages and breeders with Frenchtown bank contact. Auctioneer TH MOGS with auct CHALLIS and bank references.
Charles D Reed reports September and October rainfall in Iowa set a record at 13.85 inches. He notes the 1881 and 1926 years as near records and cites heavy autumn snows and above average temperatures for 11 straight months, plus harvest problems for corn and soybeans due to wet fields.
At the November meeting of Section Nine of the Town Creamery Operators association in Littleport, results for educational butter scoring and judging were announced. Wayne Hunter’s butter placed first with 94, Elmer Primus led men’s judging, and Mrs O Connor and Mrs Holt haus led women’s judging with podium finishes. December’s meeting is planned for Dubuque with Lawrence Wikie to preside.
Strawberry Point creamery patrons gained an extra 7050.68 dollars in October from casein sales. Casein manufacture began September 14 and used skim milk totaling 812618 pounds in September yielding 2.64 pounds per hundred. In October the first half used 770618 pounds yielding 2.75 pounds per hundred at 44 cents and 347?78 dollars, and the second half used 805145 pounds yielding 2.78 pounds per hundred at 44.5 cents for 4582.20 dollars. Secretary Weeger notes this adds about ten cents per pound of butterfat to milk producers.
The sale includes two smooth mouthed mares weighing 3510 pounds together, high grade Shorthorn cows bred to calve next spring and summer, a Holstein milk cow and a Guernsey cow due to calve in December, several Shorthorn calves, one two year old Shorthorn bull from the Dripps Herd, 30 hogs including two Poland China shoats and one Hampshire spring boar, plus a full range of farming machinery and tools such as a McCormick binder, Easy Way loader, plows, harrows, corn planters, a cement mixer, and various carts and choppers ready for power work.
Cedar Rapids hosts the tenth annual Cedar Valley Farm Business Association meeting at the Chamber of Commerce. Guests include Ames extension farm management expert Lee Allbaugh, Iowa State soil soil manager Jim Wallace, and Max Wortman in seed corn.
LISBON William Reynolds farm of 3314 acres north of Lisbon sold at auction for 142 an acre to L E Morningstar of Mechanicsville. Auctioneer W E Challis reported six active bidders. MT VERNON Mr and Mrs Lloyd Neal took title Nov 19 to the farm they live on and contracted to buy 160 acres of the Henry Neal estate Aug 31 for 125 an acre. The two mile north farm is well improved and the new owner has operated it for years with fall improvements.
Washington County Poultry Breeders association will stage its show in Washington from December 1 to 4, led by president Art Prall. About 375 birds are typically exhibited at the event.
A list of farm auctions and closings with dates November 24 to December 2. Properties span Iowa sites including Ryan, Springville, Ely, Anamosa, Stanwood, Oxford, Martello, Troy Mills, Lisbon, Atkins, Walker, Martelle, and surrounding towns. Sellers include Hladac Est, Huerter & Sons, Streets & Lynch, J W Fowlie, Van Sickle, Fagan, Warner, Briggs, Ram mel sberg, and McPherson Est.
New officers named at the Des Moines convention include Charles Mortensen of Delmar chosen as committeeman to succeed Harry Crist of Clarence who resigned and Mrs Floyd Dittmer of Strawberry Point named committeewoman to succeed Mrs A J Hanson of Cortas Falls.
Postville directors approved paying 41 cents per pound for October butterfat, totaling 23,790.63 to patrons. October butter production was 72,243 pounds from 58,189 pounds of butterfat, slightly below October 1940's 75,048 pounds from 60,393 pounds.
Patrons receive October butterfat payments set by Rowley Farmers Cooperative Creamery. Secretary Joe McGrath reports grade one at 41 cents, grade two at 40 cents, and grade three at 39 cents for the latter half. first half rates were 40, 39 and 38 cents.
Maynard Cooperative Creamers pays October butterfat at 40 cents per pound, reported by secretary C H Paul.
Eight hundred twenty six head of livestock sold at the Louis P. Penningroth farm four and a half miles south of Stanwood for about 19000. Bidding was keen as 275 pigs were weaned and sold in lots 25 and 30. sows and shoats fetched strong prices. eighty four steers brought 1010 to 1070 per hundredweight. Decoraoh sale also noted with cows and calves selling at various prices.
Riverside items sold include mules bringing 54 and 50 and 36 from Dan to Y A team of mules fetched 140 and a grain binder sold at 141 Sows with two s sold from 45 to 40. Orval Meeks auctioneer Bert Gray of Riverside presided as auctioneer.
Special to The Gaselle Volga City cows brought 60 to 96 dollars each at the Kenneth Duff auction near Volen City. Horses sold for up to 120 dollars. A spring colt brought 23 dollars and an 8 foot grain binder sold for 25 dollars.
In the SW Carrick sale nine miles southwest of Columbus Junction buyers paid 9.50 per ton for 35 tons of mixed hay. Broad sows sold for 30, a litter of pigs brought 6.50, wagons 30, harness 32, and 10,385 was noted in proceeds. Auctioneers were Klotz and Duncan.
Fifty neighbors and friends helped harvest corn on Edward Pecenka’s farm in Traer. A Traer farmer was injured recently when his clothing caught in a corn elevator. A volunteer corn pickers dinner was prepared at noon by twenty women.
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