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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1941
Page
10
The U S Department of Agriculture seeks a 40 to 50 percent rise in dry skimmilk production to reach a 200 million pound goal for lend lease shipments to Great Britain. Current output exceeds last year by ten percent, with shortages mainly in human consumption due to diversion to animal feed.
Sixty thousand dollars would buy the Ottumwa poultry plant recently acquired by the Omaha bank for cooperatives through foreclosure on a 213000 indebtedness from the Iowa Poultry Producers Marketing Association. Jerry Mason, head of the bank for co-ops, says he would like to see the plant used perhaps for production of powdered food products for export. He questions why it could not be converted to milk drying or other uses and notes Cedar Rapids might have kept it in the natural trade channel.
Spectal to The Gazette Madison Wis The department of agriculture recommended to defense officials increased dairy equipment for farmers next year M Clifford Townsend director said the office of production management has issued a special order to enable the immediate production of 1 340 000 milk cans He noted cooperation on milking machines and said new dairy machinery production should be higher than the general level with sufficient repair parts
The twenty third annual American Farm Bureau federation convention is set for December 9 to 11 at Hotel Sherman in Chicago. Five opening day speakers include Claude R Wickard John H Bankhead Clarence Cannon Breckenridge Long and Robert P Patterson. Other planned speakers on December 10 are Leon Henderson Thurman Arnold Donald M Nelson and Lord Halifax. The business session for officer elections and policy formation is on December 11.
Rex Beresford of Ames is listed for cattlemen meetings across eastern Iowa from Dec 9 in Williamsburg and Grinnell to Dec 18 in Muscatine. Banquets follow in Clinton on Dec 11, Wapello on Dec 12, and Maquoketa on Dec 17, with Jones county beef banquet date undetermined.
Dale Newman of Martelle led a field of 190 contestants to first in Iowa State College 1941 freshman beef judging. Newman, a two year agricultural senior, scored 8884 points and earned the freshman judging medal presented by Col E N Wentworth. Robert Rogers and Richard Vance tied for second, Roger DeWolf placed third. Judges were Prof A B Caine George Edwards and Prof P S Shearer.
DES MOINES, UP, reports of dropsical cattle fed stored corn emerge as state veterinarian Dr C C Franks cautions that storing corn or alfalfa robs carotene, the vitamin A source. He notes seven month storage halves alfalfa carotene and that several cattle are being condemned at packing plants. Swelling in legs and shoulders marks the disease.
Ames announces 25 Iowa 4-H boys will travel to Chicago for National Club Congress November 28 to December 6 alongside 25 girls. Averaging seven and a half years in 4-H, each completed about 12 projects with livestock and crop value totaling 81 250 dollars. Winners span dairy, livestock, crops, poultry, baby beef, purebred beef, pigs, sheep, health, corn, colt, and scholarship awards with multiple named participants and clubs.
A list of upcoming farm auctions and sales across Iowa towns including Anamosa, Stanwood, Oxford, Walker, and Martelle. Auctions span Nov 25 to Dec 2, featuring closing out sales, public sales, and estate dispersals with locations and rough miles from local towns. The notices highlight Huerter & Sons, Streets & Lynch, J. W. Fowlie, Van Sickle, Frank Fagan, George Briggs, John Rammelsberg, Mary C. Woodfirf Est., Grabbe and Kennebeck, McPherson Est. and others.
A government report on Federal Surplus Commodities purchases since March 15 1941 shows totals for dairy products: cheese 5 605 892 pounds evaporated milk 12 695 830 cases dry skim powder spray 18 104 400 pounds dry skim powder roller 13 535 370 pounds whole milk powder 2 575 500 pounds. During the last week 6 760 boxes of Argentine butter were imported at New York.
G men nationwide enforce the National Cattle Theft Act approved Aug 18 by President Roosevelt. The act imposes up to 5000 fine and five years if stolen cattle are transported in interstate commerce with knowledge of theft. FBI handles violations. within states, jurisdiction remains with local and state authorities. First convictions came from Tennessee cases in September 1941, with Worthington and Miller each sentenced to five years. Farmers should report cattle thefts to regional FBI offices via local law enforcement.
Madonna Kuhn, 18, Fort Atkinson, named Iowa's 1941 outstanding all around 4-H homemaker by Mrs. Edith Barker of Ames. The honor includes a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago from Nov 28 to Dec 6. Kuhn's six year record covers sewing 66 garments, 43 home improvement articles, a half acre garden, 128 trees and 43 dozen bulbs, 1466 quarts canned, 934 batches baked. premiums total 37 dollars, project value 1384 dollars. She was health girl and part of a winning state fair demonstration team.
The Tipton High School FFA chapter plans indoor activities during bad weather. They intend to buy games and a radio to use at noon when conditions are unsuitable for outdoor activities.
I E Kemp of Marion Herman Brunscheen of Wyoming and Mer Eilers of Olin enter cattle for the International Live stock Exposition in Chicago November 29 to December 6. Kemp sad a show herd of 19 purebred Angus cattle Brunscheen will bring three carloads of Hereford steers in fat cattle classes Eilers entered two Angus beeves for individual steer classes.
Special to The Gazette Anamosa ten 4-H members from Jones county entered their teen baby beeves in the Junior Livestock feeding contest at the International Livestock exposition in Chicago to be held Nov 29 to Dec 6 Exhibitors are Norman Ahrendsen Oxford Junction one Hereford Lowell Ahrendsen Oxford Junction one Hereford Helen Lorenzen Olin one Hereford and one Shorthorn Grover Lorenzen Olin one Short horn and one Angus Robert Kawachek Wyoming two Angus Dean Henderson Olin one Angus Donald Starr Oxford Junction one Hereford Ronald Brunscheen Wyoming one Hereford Merlin K Lyon Olin two Angus
Twenty two neighbors husked 25 acres of corn for Gene Culberson on Thursday using eleven teams. More than 1,000 bushels were husked and cribbed in a day. Culberson has been ill for the last three months.
A compact glossary style item listing numbered clues and their solutions for a crossword style puzzle. The entries cover a range of definitions from dishonest behavior to musical terms and scientific abbreviations.
Graf Glenn Burr and Son of West Liberty paid $500 for the top bull in the McMahon Brothers Hereford breeders auction at Graf. Henry Kohlenberg of Bellevue bought another bull for $375, Marcus Brothers of Lamotte took the top cow for $300, Art Jacobs of Marengo purchased a cow for $225, and the April bull calf sold for $285 to William Lemke and Son of St Olaf. The sale offered 42 lots averaging $220 with ten bulls at $264.50 and 32 cows and heifers at $200.
James McKinley near Traer completes a 42 by 16 foot hog house with six foot sidewalls and concrete floor. A loft under the hip roof will store straw for winter use and a 42 by 16 concrete feeding floor is laid on the south side. The yolk of the egg has more food value than the white.
Corn sold for 79 cents a bushel Thursday in the Ole Anderson sale three miles south of Decorah. Barley brought 65 cents and eats 58 cents. Cows ranged from $60 to $89. A bull sold for $95. At the John C Enger estate sale Lauraey a matched team sold for 5. $114 TOP ON DAIRY COWS, COLUMBUS JUNCTION- Guernsey Milking Shorthorn and Holstein cows sold at $75 to $114 Saturday at the David Hull sale of dairy cows four miles south of here. Heifers sold at $35 to $70. Fifty head of feeding shools sold for $10 to $12 each. Paul Klotz and H M Duncan of Columbus Junction were auctioneers.
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