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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1942
Page
8
U S Department of Agriculture reports show September 1941 cattle slaughter reached 1,158,758 head the largest for September on record and the first nine months this year total 9,067,156 head. Hog kills hit 3,842,564 head in September with nine month total 37,878,284. sheep and lambs 2,222,704 in September and nine month 14,980,239. Prices rose week over week despite high slaughter.
Public sale announced by W. W. Miller at Martelle near Mt. Vernon for Oct 15 1942 starting 12 O'clock. The catalogue lists a team of roan work horses cattle dairy stock Shorthorn Hereford and Guernsey lines, multiple cows and calves, 1 John Deere tractor, Case corn picker, hay equipment, harness and tools. Terms cash with lunch on site. Auction held at Lisbon area with parcel descriptions and helpers listed.
The Elgin creamery paid patrons 52 cents a pound for sweet cream butterfat delivered in the first half of September.
Knotek Brothers Duroc Jersey breeders sold 40 boars at auction near Riverside for an average close to $100. Sixteen gifts averaged $74.50, with Tracy Brothers of Williamsville receiving the top gift at $150. The highest boar brought $300 to buyer Harold Timm of Muscatine.
Special to The Gazelle Cascade Ed and Chris Reiter, cattle feeders near Cascade, were each represented on the Chicago market Wednesday with steers that brought 17 dollars. Ed's load averaged 1,352 pounds while Chris' steers averaged 1,343 pounds.
A closing out sale by Twit includes farm implements, livestock, hay, grain and machinery listed with horses, cattle, hogs, crops and a Model T truck. Terms and lunch by Lincoln Ladies Aid. Allen Weis and associates with Schmitz Long and Peoples Savings Bank as clerks.
Hazleton broker Nelson reports Ida Wolgamot sells a 129 acre farm near Fairbank to G A Stagg for 10320 dollars about 80 per acre with possession Nov 1. Werman Thomas estate farm, 100 acres north of Shellsburg, sold to B W Willmott for 6000 dollars with possession March 1 1943. John Blauls Sons Co Cedar Rapids sells 140 acre farm south of Troy Mills to Mr and Mrs F C Reid of Cedar Rapids for about 60 per acre with plans to move next March.
Special to The Gazette Lisbon vocational agriculture teacher Grover Miche announced the annual night school for adult farmers will start the evening of Oct 12 at Lisbon High School with a study of Feed Requirements and the Value of Protein When Fed to Livestock. Subsequent sessions cover pork production, strip cropping, contour farming, dairy production, and other farm topics through December led by specialists from Cedar Rapids Marion and Chicago.
Lowden Ship Ping association marketed 54 hogs at Chicago on Wednesday for Klipp Brothers. The extreme top price was 15.50 per hundredweight, and the hogs averaged 221 pounds.
Frost Sparks of St. Louis and others report a $10 per head price rise for good work horses and mules over 60 days. Draft mares and geldings fetch 170 to 300 dollars per pair, jacks 350, mules 400 to 450, with heavy drafts reaching 400 to 450 per pair for Maine fields. Mules still outprice horses by 50 to 100 per pair across classes.
CENTRAL CITY Thirty boars sold for an average of 71.35 at Aiken and San Duroc Jersey auction. Thirteen gifts averaged 54.30. Top boar went to Gregors Vaske of Dyersville for 135 with 115 paid for another. Bidders included Naumann Lanaster Wis Quass Alburnett EB Landis Anamosa Mitch ell Fairfax Rickels Scotch Grove Simonsen Marion. The Alburnett State bank clerk. Mitchell and Lassen were auctioneers. Twenty one communities represented.
B H Kelley of Bryant was elected president of the Clinton County Farm Bureau at the annual meeting in DeWitt Wednesday evening. More than 300 attended. Waltin Olson of Grand Mound became vice president, Charles Roll of DeWitt secretary, R E Hill of Low Moor treasurer, Mrs C V Carlson of Camanche women’s home project chair, and Mrs Charles Roll 4-H girls' club chair.
John L Weber, cash renter of 301 acres near Prairieburg, recalls wartime farming efforts. He describes scrap iron drives, contour farming, pasture improvements, and lime applications. Weber discusses landlord Lovell corporation cooperation, SCS and AAA programs, and his Democratic alignment.
A sequence of sales listings from Oct 10 to Oct 16 across Anamosa Iowa City Lisbon Palo Belle Plaine Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Entries include Duroc Jersey and Holstein cattle, farm estates and land auctions with precise locations and organizers such as Iowa City Sales Co Winslow Weis and Wempy estate.
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