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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1941
Page
10
Department of Agriculture reports September cattle slaughter under inspection at 1 004 244 head, up 18 percent from 1940. Nine month total 7 881 950 head, 10 percent above 1940, with heavy weights and high tonnage. Hog and sheep slaughter also at notable levels. calf slaughter nine months 3 993 000 head.
Fence drift caught in woven wire and corn stalks beaten by recurring storms. Rains keep coming every other day, husks grow, ears hard to harvest with a picker, stalks rot, back breaking hand work, farming hardships persist even with government aid. God still counts more than government.
Special to The Gazette reports Decorah sale prices with corn at 24 to 25 dollars per acre and oats at 48 cents per bushel. Livestock topped cows at 93 dollars, cattle average 75.25, bred sows 34 to 40, tractor 555, tractor plow 81. Waukon sale shows standing corn 16 per acre, hay 5 a ton, horses 52, cows 71, eight yearlings 50, calves 25 to 41.50, sows 38, corn planter 35.50.
Federally inspected hog slaughter for the year ending Sept 30 1941 totaled 47 599 000 head, shy of the 47 650 000 in 1939 40 but the largest since 1928 The report notes drought preceded the lowest annual kill of 30 680 000 head Prices fell with lightweight hogs down 24 to 4N cents and packing sows 10 to 24 cents while pork loins and other cuts also weakened Interior receipts through Friday reached 141 300 head versus 140 300 last week and 136 700 a year ago
Special to The Gazette Clermont rebuilding of the Gander cheese factory nears completion. Machinery ready for installation with operation expected by Nov 1. The old building was destroyed by fire a month ago. Secretary Henry Olson reports cheese prices at Oct 1 were 237 cents per pound versus 131 cents a year ago.
Lincoln Nebraska state Grange schedules its annual meeting for next Tuesday and Wednesday at the University of Nebraska Agricultural College in Lincoln.
Ames pork expert FE L Quaife told 65 Linn county farmers in Marion that boosting sows by 150 percent of each farm’s base will add 1 800 000 head next spring. Government aims Iowa to reach 13 100 000 spring pigs in 1942, with talks on care, feeds, and disease control.
West Union announces adult homemaking classes at West Union High School beginning Oct 22. Miss Ruth Wasson will supervise. A homemaking council includes Mesdames Grant Lauer Pat Meskel Sylvan Hoag Leroy Alcorn John Steffens E M Knight K L Ritchie and G L Hackett. Ten weekly meetings cover seasonable foods balanced meals economically eating to keep fit meats frozen foods meze tables and salads frozen desserts using dairy camouflages emergency shelf and one dish meals entertaining and the cup that cheers.
Forty head of Shorthorns sold for an average of $166 at Walcott in a joint auction by Gilbert Kardel of Walcott and Reed Brothers of Bellevue. Sixteen bulls averaged $196 and 24 cows and heifers averaged $148 with top bulls at $285 and $280 respectively.
The third annual southeastern Iowa Holstein breeders sale is set for November 18 in Washington. The sale already lists 25 purebreds and 20 good grade animals. Wallace Fash of Wellman chairs the sales committee with D G Yoder Clark Gingerich Anton Heitshusen Harry Keiger and Alvin Lueder among members.
Marengo The Towa county Junior Farm Bureau today announced Oct 17 as the date for the county's annual cornhusking contest. The site is yet to be chosen.
Agricultural economists at Ames summarize 1941 42 goals for Iowa farm outputs. Dairy aims raise output 4 percent while prices likely rise on demand and government purchases. butter stocks temper near term gains. Poultry egg output up 12 percent and chicken output 14 percent with steady to rising prices. Cattle suggest hold or reduce numbers. 10 percent national increase from grass fed stock. Corn carryover trimmed to about 400 million bushels. 1941 crop 2.425 billion. total supplies 3.115 billion. Hog and pig production rise 12 percent to meet pork and lard goals as demand grows. Soybeans seen at 110 million bushels, with soybean meal surpassing cottonseed and oils imports.
A Country Woman muses on a fuzzy caterpillar’s winter journey as a metaphor for human resilience. She notes its protected curled form and suggests budding focus and patience through the coming cold season.
The grand champion female of the national Angus show at the Texas state fair was exhibited by Woodlawn Farms of Creston, Iowa. Other winners included I. E. Band of Marion, Iowa, for best three cows.
Lorraine Knutson and Lucille Aschem of Winneshieck county 4-H club demonstrated their cheese theme A Bit of Cheese Will Always Please to win top honors at the Waterloo Cattle Congress and earn a trip to the National Dairy Show in Memphis next week.
In Center Junction and Riverside the J B Seehusen and Knotek Brothers sales posted strong averages for boars and gilts. Top prices reached $14 750 for a fall boar in Center Junction, while Riverside reported top boars at $425 and top gilts at $105. Columbus Junction sale averaged $45 for 70 purebred Poland China animals with tops of $100 for boars and $60 for gilts.
Cedar Falls hosts the Midwest Rural Life Education conference March 19 21 1942 at Iowa State Teachers College. More than 3000 rural educators from 12 midwest states will attend under the National Education Association rural education department. Paul B Norris and Irving H Hart coordinated plans. Topics include educational social and economic issues of rural children in country schools and small towns.
A meeting in Mount Vernon initiated organizing a campus 4-H club at Cornell College. Barbara Lieberknecht of Letts serves as temporary chair and Iowa state 4-H secretary-treasurer. A member of the Ames extension staff will finalize plans. The club aims for social and educational benefits with representation from Illinois and Iowa.
MOUNT VERNON The annual report of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance company of Linn township shows a gain of 76215 in t isks which now total 4874477. Losses for the year totaled 3823.40, a third of the amount for the preceding year. Charles Wickham becomes president succeeding A. J. Baird. Directors elected were Baird Wickham Roy Lacock Glenn Ferguson Merle Goudy and John Clifton.
A sequence of farm auctions listed for October with dates October 11 to October 30. Items include Carey Bros Duroc sale Watkins Woods Sow Berkshire sale 544 miles SE of Mechanicsville M M Strait public sale 8 miles NW of Alburnett Anamosa livestock auction. Also Amana Society night sale Hampshires Homestead Bert Miller Duroc sale Lisbon Clarence J Sueppel Hampshire sale Lisbon Forrest L MecCalley Duroc Jersey sale Walker Ochlert closing out sale 4 miles N of Belle Plaine Executor's sale W H Bowersox 216 acre farm 2 miles E of Swisher Henry Jurgensen Chester White sale Olin.
Iowa State College agronomists report Boone and Tama oats as the top yielding varieties in the 1941 community test. Tama yields highest in recent years while Boone is best known. both resist major Iowa oat diseases and boost farm demand beyond supply despite 3000 acres certified last summer.
Des Moines Iowa Albert J Loveland chairman of the Iowa agricultural defense board urged farmers to mobilize for a worldwide food effort. Speaking after a Kansas City conference he outlined a 1942 production survey to meet urgent domestic and foreign needs and build food reserves for freedom.
Decorah steps to convert its creamery for powdered milk production with major demolition and a new addition. Improvements including machinery are estimated at 20 000 to 25 000 dollars.
A survey of 208 Fayette County farms shows adequate feed supplies for dairy cattle through the next crop, except for small grain. Legume hay and silage show mixed results with shortages and surpluses, guiding discussions at the Ames extension meeting.
Prices to growers of sweetclover seed in surplus districts advanced 20 cents per 100 pounds between Sept 15 and 23. Clean seed priced at 385 dollars per 100 pounds, 2.31 a bushel, compared with 345 and 2.07 last year. five year average 309 per bushel. Movement slowed to 33 percent sold by Sept 23, 1941, with 22 percent loss in cleaning and limited imports in July and August.
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