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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1952
Page
19
Grade A milk producers in the Cedar Rapids Iona City federal market area will receive a uniform price of 4.49 per hundred pounds for September deliveries. An 8.7 cent differential applies for butterfat deviation from 3.5 percent. September price is 21 cents higher than August and three cents above September 1951.
Chicago reported that per capita milk availability hit a 30 year low amid falling production. Owen Richards of the American Dairy Association warned that rising population and farm declines threaten future output while public health pushes for more milk.
Delaware County Beef Cattle club hosts Caledonia Minnesota feeders on a Farm tour visiting Roy Wessels near Colesburg Carl Weber near Greeley Joe Schnittjer near Delhi and Florian Becker near Hopkinton with extension livestock specialist Dick McWilliams Ames IA County Agent Wayne Hanson and county extension director Robert Hall attending.
Multiple sale notices announced by Hawkeye Aber deen Angus Breeders Association and local farms. Calf and gilt auctions set at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids Shueyville Oxford Junction Monticello Williams burg Merion with times from 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and locations including Lord's Acre Evangelical A B church and various farms.
New York reports life insurance companies extended over 1 billion dollars in farm loans in the last three years, boosting total farm mortgages to 13.6 billion and covering more than 390000 farms. Loans reach long term amortizing terms, with per farm averages around 9500 dollars.
DES MOINES AP Secretary of Agriculture Clyde Spry urged farmers to protect against corn picker accidents so they can be here on Thanksgiving Day. He called for more caution on highways with farm equipment as days shorten and lighting improves. You only need to think twice to avoid an accident.
Tow of Cedar Rapids paid $235 for the top boar in the Blair Duncan and F D Smylie Hampshire sale at the Columbus Junction fairground. Twenty boars averaged $110.45 and 20 cataloged gifts averaged $72.50. Forty late furrowed commercial gilts averaged $45 per head. Second high boar went to Matl Locatis Fort Dodge for $225 and third high to Clarence Suppel Solon at $137.50.
The Tama county harvest shows yields averaging over 20 bushels per acre with moisture at eight to 10 percent and bean prices up to 2.83 dollars per bushel. Production growth is smaller than in recent years due to local conditions.
Urbana expert L H Simerl of the College of Agriculture says cattle prices will fall as beef supplies rise and misfeeding costs may grow. He notes cycles in cattle numbers, with U S herd growth and potential 1955 totals pushing slaughter demand higher and prices lower.
Dr. Wise Burroughs Iowa State livestock nutritionist will speak at the Cedar Rapids Farmers Club luncheon Tuesday noon at the Montrose hotel. He will report on beef cattle feeding and roughage research, noting his work with low-grade roughages and supplements. Reservations via the Chamber of Commerce.
In Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben show Wilson and Company paid air time top price for the champion 100 pound southdown lamb owned by Marvin Roether of Lexington Nebraska. The animal sold for 3.50 per pound, setting a new high over the prior 1950 record. Roether also moved his reserve champion and two additional lambs, totaling 598.50 dollars.
Omaha will host the third Iowa Nebraska Rural Youth day on Oct 15 with about 300 youths from both states anticipated. Chief dinner speaker will be Bruce Russell president of the Farmers National Company.
Des Moines AP report notes early year gains in Iowa commercial meat production. Through last August output reached 1,644,000,060 pounds, up from 1,557,000 the year before, with beef up 16 percent and mutton and lamb up 34 percent while veal fell 4 percent. August 1952 production was 172,857,000 pounds, down nine percent from July’s 185,890,000 pounds.
W. T. Scar-brough, a 50 year old Iowa farmer with 150 acres near Springville, discusses politics with Rex Conn. Scar-brough predicts Mississippi may vote Republican, cites farm program concerns, and notes he may back Eisenhower over Stevenson though not fully decided. He describes his background in farming, auctioneering, and interest in coon and fox hunting.
Purdue University extension agronomists warn that burning soybean straw in the field after harvest wastes organic matter and nitrogen, reducing future yields and soil quality. They estimate losses exceed 3 dollars per acre in nitrogen and about 5 dollars in plant food, with additional reductions in soil moisture and structure.
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