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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1942
Page
6
Labor Department data show retail food prices climbed 0.4 percent from mid August to mid September driven by gains in eggs dairy and meats while overall costs in large cities sit at 126.6 percent of the 1935 39 average.
Ak-Sar-Ben officials reported 292 baby beeves sold for 45026.66 dollars at the annual auction closing last Friday. Estimated returns on about 300 calves sifted from the show approached 45000 dollars, and club members earned around 8500 dollars from market sows and litters.
The Agriculture Department considers 1943 payments to spur war food output. Eligible crops remain the basis, but farmers would meet production goals for hogs, milk, poultry and other foods. Payments could exceed 600 million dollars, with deductions for missed goals and allowances for bad weather.
The Commodity Credit corporation shipped about 40 000 bushels of wheat from Sioux City into Buchanan county this fall. One third sold to local farmers for feed at 79.2 cents per bushel and 85 percent of corn parity, the rest stored in metal bins. After October 1 the farmer price drops to 80 cents.
The Des Moines Co operative Dairy company operates the Toledo cheese factory as a receiving plant for milk since October 5. Pasteurizing and cooling equipment plus a $100,000 milk drying plant have been installed. The co op offers 15 cents per hundredweight above Chicago butterfat standards. whole milk butterfat price was 60 cents per pound that week.
Postville High School Future Farmers of America chapter elects officers for the coming school year with Eugene Schutte as president Don Rose as vice president Olan Loftsgard as secretary Eugene Waters as treasurer and Glenn Green as reporter.
In Columbus Junction twenty five spring boars sold for an average of 65 dollars with a top at 115 dollars at the Penningroth Brothers Poland China hog sale east of Wellman. Poland boars ranged from 35 to 847 and a fall yearling fetched 60 dollars. At Williamsburg Wilbur Colby and J M Swartzendruber, auctioneers, reported 29 cows and heifers averaging 13150 with a top cow and calf at 224.
Mechanicville buyers saw a short horn bull fetch 165 dollars, milk cows ranged 100 to 115 dollars, and spring and summer calves sold from 35 to 160 dollars at the Asa Robinson farm sale north of town Wednesday. Wilbur Colby served as auctioneer, reporting today. Fall pigs brought 12.75 dollars per head and summer shoots sold from 17.75 to 25 dollars each, with a combine bringing 455 dollars.
The four day annual conference of state extension workers runs October 13 through 16 in Ames. Director R K Bliss opens with an annual message followed by Charles E Finley Iowa State College president. Francis Johnson Iowa Farm Bureau president outlines the farm program and T W Schultz presents the agricultural outlook. A Thursday panel on price levels for a wartime agriculture features Dr Schultz and A B Kline. Friday speakers include Troyer Anderson State University of Iowa history professor and Mrs Raymond Sayre state Farm Bureau women’s chair.
Worthington creamery patrons were paid 52 cents a pound for sweet cream butterfat and 51 cents for grade No 1 on the first half of September receipts. Ervin Wardenburg, buttermaker, reported the figures.
The AMA grain market review reports a July to October corn disappearance of 336,455,000 bushels, well above last year and the 10 year average. Farm stocks on Oct 1 totaled 423,597,000 bushels, the smallest since 1938, with total supply at 3,320,002,000 bushels.
Ames economist Sam H Thompson argues wartime needs require planned livestock transport to save labor and scarce materials. Study shows most Iowa cattle hogs and sheep moved by truck within a 50 mile zone, with rail used for outbound traffic and inbound stockyard shipments. He urges coordinated planning to prevent transportation bottlenecks.
W D Will McLaughlin, owner of 370 acres five miles northwest of Monticello, reflects from bed about farm work, cattle margins, and government policy. He speaks on his son James, war-era parity, AAA and FSA roles, soil and conservation, and his Republican vote for Hickenlooper with possible support for Wilson.
A sequence of farm auctions announced for October with dates October 13 through October 22. Carey Bros Durocs and livestock sales near Cedar Rapids. Guy Voorhies Duroc boars near Palo. Wesley Chlad 80 acre farm near Fairfax. Hempy 303 acre estate near Lisbon. Martella area Chester White boars near Center Junction. Bert E. Miller Durocs and Holsteins near Lisbon. Anamosa Iowa City sales. Iowa Sales Co. sales. Henry Jurgensen Chester Whites near Olin.
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