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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1941
Page
13
Hog prices fell sharply amid rising interior receipts with prices down to 11.95 per hundredweight from September peak and hogs under 230 pounds dominating sales. Cattle prices also slipped with many thin cattle and lighter weights at Chicago and New York, while vealers held firm as overall supply outpaced demand.
The fragment hints at a voyage heading southward with no fixed objective except to reach San Antonio by month end. A casual note mentions plans to be seen in early November, authored by RFA. The text resembles informal travel or telegram style with no clear events or dates.
Webster farmers Noel Montz and Homer Montz near Webster erected a new hog house measuring 20 by 48 feet. They used native lumber and performed all carpentry themselves.
New officers of the Iowa County Agents association were elected at Ames during the twenty ninth extension conference. Carl Aslander of Davenport is vice president H M Nichols of Webster City is president and G A Rosenfeld of Harlan is secretary and treasurer. Officers of the Iowa Home Demonstration Agents association were elected at the same conference with Velma Packer of Boone County historian Louise Scott of Clay and Dickinson counties vice president Esther Klingebiel of Woodbury county president Bertha Mae Dimmitt of Black Hawk County treasurer and Genevieve Colgan of Buena Vista and Pocahontas counties secretary.
Linn county DHIA No. 3 reports September results: 439 cows tested, 72 dry. average 589 pounds milk and 255 pounds butterfat. Roy Wickham herd leads with nine Jerseys at 659 milk and 42 fat. several cows exceed 400 pounds butterfat. Also notes Linn DHIA No. 1 and Fayette County DHIA figures and high cows.
In a muddy chores season, Sam Alshouse reports 15.3 pounds butterfat and top cows in the Arlington association. Frank Paschal of Lamont presents 10 Holsteins, with one dry, averaging 820 pounds milk and 28.4 pounds butterfat. A Holstein in the Alshouse Derflinger herd yielded 1,750 pounds milk and 66.5 pounds butterfat.
Special to The Gazette. Benton No. 4 DHIA shows 387 cows produced 575 pounds milk and 233 pounds butterfat in September with 81 dry. Grime’s ten Jersey herd led Benton No. 4 with 782 pounds milk and 381 pounds butterfat. High cow, a purebred Holstein owned by E. W. Santman, yielded 1 821 pounds milk and 61.9 pounds butterfat in September. Benton No. 1 DHIA Atkins group led by L. W. Lensch averaged 835 pounds milk and 33.3 pounds butterfat. Rasmussen, tester, reports.
Walter Coxen of West Liberty led the West Branch DHIA in September with the high herd. His eight Holsteins averaged 1214 pounds of milk and 42.5 pounds of butterfat, highlighting productive dairy performance in the association.
Clarence J. Sueppel of Solon sold twenty Hampshire boars at an auction in Lisbon for an average of 4750. Top price was 67.50 paid by Clancy Newman of Martelle for a boar from a March 7 litter. Gifts averaged 32, nine boars sold above 54 each. Laurence Sueppel's 4-H litter produced top gilt sale of 50 to Keith Johnson of Springville.
Boars topped at 85 dollars and averaged 50 with 25 boars and 30 gilts sold at the John Wagner and Son sale near Washington Iowa. Gilts peaked at 42.50 dollars and averaged 34 dollars. Auctioneers were H M Duncan and William Bruty. In Wilton Junction the Lenker and Sons sale saw 47 boars average 41.68 and 50 gilts 3068 dollars with boars topping 75 and gilts 40.
An Agricultural Marketing service report notes 2 450 boxes of Argentine butter arrived Tuesday at New York along with 3 500 boxes of butter and 24 927 cases of eggs from the same country last Saturday. Earlier, 22 500 cases of Argentine eggs were reported at New York a week ago Monday and 24 927 cases last Friday. Totals exceed 188 770 cases of eggs imported from Argentina into New York this summer and early fall.
Ames Iowa AP extension entomologist Harold Gunderson warns white grub worms may devastate crops in 1942. Grubs threaten springplowed grassland fall plowed pasture sweet clover and soybeans. surveys show heavy infestations. Farmers urged not to plant corn on pasture next spring as the grubs mature in a three year cycle and damage is expected from April through summer.
The Frankville Cooperative Cheese factory north of Postville paid 65 cents a pound for butterfat in whole milk for September. Secretary Daisy Kneeskern reported today. During September 38 151 pounds of cheese were produced.
Webster area harvest notes corn yields around 60 bushels per acre as labor remains scarce. Many workers use mechanical pickers and operate when fields dry sufficient for work.
A series of farm auctions schedules for October including executor sale of W H Bowersox 216 acre farm two miles east of Swisher Anamosa Livestock auction Monday auction notices for A W H Lenders Berkshire boar and gilt sale five miles east of Marion R F French Poland China sale one mile east of Independence S G Pearson and Sons public sale one hundred fourteen miles southeast of Marion Robinson and Maurer purebred Shorthorn sale five miles west of Ryan E J Trimble public sale three miles southwest of Toddville Edith Rice estate public sale sixty acre farm eight miles northwest of Alburnett M E Buckner closing out sale two miles southeast of Amber Henry Jurgensen Chester White boar and gilt sale Olin.
Washington report says farmers do not need priority ratings to buy ordinary farm equipment, supplies, and household items. M Clifford Townsend of the Office of Agricultural Defense Relations explains retailers and dealers should not require farmers to obtain priority ratings for everyday needs. He notes only specialized machinery for nonfarm use may require a PD-1 form and that manufacturers, processors, and warehouses receive ratings to manage distribution.
Louis Tabor sold a Whittier area farm at public auction with corn at 561% cents a bushel in the crib and $34.25 an acre for corn in the field. Oats 42% cents a bushel, mixed hay $7.75 to $8.50 a ton. Top cow $87.50, a young team $91 and $85 per head, spring colt $31. Sixty five feeding shoats ranged $13.90 to $15.50 each. Auctioneers Mitchell and Lassen. O J Emmons clerk. Tabor plans to attend a Friends meeting in California before moving.
William Schlue, 42, of Van Horne, lost his right hand at the wrist in a corn picker incident and was admitted to St. Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids at 2:15 p.m. He remained in the hospital for treatment. A separate note mentions using one per cent lye to wash dirty eggs.
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