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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1938
Page
11
Price uptick follows shrinking interior hog receipts in Iowa and southern Minnesota. Curtailment of marketings drives the upturn as wholesale pork prices drift up after a week of declines. Joins on the Chicago market hold at 17.50, while other centers show slight drops.
The North Jones Cow Test association reports September results for 401 cows with 72 dry, averaging 481 pounds of milk and 20.3 pounds of butterfat. The Bud Brothers herd of 21 Brown Swiss averages 769 pounds of milk and 32.8 butterfat, with the top cow producing 56.5 pounds of butterfat.
Dinsdale in W J Breakenridge’s care will receive nine carloads of light steers and calves next week to be fed out. He already stores four carloads of fancy yearling steers around 700 pounds in the feedlot.
Vivid rural images describe delicate grass spikes silvered by frost and corn shocks beige and shaded white. Pigs in a strawpile hover in mist as a sea son first white frost marks dawn on the farm.
Des Moines Iowa Labor Commissioner Milton Peace urged farmers to hire Iowans for corn husking to curb the seasonal influx of migrant labor. He said local employment and payroll gains depend on Iowa farmers cooperating, predicting fewer foreign workers if natives are employed.
The federal crop insurance corporation set November 19 as the deadline for premium payments on 1939 winter wheat policies in twenty states. Eligible states include Arkansas Colorado Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska New Mexico North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma South Dakota Texas Utah Wisconsin Wyoming.
N Augustine, formerly northwest of Delta, completed harvesting 90 acres of corn using a mechanical picker. Total yield reported at 6000 bushels, or about 66.6 bushels per acre.
Sam Turkington of Washington sold a load of 1 007 pound steers at Chicago on Wednesday for 11 75 a hundredweight.
Norma Chapin 13 daughter of Mr. and Mrs L D Chapin shows a 30 by 48 inch braid rug made with 390 silk stockings. The project, done for the Sunshine Circle 4 H club under Miss Beulah Dodds, earned blue ribbons at Cedar county fair and Des Moines state fair. Norma is a Tipton high school freshman and has two years in 4 H club work.
The agriculture department reports a corn crib construction boom in the Midwest as farmers plan to store a record crop of 2.459 billion bushels to secure 57 cent a bushel loans rather than sell. About 40 percent may be ineligible due to AAA acreage limits. some farmers plan to borrow on last year’s grain and buy back later. Hartwick area shows resealing and first 57-cent loan in Poweshiek county.
Strawberry Point Cooperative creamery paid September butterfat at 27 cents per pound net to whole milk patrons. Hauling costs are covered by the creamery, making producer receipts about 30 cents per pound. Cream patrons received 2 cents more per pound than whole milk patrons and cover their own hauling expenses.
Special to The Gazette Mason City report describes the two day Iowa Creamery Operators association and Iowa Association of Local Creameries convention starting November 1 with John Brandt of Land O Lakes as key speaker on stabilizing the butter market. Contests prize awards and multiple meetings follow through November 2 with Dairy speakers from Ames St. Paul and Des Moines among others.
Ottumwa hosts the annual meeting of the South Iowa Creameries Association on December 7. Directors and members gather to discuss dairy cooperative activities and future plans for the region.
Twelve contestants will compete for Delaware county corn husking laurels Saturday at the Ralph Childs farm near Manchester. Participants include James Long Earlville Leo Ament Hopkinton Arnold Brandt Earlville George Long Oneida Roscoe Willard Hopkinton Evlen Maurer Manchester Frank Bishop Earlville Ivan Sutton Manchester Donald Binning Greeley Fred Scovel Manchester Reynold Drees Earlville and August De Keyser Manchester.
A new sales barn is being built at Traer by farmer J. Man ley. The first sale will be held within two weeks with F. E. Nissen serving as auctioneer.
Cascade feeder Ed Reiter of Cascade marketed forty steers weighing 1 210 pounds each at Chicago on Wednesday for 13 40 per hundred.
A traveler recalls rainy weather and a stockyards visit at Kansas City's Union Stockyards finding mud and crowded pens. The narrator longs for the American Royal show and Iowa bound journey, ending with a nod to Nome in a country woman’s voice.
At the John Butler closing out sale near Lisbon, old oats sold at 29.14 cents per bushel and new oats at 28.34 cents. Corn in the field yielded an estimated 60 bushels per acre and sold for 17 dollars per acre. Various livestock brought notable prices, including early fall shoats at 6.90 per head, April farrowed pigs 11.25 to 12.25, and dairy stock with milk cows 55 to 74 dollars. Six loads of oak pole wood sold for 23.50, with W. E. Challis of Lisbon selling the crate.
In northeast of Columbus Junction the C O Eisele auction posted 19 cent oats per bushel. Five ton hay stack sold for 25 dollars. One hundred White Rock pullets brought 70 to 80 cents each. Horses averaged 70 dollars, a Shetland pony 16, tractor 49.50, disc 40, manure spreader 4, plows 150 to 4, harrows 3 to 8, harness 5 to 10. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and H M Duncan.
The Ames state nursery posts a forester in McGregor to collect red oak acorns with help from local CCC boys. About 500 bushels are planned, and officials say this red oak crop is the thickest in the region.
Glenn Stoner of the Mount Vernon area showed a bouquet of lilacs Friday. He plucked the blossoms from a Beech schoolyard bush near his farm in Cedar Rapids described in the report.
Butter entrants from District 11 of the Iowa Creamery Operators Association topped the educational contest in an October session. Albert Harms of Oelwein led with 95 points, followed by Joe Barnes of Alpha and Otto Weger of Strawberry Point. Judges included C. W. Pennington Sumner C W. Turner Bremer and Wayne Hunter Littleport.
Hervey E. Hazen of the state AAA committee conducted an educational meeting for Tama county township committeemen alternates and corn sealers in Toledo. Paul Burson assisted representing the state extension department as township committees prepare discussions for the 1939 Tama county agricultural conservation program.
Auction notices list events on Saturday October 22 by Jurgens Brothers Chester Whites and others at sites near Van Horne Norway Texas and Anamosa with stock and machinery to be sold. Tuesday October 25 features Mrs Marion Cuhel closing out sales six miles northwest of Cedar Rapids.
Mount Vernon hosts a 80 minute district corn husking meet on the Fred Sargent farm north of town Tuesday starting 1030 am. Entrants from 15 counties compete for a state meet spot with top three Mount Vernon finishers eligible. Officials include Rex Conn of Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon chamber members. Additional acts by the Mount Vernon band and Cornell College quartet.
Special to The Gnarctic Manchester W. W. Childs, a farmer near Manchester, displayed ten Green Mountain potatoes grown on his land. The largest weighed two pounds and the peck of spuds came from a plot seeded to alfalfa for three years.
M Saller of Iowa county delivered a load of short fed steers to Chicago and received $9.25 per hundredweight on Wednesday. The sale highlights feeding quality and market demand in midweek trading.
Dr Miller of Linn County received nine dollars eighty five cents per hundredweight for two loads of steers sold in Chicago on Wednesday.
Glen E Peck of Mutual Trust Life Insurance, Cedar Rapids, says five farms totaling 778 acres sold in 60 days for 44 450 gross. Average price 57.13 per acre. One quarter section in Hancock County sold for cash. Other farms sold with fair to reasonable down payments to owner operators.
Washington Farm Bureau Service plans a 500 locker refrigerated storage plant in Washington. 250 lockers ready by January 1 under manager Glenn B Holden. Charles Speer, local butcher, to lead operations in a new low tile building with $4000 in preferred stock already sold to finance the project.
Brandon area sale reported a 3-year-old gelding leading prices at 138 dollars. Eight cows averaged 148 dollars, spring calves at 2250 dollars each, and 29 pigs at 1420 dollars each. Timothy hay, hay implements, and farming gear fetched modest sums as BRF Nabholz led the auction with Clarence Fiester as clerk.
Manchester reporter notes a surprising show of second growth tomatoes in city plots. Plants sprouted from late season roots, bearing hundreds of blossoms and nearing small fruit.
The Osterdock Commission Company marketed forty hogs averaging 224 pounds for 7.65 dollars per hundredweight in Chicago on Wednesday.
Auction report from Anamosa P H Paulsen and Son shows steers selling for 12.25 per hundredweight for a load of 1206 cwt. Feeder lot described as Jones county feeders sold Tuesday with strong demand and steady prices.
Marengo Iowa County Recorder Roy Fass reported resealed corn in his office reaching 2671 dollars the season high. The record marks the year's peak for sealed corn value processed in the county.
Henry To Biason sold twenty five 946 pound steers at Chicago for eleven dollars and twenty five cents per hundredweight.
The Rock Springs area in Highland township near Decorah has been selected for the first CCC watershed demonstration in Winneshiek county. Mapping of about a dozen farms has begun.
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