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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1941
Page
8
Half of the corn crop is cribbed in northwest Iowa counties while many farmers have finished husking. Reed notes central areas remain too wet for husking except on high ground. Southern and eastern counties saw little husking, soybeans, and some winter wheat seeding delayed by wet fields.
Husking in the Amanas halted by rain and poor weather as corn moisture remains high. No frost yet prolongs husking and seed corn selection, though work has finished at Homestead and High in the region.
Jones county Farm Bureau members meet in Monticello for the annual business meeting on Wednesday October 29. Reports of the year’s activities will be presented and county officers for the coming year elected. The session is to begin at 7:30 a.m. No outside speaker is scheduled.
The Carel Grain company reports its monthly crop review showing insect populations rising sharply due to shortages of non-toxic fumigants. It warns defense plans jeopardize workers by using poisonous fumigants and notes large grain production exists alongside vast reserves unfit for human consumption.
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery directors voted to pay 43 cents per pound for sweet cream butterfat received in September, totaling 526,863.79 to patrons, up from 33 cents last year. September production reached 78,157 pounds of butter from 62,967 pounds butterfat, slightly below September 1940 output.
In Kansas City AP reports Iowa State college placed sixth in the intercollegiate meat judging contest at the American Royal Livestock Show on Tuesday. Oklahoma A and M won the event for the second straight year.
A. H. Baer of Cedar county sold 20 fancy crossbred Berkshire hogs averaging 221 pounds in Chicago. The hogs topped the day’s market at 10.20 dollars per hundredweight, reflecting strong demand for quality stock.
Tentative program outlines the Iowa Farm Bureau federation annual meeting to be held at Shrine temple Des Moines in November 1921. Officials say the earlier date improves legislative access and calendar positioning with Congress and state sessions. Events include voting delegates November 17, commodity and group conferences November 18, and general sessions through November 21 with dinners, banquets, and officer elections.
Vocational agriculture students at Manchester are constructing their own workshop equipment for the new building opened this year. The 30 by 40 foot shop features long south wall benches, a large four-student bench, forge and anvil, two emery wheels and vises, lumber storage, a fuel hopper, saw horses and tool cabinets. They are also building a soil and milk testing table and classroom storage cabinets. The building is heated by steam from the high school and lit with fluorescent lights.
Ce dar county will be represented by Mrs Henry Mente Jr of London and Mrs August Eiler of Tipton in the Sixth district pie baking contest in Iowa City on Saturday. The district winner advances to Des Moines for the state contest. The pie must be two crust and made with lard to promote lard use.
Iowa State College engineers develop a self lifting corn picker built from automobile parts. The two wheel trailer combines a 75 bushel wagon, a triple driving system and a dumping jack. Prof. V. Collins led the design with aid from Stephens Paden.
Iowa lists about 7 000 protein and mineral feeds for sale. O N La Follette the state seed inspector announced a new pamphlet Commercial Feeds Bulletin No 63 B available to farmers. It includes a digest of feeds and feeding plus analysis data checked by the state laboratory to confirm tag guarantees.
Des Moines dispatch reports U S creamery butter output fell 5.8 percent in the week ending Oct 16, 1941, compared with the prior week and down 2.3 percent from the same week in 1940. The West North Central division, 48 percent of national output and including Iowa, fell 13.5 percent from the prior week and 2.0 percent year over year.
Sixteen vocational students from Towa State College and instructor Dr T E Sexauer visited the Marengo adult school Monday. Dr Otto Schacht of Solon Wis, a former opera singer, lectured on Cultivation of the Voice illustrated by song. This was the third of six lectures in the series.
A Country Woman notes hens must moult to grow new feathers and describes the ordeal as cold and awkward. She contrasts moulting hens with a bathing beauty, implying resilience in hardship.
LaVerne Heneke of Maquoketa husked 188 net pounds in 80 minutes at the Jackson county corn husking contest held on the Daniel Coakley farm near Bernard. Adolph Franzen placed second with 2,147 net pounds amid a field of entrants. judge was A. G Nims of Maquoketa.
Raymond Moeeler of Wilton won the Muscelline county cornhusking contest at the John L Brugman farm north of Nichols with a net 2146.9 bushels. Walter Reynolds of Nichols placed second with 2113.8 bushels.
Independence Bu chanan county Farm Bureau committee delays the cornhusking contest planned for today because persistent wet conditions prevent drying enough for safe competition.
County Agent Paul F. McElroy announced the Fayette county cornhusking contest is cancelled due to a waterlogged field. Ten inches of rain this wet season left little drying time, preventing entry.
Kenneth Johnson aged 24 from Lakefield won the southwestern Minnesota district cornhusking championship at Lake Crystal setting a state record with 38.2 bushels husked. The victory highlighted a strong showing by local competitors and local coverage noted the high pace of the event.
Henry Schnede Jr of Clinton County sold 21 heifers averaging 880 pounds at 12 dollars per hundredweight in Chicago. He also moved 28 steers at 935 pounds and 11 steers at 1,090 pounds for 11.85 dollars per hundredweight.
The National Dairy Union urged immediate action against bills allowing the navy to use oleo margarine or other substitutes for butter when butter is impracticable. The group plans hearings to oppose the proposal and notes current rations include substitutes only for other items, not butter.
Vernon Dice of West Liberty topped the 1941 Cedar county 100 acre corn yield contest with 116.85 bushels per acre. The event, sponsored by the Greater Tipton club and Cedar county Farm Bureau, listed Homer Burgess 111.39 and Arnold Meier 109.61 as second and third.
A yearling purebred Hampshire boar brought 75 dollars at the F. D. Smyth sale in Columbus Junction while 35 spring boars averaged 44.40 dollars. Eighteen gifts averaged 34.20 with a top of 50 dollars as Paul Klotz and H M Duncan served as auctioneers. Nearby at Logan Wilson closing out sale two horses sold for 100 dollars each and cows topped at 85 dollars. New Providence hosted a Mabee and Clemons dispersal of 32 Milking Shorthorn cows averaging 187 per head with eight bulls at 169 and 40 Jets at 184. total 14,720 dollars.
Washington reports prices to growers for alsike clover seed advanced to 1.45 per 100 pounds between September 14 and October 7, according to a Department of Agriculture report. On October 7 the price stood around 13.30 per 100 pounds.
Public sale opens at noon featuring 2 mares 5 years old and younger, 1 grey mare, several foals and cattle including Shorthorn stock, 29 hogs open sows and feed, 20 tons clover hay plus grain and corn, equipment such as John Deere tractor, McCormick mower, hay loader, manure spreader, plows and wagons, plus assorted tools and household goods. Barn and outbuildings available for winter rent. lunch on grounds.
A series of farm auctions is scheduled across Iowa towns from Oct 24 to Oct 30. C J Hess of Poland China hogs appears in Dyersville and Cedar Rapids events, Edith Rice estate sale near Alburnett, Lawn View Farm Hampshire swine sale near Cedar Rapids, Ray Newhard closing out near Immi Viola, M E Buckner and Anton Novotny closing outs near Amber and Cedar Rapids, and Henry Jurgensen Chester White sale at Olin.
The report cites seed price at seven to eight dollars per bushel and compares with 1940 levels of nine dollars per bushel and the 1935-39 five year average at sixteen to seventeen dollars per bushel. It also notes the need for over a million new dairy milk cans each year to serve the U.S. market.
Chatter about Pirnie Bros cribbing corn with an electric ventilating system. Linn brothers of Williamsburg plan to market 60 head of Texas yearlings. Cedar Rapids bank ad promotes low-cost loans. Advisory note warns against harvesting corn before it dries and explains safe moisture levels for cribbing. Extension pamphlet 16 from Ames offers storage tips. KE LaPlant repairs farm buildings near Walker for tenant Elmer Burr.
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