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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1939
Page
14
United Press survey warns farmers to use war profits to reduce debt and avoid postwar collapse. Experts say demand and prices will rise gradually, but costs also rise. prudent expansion and efficient farming are advised to protect against overproduction losses.
Promote kidney and bladder health with a 35 cent box of Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules. Claims include reducing waste and poisons in blood and reducing nighttime urination with directions from a druggist.
George Chrystal was reelected president of the Farm ers Cooperative Creamery at Ryan. Other officers reelected include Godfrey Wenger vice president Lydia Wendt secretary William Duggan treasurer and Thomas Donahue Benny Worm Fred Wiffian and Ben Falconer directors. Carl Wenger was elected as director to succeed Charles Barry deceased.
Estate sale for Vincent Ceynar plots 80 acres southeast of Fairfax four miles west and one mile south of Swisher. Farm features black loam soil, tiling, no ditches, six room house, barn, sheds, orchard, fenced and cross fenced with good drainage. Auction Monday Oct 20 at 1 20 p.m. Terms to be set by administrator. damage
Des Moines AP. State Secretary of Agriculture Mark Thornburg warns high yielding hybrid corn raises soil concerns and surplus supply. Farmers face excess corn with fewer livestock buyers, prompting calls for seed regulation and regional adaptation issues. Thornburg will address the national group in Chicago next month.
Iowa 4-H club winners in the Ak-Sar-Ben show include Glen Struve Manning Indiana earning blue in Shorthorn with Advance, Clarence Sorensen Melvin Iowa second with Mickey, Earl Gray Stuart third, Herbert Reese Pleasantville fourth. Grand champion to be decided among Hereford Angus shorthorn entrants.
Frank Remmington of Martello and Warren Clancy of Clarence won county husking titles in Jones and Cedar counties. Remmington netted 2 026 pounds on 2 080 gross, while Clancy hayed 2 450 net on 2 500 gross. Second and third: Jones Clarence Willis 1 982 net. Joe Ladehoff 1 755 net. Cedar second Edward McCullough 2 428.2 net. Chris Greim 2 378.78 net. Clancy to district near Clarence. Remmington to one near Cedar Falls.
An evocative nature reflection describes ragged trees against a colorful night sky as a personal meditation on beauty and endurance. The piece centers on a country woman’s perspective and reverent tone.
WAUKON The Allamakee county Cow Test association reports 494 cows with 92 dry on test averaging 468 pounds of milk and 201 pounds of butterfat. The Hagen herd of 19 mixed grades averaged 658 pounds of milk and 28.8 pounds of butterfat. Five cows exceeded 50 pounds of butterfat in September. the top individual was a grade Holstein from the E B Simmons herd with 1,527 pounds of milk and 59.6 pounds of butterfat.
Special to The Gavette reports a double corncrib and a garage are being erected on the Guy Stoddard farm located east of Jesup. Construction activity reflects farming modernization in the area.
Maquoketa reels see the Commercial club pledge up to 200 dollars to the county milk sanitarian fund. The county aims to raise 1,450 dollars toward a 1,450 grant from the state health department, with 14 towns billed for per capita shares.
Harold Hand Garten, known for years at Mediapolis, is hired by the McGregor Farmers creamery directors to succeed the late Verni Schultz. He will begin work next Monday.
Herman Heitman and Ralph Heitman sold multiple steers reaching Williamsburg area buyers. In Chicago sales, Herman offered 1 266 pound steers at 1040 dollars per hundredweight, while Ralph’s load of 1121 pound steers brought 10 dollars and 35 cents per hundredweight.
Dean H H Kildee of Iowa State College told the Institute of American Meat Packers convention that packers should adopt a uniform grading system for market hogs to boost the farmers hog business. He urged purchase by carcass yield and quality labeling of pork products and improved lard competitiveness while aligning production with consumer demand. Ottumwa chair T Henry Foster noted per capita meat output rose since 1938 and federal estimates forecast further increases in 1940.
Secretary of Agriculture Mark G. Thornburg will fire the opening gun for the 1939 Iowa state cornhusking championship on Oct. 31 at the John Jenks farm east of Fairfield. Francis Johnson of the Iowa Farm Bureau federation serves as official timekeeper as sponsors expect a yield of 100.62 bushels per acre.
Calmar Creamery patrons were paid 32 cents a pound for butter fat received in September. A total of 45,055 pounds of butter was manufactured from 36,188 pounds of butterfat during the month.
Arlington Cooperative creamery paid 32 cents a pound for September butterfat, according to William Behrens, the local buttermaker, in a report noting the price received by producers.
Upcoming farm auctions include Mercer County Berkshire Breeders Assn in Aledo Illinois and Beverly Cattle Co sale near Cedar Rapids on Thursday October 26. Also October 26 features A Toms Hampshire boar sale in Independence and Vincent Ceynar estate farm sale near Fairfax, with location details and times unspecified.
The Mrs. Charles Grill farm of 80 acres north of Wilton sold for 12 500 to T Regin nitter of Sunbury at 156 25 per acre. The Gatton farm of 160 acres near Moscow sold to Martin Hansen for 40 per acre totaling 6 400. Herman Kretschmer of Wilton handled the sales.
Iowa borrowers have repaid 9,943,345 dollars, or 25.6 percent of their total Home Owners' Loan Corporation indebtedness. Loans totaling 2,988,823 dollars to 1,531 borrowers have been paid in full, with 14,352 others in satisfactory standing on the path to debt free home ownership, state manager T J Nolan reported.
Dorothy Clara Eger of Holyoke Massachusetts and Grover Miehe of Maynard named national champions for 4-H Holstein calf club work by the Holstein Friesen Association of America. Miehe, ten years in 4-H, previously won 1934 judging honors and 1936 dairy cattle championships and held Iowa state leadership roles in 1938.
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