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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1944
Page
7
Farmers responding to the government appeal for increased soybean acreage last spring are harvesting a top quality crop in Iowa. Government grading shows 1 087 carloads last week with moisture around 11.4 percent. most beans graded No 1 or No 2 and priced up to 2.10 per bushel for 11 percent moisture or less.
The 10 cow Holstein herd of Matt Birker at Vinton finished a year with 433 pounds of butterfat and 11,720 pounds of milk per cow. Highest 5 year old cow Tritomia Korndyke Nova yielded 531 pounds butterfat and 13,534 pounds milk. Herd milked twice daily. testing supervised by Iowa State College with Holstein-Friesian association Brattleboro Vermont.
Olin Future Farmers chapter collected 16 560 pounds of waste paper in a recent drive. The group sold the paper for 107 46 dollars as reported by vocational agriculture instructor W F Robertson.
The notice lists multiple farm sales and land auctions across Iowa from October 25 to November 3. Listings include W J Horak Elton Spry Bertha West L O Butler Lucy Bassett Henry Jurgensen G F Sie mer Alfred Wardwood A H Tomash Witwer Hindman Duroc sale at spots around Ely Lamont Mt Vernon Swisher Central City Olin Shueyville Lafayette Ox ford Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids.
R M Willer, 51, owner of 306 acres near Tipton, discusses farming shifts after World War I and postwar plans. He recalls service in the 34th division, reasons for supporting Dewey locally, and criticism of Roosevelt era price controls and Hillman. He notes hog numbers, cattle hesitations, and questions of postwar food aid and trade.
Special to The Gazette Ames Iowa The reduction in hog and poultry numbers means greater feed grain supplies for 1944 45 but total US feed grain supplies are slightly smaller than last year. Iowa will have plenty of feed and roughage. Prices for high grade slaughter cattle likely to stay strong while lighter cattle may weaken. Egg and poultry prices expected near last year's levels. Mold hazard from corn shucks and shelled corn piled near elevators noted.
Unseasonably damp weather during the 1944 growing season caused crop losses across Iowa. Tomato losses reached 30 to 60 percent in areas like Pella, Oska loosa, and Marshalltown due to collar rot, bacterial diseases, and leaf spotting. Overall tomato losses were at least 25 percent. soybeans fared better, while melons suffered up to 50 percent losses in some varieties.
An adequate water supply from Buffalo creek helped Winthrop Fire Department save the Coe Braden farm house two miles southeast of town Saturday after a blaze destroyed the barn corncrib garage and other outbuildings. Tenant Herbert Cusack was on the property.
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