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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 27, 1941

Page

4

September Cheese Output Records Surge in 1941

A Department of Agriculture report shows American cheese output in September at 66,035,000 pounds, a record for the month and 24 percent above a year ago, with total cheese of 81,700,000 pounds. For January through September, American cheese reached 542,400,000 pounds, up about 14 to 15 percent from last year, as milk is diverted from creameries to cheese factories amid favorable butter price differentials.

Department of Agriculture Marketing Service

Butter and Pork Added to Blue Stamp List for November

The surplus marketing administration announced that butter and fresh pork return to the blue stamp list for November, joining other staples like pears apples oranges and vegetables. Roy F. Hendrickson administrator commented on the return of pork products and butter to the stamp program.

Washington Hugh Butler Neb Roy F. Hendrickson Surplus Marketing Administration Agriculture Department Iowa

Neighbors Help Norton In Ilness Through Corn Husk Day

Friends and neighbors of John F. Norton gathered at his Chelsea farm to husk his corn as he fights typhoid fever. Sixty men with seventeen teams and two tractors worked until 2:30 PM, while forty women with baskets served dinner at Haven church basement at noon.

Chelsea John F. Norton Haven Church

Hens Lay Billions of Eggs in 1939 Farm Output

Farmers produced 2 391 091 510 dozen eggs in 1939. The volume equaled over 18 dozen per person in the United States, indicating a vast per capita output and strong poultry farming activity nationwide.

United States

CCC Holdings Slashed Amid Large CCC Liquidations in 1941

Extensive liquidation of commodities held by the Commodity Credit Corporation under USDA loan programs during the six months ended September 30 1941 reduced stock across most items. Key declines occurred in corn and cotton, while wheat stocks rose. Delivery and repossession activities shaped the CCC’s holdings, with detailed inventories and values listed for barley corn cotton rubber rye tobacco wheat dairy and other items totaling 823 million dollars.

Commodity Credit Corporation Department of Agriculture Department CCC

Closing Out Livestock Sale At Oakdale Farm Auction

Public auction on Wednesday October 29 at 12 36 PM offers 217 head of livestock including 226 hogs 1292 vaccinated pigs brood sows 28 to farrow February 1 Holstein cows milking stock 4 Holstein heifer calves 1 yearling heifer 1 purebred Milstein bull 1 ewe lamb 15 bales straw 350 bushels of oats St Lewden Steel cow stanchions four 10 gallon milk cans located 1 mile south of North Liberty and 2 miles north of Oakdale on the Oakdale gravel road.

Arizens North Liberty Oakdale Farrow

Maynard Creamery Pays 42 Cents For Butterfat

Maynard Cooperative Creamery pays forty two cents a pound for September butterfat to its patrons, per secretary C Haul.

Maynard Creamery Maynard Maynard Cooperative Creamery Company C. Haul

Soybeans Sell At More Than Double Price In 1940

Special to The Gazette. Prices to growers in surplus areas on Oct 14 were 1.45 dollars per bushel for soybeans run by thresher or combine, versus 0.65 last year and 0.81 for the 1935-39 average. Reading varieties ranged 1.25 to 1.50, with good to fair quality for the 1941 crop. Movement from farms was quicker than last year due to harvest weather, and 27 percent of the crop had been sold by Oct 14, compared with 20 percent a year earlier.

Washington, D. C Dunfield Virginia Wilson Central States Ilinois Department of Agriculture

Fire destroys new garage on John Biederman farm near Volga City

A fire on the John Biederman farm north of Volga City destroyed a newly built garage and several machines. The motor powering the light plant started the blaze, the family car truck and tractor were saved while a washing machine and tractor plow burned.

Volga City John Biederman Here

Poultrymen Pressured by Scarcity and Substitutes

Iowa poultrymen face shortages as aluminum leg bands become scarce and disinfectants, feeders, waterers, and chick boxes dwindle. W M Vernon of Ames extension warns hatcheries must cope with limited potassium permanganate and formaldehyde used for fumigation, risking disruption to chick production and flock management.

Vernon Iowa

Farm Auction Schedule For Late October And November

A sequence of public farm auctions listed with dates from Tuesday October 28 through Tuesday November 11. Herman Morris and Doris Crumbacher hold a four mile northeast sale near Walker, with other closings near Amber Cedar Rapids North Liberty Olin Whittier Marion Iowa City and more.

Herman Morris Doris Crumbacher Walker M. E. Buckner Amber Anton Novotny Cedar Rapids Eugene Colony North Liberty Henry Jurgensen Chester Olin Beddell and Haworth Whittier Jerry Zach Mi. S Miller Estate Marion Jones Bros Jersey Iowa City

Poultry Disease Control Seen Needed for Chick Industry

The piece notes a deadly infectious disease plor um harming chicks and calls OPM to supply chick boxes for about 900 million birds hatched yearly in the United States. Vernon urges farmers to save scrap lumber to build low cost feeders while warning metal poultry equipment will be scarce. It adds that 51 of farmers own their farms, 39 are tenants, and 10 are part owners or managers.

OPM United States Vernon Cailinenent

Linn County Board Proceeds on Road Districts 174 175 176 177

Linn County Iowa board meetings October 21 1941 approve minutes adopt multiple resolutions establishing Secondary Road Districts 174 175 176 177 with gravel surfacing plans and plat attachments. They designate boundaries and order filing with the State Highway Commission. Also authorize purchase of Zerone for road dept and review various claims and public notices.

Cedar Rapids Iowa State of Iowa County of Linn Board of Supervisors Seevell Petty Beeson Linn County Towa Stateway Commission Barron Motor Company Linn Center Point Owa Ahereby Jowsa State Highway Commission Serendary Road Mount Verdon Hawkeye Lisbon Terald E. &. du Bois Board of Supervisora O . Boat Francis Dorothy Patricia Juanita Mae 6Th St. SE Benton County Barnes Edward Memorial Drive Fr.r. No. 3 Alabama

Boars Bring Strong Bids in Morning Sun Poland China Sale

Thirty head of purebred Poland China boars sold for an average of 52 dollars at the Robb and Robb farm near Morning Sun. Top price reached 155 dollars. average on 30 head was 54 dollars. Auctioneers were H. M. Duncan of Columbus Junction and J. M. Franks of Morton Illinois.

Columbus Junction Poland Robb and Robb Morning Sun H. M. Duncan Columbus Juncsion J. M. Franks Morton, Il

Agricultural Improvement Is Taken For Granted

Ames Iowa AP R E Buchanan director of the agricultural experiment station at Iowa State college says many people overlook the need for planning research and testing to improve farming. He notes the Boone and Tama oat varieties as state leaders and cites the rarity of successful new oat introductions among 1500 tested varieties, with only one crossing well with Richland seed to resist stem rust and smut.

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