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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1932
Page
6
The Midway pavilion hosted a Tuesday sale with 130 head auctioned. Milk cows reached $30, calves sold $2.50 to $4.25 per hundredweight, stock hogs 80 to 100 pounds brought $3 to $4.25, Locust posts sold for 10 cents each and paint at 60 cents a gallon. Pal Klotz and H. M. Duncan served as auctioneers.
Special to The Gazette cholera hits a sixty head hog herd owned by Anthony Henak near Oxford Mills. On Monday twenty hogs died and officials fear the entire herd may be lost as the sick animals cannot be vaccinated.
Scott Blankenhorn was elected president of Concord township Farm Bureau at a recent meeting. Faye Foster was chosen vice-president and Lewis Newell secretary and treasurer.
A long remembered tale recalls a mischievous youth who caused trouble at a dance, swapped clothes, and deceived family and peers. Now grown, the same restless voice returns, railing against modern youth as louder and more unruly than prior generations.
Charles Volak of Cedar Rapids bought the Frank Hudrilik farm of 100 acres three miles east of Oxford Junction for 41 dollars an acre. The land is level and the buildings are fair with some sandy soil.
Special to The Gazette Fayette The clothing course for Fayette county Farm Bureau women will begin November 1 with a meeting at Mrs Cleve Erhardt home for women of Pleasant Valley and Clermont townships. Additional meetings are scheduled November 2 Illyria and Fairfield November 3 Eden and Auburn November 4 Harlan and Smithfield November 9 Bethel and Windsor November 10 Putnam and Scott November 11 Fremont and Banks November 14 Center and Westfield November 15 Union and Dover November 16 Oran and Jefferson
Fay ete county 4-H girls club committee and leaders plus county officers will meet November 8 at the Farm Bureau Office to discuss the 1933 project. Other topics include music work and plans for 10CMPTOrf and Mire Moephine Arne quist Bakke of Ames assisted the group.
Leo Ockenfels of Van Home wins the Benton county husking contest on the Claus Knipp farm north of Belle Plaine with a net of 2,594 pounds or thirty seven bushels and four pounds in eighty minutes. Clarence Bockes set a state record in Grundy county, while Henry Schafbach and others also place in the Benton event. The field yielded seventy bushels per acre and was affected by recent rains. The Belle Plaine Commerce club sponsors the meet.
Four more county husking contests are set this week in eastern Iowa. Johnson county shuckers compete Friday at 10 am on the George Petsel farm east of Iowa City. Fayette county rivals start Friday at 10 am between Fayette and West Union. Washington county huskers go at 1 pm Friday on the Henry Wagenknecht farm east of Ainsworth. Jones county participants begin Saturday at 10 am on the George Zimmerman farm north of Amber.
Iowa counties formed food conservation units to collect surplus produce and can it for winter relief. The effort followed 190 county canning schools run by Ames extension service. 41 000 local women received instruction from home demonstration agents and home economics specialists in every county. Local canning schools and Red Cross, churches, Parent-Teacher associations, and Farm Bureaus cooperated in training.
Buckhorn Co-Op installs a new quarter-pound printer amid a surge in demand for fresh products. The Breeb and Cosoperat ve CuaMmery reported weekly output surpassing 4000 units, with wheel sets contributing to the high volume at Buckhorn Oreab.
Advertisement claims May Drug Co offers Dave's Mertha Pepsin as a pre meal spoonful to prevent headaches by improving stomach function. Promises money back if it fails. No specific dates or prices given.
Interview with Lee Legler a Marion renter on 160 acres born near Monroe Wisconsin in 1879 a dairyman who milks fifty cows and has tested his herd for tuberculosis for thirty four years He argues TB testing is worthwhile and discusses Bangs disease vaccination blood testing sliding scale leases tax reforms and political views including support for Hoover Turner and prohibition He notes high farm taxes and calls for broad tax reform and free bonds while praising the farmers strike as raising awareness.
Des Moines reports show hog prices slipping further toward the season’s winter low, with direct Iowa trades 10 to 15 cents lower for the week before steadying. Demand edges higher, but overall tone signals prices near the low point, while receipts shift from old to new crop hogs and weights vary from light to heavy.
Ernest Werling was elected president of Center township Farm Bureau Tuesday evening at the Fred Kroeger home west of Tipton. Other officers named include Mrs. Guy Wright as vice president and project chairman, Guy Wright as secretary and treasurer, and Mrs. J. N. Witmer as publicity chairman.
A home made cough medicine using Vinex and sugar syrup costs about one fourth of store bought remedies. Mix 214 ounces Vinex with to fill a pint bottle and sugar syrup. no cooking, quick relief as phlegm loosens and air passages clear. Pinex is Norway Pine concentrate praised for throat healing.
Consignment sale at De Clow barn on Friday October 28. Durochog sale east of Lisbon by Bert E Miller on Saturday October 29. Bertram closing out sale by Cc F Waskow.
Twenty purebred Holsteins were sold at auction by Paul P. Stewart of Maynard for an average of 103 dollars. Fifteen bulls averaged 95.57 and five mature cows with high production averaged 124.20. The top bull sold for 350 to the state hospital at Cherokee, and the top cow, a six-year-old, went to the reformatory at Anamosa for 200. The sale's results were the best Holstein sale this fall, says auctioneer W. J Murphy and secretary B W Lodwick.
Anamosa hosts a county wide 4 H party on the evening of November 4 at the Anamosa school gymnasium. Lloyd E Hudson county agent says all boys and girls clubs, their parents and leaders will attend. Special recognitions include outstanding girl in the county health and music memory contest winners, champion demonstration teams, and the most punctual secretary. Medals will be awarded for livestock club and livestock record book winners. The evening ends with games stunts and singing.
The tenth annual corn and poultry show by Tipton high school vocational agriculture classes runs November 9 through 12. Prizes will be awarded in six corn classes and assorted poultry categories including pullet cockerel and hen across breeds plus best pen of four females and one male. M A Crary, Smith Hughes instructor, serves as secretary.
Charles S. Nebergall shipped a carload of hogs to Chicago on Wednesday. He piloted the hogs over three miles of dirt road impassable to a truck to the S. R. Johnston farm, where they were loaded and sent to Tipton.
District Court in Linn County Iowa set for Oct 29 1932 at 9 am to hear proof and admission of the Last Will and Testament of Ignac Homolka late of Pike County deceased. Olive S. Johnson Clerk. Fred W. Hann Attorney.
On the Ralph A. Reece farm in West Branch yellow dent corn averaged 100 bushels per acre. In Buckhorn Helmuth Weirup finished husking at over 65 bushels per acre. Emil Gruenwald reports near 100 bushels north of Nashville on level ground. Oxford Mills notes strong corn for cribbing with up to 75 bushels per acre. George Oldridge near Troy Mills first to turn livestock into stalks, field averaging 50 bushels. Gabe Cornwell and O C Powell families enjoy fresh strawberries daily as mastodon plants bloom and fruit.
Amber husking yields corn with higher moisture causing soft fields and repeated crib unloads. Spring pigs begin marketing locally while the fall crop is smaller. Farmers adopt dry feed to supplement pasture as the last apples are picked and stored for winter. Sprayed fruit shows better quality than unsprayed.
Local farmers report a bumper corn crop with better quality and yield than usual. Huskers are Roane 2 cents a bushel or $1 per load, reflecting favorable market conditions for the season.
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