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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1940
Page
2
Commodity prices for high protein feeds ease as summer production nears 3.8 million tons. Soybean meals priced around 26 to 27 dollars a ton for September to November shipments, with cottonseed, linseed, and dehydrated leaf meals showing varied quotes.
About 150 agronomists from 12 states gathered at Iowa State College for a two day summer field meeting of the corn belt section of the American Society of Agronomy. Speakers included B Buchanan of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and R W Simonson and J L Hughes. The opening program outlined the schedule with three sections to visit the agronomy arm in Ames and inspect forage crops and soils.
A reader laments the lack of ice for pioneers enduring stifling summers and marvels at how they survived without it. The note reflects curiosity about historical coping methods and daily life hardships.
Extension agronomist E. S Dene and Dr K Stouder from Iowa State College warn moldy flax is risky to feed. Best to sell at discounts rather than feed to cattle. flax kernels may carry prussic acid and flax straw can be dangerous. They advise limiting flax to at most a half pound per animal daily and testing badly damaged flax on small numbers before wider use.
Independence consignment sale grossed about $3000 despite lower attendance due to farm work. Top price for 40 head of veal calves reached $19 with bulk at $13 to $15. About 100 pigs sold, 20 were brood sows. white gilts brought $17 each. Fifty cattle sold with fresh Guernsey cow and calf at $87.50. Hereford bull sold for $70, other bulls at $86.50 and $39.
Farmers in Barnes City raise 10 steel cribs for rear storage of corn. Government-owned facility expands capacity to 24 000 bushels.
The fourteenth Annual convention of the Town Poultry Improvement association will be held at the Savery hotel Des Moines September 24-26. Educational talks cover hatchery and poultry producer problems with speakers from Iowa, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Washington. A banquet speaker Tom Collins will address attendees.
John Bartosh of Mount Vernon area sold two loads of corn to Leo Woorts at 60 cents a bushel. Each load weighed 7890 pounds gross and 3870 pounds net with truck weight 45200 pounds. Bartosh seeks others who ever shoveled two loads so they weighed exactly the same.
The four county Creamery association Linn Benton and Johnson counties will meet Thursday evening at the Cedar Rapids YMCA to hear FD Ford of Cedar Rapids, state district dairy inspector, discuss federal government mold mycelia program.
Executive board meeting called by Dr W Moranville for Thursday at 4 pm at Hotel Montrose Cedar Rapids to finalize plans for the twenty seventh annual meeting. Afterward a 630 dinner meeting of the East Central Veterinary Medical Society at the same hotel features hog cholera vaccine and swine control topics with experts from Cedar Rapids Galesburg and St Louis and a Washington meeting report by Moranville.
Barnes City blacksmith John Bittner claims a new three inch plowshare point that hooks to a longer mould board will cut costs for farmers. The device requires no maintenance until wear and can be replaced cheaply by the farmer, with a five inch extended moldboard and securing hooks.
Beltsville Maryland reports a brucella abortus strain 19 vaccine showing 98 percent protection in cows against Bangs disease. Field tests across 24 states indicate vaccinated cattle avoid abortion and do not transmit the infection to humans, reducing farmer slaughter costs tied to the disease.
SHUEYVILLE The Bowersox sorghum mill, in operation for over 40 years, resumed Thursday. The daily output of molasses averages about 173 gallons. James W Bowersox, son of the late J E Bowersox, is in charge. There are 18 acres of cane to be harvested on the Bowersox farm and additional custom work for the territory.
John Rohwedder won the hybrid corn sweepstakes at Bennett’s fall festival with No. 365 Pfeister exhibit of ten ears. Altogether 427 entries were shown in the agricultural show and 161 in the flower show. Other corn contenders included Ralph Ripson John Mueller Charles Buck Harold Bell John Bell Irwin Kroemer and Fischer brothers. The tallest corn stalk was entered by Edgar Bentheim. Lost Nation beat Bennett 12 to 2 in a baseball game where Bennett catcher Edwin McGarvin fractured an arm throwing to second base.
New York fresh egg prices rose to new highs for the year with Friday quotes showing mixed colored storage up 1 cent and fresh up 2 to 3 cents from a year ago. Trade reports note brisk demand absorbs available supplies as government purchases ease, with concerns over consumer reaction if prices climb too fast.
A hog house measuring 26 by 52 feet is under construction on the Marion Reese farm near Randalia. The new confinement structure sits on land rented by Reese and reflects local farming expansion.
Ames farmers and women gathered for the third annual home orchard cooperators field day at the horticultural farm. RE Buchanan inspected Espaler apples on a trellis, a golden delicious variety budded two years ago on dwarf stock. About 200 attendees watched a hormone spray demonstration to delay fruit drop. There are 194 cooperators across 34 counties.
At Lincoln Nebraska the state fair set a new peak for 4 H baby beeves selling grand champion The Champ owned by Dwight Peters son of Webster County went to a Lincoln hotel for 737 dollars at 8244 cents a pound after a keen bidding duel The 920 pound calf carried a 3 percent shrink Previous high was 80 cents a pound from 1938 for a Hereford grand champion.
Argentina seeks more hog production to use its corn surplus and gain a bigger UK market share. Trade uncertainties from wartime shipping and weak demand temper expansion, with 1939 pork shipments to Britain at 6.623 million tons and prices near four cents a pound.
Prospective farm buyers across eastern Iowa monitor Gazette Want Ads. Demand for farms is rising, with sales including tracts, small plots, and large farms. Start your ad on the low seven-day rate by phone or mail to THE GAZETTE.
An ad offers a $100 loan with options to repay in 12, 20, or 4 monthly installments, highlighting lower costs for earlier repayment. It cites rates of 244 per month on balances up to $150 and 2 per beyond, claims the same rate for all customers, and notes privacy and no credit checks.
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