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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1942
Page
13
Iowa production for eight months in 1942 reached 2.483 billion eggs, up 25 percent from the prior year. August output hit 265 million eggs, 23 percent above August 1941, with 20.888 million layers and a rate of lay of 1,271,000 eggs per 100 layers, per Leslie M. Carl.
A federal report shows average August Timothy seed offers at $4.15 per hundredweight nationwide as of August 15, with regional variations: $4.10 in northeast and southwest Iowa, $4.05 in southeast Iowa. The year-earlier price was $3.75, and the five year August average is $3.36.
A widower near Ely discusses farming on eighty acres, his son Edwin, and possible draft impacts. He describes crop yields, land value at about 150 dollars per acre, and potential rental of the farm if war takes his help. He notes sorghum cane, potatoes, hogs, and machinery readiness. He also mentions poll mood and radio access.
Auction listing for a dispersion sale near Mt with Guernsey cows and heifers including twelve 7-year and 4-year cows, two 6?8-year cows, seven first calf heifers, six two-year-old Guernsey heifers, one 3-year-old registered Guernsey bull, plus Hampshire sows and Shropshire sheep. Milking machine and various farm stock also offered. inspection invited. Auctioneer Thomas Armstrong. Lisbon Mount Vernon Bank.
J F Barnes of Alpha won first in the butter makers judging contest at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress Thursday night. Don Neumann of West Union placed second and M J Mikkalson of Plymouth finished third.
Ely-Wesley Serbousek, a farmer near Ely, sold 40 head of 1019 pound steers at Chicago for 15.25 per hundredweight on Wednesday.
Schedule lists events by date with auctions at Iowa City Sales Co Anamosa sale yard and individual breeders. Sept 12 14 15 16 include Anamosa West Branch Jesup Mt. Vernon Atkins sales of Jerseys Guernseys and closing outs with farms and distances noted.
An 80 acre tract east of Atkins sold for 8400 to Charles E. Roberts of Cedar Rapids with immediate possession subject to a lease. A 200 acre farm nine miles east of Williamsburg sold for 100 an acre to Orville Schlesselman. A third sale reports 80 acres known as the Wulfekuhle farm sold for 85 an acre to Raymond C. Lammers southeast of Greely.
Forty eight veterinarians from multiple Iowa counties attended a Cedar Rapids dinner meeting. The Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association planned the twenty ninth annual meeting to be held Oct 13 and 14. Talks covered swine erysipelas diagnosis treatment with anti swine erysipelas serum and culture and related cattle and herd health issues.
Iowa City report shows Johnson County dairy herd improvement association No 1 produced an average of 694 pounds of milk and 25.6 pounds butterfat in August, tester Thomas H. Thornton announced today.
Hog prices fell across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota after President Roosevelt's radio address. In four days 165 200 hogs were sold, down 30 to 40 cents on butchers and 25 to 35 cents on sows, with Friday's run up to 33,000 hogs. Secretary Wickard warned of belt tightening as production grows, while farmers push soybeans flaxseed cottonseed and peanuts to cover war needs.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports August slaughter totals set records for cattle sheep and lambs with 1 102 738 cattle 1 839 787 sheep and lambs and 3 223 059 hogs. Through the first eight months of 1942 hogs and cattle rose sharply while beef prices and steer demand held Chicago markets steady to higher.
Thomas Ogle, a farmer south of Elgin, is hospitalized in West Union with a broken ankle after a tractor upset on a freshly graded road. He had just delivered sweet corn to the Elgin canning factory and, while returning home with an empty truck and three wagons, occupied by a stalled vehicle, fetched another tractor. The tractor slid off the road and rolled over trapping his foot, while his wife, Mrs. Ogle, was thrown clear but unharmed.
The passage notes a drift in farm labor as elder townspeople remain, but few can help with silage, soybean hay, plowing, manure, or potato digging. The big farm owner faces a forthcoming acute problem with spring, signaling painful adjustments ahead.
In the Shellsburg area several farmers report ongoing building projects. Arthur Rankin erects a 24 by 60 foot machine shed while Everett Owens and Vernon Owens add 24 by 60 foot cattle sheds. Carlton Hagan and George Minor install concrete feeding floors. Gordon Hagan builds an 8 by 64 foot corn crib, Howard Hagan an 8 by 60 foot crib, and Oscar Hagan an 8 by 56 foot crib. Myron Lubbock plans a large barn to replace one burned earlier. Frank Hatfield, owner of two farms, reports houses with white asbestos siding receives attention from Lloyd Hatfield and Herbert Hayes.
The Iowa DHIA report shows 42,858 cows averaged 330.4 pounds of butterfat and 8,405 pounds of milk for the year ending July 1. Feed cost per cow averaged 63.12 dollars, return above feed costs 80.29 dollars, with 75 associations and 1,830 herds on test.
Cattleman Ernest Trachta southwest of Cedar Rapids near Konigsmark sold 45 head of choice steers in Chicago for 15.50 per hundredweight. The cattle averaged 1140 pounds.
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