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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1935
Page
13
The United States Department of Agriculture reports Sept 1 stockpiles show eight straight months of more meat leaving storage than entering. Beef, pork, lamb and mutton totaled 424.3 million pounds, down sharply from a year earlier, signaling tighter supplies and possible winter scarcity.
Fragmentary lines describe a fence drift entangling an unknown wire and a request to hang a lantern on the roadway at dusk. The text mentions an auto mobile driver becoming confused in shadows and urges lighting for visibility.
Interior hog receipts for the first four days totaled 40 900 head, versus 35 700 a week earlier and 69 000 a year ago. The remaining two days are unlikely to push totals past 60 000. Prices have fallen, depressing producer returns and signaling weaker demand across Montana and surrounding markets.
Hog prices across the interior hold near last week’s levels with 45 to 10 cent gains over the prior Saturday, yet some quotes are steady to 5 cents lower. A heavy hog supply fails to lift prices as consumer demand remains narrow and buyers act on a hand to mouth basis, keeping the market fragile.
Tipton business houses will close from 1:20 to 3:30 pm Saturday to honor the Cedar county Farmers Union picnic on the fairgrounds. Milo Reno of Des Moines will give the main address at 7 pm. Events include horse racing archery calf roping and a baseball game between Bennett and the state Farm Union team. J Ormsby of Durant will supervise the program.
Keane, state president of the Iowa Farmers Holiday association, addressed the Linn County farmers Holiday meeting Tuesday evening, reviewing the party platform and pledging support for farm boards and farm statistics on foodstuffs.
Stanwood hosts a large draft horse show drawing about 4000 spectators from eastern Iowa. Top entries include Harry Henderson with a senior colt, the 4-horse team led by Lewis Buresh and Frank Agnitsch, and the stallion Bottomstone shown by Chris Eichorn. The event amounted to 147 entries with strong class competition across senior colts and various draft categories.
Special to The Gazette reports silo filling underway near Amber at the Kerman Falkers and Ed Harm farms as farmers harvest soybeans and alfalfa. Prices for plums and tomatoes are noted, along with strong corn and potato activity and prospects for good yields.
Calmar patrons receive twenty eight cents a pound for butter fat for August. About 45,000 pounds of butter were manufactured with no decrease from early summer due to good pasturage.
Ames farm researchers report bluegrass pasture can replace part of grain when corn and alfalfa prices rise. Experiments compare meat meal tankage and linseed oilmeal, showing linseed oilmeal as the better feed. wet rendered tankage offers advantages in gain and cost. Dry lot finishing yields faster gains but pasture use saves land value. Cottonseed meal on pasture proved uneconomical.
Eighteen July pigs sold for 7 dollars each at the closing out sale of Mrs. Anna Shaffer two miles southeast of Troy Mills. Broad sows brought 24 dollars each. Horses topped at 108 dollars. An old horse sold for 89 dollars. Milk cows sold from 24 to 36 dollars. A spring heifer 18 dollars and calves 10 dollars. Oats 35 cents a bushel. Mixed hay 7 dollars a ton. Platform scale 24 dollars. Corn sheet 86, dump rake 11, wagon and rack 7.50. George Price was auctioneer.
Twelve members of the American Legion post in Atkins aided by neighbor R. B. Hayes harvested and shocked soybeans for Martin Krumm near Palo. Krumm, who had five broken ribs after an attack by a raging bull three weeks earlier, received help from Williams Schminke Johnsons Weis McFarlane Guyer Wilhelmi Dunn Kemme Gallo Carbaugh and Roths.
In Linn County Cow Test Association No. 2 fifty nine herds with 511 cows of which 108 were dry averaged 562 pounds of milk and 21.4 pounds of butterfat in August. Witwer and Hank of Marion led with 73 grade Guernseys and Holsteins, 709 pounds milk and 31.2 butterfat. Second place went to Witwer and Anderson of Marion with 30.5 butterfat. The high herd used a grain mix of 72 pounds corn and cob meal 32 pounds oats and 10 pounds soybean meal.
Land prices in north Tama rise with several 80 acre and 160 acre sales. Ja William Sheetz buys an 80 acre west of Washington for 100 dollars an acre from George Shellman. Joe Kiidera pays 15 thousand dollars for the Sprole farm near Traer, 9375 per acre, a regional high. The Arp estate sells an 80 acre farm north of Clutter for 125 per acre to John J Hadacek. William Thoms purchases 160 acres near Dinsdale at 107.50 per acre from Kos ter and McKinney.
Benton county rentals include the 80 acre Peter Untiecht farm near Dysart at 7.50 an acre and the 200 acre Joe Wieb becke farm southeast of Tracy at 7 an acre. Charles Goken 180 acres west of Dysart sold to Dave Reid for 1400 total. George Metzger farm 109 acres west of Elgin sold to Max Medberry for 7800 at 72.20 an acre. 65 acres cultivated, rest pasture. Medberry plans livestock feeding.
William Howell, statistician for Washington county relief, asks farmers who did not work on highways to repay the soybean seed obtained earlier this year. He urges them to visit the relief office to arrange payment and complete the work by October 1. About 100 farmers received seed and were assigned highway labor.
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