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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1933
Page
10
United States pork holdings stood at 735,134,000 pounds on Sept 1, a decline from Aug 1 but well above the prior year and five year averages. Lard inventory reached 224,700,000 pounds, pork frozen in care totaled 262,082,000 pounds in August, beef in storage 48,482,000 pounds, and dairy products and eggs rose overall in storage.
A farm note urges caution as fences snag fingers and machinery wreaks injuries. The text warns about brittle stalks and entanglements in elevators and shredders, urging safe handling of equipment and awareness of hidden hazards on the farm.
Rain drenched Manchester and surrounding Delaware county improving lawns pastures and new seedings. The steady soaking rain, heavier than in two months, should boost fall plowing and help corn crops with moisture returning after drought, though yields may be below normal.
Troy reports the silo filing nearing completion while fields show little frost impact. Corn is drying well and well-spaced, with a fair yield forecast due to favorable conditions.
Special to The Gazette reports a balloon frame barn 34 by 56 feet rising on Mrs Fred Sommers farm six miles northwest of Manchester. Henry L Dubois administrator leads the project with A J Bruce as contractor and Eclipse Lumber supplying materials. The new cement floored, shingle roofed barn replaces the former structure burned August 22 and signals a local building boom with another modern residence planned in Manchester.
Large Sept 1 butter stocks press prices up as two major cooperatives including Land O Lakes of Minnesota and Farmers Union Equity of New York push busing and sales through public relief channels. Egg stocks hold firm. cheese coop leaders meet in Madison to shape a single industry code while federal discuss butter and oleomargarine controls under the national butter marketing agreement.
Upcoming farm auctions listed for Friday September 15 at CR and Sc. stockyards Cedar Rapids and Wednesday September 20 for a 4 acre farm east of Central City hosted by executor George Fuller. The text discusses butter marketing amendments, committee composition, a $30 million loan, and national dairy interests under new USDA license regulations.
SIGOURNEY The Clear Creek township Farm Bureau invites county members and friends to a Sunday picnic Sept. 17 at the Oscar Dawson farm between Keota and Richland. Morning kittenball games precede a lunch along the Skunk river. WIHIs Krizer of Eddyville will speak, the Farm Bureau men’s quartet will sing, and summaries of the year’s work will be delivered by local officers and aides.
Forty three proven bulls are in use in Iowa con testing associations, up from twenty last year. The Better Sire contest judges report 752 sires across Holsteins Guernseys Brown Swiss Ayrshires and other breeds. Dams averaged 442 pounds of butterfat yearly with daughters at 500 pounds, up 58 pounds.
Max Smith, 15, of Clemons won best animal, a Hereford, at the Central Iowa fair 4 H baby beef show. Averna White, 13, of Rhodes earned reserve with an Angus. Harold Wheater of Marshalltown showed the hind ribbon Shorthorn and was named champion showman. 149 fat beef entries were shown by junior livestock exhibitors.
Boston reports half of the 1933 domestic wool clip has moved into manufacturing channels. Wool men describe a cheerful, profitable outlook with mills and clothing makers running overtime to fill orders as retailers clear for delivery. Estimated weekly receipts at Boston total 1,324,200 pounds.
The Wellman Penningroth brothers returned from a tour of four fairs with nineteen firsts and many high placements. Donald Penningroth accompanied the stock to Davenport Mason City Des Moines and Columbus Junction where six champions were won including two grand championships. They earned a banner as premier exhibitor of Shorthorns at Mason City.
A physician touts Kruschen Salts as a safe fat reducer promising more energy and a younger feel. The ad links fat reduction to longer life and fewer ailments, urging purchase at May Drug Co with a money back guarantee.
Ames Iowa AP Dr C J Drake state entomologist warns chinch bugs will reappear with large numbers in spring across Iowa Missouri Illinois Nebraska and Wisconsin He cites weather as key to destruction rates and notes burning campaigns planned in Iowa starting mid November to curb the pest.
Washington D C permits have been issued for nearly all pigs and sows to be bought under the emergency corn hog plan. The aim is to slaughter 4,000,000 pigs and 1,000,000 sows by Oct 1. G C Shepard meat processing chief outlined the orderly shipment to authorized processors and related payroll and auditing steps. Army finance officers at Fort Omaha will handle processor accounts with field auditors Del bert J Harry and Lester A Twig g designated for Sioux City and Omaha. Alpha anti aldox ime of permaldehyde will be used to sweeten roughly one ton of sugar.
Thirty four Holstein cattle sold at Johnson Oakdale auction for 1092.50 total, averaging 32.13. Ten purebreds averaged 43, bulls and calves averaged 24, eighteen grade animals 28.96. Top bid 465 for a purebred cow from George Mueller of Lone Tree, record butterfat 428.9 pounds in ten and a half months. A 3-year-old heifer sold for 60.
Oscar O. Smith, three miles north west of Manchester, created a storage system for apples by converting local oak hickory butternut and basswood into square apple boxes. A sawmill and planer installed in the grove produced 15 000 feet of custom sawing and farmers traded logs for boxes. He plans to expand to produce wagon parts and lumber next season.
Farmers in North Liberty describe a mixed harvest with silos filled and potatoes scarce this season while grape crops are plentiful and some growers are gathering seed corn.
Des Moines Iowa department of agriculture received notice from Washington state banning all dairy products not from tuberculin tested or accredited free cows. Walter J Robinson director of agriculture in Washington said no dairy products may be shipped into or sold in Washington without compliance, effective October.
Winthrop reports the first heavy rain fell Tuesday night and Wednesday, drought scorched lawns and pastures, silo filling finished earlier than normal, corn largely safe from frost, second clover crop cut, seed hulled soon, and strong demand forecast for clover and timothy seed amid the dry season.
Silo filling is the farmers' task this week as dry weather dries corn and hastens harvest. Potatoes are scarce and poor in quality, while sweet potatoes show a fair crop.
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