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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1940
Page
8
The Agricultural Marketing Service reports August egg production at 2.92 billion, up about 4 percent from a year ago and the highest August total since 1931. Average per-layer production was 1181 eggs, with prices at 172 cents per dozen. Pullets hatchings and on-farm chicken numbers fell, signaling tighter supplies and potential shifts in future broiler production.
A closing out sale is planned six miles south of Cedar Rapids and one mile east of Highway 8. The auction lists livestock including mares, cattle, calves, Hereford stock, a milk cow, and various breeding animals, plus tractors, plows, discs, planters, mowers, seeders, hay tools, and miscellaneous farm items. Frank F. Dostal is the owner with contact via Lisbon, Iowa.
Upcoming sales include Sabina Grayer estate on an 80 acre farm southeast of Tasbon near Anamosa, with livestock at Iowa City Sales. Other auctions feature Everett Williams Berkshire cattle two miles southwest of Iowa City, Frank F. Dostal closing out sale forty miles northwest of Ely, Edad Johnston estate farm of 28 acres north of Lisbon, and additional ads for farm properties and acreage sales.
The Gazette notes corn in the Monmouth area advanced last week as warm winds ripened the crop. About 50 percent is now frost safe and the 1940 crop is roughly 80 percent as good as 1939. Clover yields are below expectations. timothy seeding awaits moisture. Silo filling continues with 240 tons of silage from 20 acres on the Howard Coppess farm.
The Agriculture Department predicts 1941 will bring higher cash income for livestock farmers despite smaller herds. Slaughter supplies will shrink as hog numbers fall, but consumer demand should rise with the defense program, lifting prices enough to offset tighter supplies.
Live auction advertises cattle including head of mares cows heifers and calves plus extensive farm equipment from tractors to hay gear. Machinery saddle and barn items listed with condition notes and terms Ten percent down sale day with possession on date. Property lies three miles south of Gare tison Iowa on a travel road near Benton county farmstead with improvements and fencing described. Auction posted by Schmitz and Long with Osborne O'Brien serving as clerk and auctioneer.
Grand champion steer from Dubuque county sold for 35 per hundredweight to J J Roshek. The event drew about 2000 attendees and featured 65 calves with an average of 160 per hundredweight. Second high price went to Helen Ann Kennedy for a calf from Epworth, with other finals including dairy, colt, hogs, cattle, sheep, and market hogs shown by Moore, Hunt, McMahon, Link, and Smith from Worthington, Epworth, and Wayne.
Hillier Meadow Brook Farm near Marion sold six purebred Tal stein bulls and several heifers at GE auction. Bulls averaged 88 a head cattle 97. top bull 145 bought by Oxley Brothers of Marion. Seven dairy farmers entered bids. weather kept some raisers away. In Norway near town John C Shulte and Sons sold 62 purebred Hereford hogs averaging 40 a head. top hog 62 and top sow 70 with buyers from multiple states. Nearby George A Proest sold 40 purebred Poland China hogs at 25 each average.
A six man crew at Center Point re slides a 25 year old wooden elevator with corrugated steel sheeting to hold government corn. The Dennis family ownership, cost estimates, and planned storage in nine government bins highlight a shift from private to government corn storage amid a good oats crop and local warehouse adjustments.
Robert B Mitchell, tenant on the Cara Irvine farm near Tracer, buys 160 acres in Geneseo township Tama county from Equitable Life Assurance for 17300 dollars or 108 an acre. The farm now houses William Wilkinson and will be vacated next spring. sale managed by Conant and King real estate firm.
The Be Natural 4 H club elected officers on Thursday evening Winnifred Hamblin was named president Dora Trefz became vice president Doris Ross secretary Lenore Long treasurer Catherine Ironside historian and Bernadine Brunen reporter.
Des Moines reports interior hog marketing in September rising about 35 percent from last year. Friday’s receipts reached 29 800 head, up 85 percent from a week earlier and 828 percent from a year ago, with five day totals at 114 700 head. Prices overall higher by 5 to 15 cents, top loin in Chicago at 19 dollars per hundredweight.
Des Moines AP notes Page L. Hawthorne of Creston was reelected president at the Iowa Farmers Union annual convention. Other officers elected include Guy Maxwell of Middletown as vice president and A. D. Johnson of Moorhead as delegate to the national Denver convention in November. Miss Helen Holehan remains secretary.
Interview with Henry Horsky owner of 140 acres near Swisher. Born 1893, HorSky discusses Roosevelt and the AAA program, relief and old age pensions, church faith, and Golden Rule governance. He mentions the Coralville dam and wartime fears, noting uncertain flood risks and Nazi activity.
Turkey growers from six adjoining counties elected Henry Grunewald jr of Blairstown head the district association at a Tamaut meeting. Mrs John Schlicht of Reinbeck named vice president and John Grunewald Blairstown chosen secretary and treasurer. Four meetings are planned this year.
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