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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1938
Page
7
A Sept 1 USDA survey covering 6000 flocks shows turkeys 3.7 percent larger than 1937, with heavier hens and toms on average. Carryover in cold storage is smaller at 5,773,000 pounds versus 12,312,000 last year, while wet spring caused poults losses and small flock complaints persist.
Joseph Davis of Pottawattamie county was hired as 4-H club agent in Iowa county by the Farm Bureau board of directors. He now serves as club agent in Davis and Van Buren counties and will succeed R. W. Ashby in Palo Alto. Davis is an Iowa State College animal husbandry graduate with graduate work in soils.
Descriptions of farmland flooded along the Des Moines river show soybeans, corn, and haystacks submerged in rising waters. Officials report drifting fences and waterlogged fields as the flood spreads diagonally across Iowa toward Keokuk after extensive inundation near Algona.
Washington AP report says the federal government aids Iowa and other states in replanting trees damaged by drought winter kill and age. Under the Clark McNary law the U.S. Forest Service works with states to provide trees to farmers at cost. Iowa produced 71500 trees last year with 98 percent for groves and woodland planting and 2 percent for shelter belts.
Patrons of the Rowley Farmers Cooperative Creamery received 28 cents a pound for No 1 butterfat for the last half of August. Grade No 2 brought 27 cents and No 3 twenty six cents. Prices matched those paid in the first half of the month.
Special to The Gazette. The Calmar Creamery paid patrons 28 cents a pound for butterfat delivered during August. A total of 54,202 pounds of butter were manufactured from 43,619 pounds of butterfat received.
George Strackbein Cedar county feeder Monday led the Chicago hog market with 54 Hampshire hogs averaging 224 pounds selling at 9.35 per hundredweight. Louis Schroeder also topped bids at 9.35 for eleven hogs weighing 219 pounds.
The September poultry report shows a recovery in laying hens to near year-ago levels with a slight decline in eggs per layer from last year. Nationally, average layers per farm flock on Sept 1 matched 1937, while per-layer production dipped about 2 percent, though total farm flock output exceeded the 10-year Sept 1 average by 1 percent.
Keokuk county 4-H dairy judging team trained Saturday at the Ames college dairy farm ahead of the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo. Members Glen Bakehouse Hedrick Earl Bond Ollie Charles Grimm Keswick and Robert Reinert Delta joined Roy and Ray Miller of Sigourney for a demonstration on an efficient homemade cooler for milk and cream after winning North English creamery picnic and Keokuk county fair contests. Dairy heifers will be shown in the club class by Earl Bond Raymond Dickinson Brighton Charles Junior Grimm Russell Kracht Sigourney and Robert Reinert.
A. N. Heggen, president of the Des Moines cooperative dairy, argues Iowa dairy interests face a fight against interstate shifts and the Boileau amendment. He notes rising Iowa butter production, the role of dairy in farm income, and concerns over storage stocks and federal purchases shaping price stability.
The Cedar county corn husking contest will be held Oct. 15 at the Ray Severin farm in Massillon township. Arnold Mente, contest committee chairman, says entries must be filed at the Farm Bureau office in Tipton by Oct. 10. A $1 entry fee is charged but will be refunded upon reporting for the tournament.
Ames Iowa State college dairy cattle judging team selected by Coach Elmer Hansen will compete at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress. The five members are Claire Werner Gibson Vincent Kelley Washburn Kenneth Kramer Jack Spearing Norman Kulsrud. The team leaves Ames for Waterloo Saturday for practice judging.
A Volga City barn on the Roy Bennington farm burned Monday due to spontaneous combustion. Mrs Bennington and daughter Ruth escaped with livestock. alfalfa hay soybeans oats and much equipment and harness were lost in the blaze.
Des Moines Iowa secretary of agriculture Thomas L Curran announced the executive council authorized his attendance at the fourth annual convention of the National Association of Milk Boards in Montgomery Alabama October 5 6 and 7 He will study functions and success of milk boards in other states to judge whether a state board for Iowa would be desirable and practical The move depends on legislative support Curran noted He also joined the American Plant Pest Committee to combat Dutch Elm disease which Iowa currently faces no outbreak of but fears as a nationwide threat to trees.
Des Moines AP says about 1000 hatchers and breeders were to register for the twelfth annual Iowa Poultry Improvement association convention under way in Des Moines. Center of attention was K Yoshinaga a Japanese chicken sexer employed at Newton hatchery who earns one cent per chick and can sex about 1000 chicks per hour.
Iowa crop reporter Charles D Reed said thousands of flooded acres along the Des Moines River face heavy damage where water reaches the ears. He noted most western corn escaped frost risk, with state wide crop safety above three fourths, while fodder and hay suffered in spots and sowing of winter grains continued.
Iowa's 300 cold storage locker plants will meet in Ames on September 27 and 28 for the annual Iowa Refrigerated Locker conference. Frank C. Smith of Ames will chair. First day features include an examination of carcasses to be processed and stored by Fred J. Beard, talks by I. T. Potter, a business meeting, and a banquet. Second day covers freezing fruits and vegetables, cooking frozen fruits, and packaging frozen foods. The short course is open to any person interested in storage of meats, vegetables, and fruits.
AMES AP Appointment of four local advisory committees for Iowa State college agricultural foundation farms in Pottawattamie Taylor Van Buren and Monroe counties announced Monday by James J. Wallace foundation farms manager Committeemen all local farmers were Pottawattamie county Bertel Jessen Missouri Valley Henry Miller Crescent and J C Over guard Honey Creek Taylor county A A Taylor Amos Swanson and F L Cundy all of Conway Van Buren county Roy Watkins Dwight De Hart and Harry Mackintosh all of Keosauqua Monroe county Charles Rowley and Ed Wentworth Albia and William Judge Melrose Dr Charles E Finley president of Iowa State college previously had appointed committees in Cerro Gordo and Warren counties Before year end committees will be appointed in Louisa Keokuk and O Brien counties Wallace said Committeemen already appointed recommended that the foundation farms in their counties be operated as livestock farms They reasoned that it promotes stability of tenure puts a higher earning power on the tenant s work and helps maintain fertility of the soil.
Many good used musical instruments suitable for practice purposes are offered nightly under classification 30 in the Want Ads. This brief notice highlights available instruments and ongoing advertisements for affordable practice gear.
A non habit forming remedy offered to the public as Alcoban claims to curb liquor craving. It can be taken in any liquid or food with or without knowledge of the user and comes with a money back guarantee. Sold by May's Cut Rate Drug Store and other druggists.
A trio of farm sales announced for September includes Bailey closing out cattle near Whit tier, Beverly feeders at a Beverly location, Cedar Rapids sale at Town Livestock Exchange, and E C Forest Poland China sale in Mount Vernon. The events span Thursday September 22 to Monday September 26 with multiple sales across counties.
Hazleton area sees transaction as HAZLETON-Lanes Vande vorde purchases the 160 acre Martin farm six miles east of Hazleton from John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co for 19600. Possession slated for March 1 1939. Farm described as highly cultivated with recent repairs and paint, black loam soil and tile drainage.
Dr C H Covault head of the Ames veterinary clinic says sleeping sickness in horses is caused by a virus transmitted by insects, not marijuana. He notes cases are declining with cool weather and frost expected to curb insect vectors. Moldy corn poisoning can mimic the disease and should be prevented by keeping animals away from moldy corn.
Elberon dealer Gus Untiedt sold 1,200-pound steers at Chicago for 12 per hundredweight. Carl Frier delivered 1,015-pounders at 10.25, and Will Clark moved 1,220-pound steers at 12.60, reflecting varied prices for carloads.
In a Vinton sale of farm implements and livestock nearly 1500 people attended the closing out auction of Mathis Brothers farm near Vinton. Total receipts surpassed $11,000 with unusual payment in cash by check only. Trucks tractors and haying gear sold well along with cows horses and pigs.
Washington AP Secretary Wallace, at apple growers request, raised the permitted lead spray residue on interstate shipped fruit to .025 grain per pound from .018. Arsenic and fluorine tolerances stay at .01 grain. The higher limit follows Public Health Service experiments under a special appropriation.
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