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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1933
Page
9
Federal office reports hog slaughter under inspection for the year ending Sept 30 1933 at about 47 200 000 head not including pigs and sows slaughtered under emergency control plan. Demand and prices show mixed trends as storage moves and corn hog price relations affect future output.
A permanent committee was named at the barley scab conference to draft a 3 year control program aimed at starting next spring with the 1934 crop. The group will begin a fall field sanitation drive destroying corn stalks and scab harboring debris. Members include J G Dickson H R Sumner R H Porter F P G Smith R J Haskell and L H Robbins with support pledged by R K Heppler.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration establishes a nationwide network of seven regional offices and nineteen sub regional offices to enforce farm marketing agreements and licensing of distributors. Investigators accountants and attorneys will supervise minimum price provisions and prosecute violations, with fines up to 1000 dollars per day after license revocation.
Fayette county Farm Bureau women begin their clothing project in October under Home Demonstration Agent Miss Geraldine Brainard. Ten training groups are formed with two townships cooperating. Lessons cover clothing clinic trimming trends completing the costume becoming print dresses and block printing. Each township will stage a style show and a revue will feature the spring achievement day program.
West Liberty dairy record shows 377 cows, 69 dry, in the West Branch Cow Test averaging 526 pounds of milk with 22.8 pounds of butterfat. Ivan Gates’s seven grade jerseys posted 755 pounds milk and 35.9 butterfat. A M Spencer’s cow had 57.9 butterfat. Feed consisted of 400 pounds corn 400 pounds oats and 100 pounds ground soybeans.
Elgin area mill Henry T. Olson installs new steam cooking gear east of Elgin. Sorghum reports excellent quality this year and praises the crop’s value and production level.
Upcoming sales list multiple farms for September with auctions run by local brokers. R. H. Horn hosts a 3 acre property southwest of Iowa City on Sept 23, Frank McEvoy estate holds a Marion east farm sale Sept 26, E B Ring land near Marion Sept 27, and John W. Auman agent offers a 60 acre Toddville area farm Sept 28.
The American Farm Bureau Federation the National Grange and the Farmers Union ask General Hugh Johnson NRA administrator for a hearing when the trucking code is discussed. They argue farm trucking is seasonal and hours of labor should be flexible to meet needs. They note farm prices at 49 percent of pre war while freight rates are 155 percent and urge not to burden farming with transport costs.
Cane mill operator L A Moore reports about 1,100 gallons of sorghum produced this season with one third harvested. Four helpers assist daily as sorghum flows to the mill from varied conveyances. The site uses city water and gas lanterns, with long hours as sap is boiled and bagasse loaded for transport.
At Ernest Winkler’s farm near Maynard, corn sold for 10 to 11 dollars per acre. Field shocks and soybeans brought 26 to 29 cents per shock, with corn at 33 cents per bushel and oats 27. Hay accounted for 3.50 to 4.25 a ton. Cattle and hogs sold steadily: ten Holsteins averaged 33.90, top cow 45, two calves beside, four two-year-olds 18 to 28, yearlings 13.75, calves 8.50. Piglets and sows moved at 5 to 16.25, with sheep and ram 4.10 to 6.35. Farm machinery sold: dump rake 2, binder 40, high-wagon 16.
Delegates from Iowa Co operative Livestock Shippers meet October 2 at Hotel Kirkwood Des Moines to discuss building cooperative livestock marketing associations. A report on an investigation of accounting and business service for member associations will be presented. W R Johnson of Perry, president, will analyze association records.
A group of ten men from the Bureau of Plant Pathology of the USDA are in Clayton County this week destroying wild barberry plants. They will cover the entire county where a considerable growth of barberries is reported in the hilly areas.
About 360 hogs were shipped through Winneshiek County with 700 head marked the previous week. The social note records the count and regional movement of livestock in Decorah.
A 6 month old White Rock pullet owned by Fred Sherman one and a quarter miles north of Edgewood stole her nest and hatched six chicks. The chicks are smaller than normal but lively. The pullet was raised to six weeks in an electric brooder and fed cod liver oil.
Iowa State College dairy expert Dr. C. Y. Cannon says ensilage can sustain milk output when legume hay is scarce if the ration supplies adequate protein. Tests at Iowa and Ohio show similar results with ensilage plus grain, maintaining milk and butterfat without harming cow health.
Twenty head of extra quality beef cattle were sold by a feeder southeast of Traer to a local buyer this week. They averaged 1,287 pounds and brought six cents per pound in Traer. The sale occurred as cattle were marketed in Chicago on Wednesday.
Iowa wheat growers respond to the farm adjustment administration acreage reduction program. By Sept. 14, 3352 growers signed applications, covering about 175000 acres. Monona County leads with 35000 of 47000 acres signed. final deadline is Sept. 25. Many are ineligible due to not meeting three-year wheat-growing requirements or base-period thresholds.
The English Valley Co-operative creamery at North English produced 79 224 pounds of butter in August, up from 61 215 pounds a year earlier, a 29.4 percent rise. The ten top patrons include W D Sparrow Keswick 563.1, Harry Morse North English 548.2, Paul Peiffer Keota 542.5, Alfred Brittain Hayesville 515.3, Anna Bauer North English 430.6, Alden Morgan Keswick 401.6, Ralph King North English 399.2, Charles A Morse Webster 369.9, Albert Greiner Wellman 334.9, Orval Fry North English 334.8 pounds.
Oelwein Farmers Cooperative creamery patrons received 26 cents a pound for the last half of August butterfat up from 23 cents for the first half. A total of 90,321 pounds were handled in August and 1,040 patrons received checks for the second half, an increase from the previous period.
A Des Moines buyer purchased horses in Grundy county this week for shipment to New York City milk routes. He paid as high as 145 dollars per head, the best offers seen in years in this county.
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