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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1939
Page
35
Iowa reports 1 802 000 turkeys for 1939 16 fold rise since 1929 and ranking fourth behind Minnesota California and Texas. The projection shows 31 957 000 turkeys nationwide at year end with larger early marketing and higher live weights averaging 11 9 pounds hens 18 pounds toms. Cold storage stands at 10 808 000 pounds Sept 1 up from last year.
Guernsey breeders in Cedar Rapids complete plans for entering the 1940 All-Iowa Livestock Exposition. Twelve breeders attended a Friday meeting at the YMCA. C. B. Finley of Minneapolis discussed reorganization of the local Guernsey breeders association. R. A. Nelson of Independence spoke on affiliating with the state association.
Linn county Farm Bureau calendar lists four 1:30 p.m. tea meetings this week. Tuesday Buffalo township gathers at Wapsie Moon hall, Wednesday Bertram township at Bertram church, Thursday Maine township at Jordan’s Grove church, and Friday Franklin township at Mrs. Luther Platten berger’s home.
Upcoming sales include E H Mc Coy farm sale 44 miles west of Rochester on Tuesday September 26 Atkinson Livestock Market feeder sale Atkinson Nebraska Ia City Sales Co auction Wednesday September 27 Charles Horak farm sale west of Swisher Thursday September 28 C Jurgensen Chester White sale five miles northwest of Olin.
A federal week review shows butter production sharply reduced by unseasonable heat. Total stocks fell by 5,771,024 pounds with commercial stocks down 4,021,602. last year gains and prior weeks’ declines are noted, while demand remained slack. Chicago saw a decrease in holdings signaling growth in commercial stocks. eastern markets sold storage butter at nearly the same price as fresh.
Complete roster of Iowa buttermakers receiving high scores in the dairy products show ahead of the Waterloo congress. Names include Leon Qualley Arlington 95 plus many other graders from Ames Northwood Osage and more with scores ranging from 93.5 to 96.0.
Special to The Gazette Waterloo opens with an intercollegiate judging contest at 8 a.m. featuring teams from 15 Midwest colleges including the University of Kentucky from Lexington. Open class cattle and Belgian horses begin Tuesday with a record number of entries in dairy cattle, waterfowl, poultry and rabbits. Farm Bureau women and 4-H girls start Monday, with 44 4-H demonstration teams competing. cattle entered by 4-H members judged Saturday.
JESUP Buchanan county sends a 4-H dairy judging team with Glen Miller Everett Ohrt Donald Crawford and Jack Crawford plus a 4-H girls team Marjorie Weber Norma Weber to demonstrate canning fries. Livestock entries include Brown Swiss Ayrshires Jersey and Guernsey shown by listed youths and brothers. MONONA high school vocational agriculture students also compete with two judging teams including Robert Garms Jr Harlan Hass William Baskerville Lee Allen Johanningmeier and Justus Kammerer in poultry judging.
Fayette county 4-H dairy judging team trained Saturday in preliminary workouts at prominent farms in Black Hawk county. Members Elwood Mabon Lamont Oelrich Maynard Marcus Pace Randalia Warren Severs Randalia accompanied by county club agent W T Diamond preparing for the state dairy judging contest.
Tama county Farm Bureau will exhibit a booth on promoting better relations between town and country opening Monday. Mrs. L. C. Davis of Tama Mrs. Lebert Morrison of Traer and Mrs. R. S. Stephenson of Traer will supervise the booth. A panel discussion will feature Mrs. R. G. Stoakes Mrs. Herbert Lorenz Mrs. Fred Hushak sr Mrs. Verne Dan Schmidt and Mrs. Clarence Kenner.
MONONA Frank V. Lestina near Monona shows peaches can grow in northeast Iowa. A three year old seedling tree on his farm this year bore 27 ripe peaches of average size and perfect flavor and shape.
Elmer Von Roden was elected by the board of directors of the Lowden Farmers Cooperative Shipping association to succeed Henry Strackbein as shipping manager. Strackein resigned due to ill health.
Walter Shedak, a farmer six miles south of Monmouth, has started cribbing his 1939 corn crop and has been picking for two days. He is the first in the area to begin shucking this year. Other farmers expect to start husking around Oct. 1.
Toledo cooperative corn canning factory closed its season packing 14 500 cases and provided work for about 130 workers.
Chester O. Mc Carthy announces that 376 parity checks totaling 28 288 30 have been received for Delaware county farmers. The payments bring the county total to 154 000 in parity payments to date.
Leonard Brame treasurer of the Buchanan county soils committee said 188 parity checks arrived Friday totaling 11,929.02. Previously 602 checks added 41,512.94, lifting the grand total to 790 checks valued at 53,441.95. The latest checks went to farmers in Buffalo and Fairbank townships.
About 120 creamery operators and managers from the thirteenth district gathered in the Memorial building Cedar Rapids for a talk by Bob Brownlee chief of the Iowa dairy and food inspection force. He warned that six months would bring prosecutions for violators of the 80 percent butterfat rule. The meeting, third in a state series, covered cream handling grading and sediment tests. Fred Ford led the session with emphasis on transit and proper cans. Dyersville hosted another large attendance including J Allen Wallis C R Behnke and Elmer J Reed detailing enforcement of the cream grading law.
Lee Klett, 12, son of Henry Klett of Keokuk county, placed second in the boys tractor class at the Ida Patterson farm event near Mitchellville. Lyle Mason of Cherokee won, with about 10,000 spectators enjoying ideal weather as 25 expert furrow turners contested. Ray Witt of Oskaloosa won the men’s tractor class with 91.6 points. Orville Johnson and Leo Drake followed. Horse drawn plow winners were F. F. Martin of Bridgewater and Lyle Hinkley of Grimes.
Rowley Farmers Cooperative Creamery paid 28 cents a pound for No 1 butterfat 27 cents for No 2 and 26 cents for No 3 in the last half of August secretary Joe McGrath reported today During the first half of August butterfat prices were 26 25 and 24 cents respectively
Oelwein to hold its annual poultry show December 7 to 9 with G Havercamp of Waupeton as superintendent and O Ronal of Waverly as judge. The chamber of commerce secretary announced the dates Saturday.
The Linn County testing association records 370 cows across 24 herds averaging 642 pounds of milk and 25.7 pounds of butterfat. The W L Smith herd of 27 Holsteins leads with 1 486 pounds of milk and 49.4 pounds of butterfat on triple milking.
Sixty five township soil conservation committeemen attended a school of instruction led by Basil Huston in Washington county. Officers will be elected the week of Oct 2 with county officers the week of Oct 9. Wayne Norman Carl Oldfield and J W Chandler spoke on corn sealing and parity payments as 73 percent of 817062 bushels sealed to date may rise before Oct 1.
Wise pullets on C A Morey farm near Fairbank are fitted with red celluloid specs to prevent pecking. The flock includes 300 old hens and 476 pullets with a plan to 1050 pullets by October 10. Morey reports 226 eggs per hen for the year, with 393 layers producing, and an egg exhibit weighing 30 ounces per dozen at the Oelwein festival.
DYSART Construction will start this week on a 30 by 40 foot addition to the Evergreen elevator and feed mill in town. The new space will be used for feed storage.
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