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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1932
Page
7
The 1 September farm flock of laying hens was 1.4 percent below last year, with the year starting 5 percent lower. Eggs per hen lag behind last year though overall layings are above long term averages, driven by more pullets entering laying.
Union Stockyards Chicago reports August receipts across 61 markets show cattle down 11 to 14 percent from benchmarks and hog slaughter up with packinghouse movements rising. Calves and sheep also show mixed changes with August totals below year-earlier levels in most categories. Since September start, trends vary by market, with some cattle receipts near last year and hog slaughter up at federal plants.
4-H club members from Iowa counties prepare for a dairy cattle judging contest at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo from October 3 to 9. Participants include Albert and Arthur Wallace, James Paul Talbot, Erla and Donald Enochson, Esther Heitshusen, Dean Fry, Dean Jacobs, Harold and Gwendolyn Sherman, and Marlo Matthes. Exhibits feature Holsteins Jerseys and Guernseys from listed county members.
Interview with Alfred Ross owner-operator of 120 acres two miles east of Coggon. Ross discusses taxes operating costs hog sales and farm financing and weighs political choices including Hoover Roosevelt and Turner while detailing his purebred hog herd and farm economics.
Frank Carnes, a Walker area farmer, explained that a cow falling asleep coincided with a shoat lying down and feeding on whole milk. A hen owned by Mrs. C V Jaephy of Walker incubates an orphaned litter of kittens as if they were chicks.
In Chicago The Egg Men's association revealed fall butter and egg styling. President L B Kilbourne said the creamy white eggs and pale yellow yolks set the season’s fashion. The convention noted turkey prices may be the lowest in years for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Directors of the Postville Farmers' creamery set 1933 cream routes at rates saving the company 1500 over last year. Bids on eight routes totaled twenty five bidders, with trip bids ranging from 1.90 to 5.00 dollars.
A Jumbo melon from F. B. Pulver’s patch weighs sixty five pounds and measures three feet ten inches around the short way and four feet five inches lengthwise. The fruit is solid and flavorful, illustrating a standout season for watermelons in Delhi.
Burdette Conklin reported harvesting twenty acres of watermelons and ten acres of muskmelons with strong yields and high quality. At peak season daily sales reached 800 watermelons and 1,800 musk melons, with sandy loam noted as ideal for melon farming.
Five Vinton high school boys Francis Reiss Harold Happel Harold Fiebelkorn Gale Johnson and Lyle Crisman with instructor H T Miller traveled to Ames for dairy cattle practice. Three of the group will be chosen to represent Vinton’s vocational agriculture department in the contest at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress.
Marjorie Man gold and Mary Fleming along with Mae Burns and Marylin Bur hans will demonstrate making a dressing table from orange boxes and using willow twigs for fixtures and ties. They represent Delaware county 4 H club girls at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress. A Oneida high school vocational agriculture team will enter the judging contest.
Auction schedule lists sales by I. B. Meyers and C. A. Orris near North Liberty on Sept 27 and by E. C. Forest at Mount Vernon on Sept 29 with a closing out sale near St Se on Oct 1. Poland China hog sale noted in Mount Vernon.
A discussion suggests banning read or sale of automobiles and allowing beer to be sold to boost government revenue and ease tax burdens. The proposal links alcohol sales to tax revenue as a possible solution to fiscal pressures.
Clarence Merle Cashman a trucker, completed his fourteenth Chicago livestock run in four weeks. The runs take eight and a half hours out and seven hours back. One consignment for Richard Hulse had 98 hogs, 79 topping the market at 5.10 a hundredweight. Tuesday's load for Tom Sylvester had 45 head averaging 244 pounds and sold for 4.60 a hundredweight.
O S Bailey former local publisher opens a native nut business in Waukon promising to buy all nuts brought in. He notes Allamakee County has abundant black walnuts and marketing has held back farmers. Bailey plans to store nuts and haul them by truck to prairie towns for wholesale sale to retailers.
About fifty people from twelve townships attended Benton county's first recreational meeting led by Ames extension specialist Miss Fannie Buchanan. The group practiced song leading, chose a play titled Who Defeated Coogan, and planned future training, with a January public play festival as the finale. Townships represented include Iowa Kane Eldorado Jackson Big Grove Cedar Taylor Eden Benton Harrison Leroy and St. Clair.
The column notes a bumper garden season with abundant vegetables and grapes, but warns that many will still face hunger and cold this winter as crops overflow despite scarcity in other areas.
The Frank Brooks farm, 160 acres near Hopkinton, sold in April for 64 per acre to H P Bancroft of Monticello. Bancroft resold it to Reynold Becker of Dyersville for 12000, which was 1760 more than the April price. The property and improvements include electric service and modern buildings.
Myron Butler sold the 120 acre Floyd county farm located one mile west of here to Arthur Stille for 90 dollars an acre in cash.
Elmer J. Primus, formerly at Aurora, begins duties as buttermaker and manager at the Farmers' Co operative creamery in Earlville. He succeeds Peter J. Goetzinger who organized the local creamery a year ago and has served as manager and buttermaker.
Special to The Gazette. The Whitmer farm east of Tipton, 120 acres, leased to Ed Pea at eight dollars an acre. Wingert farm east of town rented to Herman Lange at seven. John Willer’s 400-acre farm south of Tipton leased to Will Werling. James Britcher 200-acre farm northwest of Tipton leased to Sam Heagerty on a fifty fifty share. Sarah farm, 200 acres, seven miles north west, leased to Guy Kagae at six dollars an acre. Few places above six to six fifty. more share leases than cash. Many tenants expect lower rents later and hesitate to sign.
A quarter section of the J. B. McDowall farm near Traer is leased for six dollars an acre to Robert Stark who now farms the J. A. McCosh property. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance leases the former Claus Raum farm in Grant township to Henry Goettsch on a share arrangement plus five fifty per acre for pasture. Goettsch also farms the Copley place near Rein.
A large barn on the Ray McClusky farm in Brooklyn was destroyed Saturday night by fire thought to have originated from defective wiring. The tenant Lea Ves was present. One team of horses, a cow, and substantial hay and grain were lost.
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