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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1940
Page
1
Gossip notes praise Gerrit Vander Wilt’s farm six miles east for its well kept buildings with a fresh white snow-blanketed landscape. The elder owner defends the aluminum paint as durable, staining resistant, and covering trim. locals remark on the gleaming stucco house and tidy grounds during a February visit.
The Vander Wilt family home sits six miles east of Pella on highway 163. From the road the farm buildings look nice when sunny, their aluminum paint brightens the foreground hog house noted in the page’s news column.
On the Vander Wilt farm a large crib holds fifteen hundred bushels of shelled corn and metal ers and other storage. Five dairy heifer calves will be raised for future milk cows while ten cows are currently milked. Tik and cream check comes in handy according to Mr. Vander Wilt.
The interview with Mr. Vander Wilt outlines how thaw rate, soil moisture, and frost depth affect field work. He discusses hay, dairy cows, a well-kept hog house, clover and alfalfa conditions, and plans to plant soybeans. He notes hybrid corn yields, sealed corn stocks, and concerns over hog prices and trucking profits.
Iowa State College economists report farmers see improved dairy returns due to heavier production and higher prices. Butter farm price is up 5 cents from last year as increased consumption boosts demand while butter stocks are down 7 percent. Higher feed costs offset some gains, but butter production remains strong with a likely rise in average prices for the first half of 1910.
Puerto Rico bought more than 55 million pounds of pork lard last year, a 15 percent rise from the previous period, boosting incomes by about 1.83 million dollars for hog growers and meat packers, according to the Puerto Rican Trade Council. The report notes U.S. inland suppliers outweighed almost all foreign sources in pork purchases.
Elgin farm hand Floyd Thompson found a spring frozen over one morning and broke the ice to free an 80 inch snake. The incident sparked whispers among locals about whether it signals an early spring for the community.
The report notes Puerto Rico relies on imported lard for cooking and a popular island dish while the island, lacking local lard and pork, faces shortages amid a sugar industry rebound and rising employment as a result of a recent disruption.
The text notes sugar quotas and heavier buying in Michigan, emphasizing it as an inland state with the longest coastline in the union.
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