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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1929
Page
9
A Vernon township farmer reports variable corn quality and yields. spring plowed fields show better promise than fall plowed plots, with chaffy, lower feeding value feared. Other locals note seed selection and careful cultivation may improve results.
A Chelsea church outlines a drive to gain profits from pigs. Each farmer donates a pig and feed it until December, when all hogs will be gathered and shipped to market. A full carload is expected to be donated.
The federal bureau of agricultural economics reports 1928 as the most favorable postwar year for livestock producers by income profits and price levels. Sheep and cattle profits rose while hog conditions lagged slightly. overall livestock buying power and prices outpaced 1927, with purchasing power at wartime highs. A separate note adds that Stettin harbor’s new war warehouse in the Baltic is Europe’s largest, with 65,000 long tons capacity and 48,000 square yards storage.
In Webster county Iowa 25 farms show farm size affects net return. Smaller 160 acre farms averaged negative management returns of 558 with labor valued around 900. 240 acre farms earned 1021. 320 acre farms 1848. overall management return reflects hired labor and ownership effort shaping total income.
Webster county farm records reveal wide variation in efficiency across groups. The most successful farm earned 7125 gross with 2487 management return on 242 acres, while others posted higher gross income but lower management returns. Livestock accounted for 31 percent of income with a return of 1.72 per dollar of feed.
A million dollars from bankers across nine southeastern Kansas counties will finance dairy cattle purchases. The money will fund cows from northern dairy states with several carloads of Holsteins expected soon. Governor Clyde Reed and W B Barney led a trade-train tour through Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin to inspect co operatives and herds.
Machinery cost per crop per acre 1.20 and power cost per crop 2.35. Bogo Ong farm lost 1449 with gross income 3348. Crop acres handled per man averaged 63. Nashua January 1 report notes a large mail quantity from Cedar Falls post office on first run of new motor service to Janesville and nearby towns with two daily round trips.
Independence rural carriers gathered at Fairbank for the county convention. Thomas Harn hosted the event with a 6:30 p.m. supper. Women’s auxiliary members attended as guests.
The forty eighth annual meeting of the Synod of Iowa will be held in Storm Lake October 16 and 17 with Rev. F W Shedd of Cedar Heights and Northminster and East Park Presbyterian churches serving as permanent clerk. Sessions will be at Lakeside church with Rev E K Gibson pastor host. Rev Mott R Sawyer is moderator and Prof George J Robinson of Chicago will give several addresses.
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