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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1935
Page
8
Federal Meteorologist Charles D. Reed warned in the 1935 weekly crop bulletin that chin bugs will threaten Iowa crops more than last year when losses exceeded a million dollars. He predicted a warmer, drier season, noted saturated soils from heavy winter precipitation, and cited cycles suggesting a continuation of warm summers after 1934.
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Special to The Gazette reports Decorah area conditions favor crops with streams above normal and ample ground moisture. Late seeding is in excellent condition while early seeding shows poorer prospects. Some plowing already done and a small amount of wheat sown.
North English area reports sowing of over 100 acres of oats last week. More than a dozen farmers had finished sowing by Tuesday evening, with most farmers just beginning. Gardening is general. Wells ran dry again in some cases. William Bushman north of town shredded Tuesday and Wednesday, while Charles Hahn northwest of town shredded Wednesday and Thursday last week.
Mechanicsville area farmers William and Andrew Moffit ten miles southeast of town have planted forty acres of oats this season. The brothers work the land as a family operation and expect decent yields if weather cooperates.
Des Moines reports that about 50,000 more acres will be diverted from corn production this year in Town than last year. R M Evans chairs the state corn and hog committee cites telegraph reports from 71 counties. 1934 reduction was 2,472,720 acres. 1955 projection about 2,522,720 acres with 152,000 signers, 88 percent of 175,238 contracts. Grundy Center notes final 1935 corn hog signers total 1,325 amid 1,607 signups in 1934.
Wapello County Agent Earl Peterson cites 792 corn hog signers in Louisa County for 1935. Delaware county received 1623 third payment checks totaling 146666.94 dollars at the Manchester office on Tuesday afternoon. L B Bishop chair of the county corn hog committee says notices will be sent with payment dates. About 1550 Delaware county farmers have signed 1935 contracts.
First 1935 figures show 1718 contracts in Buchanan county corn hog reduction signup. The number is lower than 1934's 1918, but acres under contract rose about 10 percent. Ninety eight new signers are recorded this year.
Earl Shultz and Floyd Arnold led the northeastern Iowa testers at Oelwein for a spring conference. A new service for contest association members was outlined, including herd records management, a permanent herd record book system, a sire exchange list, and herd improvement registry testing.
Thousands seek quick relief from bad breath using Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. The vegetable tablets stimulate natural bowel action without calomel’s side effects and leave no griping. Discovered after 20 years of practice by Dr. F M Edwards. Olive color tablets sold in 15c 30c 60c doses.
Des Moines Iowa journalist notes Ham Hamilton known for coaching 4 H clubs and dairy judging teams. He led Franklin county programs from 1922 to 1932, winning state and national honors in 1924 and traveling to London in 1925. Hamilton born 1897 in Tennessee, ISU graduate, held farming and credit positions before starting Iowa Farm Bureau duties May 1.
Louisa county 4-H members begin a three year corn breeding effort with seed from the Iowa State College farm crops department. The program covers four inbred lines for a regional hybrid, a common hybrid, two inbred popcorn lines, two inbred sweet corn lines, and two freak types. Bags for sel ls and crossing are provided. Successful completion earns certificates and eligibility to continue hybrid seed production in year two.
A sale at Harbison and Luckey farm one mile north of Columbus Junction saw horses priced from 65 to 270 dollars. Four to five year olds brought 270, 260 for larger teams, 177.50 for a gray five year old, 165 for a brown mare, 125 for a two year old colt, with fifteen other horses selling 65 to 100. Milk cows sold 28 to 39, shoats 3.15 to 6.25, three tractors 425 125 and 40, a 1927 automobile 65, cream separator 30, discs 15 to 35, gang plow 41, sulky plow 20, corn plows 2.50 to 10, harness 5 to 35. Paul Klotz served as auctioneer.
Keokuk county Farm Bureau hosts the first annual play tournament in Sigourney on April 10 with entrants Liberty Plank Sigourney and Van Buren townships. County committee members include Gerald Lineweaver Mrs Miles Cook Mrs Everett Dillon and Lucia Richardson.
Whittier report shows March feed cost per cow at 7.63 dollars, up 80 percent from 1934, while butterfat selling price rose to 39.5 cents per pound and average per-cow return reached 6.36 dollars. Milk and butterfat totals for 245 cows across 17 herds averaged 723 pounds of milk and 31.2 pounds of butterfat. Michél and Son led with 851 pounds milk and 43 pounds butterfat from eight cattle.
Edgewood Elkader Volga testing group reports 453 cows averaging 801 pounds milk and 30.6 pounds butterfat. Leath of Elkader leads with 30 purebreds at 1169 pounds and 43.1 fat. Smith Brothers of Garber rank second. high cow recorded at 2009 pounds milk and 68.3 fat. Linn association No. 2 with 514 cows averages 668 pounds milk and 29.7 fat. E C Forest of Mount Vernon noted.
Miss Gladys Adams a former Linn county home demonstration agent is engaged as clothing specialist in the Ames extension service. She will begin duties May 1 and came to Cedar Rapids as Linn H D A in April 1929. She resigned January 1 1935 to pursue advanced work at Ames for extension division preparation.
The report lists sixteen pure bred and grade Holsteins averaging 1326 pounds of milk and 47.6 pounds of butterfat. Witwer and Hank of Marion supply sixty nine grade Holsteins and Guernseys averaging 987 pounds of milk and 41.3 pounds of butterfat. The top cow from Ludvik Petrak herd Cedar Rapids produced 1848 pounds of milk and 75.8 pounds of butterfat. A Brown Swiss from Robert Beckmann Mount Vernon yielded 1662 pounds of milk and 731 pounds of butterfat. Fifteen members fed balanced rations, seventeen legume hay, two non legume hay, and fifteen ensilage. Thirty cows were culled for low production Bangs disease sterility and death.
In March the Tama-Poweshiek Cow Testing association reported an average herd yield of 644 pounds of milk and 26.7 pounds of butterfat from 309 cows and 40 dry. Kleiss and Lang of Brooklyn led with a high herd of nine grade Holsteins, averaging 1,138 pounds of milk and 40.4 pounds of butterfat, while their top cow produced 1,841 pounds of milk and 73.6 pounds of butterfat.
A. I. Ellyson, a farmer near West Branch, installed the first wind powered light plant in the area. A propeller on a 40 foot wind mill tower drives a 32 volt, 2,500 watt system providing electric light locally.
Ames pamphlet Farm Facts quotes Bureau of Labor Statistics noting retail food prices slipped slightly in the two weeks to March 12 driven by butter and egg declines. It cites a 24 percent drop in February butter consumption and compares U S and Canadian hog prices amid AAA program effects.
A notice of farm auctions on Thursday April 4 including Frank C. Russell closing out sale three miles south Springville and a livestock sale at Vinton managed by Frank Dulen. On Saturday April 6 Frank Houser closes out at two miles south Walford.
A federal power commission survey shows 52,023 of Iowa's 214,928 farms have electricity, with 32,047 from central stations and 19,976 from farm plants. About 162,905 farms still lack service, highlighting rural electrification needs under the work relief program.
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