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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1935
Page
4
March federal inspections show cattle 690,796 calves 472,802 hogs 2,158,326 and sheep and lambs 1,374,103. Hog slaughter drops to lowest March level since 1910 while cattle and calf totals remain strong vs 1934, with three month and nine month figures also reported.
San Francisco report quotes Captain Thomas J. Lee of the U S Navy as saying sun spot activity now rising means rains will return and there will be no drought until 1942. Dust storms in eastern Colorado and Kansas do not signal a new drought but a broader cycle shift toward relief.
A rustic verse by R. F. A. Drizzle laments tedious weather and hopes for rain. The speaker confesses wetness, chinch bugs, and stubborn endurance in fields, preferring mud and budding trees to dust and drought.
The Ames extension report shows 711 cows culled in March across 1,068 herds totaling 18,566 cows, with 190 sold for low production and 237 to other farmers. Losses from faulty separators totaled 147 dollars versus 181 dollars a year earlier.
Mrs NoMa Taare serves as adviser to Leura county Farm Bureau women hosting the annual achievement day in Wapelle with exhibits from townships and a planned program. Funds of 100 added for remodeling buildings at the event site.
The sale lists items from the Joan A Comas estate including cows machinery hay corn seed and fall wheat. Auction to be held at a Swisher Iowa location with terms made known day of sale. Executors Joe Coufal and Ered Vondra oversee the sale with Charles Ross as clerk and Ben a as the auctioneer.
Farm editor notes arrivals of 100000 bushels of Argentine oats at Chicago from New Orleans for reshipment to Cedar Rapids. Season total about 1820000 bushels with 1690000 already unloaded. Fourteen cars with 30000 bushels await unloading as shipments proceed by water routes to Chicago.
Dr. Carl J. Drake announces 500 tons of poison bait shipped to twenty five western Iowa counties for grasshopper control. Eggs will hatch in two weeks with hatching grounds targeted by May first. Infestations center around Sioux City with the lesser migratory locust dominant.
Plow and hitch demonstrations announced by County Agent George Dillon will occur at four Linn County sites on April 22 and 23. Virtue Ames will show adjustments for four plow outfits including sutks and gang plows and two or more bottoms with regular tractors. Harry Linn will demonstrate using four or more horses for multiple hitch. Details on locations and times to be released later.
Northern Fayette communities report smaller than usual hogs and lamb crops this spring as stockmen anticipate feed shortages and favor later production. Pig litters stayed near average despite a damp cool March.
Ames reports 1580 Iowa farm women cut kitchen steps in 1934 by organizing equipment and planning daily tasks. Fourteen counties hosted home management projects with 1260 making weekly work plans, 1600 standardizing tasks, and 1900 shortening meal times. Financial problems and leisure time emerged as key issues.
Wilton Junction farmer J G Crispin recently employed fifteen men to pack strawberry plants for shipment nationwide. He reports a severe tract of berry plants and, with irrigation, harvested a good crop last year.
Earl Miller injured his foot in a fall, Frank Townsend received a four inch head cut and body bruises when caught between a wagon and hog house, and Helen Kemmerer badly bruised her hand in a power wringer incident affecting local spring work plans.
Ames extension economists report eggs show a contrary trend with rising stored egg stocks in March, despite lower seasonal demand and Lent. They suggest eastern dealers hoard eggs, storage could be heavy relative to production, and prices remain uncertain into spring and summer.
Evans state corn hog chairman condemns a Senate resolution to repeal all processing taxes and fund AAA benefits from the 4.88 billion work relief appropriation. He argues the move would destroy the AAA act and drain the public treasury, urging processing taxes be kept as a tariff-like levy. The measure, filed by Rep. Patterson and Rep. Roelofs, faces consideration this week.
North Liberty area farmer Dan Crutchley suffered a severe foot injury while cleaning a disc when horses backed the implement over his foot, cutting an artery and causing a deep gash that required six stitches.
The federal bureau notes New York butter costs 15.5 cents per pound above London in March, down from 17 cents in February. Imports for the first quarter reach a record share of last year’s consumption, with Britain’s consumption rising about 10 percent last year. Domestic milk production on March 1 is 6 percent below the prior year, while U S butter apparent consumption grows 2.7 percent. New Zealand butter output declines seasonally and year over year.
Luther College at Decorah bought feeder cattle for 1600 dollars last fall and sold them this week on the Chicago market for 3000 dollars. The deal shows a strong return for the college farm operation near the campus.
Independence Iowa notes Buchan an county corn-hog treasurer received 359 more third installment checks bringing the third payments to 29,369.93 dollars. The total third payments amount to 131,766.93 dollars from 1,609 checks. About 500 second-payment checks remain unpaid and third payments on those contracts are not yet issued.
Special to The Gazette notes Otto Weide man near Nashville says he never shredded corn in April before. Five shredding jobs were completed on local farms as April weather prevented earlier work. Corn shocks moved from fields to be planted to other crops this spring while forage is baled.
Special to The Gazettette reports Cedar county farmers will face chinch bug damage depending on weather. County Agent Emmett C Gardner spoke at township meetings showing a film slide on the bug life cycle and control methods to help farmers prepare for the May migration to small grain fields. A wet May could reduce infestations as chinch bugs arrive around May 1.
Des Moines reports that the federal government will proceed with its emergency seed loan program in Iowa. M. E. Welsh Jr., regional manager for Iowa Nebraska Wyoming and South Dakota, will supervise the work with field supervisors named for several counties including Oskaloosa Mason City Fairfield and Denison among others.
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