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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1935
Page
5
Nebster Farmer leads the season by planting sweet and pop corn on a small field at Starry Farm. E E Starry is cited as the first to plant corn this season amid a stretch of warmer weather and early garden activity across the area.
George Carlisle, a local truck and fruit farmer in Atalissa, reports a good prospect for peaches, apricots, and strawberries. He introduces a new fruit called compas cherry, described as a cross between a sand cherry and a minor plum, noted for its delicious taste and abundant yield.
Pauline Sunbeam 1274073 owned by Paul Stewart of Maynard finished a year’s test on April 19 with 26,918.9 pounds of milk and 1,102.6 pounds of butterfat, becoming Iowa’s first Holstein above 1,100 pounds. The cow, aged five, joins 38 cows with 1,100+ butterfat records, with national leaders higher. Continuous 72 hour watches accompanied the test by breed officials.
Entomologists from Iowa Illinois Indiana Missouri and the U S Department of Agriculture urged paper barriers treated with creosote to halt chinch bug migrations from small grain to corn fields. They note federal funds unlikely to cover barrier paper and seek a $2 5 million appropriation to buy creosote and paper.
DeWitt county farm leaders set up the second annual Farm Bureau festival in Clinton Aug 7 through 9. An executive committee named department chairmen for baby beef calves Waldo Mommsen Miles dairy calves BE L Gensicke Camanche pigs Howard Schultz Lost Nation sheep Warren Traver DeWitt livestock judging M D Lacy Dewitt boys Roy Cain Elwood boys 4 H Ernest Ladd Charlotte girl 4 H work Mrs Roy Traver DeWitt women's work Mrs Charles Burkinshaw DeWitt county picnic Roy Traver DeWitt parade Ralph Minor Carl J Smith DeWitt kittenball John Muhl Toronto Raymond Griebel Grand Mound music Mrs Ralph Henderson Mrs Donald McDonald DeWitt traffic E M Burnett Grand Mound.
The dust storm from March 25 to 30, 1935, tied the May 9 to 12, 1934 event as the nation's most spectacular and widespread. W A Mattice of the Weather Bureau in Washington notes the storm began in the Great Plains and moved eastward, lifting topsoil to over 10,000 feet, then drifting as dust across the country and beyond the Mississippi, with March marked as very dusty.
Ames extension economists say spring cattle movement from Texas New Mexico and Arizona will be 15 to 20 percent smaller than last year and the smallest in many years. Shipments through June 30 depend on feed supplies with short feed forcing some moves from dry areas and potential restocking if feed improves.
Baldwin Fred Gray, a farmer near Anamosa, purchased the Will Siebel farm of forty nine acres one mile west of Amber for a total of 4300 dollars, averaging 87.75 dollars per acre.
Hopkinton Cow Test association reports March averages for 295 cows with 563 pounds of milk and 21.3 pounds of butterfat. Seventeen cows exceeded forty pounds of butterfat. Twelve members used balanced rations, sixteen fed legume hay, seven non legume hay, and thirteen ensilage.
Maurice Soults 28 of Sigourney has been appointed agricultural agent for Benton county by the Farm Bureau board. He will begin May 15 or earlier if a Keokuk county successor is named. Soults succeeds W A Geiger who died from injuries in an automobile crash.
A L Brown of Ottumwa assistant director of drought relief in Wapello county has been named agricultural agent for Kossuth county to replace Gilbert Bornstetter who moved to a AAA post in Washington D C.
Domestic animals including sheep lambs hogs geese and cattle killed or injured by stray dogs in Jackson county up to March 31 totaled 397.25. The Jackson county board of supervisors set payments 2.50 per adult sheep and 3.50 per lamb with a 50 cent per head increase. About 1 842 dogs have been licensed this year, up about 400 from last year.
Special to The Gazette Tipton Mrs Sarah Porter Ellis Ames extension service will be guest speaker and judge of clothing exhibits at Cedar County Farm Bureau Women achievement day May 1 at Tipton public library. Judging starts 10 a.m. and program at 1 30 p.m. Elmer Meyer tells story of The Bohemian Girl. Jane McCormick county superintendent speaks on education. Mrs Herman Leabhart discusses Child Conservation League. Roy Joslin presents Child care and training, the new home project work.
WASHINGTON, D C M D Thomson supervisor of agricultural census for the Seventh district announces preliminary returns on the number of farms in three additional counties Van Buren Henry and Jefferson. Van Buren 1962 on Jan 1 1935 up from 1893 in 1930 Henry 2064 on Jan 1 1935 up from 1975 in 1930 Jefferson 1911 on Jan 1 1935 up from 1887 in 1930. The report checking should finish about May 1.
In Maquoketa Jackson county a Sabula man turned in 113 pairs of gopher feet for a 5 cent bounty, earning $5.65. Other notable catches came from Lamotte with 85 and 61 pairs, and a single pair from near Bellevue. Through April a total of $17.70 has been paid for 354 pairs.
Ernest Wright secretary of the Iowa State Dairy Association will speak at a Cedar county 4-H dairy club meeting at Hotel Tipton on April 30 at 7 30 p m. The event gathers club members for county-wide dairy program updates and guidance from state leadership.
Washington Iowa police arrested Dan Caraway and Dean Warmuth two Mount Vernon men after farmers accused them of weighing corn with a 500 pound land box during sales for Frantz Gleason and Guy S Gleason of Mount Vernon. A hearing was set for Wednesday in Mount Vernon.
A Des Moines house sub committee was appointed to draft a bill for a 100000 dollar state appropriation to aid drought stricken Iowa farmers. Farmers Union representatives urged action as cattle and hogs suffer from feed shortages amid forecasts of worsening conditions. The panel includes Reps. C L Rice Frank McGill and Victor Felter.
Thomas Evans, superintendent of the Grundy Center cannery, reports 800 acres of sweet corn contracted by farmers in the vicinity for processing.
Hackbarth and Sons purchased a 1 385 pound Short horn cow from Clem Bockenstedt at 7 cents per pound totaling 96 dollars 95 cents. The sale was reported by Special to The Gazette in Greeley.
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