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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1939
Page
12
Weather favors rapid small grain seeding with eastern Iowa counties nearing completion by midweek. Oats are rising in southern regions and corn planting may stay on schedule despite a two week lag in small grain and grass. Moisture remains ample with stands normal though growth is slow. fall grain thriving and limited pasture grazing reported.
Indefinitely postponed IC C hearing on railway Livestock pick up service scheduled Monday at Dubuque. Arguments for extending the service West of Manchester Mount Vernon and Downey would have been made if the hearing had proceeded as planned.
County Agent Rex Conn on Tuesday offered spray plans for bush and tree fruits. For grapes a 4-6-50 Bordeaux with 1% pounds of dead arsenate protects against flea beetles mildew black rot and leaf eating insects with a pre bloom follow up. Plum spray uses liquid lime sulfur or equivalents plus lead arsenate hydrated lime to combat brown rot plum curculio and leaf spot. Strawberries use a 46-50 Bordeaux with lead arsenate first leaves then pre bloom to reduce leaf spot and leaf roller. Red and black raspberries get a dormant spray then a pre bloom followed by 4-4-50 Bordeaux with spreader. Currants and gooseberries require lead arsenate to control leaf insects when young leaves appear, targeting currant worm.
Special to The Gazette reports Will Miller fell from a discing tractor on the S. S. Brubaker farm near Dinsdale. The machine ran over his chest and leg before he was taken to a Waterloo hospital for treatment. The notice also promotes a farmers market place ad for farm machinery and supplies.
Iowa led states in milk born disease in 1937 with two epidemics, Dr. I A Merchant told the Iowa Public Health association. He urged stricter cow and farm checks pasteurization and medical control of milk borne diseases. New officers named include Dr E C Sage president and Dr R R Hensen Hazel Roberts C E Richey and Dr Carl E Jordan in key roles.
The Jones County Rural Youth association honored Ray Sorensen former 4 H club agent and Mrs Sorensen at a Wednesday party. Sorensen now works with the Iowa State Farm Bureau federation in the rural youth section. A one act play was presented by Eugene Sutton Bruce Johnson Delbert Grafft Hilda and Lois Levien Evelyn Whitmore and Jacqueline Kindler.
The Southeast Winneshiek Cow Testing association will hold a reorganization meeting at 8 pm on May 3 at the Farm Bureau office in Decorah. Floyd Arnold, extension dairy specialist at Ames, will lead the session. President Willard Torgrim announced the Bay of Fundy in Canada reports the highest tide, rising 53 feet.
By Florence Clark McGregor residents celebrate completion of a major earth dam to end flood menace. Farmer Ben Schultz and family, once cut off by the hillside ditch, now drive a newly surfaced highway atop the dam. Guard rails provide safety on the high embankment.
A. D. Oderkirk announces a series of spring Poultry Grading meetings under the theme Live Poultry Grading. The schedule spans Sioux City to Boone from May 1 to May 19 with demonstrations of live poultry grading at each stop. Speakers include B. O Brownlee and Drs Alvan L. Howard and John Wineinger.
Extension official Rex Conn said egg grading meetings are set for Wednesday evening in Central City and Thursday evening in Marion with Poultryman Oderkirk also scheduled to attend.
West Liberty hog feeder John Hendricks addressed the Chicago Agricultural Club meeting Monday. He discussed his hog raising method emphasizing keeping pigs on concrete during feeding and maintaining meticulous cleanliness.
The U S Chamber of Commerce will hold a roundtable discussion in Washington on May 2 during the annual convention. Delos L. James announced the topic Stepping Up Distribution of Agricultural and Industrial Products. J Frank Grimes of the Independent Grocers Alliance will discuss Expanding Consumption of Agricultural Products. Harper Sibley will open with a farming situation review. The overall theme is What Is Holding Business Back.
WAUKON The Allamakee county survey of 910 school children finds the average child sleeps over an hour less than recommended nightly. Mrs Alma H. Jones notes late suppers, irregular bedtimes, and extracurriculars as main causes and urges a regular schedule with age based sleep targets from 12 to 11 hours.
Robert Clark of Ames led rural youth work and represented the American Country Life association at a three day Washington gathering to unify rural youth programs. Sponsored by the Extension service Farm Bureau federation National Grange Farmers Union American Vocational association and the Country Life association.
A nostalgic piece recalls a grandmother tending a garden herb patch with sage lavender thyme and marjoram. The memory centers on quiet garden rituals and the fragrant harvest stored in a cool dry place, evoking home and family heritage.
Atlanta AP reports J B Kincer of the U S Weather Bureau told the American Meteorological Society that a global warming phase is part of a natural cycle. He cited 100 year records showing a future cooler, wetter period likely after current mild winters, with 1917-18 and 1935-36 as notable exceptions.
Maynard Cooperative creamery patrons were paid 25 cents a pound for butterfat in March, per secretary C. H. Paul.
Clayton county 4-H party set for May 3 for boys and girls. Event to be held in the Elkader opera house with Georgina Tieden as program chairman.
A fire destroyed a cattle barn 60 by 80 and a horse barn 40 by 50 on the E. C. Gotsch farm near Martelle. Firemen confined the blaze with well water and chemicals, aided by neighbors, saving two outbuildings and two houses. Loss estimated at 5000 dollars. 45 cattle fed after the event.
Plans set for a CCC camp in southwest Belle Plaine to aid soil erosion programs. Four county agents and Captain Barker agreed with Belle Plaine leaders. fourteen acres will host barracks, with construction to start soon in the central district of Benton Tama Towa and Powshieck counties.
Glenn G. Sones formerly south of Anamosa has been appointed manager of the Iowa Farm Mutual Insurance Company, a subsidiary of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
West Union Echo Valley chapter of the Future Farmers of America began planting 1,500 trees in Echo Valley state park. Forty seven boys, instructor T R Collins, and Fayette county agent Paul McElroy work in shifts with E R Ballard supervising. Trees from Lake View, Walnut Grove, and Ames nursery include elm, hackberry, black walnut, hawthorn, wild cherry, pine, and Kentucky coffee bean.
Joe Papousek of Walker Iowa recounts suffering three years with chronic constipation gas headaches and nausea. He credits Natex for rapid bowel regularity and relief after starting the medicine at Podzmiek Pharmacy noting he can eat three meals a day without discomfort.
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