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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
6
Federal meteorologist Charles D. Reed reports subsoil moisture holds the key as western Iowa corn suffers from 100 degree heat. Pollen damaged, silks seared, and yields for oats and winter wheat described as variable while horse losses from heat run into thousands.
An article by R F A argues the Production Credit Corporation acted wisely by advancing loans on warehoused grain. It notes growers lose cash despite yearly harvests while grain market factors hurt farmers as oats opened at 20 to 25 cents amid empty granaries and uncertain yields.
John Haak of Iowa county led the Chicago market with a 1 363 pound steer load selling for 1190 dollars, destined for eastern shipment. The sale highlighted a strong demand for fed cattle in the Monday market.
The Tama county women will hold their annual Achievement Day at Salem church north of Toledo on Friday. Booths display nutrition project results by townships with Mrs. Sarah Ellis of Ames serving as judge. Edith Huffman, home demonstration agent, announced the event.
Annual 4 H girls clubs Achievement day will be held in Waukon on August 14. A champion demonstration team will be named to represent the county at the state fair. Miss Bernice Meister of Caledonia Minnesota, home demonstration agent in Houston county, will judge demonstrations and exhibits.
Fred T Schwob, chief of the state conservation department fish and game division, will speak at the 4 H club show in Washington Iowa on the final day of the club fair. He will discuss the history and current condition of wild game in the state and efforts to increase game bird and animal supplies.
A river steamer has been chartered for the Scott county Farm Bureau picnic next Saturday. The boat will leave Davenport at 9:30 am and return at 5 pm with a 20 minute stop at Muscatine. An orchestra has been engaged for the voyage.
Speratta The Crnze te SAMA Frank Vilek a farmer near Toledo was injured Monday while hitching horses to a power cutter. A neighbor with two women arrived and pulled up close, startling the horses and causing Vilek to fall as a wheel passed over his right arm.
First thresh reports from eastern Iowa show yields below expectations as threshing begins. On the Ward Kent farm near Wyoming barley yields run about 30 bushels per acre while Ray Griswold logs 37 bushels of oats per acre. overall districts in Jones and Jackson counties report lighter-than-expected harvests with some pockets of better output.
The initial threshing in the Bertram vicinity occurred Monday afternoon on the Charles Petrak farm west of Bertram. Oats were the principal crop mentioned as the activity started.
Maquoketa reports the Miles Baby Beef club will stage its annual calf show on September 7, later than in past years. Members will also show calves at the 4 H club achievement show on Monday and Tuesday at Lakehurst.
Cedar county 4-H livestock clubs announced the five high scorers at judging tryouts held July 25 for the State fair. Mearl Crist Anders Mather Jr George Cary Kenneth Siders and Kenneth Crist earned spots to advance to Ames on August 10 for further practice.
A woolly thistle patch spanning a quarter of an acre has appeared along a highway in Bluffton township six miles northwest of Decorah. The weed, common to northwestern Iowa, has not been detected in this area before.
Arlington firemen and neighbors responded to an alarm from the Mrs. Wellman farm Tuesday morning. A straw shed caved in burying twenty head of cattle. all were recovered.
Washington county Farm Bureau women will study a fourth year nutrition course starting August 13. Township leaders and state extension representatives met to outline plans. Miss Ruth Cessna of the Ames extension department will present the nutrition lessons.
Elza Jeffries, farmer, bought a new fim separator two and one half miles southwest of Troy Mills. O C Powell trucked it from the factory.
The Gazette reports Winneshiek County 4-H club boys from Decorah and surrounding area will attend a Lansing camp next week Friday. Details remain unclear due to fragmented text.
In Washington county the wheat and oats harvest is advancing with weather favorable. Farmers report yields below expectations due to rust and chinch bugs, but corn is excellent with a strong stand and late corn maturing quickly. Soybeans are good and pastures and hay crops are among the best in years aided by recent rains.
Ninety percent of the early day crop in Winneshiek county has been stored and 10 percent of the second alfalfa crop is near cutting. Harvesting is completed in most sections and threshing will start widely within the coming week. All crops are in good condition. The first threshing occurred at the county home in Freeport.
The camp will be supervised by George Kaufman, game warden at Lansing.
E L King an agronomist at the Marion government soil erosion camp outlines the national loss of soil and plant nutrients due to erosion. He cites figures from United States Circular No 33 showing drastic soil wash on plowed fields versus grass cover and urges farmers to adopt soil-building practices to preserve topsoil.
First payments for corn and hog checks arrive in Linn and Jones counties in eastern Iowa. Linn receives 1500 checks totaling 154236 dollars while Jones gets 113490 dollars. Arthur Addison Abel, farmer near Anamosa, receives the first Jones county check from Le Roy G. Dirks. Distribution in Jones starts Friday after notification by card.
Iowa City area will likely wait several weeks for the first John son county corn hog payment checks. County Agent Emmett C. Gardner said the initial checks will cover slightly less than half of the $500,000 expected locally this year. Checks were already available in lighter producing counties with less contract work.
The Louisa county fair parade and events are scheduled in Columbus Junction from August 13 through August 16. Organizers urge residents and visitors to plan attendance and note the full event lineup.
The Central City fair opens with 260 head of 4-H livestock on the grounds and open class horses. Angus baby beeves lead the judging under Carl Oldsen as Iowa Beef Producers' association observer. Open class hogs and lambs also set for judging with a grand champion named Wednesday afternoon.
At Otto Kaeberle farm near Newhall eight neighbors aided harvest on thirty acres of 5 foot oats flattened by recent storms. Tractor drawn binders and three machines completed the work as participants include Joe A. Boddicker Henry Boddicker J H Boddicker E T Seilhamer William Freeman O A Koopman Bill Kaeberle and Joe Bevins.
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