This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 36 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1939
Page
7
Ames extension economists report April to June disappearance 14 percent below last year due to sluggish export demand. From Jan 1 to Apr 1 the decline was 2 percent versus 1938. If trends hold, Oct 1 carryover could reach 350 to 500 million bushels, with next fall’s supply possibly the largest on record.
Iowa City officials announce the Johnson County Farm Bureau annual picnic will be held August 3 at City Park in Iowa City. Speaker will be W B Hamilton Des Moines Iowa Farm Bureau federation secretary treasurer. Picnic committee includes Lee Schwimley Kalona J M Zenishek Solon and Jesse Fuhrmeister North Liberty.
A new 512000 barn for dairy cattle and hospitalization space nears completion at the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds in Waterloo. Manager E S Estel reports the structure is the tenth built since the show began in 1910 and will house 167 head. The congress runs September 25 to October 1.
W. L. Wilson, longtime buttermaker at York creamery in Williamsburg C. purchased a Cherokee milk business after resigning, and will depart once his successor is hired.
A quirky note on fence drift caught in wave wire and ants as the hard working critters who attend picnics. The piece pokes fun at busy rural life, vacation ideas for farmers, and a metropolitan hotel breakfast in bed as light entertainment.
Des Moines reports the Iowa State fair will revive the culinary department with new classes for cooks picklers jam makers and cake bakers. Prizes total 1188 with 234 for 14 breads and rolls 819 for lager and fancy cakes 92 for cookies and 35 mid prizes for various categories. The culinary show returns in 1939 to the east end of the main floor of the educational building with new showcases and larger entries.
Washington AP reports Representative Talle and Representative Harrington have been named to a 22 member congressional committee to discuss with Secretary Wallace the possible addition of lard to the commodities list purchased by the federal surplus commodities corporation for relief distribution.
Cedar Rapids cannery management told The Gazette that only the green variety of beans would be grown for a fall pack. A yesterday article had reported plans for a second crop, which managers said was accurate except for possible confusion about the variety produced.
Washington (UP) Veterinarians credit a vaccine made from artificially infected egg embryos for cutting sleeping sickness deaths in horses from 184000 last year to only a few hundred so far this year. They note reports from Iowa to the Dakotas show reduced tolls, with no epidemic at present. Mosquitoes still spread the disease to horses and humans, though humans’ cases require further study.
The veterinary research institute at Ames, with the federal Bureau of Animal Industry and state agriculture, investigates eastern and western type encephalomyelitis in lava horses. Western virus linked to Towa fatalities. eastern type less vaccine responsive and more deadly. Veterinarians urged to submit brains from suspected sleeping sickness cases to Ames lab.
A new barn measuring 42 by 60 feet is being erected on the C. W. Evitts farm west of Mount Vernon. The center space will store hay, while side sheds will shelter horses, dairy cattle, and feeder cattle.
Washington Shaker Yellow apple tree, planted in 1855 on the Henry Morgan farm, aged 84 seasons, is expected to bear a strong crop. The Morgan farm, begun in 1848, remains in the Morgan family with A J Morgan age 81, his son Warren, and Warren’s son Lane Morgan, plus Phillip Trumbo of Summerton, Ariz. A historic well Henry Morgan dug years ago still serves the house.
More than 700 in premiums are offered for the county Farm Bureau picnic and 4 H club day at Lake Farley Wood near Preston August 9 and 10. Prizes cover crops oats rye barley and wheat tallest corn stalks best three stalks with ears township home and farm records oven products 4 H club records health division personal account records animal entries and garden projects. Mrs Raymond Sayre of Ackworth will be the speaker. Judges include D W Telmle Miss Dorotha Kaker t of Davenport and W N Merriman of Maquoketa. judging ends Thursday forenoon.
Iowa farmers face hessian fly danger with volunteers to be destroyed in September and winter wheat planted during fly free dates to protect next year crops. Entomologists Drake and Tate note widespread fly pockets and varying damage, grasshopper numbers down in central and eastern Iowa, but western regions still suffer.
Crystal Lake INL farmer Elmer Haas faced a thick potato stand that blocked machinery. He hired an avi ator to fly over and spray the vines, enabling field access and crop care.
Iowa crop reporter Charles D. Reed says the earliest planted corn is denting with an unusually uniform ear set. Most corn has passed pollination under generally favorable weather, though dry soil and hot spells hurt some southern localities. July rainfall was 3.24 inches, about 88 percent of normal. oats and barley threshing is over halfway.
The Gazette farm editor received a dented ear of corn from Stuart Smith a research expert at Ames for a Sioux City hybrid company. A label showed the seed as a cold resistant variety planted April 27 and harvested August.
Muscatine Island and Conesville area melons and cantaloupes arrive in fine condition with prospects of a large crop. Sweet potatoes near market readiness and the Columbus Junction cannery plans to begin tomato packing soon.
Edgewood area harvest shows D J Wilson and Son farm 11 acre field yielding 6134 bushels per acre in four miles northwest of Edgewood. A 12 acre field averaged 42 bushels per acre. The Wilsons planted two year old togold seed grown on the farm on limed land. Local oats average around 40 bushels per acre.
In Conesville area one threshing ring finished last weekend, two more completed the round on Monday, and the fourth has only a few jobs remaining. Cantaloupes have been marketed here by George Brown, Clarence Finley and Peter Ness.
Des Moines reports county quotas for 4-H baby beeves at the Iowa state fair are reduced this season due to space limits. Despite a new addition to the baby beef barn, 17 new counties joining the beef club reduce stalls by 40, with most area space reallocated to purebred and dairy heifers.
Iowa State College extension service rural sociologist W H Stacy notes farm women will showcase more hobbies at the state fair this year than in six prior fairs. Mrs T W Everts of Glidden leads the hobby exhibits with help from Mrs Joe Bundt. Eight classes include collecting nature study reading photography sculpture painting and drawing woodwork and basketry rug weaving and needlework gift party favors and novelties. Blue ribbon goes to the winner, red to second, white to third in each class.
In Moscow the all union agricultural exhibition opened with a six foot statue of a Soviet rooster whose descendants lay over 300000 eggs annually. A voice reproduces the bird’s crow. Three Ukrainian cows with false teeth add whimsy as the exhibit showcases collective farming progress across 350 acres. The fair aims as a classroom for tens of thousands of agricultural workers, teaching advanced practices and spreading knowledge from farm to farm.
The Marengo F F A chapter announced a three day camping and fishing trip to Maples on the Maquoketa river from August 22 to 24 with twelve boys and instructor Ralph Gruenwald. The next meeting will be August 1 to promote Greenhands to the degree of Future Farmers. Home arts course for night school directed by Mrs Schroeder with Mrs Franey and Miss Franey covers decoration, flower arrangements and home craft skills.
Ames pasture specialist M A Hauser will inspect pasture demonstrations on Delaware county farms August 17. Stops include Schacherer and Downey Edgewood J Louis Cocking Manchester Henry Gillespie Manchester Bernard Cocking Manchester A C Gienapp Enendale and C A Wordchoff Delhi.
A new 32 by 40 foot barn is being built on the Chet Hall farm near here to replace a building which burned July 4. Contractor is J. W. Judas of Maynard.
Iowa will begin 1939 farm program payments in mid September. About 30 million dollars is expected certified with November and December as the peak processing period. The state office can handle 4,000 applications daily as the rush starts. eligibility requires crop allotment compliance and soil building practices on unseeded acreage. Over 2 million dollars already paid in 34 counties, parity payments total about 18 million expected by mid September with checks from Chicago. Buena Vista County leads parity payments with 251,014.14.
Fifteen Fayette county breeders will exhibit dairy animals at Hawkeye Downs during the All-Iowa Livestock exposition in Cedar Rapids August 13 18. Holsteins include Paul P Stewart Maynard LaVerne Bahe Oelwein Charles Hanson Robert Hanson Randalia John Cashen Fred Pieplow Aurora Duane Knos Fayette Gross Brothers Eldorado Reuben Steffens West Union Jerseys feature A F McLeish and Sons Oelwein Harry Bochner Oelwein Harry Cline and Sons West Union Merwin Doughty Tommie Doughty Fayette Brown Swiss breeder H A Mabon Randalia.
Elkader will gain two new feed mills with operation expected by August 1. The Elkader Cooperative company reports a grinder set in place powered by two 30 horsepower motors. Carpenters are building bins and elevators to move grain to and from the mill. Fassbinder remodels an ice house for his feed grinding and implement business.
Decorah and Springfield residents lead county project efforts with a featured program, highlighted by Mrs. A Rustad and Mrs. Arthur Brynsaas presenting The Bitter With the Sweet at April achievement day, and a Canoe township display of an unusual hanging wall cupboard by Mr. Dresselhaus chosen for state fair.
AMES Iowa January 1 1950 J Johnson associate professor of agronomy and plant genetics at the University of Minnesota has been named professor of farm crops in the department of agronomy at Ames He fills the post left vacant by the death of J B Wentz last August and will begin his duties at Ames January 1.
Workmen estimate about 700 dollars in wind storm damage at the J Ralph Wilson farm two miles east of Morning Sun. A 44 by 50 foot barn roof was blown off, a windmill toppled onto the house, damaging the chimney and roof, with many other farm structures in the area also harmed.
The Farm Security Administration in Indianapolis announced three new members for Iowa's 9 man advisory panel: A. F. Aitcheson of Cascade Ronald M Wilson of Sac City and Scott Ellis of Dallas Center. They replace Raymond Sayre Harald Teachout and Homer Hush and join holdovers R. K. Bliss Clifford Gregory E. L. Stewart Fred K. Hawley Lester Gilette and Paul P. Stewart. The panel advises on FSA programs aiding low income farmers toward self dependence and tenant purchase loans.
The Farm Security Administration announced a $1,317,351 Iowa allocation from a $40,000,000 federal loan program for tenants to purchase farms this fiscal year. The funds are expected to enable 132 tenants to buy farms.
Ames AP reports fertilizer demonstrations on 74 Iowa farms to show phosphate and potash value. Ames extension agronomist Bruce M Kilpatrick notes these farms are separate from 260 TVA whole farm tests focusing on lime and phosphate in long term soil management. Counties listed include Allamakee Appanoose Bremer Butler Benton Cass Calhoun Cerro Gordo Chickasaw Crawford Davis Emmet Franklin Fayette Hamilton Palo Alto Pocahontas Sac Washington Wayne Webster Winneshiek Winnebago Wright Humboldt Kossuth Lee Louisa Mitchell.
Benton county fair at Vinton sets Monday judging with R. S. Stephenson Reinbeck and Ed Lyndegaard Ames as livestock officials. Schedule lists 8:30 a.m. baby beef and dairy heifers, 1 p.m. beef heifers and purebred pigs, 2 p.m. colts, 2:45 p.m. market pigs, 3 p.m. sheep, 4 p.m. demonstrations. Baby beef auction slated Tuesday morning.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.