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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1939
Page
3
Ray Anderson reports interior hog markets showing spring shoats at 5 percent of receipts with many feeders aiming for an early market. Spring pigs are 185 to 210 pounds, well finished and good quality. Regional variation exists, with heavier shipments in the south, while overall interior hog receipts week to week and month to date remain high.
Elevators along the Missouri river study barges for grain transport, following the Mississippi approach, but two years of effort show little success. Rail rates and higher costs threaten viability of elevators off the river, risking small-town decline if local facilities fail.
Special to The Gazette VINTON The Benton county fair at Vinton Aug 6 8 lists 4 H girls activities announced by Miss Ann Nygaard home demonstration agent Judges Mrs E J Weigle Decorah will judge clothing demonstration teams contest Monday Readable entry names Zora Jean Thompson Pauline Sanders Eudora Burrell Mary Jean Hilliard Bernice Struve Marjorie Beresford Milly Kimm Thelma Tumilty and other team members are named with local clubs noted in brief schedule summary.
On Tuesday afternoon Benton county style clubs from multiple towns stage a dress and suit show made by the girls. A wedding dress parade, a tea for hosts, demonstrations, judging, and food exhibits highlight the event with lard education and other topics. Special features include a rodeo Cedar Rapids drum corps harness races and a baseball game.
Secretary Wallace appointed tenant purchase committees in 11 new Iowa counties for federal land purchase loans. A total of 31 counties are now eligible. Deadlines for applications are August 31. Committees will aid FSA supervisors in loan administration and screening, with conferences set for Fairfield Waterloo Spencer Atlantic Spencer and other counties.
Albert Asleson, 70, lifelong Alla makee county resident, has never milked a cow despite dairying longtime income from his 409 acre farm. The family always milks in rotation. A 3 acre corn field has yielded 65 years straight, fertilizer used yearly. This season the corn stands 10 to 12 feet high. He currently feeds 62 Hereford cattle and keeps a flock of 700 chickens.
Special to The Gazette Anamosa The South Jones cow test association with 274 cows on test made a July production average of 676 pounds of milk and 25 6 pounds of butterfat The Tyler and McGovern herd led with 1324 pounds of milk and 41 1 pounds of butterfat J M Byerly had high individual with 1299 pounds of milk and 83 1 pounds of butterfat Manchester The 450 cows on test during July in the Greeley cow test association including 40 dry produced an average of 619 pounds of milk and 23 9 pounds of butterfat L B Bishop and Son herd of 12 head topped the association with 871 pounds of milk and 20 9 pounds of butterfat One of the Bishop cows was high individual with 1426 pounds of milk and 65 5 pounds of butterfat.
The Olin Future Farmers chapter with instructor Eugene Sutton camps this week at Delhi by the Maquoketa river. Fifteen members of the Ship Ahoy 4-H girls club led by Irene Ballou camp at Anamosa state park with Lois Rohwedder accompanying.
Highest oats yield reported to The Gazette comes from the Albert Geereart farm four miles northwest of Hazleton. Nine acres produced 960 bushels at an average of 106.7 bushels per acre. Nearby yields in the area average 45 bushels. Corn is in the caring stage and in excellent condition. A four acre Canadian oats field on Herman Andreae’s farm near Arlington yielded 92% bushels per acre, while hybrid oats on Leo Sargent’s farm reached 80 bushels per acre.
Threshing in the Maynard community is nearly complete with yields reported from 20 to 50 bushels and good grain quality. Straw is poor and often full of weeds though recent rains benefited corn and pastures.
Three fourths inch of rain fell here early Wednesday, nearly ensuring corn crop success except in late planted fields. Threshing of oats is completed here, timothy ready to thresh. Second crop alfalfa being put up, second cutting of clover looks good. Some fields to be cut for seed. Sweet corn, potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes yielding well. In Langworthy a 7 acre field yielded 70 bushels of oats per acre, another 2 acre field 46 bushels. In Strawberry Point Earl Stoner won a tall corn contest at Elkader with a stalk 14 feet 7 inches.
MONTICELLO The CCC camp for demonstrational soil control in Jones Delaware and Dubuque counties will be on 11% acres just south of Monticello. Land from John Schneiter and a tract once set for a Monticello school athletic field form parts of the site. Begin erection about Aug. 15 with camp activities starting Oct. 1, says Government Engineer F S Vetter.
Eight 4-H boys' clubs from Jones County will stage a softball tournament at the Olin school grounds this Saturday. Finals are scheduled for Thursday during the Farm Bureau sports festival at the Monticello fairgrounds.
Harry Atkins of Davenport was reelected president of the American Poultry Association at the World Poultry Congress in Cleveland. Atkins also won a first award for a partridge colored bird. Gerald Duncan of Washington won a similar award for best display in the waterfowl class.
H M Carpenter of Monticello sold two Boulder township farms in Linn county east of Prairieburg. Gerald Ahlvnds bought 160 acres at 125 per acre, $20 000 total. REA line serves the well improved tract. Nick Gaul Jr purchased 180 acres at 110 per acre, $19 800, and leased it back to Gaul for 1940. Possession passes March 1, 1940.
Two eastern Iowans John Hendricks of West Liberty and Allan Kline of Vinton were invited to visit the New York World's Fair as guests of a rubber company. The company picked 100 champion farmers nationwide for trips to New York City next week, with Hendricks and Kline set to depart Monday. Kline serves as vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
Paula Heitshusen, 17, daughter of Anton Heitshusen near South Amana, named healthiest girl after five-year 4-H club participation with livestock work. Stuart Smith, 15, son of Sidney Smith near North English, tops the boys' contest among five entrants. Both groups advance to the state competition in Des Moines at the state fair.
Market observers warn Missouri River barging will devastate grain elevators within 100 miles of the river unless rail river transport is arranged within a year. J. L. Welsh of the Omaha grain exchange cites early barge use. Western Iowa and eastern Nebraska elevators organize under Ron Kennedy of Des Moines with a committee led by Francis Day of Missouri Valley and others to pursue a rail-river plan.
Federal report shows June imports of cheese at 3 780 980 pounds versus exports at 45 010 pounds. Butter and shell eggs also cover trade figures with June butter exports 187 926 pounds and shell eggs imports 19 821 dozens. January–June figures reveal cheese imports at 25 282 109 pounds against exports of 275 907 pounds with shell eggs rising to 1 270 627 dozens exported.
The Elgin Farmers Dairy creamery reported paying 271.43 dollars to the state in May as its share of the butterfat tax levied from May 1 to May 15. The tax funds promotion of the dairy industry.
Martelle Dean Newman 17, president of Jones County 4-H boys clubs, is named one of four Iowans to attend a Danforth foundation leadership training camp at Camp Minewanca near Shelby Michigan, August 14 27. Vernon Kuhl Davenport Bert Baker Sergeant Bluff Kenneth Brogh Sergeant Bluff also selected. Newman has eight years in 4-H, earning awards in baby beef pig club work and for his record books. He is son of Mr and Mrs Harry Newman.
A 22 by 46 foot machine shed with corrugated steel covering is under construction on the Chris Emerson farm north of Jesup. The project signals ongoing farm modernization in the area.
Mr. Farmer learns subsidies and price equalization pale beside a Want Ad that brings cash buyers to the door. Sell vegetables livestock or farm machinery for top prices, save time and trucking costs. Dial 2-1121 to place the ad.
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