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 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1936
Page
21
Alsike yields reported around Center Point with J C Murray harvesting 85 bushels from 19 acres and Ed Shultz noting 64 bushels from 10 acres. Seedsmen forecast Iowa alsike seed around 250000 pounds statewide, while red clover remains scarce.
FENCE DRIFT caught in the woven wire by R. F. A. recalls a nine year span at the Wapsie Valley fair. F. O. Satter, secretary, spoke Tuesday morning as rain lingered and the Central City fair loomed, urging attendance and urging umbrellas be left at home.
An official summary notes an average of nearly 55 bushels per acre across fields with a notable 60 bushels per acre in a single 19 acre patch on the Schenke farm. The report highlights strong yields and farm productivity in the region.
Drought conditions in Iowa lift farm price index from 114 to 121 percent of pre war level between June 15 and July 15. All grains and hay rise while butter gains 3 cents a pound. hog and cattle prices hold. The index marks July's highest level since 1929, with prices paid by farmers also up but still below last year.
Daily measurements of the Ga zette hill of corn on the Dillon Atherton farm near Viola are discontinued. Growth has practically ceased and future development will be in the car. The kernel appeared Saturday and Atherton reported Tuesday that the pollen is falling. once kernel development can be determined it will be reported.
The Johnson county Farm Bureau, led by president Joe G. Raim, sent a telegram to Gov. Clyde L. Her ring urging use of farm to market road funds to employ drought stricken farmers on farm road construction. The measure aims to provide income to buy food as drought worsens southward, though Johnson county is not a drought area.
Interview with Ed Crist, Stanwood area crop renter, discusses political views, Roosevelt programs, soil conservation, and farm improvements. Crist, a lifelong Republican with 400 acres near Stanwood, explains subsides, purchase power, and recent farm upgrades including lime, fence, machinery.
The Farm Editor reports at dusk on the Sargent farm north of Mount Vernon where E S Dyas and Martin Weiss of Ames inspect a 31-variety soybean demonstration plot set for the National Soybean Association convention in Cedar Rapids September 15 16. Dyas and Weiss note strong pod sets and plan edge markers.
Maquoketa Fire Chief Harry Fischer and City Manager J G Thorne rally 300 farmers for a cooperative rural fire truck funded by donations. The city would house and man the truck with town firefighters and use it in emergencies within a seven mile radius. Firefighters would continue country fire duties unpaid.
Elmer Reiss, near North English, buys 7000 four inch tiles from a Millersburg factory. Charles Runion awarded the transport contract, moving tiles in one afternoon with three trucks and two men per truck. Tile will be laid soon by Charles Vockel of Williamsburg.
Loader moved from the field before flames reached it. Section men burned weeds along the railway right of way to cut fire risk. Last week eighteen acres of timothy burned on the Harry Upmier farm after only two tractor passes before the blaze was spotted. A threshing crew from the farm assisted as the fire spread.
Robert Johnson aided at a neighboring farm preventing the blaze from reaching other fields with shocked grain and farm buildings nearby.
Bert Bush of Lamont purchased the Dan J. Ivory farm five miles north of Strawberry Point on highway No 13 for 29.50 an acre. The 286 acre property includes good buildings two houses a silo and spring water. Trustees of the former Strawberry Point State Bank sold the farm.
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.