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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1935
Page
8
Iowa farmers face tight brood sow contracts as drought and scarce hogs constrain supply. Officials report 147,821 signed in Iowa this year, with 4,533 contracts discarded. price pressures rise as sow availability lags behind market hogs.
Des Moines AP meteorologist Charles D Reed warned that scorching sun and scant rainfall have badly hurt Iowa corn, with western counties hit hardest and yields down statewide. Recent rains helped some, but 100 degree heat and low August rainfall left cracked soils, stressed pastures, and outbreaks of grass hoppers and chinch bugs. Hog cholera reports add to agricultural woes.
William Vileta, a farmer near Elberon, sold his 0 acre farm to Niles Kiozena of Belle Plaine for 115 dollars per acre in a recent transaction.
Entry lists show 162 horse and pony entries, 132 dairy cattle, 102 beef cattle, 94 sheep, and 23 hogs in the Fayette county fair. Floral hall holds 670 fancy work pieces and 234 plant entries while poultry displays fill 327 tables in the general class.
Rowley creamery pays 25 cents for butterfat in the last half with reports from Joe Mewretar that butterfat averaged around 47 cents per pound as of July.
One thousand one hundred corn hog subsidy checks arrived in Clinton County. Local farmers received payments linked to the government aid program.
Following heavy rain moisture conditions in eastern Iowa are favorable for crops. Plowing has progressed south of Vint on in Benton county and near Marengo and Williamsburg in Iowa county. Some hail damage south of Conroy through Williamsburg area may reduce yield. corn is advancing well and a fair crop is expected unless early frost arrives.
The Rowley area reports threshing nearly finished with oats yielding twenty to sixty bushels per acre and good quality. Robert Schmidt, a farmer two miles northeast of Rowley, is panting all out buildings on his farm.
Herbert Olson of Nor way area won grand champion 4-H club baby beef at Benton county fair with Hereford calf. Angus reserve champion went to Ray Oelrich of Keystone. 4-H pig show crowned Dean Yerkes of Vinton premier winner. other breed champions named across Hereford Angus Shorthorn Duroc and Poland China classes. Judging events include grain judging winner Earl Geiger of Vinton earning trip to Iowa State.
Approximately six beef calves from Jackson Clinton in Iowa and Carroll Whiteside in Illinois will enter a one day beef show Sept 28 sponsored by the Clinton Chamber of Commerce. Three classes Hereford Angus Shorthorn judge Carl Oldson Ames Iowa Beef Producers secretary.
EDGEWOOD The Rev. Charles H True 88 of Edgewood marks his twenty eighth year as a state fair exhibitor. He will display grapes plums and apples with a fine apple crop and no scab or worm signs. A Hawkeye graft yields heavy apples. He judged fruit at the Clayton county fair in Elkader last week.
Special to The Gesetta What Cheer The grand champion baby beef in the 4 H club show at the Keokuk county fair was exhibited by Gladys Bonnater of Webster Her Angus ribbon winning animal led the class Reserve honors went to a Hereford shown by Leland Grove of South English First place senior Shorthorn and first place junior Shorthorn were shown by Pauline Grove of Kinross and Woodrow Lee of Kinross Joe Lee Higgins of Keswick was top junior Angus and also showed first in purebred Angus heifer Leland Grove took first in purebred Shorthorn heifer Teddy Snakenburg of Webster won top purebred Hereford heifer The top market lamb belonged to Lyle Grove of South English Melvin Sorden of Webster won first with a purebred ewe lamb In market pigs Bob Dillon of Webster placed first in the over 200 pound class and Lyle Grove won the under 200 pound class First year Guernsey was Robert Rienert of Delta second year Guernsey Ellis Morse of Webster third year Guernsey Ellis Morse first year Jersey George McKay of Gibson second year Jersey Harold Benzing of Gibson first year Holstein Marvin Senger of South English second year Holstein Charles Lown of Webster In the girls 4 H division county health champion was Mary Ellen Shanafelt 15 of Sigourney Gibson Go Getters of Prairie township led by Harriett Geyer and Margaret Riddle with Mrs Lee Fisher as leader
The Tama County Co-operative Canning company in Toledo began operations with 75 employees and 100 huskers under George Kelley. By Wednesday two shifts started. Kelley notes high quality corn but lower than expected yield, with an estimated total pack of 40,000 cases and 1,500 produced on the first day. The plant projects to run five weeks and to double output at peak.
Wheatland Emmil Witte, a local farmer, returned Monday from western Nebraska with three carloads of feeder cattle totaling 149 head.
AAA planning officials and experiment station workers from twelve north central states met at Ames to finalize an agricultural adjustment program for the corn belt. They will present the plan to deans, directors, and the USDA on Thursday, with a conference running through Saturday to set the 1936 framework. High-ranking officials from Washington will review efforts and the states represented include Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
Heavy hog entries bolster the Monticello Jones county fair as judging began for open class and 4-H livestock. Fifty-five beef calves, over fifty dairy calves, twenty-five market pigs, six purebred litters, twenty-five market lambs and thirteen colts are listed. R. S. Stevenson of Reinbeck presides over hogs and beef classes with Frank Andrews of Olin judging open class cattle. A. R. Porter of Davenport handles dairy cattle.
Streets and Englehardt sold forty two head of yearling steers Tuesday on the Chicago market for 1275 dollars. The sale matched near top of the market, the first time in eighteen months light steers of this weight sold close to heavier grade peers.
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