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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1942
Page
8
Iowa corn shows fair progress with warm days. most in hard roasting stage and some in milk stage. Dry spell benefits threshing but deep ground cracks slow fall plowing. Reed notes potential for record crop if hot dry weather continues and warns frost risk remains.
Threshing is completed in this vicinity and the yield was above average, although in some wet fields the shocks started to grow before they were threshed. Corn needs warm, dry weather. Soybean hay is being cut. Pas tures are abundant.
Auction notices list sales at Iowa Live stock Exchange Cedar Rapids on Aug 28 Anamosa and Iowa City Sales Co on Aug 29 Sept 1 Sargent and Rose Guernsey sale east edge of Marion and Iowa City Sales Co sale Sept 1 and Sept 3 Mrs L R K Thompson closing out 372 mf NW of Marion expects buyers to inspect stock beforehand
Special to The Gazette reports 80000 acre Backbone watershed farms have eroded topsoil into the Maquoketa River lowering depth at Forestville Lake from 27 to 11 feet. State Conservation Commissioner AlbertS outlines plans with SCS engineers to curb erosion. Delaware and Clayton counties begin soil conservation efforts with Ames support, aiming new demonstrations and broader practice adoption.
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed two barns and a granary on a pioneer farm two miles east of Onslow owned by Mrs. Robert Scroggie and operated by Fred Von Spreaken. More than 50 tons of hay 140 bales of straw 500 bushels of oats 150 bushels of barley and grain feed were lost. Twenty one cows escaped injury. Insurance carried on machinery grain and seed and hay and straw. The farm dates to 1852 1860 constructions mark the property.
Wheatland farmers Henry Schwede and Son sold 36 head of steers averaging 1154 pounds on the Chicago market Tuesday for 15 30 a hundredweight. The sale highlights activity in regional cattle trading and showcases the Wheatland operation among local producers.
A late Tuesday field photo from Fruitland shows irrigation units operating on Muscatine Island. In Muscatine County and north Louisa, corn husks are dry while many fields show firing. Trucks crops look average or better and corn is out of danger from frost in southeast Iowa. Mrs Harvey Geescka, four miles south of Tipton, is pictured in a rain-sufficient area where April 22 planting produced deep dented ears ready for fall frost. Mr Geeseka plans to feed pigs soon with 100 hogs averaging 230 pounds.
Four farm girls dominated the Keokuk county fair baby beef events in What Cheer with champion and reserve honors across Angus Hereford and Shorthorn classes. Phyllis Bonwater led with two purple ribbons for Angus steers, with grand champion in the breed show and in the overall baby beef. Arlene Dutton claimed Hereford titles, while Dorothy Grove and Joan Sorden won Shorthorn champions. A total of 107 head entered and 104 sold at auction for an average 15.13 per hundredweight, top 17.50 paid by Wilson and Company for a Sigourney Angus. The livestock show also named champion barrow and Jamb, with sales to Noller and Son and others.
Monticello patrons received 49 cents per pound for sweet cream butterfat, 48 cents for No 1, and 46 cents for No 2 during the first half of August. Prices for the last half of July were 47, 46, and 44 cents respectively, marking a 5 cent month rise and a 3 cent increase from early July.
U S butter output in the west north central area covering Iowa and Nebraska for the week ending Aug 20 fell 1 percent from the prior week but rose 5 percent from the same week last year the agriculture department reported. National production held steady from the prior week and was 3 percent higher than the year earlier.
Dysart based marketer Ed Norden, formerly southwest of Dysart, sold 37 Angus steers in a Monday Chicago sale event, reflecting regional cattle trade activity and bidder interest.
Eastern Iowa events list fairs and a 4-H show for Aug 24 to 28. Fayette at West Union, Union at West Liberty, Jones at Monticello, El kader at Eskader, Jackson 4-H at Maquoketa.
The market notes steer lot averaged 1207 pounds and sold for 15 dollars and 25 cents per hundredweight. Buyers acquired the herd on April 11 at 918 pounds and fed and pastured them for 130 days before sale. Asbestos identified as a mineral.
Ames economist Walter Wilcox reports that 1943 farming goals will require readjustment as gains in soybeans and pigs may not offset declines in small grains pasture hay cattle and milk. He calls for efficient wartime farming with better soil use, reduced seedings, contour farming, and increased incentives.
In the Fayette county fair baby beef show Eugene Wenger of Wadena won first and second with two Joan Shorthorn steers earning grand and reserve grand champion in a three breed judging. Everett Faust of Fayette won in the Angus class and Emory Christensen of West Union won the Hereford class. A total of 83 calves were shown with 43 Herefords, 22 Shorthorns, and 18 Angus. The Wenger calves weighed 1085 and 1000 pounds and were bought as feeders from Roy Bennington Volga City. The Faust calves were bred on the W K Humphry farm with William Faust as tenant.
A country woman's August life is described through company canning and concentric circles. The piece portrays the company she keeps, the pride she takes in preserving food, and the circles of activity she continually runs.
Des Moines AP report says the Iowa Farm Bureau federation will cut convention attendance to about 1,000 people from the usual 5,000 this November. President Francis Johnson cites tire and gasoline conservation and hotel capacity relief as the reasons.
Mrs Earl Calta of Iowa City selected a two pound seven ounce tomato from her garden on Tuesday indicating an unusually large fruit harvest for the season in the local seed plot.
Cedar County exhibitors swept most first places in the 4 H baby beef show at the Union District fair in West Liberty. Billy Busching Stanwood won senior Shorthorn, Ronald Armstrong Mechanicsville won junior Shorthorn and senior Angus. Kathleen Kiehl Mechanicsville won junior Hereford and junior Angus. An Angus group from Cedar claimed champion county group. Cedar Shorthorn group was reserve champion. GARNAVILLE The Iowa Creamery Operators Association plans a Sept 3 meeting and butter scoring contest in McGregor, announced Alvin Thore secretary.
Robert Denson cuts thistles in pasture amid abundant growth. Iowa State Extension Circular 249 offers vegetable storage guidance. Murray Center hosts portable hog houses for spring pigs with a promising dividend. Roy Joslin reports sweet corn harvest aids labor during canning season and fodder planned for the silo.
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