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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1933
Page
3
Iowa reports rapid advance in a corn and hog adjustment project with over 1,000 preliminary meetings and more than 180000 attendees in ten days. Twenty counties have finished education and await contract signups once rules arrive from Washington, as officials plan ten national meetings for leaders and county committees across the state.
The article reports widespread Iowa meetings about the corn hog adjustment program led by extension officials. It cites Linn county with 13 meetings and 2,600 attendees, Cedar with 3,500 attending, and other counties like Johnson Jones Tama Benton Iowa Buchanan and Delaware hosting numerous sessions totaling thousands of participants.
An advertisement promotes an internal medicine named HEMROID by Dr. J S Leonhardt as a cure for piles. It argues bad circulation in the lower bowel causes hemorrhoids and claims a money back guarantee if it fails. May Drug Co. and druggists offer the tablets as a remedy over external treatments or surgery.
State Chairman R M Evans announced six counties have approved sign up committees and more are nearly ready. He Expected most Iowa counties would be organized after final Washington rulings to sign farmers up.
W R Johnson of Perry urged Iowa co operative livestock shippers to defend cooperative marketing and inform buyers and legislators. He linked direct hog purchases to outside interests, praised the corn hog program and new credit banks, and stressed building strong local clubs into a unified state association dating from 1920.
Several hundred midwestern stockmen at Shenandoah protested the higher cost of corn tied to a 45 cent government loan and the lower prices for cattle and hogs. Congressman Otha Wearin and University of Nebraska experts spoke at the meeting and plan to forward the petition to Washington.
Preston Shipping association topped the Chicago market Tuesday with sixty two 211 pound hogs selling at 3 50 per hundredweight.
In Ames the study by Prof. W. G. Murray urges reforms to accelerate Federal Land Bank refinancing. Proposals include advancing funds upon loan approval, possibly insuring titles, and charging small advance-service fees. Benefits noted: cash for creditors and lower payments for debtors amid long term, low rate loans.
A Nicollet county Minnesota male quartet won the national Farm Bureau contest in Chicago. Iowa women and mixed quartet winners were from Keokuk and South English, with Mildred and Maurine Brower among the champions and Marilyn Bryant as accompanist. The Iowa public speaking entrant placed second as Mrs Elvira Williams.
The Lamson Brothers December grain report shows winter wheat acreage at 40,049,000 acres or 100.1 percent of last year. First condition estimates place wheat at 73.6 percent of normal, the lowest since 1920 except last year, with rain shortfalls and drying wells in the southwest and parts of Illinois to North Carolina. Natural abandonment may rise to 15 to 20 percent next spring, but factors like nonbenefit farming and mortgage activity affect seeding and expected harvest.
Roy Hahn of Dysart was elected president of the Tama county Farmers Union at a Friday Garwin meeting. L. P. Matthiesen of Dysart was chosen secretary and treasurer.
State Representative John Speidel will address the annual session of the Washington county Farm Bureau here next Saturday. Others will be elected and directors chosen in the townships will be ratified. Reports on last year's activities will be heard and the program for 1934 outlined.
Livestock auction by Sales company planned in Iowa City on Wednesday December 13. Farm sale by William Leguire at Marion twelve miles southeast. Closing out sale by Dave Wal shire and Sons near Mechanicsville five miles southeast. Public sale of Gorman and Benes six miles east of Springville. Iowa Livestock Exchange sale at Cedar Rapids on Friday December 15.
Seven hundred Iowa farmers sealed corn cribs for federal loans, boosting the state total to $3,218,182. Loans completed in eighty eight of ninety nine counties with ten counties topping $100,000. Former Gov John Hammill of Britt borrowed 6,854 bushels for 3084.30 dollars as merchants report stronger business and tax payments.
Household goods sold in 100 minutes by Auctioneer P. N. Gibson. Livestock included 51 hogs, 13 horses and mules, 219 cattle and 18 sheep. Cows topped at 30 dollars. sows with litters 12.50. fall pigs 2.45. boars 13. work horses 60 to 80. feeding steers 3.65 per cwt. yearlings 3.10 to 3.55.
Herman Martke of near Greeley sold two unbroken strawberry roan two year old colts to a Strawberry Point farmer for $250. Demand for work horses is unusually keen this winter.
Des Moines event speakers include Addison Parker legal adviser to the Des Moines Mille code committee at the annual Iowa Guernsey Breeders association meeting. The two day session features a Friday morning round table with Elworth Bunce of the American Guernsey Cattle club reading the discussion and officer elections Friday afternoon.
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