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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1934
Page
5
Iowa farmers to receive interpretive rulings and contract blanks as signups begin in January. New two-page contract replaces longer form, eliminates contracted acres, and permits adjustments based on 1932 33 data. Education work starts after regional conferences in Kansas City Indianapolis and Atlanta.
In Humboldt nine fat hogs on W H Munson farm escape pens and head for a creek. The ice collapses under their combined 2160 pounds, and the hogs drown while attempting to cross, delaying planned market shipment.
Public sale at one mile south of Norway and eight miles west of Fairfax on a gravel road Tuesday December 18 1934 at 11 o clock. Cattle include 16 cows aged 3 to 7 with 10 in milk 12 bred heifers 6 yearling heifers 5 summer calves and a 2 year old Guernsey bull. Test records for Bangs disease to be announced. cattle recently passed clean test. Machinery includes Massey Harris tractor 2 bottom plow 16 in 2 row New Idea corn picker 4 sets harness 12 leather collars and dairy poultry gear plus DeLaval cream separator 32 volt motor and two Solhot broader stoves. Also many pieces of furniture sold.
Iowa Farm Bureau units across counties will gather for meetings next week to draft resolutions shaping the national program for the January session. Key issues include rural education wage hikes, extended crop loans, tax policy, and crop control with county aid as a focus of the biennial fight. The state convention in Des Moines January 16 to 18 will merge county and state positions into a formal policy, with national plans prepared in Nashville and possible Iowa additions afterward.
Eastern Iowa counties announce annual Farm Bureau meeting dates with principal speakers. Benton at Vinton features Mrs. Raymond Sayre and county president A B Kline. Cedar at Tipton with W W Weatherwax. Allamakee at Waukon. Jones at Anamosa. Fayette at Fayette with R M Evans and A D Worthington. Louisa at Columbus City with John Thompson. Grundy Center with Mrs Ellsworth Richardson. Buchanan at Independence with Mrs G E Sauerbry. Oelwein events listed among others.
An 11 o clock sale on Tuesday December 18 1934 lists work horses including a black mare 1200 lbs bay mare 1500 lbs black mare 1500 lbs all aged 10 years plus miscellaneous goods. Items include 9 tons choice clover hay 1 ton alfalfa 100 bushels corn 100 bushels soybeans 4 bushels seed corn 100 bushels oats 25 30 shocks fodder and various odds and ends. Also 60 or 70 Buff Rock and Orpington chicks a six foot round dining room table and oak buffet.
The digest outlines a 1935 corn hog contract covering Dec 1, 1934 to Nov 30, 1935. It specifies performance limits for producers including reducing 1935 corn acreage, hog production, and total litters. It also covers payments to farmers, 35 cents per bushel for saved corn and 15 to 20 cents per bushel timing, plus hog payments of 15 dollars per head on 10 percent of base, with penalties for excess production.
In Muscatine county Muscatine Dec 17 speaker is not named. Jackson county Maquoketa Dec 18 Allen Kline district committee man principal speaker. Clayton county Elkader Dec 18 Mrs Raymond Sayre state Farm Bureau committeewoman principal speaker. Linn county Cedar Rapids Dec 19 Poweshiek county Brooklyn Dec 20 Louis T Kelehan I F B F principal speaker. Delaware county Manchester probable date Jan 7 with Allen Kline as principal speaker.
Special to The Gazette Iowa farmers will receive 200000 bushels of seed oats adapted to Iowa. Sold in limited amounts at 75 cents per bushel for seeding purposes only. Oats cleaned, stored, and distributed through county agricultural drought committees under S C Salmon and Eichling representing R K Bliss. Details to be announced via county agents.
Ames officials announce the annual grain show sponsored by student members of the Iowa State college section of the American Society of Agronomy will run January 22 to 25. Awards include four silver trophies with four ribbons for crops including corn oats barley pop corn soybeans wheat rye timothy red clover sweet clover alfalfa and flax.
Iowa cattle dominated the International Livestock exposition with 33 carrot fat cattle prizes of 53 and the champion Hereford and top Galloway loads. Campus Idol, a 1162 pound Aberdeen Angus of Iowa State College, won steer grand championship and sold for the era's high price. Iowa led in purple ribbon wins and tied for top blue ribbons, while Helen Willhoit of Batavia won the junior livestock feeding contest.
Ackley reports extraordinary corn yields in the four county fair contest despite last summer’s heat. Earl Beisinger of Grundy Center topped the standings at 102.4 bushels per acre on a 10 acre plot. B R Mallory of Hampton was second with 97.6 and John M Hunt of Ackley third at 92.5 bushels.
Ernest Oetting plans a farm sale on his property three miles southwest of Stanwood Iowa with details appearing in local listings and notices. The event will mark a notable agricultural sale at the Oetting farm location as announced.
Interior hog prices showed little fluctuation through the week with Thursday quotes steady to 5 cents lower than last Saturday. Heavy December receipts kept totals 17 percent above mid December last year, while weights over 240 pounds moved actively in the wholesale and live trade with prices generally $5.50 to $5.80, rail shipments often at $5.85.
A sequence of farm auctions and consignments listed by date and location. Dec 15 events include J F Heerner 1 mile east Toddville and Geo Minor 9 miles west Cedar Rapids. Anamosa consignment sale. Dec 17 Charles Voorhies 5 miles NW Olin and I W and oe Suter 2 miles west Monticello. Rieger ey Yocom 2 miles SE Springville. Dec 18 John Trojor sky 1 mile south Norway and William Herbst 7% miles SW Mechanicsville. Dec 19 Robert Siver 2 miles west Mount Vernon and Spear and Crist 344 miles south Stanwood. Dec 26 Theo Martin Shorthorn sale Mount Vernon.
The report shows varying prices across weight classes and products. Heavy loads of 200 to 220 pounds sold from 5.25 to 5.70 dollars, 180 to 200 pounds from 4.75 to 5.30, 160 to 180 pounds from 3.95 to 4.85, and 140 to 160 pounds from 2.90 to 4.15. Lighter groups quoted higher by quality and distance, with most packing saws at 5.15 to 5.55 dollars and occasional sales to 5.65 or down to 4.90 for large weights.
Special to The Gazette reports John Saddler of Durango won first in the eastern Iowa District No 9 buttermakers butter judging with a 9334 score at Hopkinton hosts Mr and Mrs A Johnson. Jordahl of Delhi was second with 9314 and Art Hahn of Colesbury third. ladies judged with Mrs Howard Holthaus first, Mrs Henry Kamp second, Mrs Hahn third. men’s contest saw Saddler first, Holthaus second, and Jor hl third.
A fragmented note records prices from a Winter Thursday sale: hay brought 12 per ton and cows averaged 30 per head. Names like Mrs Eva Hanken appear in OCR.
A sale at the Louis Rubelman farm four miles southwest of Lone Tree fetched 90 cents a bushel for nine hundred bushels of new corn. Hay, cows, calves, pigs, horses, and chickens also sold, with prices ranging from $1.50 to $1385 for various livestock and farm goods. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and Fred Morerison. H C Buell served as clerk.
Special to The Gazette reports near Oxford Junction and west of Wyoming sales listings. Corn brought 85 cents a bushel, Hays sold for 7.25 a ton, a suckling colt 41, a mare 48, hogs 7.50 for two head, milk cows 15 to 35, a washing machine 31, yearling steers 22 to 27, fat calves 6, with more farm items and livestock auction results from the two sales.
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