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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1932
Page
2
The U S Department of Agriculture reports farm population near the 1910 peak as urban residents move to rural life for work and lodging. By April 1 1932 the farm population stood at 31 504 000 with potential to reach 31 897 000 if the year mirrors 1931 gains.
A Monticello area farmer Sprague Hosford notes a fence drift incident involving an anetren tire. He recalls two maxims about collaboration with the construction gang and avoiding wrecking crew style damage. The remark, made Monday, reflects practical rural wisdom.
Maquoketa's grain judging team scored 3980 of 4800 to win the contest at the farmers institute and corn show in Jackson County. John McGinn led individuals with 1350 points, Vernon Schellin second, Carol Stoll third. Olin received the premium ribbon as Maquoketa did not compete for awards. The team proceeds to Olin on Jan 4 and the poultry team goes to Clinton on Dec 30 for the state show.
Delta Cap E Miller, raised on a Keokuk County farm and former county superintendent of schools, is highlighted by friends as a potential Roosevelt choice for secretary of agriculture. He has advanced agricultural education in Iowa schools and now leads economics at North Dakota Agricultural College. his brother Milo Miller serves as Keokuk County auditor.
Iowa State College economist Theodore Schultz outlines a domestic allotment plan for relief to agriculture. It would pay tariff-like benefits for domestic consumption while imposing controls to limit production, with certificates transferable and funded by a consumer tax. The plan hinges on sign-up, would not affect market prices, and may shift costs between processors and consumers.
S M Hosford of Monticello was elected president of Jones County Farm Bureau at the annual meeting succeeding Harry Newman of Martelle. Clem Liddy was chosen vice president with Lyle Callahan re elected secretary and J C McConaughy named treasurer.
The farm slaughter issues and other problems are under study at Iowa State College in Ames and other centers. A circular titled The Voluntary Domestic Allotment Plan has been published, with copies available on request. The work is part of a series on the agricultural emergency, with more reports to follow.
About 350 Iowa 4-H club boys will attend the annual convention and short course in Ames December 27 to 29. Delegates include trip winners for project work. Prizes in crops and livestock judging will be awarded the high scorers with medals named for F P Reed and H H Kildee. Demonstrations include a dairy cooling tank by Dallas county team. Topics cover livestock feeding management agricultural engineering chemistry horticulture poultry and dairying. The banquet is December 28 with Francis A Flood and J H Anderson as speakers.
Mrs. Everett E. Smith of Edgewood displays a crop of apples picked in October 1931 at the True orchards. The fruit is firm, well colored, free from wrinkles, and should keep for at least another year. The apples come from a cross between a wild crab and a cultivated variety.
The Iowa Livestock Exchange invites stock buyers to attend the regular sale on Friday December 23 at the Marion Boulevard yard. A large lot of horses cattle hogs and 15 cords of sawed hardwood will be offered, with covered sales if weather worsens. Horses are sold with a guarantee not available elsewhere.
Special to The Gazette Edgewood geese marching from pasture to a produce company dressing room paralyzed traffic on Edgewood Street. The drop in Thanksgiving prices led to geese being fed for shipment to eastern markets for the Christmas trade.
Beauty Pietertje Regis De Kol, once cited as the oldest Holstein cow, has died at age 19. G. W. Putnam of the Upper Peninsula experiment station in Chatham, Michigan reported the death. Born next January 10, she produced seventy calves and has sixty-nine female descendants across six generations, with thirty-four in the station herd.
Center Junction Livestock Shipping association issued a report noting total selling costs of 1 847 33 for 3 240 head through Eastern Iowa regional sales from Dec 1 1931 to May 17 1932 and 743 49 less than selling 2 349 head elsewhere through Nov 30 1932. The year’s first half net to producers was 30 065 64 on 803 399 pounds. last half net was 23 587 66 with total selling expense 2 591 82. Directors include H J Dirks and E R Young with Knute Espe urging stronger patron use.
Two farm sales slated this week with details of auctions near Waubeek. A dissolution sale by A. F. Schley and Jarvis Crew covers a site 234 miles west. A second consignment sale occurs at the De Clow barn on Friday.
For the first eleven months this year the Garrison Co operative creamery averaged 20 cents a pound for butter butters fat versus 28 cents in 1931. National average over the last ten years was 42 cents. In November this year the creamery paid patrons an average of 24 cents a pound for butterfat and received 32.2 cents a pound for butter sold.
Morley Shipping association directors met Saturday to decide whether to buy a truck for hauling livestock to the Cedar Rapids market. Few head shipped to Chicago. most hogs hauled to Cedar Rapids this year.
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