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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1932
Page
6
Federal statistician Leslie M. Care reports 1932 crop season favorable in spring with few interruptions. Iowa corn acreage held at 1,173,200 with an average yield near 46 bushels per acre, boosted overall production and the twelve major crops reaching about 107 percent of the 1919-1928 average.
Special to The Gazette Fayette county Farm Bureau budget committee led by County Agent B. W. Lodwick and members Grant Lauer Ray Bell and G. E. Sauerbry met Wednesday evening at the Belt home to set the 1933 budget for board submission. Running expenses have been cut 50 percent over the last four years. Kansas City grain mills grind between 80 and 90 million bushels of Kansas wheat annually.
Senator Dickinson proposes an amendment to the domestic allotment bill favoring 46e¢ro on various commodities to benefit farmers. He notes wide interest in the scheme within his state and indicates support from local organizations while emphasizing caution about changes before final passage.
Joe Brame of Independence was elected chairman of the Buchanan County Credit Council at a recent meeting at the Farm Bureau office. George F Slemmons was elected vice chairman.
Ames farm management specialist J C Galloway will lead three meetings for farmers who keep records. Events are Dec 27 at the G E Sauerbry farm near Oelwein, Dec 28 at the W S Rothlisberger farm near Tilyria church, and Dec 29 in West Union courthouse assembly room. County Agent B W Lodwick invites interested farmers to start a record book.
Tuesday December 27 features a farm sale 5 miles north of Cedar Rapids by Mrs. Fred Helman a closing out sale 4 miles north of Blairstown by Henry Bross and a closing out sale 10 miles northwest of Tipton by George Williams all offering property and livestock from local farms.
Sunshine Circle 4 H girls of Cass and Linn townships in Cedar county report a five year record since 1928 led by Miss Beulah Dodds. The group averaged fourteen members, saved substantial amounts on clothing foods canning and home furnishing projects, earned $95.50 in premiums, won fifty ribbons, and lists Mildred Achenbach Dorothy Dodds and Bonnie Wood as long term members.
The Fairfield township Farm Bureau group winners of Cedar county drama contest will repeat the play Balanced Dirt at Ames during Farm and Home week February 6 to 10. R M Visquain short course committee chairman invited them to perform there.
A training school for township program committees will be held at Tipton on December 30. It will be conducted by WH Stacy rural organization extension specialist at Ames.
Former Iowa State College agriculture dean C. E. Curtiss, returned from a European tour, argues that settlement of war debts and stable money and trade are essential to rural and urban economies. He notes Britain’s import limits, allotment plans, land taxes, long leases, and Britain’s farm failures rate at one in 800, urging balanced international adjustments.
United States Department of Agriculture chemists report a new fertilizer material ammoniated peat that combines features of nitrogen fertilizers. It promises simple inexpensive production and freight savings though not yet commercial. Ammonia and peat heating yields water insoluble and soluble nitrogen forms with up to 20 percent nitrogen.
Ames AP report urges adding ground limestone and a protein supplement to non legume roughages such as corn fodder ensilage timothy or prairie hay to boost feed value. Experiments show gains approach alfalfa with higher protein needs and small limestone per head. Ground corn fodder with cottonseed meal improved calf gains over winter. shredding versus grinding also noted.
Iowa State College hosts the eighteenth annual student corn and small grain show January 3 to 7. Proctor Gull of Turkey River, president of the Agronomy club, announced the event open to all students. Twelve corn classes and judging for popcorn soy beans small grains and legumes welcome competitors.
At the closing out sale of Mrs. Sam Myers and Son three miles north of Troy Mills horses sold for 31 to 61 dollars, milk cows 16 to 31 dollars, a calf 2.50, shoats 150 pounds at 4 dollars each, corn 11 cents a bushel, oats 10 cents, hay 3 to 3.75 dollars per ton, straw 1.50 per ton, and machinery sold cheaply. Auctioneer Charles Casey led the sale.
The devil's shoestring, a common eastern US weed, contains rotenone a valuable insecticide previously found only in tropical plants Dr W W Skinner of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils reports this discovery benefits farmers potential growers of the plant insecticide manufacturers and importers involved in rotenone trade the weed grows New England to Minnesota Florida to eastern Texas thriving on poor sandy soils
Wheatland creamery patrons earned 22 cents per pound for November butterfat with Mrs. Ernestine Schneider leading payments at 129.16 dollars and Fred W. Witte next at 79.48. The three month buttermilk contract went to Joe Blumer at 25 cents per hundred gallons.
Early entries from Butler Hardin and Madison counties lead to three days of contests at the Iowa Farm Bureau convention in Des Moines January 18 to 20. Orchestras eight to twenty players compete for medals with a special award for the best small group. Women’s and male quartets from several counties compete, medals awarded to winners, mass adult chorus finals, and Polk County chorus featured.
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