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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1934
Page
8
Ernest M. Wright of the Iowa State Dairy Association summarizes 4-H club records showing feeding a dairy heifer from birth to two years costs $153.50 in current prices. Feed costs account for about 75 percent of total, with other expenses pushing total to $153.50 for the 617 day period.
The piece laments slow start of the 1935 corn and hog sign-up noting daily rising hog prices reduce signers. It suggests signing may begin before 1934 first installments and before 1934 second installment compliance work is finished, risking public frustration.
Extensive improvements have been made on the Tison elevator operated by R P Andreas and Sons. A large office building of 20 by 30 feet with two large rooms and two private offices has been added, along with an autumn heater, fireproof roof, and galvanized iron covering for the feed room.
Fragmentary OCR text lists various fees and amounts such as 40 for three ere, 12 for BZ year, 24 for three ewes, and 20 for fey spectimgs. Names and places are garbled, suggesting a misread public notice or budget ledger page with itemized payments and dates.
At the F. C. Hadacek closing sale east of Traer prices topped with old oats at 91 cents per bushel. Hay sold around 20.50 a ton, straw bales - with cattle and horses fetching strong figures. Machinery including a tractor, manure spreader, and disc sold for several hundred dollars.
A special committee will outline plans for a state conference of Young Farmer clubs during Farm and Home week in February. Attending will be Irving Deering of Fayette, Harold Plagmann and Eileen Birker of Benton County, Harvey Hess Jr. and George Strayer of Black Hawk County, with reps from Marshall and Franklin counties and from Charles City and Iowa Falls classes under vocational agriculture instructors.
Monroe County Farm Bureau adopted resolutions urging resumption of government cattle buying in Iowa and a move to distribute sealed corn to drought farmers at cost. The group backed the AAA crop adjustment program, urged opposition to potential cuts in the national agricultural program, and called for CCC labor to aid lime quarrying for farmers in drought areas.
Miss Katharine Flynn county recorder reports 43373 bushels of corn sealed in Washington county by sealers Howard Stewart and Walter Brown. Forty two cribs sealed at 55 cents a bushel. Last year 828 cribs sealed by the government.
Walter Conway of Tipton bought a young Polled Hereford bull from the Harry Thiering herd. He plans to use the animal to cross Guernsey Jersey and Shorthorn cows for improved stock on his farm west of Tipton.
State 4-H boys officers were elected at the Ames convention with Roy Lewis Cruzen of Oskaloosa as president and Lester Ihms Eldridge as vice president. Verlyn Russell Storm Lake became secretary, Orville Aves Melbourne treasurer, and Frank Youngdale Harcourt historian. The session drew 550 plus registrants and 67 counties.
Special to The Gazette Washington reports widespread horse losses in several mid western states linked to corn stalks fodder or grain. Up to 60 percent may die with no known cure while investigations seek the toxic factor. some cattle cases resemble hemorrhagic septicemia and brain disease in horses raises encephalomyelitis concerns.
Des Moines reports fierce interior competition and sharp price advances in hog trading. Better grade butchers 200 pounds and heavier rose 55 to 65 cents, lighter weights up to 1.25 dollars, and packing sows 40 to 50 cents higher. Prices held firm amid tight receipts and expectations of continued movement by week’s end.
George Hardy sold his farm to Fred Schumacher for 12 800 bushels of No 1 northern wheat. Schumacher has ten years to pay with deferral allowed in bad years and no interest charged.
Muscatine county reports approximately fifteen tons of corn stover under contract shipped to drought stricken regions. County agent Carl E. Rylander notes the supply is headed to relief efforts.
Closing out sale by C. J. Byerly near Lisbon on December 31. Angus auction by Midway Sales Co. in Columbus Junction on January 2. Angus sale by East Side Farms Inc in West Liberty on January 3.
Webster area farmers are paying 10 dollars per ton for baled rice straw imported from Arkansas and Tennessee. Two carloads were received last week by Frank Wright and another carload is due this week for Matt Griner.
Iowa official Ray Murray invites agricultural leaders from ten states to a Keokuk meeting to plan preventive crop treatments against chinch bugs in 1935. He and state entomologist Dr. Carl Drake will assist in outlining a control plan. The invitees include Nebraska Kansas Missouri Oklahoma Illinois Michigan Ohio Indiana Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa.
The Oneida consolidated school freshman class studies building shelters for protection and feeding of game birds under instructor Miss Ruby Hundly. Hugh Parker of Oneida, secretary of the Iowa Game Breeders association, spoke to the group on quail shelter importance.
Since December 1 Tama county farmers have sealed 22 420 bushels of the 1934 corn crop in thirty five sealings according to Earl Wolfe recorder. This amount is far short of last year's sealing program.
Des Moines AP Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray said John Sand of Marcus Iowa Cherokee county warehouse board president has been named a field inspector for corn loans.
A 30 foot silo with settled ensilage weighs 38 to 40 pounds per cubic foot.
A. P. Dachnowski-Stokes of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soil warned at the AAAS meeting that last summer's drought and dust storms may recur in 1935. He advocated creating marsh lakes linked to Roosevelt's forest belt to store rainwater and reduce floods, emphasizing peat bogs as key to rainfall and climate.
Distribution of an additional $64,000, the second payment of corn-hog reduction allowances, began Thursday under the Kossuth county corn-hog committee. The total received in the last week reached $264,000.
Greeley patrons received thirty four cents a pound for November butterfat. High producers include Victor DeKeyser with 511.1 pounds Mead Brothers with 476.7 pounds and H K Stone with 353.7 pounds.
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