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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
18
Chicago June livestock totals reach 671000 head, up from May 601304. Cattle amount 170000. calves 36000. hogs 322700. sheep 141000. Lamb prices peak around 11.35, steers average 7.85, top 10, with drought shipments adding 3000 head late June.
Amazed home demonstration agent Miss Lucille Gove notes the strong foothold of 4 H club work in Linn county. A new 4 H girls club was organized in Midway with seventeen members. officers elected Mary Louise Oxley president Arlene Fernow vice president Mary Ann Lehr secretary treasurer Annabelle Oxley historian Jeanne Ives reporter. Mrs E Allbee named club leader with Marjorie Albaugh as assistant leader. The new club brings Linn county’s total to sixteen clubs and 225 members.
Special to The Gazette reports the first weekly auction in Oelwein's new pavilion. More than 900 attended including bidders from Wisconsin and Illinois. Top horse was a 3 year old mare. top cow a Jersey at 60. Sales totaled over 4,000 dollars. John Thiele of Oelwein served as auctioneer.
A Northeast Iowa farmer column celebrates June rains and abundant hay crops while noting droughts and grasshopper damage in southern Iowa. The piece reflects on independence and asks if less government might have changed farming outcomes, urging gratitude for regional blessings and solidarity with neighbors facing hardship ahead of Fourth of July celebrations.
A. H. Kruse, a farmer near Steamboat Rock, hauled the first load of soybeans to the Soybean Processing company plant in Waterloo. Processing operations start in about thirty days. Tuesday also saw two additional loads delivered by L. A. Wright of Oelwein and Roy A. Freed of Dewar.
The Ma haska County Cow Test Association reports a 10 head purebred Jersey herd from Clair Werner of Gibson. They averaged 651 pounds of milk and 35.6 pounds of butterfat for June.
Linn County agent Rex Conn reports higher insect activity in oats corn and clover than usual but not at alarming levels. Stalk borers pea aphids and grasshoppers shown in fields near Cedar Rapids Mount Vernon and Prairieburg cause edge crop damage with potential potato patch risk. some premature clover drying noted.
John Wager chairman of the soil conservation and allotment committee in Linn County said listing sheets with individual base and farm data would be finalized and sent to the state office in Des Moines Friday. More than 3 700 worksheets were completed in Linn County and thirteen appeal cases were numbered.
Jones County farmers report record red clover hay yields with good quality and fine stems. William Reese of Jackson Township harvested 31 large loads from 11 acres, expecting over three tons per acre if standing. Will Hiller of Castle Grove completed 37 loads from 12 acres and plans green manure from second growth.
Farmers in Brandon area begin cutting oats for hay led by Park Fernbaugh with R L Albert also planning harvest. Weather favors curing and clover is largely stored. Timothy stands well while corn is laid by. Grasshoppers are numerous but causing little damage. some insects feed on oat heads.
Oats and rye suffer as gardens dry from insufficient rain with centennial drought effects noted. The speaker laments spring seed corn quality being the poorest in twenty years, signaling strained agricultural conditions.
Snecia to The Gazette reports a dry month with only one rain, hurting clover hay harvest and small grains. County Agent Roy Combs says spring seedings of alfalfa, clover and timothy are about 10 percent short due to rainfall shortage.
Decorah Farmers Ice Cave Creamery pays patrons 31, 30, and 29 cents per pound of butterfat. Haulers are paid an average 2.34 dollars per pound.
Vincent Kelly of Waterloo Iowa tied for the individual title at the Royal show farmers international dairy cattle judging contest in Bristol England with 550 points. England won the team championship with 1 630 points and the United States placed second. The source notes the U S cattle population at 68 213 000 head as of January 1 1936.
Observation from Viola Indiana notes corn growth varies as the plant expands. The tallest stem rose 1.5 inches Wednesday after 3 inches the day before and the hill's top plant gained an inner leaf to total eleven. One inner leaf grew 3.25 inches Wednesday. Temperature averaged 76 with a high of 98. subsoil reading at five inches showed 82.
A concise tally lists 000 hogs 51 673 000 sheep 11 637 000 horses and 4 685 000 mules in the noted inventory.
About 100 poultry producers attended the Springville event on Dr W J Pirie premises while eleven veterinarians performed post mortems on birds at a free clinic. Dr George B Senior led the program with support from W J Pirie J M Griffith R M Hofford J W Pirie J C Glenn L W Kellogg John B Bryant F J Crow E O Thomas and J S Potter.
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