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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1936
Page
16
Farmers have been fattening hogs to heavier weights, 260 to 265 pounds, driving a surge in receipts across the middle west. Cheap corn and hot weather spur market influx as demand for pork remains strong with Chicago prices near yearly highs.
WAUKON Allamakee county 4 H livestock club members will hold a county tour of dairy calf projects on July 23. Ernest Wright field secretary of the Iowa State Dairy association will attend the tour giving information on care and management of dairy heifers and final grooming in preparation for showing. The tour will start at 9 a m from the Farm Bureau office here. Day's events will include clipping demonstrations halter making training and showing of the calves and a dairy judging workout.
Erwin F Dygert of the Dygert Horse Importing Co. in Manchester sails to Belgium to buy seventy five Belgian horses and mares for import.
Special to The Gazette reports Troy mills raspberries selling well with good quality and a fair crop expected. Blackberries are plentiful and beginning to ripen, with an abundant crop likely if moisture remains sufficient.
Ames extension entomologist A. D. Worthington reports that poison grasshopper bait spread across western Iowa has saved about 10,000 tons of feed daily this year. About 40 million pounds of bait over 400000 acres could have killed roughly 40 billion grasshoppers, reducing crop losses. He noted heavy infestation in May among Audubon Shelby Harrison and Pottawattamie counties diminished due to the campaign.
June report from Allamakee C T A 1 shows 480 cows across 27 herds averaged 779 pounds milk and 31.3 pounds butterfat. Roth and Sons cow led in milk and butterfat with 1833 pounds milk and 78.8 pounds fat. High herd owned by John Goeke averaged 1125 pounds milk and 47.2 pounds butterfat from 16 grade Holsteins.
Manchester reports June results from the Greeley Cow Test association. The 456 cows averaged 796 pounds of milk and 27.4 pounds of butterfat with top cow producing 1,581 pounds of milk and 73.3 pounds of butterfat. The Nieman herd averaged 1,212 pounds of milk and 38.5 pounds of butterfat across fifteen Holsteins.
One hundred fifteen dairy heifers and bull calves are fed by sixty five 4-H dairy club members in Fayette county for the county fair. Twenty five top calves will advance to Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress. Breeds listed include sixty one Holsteins thirty two Guernseys nine Brown Swiss seven Milking Shorthorns and six Jerseys with class breakdowns by age and sex.
In Vi nita Oklahoma the business district notes a notable highway convergence where five United States routes intersect within the town. Local officials cite the junction as a defining feature of Vi nita's transport network and its economic corridor.
Iowa State College expert E S Dyas says soybean production is established and likely to rise in both supply and demand. The Iowa soybean conference at the Chamber of Commerce, under Milwaukee Road sponsorship, drew railroad and farm interests. Rex Conn opened the meeting. Dyas urged soybeans as a replacement for oats, fit for rotation with corn and winter wheat. He named five top Iowa varieties Illini Manchu Durfield Mukden and Black Eyebrow and warned about heating if moister exceeds 15 percent.
A dated bank report from Cedar Rapids Linn County Iowa as of June 30 1936 shows total resources of 908 405.58 with loans and discounts 682 295.88 overdrafts 70 52 and furniture and fixtures 4 000.00. Liabilities include capital stock 60 000 00 surplus 68 000 00 undivided profits 3 075 56 reserves taxes and interest 1 112 57 and various deposits and trust funds totaling 908 405.88. Bank officers J Pochobradsky vice president PF Kanak cashier and others sign the solemn affirmation.
Fairfax observers report the first harvest of the season in Linn County on the Wallace Rogers farm two miles west of Fairfax. Ten acres of winter wheat sown Sept 15 yielded about 35 bushels per acre with top quality grain. Rogers cites the new 5 foot combine and a one operation cut and thresh to the wagon. Assisting were Orville Rogers Jimmy Rogers Marcus McKechnie and George Shaver. In Iowa County three combines worked rye for several farmers around North English and Williamsburg as oats cutting also progresses.
University of Iowa laboratory tests found lead sprays in apple orchards do not cause poisoning from eating fruit. Helen Funk's study reports an average 0.0168 mg lead per apple including skin and core, and blood tests on regular eaters showed no toxic effects.
The Gazette hill corn on the Dillon Atherton farm near Viola showed a three inch top growth on Monday with one new leaf. Morning measurements were taken daily at 5 oclock, the field reaching 126 degrees at the high reading with an average around 95 degrees. A nearby hill watered by Mr Atherton posted a top growth of five and a half inches.
Lloyd C. Grover assistant manager of the Iowa State Employment Service reports a shortage of qualified farm hands. Daily requests arrive at the office and men seeking such work are urged to list themselves. Work is often part time during peak seasons, with some full time postings, and wages are higher than in past years.
The Greeley Cont est association picnic will be held July 23 at the Paul Mc Elmeel farm three miles west of Greeley. Two judging contests for men and women open the day, with awards donated by local merchants. Paul Stewart of Maynard will deliver the main address of the afternoon.
The National Hybrid Corn company of Anamosa filed articles of incorporation with Secretary of State Mrs. Alex Miller in Des Moines. The new seed corn retailer is authorized to issue up to $100,000 capital stock. Franklin County Rural Electric also filed articles of incorporation to build a rural electric transmission system in the county.
Special to The Gazette WAUKON Allamakee county Farm Bureau membership drive completed in sixteen days shows about 650 members pledged for the year surpassing the 450 goal. Sixteen townships were covered with two remaining. Countywide membership is expected to exceed 700.
Tama county farmer Carl Steuhn Jr sold sixty three prime Hampshire hogs averaging 293 pounds at Chicago for 10.85 per hundredweight top for the weight. They sold without sorting.
A fulgurite is a glassy tube formed when lightning strikes sandy ground fusing sand grains into a hard, glassy shaft that records the surge of electric discharge.
Timothy hay harvest near completion in the Columbus Junction area. Some oats already in the shock. Livestock shifting into oats fields where the crop was scant. Tomatoes and roasting ears nearing table readiness. Rain is badly needed.
In Brandon the oat crop, once set for a banner year after early rains, suffers from moisture shortage. Heads remain in the milk stage and may become chaffy without rain. Some early oats will need cutting later this week as heat accelerates ripening. Corn remains undamaged so far.
In Troy Mills area crops and gardens show need for rain with corn laid by and some fields tasseling. Weather conditions point to upcoming showers to aid grain and garden produce.
The Gazette reports heat damages truck crops and garden goods. Pastures are short and corn is just starting to form. Rain is needed as early potatoes are fair but late potatoes suffer. Oats harvest suffers from grasshopper damage and dry weather causing heads to fail to fill.
Jackson county farmer M Chandler sold a load of cattle in Chicago on Monday at 8.60 dollars per hundredweight. The sale reflects prevailing meat market prices with Chandler receiving fair value for his herd.
Fourteen Suffolk Punch horses, first import in over twenty five years, travel to Iowa in charge of Harry Linn. They will be unloaded at Atkins and moved to the Stewart Holmes farm near Cedar Rapids, expected Thursday or Friday.
Mrs Henry Bramer, a farm woman one fourth mile north of Wyoming, reports sixty ducklings from early hatchings and five more hens currently hatching. The scene highlights a productive local poultry effort in the Wyoming community.
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