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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1940
Page
8
Dickinson county supervisors study a plan to resettle unemployed relief recipients on small acreages. A county committee will present two options to the FSA including leasing 1 to 10 acre plots or converting one or two corporation farms into multi family sites.
A rustic poem depicts a fence drift snagged on a harness peg and hung or tossed around farm implements. The narrator notes its battered state a ragged jacket of twine nails and rags kept for weathering rain and hay hauling.
A severe midweek storm swept Allamakee county, demolishing a barn on the Thomas Webster farm near Waukon and damaging outbuildings in Union Prairie and Ludlow townships. The Livesind dairy barn near Waukon shifted from its foundation as rain fell in cloudburst intensity.
One of the best hog markets of the year occurred at the regular commission sale in West Liberty. 510 head of hogs sold with 260 butcher hogs at 6.40 a hundredweight and 250 feeder hogs at 6 to 6.40. Veal calves 94 head and 100 other cattle sold. Milk cows topped at 85 and heavy calves at 32 a head. Attendance was large for harvest time.
Washington AP reports a national AAA conference of 150 state committeemen urged continuing 1941 farm program limits on cotton tobacco corn and wheat. They say subsidies around 750 million would be paid to cooperating farmers while cautioning that a brighter foreign market next fall could relax limits and expand 1941 production.
Due to transportation issues overseas, 710 artillery and cavalry horses purchased by the French government will be auctioned in Chicago on July 23 and 24. The sale, run by the French purchasing commission, features 100 artillery horses and 210 cavalry mares, ages 4 to 10 and weights 1,200 to 1,600 pounds or 1,050 to 1,200 pounds. The auction starts at 9 am and runs through July 24 with all horses sold for cash and without reservations.
The annual Jersey show for Parish No 4 will be at West Branch July 15. A picnic dinner will be spread at the Hoover Birthplace park. Fifty or sixty head of fine Jerseys will be entered in this show and judging will be by Floyd Johnson, head of the dairy extension department at Ames.
A Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce pasture tour will depart at 1 30 p m visiting farms near Dinsdale Tama Grinnell Belle Plaine and Newhall to view grass and pasture improvement projects. More tours are planned as the pasture contest and grass clinic expand to ten counties with date for this year's clinic to be announced.
TRAER-Walter Nation of Traer leads in Tracer community by cutting and threshing small grain. He harvested 18 acres of Canadian barley at 45 bushels to the acre with excellent quality. Reports from other towns note varied wheat yields and drought impacts across Iowa counties.
Johnson county 4-H members practiced judging under Ed Syndergaard and Emmett Gardner at the Fred Stock farm four miles northeast of Lone Tree. Participants evaluated Hereford cattle, horses, and colts, with other junior fairs judging across area farms in Iowa City. The year’s 4-H livestock show in Iowa City is set for August 14 to 16 featuring 60 baby beeves among other species.
The report describes haying near completion with light yields and rain aiding gardens and corn. New seedings face moisture from a 1.15 to 1.75 inch rainfall. Corn shows good prospects though some fields blown down. Soybeans perform well. pastures and potato prospects are poor. Oats ripening. raspberries and cherries selling. 100 acres yet to be cut. The farm, tenanted by Hamilton Brothers, grazes 1,100 sheep. river-area ranch known as River Forks south of Conesville.
Two binders have been busy all week cutting oats on the R.C. Smith farm near Conesville. The work reflects a peak harvest period with teams coordinating to handle the crop efficiently.
Roy Edel cut his oats Tuesday marking the first harvest in the Randalia area. The event signals the start of field work for local farmers as the season progresses.
A much needed rain fell in Thornburg area Wednesday night. Farmers are now busy harvesting small grain fields and preparing for the next phase of the season.
Carl Oldsen of Ames and secretary of the Iowa Beef Producers Association will judge baby beeves and purebred heifers at the Marengo 4-H show August 7 to 10. Other judges include S L Duncan of Cedar Rapids and John Burrell, buyer for Waterman Packing.
Iowa distributed 195 carloads of creosote totaling 1 250 000 gallons as a wartime measure against chinch bugs. Deputy Secretary Harry D. Linn announced the progress Friday, noting damage centers in the southwest central region of the state.
Electors of Boardman township Clayton county will vote July 20 on buying and maintaining rural fire fighting apparatus. Polls open 8 am to 8 pm. Trustees may issue bonds and levy up to one mill annually for bonds and interest. Equipment would be in Elkader and manned by Elkader volunteers. 60 percent of last general election 1938 needed for passage. Supporters cite lower township insurance rates with local equipment.
Iowa State college extension service field agents will meet during the week of July 15. Murl McDonald announced gatherings at Storm Lake July 15 Charles City July 16 Belle Plaine July 17 Ot tumwa July 18 and Atlantic July 19. They will review county agricultural planning committee work and the 1941 county Farm Bureau plans of work.
Mount Vernon area farmer Raymond Mallie sold 21 head of steers weighing 1 051 pounds at Chicago sale for 10.50 per hundredweight.
Linn county 4 H clubs announce their annual picnic and sports festival at Ellis Park Cedar Rapids on July 18. County agent Bill Harr says athletic events dominate the afternoon with plant tours for members 9 to 11 a m, contests divided by region, and named captains for girls kittenball and boys tug of war. The events serve as elimination for the state Farm Bureau and 4 H festival at Ames September 6 7.
Beginning July 1 the hog market rose daily through July 8 with gains of about 1.50 on butcher hogs and 1.35 on sows. Last Tuesday prices reversed with two days of decline totaling roughly 0.35. By Friday a net weekly gain of about 1.20 was reported, while interior receipts fell midweek.
Leonar d Brown, a Barclay township farmer in Buchanan county, was seriously hurt when a pitchfork foothold gave way while he was descending a haystack. One tine pierced his leg to the bone, sending him to medical care.
Chicago manager B H Heide announced the 1940 International Livestock Exposition will run from November 30 to December 7 in Chicago.
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