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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1932
Page
14
Dr. Paul Rader announces Clinton Iowa will host a summer canning camp to salvage surplus farm produce for Chicago’s needy. Trucks will gather crops across Iowa to be canned in Clinton and later distributed to destitute families, with a target of feeding at least 50,000 households.
The July 1 pork in storage, excluding lard, is 8.2 percent lower than a year earlier. Dry salt pork down 26 percent, frozen pork down 10 percent, pickled pork down 6 percent. lard up 14 percent but still below five-year average. Beef storage remains small, poultry and butter show shifts, eggs fall short.
Sam Pleggen, owner near Hawkeye in Chickasaw County, discusses farm prosperity, tax reform, and prohibition. He favors income-based tax, licensing beer and wine, and banning hard liquor, with no saloons. He criticizes tariffs, bootlegging, high machinery costs, and calls for lower interest and government house cleaning.
A farmer discussion covers tax inequities on farm equity and mortgage taxes. The dialogue praises T. B. testing and cow production tests, noting benefits like reducing herd size while maintaining butterfat output. The speaker recalls joining a test association during better times and plans to rejoin.
An interview with Mr. Orchard notes 146000 miles using Iso-Vis with minimal repairs. He reports lower oil consumption and smoother engine operation, driving about 2000 miles monthly across varied conditions. Standard Oil touts Iso-Vis as non thinning and cites Ball and Bottle Test results and AAA tests.
Des Moines Iowa July 1 report by R S Herrick secretary of the Iowa State Horticultural Society shows apples 65 per cent of normal up from 54 per cent last year. Pears 49 per cent vs 45 peaches 52 vs 63 grapes 74 potatoes 92 vs 78 with other crops listed. favorable weather noted for potatoes and notes on plant lice apple scab and coddling moths in unsprayed orchards.
The weekly crop bulletin reports hail and wind damage across northwestern Iowa causing crop destruction. Osceola Lyon Dick inson Plymouth and Emmet counties see the most severe effects with Plymouth hit hardest. The report notes above normal precipitation slowing corn growth and oats yields expected lower than value crops.
South English Shipping association under S. E. Brower sold a consignment of 240-pound hogs in Chicago for five dollars and fifty cents per hundredweight.
In unusual heat, farmers report drifted fence lines and stressed barley crops. A tough spell of weather prompts growers to consider protective measures as tensions rise over yields and field conditions.
G. B. Miller of Des Moines state Farm Union president addressed 250 people in Marion city park on the proposed farmers' holiday. He urged farmers to act, saying parties have done nothing for agriculture. A meeting of holiday association leaders is set for Friday in Des Moines to choose the date for declaration.
A food canning demonstration will be held at city hall on July 19 with attendees from Farm Bureau groups garden clubs church societies and Red Cross. They will hold a training session for their organizations following the demonstration.
Threshing machines are to be overhauled beginning late this week at Wilton Junction. Farmers expect a heavy grain yield despite Saturday night storm damage to fruit. Some oats are flattened making mower harvesting difficult. Corn stumps remain, but new seeding and old meadows benefited from moisture. Alfalfa ready for a second cutting in a few days. second growth clover is blooming.
Farmers are cutting outs this week and threshing companies plan routes and repair machines for upcoming work. About ten machines are active in the community.
In Maynard the harvest has begun with favorable oat weather. Heads are well filled and straw medium length. some heavy pieces lodged. Alfalfa second growth is good and haying is well advanced. Mechanicsville notes barley and early oats cut and shocked. some farmers still putting up hay of good quality. Sweet corn will be used this week as field corn tassels.
The Fayette county farm near here finished cutting alfalfa last week producing 1538 tons from sixty acres harvested this season.
Quasqueton farmer Ray Walton notes corn over nine feet high with silk and tassel on May 11. Most corn lodges, oats harvest underway, and alfalfa nearly ready for the second cutting.
The report notes a severe hail storm Saturday damaging crops north of Fayette while haying and harvesting proceed in the area. Mrs. Chester Turner, living near five and one half miles southeast, served garden sweet corn on Wednesday, July 6.
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