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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1933
Page
4
Eastern Iowa livestock handlers report a weak market as 50 cent corn raises costs. Farmers sell light weight hogs and cattle to cover feed, with prices for hogs around 275 to 325 per hundredweight and prime cattle near 7 a hundredweight. Oilmeal and tankage costs push dairy and poultry values down while dairy herds shrink and meat supplies rise.
A brief meditation on the allure of modest living over wealth and fame. The narrator weighs the constant threat of kidnapping and public pressure against simple comforts and security.
The report notes that most non storables have not risen with the general price trend. Prices for storable goods show strength while immediate consumption items lag behind, indicating a divergence between storage capability and market movement.
Keokuk county 4-H dairy calf club members will tour July 24 with Ernest M. Wright of Waterloo and inspect eighteen calves. Stops include Nioma Brothar Jackson township for a Brown Swiss, Kermit Bliss for a Jersey, Melvin Sorden farm for a Guernsey, Blis Morse place for two Guernseys, Claire and James Werner for eight Jerseys, George McCoy for a Jersey, and Harold Henzing for a Jersey.
More than 36 495 bushels of corn 9 000 bushels of oats and 1 450 bushels of barley were delivered to the two elevators here during the last week. Among the heaviest corn consignors were Peter Lamprecht William Hoebel Otto Ehrich and J G McQuilkin each delivering 3 000 bushels or more. William Junge delivered 1 450 bushels of barley. Farmers delivering 1 000 or more bushels of oats included John Kiug David Milne Henry Moeller H A Gnagy Lynn Wieben and Amos Melberg.
Des Moines in a weekly weather bulletin notes corn making good progress despite July dryness and June heat. Tasseling is widespread, ears shooting, with some districts affected by chinch bugs. Oats show late improvement in northern counties. hay and alfalfa crops are promising. Hog cholera rises as hog prices stay low, immunization urged for future gains. Rain last week varied, with some counties receiving over an inch or more and others hit by damaging hail and wind.
A fire destroyed about eighteen tons of timothy hay on Mrs Suzette Fish’s farm near here. Three stacks in the field were last year’s crop and the rest from twelve acres were this year’s. The blaze likely started from a cigarette dropped by workers during haying.
Special to The Gazette Erwin Niermeyer of Lowden stands in a 5 acre corn field planted May 16 four miles southwest of Lowden. The crop averaged twelve feet in height after less than two months with corn still growing and large cars formed nearby. Planting on alfalfa sod shows rapid growth in this region.
University studies in California and Arizona show sesame yields up to 388 pounds per acre in the San Joaquin Valley with several fields averaging high outputs. however, the crop shatters easily, making commercial cultivation premature until shatter-resistant strains are developed. Researchers note need for improved varieties and careful harvesting to reduce losses.
Galveston Texas asserts a federally funded construction plan with a total around 700000. The package includes a new post office and federal building valued at about 6753009 and a depot storehouse for the lighthouse service estimated at 2200.
AUSTIN Tex AP Beginning of a new fiscal year prompts many applicants at the internal revenue office for annual federal licenses to sell 3.2 beer. Licenses valid for one year were granted to 100 persons in two days, with additional part year permits issued to cover summer sales.
In Eden township Henry Felker threshes seventy acres of oats at 45 bushels per acre weighing 31 pounds per bushel, selling for 36 cents at Winter elevator. Arvid Shogren threshes 700 and 800 bushels from twenty and twenty five acres respectively. Morgan Williams reports first thresh in Williamsburg area with 45 bushels per acre. In Washington county oats yield about 30 bushels per acre with some up to 40. corn damage from hail mostly recovered. second crop alfalfa stored.
Davis and Adolph Kadera powered threshers as wheat averaged twenty bushels per acre and was sent to the Iowa City elevator for 90 cents. Oats yield well though straw is short. overall average is twenty five bushels per acre. Some fields will not be cut due to short straw and weed growth. One Oakdale area field is being cut with mowers.
Local fields show a fair corn stand with rain needed in late season. The Farmers' Union Exchange elevator is buying 4 000 to 7 090 bushels daily for ten days and manager A Kent has had to hire extra help to handle the rush.
Amber farmers met Thursday at Philip Bailey's home to plan threshing with Henry Stutt of Monticello to operate a tractor for about fifteen farmers. Threshing starts next week at Clarence Gray's farm in the Black Oak locality. Central City reports the first local threshing at River View farm by R D Forrest and Son, oats yielding 42.5 bushels per acre, cut a week before threshing, shocked without caps, grain in good condition.
Muscatine county 4 H club girls opened their annual camp at Rotary lodge with forty five registered. A three day program ends Friday with rally day. Miss Helen Needles of the state health department assists Miss Elizabeth Armstrong with the camp. The Wilton Busy Bees are represented by June Collier and Florence Norton.
Washington Iowa August 9 10 and 11 will host the county 4 H club show with Paul Taff state club leader Ames as principal speaker Rex Beresford Ames animal husbandman will judge calves ponies pigs and sheep prizes total about 750 dollars A Farm Bureau picnic and club parade are planned for Sunset Park on the final day Amber Lavonne Streeter of Wayne township Jones county won first prize for a garden bouquet at a club flower show Judges included Mrs P B Daly Mrs Walter Steckel and Mrs Mae Davis Alfreda Wheling took second and Mary Jo Daly third.
Farm bulletin edited by Ray Anderson delivers practical tips, market notes, and seasonal reminders for growers. Reports cover crop prices, weather outlooks, planting schedules, and equipment advisories tailored to rural readers.
Over the past week eleven outbreaks of hog cholera have been reported in forty six facilities across thirteen eastern Iowa counties. The Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association notes rapid spread from drove to drove with infections on many farms. Counties and towns cited include Linn Marion Prairieburg Cedar Rapids Palo Coggon Central City Springville Lisbon Ely Mount Vernon Delaware Manchester Anamosa Oxford Junction Wyoming Iowa City Johnson Lost Nation Clinton Maquoketa Elwood Lamotte Green Island Benton Vinton Mount Auburn Van Horne Atkins Shelburg Keystone Garrison Newhall Belle Plaine Tama Dysart Chelsea Keswick Sigourney Keota Wapello Farson Washington Richland Muscatine Wilton Junction Grinnell Deep River Oskaloosa Barnes Sed Marshalltown.
A cholera outbreak kills sixty hogs near Dysart with Otto Schmidt noting a full drove perishes. Richard Hark reports twenty five head lost and Harley Nutt with Walter Untlecht report several more. Scientists explain aging fish by scales with each year added.
Iowa will not lack trained agriculturists, says F E Moore head of vocational education. The Iowa Association of Future Farmers of America reports 1 021 members for 1932 33 with many schools listed including Winterset, Woodbine Audubon Clarinda Denison and Iowa Falls. Affected students have shown strong interest in agriculture and many may pursue it as a life work.
Five Ames agricultural staff members will appear on the Iowa land appraisers short course program in Des Moines Thursday and Friday. Topics include Major Soil Areas and Types, Livestock Management and Practice, Market Structure of Iowa with Land Values, Crops Adaptation and Rotation, Types of Farming Adapted to Iowa, and The Relation of Taxes to Land Values. Additional sessions on detailed appraisal methods will be led by Federal Land Bank staff from Omaha.
Mount Vernon speaker Foster M. Beck describes Korean farms as garden plots next to Iowa fields. He recounts his consular experiences in Korea as a contrast to Iowa agriculture, noting rice cultivation as the main crop and unusual market inquiries. About fifty people attended and a joint August picnic with Bertram township was planned.
LA PORTE CITY reports the Black Hawk county 4-H boys' club will camp on the Earl Douglas farm in East Waterloo township Saturday. E. E. Pearson, Smith-Hughes instructor, is registration chairman. Members from Cedar, Spring Creek, and Big Creek clubs serve on kitchen committee.
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