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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1938
Page
17
The Iowa oats crop shows extreme quality variation from worthless to standard. Many fields are flattened by storms, with rust and smut reducing value. Harvest methods vary from combines to binders and windrowed hay harvests, while some acres remain uncut. Prices at farm gate hover around 12 to 19 cents per bushel for lower grades.
Washington AP reports farm leaders say a favorable mix of warm weather and showers next week could trigger a referendum on marketing quotas for this year's corn crop. If the July crop report nears 2.5 billion bushels, officials expect potential election by Aug. 15 requiring two thirds of farmers to approve.
Special to The Gazette lists early threshing results in Fayette county with Mihm and Olesen yields on oats and wheat, plus Richard Martin’s estimated oats output. In Independence Buchanan county oats cut. yields vary from 20 to 40 bushels per acre. corn prospects look bright amid recent rains. Other crops in excellent condition, potatoes included. In Scotch Grove threshing began at Paulson farm and Harm Dirks farm. rusted oats reported. new combines bought by Ben Otten and Jerald Aldrich.
Harvest of small grain is underway in Wadena with threshing starting Thursday on the Adolph Weber farm and expected to widen this week. In Dysart, threshing crews began runs near town with several rings starting Thursday and much of the early crop already combined.
Manchester section reports threshing of oats has started and practically all grain has been processed. Local growers anticipate good yields as weather cooperates and markets show steady demand for new harvest. Cooperative agents monitor moisture levels and storage readiness.
More than 225000 dollars in AAA checks were distributed in Tama at Traer to about 1600 farm operators and owners from all twenty one townships. Unclaimed checks will be distributed in Toledo on Monday.
Lyle Jones of Winterset was employed by the Allamakee county Farm Bureau board to act as county 4 H club agent. Jones is a graduate of Iowa State College and was a 4 H club member.
Buy and Willy are foaled June 25 from a 15-year-old gray mare on S. J. Caldwell farm near Cedar Rapids. Calves Judy Jane Julia and Joan born within eight days from Holstein cows on Ivanhoe road, operated by Charlie and George Benda. All four heifers sired by an 8-year-old 2400 pound bull. Judy and Jane calved Thursday night. Julia and Joan calved eight days earlier.
Nton Heitshusen near Williamsburg Iowa possibly the first farmer to ensile green oats forage. He filled a 14 foot silo to about twenty four feet, salvaging oats as hay alternative. Surface hot with four inches spoilage, tasting like silage, feeding value pending Holsteins’ result. Also notes Linn County bulletin on frying chicken market outlook and Delaware heavy roasters pricing.
Earl Smith, vice president of the American Farm Bureau federation, is slated to address a district Farm Bureau meeting in Fairfield next Friday. The Chicago leader, who also presides over the Windis Agricultural association and backs farmers cooperatives, is expected to draw more than 3,000 attendees.
A rural electrification short course for REA supervisors and associated staff will be held in Ames from July 25 to 29. The program focuses on installation operation and maintenance of electrical appliances with emphasis on electrical fundamentals and related topics.
O. W. Meier of the REA utilization division and Miss Louisan Mamer head the guest speakers list for a regional program. Men will study silo filling feed grinding and dairy equipment while women discuss home refrigeration lighting laundering cooking plumbing and small appliances.
Orben Schoff of Lost Nation Hampshire shipped three breeding hogs one half mile east of Lost Nation to the department of agriculture in Venezuela last week.
Entries for Allamakee county milk maids contest close August 29. The winner, determined by the most milk in a three minute milking period, advances to the Midwest contest at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo this fall.
The Linn County farm debt advisory board will meet in Room 2 of the post office building in Cedar Rapids on Monday at 1 30 p m. Interested parties may call at that time. C B F Michel, chairman.
Linn county 4-H clubs host a play day at Thomas park Marion on August 12. About 550 members are invited to enjoy kittenball and other games plus swimming. A noon picnic dinner will be served by county club officers and committees. The afternoon features the county kitten ball tournament with nine teams in 5 inning games.
R. W. Ashby Town county 4 H club agent, G. A. Ellis, and Harry Langlas were elected to honorary membership in the Marengo chapter of the Future Farmers of America last week. They were initiated at the semi monthly meeting at the Frank Randolph home.
After a meeting of the temporary REA board Alvin Tonn of Waterloo was engaged to promote the REA in Buchanan county. He is the son of town of Westbury. An extensive three week campaign is planned with a $5 fee for service and refunds if subscribers are not connected. Tonn began work Thursday from the Farm Bureau office.
Detasseling of corn hybrid seed begins in the area with a crew of twenty in a 40 acre field on the Robert Henry farm. Additional plots cover 30 acres on Roy Winkelpleck, 20 on Fred Powell, 45 on Milo Zmolek, 25 on Jay Wood and 30 on L J Sealock farms. Seed corn is for DeKalb Sr. and will be stored on growers’ farms and dried there by a portable drier. Detasselers are paid 30 cents per hour.
The town and countryside contribute to Iowa’s Tall Corn State reputation. Frank Volak at 133 Nineteenth Avenue SW grows field corn over ten feet tall. T J Shea at 423 Eighth Avenue SW has sweet corn eleven feet nine inches tall with ears bearing since last Sunday.
Frank Rickert of Reinbeck will take possession on Aug. 1 of eighty three acres adjoining his 240 acre farm in Eagle township Black Hawk county. The land was bought from Mrs Louise Lumbus of Hudson for five thousand eight hundred ten dollars or seventy dollars an acre.
An epizootic of sleeping sickness in north Tama County spread last week with twenty cases near Traer, about twenty near Gladbrook, and several near Dysart. Most cases are mild and respond to prompt treatment, signaling growing concern for the season.
The Agriculture Department predicted farmers would receive about two billion dollars from sales and government payments in the July to September period. Last year the same period total was about 2.342 billion dollars. If borne out, nine month farm receipts would reach 5.341 billion, down from 6.171 billion in 1937’s similar span.
Delaware County farmers push cooperative electric project with 130 memberships pledged in Hazel Green Adams Milo and Union townships toward end of month application. Delegation of 30 farmers from Delaware and Honey Creek townships discussed extending development with chairs named. Potential Elk township participation noted and Prairie township group considered. Molin says likely no memberships after July end.
More than 300 farmers have signed up to buy electricity from the TIP Rural Electrification corporation, Hartwick official W. H. Fisher reports. Maps and line outlines will be drawn soon and sent to Washington for approval by August 1. The service area includes parts of Poweshiek and Tama counties in Iowa.
The Dairy Products Marketing association boosted butter values by a quarter cent in New York while overall supply remains heavy across major markets. DPMA purchases totaled 26 092 tubs in New York and 45 227 tubs in Chicago, with government stockpiling rising faster than relief demand. Trade shows weakness in carton butter and ongoing pressure from high broiler production in Delaware and Maryland. Eggs face heat defects but refrigerator demand supports prices.
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