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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1939
Page
10
News notes a bumper corn crop prospects despite hog price declines to multi-year lows in Chicago. Government reseal plans, government loan maturities, and crude lard effects press hog markets while cattle hides rise to strong levels amid feeding-cost pressures.
Washington reports retail field seed sales in spring 1939 rose about 15 percent from 1938 across 17 seed types. Red clover up 35 percent and lespedeza up 45 percent led gains, with soybeans up 35 percent and corn, millet, and alfalfa seeing notable increases. Iowa shows wide gains in many seeds, while orchard grass slipped 5 percent.
A photo from a Warren Morgan farm plot west of Brighton shows corn treated with phosphate ahead of an untreated check. The treated rows with 0-20-10 fertilizer appear about two feet taller and better tasseling, with similar benefits seen in other fields using 0-20-20.
MAQUOKETA The Miles 4-H baby beef club show is planned at Miles on August 5. Calves will be weighed in the morning and judging begins at 2 p.m.
Ames P C Taff assistant director of extension at Ames and state leader of 4 H club work since 1917 received national recognition from the United States department of agriculture for 25 years of faithful service. He was commended by Secretary Wallace and given a signed photograph of the national 4 H club camp by C W Warburton.
The Washington county contest association reports show high herd costs up 20 percent from the low herd while profits rise 70 percent. Morton Emde's West Chester Holsteins averaged 12 547 pounds milk and 432.6 pounds butterfat per 11.48 cow years with $58.33 feed cost and $113.54 product value. Low herd produced 253.7 pounds butterfat with $46.90 feed cost and $63.40 product value. Overall association averages 9 318 pounds milk and 351.5 pounds butterfat per 328.08 cow years. $109.88 product value and $56.96 income over feed cost.
Cedar county 4-H girls prepare demonstrations on care of silverware home safety tidy rooms and closet use for the annual 4-H achievement day on August 9 at the Cedar county fair. Clubs include Red Oak Live Wires Cass Linn Sunshine Circle Pioneer Dar Moc Farmington Farmerettes Cedar Pep and Fairfield Ramblers.
Mrs Raymond Sayre of Ackworth state Farm Bureau committeewoman who attended the World Congress of Rural Women in London England will be the speaker at the Jackson county Farm Bureau picnic in Maquoketa on August 10.
USDA announces two new and four improved chicken strains from the last six years. The new lines include a Columbian-feathered bird and a golden Leghorn, developed from Rhode Island Red, White Wyandotte, and Light Sussex, with aims of higher egg output and heavier meat. The golden Leghorn is bred to match or exceed White Leghorn production and enables sexing by down color at hatch.
The text discusses improvement in breeds through selective breeding guided by progeny testing. Males are chosen largely on their sisters’ production records and type, and where feasible on both their own performance and daughters’ records.
Fifty eight representatives of Iowa rural young people's groups depart Des Moines by bus for a 3 000 mile tour of eastern states. Three eastern Iowa women Marian Hetzler Doris Martin Gladys Read join the trip. Stops include Chicago New York City Philadelphia Gettysburg Washington Mount Vernon Annapolis and Indianapolis with visits to industrial historic and agricultural sites and the New York World's Fair.
The T. I. P. Rural Electric coop based in Brookly n, serving Tama Poweshiek and Brooklyn, received a $243 500 REA allotment for 287 miles of line serving 720 members. A prior $148 000 allotment was issued in September 1938, bringing total project length to 410 miles serving 1 004 members.
The Eastern Iowa Veterinary association bulletin lists hog cholera outbreaks in the last two weeks across 23 communities including Mediapolis Burlington Oxford West Branch Iowa City North Liberty Fayette Monticello Denver Waterloo Gilman Marshalltown Independence Rowley Chelsea Dubuque Maquoketa Clinton Princeton Davenport Mount Auburn Waterloo Charles City.
A COUNTRY WOMAN muses on revivals of era customs including Sunday school picnics and ministerial dinners. She playfully considers bringing back old markers of social life such as hammocks lawn swings rubber tired buggies and fashion details from earlier days.
In Hot Springs South Carolina AAA officials from Washington join about 90 ranchers for a four day session to draft the 1940 range conservation program. They will discuss payments and practices for stock water and spreader dam construction grazing contour farming weed eradication and water use. N E Dodd heads the AAA group noting the program covers half the United States and most of its range land.
Rural youth association members from ten eastern Iowa counties will camp at Camp Abe Lincoln 12 miles southeast of Davenport Friday through Sunday. Counties include Scott Benton Johnson Henry Des Moines Muscatine Clinton Linn Jones and Lee with counselors Paul McNutt Miss Neary Grace Martin Howard Masteller Ray Sorenson and Robert Clark representing state groups.
Grasshoppers and extreme heat force premature harvesting of spring grains and forage crops across eastern Wyoming. Government meteorologist F L Disterdick warned crops must be cut now to avoid grasshopper damage or scorching. Temperatures topped 100 Fahrenheit with no relief in sight.
A themed crossword style clue list referencing an annual auto race winner and related terms across numbers 1 to 58. Includes entries for poetry, ship logs, shells, and various common nouns, with hints such as Spain and Before Christ.
Hollywood reports Heywood Broun, former New York World Telegram columnist, was offered a feature writer position by Selznick International Studios after his contract ended. Broun had advertised in a New York paper seeking work.
Japanese defenders repelled a large Chinese force from the Fourth Route Army near the British zone of the Shanghai international settlement. Reports say about 3,000 Chinese troops slipped through Japanese lines in a bold assault, following a terrorist outbreak in which an American bartender was killed during a raid on American newspapers.
London based dispatches quote the Soviet Red Banner claiming a large scale Japanese bid to seize eastern Siberia is imminent. The report says General Kulik may command Soviet Mongolia frontier forces, with Japan’s logistics network in Manchukuo prepared for a major assault.
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