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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1938
Page
4
Iowa's first rambling ram program will begin Sept 5 at What Cheer with five stops: What Cheer Marengo Washington Bedford and Atlantic. C. W. McDonald says 130 rams from southern Iowa breeders will be offered for sale daily with consignments traveling forward to each new stop.
Atlantic region reports fifty horses died and 100 to 150 infected from sleeping sickness. Des Moines notes Iowa tally around 500 cases and seventy five deaths this year. State veterinarian Dr. H A Seidell says the disease is not as widespread as last year, which saw 36,000 cases and 9,000 horse deaths. Last year’s losses cut Iowa’s horse population by more than 1 percent.
Detasseling work for hybrid seed corn in Vinton enters second week with 90 men employed and payroll near 5000 dollars. Last week about 300 workers were on the job, as crews cover fields six to seven times to remove tassels from designated female plants.
Special to The Gazette Williamsburg Priscilla Wesley 17 daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Wesley seven miles east of Williamsburg was seriously injured Monday in a hay field when she tried to drive away a colt that ran in front of the mowing machine operated by her brother George 14 She suffered deep cuts on both ankles She was taken to the house and then to a hospital in Williamsburg where she is reported in serious condition from shock and loss of blood.
Audubon reports the Medical association of that county will limit free examinations for 4 H health contestants. Officials weighed the balance between time required and credit due to doctors. Supporters argue free services aid youth, while concerns arise about overuse.
Miss Laura Heddie announced the 4 H club demonstration subjects and teams for Tipton County Fair August 10 12 with the aim of qualifying for the Des Moines state fair. Judges include Mrs Edith Barker of Ames and topics range from lamp making to chair caning featuring girls from Wilton Junction Clarence Mechanicsville Lisbon and Tipton.
Maquoketa will host the Buckhorn creamery annual picnic on August 18 after a one year pause. Ralph A Werden secretary announces the event revived due to strong patron demand. Frank Robotka of Ames will speak and the Maquoketa school band will play. The program includes music skits sports and a bake show replacing the former flower show.
Wilton Junction reports threshing nearly complete with oats forty bushels per acre, wheat twenty, barley twenty five. In West Union harvests near completion with mixed grain yields and corn progress improving on higher ground. Maquoreta notes oats twenty to forty bushels with many combines at work and eight sold this summer. Decorah sees corn prospects improve though small grains are light and some fields lodge. Marengo detasseling corn for Morse Brothers hybrid seed on ninety acres southwest of town.
Mechanicsville feeder D J Dallas sold 1 010 pound Shorthorn heifers at Chicago on Monday for 10 dollars per hundredweight.
E V Collins reports a shift from threshing to combines across Iowa with 140 machines in Warren County alone, up 40 percent. Small six foot or less cutting bars enable fast booms while threshing remains in use for about 90 percent of grain. advantages include time and cost savings but straw handling and hail damage are noted tradeoffs.
Fayette county church school and farm leaders will gather August 8 in Fayette to discuss community planning problems and procedures. The program led by Ames extension specialists in sociology and Iowa Christian Rural fellowship will cover human needs planning aims and community studies.
Fayette county fair at West Union announced judges for Aug 22 to 26. Des Moines expert Harry Linn will judge 4 H club colts and open horse entries on Aug 23. Ames exten sion men W McDonald and E L Quaife will judge beef cattle sheep and hogs on Aug 23, and Floyd Arnold will judge 4 H club dairy calves and open class dairy cattle on Aug 24. A horse pulling contest is set for the closing day.
West Union area reports a successful contour drilling on Harry Olesen farm six miles southeast of West Union. Floyd Parks 4 county soils agent notes quackgrass control and reduced erosion with contour corn as the crop matured. Contour cultivation used plowing harrowing and several cultivations to flatten ridges and conserve moisture.
McGregor area reports a bumper berry season with strawberries raspberries and wild blackberries. The Ronquist family harvested over 5 000 quarts of raspberries from three acres since June 30 employing ten to sixteen pickers at 3 cents per quart. They sold berries for about 19 cents per quart and trucked to towns including McGregor Marquette Monona Postville Elkader Strawberry Point and Manchester. Wild blackberries on Wiegand land may yield up to 10 000 quarts with a full team of sixteen pickers anticipated.
Wheat prices slide to a low unseen since 1932 despite a new federal farm plan. analysts cite record 1938 crop value near 650 million dollars and large stored grain ahead, with loans and acreage cuts not restoring market demand. Traders note ample elevator space to store a potential billion bushels.
From Harry Youngblood's carrot bed in Decorah Freeport a white carrot was gathered Monday. It weighed two pounds and stretched ten inches. All other harvested carrots to date were normal colored.
Chicago report shows trucks carried 50.7 percent of livestock to sixty eight major U S stockyards in the first half of 1938. Tonnage of cattle calves hogs sheep and horses moved by trucks reached 16 962 898 head, rising slightly from a year earlier while railroads moved 16 433 660 head, roughly flat versus the prior year.
A new Fayette county association for Farm Security Administration borrowers is set to organize September 1 with Ames and the Fayette county Farm Bureau aiding. It will have at least fifty members and hire a tester to manage records. A Black Hawk county FSA cooperative is also forming. The piece notes 83 percent of the U.S. population was in agriculture in 1820.
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