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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1939
Page
12
Farmers and brokers in eastern Iowa debate whether picking time cash will hit 25 or 60 cents a bushel as 30 percent more farmers seal corn this year. Arguments hinge on government purchases, loan levels, ever normal granary plans, and possible marketing quotas.
The article discusses the Corn loan program overseen by Bill McArthur and officials, noting resulting price dynamics. It compares September corn in Buenos Aires at 43 cents a bushel with domestic costs including freight to New Orleans, Chicago, and New York, and examines how a referendum or quota could shift the loan price above 57 cents. It also mentions milling quality, import viability, and the risk of destroying fall pigs if prices diverge from market values.
Washington agency figures show the United States government purchased nine million acres of submarginal farm land over the last five years at a total cost of 46 million dollars. The purchase reflects nationwide land programs and agricultural policy of the period.
A country woman reflects on the hurried pace of harvest time. Farmers race to finish haying, cut waterlogged grain, detassel corn, shock grain, rebuild creek fences, and barely eat or sleep, hoping for a brief calm in the endless work.
A long list of crossword style clues divides into across and down hints. The page presents a themed puzzle featuring famous artist references, colors, creatures, and household terms, with several entries linking to art history and common nouns.
Raymond Coffland, 18, from near Watkins, will compete with 375 commercial red calves at the All-Iowa Livestock Show in Cedar Rapids August 13 to 18. His five steers average about 1,100 pounds, having reached 425 pounds when placed on feed last October. He also feeds three 4-H club steers for shows at the Vinton fair and Cedar Rapids.
A caravan of 114 Louisiana farmers led by Warren Bissell of Greeley will tour multiple Midwest sites starting in Bloomington Indiana and ending in Elkader Iowa. The group includes AAA leaders John Henry and Floyd Spencer and will visit farms, creameries, and the Trappist monastery with stops in Dubuque and Manchester.
Sealed bids are invited by the Linn County Auditor Cedar Rapids Iowa for 600 tons six inch lump steam coal and 1 600 tons of 6x3 coal with optional additions. Deliveries to Linn County Home and Cedar Rapids districts by designated dates with terms, deposits and analysis requirements.
Iowa crop reports indicate nitrogen conditions favor pollination with cool weather halting further damage in southwest counties. Early corn silking appears as blister stage while grasshopper damage rises in northwest counties. Oats yields vary widely and winter wheat quality remains good despite limited rain.
Nebraska agricultural officials report drought and extreme heat have damaged much of the corn crop beyond repair in most counties. Only a few counties may yield a fair crop as grasshoppers compound losses. Lack of rain since late June and in mid July, plus scorching winds, hinder tasseling and ear production.
Walter Winter, one mile north of Eldorado, reported yellow dent roasting ears on July 24. He owns a 9 acre field of open pollinated corn in the vicinity.
Erectal reports threshing action started last weekend in the Jesup vicinity on the Russell Lochead farm with activity noted by local observers.
Agriculture Secretary Wallace set in motion the current marketing season relief for dairy products. He ordered the Dairy Products Marketing Association to begin buying butter with 6 million dollars, noting butter prices and storage plans, with potential warehouse receipt purchases and eventual resale or transfer to the surplus commodities program.
Sixty three 4-H boys and girls prepare exhibits for the Allamakee county fair September 5 to 8. The dairy heifer club leads with 57 calves, 49 boys feed 101 baby beeves, five raise market pigs, 12 groom first and second year colts, five have market lambs and 16 handle market litters. Girls’ projects include six demonstration teams and about 80 exhibits.
Thirty members of county AAA committees and office assistants from Cedar Linn Johnson Scott Clinton Jackson Jones and Dubuque counties attended a Tipton school of instruction led by Hervey Hazen Harold Andrews and Roy Dyas from Des Moines and Andrew district fieldman.
John Baettcher was attacked by a bull at the Robinson farm near here on Monday. He suffered three broken ribs and one crushed rib and is listed in critical condition after Robinson shot the animal.
The W. H. Gissell farm of 86 acres adjoining Waterville was sold to Herman F. Hillman of Waterloo for 65 dollars an acre. The Hillman family has moved to the well improved farm. In Hartley, three O'Brien county farms sold at prices from 102 to 130 dollars an acre. highest bid went to Ralph Geerdes for 160 acres east of Primghar. Mrs Ed Wolf paid Walter Jacobs 122 dollars per acre for a land section and August Goetsch 102 dollars per acre for a quarter section.
A large Gothic roof barn is rising on the John O. Meyer farm near Ossian replacing the barn burned recently. The blaze caused by spontaneous combustion destroyed the entire hay crop.
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