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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1934
Page
10
Shown showers across eastern Iowa on Wednesday night and Thursday morning aided corn pollination and pasture forage, easing effects of a recent heat wave. Forecast calls for fair weather Friday and cooler conditions, with temperatures topping around 90.
Precipitation details show twenty four hours ending Thursday at 7 a.m. 0.18 inch. July to date 3.97 inches versus normal 3.23 inches, excess 0.74 inch. Jan 1 to date 11.95 inches, normal 18.74 inches. Deficiency since Jan 1 6.79 inches.
Washington AP reports a sweeping shift in AAA wheat control tactics as drought tightens its grip. Officials consider returning to near normal acreages next year with a forage option if production must be restricted, while Mead warns semi arid farming requires irrigation and reserves to avoid ruinous losses.
The Benton County 4-H band of about forty members will perform at the state fair on August 25 and 26 during the livestock exhibits. A concert is planned at the Herman Franzenbure home near Keystone with details in the Gazette. The annual 4-H club picnic for Washington area counties is set for July 28 at Ainsworth, with Swine judging at 9 30 am at the Acheson farm.
Greeley farmer H H Holthaus cuts grain at night to protect his fine horses, hitching to the binder at 6 p.m. and working until 3 a.m. by moonlight and flashlight. Nearby Troy Mills reports variable oat yields from five to ten bushels per acre with some fields light and others good. Threshers in Stanwood and Sand Springs report poor quality oats and rotting shocks, while Riverside yields include 160 bushels from 35 acres and a high of 360 from 11 acres. Several horses die of overheating on hayloader work and a mare is lost near Troy Mills.
After sign-up drives in Jefferson and Oran townships Fayette County reports completion of sign-up meetings for second signatures. Jefferson township produced ninety five contracts with full practicality and little complaint on adjustment. Contracts will be sent to Washington with checks to arrive next month. In Decorah a rain deluge created floods between Decorah and Burr Oak with ponds forming from overflowing streams.
Secretary Wallace describes the Agricultural Adjustment Administration as providing a double benefit during the drought. He cites the hog birth control program saving about 50 million bushels of corn and the corn loan program saving another 50 million, while land under crop reduction contracts is shifted to pastures and hay. He notes increased cattle slaughter and orders field buyers to halt shipments for a week to ease processing strain.
Iowa County 4 H club members conducted their annual livestock tour led by Prof. George Hendrickson of Ames and County Club Agent R W Ashby. They visited multiple farm homes and took a field trip to Dutch Lake before a kittenball game to end the day. Patrons of the Monona creamery received 26 cents per pound for June butterfat as 66,033 pounds were produced. 2,449 sold to patrons, 60,736 shipped to market, and 2,848 sold locally.
The American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers reports for the week ending July 21 that butter production reached 10,294,879 pounds, down 35 percent from 10,668,477 pounds the prior year. Butter on the Chicago market sold on extras and standards at 24 cents, with futures for storage standards at 25.5 cents. oleomargarine sales in June 1934 fell 10.9 percent to 13,869,768 pounds, and six month totals dropped 41 percent to 110,372,178 pounds versus 115,037,452 pounds in 1933.
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