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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1933
Page
2
One thousand five hundred Iowa 4-H girls gather at the ISU campus for a three day convention featuring Lorado Taft the Chicago sculptor as keynote speaker Thursday on My Dream Museum. State officials and a slate of demonstrations cover lunch programs canning dairy and sewing projects with coronation and Festival of the New Corn closing events.
The Iowa Guernsey Breeders association sets its annual picnic for Thursday at the Iowa State College dairy barn. Fred Logsdon presides with R M Hughes welcoming attendees. Speakers include H H Kildee Dr F E Walsh M Mortensen C Y Cannon Clifford B Finley and James Kearns. Outstanding 4 H member J C Hornman and L V Wilson expected to attend. Classes for cows and heifers will be judged at the college barns.
A vintage health ad extols cereal as a remedy for sluggish digestion and fatigue. It claims ALL-BRAN provides dietary bulk to stimulate the intestines and vitamin B to tone the tract, promising restored energy and better daily performance.
A fragmented note describes fence drift entangled in woven wire in Winneshick County. The text evokes Nordic imagery with mentions of fjords and Norsk land, and references a person or author initials KA F A Twnbling. The passage reads like a quirky topographic description with twisted trails and tossed thrills.
Union Stockyards Chicago hosts a Holstein sale with 136 head selling for a total of 32615 dollars, an average near 240 dollars. Fifty four buyers participated led by E. E. Chapman who bought thirteen head around 3000 dollars. Top cow went to H O Norris for 1750 dollars who also bought the second high cow and others. Top bull was purchased by Joseph Hill for 1500 dollars.
DELAWARE Strawberries will be only one tenth of a crop due to excessive rain during bloom and drought. Raspberry and blackberry crops look strong if rains come soon. Plum and apple trees and grape vines show plenty of fruit. NORTH LIBERTY Farmers cultivate corn with some fields too small to plow while others are being worked twice. Oats heading short. First alfalfa hay cut this week, some clover hay also. Potatoes in fine condition but with bugs.
An Ames program on June 15 and 16 addresses land valuation under the national emergency farm mortgage act. The course targets land appraisers bankers and insurance and loan officials with topics on soil economics land utilization and finance. A Friday field trip will study soil planning and management on the Lewis Morris farm near Des Moines.
Jay C. Hormel of Hormel & Company proposes a deferred marketing system to lift prices for hogs and corn. The plan requires farmer registration of litters and hogs, county marketing permits, and pro-rated reductions to limit supply. It aims to prevent market glut and can start without tax support, with gradual, adjustable implementation.
The 4 1 Rally at Clayton county fairgrounds elected officers for both boys and girls clubs. Go-Getters and Merry Maids earned memory contest wins with high scores. A calf club baseball game yielded 9 to 8 with Better Farmers defeating Paramount. A Festival of the New Corn pageant closed the day with a grand march Maypole dance and coronation of the county 4 H queen.
In Reinbeck on Main Street 810 roosters competed for prizes as part of Rooster day events tied to Iowa egg quality improvement efforts. Ben Steward of Conrad entered the longest traveling rooster at 22.5 miles while Emil Runft entered the smallest at 1.4 pounds, with several other notable winners including largest rooster, ugliest bird, meanest, most by a participant, and longest spurs trophies.
Ames Iowa Dr A G Black new corn and hog administrator says the Agricultural Adjustment act will raise prices for all farm products by aiding seven basic commodities wheat cotton field corn hogs rice tobacco and milk and its products He notes the act also supports non basic crops like fruits vegetables and poultry through trade agreements to ensure fair returns and better marketing while easing debt burden as farm prices rise through inflation powers used by the presidency.
Wool buyers bid three to four cents above the pool price to 27 cents a pound as Linn County Wool pool gathered at Marion. The 7182 pound total beat last year by about 50 pounds and was shipped to Des Moines warehouses for grading and sale through the Boston national pool. Largest consignor was R. D. Elson of Toddville with 1283 pounds. others included R. P. Ink and Roy White of Mount Vernon. Boston notes government financed wool sale rules to protect growers and stabilize the market.
Bernice Cook of the Merry Maids 4-H club and leader Mrs. S E Brower attend the state 4-H girls convention in Ames this week. Liberty township is represented by Mary Denton and Lois Hotchkis.
Marketing of 17 000 ducks raised on the W. D. Grove farm near here will begin this week with the first lot trucked to the Chicago market. It is expected that twenty five to thirty trips will be needed to deliver ducks all summer. Grove hopes to hatch 6 000 to 8 000 more ducks this summer.
Winder M. 8. will address the four-county Farm Bureau gathering in Warner Hall on June 20. The program includes county representations by The Blain Little Gers man band and the mate quartet from Clermont and Pleasant Valley. A Parish show by the district Jersey Cattle club is also set for the afternoon here.
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