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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1939
Page
2
Farm population of the United States on January 1, 1939, was estimated at 32,059,000, near the all time high of 32,077,000 set in 1910. The gain in 1938 was 240,000, with births at 747,000 and deaths at 305,000, offsetting rural migration trends.
The first car of new crop barley arrived in Kansas City last week and tested 46.5 pounds to the bushel per the weekly grain review. The shipment came from Liberal Kansas. Barley quotations fell to 215 cents for the week, with No 2 at 42 cents and No 3 at 40 cents. Corn advanced in the Midwest, Texas prospects seen as best in years. Kansas City cash corn closed the week down 1 1/4 to 2 4 cents, with white corn most affected.
Special to The Gazette. In Ames the seed laboratory reports many inquiries about loose and covered smut in barley. Loose smut is more prevalent this year and hits Spartan and Velvet varieties hardest. Distinguishing the two smuts matters because covered smut can be controlled with Ceresan, now used in seed treatment centers in Iowa. The head infected with loose smut appears black early, with smut masses enclosed by a whitish membrane, but details fade as the season advances.
Government policy and river developments disrupt farming in the Mississippi bottoms. Dams raise water levels preventing drainage and leaving hundreds of fertile acres out of production this season. Muddy conditions near the Turkey River Junction ferry hurt travel to Cassville Wisconsin.
Porter notes covered smut resembles loose smut early on but hardens in heads and cannot be controlled by Ceresan. Only hot water treatment works, though it is tedious and impractical except for seed destined for plots where seed can be saved. Seed treatment also controls seedling blight organisms like scab and root rot.
Washington authorities announce the second lamb grading demonstration and marketing pool of the season in Washington county, scheduled Wednesday morning from 6 to 10 am. E L Hegg of Iowa City will grade, aided by County Agent J W Chandler and sheep association officers Robert Owen Glenn Dunbar and R J Tanner. In the first grading, 212 of 226 head were sold. last year’s second grading saw 425 lambs with 85 percent sold.
Winneshiek county schedules a lamb trading demonstration and marketing pool this week at Decorah from 7 30 to 10 a m Friday with the event listed in the editor's note.
Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports May marketings of grain fed cattle rose sharply and may stay higher than a year earlier. Declines in cattle prices follow, hog numbers rise seasonally but hog prices slide to late 1934 levels, and lamb crops face drought impact with rising ewes yet lower per centage of lambs saved.
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A COUNTRY WOMAN laments lack of balance in nature and life. She questions why rain brings destruction and why multiple troubles collide. She seeks a revised standard of proportion to appreciate beauty and order.
Independence reports first alfalfa cutting in Buchanan County shows good quality but below normal yield. Corn and oats show mixed progress with some fields laid by and others thin or weedy. Potatoes benefited from favorable weather and soybeans and pastures improving. crop prospects remain positive overall.
Twenty five counties named by Mrs Sarah Porter Ellis to exhibit home project work at the state fair. Booths will illustrate homemaking practices studied by Iowa farm women and contribute to the women’s program. Exhibits cover five fields with five counties per field.
Special to The Gazette Luana The 100 acre H Diedrick farm near Luana has been sold to Mrs Anna Gentz for $13 000 or $130 an acre Possession will be given March 1 1940.
Johnson county will receive an REA project with 340000 dollars for 283 miles of wiring across Scott, Clinton, Johnson, Cedar, Muscatine and Louisa counties. Townships Fremont Pleasant Valley West Lucas Liberty Sharon and Union are to be served by the new system.
Moira Carewe and Tarleton Griggs love despite his father Joseph Griggs social ambitions. A hunts meet, a fatal jump, and a beauty-shop accident collide with class and passion. Moira nurses a burning accident victim as Dr. Rodney Stone recalls a past encounter.
An earthquake Saturday destroyed Pomacanchi and Chuquichuana in Peru. Eighteen people died and 40 were injured at Pomacanchi, with no casualty reports yet from other areas. Aid appeals were delayed in dispatches released Monday.
A dull November afternoon rages outside Deverney s Beauty Parlor as New York society women seek warmth and beauty for an endless social calendar. Mrs Rules sits in Moira s booth, returning to Tarleton Griggs introductions, three times as often as before.
Wes Vogel, a farmer near Jesup, reported the loss of 250 six week old chicks in a recent house fire that affected his property last week.
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