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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1937
Page
12
Tipton instructor M. A. Crary reports over 14 years 410 students in vocational agriculture. Among 321 farm boys 53 bought farms or are buying 42 rent farms and 290 engage in agricultural work. Town boys 89: 1 buying farm 1 on farm 2 in related work. 77 in nonagricultural jobs. Crary notes farm boys gain more from the program.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates creamery butter output in May at 178 811 000 pounds, a 38 percent rise from April. First five months of 1937 total 632 920 000 pounds, down 2.2 percent from a year earlier, with Minnesota and Iowa showing notable declines despite national gains.
Assessors reports show 58.9 percent of Iowa farm land was tenant operated on January 1, higher than 58.4 percent a year earlier. The Iowa agriculture department counts 20,215,104 acres rented, matching a two year high and continuing a tenancy rise since 1926 when 52 percent was tenant operated.
Cedar county beef cattle producers schedule their annual tour for June 29 starting at 9 am at the Ben Penningroth farm near Tipton. Stops include the Gus Goldsmith farm south of Clarence and the Wright farm near Bennett. A Rochester picnic lunch precedes a speakers program with C. W. Snyder of a Chicago livestock paper expected to speak.
Special to The Gazette Washington reports a bumper Kentucky bluegrass seed crop with 4,000,000 to 4,350,000 bushels produced, surpassing all prior years by about half a million. Weather, moisture, and livestock trends boosted yields though Nebraska, South Dakota and parts of Iowa saw below normal output.
A West Branch Iowa couple, Arvo Uuskallio and Georgetta Chamness, wed after a photo of Georgetta inspired his emigration from Finland. The family includes Foster Mabel and twins John and Pauline, with Georgetta’s Quaker roots and Ida Chamness noted in the story.
Urbana farmer uses a $25 low voltage hot wire to creep hogs and keep pigs from crossing the fence. Maquoketa residents John Schreiber and Jack Schumacher report quick setup and cost savings with a six volt system powered by a dry cell. Posts every rod and one wire deter cattle horses and hogs, with a plant at $39.50 delivering up to fifteen miles of energized line.
Washington officials announce that from July 1 the grade Cereal Oats will be renamed Thin Oats in the U S grain standards. Thin Oats are oats with more than 20 percent other matter and will pass a 0.064 inch sieve. The change, prompted by grain trade confusion, covers both by product oats and thin oats shipped from country points.
Ed Grimm farm four miles west of Millersburg began cutting a 21 acre rye field this week after September sowing. Meantime J F Puff reports alfalfa hay yields from eighteen acres four miles northwest of Hazleton and notes hog pasturing earlier in spring. Elsewhere Winneshiek county reports corn conditions improving and soybean stands strong as poten tial harvests advance. Johnson county has dispersed over 6000 pounds of poison grasshopper bait across fields.
U.S. ports received about 1.6 million bushels of Argentine corn last week, with total domestic marketing at major terminals around 2.26 million. Argentina’s new crop was revised to 360 million bushels, leaving a sizable exportable surplus and a 379 million bushel total supply. South Africa’s crop is trimmed to 80 million.
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