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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1938
Page
7
Ames extension horticulturist Ray Edgecombe reports excellent fruit prospects in eastern Iowa, with orchards in Johnson County in good condition and little winter injury. He demos pruning using the Michigan method, highlighting easier pruning and better fruit quality for Red Delicious apples.
A NY & COUNTRY WOMAN column extols zippers as a fast, reliable alternative to buttons and hooks. It highlights ease for mothers sewing for girls, saving time on buttonholes and plackets, and envisions further uses like zipping heels, patches, mittens, and shoe soles.
Charles Smith sold a giant Poland China hog at Edgewood stockyards weighing 740 pounds. Spectators mixed betting with guesses within ten pounds of the mark as estimates said the hog would yield a barrel of lard.
Secretary John R. Flick reports Cedar Rapids area raspberries and strawberries in excellent winter condition with raspberry acreage the largest in years. The cooperative received 175000 pint boxes 3200 pint crates 100000 quart boxes and 2500 quart crates at a total growers cost of 1950. If carried over from last year totals would be 35 percent higher. Filling all boxes and crates will take two months and employ about 750 berry pickers mostly from Cedar Rapids.
4 H leaders and older girls attended a Cedar Rapids training at the Y M C A where Miss Gladys Adams reviewed clothing label terms such as pure dye aqua sec crown test and mercerized fabrics. The session covered care of artificial silks and tests for silks and synthetics and will be shared at local 4 H club meetings with list of attendees from Cedar Rapids Mount Vernon Fairfax Ely Marion Alburnett and several others.
Johnson county Junior Farm Bureau members planned an evening program at the Cc S A hall featuring an old fashioned spell down a potluck supper and a talk by Prof John Thornton. Committee in charge included Fremont Isaacs Glen Yoder Clotilda Lynch and Lucille Winborn. The group had held a surprise party for Willard Horn last Friday who is moving to California with his parents.
Fort Worth report confirms Mathers Brothers of Mason City Illinois won the Shorthorn division and Elliot Brown of Rose Hill Iowa won the Angus division on Tuesday at the Southwest Exposition and Fat Stock Show.
The Gazette farm page corrected the funeral date for Veterinarian John Schrader at Oxford Junction. The service was held Wednesday morning, not Thursday as previously reported.
Horticulturist S W Edgecombe demonstrated the Michigan method of pruning apple trees in a Iowa City orchard. The new approach, tried for the first time this year in Iowa, is recommended for trial by fruit growers and information is available from Ames.
At the E B Lynch farm near Anamosa, sows bred for April farrow sold for 4650 dollars per head, while sixty fall pigs averaged 9.60 and seven sows brought 4 dollars each. Cattle and calves sold strong, work horses topped at 101 dollars, and soybeans traded at 4.30 per ton. Wilbur Colby acted as auctioneer and John Carville as clerk.
Fayette County Veterinary association met in West Union with thirteen veterinarians listing attendees from Des Moines to Oelwein. Dr. Glew of Maynard presided as thirty-seven practitioners from nine counties attended the March meeting discussing horse sleeping sickness.
Farm auction notices list events at Iowa Livestock Exchange Cedar Rapids on Friday March 18 Bobst sale near Robins on Saturday March 19 and Charles Guhl sale three miles southwest of Olin on Tuesday March 22.
M. F. Sullivan is chairman of the Johnson county agricultural conservation association. He announced a series of meetings to explain the 1938 farm program to farmers across townships including East Lucas West Lucas Jefferson Monroe Scott Big Grove Cedar Madison Hardin. Sessions run Thursday through Friday at various local halls and courthouses.
Washington credits show farm product prices fell about 24 percent in the last year but retail food prices dropped only 7.3 percent. Economists note prices of inputs farmers buy declined 4.5 percent, limiting consumer gain.
Forest Hamlett of Fayette owns a 12-year-old registered Holstein in Fayette Cow Test association No 1. The cow has four high producing daughters, two of them twins, all in the herd. The first two daughters averaged 400 pounds of butterfat as two-year-olds on twice daily milking. The twins, now two, have averaged 40 to 50 pounds of butterfat monthly since freshening, per Morris Swenson cow tester records.
Cedar county feeders Tipton Rich Hulse sold forty two hogs weighing 273 pounds each at Chicago Monday for nine dollars thirty five cents per hundredweight.
Tipton Schroeder and Schwein, Cedar county feeders, received $9.35 per hundredweight for forty 269 pound hogs marketed at Chicago Monday.
The Scott brothers George L. and William H. purchased 233 acres from Equitable Life Insurance at $90 per acre cash. Tenant James Wetherbee will stay until March 1 1939. The property features Tama silt loam soil, cost, a large residence and farm buildings, with all land tillable and no stones.
Brooklyn resident Allen Langofe, member of the Power Shiek Jasper Cows Test association, uses mules to thresh soybeans from hay. He feeds hay to the animals, lets beans stay in the manger bottom, then grinds the soybeans for a protein supplement in cow rations.
Stanwood Cooperative Storage association reelected all officers at its first annual meeting. William Davidson is president Harry Smith vice president Paul Busching secretary and treasurer. Directors named Ed Crist Guy Wright Ralph Wilson and Henry Voelker. William Hansen is manager. One hundred ninety lockers in use.
Mrs. N May Larson of the Ames extension service will meet with the Allamakee county home project committee and township leaders in Waukon on March 29 to outline the new project for the fall start.
More than fifteen tons of pork yielded from 120 hogs butchered by C. A. Orris of North Liberty during the season. The carcasses produced 4 800 pounds of sausage and 6 056 pounds of lard, excluding ten large hogs finished by other owners. Orris worked on farms and at his North Liberty wood-house operation.
A new boys 4-H club formed in Oneida with fifteen members led by Evlon Maurer and County Agent Edward Molin. Projects include purebred hogs hybrid corn baby beeves market litters and dairy calves. The second meeting is set for April 11 at the Floyd Ryan home.
Ames report shows 23 701 herds with 558 993 cows on production test as of January 1. U S total associations 1 106 up from 992 a year earlier. Iowa ranks seventh with 59 test groups and 1.6 percent of all cows on production test in 4.6 percent of eligible herds. California led last year by percent of cows on test at 129.
Ames Rainer Schickele of the State Planning Board farm tenancy committee said nearly 4,000 questionnaires on farm tenancy are being summarized from the ninety nine county hearings. The count may rise with mail distribution to others requesting forms. Questionnaires are available from the Iowa farm tenancy committee secretary at 314 West Eighth Street Des Moines for return.
Washington AP report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics states no marked change is expected in the general level of farm prices over the next few months.
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