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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1936
Page
53
Linn and Benton county farmers protest the new soil conservation and domestic allotment act. They argue the plan penalizes good farmers with high soil conserving crops and rewards overproducers, urging a more local farmer controlled program before government support.
Waubeek limestone crushing with a capacity of 12 to 14 tons per hour started Thursday at the Waubeek quarry on the edge of Waubresk. About 65 WPA workers are employed. agricultural lime is supplied free to cooperating farmers in the Indian Creek watershed project.
Solon V Breza bought the Charles Moel estate farm of about fifty acres three miles east of Solon at auction for 110.25 an acre. The property is grassland with fifteen acres cultivated and sits on a rock road. buildings are in good repair.
Marengo residents can continue to use the Town county Farm Bureau income tax service for farmers. Kenneth Disterhoff will aid farmers in filing state income taxes with locations in North English Monday, Victor Tuesday, Williamsburg Wednesday and Thursday, and Marengo Friday and Saturday.
Washington provides a Q and A on the new soil conservation program. It explains purpose to conserve soil fertility and pay farmers for switching from depleted crops to soil building crops, with about 44000000 to be distributed in 1936 and average payments near ten dollars per acre. It notes bases, county committees, and lack of firm application deadlines.
Eastern Iowa farms edge into spring with Raymond Becker and neighbor Mike Sieren turning sod in Keokuk and Jefferson counties. Oats sowing begins in Richland area while rains leave soil sticky and fields soggy delaying planting in northern counties and delaying oats until next week in central regions. In Lost Nation roads remain impassable as farmers stockpile wood and repair harness ahead of spring field work.
Fayette county farm superintendent C D Carvey bought a team of black draft horses from W F A Rabe of New Hampton for $500 last week. The purchase was made to improve farm work and transportation for county operations.
Eighteen carloads of feeder steers averaged 815 per hundredweight at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock show in Fort Worth. Feeder heifers averaged 708, with Hereford calves dominant in the entries. Grand champion steer was a Hereford from the Duncan ranch, sold for 1.40 a pound, while the carrot class top brought 15 a hundredweight for Herefords entered by Mason 4 H club boys. Price levels for other livestock included a grand champion wether lamb at 1 a pound and Hampshire barrows up to 33 cents per pound.
Barley sold for 3514 cents a bushel while oats moved at 2644 cents and corn at 45 percent. Broad sows averaged around 33 to 3750 dollars a head, fall pigs 1950 dollars each. Horses topped 118 dollars, milk cows 56 to 58 dollars, stock cows 35 to 55.50, feeders 63, yearlings 27 to 34, tractor 64. Sale totaled over 5300 dollars.
Meadowbrook farm near Marion received a team of two purebred Clydesdale mares, 4 and 5 years old and about 1600 pounds each, bought in Bangor Wisconsin. Guy E. Hillier of Cedar Rapids owns the farm and also acquired a Holstein herd from Lake Geneva with nine delivered and ten due Monday. The Meadowbrook stock includes 203 Leghorn and 130 New Hampshire chickens.
The Van Buren County Farm Bureau Credit Union declared a 414% per cent dividend Friday at its annual meeting in Keosauqua. The cooperative serves Farm Bureau members only and provides short term small loans to farmers. Each member with a $5 stock receives 4% annual dividend for the three years of operation. Arthur Secor, county agent, is secretary and treasurer. AG Baldwin of Farmington is president and W B Els of Milton is vice president.
Allamakee county farmer Dewey Leppert sold a shipment of cattle on the Chicago market last week. The bulk consisted of lightweight short-fed heifers priced at $7.25 per hundredweight.
Dysart farmers will grow about 900 acres of sweet corn under contract to the local canning plant, announced by manager C. W. Fort. This is about 1,500 acres less than last season’s crop.
Linn county Farm Bureau posts home project training schools this week. Tuesday at Franklin township Mrs. Lee Stinger home. Wednesday at College and Putnam townships Mrs. William Klinsky home. Thursday at Clinton and Fairfax townships Mrs. W. C. Taber home. All meetings start at 10 a.m.
A Swedish agricultural report notes that sixty percent of farm income comes from milk and milk products. The finding highlights dairy sector dominance in the rural economy and implications for farm policy and market stability.
The South Iowa Pasture Project 15 will reach peak activity by April 1 with 190 WPA workers. The 1,450 acre demonstration spans Union Decatur Monroe Appanoose Davis and Van Buren counties and aims to convert worn out cropland to productive pasture through reseeding lime fertilizers and pasture rotation. Five farm families will gain access to more productive land as Ames agricultural station takes over operations.
Maynard Co operative creamery patrons received forty one cents a pound for February butterfat says secretary C H Paul. M and A Petratz Fayette county farmers east of Sumner bought sixty ears of corn at 16 cents each at the Brem er county Farmers Institute auction. Germination division 30 ear samples sold for five dollars each. With the Petratz bid the corn is estimated to average fifteen to sixteen dollars a bushel. Collars that fit when spring work starts may prove too large as the horse becomes thinner from work and must be changed or a pad used.
A public sale at the Gottlieb Schmickle farm located 213 miles west of Alburnett and 15 miles east of LaFayette on Rock Road is set for Saturday March 28 at 1 PM. The auction lists 2 head horses and cattle including 6 Durham cows to freshen in April, 32 Poland China hogs, grain hay and machinery with numerous farm implements and vehicles. Terms are cash with George Price as auctioneer and R. B. Schmickle as clerk.
A series of upcoming farm sales listed by date. Iowa Holstein breeders sell at Waterloo on March 24. William Hansen runs a Dixon horse sale on March 25. Francis Watson closes out at Mount Vernon. Zack McArthur holds a public sale five miles northwest of Shellsburg on March 26. Gottlieb Schmickle hosts a sale 214 miles west of Alburnett on March 28.
In Linn county a co operative rural electrification project gained momentum with a Marion meeting. About 140 attendees formed a temporary organization as Rex B. Conn prepared a feasibility survey to Washington for an REA project. Temporary officers include Glen Stoner as chairman and Owen Bremer as secretary with a slate of directors.
West Liberty reports 390 cows, 57 dry, in the West Branch Cow Test Association during February averaged 545 pounds of milk and 24.7 pounds of butterfat. Ralph Branson led with 1,033 pounds of milk and 36.7 butterfat. high cow was a purebred Jersey from L. A. Whitacre herd, 1,267 pounds milk and 72.2 butterfat. Oscar T. Strand tester.
George F. Turnis, a Delaware county farmer, sold twenty steers averaging 1 255 pounds on the Chicago market for 9 85 a hundredweight.
The earliest mention appears in a 2838 BC materia medica attributed to Chinese emperor Sheng Nung, noting soybean culture as part of medicinal knowledge.
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