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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1934
Page
8
Statewide effort reports 1672 average per county from 78 counties with 180416 signatures on hog and corn reduction contracts by April 13. Totals by state include Missouri 19000 and Wisconsin 3300 while other columns show Mississippi 750 and Kansas 68000 indicating a broad campaign across regions.
The Iowa state 4-H basketball tournament will be hosted in the MCA gymnasium at Waterloo on April 6 and 7. Fifteen teams from Webster Linn Scott Franklin Muscatine Floyd Fayette Tama Marshall Poweshick Mitchell Black Hawk Winnebago and Wright counties had entered by week’s end. Eligibility requires one year of 4-H club work and enrollment for 1934. players who took part in the 1934 state high school tournament are ineligible.
In a plainspoken appeal mothers affirm that foil-of-Salt provides relief for burns cuts and scalds. The ad claims widespread use and guarantees a 50 cent refund if customers are not satisfied, urging keep-on-hand readiness for emergencies.
A fragmented reminiscence contrasts past and present youth smoking. The narrator recalls 16 year olds, contraband papers, and Dukes. He notes the ban on tobacco fuels curiosity, reflecting on his own era and the enduring urge to smoke despite rules.
The Linn Association No 2 reports March totals from 414 cows, averaging 298 pounds of butterfat and 630 pounds of milk. E C Forest of Mount Vernon led with 19 Holsteins producing 444 pounds of butterfat and 1 207 pounds of milk. Huston and McKinnon of Cedar Rapids ranked second with nine Grade Guernseys, and R F Smith and Sons of Ely third with 13 Jerseys. The top cows in Forest’s herd yielded 851, 748, and 719 pounds of butterfat.
Iowa farmers will begin keeping full farm records under the AAA program after district conferences. Extension workers say proof of compliance will be due next winter and 9,500 Iowa farm record books plus 600 loose leaf books were ordered by county agents and chairmen.
Iowa state corn-hog committee announced it has not recommended any special fence post type for staking contracted acres. State secretary Ralph Smith said posts must be substantial and visible, with county allotment committees directing marking decisions in each county.
Fred Ross of Oelwein told the Adult Night school audience that poultry raisers fault their own neglect for chick mortality. He warned a homemade chick mash costs about 125 dollars per 100 pounds and meat scraps can substitute for tankage in mash.
Orville Auman and his father John W Auman northwest of Marion developed a herd of twenty two Angus cows from a twelve year 4-H purebred heifer project. The herd includes the original cow and her calves, with calves often sold as feeders to 4-H baby beef club members. The head sire is Black Art S 381984 from Henry Schmuecker near Blairstown.
February production at meat packing establishments in the seventh federal reserve district fell 27 percent from January and was 5 percent above February 1933 payrolls. Creamery butter output shrank to its lowest since 1928, down 8 percent from January and 15 per cent below the 1924 33 average. Sales tonnage rose 3 percent from January and stood 8 percent above the average.
The forty ninth annual Holstein Priesian Association of America meeting in Baltimore the week of June 4 includes a national sale of sixty pure bred Holsteins from coast to coast and Canada. A dairy educational program and tour of a breeding establishment start Monday with the convention business on Wednesday at the Lord Baltimore hotel followed by banquet and dance hosted by Maryland breeders. The week ends Thursday with a purebred sire sale of thirty Holstein bulls and a Washington, D C tour.
Ames reports a schedule of twenty five summer conferences for vocational agriculture teachers from March 28 to April 26, listing city-by-city sessions in Mt. Vernon, La Monte, Clarinda, Red Oak, and other towns. The Gazette notes a separate butterfat record set by Winterthur Dad B M K in senior three year old cattle, and Linn county corn loans totaling 338477440 on 856932 bushels with five liens filed.
Farmers Mutual Creamery at Sand Springs paid 29.5 cents for February butterfat, up 10 cents from a year earlier and about fifty percent overall due to higher volume. Manager Ed Cox reports egg department volume up 213 percent from February 1933 with average farmer prices 41 percent higher.
The Tipton high school FFA swept the sectional grain judging contest with 3 157 points for first place. Vinton, Olin, and Maquoketa trailed. Individual honors went to Earl Rohlf Tipton 1085 and Claire Gardner Tipton 1075 among others.
Calmar Creamery has bought Ellingson lots for 1000 dollars and plans a fireproof modern brick creamery. Estimated construction cost ranges from 10000 to 12000 dollars with erection to begin soon.
In Monmouth Ir an owl named Baby Hoot owned by Mr and Mrs R G Walters once hatched up to 35 chicken eggs in a batch but on the most recent attempt only four chicks emerged indicating a drop in hatching success for the owl acting as a hen.
Thirty four boys from Sigourney Winfield Fairfield and Moulton competed in district Smith Hughe s grain and live stock judging contests. Winfield won grain judging with Roy McAlister as high man Sigourney placed second Fairfield third. Fairfield won livestock judging with G Stever as high man.
D. R. Shepherd of Ames reports that 25 088 barberry bushes and 10 365 seedlings were destroyed on 1767 properties across seventeen Iowa counties in the last field season. In 1933, 161 properties were found with rust spreading barberries, a decline from 1932 due to more survey and eradication work.
Harvey Stickel is the first farmer near Urbana to complete sowing oats marking the early field work in the region.
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