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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1934
Page
4
Federal Meteorologist Charles D. Reed warned that seven days of drought in Iowa threaten milk and cattle. Dust on grass has killed cattle in at least one county and chinch bugs may spread as pastures dry, though light rains yielded little help.
Drought w threatens crops across the upper Mississippi valley and western states with water shortages in Illinois Iowa Nebraska and Utah. Crickets dust storms and frost damage hit oats pastures and alfalfa as planting slows awaiting moisture.
A brief note reports soft spots on highway No 10 between Edgewood and Colesburg. The writer describes spongy road sections likely caused by recent rain or snow. Caution urged as the bluffs erode and Elk Creek bottoms darken with seasonal growth.
The Iowa state hospital Holstein herd in Independence earned multiple top mentions in the 1933 Holstein-Fresian Association of America honor list. Lady Ormsby led with 22,246.08 pounds milk and 710 butterfat in her class. Johanna Mercedes Alcarta posted 191,897 pounds milk and 7105 butterfat. Pietertje Mercedes Ormsby Fahe placed sixth with 197,408 pounds milk and 6567 butterfat. The cows are milked four times daily. Co L Bayer is herdman.
Manchester County Agent Kermith S Uuetn and Superintendent R L Amsberry will host ten night meetings this month to inform Delaware county signers and producers about the required farm records under the corn-hog contract.
Iowa State College extension circular predicts lighter hog supplies from May to September due to a unfavorable corn hog ratio and corn shortages. Fewer pigs from last spring’s crop will reach markets after May 1 while contract obligations may push some sow marketing up and reduce summer farrowings in 1935.
Ames Iowa farmers can apply for limited seed supplies of Waconia Orange sorghum and Iowa Hybrid corn 942 and 939. Waconia Orange sorghum seed yields well and is suited for syrup making with one pound planting a quarter to half an acre priced at 15 cents per pound, 25 cents for two pounds, and 10 cents for three or more pounds postpaid. Hybrid 942 and 939 are sold by the peck or five pounds at 65 cents, and 942 outyields home varieties in the north central Iowa area while 939 is similar but with a stiffer stalk and better standability.
The rhythmic click of a check rower echoed over eastern Iowa as warm weather arrived. Carl White on his Marion farm planted sixteen acres of alfalfa sod and aims to finish by Wednesday under a government crop reduction program. Potatoes in the same field have sprouted and await growth.
Iowa ends the corn loan program effective April 30 with more than 50 million dollars paid to farmers. County records show 10 000 bushels sealed in Benton and 1 575 Benton county farmers involved. Grundy County reports 1 514 197 bushels sealed by April 30 with 681712.65 dollars paid at 45 cents per bushel. Des Moines officials note the program’s closure and its impact on growers.
Secretary of Agriculture Ray Murray plans to attend a Chicago gathering of marketing officials from twelve Midwestern states to discuss uniform marketing agreements for produce. The conference, called by H M Newell of the Illinois department, will include Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin Indiana Missouri Kentucky Kansas Ohio North and South Dakota Illinois and Iowa representatives.
Everett Hayes president of the Washington county 4-H boys clubs will represent the local organization in the state contest at Des Moines this year. He has four years of active club work and has earned trips and prizes on pig club placings and placed fifth in the state health contest at the state fair. Winners of the two best boys and two best girls club records receive trips to national club camps in Washington DC.
Grinnell Grinnell Livestock Exchange consignments sold 364 cattle and 249 hogs plus one horse on Saturday for a total gross of 10147. The event drew local buyers and highlighted strong demand for livestock in Grinnell.
Keith Noll of Charles City eastern Iowa field man for the emergency seed loan division of the Farm Credit Administration says the Minneapolis office has extended the deadline for applications to May 15. Farmers needing credit for seed may obtain information at any Farm Bureau office.
DES MOINES AP Merritt Greene vice chairman of the Iowa farm debt advisory council says weekly county debt councils are reaching distressed areas and helping farmers regain footing. He notes loans are conservatively based on production value with nominal interest and that land is valued by what it produces. Scale downs in debts are possible when present mortgages exceed secured land value.
The Chicago stock yards paid the highest price since October 1932 for heavyweight steers, setting a top of 9.50 per hundredweight with other prices also rising.
The Fayette Cow Test Association No. 4 reports 379 cows, 30 dry, averaging 119 pounds of milk and 28.8 pounds of butterfat in April. Sixty-six cows produced over 40 pounds of butterfat, with nineteen over 50. K. J. Kerr of Postville led with 1,309 pounds milk and 43.1 butterfat from 19 Holsteins. high individual butterfat hit 71.9 pounds in Kerr’s herd. Other top herds include Mrs GC Schroeder and Sons Clermont, Walter Dullard West Union, R F Learn Elgin, J C Mathews Elgin, Grant Lauer Eldorado, Harold Hammersland West Union, G O Grimes West Union, Max Grafenberg West Union, M C Deering Clermont, plus herds of Lucian Appleman Clermont and Karl Miller Elgin. J Neal Sheets notes feed, breed, and weed as the program for dairymen.
The Des Moines show named the reserve champion as Buff Orpingtons from Gordon hatchery in Marion. White Minorcas won the grand champion entry from Atkins hatchery in Davenport. Gordon White Rocks also placed, amid nineteen White Rock exhibits and about 3000 chicks overall.
The Mesquakie Indians on the Tama reservation will begin spring planting ceremonies Thursday on McIntosh hill near the Willam Davenport farm. The four day event includes prayers dances and rites with mid day highlights. Visitors may view the customs due to public interest.
Ames reports from twelve large buying stations show 68 950 pounds of hens sold in the third week in April down 10 262 pounds from last year while other poultry moved to 10 624 pounds. Poultrymen profited by selling poor layers as market prices stayed favorable and egg prices failed to rise enough to justify keeping them.
Milk cows sold from 23 to 35 dollars at the Columbus Junction consignment sale Tuesday. Calves brought 4.60 per hundredweight, steers 4.90, veal calves 3 to 6 each. Broad sows 8 to 10, pigs 1.50 to 4, horses 25 to 35. Seed corn 1.50 per hundred ears, sweet corn 0.15 per lb, asparagus 0.15 per lb, steel fence posts 0.25 each. Auctioneers Paul Klotz and H M Duncan. clerk Farrell Smylie.
Rye near North English reports farmers starting corn planting as George Thorpe completes Iowa's first corn planting last week. Hundreds of acres likely to be planted this week if dry warm weather holds. Blairstown farmers also plant corn though rain is needed for fruit trees and gardens show little growth due to moisture shortages.
Des Moines AP reports Dr. C. Drake state entomologist will head the anti chinch bug campaign. He will direct statewide efforts with barriers funded by the Department of Agriculture and shared costs with benefited farmers. A county group system will run the campaign with officials named at a Tuesday meeting attended by Secretary Ray Murray and Iowa agricultural staff.
LOWDEN The Farmers' Cooperative Creamery at Lowden paid twenty six cents a pound for butterfat received during March. Henry Werndt, east of Lowden, was awarded the buttermilk contract at 40 cents a hundred pounds.
Independence reports a new cheese factory receiving its first truckload of milk on Tuesday. The plant anticipates processing 30,000 to 40,000 pounds of milk each day.
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