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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1938
Page
6
State meteorologist Charles D. Reed reports April rainfall in Iowa averaged about 30 percent above normal with moisture favorable for spring crop growth. Wet spots were limited and more than four inches fell in a belt across the state, aiding D MOINES crops and field work.
A poem recounts a narrator's comical battle with a June bug drifting through a bedroom. The insect buzzes relentlessly, dodging attempts to swat it, until it finally escapes through the window as the speaker resolves to install screens.
Elmer Lauer planted thirty acres of corn on April 29 and 30 one half mile east of Eldorado, the earliest corn planting on record in northern Fayette county. Apple trees lilacs and other early plants are blooming.
Charles Sick Jr. leads in corn planting northeast of Blairs Town with D F Newton and Sons and others soon to follow. Spring plowing remains, early potatoes up, gardens thriving, and strawberry beds in blossom signaling good yields. In Tipton South Bethel farmers report strong pig crops with one sow producing ten piglets in a straw nest.
The Department of Agriculture warned Midwestern corn farmers that expanding acreage allotments would lower income. AAA officials said good growing weather would reduce prices for corn hogs and cattle if allotments rose, maintaining a firm stance against broad readjustment. Claude Wickard met with Iowa leaders to discuss the issue as Governor Kraschel warned of inequities that could undermine the program.
Liberty league calls protest meetings across several states. Wallace allocates 40.39 million acres of a 94 to 97 million national allotment to 566 counties in the twelve Corn Belt states, a 23 percent cut from last year’s 49.4 million. Officials warn larger Corn Belt plantings could trigger mandatory marketing quotas.
Howard Dowell, feeder near Clarence, sold 73 hogs averaging 216 pounds at 8.25 per hundredweight, the top bid on Tuesday in Chicago. He also earned 8.10 per hundredweight for 19 hogs weighing 157 pounds.
Lucille Gove reports Linn County 4-H reaches 565 enrolled youth with a broad program of clothing construction, grooming, livestock demonstrations, and summer activities. The county club committee leads 16 girls clubs and 18 boys clubs with 340 boys and 225 girls, ages 12 to 21, guided by 32 leaders. Programs include livestock projects, corn and garden clubs, music, health, and parliamentary law, plus new features like a 4-H banquet, chorus, quarterly Headlines newspaper, and monthly instructional letters. National Boys and Girls Week activities and a planned picnic are also part of the year’s agenda.
New Haven Connecticut reports experiments at the Agricultural Experiment Station showing wider spacing increases yields. Dr Donald F Jones notes rows three and a half feet apart with plants spaced thirty inches yielded up to 87 quarts, with three and one half feet as best overall.
Neighbors from Mount Vernon aided Mrs. Ollie Duncan a recently widowed farmer northwest of town. On Wednesday fourteen tractors plowed forty acres to assist her crop work.
Eight Iowa stockmen earned top prices for cattle sent to the Chicago stockyards in April. Notables include Alvin Naeve and Robert Hansen of Clinton County at $10.40 per cwt for 1,225 and 1,160 pound steers, plus other high bids for shipments from Dubuque, Cedar, Plymouth, Jones, and Polk counties.
Tipton lays out plans for a demonstration on the James Reeve farm five miles southeast of Tipton Friday at 2 p.m. C W McDonald of the Ames extension service will supervise dipping about fifty sheep and discuss the new government wool loan. Cedar county may buy a tank, but no action yet.
Dr. K. W. Stouder Ames extension veterinarian will discuss sleeping sickness in horses at Cedar county farmers meeting at Tipton City hall on the evening of May 11.
In Cass township north of Anamosa, four Hoys met at Lester Fairbanks home to organize active club work. Willis Fairbanks was named president Eddie Marek vice president and Donald Fairbanks secretary treasurer. Other members include Kenneth Schlemmer Irvin Schlemmer Maynard Marek Carlton Latta Ray Larson and Fred Heiken as club leader.
William Meade, farmer near Holbrook, plowed eighteen acres in 11 hours using a two 16 inch bottom tractor plow. His son Bill managed the outfit during dinner, and Meade aided three neighbors Ed Spratt Hubert Ruth and J G Donohoe after finishing his own corn work.
Fayette county feeder Robert Meyers sold forty head of 1 270 pound steers in Chicago at nine dollars seventy five cents per hundredweight.
Anamosa Perry Russell of Jones County feeder sold eleven 224 pound hogs at Chicago for 8.15 dollars per hundredweight. This sale highlights feeder market activity among regional hog producers in the Midwest.
Chicago reports a new high in truck hauls with 63.0 percent of cattle and 66.8 percent of hogs moved by truck at 68 stockyards in March. First quarter totals show cattle at 61.6 percent and hogs at 64.4 percent, with calves 60.5 percent and sheep 24.3 percent.
The Greeley Cow Test association reports April results for 441 cows, 60 dry, with an average 741 pounds of milk and 23 6 pounds of butterfat. The McElmeel Holstein herd led with 1650 pounds of milk and 58 2 pounds butterfat, and a McElmeel cow produced 2304 pounds milk and 90 5 pounds butterfat.
Corn acreage allotments and soil depletion limits were mailed to Tama county farmers Monday evening by the agricultural conservation office in Toledo. Sixty five township committee men met Tuesday for an all day school of instruction led by the county committee and Burns Byram, county agent.
Tipton Frank Miller Cedar county feeder marketed thirty nine hogs averaging 284 pounds at Chicago Tuesday for eight dollars per hundredweight.
Anamosa-Schmalfeldt Brothers operating Jones county feeders sold sixty nine hogs weighing 205 pounds each in Chicago. The animals brought $8.25 per hundredweight, signaling strong demand at the market.
Tipton Martin Juchter of Ce dar county fed hogs weighing 262 pounds sold Monday in Chicago for 8.05 dollars per hundredweight. The transaction reflects the Midwest hog price level and local producer activity.
A country woman notes a brown setter dog waiting outside a tavern while its owner drinks nearby. The dog’s persistent howls echo through Main Street, prompting the man to retreat to the car in frustration, revealing a poignant portrait of canine loyalty.
Tipton students will compete in the FFA events at Ames during the Weishead celebration. Keith Bell Howard Lausen and Lewis Baer represent the Tipton agriculture department in the farm management achievement contest. Lester Dark enters extemporaneous speaking and Bob Eiler the farm forum audition. Twenty Tipton boys and four girls pursue superior scholarship and home economics honors.
Washington reports Thomas G Scott is named leader of the Iowa Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at Ames. He succeeds Logan J Bennett who took charge March 1 at the Pennsylvania State college unit. The Iowa unit, organized September 24 1935, involves the State Conservation commission Iowa State college American Wildlife Institute and the U S Biological Survey. Wildlife studied includes ring necked pheasant bobwhite quail waterfowl cottontail rabbit raccoon muskrat and skunk. Trial demonstration areas study ring necked pheasant bobwhite and other wildlife with improved management methods applied in the region.
Tipton Forest B Willer feeder in Cedar county received 8.05 dollars per hundredweight for 242 pound hogs sold in Chicago on Monday.
Sigourney farmer George Dillon of Keokuk county sold a shipment of 228 pound hogs at Chicago for 8.15 dollars per hundred weight on Monday.
Thirty-five stockholders in Blairstown voted to disband the Blairstown Shipping association and donate its $490 treasury to four local churches and the M. J. Kirby post of the American Legion. The inactive group has not shipped livestock for three to four years as most shipments are now by truck.
Chicago April receipts for cattle calves hogs and sheep fell 21.7 percent from a year earlier while total value dropped 6.7 percent to 17 928 000 the lowest April value in four years. Cattle receipts declined 12.4 percent with payments down 9 09 percent while hog receipts fell 13.2 percent and values 22.9 percent. Sheep receipts rose 7.2 percent from 1937 but brought 29 percent less money this April.
Cedar County 4-H girls rally day will be held in Tipton on June 10. County girls club chairwoman Mrs. Guy Wright announced committee heads for registration program luncheon and contests. The event will feature project plays talks games officer elections achievement recognitions and an honorary member initiation.
A fountain honoring Clinton county youth was unveiled in Clinton Sunday with services led by Rev. L Cleworth of Savanna Illinois. Attendees included Ernest O Work county agent M D Lacy John L Dooley county club agent Margaret Hansen county president of girls 4 H clubs Helen Creger outstanding county club girl Ralph Timmsen county boys clubs president Grover Miehe state boys 4 H president and other DeWitt residents.
Anamosa in Jones county hosts the final lesson in the food preservation project for 4 H girls club leaders on Thursday at 10 a.m. Miss Nelle Thompson Ames extension nutrition specialist will lead the session.
Paul N. Smith, president of a hybrid corn company based in Anamosa, spread five tons of rock phosphate this spring on his farm near Center Junction. The practice aims to improve soil fertility and corn yields in the area.
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