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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1935
Page
10
Chicago price around 60 cents with an implied 45 to 46 cents to East Iowa growers. Weather and market factors noted as influencing corn loans. Weather updates emphasize western and midwest conditions affecting prices.
Four H club members examine food reservations and related practices in a local study. The report highlights the group’s observations and conclusions about dietary choices and meal planning in a community setting.
The Resettlement Administration opens a southern Iowa pasture improvement demonstration in Ottumwa with 1716 acres of land costing up to 25000 dollars and development funds of 9340 dollars. Ames station will custody the project. aims to show best methods to convert worn lands to pasture across 9800000 acres in 23 counties in Iowa and Missouri. Relocation plans accompany the project for farming families in Mahaska County choosing new farms.
Three county corn husking champions from eastern Iowa emerged in recent contests. Kyle Gerstenberger of Ocel Wen Fayette County freshman at Upper Iowa University posted 257 bushels on the Joe Woods farm near Fayette. Dwight Hoyle of Washington County gathered 296 bushels in the 80 minute meet near Washington. Lester Spire of Tama County led Tama results with 31.4 bushels and advances to the state contest Friday at Grover Hahn farm northwest of Davenport. Fourteen qualifiers for the state meet are eastern Iowa men including Spire and others from Benton Cedar Jones Jackson Muscatine Wapello Grundy Marshall Scott and Louisa counties.
A Country Woman lauds the corn hog program amid fears and hopes about base allocations and processing taxes. She cites a farmer with 700 acres who lacks hog base, argues for full support, and notes farmers differ on changes while Triple A debates loom.
A farmer reflects on payments from the corn hog program and the relief it brings. She notes the check helps meet costs as he plans to farm his own land and considers whether the program should continue.
Bruce McCullough working for Raymond Malthie three and a half miles north of Mount Vernon husked 200 bushels of corn in ten hours and forty five minutes. The feat equals more than a third of a bushel per minute, attested by Malthie and by Dick Ritzel who hauled the corn and returned the wagons. McCullough never left the field except for a dinner hour.
Bert Erickson on nine acres near Wadena harvested 768 bushels of corn from hybrid seed No. 942 averaging 85 13 bushels per acre. The crop matured well with no mold and husking saved about one dollar per acre according to Erickson.
Onstow D J Wasson sent a load of 998 pound yearlings to Chicago for Tuesday market selling at 10.75 dollars per hundredweight.
The soils department of the conservation service mapped Werner Johanningmeir and Grover Miller farms in McGregor this week. Base maps cover W C Ihlenfeldt A W Schrader and Gottlieb Zurcher farms. inventory will expand. Tama silt loam dominates, prone to erosion without proper measures. Thirty men work at the State Bank Trust quarry in McGregor for the Farmersburg McGregor watershed project, supplying rock for soil saving dams and construction. A farm inventory survey will guide erosion control and lime additions where needed.
South English reports Mrs J Sassaman orchard owner S B Wenger harvested 725 bushels from 102 trees of sprayed apples. Varieties include Golden Delicious Red Delicious King David Grimes Golden Jonathan Stayman Winecrisp Senator and Blask. Ren Davis reports the bounty for The Gazette Special.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports September farm product sales at 636 million dollars, up from August and September 1934. AAA benefit payments totaled 56 million, with 406 million in benefits for the first nine months of 1936. If trends continue, 1935 total farm income could reach about 6.8 billion, versus 1934.
Iowa officials warn farmers about a corn racket where unregistered truckers pay with rubber checks and ship grain to Missouri. Gien Schmidt and M P Conway report multiple fines and jail terms for participants as authorities pursue suspects working with local sheriffs and Missouri police.
A rundown of auction events includes Town Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids on Friday November 1, R L Wintz farm sale in Central City on Saturday November 2 and Mayer and Rice Holstein sale 342 miles west of Central City on Wednesday November 6.
Washington AP reports economists expect a 3 to 5 cent per pound rise in turkey prices for Thanksgiving, about 50 cents more for a typical family turkey, while hotels and large buyers may pay similar to last year. Higher feed futures may offset turkey production cuts, with storage supplies helping keep prices down.
Nine Jackson County youths assisted John Zirkelbach in a one acre Maquoketa test comparing hybrid seed to drug and home-grown varieties. The Maquoketa hybrid averaged 86 pounds per acre, with Krugvaints maturing at a Sloveer rate and a local teacher A G Hollett overseeing the project.
Sand Springs Co Op reports butterfat price at 29 cents 20 cents per pound for September. The terse filing notes unspecified transfers from the Sataal Creamery and other firms with costs and payments in the month.
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