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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1932
Page
5
A special report from Des Moines notes a sustained hog price rise the longest since June with prices up 40 to 50 cents weekly. Higher futures reflect tight hog receipts, strong margins against corn, and producers delaying sales to maximize pork value.
An auction notice lists fencing at 11 o'clock sharp on Thursday November 17 with 8 horses and 50 cattle including calves heifers and cows, 70 breeding ewes and a buck, 80 goats, and machinery such as McCormick Deering binders plows and wagons. Also 500 bushels of corn and other feeds plus harnesses and tools. Lunch on grounds.
Special to The Gazette Oneida high corn outyielded the low by 37 bushels per acre in the Reid’s yellow dent corn variety grown on the Gienapp farm two miles from town. The open pollinated class experiment by Oneida school vocational agriculture students showed a yield of 97 bushels per acre.
Carl Seiler from Knox county Illinois won the national corn husking title on the Robert Peterson farm near Galva Illinois. He earned a net 36 914 bushels in eighty minutes and broke Elmer Williams 1925 world record of 35 8 bushels. Walter Johansen of Audubon county Iowa finished second with 35 2 bushels. Orville Wicks of Wright county Iowa placed eleventh with 22 12 bushels.
Results compiled by R. L. Amsberry show Gienapp corn at 97 bushels and Matthews Screaming at 95.4 with Rector at 90 and other varieties ranging from 88.2 to 60.6 bushels. The top two high yielding strains were introduced in the community in the last three years and the Screaming variety ranked third in last year’s tests.
The tenth annual Cedar County Poultry and Corn show in Tipton runs through Saturday with 600 ears of corn and 330 chickens on display. Judges Lindley Hoopes and Harry Aikin awarded top corn prizes to local and nearby students and farmers, while Tipton vocational agriculture students led poultry judging with 1,224 points.
A new hog house and a poultry house are being constructed on the L. D. Guernsey farm in Geneseo township, while a new foundation is laid for a barn on another farm west of Dinsdale, currently owned by an insurance company.
Inland township Farm Bureau members present The Hitching Post on the evening of November 17 in Bennett school auditorium. The Bennett community band will furnish music.
Ames Iowa farmers will learn cutting curing and canning as the 1932 33 Iowa home butchering campaign opens with C W McDonald leading demonstrations in multiple counties including Johnson Iowa Dubuque Linn and Benton. County farm bureaus cooperate.
Consignment sale at Gibson barn West Liberty on Monday November 14. Public sale at Lisbon by W E Challis on Tuesday November 15. Closing out sale by George Horesky six miles south of Mt Vernon on Thursday November 17.
Frank Robinson near Morley reports an 80 bushel average from 30 acres with corn of excellent quality. He is the first to complete husking in the area and the yield is noted as a top.
A group of Water loo Unemployed Relief corn huskers who finished picking on the William A. Kinsinger farm near Grundy Center were hosted Wednesday at the Kinsinger home for an oyster supper with apples and popcorn and a musical program. Earlier in the week they were treated to chicken with noodles and desserts in appreciation of their work. the men were paid in corn meal.
Patrons of the Rowley Farmers Co operative Creamery receive payments for the first half of October butterfat at 20 cents a pound, same rate as last half of September, per secretary A F Sloan.
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