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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1934
Page
6
The 1935 Iowa outlook warns of a severe feed shortage and higher meat prices. Economists at Ames forecast smaller pig crops, lighter hog slaughter, and potential distress selling in northern Iowa. They urge careful feed and livestock inventories to avoid a 1936-37 price collapse.
A light verse about a squirrel outside a window who roams all summer and returns. The creature leaps between branches with circuslike flair and ends with a playful note that the squirrel is perhaps nuts but full of fun.
Oneida vocational farm class students mix cement and gravel in a mass concrete project. The group uses large projectors and rotates tasks to learn material quantities and basic construction steps while working after regular club hours.
Edgewood farmer F. J. Thurn harvested Buckwheat on two and a half acres using a 50 year old cradle. Ten hours of cradling and bunching yielded 102 bushels, over forty bushels per acre, to make 3,000 pounds of flour. He sowed for pancakes and honey for bee colonies. The high grain yield credited to bee activity and late honey.
Iowa farmers gain access to 5 percent loans for fattening livestock through 17 local Production Credit associations linked with Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming. Since April over 4 million dollars has been loaned across four states, with plan for farmer ownership to eventually replace government stock as associations operate independently.
Wednesday November 14 features a purebred hog sale by Frank Zimmer located half a mile south of Garrison. Thursday November 15 sees E M Wetherbee’s closing out sale two miles southeast of Central City. Beverly yards host a cattle sale.
Secretary Henry A. Wallace will be awarded Iowa State College’s 47th honorary Doctor of Science at Ames after his address “Six Decades of Corn Improvement and the Future Outlook.” The ceremony ends the Iowa Corn Research Institute symposium, with about 200 visiting botanists attending.
Farm Bureau survey shows Johnson county farmers must supply over 20 percent more seed oats for 1935. Of 106 respondents, 8,874 bushels needed vs 6,715 on hand, held by 17 farmers. Only 570 bushels are this year’s crop. prior years yield 5,085 from 1933 and 60 from 1932. Varieties include To gold Iowa 103 Iowa 105 Towar gopher and green Russian.
Four thousand gallons of sorghum were produced on the Major Brockway farm near Hawkeye after a nine week run day and night, concluded this week.
Drought relief directors in Osceola discuss measures under the state feed and livestock program. Rex Beresford urges placing a cow or heifer on each town farm to cut cattle feeding needs. Community canning centers and county committee roles are outlined. Davis County shows declines in livestock and corn, while meetings proceed in twenty counties to coordinate relief efforts.
In Clutier a neighborhood group formed the Cluter Belgian Breeders Colt club by buying a Belgian stallion from Dv gert Bros of Manchester for 2500 dollars. The 4 two year old weighs 1800 pounds and placed fifth in the Belgian class at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress. Each share cost 50 dollars with 20 years of local farming history in the project. Fred V' Hushak presides the club with Harry Rambow as vice president and Joe Has as secretary treasurer. A director board includes James Found Vincent Caslavka and John Sedlacek.
One hundred surplus hogs turned over to FERA by Washington contract signers will be slaughtered at Davenport and returned for distribution to needy families in the community. Barford Van Dyke oversees the surplus hogs program.
In Marshalltown Iowa the Four Horsemen from Grundy county defeated the Four Mules from Marshall county at the first regional corn husking contest. Each man on both teams has met or surpassed the state record. The Horsemen claimed 8 842.60 pounds to 8 520.11 pounds for the Mules and issued a challenge to any other quartet in the state.
Washington farmers in drought regions will keep access to emergency feed loans for their foundation herds this winter if they stay current on payments and show intent to repay. The Farm Credit administration reports loans issued without chattel mortgages to speed aid, with careful review and a focus on repayment.
A Manchester consignment sale at the fairgrounds drew $1300 in cash. E. J. Hopkins announced the results. A three year old 1700 pound horse sold for 100 dollars. Fifty head of cattle sold from 28 to 32 dollars. Steers brought 22 dollars and heifers 21 to 23 dollars each. Fifty head of 50 pound pigs sold for 2 dollars each.
Elberon farmer Frank M. Dvorak, north of Elberon, wears a sheepskin coat and mittens while hitching four horses to a binder to harvest a second oat crop. He jokes about whether threshing or barn storage is more profitable and notes the odd look of winter gear used in farming.
Edgewood D W Wilson, a former four mule northwest of Edgewood, topped the Waterloo market with twenty four spring pigs. The Spotted Polands were farrowed in late February and early March and averaged 270 pounds at sale. They were fed no grain until corn was mature enough for green feed.
About 25 percent of fodder and stove quotas in Iowa will be contracted, reports from county offices say after the November 10 deadline. Sixty contracts from three Town counties plus Indiana and Illinois were received, with full totals not yet estimated. Plager’s office notes rising hay prices push farmers to feed fodder and sell hay as drought relief aims progress. Me Plager visits Ames for fodder inspector training.
A farmer, beneficiary of the AAA program, returned a government check rather than fight nature. In a private letter to the AAA he explained pigs will have piglets and his influence cannot curb the litter, calling his action the only "square thing."
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