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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1952
Page
4
The Soil Conservation Service reports 1952 saw staff and aid to 2,404 districts up 88 from 1951, assisting over 700,000 farmers and ranchers. By year end 2,467 districts covered 84 percent of agricultural land with more permanent measures on 27 million acres.
A series of closing out auctions announced in The Gazette details timed sales of livestock hay grain and machinery. Participants include John H Holub Roy Dumond W H Sturm Dallas Meyer John Lensch Ralph Nash Newell R Ingram Forest Primrose and B C Fleming with locations near Palo Urbana Fairfax Springville Williamsburg Center Point and nearby routes.
The Linn County Soil Conservation District reports 72 new cooperators in 1952 raising total farmers to 330. Cooperators manage about 40 000 acres. SCS planners assisted 350 farmers on permanent conservation practices, with 50 existing cooperators and nine more starting plans.
Utah State tests at Logan by Dr. Clyde Biddulph found methoxychlor residues not detectable in milk from eight dairy cows fed treated alfalfa hay. Four slaughtered cows showed no measurable residues in blood or tissues. Previous DDT trials produced milk and fat contamination. Methoxychlor controlled alfalfa weevil larvae at an economical dosage and increased alfalfa yield.
The Linn County Junior Farm Bureau banquet and dance will be held December 10 at the Roosevelt hotel at 6 30 p m Newly elected officers will be installed Doris Jiroutek will show slides and discuss her Europe trip last summer Committee members are Edna Mae Kemp Ronald Meythaler Doris Jiroutek and Barbara Trimble.
A Calmar area group of farmers helped raise a 22 by 55 foot machine shed on the Joseph Giesing farm tenanted by Eugene Gnade. The fire on October 31 destroyed the shed granary garage and Gnade's tractor and farm machinery.
The report notes tractor overturning as the leading cause of fatal winter tractor accidents in Wisconsin and Kansas with several age groups affected and suggests winter driving risks. It also details necrotic enteritis in pigs, highlighting nitrofurozone and sulfa drugs as promising treatments, while stressing continued prevention. It ends with advice on keeping cattle warm in winter by maintaining roughage and protein, noting affordable wintering benefits for beef herds.
Delaware County Rural Young People vote in Manchester for officer slate headed by Duane Grimm as president and Dick Retz as vice president with Diane Kewney secretary Richard Morris treasurer and Virginia Kewney reporter. Counselors include Mr and Mrs Royjohn Duffy Mr and Mrs Verne Herman and Mr and Mrs Garth Culbertson. The group will hold its annual banquet at the Glen Charles hotel in Manchester on December 17.
Lyle Sutton Harold Reth and George Shearer all of Delhi are nominated for a six year term as commissioner of the Delaware county soil conservation district to succeed Maynard Schnittjer. The election will be held at the district annual meeting December 11 in the Manchester high school gymnasium.
Ames 4-H members travel to Chicago for the annual national 4-H club congress. Each was chosen for outstanding achievement in some phase of 4-H work. The meeting closes next Thursday.
Iowa's 1952 corn crop was the largest on record and the second driest at this point. Average moisture on November 20 was 15.1 percent with moisture ranging from 10.3 to 21.9 percent and a 58.7 pound average weight per bushel, the heaviest since records began in 1929.
L. J. Bodensteiner of the Dyersville area and a fieldman for the Northeast Iowa Farm Business Association will discuss farm topics. The session aims to share practical insights for local growers and farm operations.
Karl Wester and Earl Raun of Iowa State College urge ongoing anti-rodent measures around dairies. They recommend sanitation, hardware cloth barriers, tin top strips, poison bait stations, and regular checks. The note also mentions Cedar Rapids bank accounts and a December closing auction at Hartzell Owens farm near Palo.
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