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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1933
Page
4
Iowa reports place the 1933 corn crop at about 418 million bushels, well below the 509 million harvested in 1932, with yields per acre around 38 bushels and condition near 56 percent on October 1. Potatoes, flaxseed and dairy metrics show reductions from last year, while sweet potatoes and flaxseed yields are forecast at lower levels statewide.
A report notes Chester W as the principal figure amid a mixed set of figures and names including JaChenon and Clarette in a Chicago context with a 21 percent reference and a $3.25 figure. The fragmentary text references Pond Chester Westnat Sa and a MaQloreta Chereree tie or result, implying a financial or prize total of 525 dollars linked to a Chicago event.
Prodigal themes arise as Sharon Center community gathers time labor and food to support a funded project built without tax funds. Last year Johnson and Iowa county politicians were described as returning to the feast after subsisting on husks while Republicans may reappear after a season of lean times.
Special to The Gazette Belle Plaine The Benton county corn husking contest will be held Oct 18 on the G S Schild farm one mile southeast of Belle Plaine beginning at noon. Entry by 6 p.m. next Monday with George Peterman or Dr. J J Strandberg. Cash prizes awarded by the Belle Plaine Commerce club. District meet Oct 21 at Trier. Committee: Dr. Strandberg, Mr Peterman, C W Burnham, C R Snow, L L Falck. Washington contest Oct 28 on the Fred Palmer farm one mile east of Washington. Participants listed include Clarence Shull Crawfordsville Glenn Hahn Ainsworth Cecil Davison Alvin Hahn Willard Bell.
Twenty five Towa county wheat growers will cut acreage by 1786 or about 3570 bushels under production control applications signed by them, County Agent D H Zentmire reports. Signers cover an annual base of 1187 acres and 23783 bushels, about 42 percent of the county wheat crop.
Des Moines AP reports a swift harvest with corn husking rapid in northwest counties and spreading statewide. Farmers note dry corn husks and prices around 18 to 21 cents a bushel, soybeans threshing yields strong, potato yields above expectations, winter wheat sowing progressing, fall plowing near normal, and a cool dry week with morning frosts.
Washington AP reports AAA efforts to curb price increases on manufactured farm products to avoid alienating urban consumers from agriculture. Dr Frederick Howe leads this drive, with milk price protections and 30 day trial price accords from Des Moines to Baltimore. Wheat, pork, and cotton programs aim to cut surplus, raise producer prices, and stabilize markets amid emergency relief and unemployment measures.
Richard Whitely, three miles east of Fayette, delivered spring farrowed Poland Chinas averaging 151 pounds. They sold at five dollars per hundredweight, top for their class, on Tuesday in Chicago.
Sharon Center holds its third annual ox roast at the high school to raise money for the local school debt. Meredith and Ivan Maas donated the purebred Angus. Ray Van of Millersburg directs the barbecue with a nine by four by six foot pit. About 106 locals assist with plans and a carnival, as 700 people were fed last year. The school relies on tuition from districts for funding.
Iowa's fair season ended with the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo and was called the best in years by Secretary A R Corey. He cited profit margins at county fairs and larger expositions, a state fair profit near five thousand dollars, and receipts around 185000 against 175000 in expenses. Weather mostly favorable, with only a week of heavy rain hurting attendance in September. Livestock prices rose, breeders prepared for circuits, and shows improved in central and northern Iowa despite drought and pest damage to crops.
Residents of Akron and nearby areas plan a mass meeting Friday to discuss black fly control after reports of damage to poultry livestock and human bites. Dr C J Drake and Ray Murray will outline strategies as experts note river-origin swarms and proposed riverbed cleaning or a dam to deepen the water.
Friday October 13 livestock sale at Reload yards Cedar Rapids. Saturday October 14 farm sale south Cedar Rapids on Ely road Mrs Joe Metela. Monday October 16 farm sale 8 miles west of Anamosa by C V Brewer. Tuesday October 17 52 acre farm at Robins by W H Plughaupt.
West Union reports Mukden soy beans grown as an experiment on the Fayette county farm yielded only fifteen bushels per acre, far below the expected twenty to twenty five. Thirty acres were planted but drought in July and August reduced returns while vines stayed healthy to threshing. Most beans will be traded for exchange purposes with farmers allowed to trade a bushel of any soy for a bushel of Mukden.
Poweshiek county farmer Russell Fraker sold 139 hogs weighing 220 pounds at 5.55 each in Chicago on Monday. It was the top price reached and the highest sale since July 1932.
Riverside buyers purchased thirty-four spring-farrowed Duroc Jersey boars with an average price of 27.50 dollars. Ed DeVries of Wheatland Illinois bought the top boar for 75 dollars, while the Future Farmers club of Fairfield High School paid 50 dollars for the second high. Fifteen gilts sold with a top price of 15 dollars, with Shellenberger Farms of Argyle, Illinois, purchasing the top gilt.
North English farmers built several silos this fall including pit silos by Cecil Markwell T J McDonald George Thorpe and others. William Moffice Carl Johnson Glen Flory John Kirkpatrick Wilbur Miller and Orville Fry erected pit silos with Fry's reaching 118 feet and taking about two and a half days to fill. Fall plowing continues though soil remains dry and husking has begun but is not widespread.
Stockyards away from railroad tracks develop in Iowa as livestock trucking to market rises. One yard sits on G. H. Pixler premises at West Union and another, run by different management, operates at Hawkeye.
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