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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1936
Page
12
Meat in cold storage fell in September despite heavy cattle calf and lamb slaughter and continued imports. Pork stocks dropped 59,197,000 pounds to 361,651,000 on Oct 1 from 420,848,000 on Sept 1, while lard beef poultry and cheese showed mixed changes and egg storage declined.
The annual Benton county corn husking contest sponsored by the Greater Vinton club with Carleton Knupp as chairman will be held October 27 at 11 a.m. on the Eldo Mayhew farm near Vinton. Entrants must list names at the Vinton Farm Bureau by October 23. The winner advances to the state contest near Newhall on November 5. runner up may also compete. Mayhew field covers 26 acres of hybrid No 939 corn with 80 rod rows.
Anamosa Iowa October 29 is the date for the fourth annual Jones county corn husking contest announced by Carl Smith county agent. The exact site is not yet chosen. The organizing committee includes Glenn Jones Anamosa Lee Streets Scotch Grove J E Porter Anamosa and August Hansen Oxford Junction.
Albert and Arthur Wallace of Williamsburg Iowa, twin brothers, earned second place with a barrel type cooler demonstration at the national dairy show in Dallas Texas. Two Harper Kansas boys won first in class A of the demonstration contest.
Special to The Gazette reports five months of gains push the Iowa farm price index to 136 percent of pre war normal as of Sept 15. Both prices paid and received rose 1 point from Aug 15 to Sept 15, keeping purchasing power at 107 percent of pre war levels.
A September dairy association report from the Ames Extension Service cites rapid pasture recovery in Iowa. About 90 percent of 1,260 herds were on pasture, hay feeding fell to 14 percent, and average butterfat per cow reached 20.3 pounds. High performing herds include South Hardin and Dallas-Boone with strong butterfat yields and listed owners such as J. N. Martin and Myers and Hickey among top producers.
Check writing machines will issue payments to about 6,000,000 farmers and tenants for soil conservation under the 1936 program. Initial 90 to 100 percent payments begin in multiple regions, with total disbursements running to roughly 470 million dollars and an average of 78 dollars per farmer.
Manchester county board votes unanimously to rehire Kermith S. Huehn as agent for another year at Delaware County Farm Bureau meeting Saturday evening.
County agents from ten northeastern Iowa counties extension staff from Ames and farmers toured the U S soil conservation service demonstration project in the McGregor Farmersburg area led by Superintendent W K Webster. The tour included terraces on ridge slopes seeded to winter rye to prevent erosion.
In the twentieth annual W C Anderson and Sons Poland China auction near West Liberty five miles southwest, a top boar sold for 125 via telegraph to Buck and Doe of Run Valley Farm in Coatesville Pennsylvania. Fifty head plus sows sold. second high boar went to Simon Whistler of Morrison Illinois. top gilt to Karl Schmidt Farmington. sows to Huggins and Son Fulton and Schroeder Nugent Stockton. Half of buyers from Illinois, half from Iowa. Auctioneers were Duncan and Gibson.
A sale two miles northwest of Oxford Junction fetched a 3400 pound team of gray horses for 316 dollars. A gray gelding sold for 40 dollars and cows to freshen brought 33 to 50 dollars per head. Feeding shoots sold for 5 dollars per head and alfalfa brought 13.75 dollars per ton. Mowry and Mowry were auctioneers Antone Blizik served as clerk. Herda will remain on the farm but rent the land.
A Jersey cow led the John Goeke farm auction near Waukon selling for 85 dollars. Holstein cows with cowtest records brought 50 to 80 dollars, two year olds 50, one year olds 34.50, calves 20 and 21, and sheep 7.50.
The Iowa farm debt advisory council urged continuation of the state farm mortgage moratorium law. Enacted in 1933 to last to March 1, 1935 and extended by the 1935 legislature to March 1, 1937, the council unanimously recommended its ongoing enforcement.
Greenwood farm near Keota hosts a two and a half mile southeast auction. Chester White sale organized by C Jurgensen from 434 miles northwest Olin. Hampshire boar sale at Lisbon by C J Sueppel. Cattle sale at West Union Auction Exchange. Beverly Cattle Co. conducts auction at Beverly.
Friday sale at Iowa Livestock Exchange Cedar Rapids features Poland China hogs from Helgens Bros six miles south of Monti. Auction highlights include standard market offerings and regional buyers.
On Monday October 19 Roscoe P Wilson conducts a Duroc Jersey sale ten miles northeast of Coggon with buyers expected from area farms and stockmen.
The eighty acres owned by Will Winkie south of Waukon has been sold to Simon Grotegut for 7000 dollars, or approximately 87 dollars per acre.
Real estate dealer E L Magruder closed the sale of the Harry B Wylie farm of 185 acres near Fulton to George Siegel of Andrew for 13875 with possession March 1. Wylie also bought Carl P Andersons 76 acre dairy farm near Maquoketa for 13875.
Delbert Sears is master as two hundred delegates attend the Iowa Grange state convention in Grinnell where Ralph W. Smith of Newton resigns after eleven years. Laverne Raffety announces Glendale Grange reorganized in Jasper county with 53 charter members. Wylie Kerns reports a new Grange formed in Poweshiek county with 44 charter members.
Clarence Mc Laughlin, owner of 400 acres near Monticello, discusses family land dating to 1837 or 1838, origins from Ireland via New York, and the farm’s crop mix. He analyzes price pressures, the corn hog program, AAA changes, soil fertility, and federal loans, signaling cautious support for Roosevelt and Henry Wallace.
Between October 1935 and September 30 1936 farmers in Jones county borrowed 15076.30 on 33572 bushels of sealed corn per report of the county warehouse board. Admin costs ran about one cent per bushel. Official sealers were reappointed for next year: T. J. George Monticello Herman Morrison Cascade R. A. Russell Anamosa and Wilbur Sopper.
More than 150 entries from eleven counties will compete at the first Northeastern Iowa Horse and Colt show in Oelwein on Friday. Committee members include Harry Flower, manager of the livestock exchange, H. L. McCarty of the Chamber of Commerce, and Ben Meyer, a breeder.
U S meteorologist Charles D. Reed reported that Iowa corn matured beyond frost risk. He noted Oct 7 and 11 frosts were light, husking is nearly complete in western and southern areas, and drought-hit regions still need heavy rains for wheat, rye, pastures, and water.
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