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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1938
Page
15
Inspectors say foreign material such as weed seed and stalk pieces lowers soybean grade while overall quality remains good. Ten to fifteen carloads inspected. moisture 10 to 18 percent, kernels largely sound. Prices around 65 to 69 cents a bushel with some contracts as high as 74 cents for beans delivered by truck.
The Louisa county corn husking meet is set for October 20 at 10 am on the Vick Totemeeter farm, five miles west of Morning Sun. Ten huskers may enter. five entries listed include Wade Scranton, Verne Wilson, Charles R Stodgell, Charles Morgan, and Harley McGul. Stodgell will skip this meet but compete in the state tourney at Ringsted October 27.
Roy Denzler was reelected this week as head of the Iowa county AAA committee. All other members also were reelected: J T McGarry as vice-chairman, Carl Al Maas as third member, and W J Hanson and Ben L Bean as alternates.
Health and age compel Henry Lang to hold a complete closing out sale of livestock equipment household goods and the farm. Sale Thursday Oct 20 starting 10 30 am featuring horses cattle hogs machinery oats corn harness and heavy farm implements. Farm located near Lisbin Mechanicsville and Martelle with details of improvements timber and pasture. Sale to be held with monied terms. lunch stand on site.
A tough break for W C Anderson and Son of West Liberty as their best Shorthorn cattle perish in a freight car fire near Topeka. The Muscatine county 4 H club youth who tended the herd had built a fine start toward a herd of his own. The Andersons vow to rebuild another fine herd despite the heavy loss.
Western Grain Dealers association will meet Tuesday evening in Des Moines for a dinner discussion with corn loan officials. Ed Ellison, state corn supervisor, and TI. L. Dieterich of the state AAA committee will attend, following a two day Independent Feed Dealers convention with an Ames livestock projects tour.
Iowa cow testing groups show September butterfat at 20.1 pounds per animal, the year's low. August had 23.9 pounds, July 25.9. Data cover 63 associations, 25,398 cows in 1,509 herds, with Linn No. 1 at 27.6 and high-rep herds led by F L. Miller & Son and R. HL Bowman & Son.
Ray Sheridan of East Lancaster township was elected president of the Keokuk county Soil Improvement association at a directors meeting. J. P. Tremmell of Clear Creek township was named vice-president and H. H. Shanafelt of Sigourney secretary treasurer.
Walker Farmers Cooperative creamery paid patrons 28 cents a pound for butterfat delivered during September. The notice appears as a farm sector market update in The Gazette with local producer pricing.
The Linn AAA committee announced the appointment of five corn sealers for Linn County. R L Stallnan of Fairfax Jay Milholm of Mount Vernon Floyd Emmons of Marion Henry Hood of Springville and Harlan Biggs of Walker will receive instructions and supplies Saturday.
The Farm Security Administration launches a low cost medical plan for low income farm families at $2 monthly. About 77,000 Dakota families qualify for emergency care under state supervision with loans of $116 per family for the year. North Dakota and South Dakota totals reach 37 000 and 40 000 respectively, with similar county programs in several states and counties.
Hog cholera devastates Millersburg area with a farmer reporting 92 hogs dead or sold from 105 head. Drought conditions persisted with needed moisture in short supply and winter wheat slow to sprout while cornfields remained dusty and hot.
Special to The Gavette notes silo filling finished around Wilton Junction as farmers await cooler weather to begin corn picking. Reports cite horse deaths from sleeping sickness and hog cholera. In Columbus Junction the John F Zion orchard near town harvests Golden and Red Delicious apples from 350 trees. apples weigh 17 to 19 ounces. Tomatoes for a canning factory and other crops grow between unusually wide rows.
Eighteen acres of corn in the field sold for 35 cents a bushel at the closing out sale of A Haylock ten miles northwest of Maquoketa. The 189 acre farm brought $32.50. The property includes a seven room house two barns and other outbuildings. Feeding shoats averaging 110 pounds brought $1025 each and heavier shoats sold for $14 a head. Milk cows ranged from $60 to $72.
D B Cooper, feeder near La Porte City, sold 23 head weighing 1 197 pounds each for 13.40 dollars a hundredweight, a top price of the season, in Chicago on Wednesday.
West Liberty breeder W C Anderson reports the loss of his entire Anderson and Son show herd of eleven purebred Shorthorns. The cattle were en route from Portland to Kansas City when a freight car carrying them caught fire six miles west of Topeka near Onaga, Kan. A spark from the locomotive reportedly ignited the car as the train traveled about 65 mph. Insurance covers the cattle’s value.
Prices bid and paid for all hog weights fell to the year’s lowest level in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota markets. Heavy receipts persisted as producers seek to outpace the price drop with large marketing. The Chicago and New York pork markets followed with declines in pork cuts and shoulders remaining steady.
Muscatine Iowa ships over 5,000,000 bushels of corn by barge this year to foreign and southern markets as river shipping grows. Elevator firms expect 1938 exports to top 6,000,000 bushels with Mississippi barges moving grain to New Orleans and other southern points. The inland waterways system and cheaper transport boost prices for farmers, while nine foot channel work aims to ease barge capacity and meet demand.
R Brookhart, a farmer near Columbus Junction, sustained internal injuries and an arm wound after being gored by a bull on Wednesday. He was transported to a Muscatine hospital for treatment.
Decorah October 22 has been set as the date for Winneshick county corn husking contests. A men’s contest and a women’s contest will be held at the Albert Newhouse farm near Burr Oak in the northern part of the county. A number of entries have been made.
The Farmers Grain Dealers association of Iowa announced a district meeting series with speakers H S Irwin and Paul Mehl from the Chicago office of the Department of Agriculture. Irwin addresses Emmetsburg Mason City Sheldon Sioux City Cedar Falls across several dates in October. Mehl talks Greenfield Oskaloosa Muscatine Marshalltown and Fort Dodge on dates in November.
W H Magdefrau the vocational agriculture instructor announced the weekly farmers night school schedule for Wednesday lessons. Topics include utilization of crops in livestock programs on Oct 19, pasture improvement on Oct 26, variation in crop yields on Nov 2, planning field layouts for conservation on Nov 9, weeds and their control on Nov 23, woodlands in a conservation program on Dec 30, seed treatment for greater profit on Dec 7, and graduation on Dec 14.
Jackson Grange officers were installed at a joint Montezuma meeting led by Merrill Soults as master and Clarence Catshall as overseer. Other posts included Mrs. Charles Richman lecturer Theo Chamness steward Raymond Tarvin assistant steward Mrs Bruce Cook chaplain Charles McNeal treasurer Mrs Roy Tarvin secretary Roger Fraizer gatekeeper Mrs John McKee Ceres Mrs Raymond Tarvin Pomona Mrs Gill Rutter Flora Faye Mikels lady AS steward Harry Otto executive committee and Mrs Clarence Cutshall porter.
Joe W. Johnston was reelected president of the Montezuma Shipping Association. Re-elected officers include Guy Hildebrand as vice president W. N. Stone as secretary treasurer and Howard Thompson as director.
Washington reports the 1938-39 feeder lamb outlook is uncertain. Shipments to the corn belt through September show a possible decline, while western states suggest reduced feeding after years of heavy losses. Feed supplies are up and prices down, but overall lamb feeding will hinge on Texas feeder lamb dispositions.
Auctions set for October include Anamosa Livestock Exchange on Saturday the 15th G W Minor closing out in Palo on Monday the 17th C J Sueppel Hampshire sale at Mount Vernon on Wednesday the 19th and John Butler closing out 113 acres five miles northeast of Lisbon on Thursday the 20th.
Professor W L Blizzard of Oklahoma A and M college, a renowned cattle judge, will award prizes in the 4-H baby beef show at the Ak-Sar-Ben exposition starting October 23. E F Farran of the University of Minnesota will judge fat market swine. Blizzard will select the grand champion baby beef.
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