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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1934
Page
2
Iowa meteorologist reports uneven corn germination from drought and hard soils hindering cribbing. Some ears mature quickly while others remain soft or damaged by ear worms and mold. Soybean harvest nears completion as potato digging and apple picking proceed with better yields.
Farmers across Edgewood report a record soy bean season with J. Schacherer harvesting forty two bushels from three bundles. Will Hoefer and Frank Wiley also thresh beans, while Hoefer seeds buckwheat and sorghum cane. In Buckhorn Hans Skott senior silages soy beans with corn to boost protein content. Washington county reports fair corn quality due to drought and chinch bugs with corn cut for fodder as soy beans store for winter.
Jim Finney and Lee Folsom shipped a carload of heavy draft horses from Postville last week. Prizes paid farmers ranged from 100 to 175 dollars each.
The D D D prescription by Dr D D Dennis promises fast relief for eczema scales eruptions and rashes with a cooling antiseptic action. It claims thirty years of success and offers a guaranteed money back trial bottle from drug stores.
The article discusses farm policy tensions around the corn hog program and processing tax. It notes a supposed referendum on the 1935 contracts set to be submitted around Christmas and argues non signers will bear costs. It also suggests Cooperators are now covering costs for others due to new tax policy.
In Monticello and Columbus Junction markets, Helgens Brothers sold 35 Poland China boars for an average of 33 dollars, with a top boar at 182.50 dollars to J Hess of Worthington. A boat fetched 120 dollars from J J Conrad. Gifts averaged 16 dollars. At Columbus Junction the 13th annual sale of H J Oak and Sons sold 13 boar pigs at 19 dollars and 26 gilts at 15 dollars.
Iowa youths from Castana and Ankeny compete in national vocational agriculture events in Kansas City Missouri pairing with the American Royal Livestock Show October 20 26. Coaches and officers accompany delegates for the national F F A activities and chapter contests with state officials representing Iowa at the congress.
About 600 cattle have been slaughtered in Muscatine during the last three weeks by CE Richards and Sons under a government contract for drought cattle. Roughly thirty head are killed daily and the operation is expected to continue for about another month. More than 100 men have been hired for the work.
Wesley Burgett administrator sold the W N Clothier Estate farm of 157.5 acres plus a half interest in crop stock and equipment for 12500 dollars cash. Buyer Nathaniel Herz of Lead South Dakota, a mining engineer and chemist, takes immediate title and possession. tenant Harry Greenough remains. The two tracts lie near Fayette with paved highway No. 11 nearby.
The Iowa State Planning Board reports part time farming will increase in Iowa. Evaluation hinges on land quality, outside income, and social opportunities, with a focus on 829 families across seven cities and a Granger subsistence homestead program for fifty families.
More than 150 people attended the Cattle Feeders and Growers association barbecue at the West Liberty fairgrounds. Fred Kauffman of Moscow, president, welcomed attendees after dinner. George Godfrey of Town State College Ames gave the principal address on community life.
Center Junction dairy men gathered Friday to discuss cream quality improvements. Herbert Harmison of Dubuque spoke for the National Butter company amid a broader campaign by butter manufacturers and dairy extension workers to raise cream standards.
Homer Wilson, operator of a 6100 acre cattle ranch near Harrison Montana, discusses summer and winter head counts, contract feeding terms, and profits. He notes drought impacts, feed availability, pasture costs, land values, and high taxes while predicting higher cattle prices next year.
Livestock and farm equipment auctions announced across Iowa with sales by Glenn Wagner J B Sehusen Miller Duroc Page and Bowman and more. Events include Chester White and feeder cattle auctions in Central City Center Junction Lisbon Beverly Lost Nation Walford Swisher and Le Grand with 60 acre farm sale.
Maquoreta patrons received twenty eight cents a pound for September butterfat. Nine patrons earned checks over $100 for cream delivered that month. O. J. Bowman led with a $154.19 payment. The board voted to end on route cream tests starting November 1 to curb extraneous matter in the cream.
With 181 practitioners in the morning session and more than 150 expected for the annual convention, veterinarians from Illinois Missouri Kansas Nebraska Indiana Minnesota and Iowa gathered at the Montrose hotel Cedar Rapids. The program featured nutrition disease talks by H D Bergman and cattle practice by Ralph L West, plus a question box led by A T Kinsley. Over 200 attended Tuesday's banquet and ball with speeches by L A Merillat and film of Mechanicsville clinic.
In Decorah the Nordness creamery paid a net price of 26 cents a pound for September butterfat. The plant’s weekly butter output runs about 6,500 pounds.
The dairy industry has developed a plastic cream suitable for handling on a knife like butter. It is sold mainly to ice cream manufacturers and contains 80 percent butterfat.
A Fayette county survey of feed and livestock needs notes 184 farmers reported oats on hand and seed oats needed for spring. County Agent B. W. Lodwick reports 22 farmers listing 7 02? bushels for sale and 162 farmers seeking 22 260 bushels of seed oats.
Special to The Gazette Decorah reports three weeks of repayments on sealed Winneshiek county corn loans totaling 56 464 bushels and reducing outstanding loans to 25408 80 The largest loan cancellation was 2540 bushels by Senator W H Klemme Other cancellations were by Delia Olson FE J Thomas and E R Lomen.
One hundred thirteen head of cattle were received by the Cedar County Emergency Relief organization on Tuesday and are being pastured at the Raymond Wehde farm five miles southeast of Buchanan. The cattle, from the Colorado range, were shipped from Denver and will be slaughtered after a few weeks at an Emergency Relief processing plant.
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