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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1934
Page
10
Federal statistics office in Des Moines projects Iowa soybeans as grain totaling about 1.2 million bushels for 1934 from 100000 acres at twelve bushels per acre. Crop reporters note 1933 output was 820000 bushels with 1927 at 276000. hay yields also discussed and state plans on commercial use and feeding.
Analysts discuss bean meal capacity and ethanol related needs. Centerville and Cedar Rapids Bech mills run large scales with 106000 bushels annual capacity, while a new 750000 bushel plant is planned. Experts say mills must reach at least 100000 bushels to be economical, with costs around 20000 to 50000 dollars.
Lawrence Gienapp, renter on 200 acres southeast of Oneida, discusses Grange membership, community cleanup, and farming controls. He notes hybrid corn use, quotes hog and corn quotas, and cites Ames Short Course influence on his seed choices.
Steers sold for top price of 4.75 per hundredweight at the Anamosa livestock sale. Buyers and market handlers reported strong demand with several lots of cattle trading near the peak.
Fragmentary OCR lists items for a public sale including a 2 year old sorrel colt and cattle numbers. It references potatoes and other farm goods but specifics are unclear. The dated line suggests sale on MONDSNY OCT 22 with items from farming stock and produce.
September averages from Allamakee Manchester Fayette and Fay ette cow test groups show milk yields around 434 to 553 pounds and butterfat from 161 to 206 pounds. Notable producers include Karl Simmons herd and John A Rector herd with high butterfat figures.
A Des Moines survey shows the feed supply in Iowa's 31 drought counties at 15.5 percent of normal with livestock at 75 percent of average. Total feed 794,840 tons vs 5,284,000 normally. corn 420,000 vs 3,356,000. oats 59,840 vs 499,000. hay 324,000 vs 1,432,000. Pasture conditions near zero until fall rains improved to 22 percent of normal. Total livestock Jan 1, 1934: 2,331,800 head. shipped since then 888,820. Rex Beresford of Ames notes fodder on southern farms largely fed up.
Ray Van of Millersburg bought the James Ballard farm of sixty five acres northwest of Pleasant Grove for one hundred dollars per acre. The deal reflects a total price of six thousand five hundred dollars for the Midlands area farm.
Threshing has begun in the community with yields averaging eighteen bushels per acre. Arnold Wendland threshed 73 bushels from four acres and Ed Newman 36 bushels from two acres. Nanfred Osmundson ground soy beans for feed, finding them ripe dry and mealy. Wendland and Newman will save theirs for seed. Corn shredding remains a common farming practice.
Oren Bolin of Tipton selected as one of the team representing Iowa State College at the international judging contest to be held in Kansas City Friday and Saturday.
A series of farm auctions announced: October 19 livestock sale by Orben Schoff at 1 mile east of Lost Nation. Town Livestock Exchange Sale in Cedar Rapids. October 20 consignment sale at Anamosa. October 22 closing out sale by John St. Bowers at one mile west of Toddville. October 23 public sale by A A Le Grand at 3 miles SW Walford. 60 acre farm sale by Mrs John Cejka at 2 miles SW Swisher.
Bolin, enrolled in the farm crops and soils department at Ames, will judge the contest. Other colleges entered include Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas and Minnesota.
ALSIKE GROWERS BID $21.83 CWT. Prices offered to growers of al sike clover as of Oct 2 averaged $21.85 a hundredweight basis clean seed. This compares with $14 two months earlier. The October 1933 price was $11.25 and 1932 it was $8. The five year average (1927-31) was $18.15. About 65 percent of the crop had been sold by Oct 2 as the upturn spurred seed movement. Seed quality, per shippers, is fairly good.
The Benton county corn husking contest will be staged October 29 at the Greaser Brothers farm five miles west of Vinton. Entries close October 25 at the Vinton Farm Bureau office with a cap of twelve. The event starts at 10 a.m. judged by County Agent W A Geiger and timed by Superintendent W T Weems. The winner hauls the most husked corn in eighty minutes after deductions per rules.
The Washington chamber of commerce announces its annual corn show for next month with County Agents William J. Roudabush, Leslie Eicher, and Vernon Witting leading the arrangements. The business men's organization offers 50 in prizes and will host a dinner for entrants and local businessmen and farmers after the event.
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