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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1935
Page
17
Washington reports the agricultural adjustment administration will delay next year’s corn loan program announcement until after the October 26 corn hog referendum. Officials say the postponement aims to avoid signaling a loan or price plans before the vote and that the loan will proceed next year regardless of referendum results, with likely security value tied to this year’s crop.
The item notes debate over proposed expenditures for drainage and farm-to-market roads. It mentions ducts and the neglect of long needed all weather roads, with a critical view of spending allocations and a time estimate of thirty minutes for a five rod drift.
To date 25 corn huskers from southern Iowa Missouri Kansas Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois have applied for husking jobs at the Grundy county Farm Bureau office. Another week will bring more workers to the fields but husking jobs remain scarce.
SHENANDOAH Iowa UP The AAA opened its campaign for farmer endorsement of its corn hog stabilization program Friday with a warning that rejection would lead to ruinously low hog prices G B Thorne director of the division of livestock and feed grains told Iowa dirt farmers to vote yes in the October 26 referendum on Do you favor a corn hog adjustment program He warned the effects of uncontrolled production would not be felt until late 1936 and abandoning the program would not cause an immediate price collapse
Special to The Gazette reports the Farmersburg and McGregor areas will soon run watershed erosion control demonstration projects. Engineers are surveying with farmers as a County Soil Erosion association organizes with Gottlieb Zurcher as chairman Grover Miller as vice chairman R H Moellering secretary Hale Corlett and Fritz Schrader as committeemen.
Iowa State College will send seven livestock judging team members to Kansas City for the American Royal show. Squad includes Loren Airy Detbs Joe Beving Ackles William Diamond Faulkner Herbert Tones, Fayette Lawrence Pease Farragut Bayard Sentt Mitchellville and Wayne Tyler Aston. Five will be chosen to represent Iowa State. coached by Prof Joe Holbert in the animal husbandry department.
Harvey Stickel, farmer south of Urbana, completes picking and cribbing twenty acres of corn. The dry corn yields an average of 50 bushels per acre. In northern Fayette county husking of corn begins as heavy rains halt soy bean work. Soy yields reach 30 bushels per acre with beans damaged by Oct. 4 freeze. Fall plowing resumes as soil dries. In Buckingham Ernest Bratton reports 30 bushels per acre of soybeans. Tama county sees influx of corn pickers from Missouri and Arkansas due to rumored high prices, with over sixty applicants in three days and many more farm to farm seeking work.
A West Union report notes a 50 acre hybrid corn tract on the Walter Stewart farm reaching nearly twelve feet tall. Among corn varieties planted May 22 to 29 the late variety is tallest. The field bears large, heavy ears, one per stalk. On the nearby A R Stepp farm a fifty two pound White Mountain melon is the largest grown this year, with Stepp farming melons for sixty years.
Rainfall of 0.96 inch fell Wednesday night per weather observer J T Ridler. The moisture helps fall plowing but delays soy bean threshing and corn husking with few farmers reporting corn ready for cribbing. some plan to husk and sort as they pick.
Heavy soaking rain fell in Elgin from Wednesday night into Thursday, improving ground conditions for fall plowing. Housewives welcomed the first good rain in two months as cisterns refilled.
Rains and bad weather delay farm work as Warner Brothers and other farmers northwest of North English start mechanical digging of several acres of potatoes on Wednesday.
Whittier consignors sold light yearling steers for 386 a head at a sale conducted by Jess Stiller half a mile east of Whittier. Cows, heifers, hogs and horses brought varied prices led by grass fed 1000 pound heifers at 540 a hundredweight and horses topping at 106. Auctioneer W E Chalhs of Lisbon and clerk O J Emmons oversaw the sale.
Evans describes Iowa corn and hog producers as they face the 1930 referendum on the corn hog program. He notes production efficiency, mixed hopes about government aid, contract pre audits, fears of regimentation, and the need to adapt as drought and foreign markets affect prices and supplies.
Secretary Wallace approves a four year rye adjustment program to cut production 25 percent from 1936 to 1939. Farmers will receive payments for harvesting 75 percent of their past average acreage, with initial 1936 payments at 20 cents per bushel. Local administration will be by county wheat associations.
Four grand champions were named at the National Dairy show in St Louis. Fair Fields Admiral from Plainfield Iowa was named champion Ayrshire bull. Harriet from Alfalfa Farm Providence Rhode Island was champion Ayrshire cow. Carnation Matador Masterpiece from Carnation Milk farms Seattle Washington was the Holstein Bull champion. Simply Sybil's Pallas from Hugh W Bonnell Youngstown Ohio was grand champion Jersey cow.
In Maquoketa, the Jackson county corn husking contest is set for October 29 with a venue to be announced. Ten contestants will be allowed, open to applications filed by October 26 with the county Farm Bureau. The winner advances to the state contest near Davenport on November 1. In Black Hawk, the 1935 county husking champion will be decided October 30 at the Ed Entz farm Cedar township. A forty seven acre hybrid corn field will be used and a team pulling contest accompanies the husking meet.
Davenport poultryman Harry Atkins will judge the Washington county poultry show in Ta. Washington November 26 to 30. Placings to be announced November 27. More than 400 birds expected. A state bantam show with over 300 entries and a meeting of the Iowa Bantam Association will also be held.
E P Hall of Mechanicsburg Ill Angus breeder and feeder bought 160 Angus calves on his 26th annual Iowa buying trip. The stock in North English and Parnell totals included 130 rail shipped and 30 trucked. M H Donohoe of Parnell joined the roundup. Temperature changes in milk may affect cream test.
Des Moines reports hog prices fell sharply across interior markets as supplies exceeded demand. Better grade butchers 25 to 30 cents lower, lighter weight hogs 15 to 25 cents down, packing sows 20 to 25 cents down. First four days’ receipts 53 500 head, heaviest since August. Midwest markets up 31 percent from last week but 51 percent below a year ago.
A series of sales listed includes a consignment sale in Anamosa on Saturday October 19 and public sales by Mrs H H Hanson near Swisher on Tuesday October 22. Events include a Holstein sale by the Iowa Holstein Breeders Assn in Waterloo, Hampshire hog sales by Orben Schoff in Lost Nation, a Milking Shorthorn Society cattle sale in Independence on Friday October 25, and a cattle sale in West Union on Saturday October 26.
The George Mc Masters farm of 320 acres southwest of Maynard was sold this week to G. R. McClement of Peoria Illinois for 20000. Mc Clement plans tiling fall plowing and immediate improvements on the farm. North English butter output rose 25 percent in September over 1934 with 108861 pounds produced. Ray Evans of Montezuma led producers with 436.3 pounds.
The Iowa Quality Holstein Sale at the Daily Cattle Congress Grounds in Waterloo on Tuesday October 22 features top purebred Holsteins, high record bulls, and foundation females. Animals are guaranteed by consignors and inspected by the committee amid a banner sale aimed at buyers seeking quality herd sires and near term cows and springers.
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