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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1933
Page
9
Farmers in Tama county have a temporary organization ready to administer the corn and hog adjustment program announced by Secretary Wallace. County Agent Mills says operation can begin soon, pending printing of contract forms and applications from Washington.
A fragmentary poem describes flying above the clouds in a plane and the surreal vision of heavenly light and snow like billows. The narrator recalls Adam and his descendants with reverent tone and references God’s cigar metaphor as a muse.
Special to The Gazette reports shredding starting two weeks early as corn dries well and fodder stays in good shape. Yields run about forty bushels per acre while elevators offer 17 to 18 cents a bushel, though marketing remains light.
Dysart farmer Hugo Kroeger trucked fifty cattle weighing 1100 pounds to Chicago this week. Moeller and Son shipped forty four cattle and 180 hogs, totaling 357 pounds each, to Chicago as part of the consignments.
At Scotch Grove two miles west of town Helgens Brothers sold 34 Poland China boars for an average of 22 dollars. Master Stroke, a yearling boar from Sept. 4, brought 80 then 85 dollars to buyers Morrison and West Salem. The top price was 85 dollars. other high bid reached 40 dollars. Two hogs were bought by the Anamosa Men's Reformatory.
A large barn on the Mrs. Rachel Shate farm three miles south of Belle Plaine burned Wednesday night. Straw from thirty acres of oats and ten tons of timothy hay were consumed. Belle Plaine fire department arrived and prevented spread to adjacent buildings.
Edgewood patrons of the Farmers' Creamery received payment for September butterfat at 25 cents a pound. During September butter sold for 25 to 28 cents, with current prices around 27 cents per pound.
An 8 room stucco house on the Robinson Brothers farm will be moved to the Willard Robinson 160 acre farm west of Silver Creek church. An entire new set of buildings will be constructed except for the house.
Advertisement notes that buyers seek livestock and farm machinery via Want Ads. It promotes cost efficient placement to attract cash buyers to the seller’s location.
The Hardin county United Farmers propose a resolution urging Governor Clyde L. Herring to declare an embargo in Iowa on livestock grain and processed products until prices rise. Judge John Wirds of Iowa Falls chairs a committee to lobby other farm groups in Des Moines, with Ed Ward Jake Starr Grover Kinney on the panel. If action is delayed, community farming at 50 cents a day could prevail, Wirds warns.
North English The September producer patrons for the English Valley Co operative creamery are listed led by W D Sparrow Keswick 525 4 pounds Paul Peiffer Keota 489 5 Harry Morse North English 431 1 AL Brittain Hayesville 385 Mrs Anna Bauer North English 379 1 Ralph King South English 365 7 Charles A Morse Webster 333 6 Albert Greiner Wellman 321 Ernest Bremer Kinross 317 1 Alden Morgan Keswick 302 3 The September batter make totaled 64085 pounds up 11292 pounds 22 7 percent from a year ago.
John Brandt president of Land O Lakes creameries in Minneapolis is invited to speak to northeast Iowa dairymen at a meeting to be held in the area within two weeks.
Clarence Bockes of Palermo township won the Grundy county corn husking contest on the Harold Brown farm near Grundy Center with 2,698.9 pounds net and 38.5 bushels in eighty minutes. Joe Grimmins and Elke Hendricks followed, with Ben Grimmius Jr and Dale Bockes in fourth and fifth as Palermo township entrants dominated the field.
Elias Shaffer estates near Troy Mills host a Thursday auction while Knox county contest tryouts occur at Seiler's east of here. Seiler, holder of a national 36 914 bushels in eighty minutes, won last year near Galva Illinois. In Black Hawk county Herman Mordhorst tops with 1678 pounds of corn in eighty minutes at Entz farm Cedar township. Harold Loehr second with 1526 pounds.
Oneida Iowa AP reports Carl Seiler national corn husking champion will start his title defense in the state rubbin derby at Granville NL on Friday November 3. Seiler, by virtue of his national title, is not re-
Arnold Lindaman of New Hartford won the Butler county corn husking contest on the Dick Tellinghuisen farm with 1 745 pounds husked in eighty minutes. Ed Oltman of Allisons placed second with 1 693 pounds. Sixteen contestants competed.
The Poweshiek County Farm Bureau announces its annual banquet on November 3 at Montezuma High School. The event will feature a home talent three act play directed by Alice Wheeler, a county chorus, and the Madison Township male quartet.
Wilton Junction reports a sizable rise in year construction activity with projects on town and country farms. Notable items include chicken houses and barns financed by Edwin Wieck John Tuefel and M Comstock among others. repairs graveling and painting completed by local builders and residents.
Peak grain markets in July boosted freight car loadings 40 percent from June 1 to Oct 1 versus 1932. Earl C Berry Rock Island agent reports 167 carloads shipped in four months this year vs 116 last year. July shipments 64 this year vs 29 last year. June also up by 18 carloads due mainly to grain, with small gains in live stock and poultry. Incoming shipments varied only by August, up ten carloads from a year ago.
In Iowa the hog trade shows a slow, irregular pulse with prices sliding 40 to 60 cents below last week in the Interior area. Receipts remain light, with total runs likely several thousand hogs lower than a week ago, while demand stays weak and many sellers resist further price cuts.
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