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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1935
Page
6
The Oct 1 1934 USDA poultry and egg report shows larger laying stock and higher egg production per hen. With more pullets on hand and eggs laid per hen up, total farm flock egg output rises over last year by over six percent.
Rufus Gingerich of Kalona buys an improved 120 acre tract of the Alexander Yeggy estate at $76.50 per acre. An unimproved 80 acre lot from the same estate sells to Lawrence Yeggy for $51 per acre. John A Yoder is auctioneer.
In two sales near Waukon, Iowa, cattle brought 50 to 100 per head and yearlings to 4250, with hay at 550 a ton and oats 32 cents per bushel. About 1 000 attended the McCormick sale and 2 500 at the Simonson auction, where cows and livestock sold well and food for the crowd was abundant.
Sweet potato digging nears completion in the Conesville vicinity with above average quantity and quality. An odd item found was a potato growing through the center of an iron washer at Wymach.
The Grundy County Chest Association held its annual meeting in which Guy Coulter of Contact was re elected president for the twelfth straight year. H M Shirk of Grundy Center was named vice president Frances Winslow of Grundy Center secretary treasurer and directors include John Conrad Conrad Fred Fiten Wellsburg and Harold Brown Grundy Center also announced Harry Hahing was re employed as tester for the tenth consecutive year.
Center Point reports field work with soybeans harvested by a specialized combine on the Glenn Hoglan farm. Milton Squires operates the rubber tired machine on two acres per hour, cutting a five foot swath with a 10 20 tractor. Hoglan beat Manchus yield about thirty bushels per acre. Squires charged 2.50 per acre for custom work, while other machines asked about 15 cents a bushel.
Movement of Kentucky bluegrass seed slowed but remained active through Oct 11. About 90 percent of the 1935 crop had been sold by growers, below the 90 to 95 percent seen in the western district. Prices rose in the west while Kentucky held steady at 50 cents per bushel for rough seed and 55 to 60 cents in Missouri and Iowa. Quality in Kentucky was good but with less recoverable clean seed than expected. western district seed was good to very good.
The federal bureau of agricultural economies in Washington reports 10 percent fewer hogs in Germany in early September versus a year ago, excluding bred sows. Slaughter hogs and young pigs drop, while bred sows rise 6 percent. The notice notes possible lower slaughter supplies through 1935 and early 1936 with a rise later in 1936. The British bacon and ham quota for Q4 1935 is tentatively set about 17 percent below Q4 1934, with the United States receiving 81 percent of the total quota.
The Iowa State livestock judging team finished second at the American Royal Livestock Exposition in Kansas City, trailing Oklahoma A and M by twenty eight points.
A rural note describes fence drift caught in woven wire and cold drizzle with a sharpening wind. The writer praises a straw pile this year to wind break and to bed critters belly deep inside, noting straw is most valuable when there isn’t any.
The Wilder Grain company shipped a carload of soybeans to market Saturday the first such shipment from Hartwick. Farmers reported good yields with some fields at twenty eight bushels per acre and others as low as ten bushels per acre.
Elwood farmer A J Wirth and his sons John Lester and Raymond sold 2 000 bushels of old corn last weekend at 76 cents per bushel. They recently bought a new mechanical corn picker to harvest this year's crop.
Jesup creamery paid thirty cents a pound for sweet cream butter fat twenty nine cents for No 1 butterfat and twenty six cents for No 2 butterfat in September Arnold Jensen secretary announces. During the month a total of 170 740 pounds of butter was manufactured.
Clinton County Farmers Union members met in Elwood with about fifty attending. Harold Eden, the county president, led the discussion on plans for the annual banquet on November 21 and for delegates to the national convention in Kankakee. They also discussed the upcoming corn hog contracts referendum on October 26.
Argentine corn continued to arrive at U S ports in the week ended Oct 18 totaling about 800000 bushels. Eastern ports received three four as much as the Pacific coast. New crop prices showed declines while old crop values held. Kansas City and Chicago reports noted first new crop arrivals and steady to firm tones at regional markets.
Ames hosts the twenty third annual program planning conference for the extension service with over 200 state staff members county agents and home demonstration agents attending. M L Wilson assistant secretary of agriculture will address Friday lunch on National Agricultural Planning. Dr A B Graham USDA will speak Thursday on Making Best Use of Extension Methods. Morse Salisbury USDA radio chief will discuss Effective Use of Radio in Extension. Meetings of county agents and home demonstration agents associations are planned for Wednesday afternoon and a conference banquet occurs that evening.
Two Shorthorn calves over 1100 pounds each from James Kass of Taylor Township will represent Allamakee county in the fat steer class at the Chicago Livestock Exposition. The event runs from November 30 to December 7.
Public sale by Mrs. H. H. Hanson one mile east of Swisher. Holstein sale by Iowa Holstein Breeders Assn. Waterloo. Hampshire hogs sold by Orben Schoff Lost Nation.
A sequence of auction notices lists sales by J. R. White near Toddville Chester White boar and gilt sale by J B Seehusen the McClintock Gensicke dissolution sale near Cedar Rapids Milking Shorthorn Society cattle sale at Independence cattle sale at West Union and a Mayer and Rice Holstein sale near Central City with dates from Wednesday October 23 to Wednesday November ?.
Iowa state entomologist reports screw worms, a major livestock pest in southern states, have invaded Iowa centering mainly in Union and Lucas counties. Veterinarians report hundreds of cases. control possible with benzol and pine tar oil. Buyers urged to inspect livestock to prevent spread.
Maquoketa Jackson county schedules first bang-board derby for October 29 at Clyde Woods farm three and a half miles northwest of Maquoketa. Entries open with committee members A G Hallett F E Krause M O Sayers or Ray Grove before the midnight Saturday deadline. Husking time is eighty minutes to decide the county champion's bid to the state contest near Davenport.
Grand Mound reports no educational meetings held or planned in Clinton County townships ahead of the corn and hog referendum next Saturday. F J Bousselot allotment committee chairman said a county meeting was held Oct 9 and canvassing continues. He stressed the program is farmer owned and controlled.
A fire Saturday destroyed twenty tons of soybean hay in two stacks on the T. H Kelty farm two miles west of Urbana. Mr. Kelty lit a fence row fire to burn weeds and the flames spread to the soybean stacks while he worked in an adjacent field.
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