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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1938
Page
8
Iowa data show Cedar Rapids area had a 184 day growing season, 17 days longer than the 37 year average, with all corn maturing and no crop damage from the first fall frost. Statewide averages: last spring frost May 2, first autumn frost Oct 5, yielding a 156 day season.
Special to The Gazette Blairstown corn picking progresses rapidly with high yields. D F Newton and Sons report a 70 bushel average on 24 acres. Mechanically picked corn yields up to 1 000 bushels daily. many new cribs rise to store the crop. Vegetables keep yielding in warm fall weather and local gardeners report new potatoes and green peas from Blairstown plots. Tomatoes plentiful despite a light Sunday freeze. frost ends corn growth and beans and soybeans near completion.
A corn crib measuring 22 by 80 feet and 16 feet high and a hog house 32 by 20 feet have been constructed on the W. C. Wells farm near Randalia, marking new improvements in the property.
An Angus owned by John Pitzer a 21 year old Glenwood Iowa rural school teacher won the 4-H club heifer grand championship at the Ak-Sar-Ben livestock and horse show in Omaha. A Shorthorn heifer owned by Velma Datwyler of Madison County Iowa was reserve champion. Mary Ellen Boothe of Marion County Iowa showed the grand champion Angus steer and Jack Williams of Sac County Iowa the reserve. John Gosch of Ida County showed the grand champion Hereford with a Nebraska entry as reserve.
R W Wright of Tipton sold 66 feeder hogs at Chicago Tuesday. The hogs weighed an average of 238 pounds and brought 8 dollars 10 cents per hundredweight.
Eldred Buster Stallman of Fairfax led 15 entrants with a 2228 pound net in district husking trials at Mount Vernon and earns a spot in the Ringsted state corn husking meet. Other qualifiers include Edward Dinnebier Waterloo 2015.9 pounds and Arnold Brandt Greeley 20019 pounds, with Morning Sun’s Lee Stodgell defending the title among 16 finalists.
Martelle residents Martelle C V Newman and Jack Armstrong return from a buying trip in Montana and Nebraska. They purchased 164 head of yearling and two year old Herefords for feeders.
In Clermont the L H Appelman sorghum mill closed after producing 222 gallons from 14 000 gallons of sap. One third of the cane came from Mr Appelman. the rest from about fifty neighbors in Decorah Ossian Hawkeye Castalia Postville Elgin and Clermont.
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association warns against heavy corn feeding to cholera susceptible hogs and warns against feeding near unmonitored fields. Season for swine flu also noted as arriving. Outbreaks reported in Masonville Manchester Dubuque Sunbury Bennett Clarence Tipton Williamsburg North English Millersburg Oxford Shellsburg Palo New Hampton Charles City Alta Vista Elma Vinton Cresco Cascade Fredericksburg Horton Plainfield Nashua Solon Ely Ryan Waterloo Belle Plaine Dysart Hudson Waverly Denver Worthington Hawkeye Clinton Charlotte Monticello Dyersville.
Boston AP reports Charles W Holman secretary of the National Cooperative Milk Producers association outlined a three month nationwide campaign to reduce a record butter surplus of 210000000 pounds. The plan mobilizes the dairy industry and every retail outlet to clear the market. A national emergency committee will oversee the effort.
Coming farm auctions listed for Thursday October 27 with Meyers and Frink western cattle at Tama and Beverly cattle sale. Friday October 28 sale at Ia. EaceRocks exchange Cedar Rapids. Friday November 4 M V New comer closing out four miles southwest Fayette.
A fee has been created and federal loans have financed half of the purchase amount. The remark underscores the role of government financing in enabling part of the acquisition.
Roy Turner of Sulphur Oklahoma was named president of the American Hereford Association at the fifty fifth annual meeting in Kansas City. J S Bridwell was elected vice president, and Allison Stuart of Indiana and E S Pillsbury II of California were named directors succeeding C R Musser of Muscatine Iowa and DrGeorge Norberg of Kansas City.
COLESBURG The annual Delaware Clayton Counties Farmers institute dates set for December 3 and 4. Meetings occur in the school building with officers John Schaub as president and Arthur Steinfadt as vice president.
In Omaha and Council Bluffs elevators about one third of storage is filled with sealed corn turned in to the Commodity Credit Corporation and arrivals run at 200 cars daily. The CCC loaned 50 cents on the corn costing the government about a 15 cent loss. Local elevators total 26 million bushels capacity and grain men expect most space to be filled.
Roscoe Blinks of Marion sold two loads totaling 1,199 pounds of steers in Chicago for $11.75 per hundredweight. The sale reflects live cattle pricing and a market at Chicago.
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