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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1932
Page
14
In Onner Springs Kansas a farm sale gathered about 300 people when a forced sale notice was posted for Harold Piper’s estate. Neighbors discussed plans as a sale halted. funds gathered by men to cover notes. The crowd enjoyed a communal picnic instead of auctions.
The H. F. Kohl farm of 120 acres seven miles northeast of Lisbon sold Thursday for 11 750 to neighbor J. L. Kuntz. The fair buildings and tillable land were noted. W. M. Bennett of Childs Realty Co. of Cedar Rapids handled the transaction.
DES MOINES UP Farm strikers extended their battle from barricaded highways to bankers offices and county courthouse tax windows. With produce prices at historic lows farmers demand no mortgage or tax payments until prices rise. Milo Reno says nine states represented at the meeting backing the moratorium plan.
Special to The Giselle reports 4-H club members from Kansas Nebraska Colorado and South Dakota entered 738 calves for the Ak-Sar-Ben show in Omaha starting Saturday. Crawford County leads with 45 calves and pigs. Iowa junior showmen will enter head of market pigs and twenty twenty s will be represented. Mc Reed and John S. QUS oversee the 4-H exhibits with Carl Olcser guiding the Iowa 4-H baby beef division.
Des Moines AP delegates named to represent Iowa at the national congress of vocational agriculture students and the Future Farmers of America convention in Kansas City March 12 to 18. Fairfield livestock judging team members Rotart Miller Emert Newton Leeland Whitaker Leo Smith and Ceenen H Storey lead the list.
Federal Meteorologist Charles D. Reed said Iowa farmers are using old corn from the 1931 crop as fuel to clear cribs for the new harvest. Reports from Algona and Pocahontas show prices around four cents a bushel as old corn burns for heat. Hartwick crop reporter Fred McCullough noted new corn entering cribs as buyers offer seven to eight cents a bushel.
A group of Johnson county Holstein breeders met in Sharon to organize a Johnson County Holstein club. County Agent S Lyle Duncan presided. H J Miller chaired a committee with C C Stutz man and H E Colby to present the plan. Membership open to farmers with a registered sire. An annual sale will be featured.
Conesville reports about 17 000 bushels of sweet potatoes in storage. Acreage fell short of average but yield per acre reached a record high. Varieties stored include Yellow Jersey and Nancy Hall.
Kalona Dairymen purchase high producing Holstein herd sires from the Oakdale state sanatorium herd. J. Miller bought a yearling bull whose dam produced 17 627 pounds of milk and 699 8 pounds butterfat in 365 days. Yoder and Yoder bought an Oakdale bull whose grand dam yielded 27 239 pounds milk and 938 pounds butterfat. The buyers plan to exchange bulls when each has a generation of helpers ready.
Alfred Stanley a 288 acre farmer near Springville, born 1881, favors Hoover for president while criticizing Smith and Roosevelt. He supports prohibition, discusses the Volstead Act, the Farm Board, and currency reform. He serves as a Linn County director for the Federal Land Bank of Omaha and comments on taxes, schools, and local governance.
Duroe hog sale east of Lisbon by Bert E Miller closes Bertram sale by Co F Waskow at Bertram on October 20. A consignment sale is set for October 31 at Gibson barn in West Liberty.
A speaker argues for cutting county expenditures by 20 percent, urges reducing the farmers’ organization costs, and calls for ending double taxation and mandatory levies. He asserts that locals know their burdens better than state officials and notes ongoing farm financial pressures.
AP reports county corn husking contest winners across Iowa. Leo Ockenfeld led Benton county with 2 594 pounds in 80 minutes, Clarence Bockes set a possible world record of 2 698 pounds in Grundy county, with numerous county victors listed including Martin Olson Guthrie Charles Grabin Orville Wicks Harry Lorentzen Bert Ballard Lloyd Larson Russell Clendennen Fred Menk Vernon Greenlee and others.
Special to The Gazette Wilton Junction Anthony Freiderichsen a local gardener and florist tills ditches this week to plant raspberry and blackberry bushes to protect them from freezing and rodent damage during winter.
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