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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1938
Page
10
Iowa crop reporter Charles D. Reed says favorable weather could make 45 percent of the corn crop safe from frost by September 15 and 78 percent by September 30. He notes extreme western counties suffer drought reducing yields and earworms threaten Ida and Woodbury counties.
The notice lists upcoming farm auctions including J. E. Johnson estate near Lisbon and a Cedar Rapids All Iowa fair sale. It reports corn nearing frost, widespread soybean hay, sweet corn, peaches, plums, grapes, and potato yields. The Classifieds advertise many used and new musical instruments daily.
Linn County Iowa board minutes show payrolls and pensions listed for Work Relief No. 41 1938 with various workers and widows. Readables include numerous poor prov entries for groceries rent and sundry supplies. The record ends noting adjournment to September 6 1938 with Elmer Seevell as chairman and Robt Vesely as county auditor.
A fragmented clipping describes a poker hand Henry held in a summer game and links it to the crop reporting section of the United States Department of Agriculture. It cites H R Tolley and notes a corn quota marketing referendum was sidestepped, with Henry boosting the raise and holding plenty of chips.
The agriculture department reports in the first week of the export subsidy program it bought 5 968 780 bushels and sold 1 849 597 bushels to shippers for sale in foreign markets at prices 4 to 7 cents below the government cost. Bulk of purchases were in the Gulf of Mexico region with 4 082 806 bushels, Pacific Northwest 878 064 bushels, Atlantic seaboard 8 000. Exports by region: Gulf ports 1 178 000, Pacific Northwest 663 597, Atlantic ports 8 000. Government prices paid ranged from 59 to 78.5 cents per bushel.
About forty Muscatine and Louisa county farmers testified on crop flood losses as Army engineers collect data for federal reports. Officials led by Lieut. Col. Gesler heard farmers describe inundated fields and erosion and heard proposals for six dams to control water and provide hydroelectric power.
Monticello reports 391 cows tested in August for North Jones Cow Test Association averaging 636 pounds of milk and 25 3 pounds of butterfat per cow. The Claude Latta herd of ten Jerseys led with 749 pounds of milk and 39 3 pounds of butterfat, including an individual high of 1 393 pounds milk and 75 butterfat.
Sixteen counties, 50 entries, form the new lot feeding beef calves program for 1938 39. Carl Smith says entries close next Saturday at the All Iowa Livestock exposition. A target 75 entries is set. Junior feeders should apply this week to Mr. Smith at Anamosa. The purchasing committee will tour Sand Hills Nebraska to inspect calves for distribution to entrants. The committee includes Fred Hinkhouse, Louis Lorenzen, Roscoe Blinks, Rex Conn and Rex Beresford. Calves likely ship to Cedar Rapids in October and sell at auction during the All Iowa exposition in 1939. Each entrant feeds five head with lots of five exhibited and judged at the 1939 Cedar Rapids show.
Heavy rains delayed entry at Allamakee county fair causing slippery roads. County Agent Fred O'Riley reported sixty dairy calves in stalls fifty two baby beeves and ten pens of market pigs awaiting judging with entries to be completed Wednesday morning.
Miss Elizabeth Petersen Ames clothing specialist unveils this year’s home project Clothing the Family A Jones County extension series runs four open meetings September 27 28 29 and 30 with locations to be announced Major lessons include Shoes Hose and Gloves Reconditioning the Sewing Machine Clothes for Little Folks and Wardrobes for Teens and Adults.
A two day demonstration of electrical equipment and its uses in the farm plant is set for October 3 and 4 on a farm near Onslow by the Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric Cooperative. Demonstrators include Miss Louisan Mamer and Miss Dorothy Simmons with additional expertise from H. H. Beaty C. H. Van Vlack and D. W. Teare showing home and farm power applications.
Twenty rams sold for an average of 31.60 dollars in the rambling ram sale managed by C. H. McDonald of Ames. Sixty one head offered. Amana colonies bought nine. Top price was 35 dollars for three rams. After Marengo, lambs trucked to Washington for sale Thursday before continuing to Bedford Atlantic and Creston.
A country woman reflects on the end of summer and the start of a new school year. Mothers watch children begin their first journey to school while some parents recall past summers and the shrinking time before fall routines begin.
On Henry Tuttle’s farm near Norway a twig from a wicker hamper once holding Dutch cabbage sprouted into a small tree. The tree, initially mistaken for a Holland willow, bore twelve peaches this spring and is now growing with plans to mulch and fence it for stronger growth. Local merchant A B Johnson helped obtain the wicker and cabbage.
The SCS and County Agent Ed Molin have drawn up five year soil conservation programs for three Delaware county farms. The owners are Charles A. Woerderhoff near Delhi, J Louis Docking northwest of Manchester, and Albert C Gienapp five miles east of Manchester.
A district meeting of county Farm Bureaus will be held in Cedar Rapids on Sept. 13. State federation officers and speakers A. B. Culp of McLean County Illinois and Murl McDonald of Ames will address attendees.
Sept 4 9 all Iowa exposition at Cedar Rapids. Sept 6 9 Alamakee county at Waukon Grundy at Grundy Center. Sept 9 10 horse show at Stanwood Dubuque county 4 H show at Farley.
Agricultural Administrator H R Tolley said corn loans this fall are virtually assured at about 57 cents a bushel under the new farm act which makes loans mandatory if 1938 production exceeds 2 470 000 000 bushels. He explained Secretary Wallace’s refusal to authorize a corn marketing quota referendum and noted that final quota levels depend on late crop estimates.
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