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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1939
Page
22
Interior markets in Iowa and southern Minnesota show volatile hog trading as war fears spark speculative hysteria. Prices peak Wednesday at highs not seen since 1938, then retreat Thursday and Friday with smaller weekly runs and lingering price gains above week-ago levels.
SIGOURNEY First session of the Sigourney adult evening school for farmers is set for Monday at 7 45 p m. The class directed by A E Hagen will begin its tenth year and last year drew about 100 farmers for 12 evenings. Courses include Agricultural Economics and Feeds and Feeding. A Sunday picnic at 12 30 p m in Henry Bruns grove near here is listed. Advisory council members include Clifford Harras Rollin Brown Ralph Chilton Hoel Montz Lynn Brower and Bert Luers.
Ralph Wilson of Cedar county near Olin sold 24 head weighing 1046 pounds each at Chicago for 11.65 per hundredweight. The sale occurred Thursday according to The Gazette report.
Raymond Mollie, a Linn county farmer, sold a load of 1 225 pound steers on Thursday at the Chicago market, receiving $11 65 per hundredweight for the lot. The sale highlights rural farm activity reported by The Gazette.
Linn county Farm Bureau women began their year home project program with a major craft course. Lucille Gove announced plans for meetings at Otter Creek Spring Grove Monroe North Marion and Brown townships with 2 pm starts. The program includes hand loom weaving from corn husks hongkong grass and an illustrated talk on Inexpensive Home Furnishings. Music selections from Music Gems from the Old World Treasure Chest will be featured as county officers outline next year’s schedule.
Washington county women will host a four day teas series starting next week led by Mrs. Clayde Knapp and Miss Ruby Simpson. The program titled Adult Home Management outlines the year’s schedule with meetings at 1 p.m. on Sept. 12 Crawfordsville Sept. 13 Wellman Sept. 14 Washington and Sept. 15 Brighton.
Fayette Homer Chapman was reelected chair man of the Fayette county planning committee at a Farm Bureau meeting. Carl Miehe was named vice-chairman Louis Barnes secretary and Louis Kiel fourth member of the executive committee. Everett Weigle attended. Topics: weed control and fair rent on nondepleting crops. A Nov 3 county meeting was planned. A weed control committee was named with Alvin Gustafson L D Hitch and Louis Kane as members.
In Sigourney Keokuk county planning board meets Tuesday afternoon led by W B Hamilton Iowa Farm Bureau secretary. Members include Paul Sheilbey George Stoner Lynn Brower from South English Clarence Rice Dave Thomas from Delta J E Zepp Hedrick Ray Sheridan Henry Boeyink Ernest Bowman Ollie Gene Holden North English Ed Drew Jack Tremmel Sigourney.
Virgil Behrns of Buckingham rents the 86 acre portion of the 190 acre farm near Buckingham from Frank Cummings of Chicago at six dollars per acre for the coming year.
In Postville Iowa the 1930s butter scoring contest awarded two samples 90 and tied for top honors while nine entries scored 94 as excellent. Judges named Irwin Seeman Algona and L J Eben Stacyville as high scorers with other participants listed from Hull Scarville Volga City Edgewood Wesley Garna ville Clermont Postville Waterville Calmar Randalia Colesburg Graettinger Humboldt Humboldt West Union Algona Northwood Humboldt Grafton Elgin St Olaf Plymouth and more. Ed Riser Postville Alvin Thoreson Garnaville Otto Harms Oelwein shared first in the judging contest and Mrs M M Larson Decorah led the women’s division.
The McGregor CCC camp, with 170 youths, moved to Cherokee after six years in McGregor. During the period it built 38 miles of terraces and 34 earth dams, planted about 200000 trees, and established soil conservation demos on 82 farms covering 16751 acres.
Bazette photo captures Raymond Mathis of Lansing with the grand champion Hereford baby beef in the Allamakee county fair 4-H show. Reserve grand champion Shorthorn went to Charles Fettketter, with 65 4-H beeves entered.
Capt. C. O. Kemman and Dr. E. N. Tanous lead a group of camp officials to Cherokee to spread saving practices to farms. Other transfers include Oren Hartschen to the Shenandoah CCC camp and Edmund Reynolds to Oskaloosa.
At the Allamakee county 4-H fair in Waukon Ella Barth and Mae Kraby of Luana were automatic champions in the girls’ exhibit. Erna Walsner and Edith Gruhn of Postville won first for county representation at Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. Lansing’s Alice Walsher and Dorothy Staabe also earned a Waterloo bid. Two teams, Waterville’s Helen Gilbertson Olivia Hill and Union City’s Gladys Heitman Norma Hagen, qualified for the Big 4 fair in Postville. The Franklin Merry Makers of Luana took top honors in township and girls booth competitions. The Jolly Neighbors of Lansing won a program variety contest. A Hungarian nobleman Count John Berenyi stores electricity to read by light.
The grand champion 4-H baby beef shown by Gilbert Bolz of Stanton county sold Friday at 76 cents per pound, below the record 80 cents. Gold and Company of Lincoln bought the reserve champion shown by Alvie Levitt of Sherman county for 32 cents per pound. The champions weighed 020 and 1,030 pounds respectively, grossing $699.20 and $329.60.
R B Booth of Linn county agricultural conservation association says farmers must notify the AAA committee before Sept 15 of their intention regarding corn under seal. If no notification is received the loan will be treated as an intention to pay off. Payment may be cash or delivery of corn.
Postville hosts the twentieth anniversary Big-4 Fair from September 8 to 11 featuring livestock agriculture dairy and homemaking exhibits. A Parade of Progress on Saturday compares past and modern equipment. Three baseball games are set Ossian vs Frankville Decorah vs Farmersburg and Monona vs Harpers Ferry. Prize merchandise certificates totaling 500 will be awarded. 4-H contests headline the exhibits with midway attractions and free acts.
William Smith of Quimby took first in the steel-tired division at the 32nd Pilot Rock plowing match final event. Lawrence Kohns of Cherokee won top honors in the rubber-tired division.
A country woman argues against mass buying and hoarding, condemning the widespread purchase of unneeded goods and the resulting cluttered storage shelves as economically ridiculous. The piece reflects on consumer hysteria and rational restraint.
Buckingham F F Chalup bought 160 acres in Eagle township Black Hawk county from Bankers Life Insurance Co at 96 dollars per acre totaling 15360 dollars with possession now. The farm lies three miles southwest of Eagle Center. Ernest Fieddler farm near Littleton sold to Mrs Marea Crowell for 58 50 an acre with possession March 1. The 65 acre property adjoins Crowell farm and will be run by Mrs Crowell and her sons.
Edgewood reports 259 cows with 64 dry on test in the Clayton Delaware Cow Test Association during August averaged 566 pounds of milk and 22.8 pounds of butterfat. Harold Brockmeyer of Edgewood led with 10 milking Holsteins averaging 1104 pounds and 42.1 pounds of butterfat. The top cow was a grade Guernsey in Roy Walters herd Garber producing 1370 pounds milk and 589 pounds butterfat in the month.
Decorah farmer Roscoe Wicks near Burr Oak in Winnebago County has begun marketing his fall crop of overbearing strawberries. He delivered seven cases to the Decorah market Tuesday with fruit selling at 25 cents a quart.
L. J. Taber, master of the National Grange, urged Muscatine farmers to remember the disasters of the last war era including over expansion and land speculation. He warned of market swings and urged cooperation, soil conservation, and expanding markets to raise farmers' share of the consumer dollar.
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