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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1932
Page
18
In eastern Iowa the corn harvest is strong with anticipated record yields and farmers ramp up silo filling. Oats and hay such as alfalfa and soy bean forage are abundant, while vegetables and fruits excel this season. Frost risk appears low, but wet weather could still affect timing.
A. E. Blinks of Marion predicts a 100 bushel per acre yield in a 16 acre tract as shown in a photo. He cites rich soil from alfalfa and a near perfect stand, with the crop to be cut, shocked, and fed to cattle. Roscoe Blinks, three miles east of Marion, accompanies his father in the picture.
Clarence E Earl Elijah farmer near Clarence sold 101 head of long fed white faced cattle at Cedar Rapids through the Iowa Livestock Marketing association. Average weight 1212 pounds. 86 head at 9 65 per cwt and 15 head at 8 65.
Holstein heifer shown by Homer Larson of Dike takes grand champion in 4-H dairy at Grundy County fair. Winners include Joseph Knock with grand champion baby beef, Henry Ackerman with grand champion Poland China litter and open herd, Harold Brown and Charles Shipton with grand champion Angus entries, and Lyle Hawn and Eldon Hasbrouck with Holstein classes.
A farmer discusses farm issues and politics, praising nature contact and opposing the eighteenth amendment. He argues for production controls, tariff changes, debt relief, and government economy while backing Hoover and opposing prohibition. The interview touches taxes, education funding, and governance, ending with a question about the pennant race and predicting the Cubs.
An Iowa dairy farmer discusses herd size, butterfat yields, and cost of production. He notes the Wellman cooperative creamery raised prices by at least 5 cents a pound since 1928 and brought about $15,000 yearly extra income for the community, with the plant costing $18,000 and substantial debt reduction. The interview covers alfalfa versus soy feed, lime costs, and the turkey industry in Wellman, highlighting economic gains for farmers and local business.
Earl Page of South St. Paul opened away-from-market feeder yards near Cedar Rapids with first sale Aug 21 1931. In the year to Aug 21 1932 he sold 20 380 head for about 740 554 dollars with 75 percent bought within 100 miles. The yards hold 30 pens and 1 000 head capacity, aiming for 60 000 head this year.
Thirty four people from fifteen organizations in six eastern Iowa counties attended a training school at Tipton on winter storage of fruits and vegetables led by C V Holsinger Ames extension horticulturist. Cedar and Jones counties each sent twelve participants. Linn five. Muscatine and Scott two each. Clinton one. Representatives included Farm Bureau Red Cross garden clubs churches county nurse welfare groups 4-H clubs and housewives. The session is part of a state program to teach proper storage to benefit both unemployed and needy and those more fortunate.
Special to The Gazette reports farmers filling silos and putting up soy bean hay while fall plowing divides honors. Soy beans are harvested with binders and shocked to cure, yields grow with larger acreage. Corn matures fast with about 70 per cent frost danger passed. another week may add 20 per cent. Home grown grapes sell for 2 cents a pound as grape juice and jelly rise. cellars brim with canned fruits and vegetables, more than in years past.
Farmers in Tipton report an exceptionally heavy soybean crop needing several days of drying before mowing. Corn fodder is being cut and a large acreage will be devoted to forage this fall due to roughage shortages. Many silos will be filled.
Silo filling started Friday in the Stanwood vicinity. Corn is drying rapidly and most fields will be frost safe in about a week. Soybean harvest is under way with the largest acreage in memory and exceptionally heavy yields.
H. D. Miller led the way as the first in the area to begin silo filling. He started the filling of the initial silo on his farm, located one mile north of Morley, on Thursday.
The first stage of silo filling in the locality finished Friday at the Wetzel farm a half mile east of Bertram. F G Anderson Anton Biderman Charles and Ben Neal will fill this project.
E. W. Bolton, a Tipton area farmer five miles north, began silo filling on Wednesday. Many local farmers plan to fill this year due to hay shortages. Potatoes are plentiful on hills, solid and flavorful.
Tony Van Horne and Tony Schmitz, local farmers northeast of Van Horne, sold fifty nine head weighing around 249 pounds each at Cedar Rapids auction. The pigs brought three dollars and ninety cents per hundredweight.
H. J. Grunewaki of Blairstown sold two carloads of 1256-pound steers in Chicago on Thursday for 9.80 per hundredweight, boosting market activity for the locality.
Tenants and landlords in Cedar Tipton area finalizing leases as September nears. Cash rents drop from 9 to 5 or 6 dollars per acre with several farms moved to share arrangements with pasture cash. Longstanding tenants retain control of Stoltenberg Brothers Stoltenberg farm Walter Lieb and Lewis Friday continue discounts on Geiger and Pratt properties. Hal Albaugh renews 400 acre Millegan estate while Achey Brothers renew John Miller 400 acre farm south of Tipton.
Twenty seven of forty five 4-H baby beeves at Louisa county fair sold for an average of $8 per hundredweight. Average weight was 869 pounds with Walter Roach of Chicago buying for Milwaukee railroad dining car service. Hereford owned by Billy Newell topped at $9.35. eighteen calves stayed with 4-Hers for more feeding. Some will appear at Kansas City American Royal and Chicago International shows. Lyle and Burdette Moore won first in Duroc litter at 4-H show.
Governors from corn belt states meet in Sioux City to shape legislation aimed at higher farm product prices. The Iowa farm holiday extends beyond thirty days, drawing attention to inadequate returns for fixed costs. Hog slaughter for August rises 19 percent year over year, the largest August kill since 1929, while market receipts show a mixed trend amid the strike. Observers note public sympathy for farmers and caution against violence, urging rational actions and economic recovery through stronger demand and balanced production.
At the Minnesota state fair a Percheron stallion entered by Bawn and Eagle Grove Iowa was named junior champion in his class. Rose Hill Iowa exhibited a heifer chosen as grand and senior champion cow in the herd competition.
Grundy Center to host Grundy county Farm Union picnic at the fairgrounds on September 16. National president John Simpson of Oklahoma will speak at 10 a.m. The program opens with a kitten ball game featuring Plow Boys, Buck Grove, and Reinbeck. Races, horseshoes, and other sports follow.
Frank Lovinsky, operator of 160 acres located about three miles northwest of West Branch, lists the farm property for sale with a 5500 dollar asking price.
At WEST BRANCH the first consignment sale of the season drew crowds. Six hundred hogs sold with a top price of $5.50 per hundredweight while two hundred fifty cattle moved, yearling steers bringing up to $6.20. Eighty five sheep were sold as part of the market day.
The Linn county Farm Bureau lists upcoming meetings including 4-H boy and girl committees at Cedar Rapids and Marion venues, the YWCA, Upper Palis, and Beltram bogey farm events. An additional dairy team workout is noted for Parm Bureau.
The Anamosa Ship ping association sold hogs Thursday on the Chicago market for J. J. Walters Fred Remington Jack Brady and R. Holmes at 4.65 a hundredweight. Extree top that day was 4.75.
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