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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1932
Page
10
Inspections show 505 carloads of corn moved in ten days at Cedar Rapids, more than double the 219 in the prior month. Brokers report steady to better business as two and three year old corn is released despite mixed quality grades from combining older open cribbed stocks with newer shelved corn. Probes by federal grain supervisors are underway to explain the puzzling grade variance.
A fragmentary note references FENCE DRIFT and woven wire, cites R F A, and raises questions about Aaron Sapiro and responses from Hunt and Jim Howard, hinting at ongoing agricultural reform discussions and public curiosity.
Three lots of pigs started on feed last June on display. Lot 1 fed corn and mineral shows the lowest feed cost but slowest gain at 9 1 days rising from 359 pounds to 985 pounds? daily gain 0.985 pounds. Lot 2 fed tankage and mineral with corn gains 365.4 pounds in 91 days at 3.1 cents per pound. Lot 3 fed corn soy bean meal and mineral gains 442 pounds in 91 days at 3.6 cents per pound.
Interview with Frank Merritt owner of 686 acre pioneer farm southeast of Waubeek. He discusses family labor, prohibition views, farming economics, taxes, land values, irrigation, clover seed, and the shift to machinery amid market forces and supply demand.
Acreage across Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky shows improved yields with favorable conditions for saving seed though rain hit Illinois and Iowa in parts. Winter kill cut stands in Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Idaho. drought affected Wisconsin and Minnesota. Grasshoppers light, higher yields in many districts, but some declines. Average yield from about 300 growers on 5350 acres is 1.6 bushels. Prices to growers around 9.15 per 100 pounds, far below last year. Imports at record low, exports strongest since 1927. Harvest spread longer as cutting began earlier and continued later.
Mrs. Guy Fath of 508 Thirty-ninth Street NE reports a small apple tree that revived after showers. After summer caterpillars stripped its leaves the tree recovered, produced foliage, and unexpectedly bloomed as spring arrived.
About 200 farmers gathered at the Marengo courthouse to hear H. H. Baker of Belle Plaine, spokesman for the Farmers' Holiday association, advocating price gains by withholding crops for thirty days. A brief membership invitation followed, but only a few joined and no group was formed. Another meeting was proposed for the evening of the 16th.
Fire near Hopkinton Buck Creek destroys the Thompson farm barn four miles west of town. Harold Stead operator. all contents burned. Fire suspected to be caused by spontaneous combustion. Some insurance coverage noted for losses.
Edward of Clinton county sold packing sows on Thursday at options price of 3.60 dollars per hundredweight.
Monticello plant of the Farmer Canning company began operation last week employing fifty four workers to handle the corn pack. Farmers are paid six dollars per ton for corn averaging two and a half to four and a half tons per acre.
Olin Haren Miller moved 150 western Herefords from Anamosa pasture to his Cedar county farm on Wednesday for four to six weeks in a dry lot. The cattle, over a year old, were grass fed in summer with a moderately rich corn ration now.
On the C Forrest farm just north of Downt Vernon, silo filling began Saturday with corn expected to yield over eighty bushels per acre. Soybeans are curing well, and about one in five farmers in the area grew beans for the first time this year.
On the Leo Schmuecker and John Walter farms in this area, silo filling began last week. Corn stalks are unusually large with heavy well filled ears of superior quality. A frost-free span of a week to ten days could secure a good crop as fields are well dented. Fall plowing paused by dry weather will resume after recent rains, with considerable sod acreage planned but delayed to maximize pasture use.
Three neighbors the Foster Durian and Griener families four miles southwest of Wellman butcher a hog every three to four weeks during summer using refrigeration to keep ground sausage for up to six weeks. Nineteen people in the households including nine children rely on steady fresh meat with winter butchering expanding to five hogs per family at the Griener farm equipped with a scalding vat and sausage gear.
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