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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1932
Page
11
Iowa farmers may stave off foreclosure as insurers, banks, and land groups consider liberalized mortgage terms. A state committee reports insurers willing to cooperate to preserve home ownership and extend payments equitably, citing Prudential as a model.
A letter from Duffield outlines a refunding farm loan program to keep farmers and land together. It promises to pay taxes and absorb interest on mortgages to restart operations and offers crop payment plans with no cash upfront if foreclosures loom. Personal attention is promised, with renewals at five percent plus small service charges to aid distressed borrowers.
Special to The Gazette reports farmers in the area filled silos with heavy corn yields lowering required acreage. Soybeans are being cut and stacked. alfalfa has been cut for the third time. Carl Kramer near Edgewood has ensilage corn reaching thirteen and a half feet. rain slowed silo filling but benefits pastures and seeding.
The Illinois state corn husking contest will be held near Monticello on Nov 4, with Prairie Farmer and Piatt county Farm Bureau organizing. Defending champion Orville Welch aims to repeat his titles, matching Walter Olson’s national records. The winner advances to the national event in Henry county on Nov 10 facing other state champions.
Union Stockyards Chicago reports rising feeder lamb activity in the intermountain region with contracts at 3 to 4 dollars. Western Montana feeder lambs run 3 to 3.25 dollars with fat lambs 3.50 to 4.00 dollars, 25 to 35 percent of the crop. Popular feeder weights 60 to 70 pounds. Montana growers seek delayed delivery, Utah sales around 3 dollars, Wyoming bands at 4 dollars with some 4.50 to 5 dollars but not moving.
Four purebred Holstein heifers and one bull sold by H O Hansen of the Forum Holstein farm are en route to L C Fleming governor of a West Indian island. The cattle shipment marks an early foundation for a large herd move from the United States. The voyage begins aboard a freighter after a brief voyage start.
Interview with Jacob George, 84, longtime Penn township resident and landowner, covers farm size, rising equipment costs, tax load, and rent adjustments amid economic distress. He cites beef prices, autoto motive changes, and government policy as factors. forecasts gradual recovery and notes price disparity with Russia.
Firefighters from the Sand ers' department responded to a blaze at J Hicks farm near Monticello. Alfalfa hay in a barn mow sank twice before ignition. Clarence Matthies sen bored gas pipe to the fire pump to flood the hay. Thirty farmers worked eight hours to remove charred alfalfa and save the barn.
Corn untouched by frost. silo filling underway. Second crop clover and soy bean hay being stored. Potatoes dug now offer excellent quality at 35 cents a bushel for sorted and 15 cents for seconds. Apples plentiful 25 to 50 cents per bushel, peaches 50 cents, grapes 1 to 2 cents per pound. Rain caused fruit cracking slightly reducing quality.
Workers started filling silos at the Mrs. Winnie McCright farm a half mile south of Troy Mills on Saturday and at the Trevor Orcutt and Hermann farms north of town on Friday.
In Dewitt County opinions differ on frost risk to corn. Richard Benton says frost now would not hurt his corn while A H Joelink near Charlotte says two weeks are needed to mature his crop. Tom McConohy reports ears still soft. Yields are estimated at 70 to 80 bushels per acre, likely surpassing the state average of 42.
Ian W. M. Ver non Ames poultry extension specialist will visit Washington County on September 30 to discuss poultry problems and production in cooperation with the Washington County Farm Bureau, announced county agent H. J. Montgomery.
Washington Iowa will host J W Merril Ames extension district agent on September 20 to help outline the 1933 program of the Washington county Farm Bureau.
Henry Eichling Ames extension district agent will meet Clinton County Farm Bureau members on October 5 to plan the 1933 program of the organization.
The August report by Marvin Matthes for the Washington County Cow Test Association shows total production of 586 pounds per cow and 24.9 pounds of butterfat. Charles Palmer leads with 21 cows at 840 pounds milk and 38.3 butterfat. E P Hayes Guernseys average 758 pounds milk and 36.4 butterfat. A high cow Holstein in the county produced 1,553 pounds milk and 64.2 butterfat, with other Holsteins and Guernseys yielding 1,466 and 1,401 pounds milk respectively.
County Agent Emmett C. Gardner will lead a weed eradication demonstration on September 19 at the G. A. Lembaugh farm near Tipton. The event, begun last year on a Canada thistle patch, will compare results from applying sodium chlorate at different times.
Miss Martha Rath of the Ames extension service completed six soap making demonstrations in Jackson county attended by 343 persons. Farm women say the demonstrations will save each family from 5 to 15 dollars yearly on soap purchases.
Farm brief notes and agricultural tips compiled by Ray Anderson for daily readers. Local crops, weather outlook, and community farming events featured in this compact county column.
Dr. K W Stouder of Ames urges dipping or spraying hogs before cold weather to prevent mange. He notes mites harm pork producers, lowering value and growth. Treatments include liquid lime sulfur, crude petroleum, or cresolis solution. thorough spraying or dipping with attention to flanks.
Orben Schoff, near Lost Nation, raises 4000 turkeys for holiday markets with some over twelve pounds and younger birds ready by Christmas. He operates thirty acres of potatoes with one carload already dug. Lend-A-Hand volunteers from Clinton bring help to collect small potatoes for the Clinton kitchen.
Tama-Benton Grain company in Dysart saw its heaviest day this year on Wednesday with eighty-three truck and wagonloads of grain nearly all corn received. The prior record for a single day was 200 loads set two years ago.
Hog cholera causes heavy losses in eastern Iowa with forty nine cases reported across twenty three communities including Decorah Lowden Dysart Wheatland Bennett Dixon Princeton Clinton La Porte City Marion Preston Newhall Shellsburg Vinton Charles City Conrad Clarence Grand Mound Donahue Calamus Wilton Junction Muscatine Sunbury and others. Other infectious diseases in hogs cattle and sheep are listed with locations. The nineteenth annual Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association meeting is set for October 11–12 at Hotel Montrose in Cedar Rapids.
Special to The Gerette reports a hog cholera outbreak on the Shrine farm north of Dysart. Wallace Taylor believes losses will be heavy despite immediate vaccination after the disease was detected.
At the Miles baby beef club meeting at Peter Haas home calves will be shipped to Chicago this week or next for sale at the club auction. County Agent A M A discussed officer selection for the coming year to be elected at the next meeting at J R Wit zigman s Miles home.
Fred L. Fisher was elected president of the Wood Center Colt Club at its annual meeting held at Wood Center store four miles east of Edgewood. Harry Hansel was named vice president and Arthur Jennings became cashier and treasurer. Otto Appleton Morris Bowney and Martin McNamara named directors with Pierce Shreve and D Hunt directing the Holbert farms at Greeley in the present day horse situation.
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