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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1937
Page
6
Government data show August moves of 101,756,000 pounds with total holdings on September 1 at 466,893,000 pounds, the second smallest September on record. Pork leads the drop from 467,273,000 to 370,519,000 pounds. beef, lard, and poultry also shrink. Creamery butter and American cheese rise, while eggs fall marginally.
The fall program of the Iowa county soil improvement committee starts with three new grassed waterway demonstrations on farms of R. H Simmons in Marengo township Sidney Smith in English and C A Patterson in Greene. Paul Burson, agent for the Eastern Iowa Soil Improvement Association, reports this expansion from the existing two demonstrations in Sumner and Fillmore townships.
West Union reports corn largely safe from frost despite late August heat reducing yield quality. Soybeans mostly harvested, fall plowing begun after two inches of rain, pasture conditions cited as better than state average. An oat threshing tally from twelve farms shows 371 acres yielding 22 345 bushels, average 85 bu per acre. Farmers named Abel Mark through Henry George.
Farmers report a bright outlook for crops with about 80 percent of corn freed from frost danger. Silo filing progresses as fall alfalfa seeding continues, often with a rye nurse crop. New seedings from last fall and this spring are in excellent condition as soybeans are harvested for a heavy crop.
Fayette 4-H dairy club members will exhibit twenty five head at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress running September 27 to October 3. Holstein exhibitors include Gene Brownell Fayette Grover Miche Mesnard Donald Fay Randaha Donna Rummel Fayette Jen Miche Favette William Sand kamp Autore Hubert Kiel Fay ette and Joe Hall Oelwein. Guernsey and Brown Swiss cattle will be shown by Robert Owen Ran aha Donald Qoelrich Lamont lee Sinnott Randaha Aris Platt Oelwen Kenneth Wardell eleven Lowell and Elwood Mabon Randaha.
Cedar County Farm Bureau program committee and Ames exterior representatives will hold a meeting to draft the 1938 program. Agent Morrell Seeds announced plans to interview 12 farm leaders and conduct sessions to gather program suggestions ahead of the meeting.
The New York butter market remained firm for spot and futures as supply shifts out of storage. Egg prices show a split trend with strong quality whites while cheaper eggs lag. plans for an advertising drive to reduce storage stocks begin Oct 1. Dressed poultry demand supports frying stock with fryers near 26 cents.
In August Fred Crangerihs Guernsey herd produced 365 pounds of butterfat per cow at the Town County Test association. The top cow, a Holstein owned by John Haas, yielded 729 pounds of butterfat.
In Postville the grand champion 4 H baby beef, a 1040 pound white Shorthorn exhibited by Verna Mae Hamann, sold for 20 cents per pound netting $182. The 56 calves weighed 48 077 pounds and brought $7 729 total averaging $16.07 per cwt. Clayton county calves added 43 head for $5 161.68 total and $122.97 per head.
Des Moines sets spotlight on a grasshopper exterminator that captures, grinds, and ejects the remains as fertilizer. The device, fitted to a tractor, covers six corn rows and draws grasshoppers into a grinding chamber before blowing them out as ready compost.
Rural music leaders in Fayette county attend a two day music training school at Ames to learn conducting fundamentals and how to organize rural musical activities. It is described as the first program of its kind in the area.
Washington county Cow Test association reports for 1936 37 the 439 cows on test over 255 12 cow years produced 7 955 pounds of milk and 335 6 pounds of butterfat. High group was A C Gingerrich herd Wellman with 12 2 purebred Holstein cow years, 12 563 pounds milk and 437 1 pounds butterfat.
Jim Hayslett of West Branch won the boys horse judging contest at Stanwood on Saturday tied to the annual horse show. Leland Byers and Lester Chambliss followed in second and third with Leslie Pederson Gordon Jensen and Harold Eler also placing. Ralph Wilson of Olin served as official judge as Cedar county selects its team for Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress.
In Buchanan county Iowa the AAA assigns a trial to test the feasibility of farm management and land use goals under the 1938 conservation program. O D Klein leads scoring of each field with Paul Burson, W F Watkins, and L T Greenman assisting on erosion, fertility, productivity, and tillability across six criteria.
Harold Beatty Ames extension engineer and Miss Ruby Simpson home management specialist plan four meetings in Benton county September 23 and 24 to discuss electrical wiring problems and appliance use. Sessions at 1:30 and 8:00 p.m. on both days at New Hall High School and Eden Community Hall.
WATERLOO The Milkmaids Marathon will return at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress from Sept 27 to Oct 3 with the event set for the Hippodrome on Sept 28. One entry per county, elimination contests may be held, contestants must be under 30, entries close Sept 20.
Iowa City report from the Johnson County Cow Testing Association shows 454 cows on test in August with 87 dry cows, producing an average 632 pounds of milk and 246 pounds of butterfat. A Holstein owned by H J Dane led in individual production at 1345 pounds milk and 68.6 pounds butterfat, while Dane's 13-head herd averaged 925 pounds milk and 404 pounds butterfat.
Two sales announced in Cedar Rapids Iowa. On Friday September 17 at Iowa Livestock Exchange sale room a farm auction will be held. On Wednesday September 22 Orval Rose Guernsey Jersey sale at 34th Street details for buyers.
Iowa Sheep and Wool Growers association names four nominees Cerwinske Perrin Chapman and Blakley to the board for the Sept 21 annual meeting in Des Moines. C W McDonald reports districts represented and says farmers favor central sale points for pure bred rams and more meetings on shearing dipping drenching and feed management.
George Gross of Walnut Iowa sold 1 169 pound steers in Chicago for 18 85 a hundred a seasonal high. It marked his fourth top sale since September 1 with prior bids of 18 50 18 60 and 18 75.
The Adolph Kadera threshing crew and their families picnicked at Pohler's campgrounds north of Town City Sunday. Sixty three attended.
The Lincoln National Life Insurance company sold 80 acres of farmland one mile west of Springville to O R Sehl a young farmer near Alburnett for 100 dollars an acre with possession to pass March 1 The deal was handled by H E Henderson company of Cedar Rapids
About 200 Iowa hybrid corn breeders attended the annual corn improvement field day at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station in Ames. They toured Eldredge popcorn plots, corn plots in the genetics section, and the farm crops subsection breeding work with noted speakers including Dr. E W Lindstrom A A Bryan and R W Jugenheimer of USDA. H D Hughes headed the program.
Members of the Jackson County Cow Testing association tried out for a two man judging team to attend the Dairy Cattle congress in Waterloo. Homer Miller and County Agent F E Krause selected eight finalists: Felix Oldag Ben Downey Hugo Menneke Carroll Eads Ed Schiema Louis Lingle and Irvin Tracy.
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