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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1935
Page
4
Movement to interior buyers through Thursday totaled 37 300 head with a light Friday Saturday outlook. Midwest markets show 104 000 head in four days, prices eased early week then steadied, demand soft for fresh pork and sows, traders expect a potential weekly total still lighter than recent years.
The Rural Electrification Administration highlights limited farm electricity, contrasts rural and urban access, and notes attempts to expand service by 1940. Hog market forecasts suggest higher prices in 1935–36 due to tight supplies, strong demand, and favorable hog corn ratios.
Public sale announced for farm land located two miles west of Martelle and four miles north of Norwood Schoolhouse. Auction site described as 80 rods from Rock Road and 434 miles southeast of Springville. exact date omitted.
An estate sale advertisement lists a bay team, nine Shorthorn cows and yearlings, several steers, and a large machinery group from plows to corn planters. Also offered are dairy supplies, harnesses, dairy equipment, chickens, household goods, and a Delaval cream separator with a 19 gallon storage setup.
Special to The Gazette Des Moines Iowa shows 156 cities offered agricultural and occupational classes in the year ending June 30 1935 with 18 905 Iowans enrolled. Agricultural education accounted for 9 733 students homemaking 4 461 and trades and industrial courses 4 711. New programs started in multiple towns and Waterloo added retail selling and office work for part time students. Total expenditures reached 309 152 with federal funds 152 234 local funds 148 091 and state funds 8 827.
A sequence of farm auctions announced for September shows events in Anamosa, Belle Plaine, Alburnett, Wellman, Cedar Rapids, Martelle and surrounding areas. consignments and public sales feature farmers including Elmer Radke, Mrs. Howard Carpenter, Joel Guengerich, Will Black and Mary E. Bickel with dates September 21 to 25.
North Tama county farms near Traer see extensive upgrades. Farmers James Herink and A. F. Hanus raise new hog houses, Frank Drinovsky adds a large chicken house, Walter Leo builds a one and a half story modern home on George Leo land southeast of Dysart, and Wilmer Hulme's farm near Traer gains a 34 by 34 foot barn. Additional projects include Henry Schroeder's combined granary and shop, a 40 by 20 foot cattle shed on Johnston farm, and a new double garage on J F Kostlan farm. Painters stay busy repainting multiple buildings in the area. Straw berry Point reports frame for a 72 by 36 foot machine shed and hay barn on Frank Wilder farm, using timber from four miles north.
Carl Rehder of Traer named outstanding Holstein club member in Tama County. He receives a wrist watch from the Iowa Holstein Breeders association. The Tama County Holstein breeders committee will award cash prizes to the top three Holstein record books after the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress.
Maynard area dairy group reports 278 cows forty two dry on test in Fayette County Cow Test Association No 3 averaged 525 pounds of milk and 202 pounds of butterfat in August. H H Belding led herds with 529 pounds of milk and 247 pounds of butterfat. Robert Stohr notes testing changes with Lowell Kuhn taking over Sept 1.
Eastern Iowa farmers push ahead with silo filling in Troy Mills and Oelwein as soybeans and corn ripen. Warm weather is needed to finish tasks with several crops including soybeans, clover and alfalfa, and some fields will be used for seed rather than hay due to rapid maturation. In Washington county frost danger declines as corn and other crops mature amid a bumper overall crop and a record apple harvest.
Results of feeding dry rendered tankage to cattle lambs and hogs in the past year will be discussed at the annual livestock feeders meeting at University farm on Oct 15. Other topics include soybean oilmeal as a protein feed substitute and swine feeding experiments. F G King of Purdue University will discuss Indiana hog tests and cattle feeding issues.
Iowa Farm Debt advisory council members were urged to assist distressed debtors as soon as foreclosures are found. Bowman said 9,000 farmers are in foreclosure checks with 3,300 protected by moratorium. the Frazier Lemke bill offers debtors a three year period with court relief and possible cash rent, delaying foreclosures. He urged coordinators to locate deserving debtors and act at no cost to save them from foreclosure.
A total of 2,011 corn hog checks worth about $199,650 are being distributed Friday to Tama county farmers by the county allotment committee. Distribution starts at Traer and continues at Toledo. These are the first payments in Tama County on the 1935 Group 1 contracts and cover all but about 175 contracts. There are roughly 1,800 corn hog contracts in force in Tama county this year in all classes.
At the nineteenth annual convention in Des Moines the Iowa Farmers Union demands an immediate halt to the AAA program calling it worthless and vicious. Speakers attack the AAA and Secretary Wallace and the national administration while urging Wallace to resign to private life. Glen B. Miller is re elected president as resolutions back public ownership of utilities and restrictions on food speculation and taxation.
Independence canning company completed the season's pack of sweet corn Thursday after operating since August 26. The total pack reaches 32 000 cases and 200 people were employed during the season.
Glen B. Miller of Oskaloosa was re elected president of the Iowa Farmers Union at Des Moines this week. He has held the post for five years since succeeding Milo Reno.
Sixty delegates from Iowa Nebraska and Minnesota gathered in Spirit Lake for the first annual 4-H wild life conservation camp under J S Quist Iowa assistant boys' club leader. Sponsored by Ames extension service and the Iowa conservation commission the event crowns a year of wildlife study with activities including Spirit Lake fishing trips a fish dinner hikes to observe trees flowers and birds and an inspection trip to Lost Island lake Ruthven to view shelters covers and feeding stations.
A 160 acre Jentzen estate farm in Lincoln township Tama county sold to Charles Goodenow Marshalltown for 110 dollars per acre. A 160 acre former Patrick McMorrow farm west of Waukon sold to Carl Johnson for 60 dollars per acre.
At the Charles Buswell estate sale near Marengo, high grade Hereford yearling heifers sold for 42.50 each, outranking similar steers. Nine heifers, fourteen spring calves, cows, and other livestock plus farm machinery fetched prices. Auctioneer was Harry Hartz with Ward Hatter as clerk.
Decorah report from the Khiemme Gesell farm sale near Ridgeway notes horses top at 166 dollars, hogs to seven dollars fifty, lambs at 38, twenty three Holstein cows averaging 50 each, sixty spring pigs about 75 pounds selling for 10 a head, mixed hay 7.50 a ton, corn 9 an acre, a tractor 520 dollars, total sale about 5000 dollars.
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