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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1934
Page
8
A Gazette survey across ten eastern Iowa counties finds indifferent interest in fodder and stover conservation contracts. Field supervisors appointed to boost cooperation await clearer buy in amid weather, technical hurdles, and conflicting cut guidelines. drought and chinch bugs threaten quotas and potential use.
An editorial notes the drought impact on hay and fodder in eastern and northeastern Iowa. It warns that cutting costs erode farm returns while high guaranteed prices burden farmers in drought zones. Despite rains, reserves remain scarce and winter feed relief is uncertain.
Special to The Garvette reports Fayette County farmers have cut a vast acreage of corn in the last two weeks. Wet uneven germination, sporadic rain, and late frosts slowed ripening while silage filling nears completion. Silo work continues despite storm damage to pasture and soybeans.
Federal cattle buying in Iowa and several states is suspended while a feed survey and probe are conducted. The action aims to assess livestock supply and market conditions amid unclear reports and ongoing investigations.
Surplus pigs in Tama county are to be fed for poor relief. A grid will be assembled at the Surges tere for feeding and butchering planned to aid the needy.
Benton County farmer Walter Brandt discusses contract critics and AAA checks. He says some county signers faced unjust hog quota cuts while others were cleared after rechecks, blaming outside criticism and jealousy for the probe into Benton county contracts. Brandt has 387 acres near La Porte City and has lived there ten years.
Farmers in Benton County discuss plentiful hay corn and cucumbers while criticizing AAA checkers and county allotment committees. They defend the committees, claim misclaims of deductions, and vow to stay firm for the coming year amid political pressure and calls for accountability.
Sigourney Keokuk county relief office will take over surplus pigs from corn hog contract signers. Hogs be brought in at designated stations next week. A goby fish note warns it drowns when submerged long. it can walk ashore.
Four hundred head of hogs 150 cattle and 250 sheep sold at a Columbus Junction consignment sale with sows 14 to 24 dollars each and heavy shoats four to four and a quarter a hundredweight. Other cattle and calves priced from 25 to 40 dollars for milk cows and 3 to 4.25 a hundredweight for Hereford heifers. Also: Idaho horses sold at Columbus Junction stockyards 20 to 65 dollars. Anamosa and West Branch sales reported mixed livestock prices with hogs cattle calves and pasture stock auctioneers named.
Mervin Louis Zeller of Muscatine began duties as 4-H club agent in Benton county this week. He previously served six months as club agent in Clinton county. Zeller, born on a farm, graduated from Ames last spring with a bachelor of science in animal husbandry.
Horses topped at 75 dollars while sows reached 17, sheep 8, boars 15 to 18, stock steers 5.50 per cwt, fat helfers 5.05 per cwt, and milk cows 30 to 40 per head. Albin and Kennedy ran the sale with buyers from a wide area including western Illinois. The article notes geographical oddity about the sun rising in the Pacific and setting in the Atlantic at Panama.
L. A. McGrath W. B. Huyck Rolly O. Aiken and Ralph McElhinney named by L. W. Plager to supervise AAA fodder and stover purchase in Linn Jones Cedar Scott Clinton Jackson Dubuque Buchanan Benton Town Johnson Muscatine Washing ton Louisa Des Moines Jasper Marshall Tama Grundy Black Hawk Butler Delaware Bremer Fayette Clayton Chickasaw Howard Winneshiek Allamakee counties The group met to organize the program and survey equipment and corn readiness for sale at 7 to 9 dollars a ton with higher value for fodder containing more corn.
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