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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1936
Page
10
Ames extension economists warn fall corn costs will strain buyers as cash corn trades about 1.15 a bushel, 20 cents above December Chicago futures. They expect December cash to hover near 95 cents, with bullish factors offset by larger hay and grain supplies and slightly smaller herd numbers.
Officers of the Benton county 4-H club met at the home of county president Miss Dorothy Jergens of Van Horne to plan a stunt for the Dairy Cattle congress in Waterloo from September 28 to October 4. County officers Helen Vaupel Marius Backholst Lucille Radeke and Jeanette Thompson attended with Mrs H J Grunewald Esther Ebert and Mrs Vaupel.
In SOUTH BETHEL farmers describe drought wrecking initial sowing of alfalfa and beans. One grower spent $190 on seed for fifteen acres while farm work continues with fall plowing, fodder corn cutting, and house painting. Despite stunted fields, beans show potential high yields in late stages.
Three girls walk the winding road in southern Winneshick Monday evening guiding a Hereford heifer and a new calf. The scene glows under a Crescent moon and a single star as the sun sinks, conveying a quiet sense of Peace.
Linn County will be represented at the Derry Cattle congress and allied expositions in Waterloo from September 28 to October 4. 4-H Milking Shorthorns are C Dean Thomas and Alburnett. Jerseys with Billie and John Henderson of Coggan. Belgian horses O E Fisher and Son of Ely. 4-H dairy cattle judging team includes John and Billie Henderson Coggan, Charles Reinheimer Marion, and William Benn Cedar Rapids. 4-H Girls' club demonstration contest features Virginia Rhinehart and Alice Stewart of Marion led by Mrs Adolph Christenson. A group of Linn County women will compete in the women's county wide home project contest.
Iowa City drive to add fifty customers to Johnson county rural electrification project begun by association directors. The goal raises average to three users per mile as REA in Washington rejects commitments from Iowa City and Cedar Rapids power firms. A lower power price is needed before a $200000 loan for about 200 miles of line can be approved.
A test summary from Allamakee County Con Test association No 1 notes a herd of ten grade Holsteins owned by George Goeke leading August results with 1188 pounds of milk and 40.4 pounds of butterfat. The high cow owned by Karl Simmons produced 1730 pounds of milk and 79.6 pounds of butterfat. Across 475 cows, sixty dry in twenty nine herds the average was 516 pounds of milk and 21.9 pounds of butterfat with feed cost per pound of butterfat at 12.6 cents.
Ninety seven 4-H club girls from Iowa counties answering the state health contest questionnaire at the state fair show a daily intake of a quart of milk two quarts of water and about 9.8 hours of sleep. Most work before breakfast and help with meals and chores. Beans and peas are popular vegetables with spinach rising in favor and candy consumption limited. Colds were rare and most had a physical exam in the past year.
Des Moines Iowa Governor Clyde L Herring proclaims this week and next as seed corn weeks urging farmers to gather enough seed for their own needs and a possible surplus Officials note drought and grasshopper damage could leave Iowa and neighboring states short of corn this fall The aim is to ensure adequate seed for next spring and promote general participation in preserving seed corn supplies
Harry R. Price, a farmer northwest of Victor, sold 500 bushels of shelled corn to the Brooklyn elevator company at 1.03 dollars per bushel on Friday.
Interview with George Williamson a renter of 156 acres near Hopkinton discusses politics relief farm programs tariffs and trade pacts. He details siloing yields alfalfa butter prices and dairy herd noting drought and AAA effects while backing protectionism and voting for Landon.
Rowley cooperative creamery paid patrons 40 cents for grade No 1 butterfat 39 cents for grade No 2 and 38 cents for grade No 3 during August reports secretary Joe McGrath Maynard cooperative creamery patrons receive 39 cents a pound for August butterfat per secretary C H Paul
Special to The Gazette Chicago The Agricultural Adjustment Administration will hold community meetings in ten corn belt states during the week of September 21 to gather farmer recommendations for a 1937 regional soil and conservation program. Meetings continue with county and state sessions through November and December to finalize a program by early next year. States involved are Iowa Illinois Indiana Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Ohio South Dakota and Wisconsin. Key topics include payment bases crop classifications 1936 bases retention or change soil building practices maximum conservation allowances and enhanced crop insurance provisions.
Bushels of fried chicken and baked beans with escalloped potatoes vegetable salad apple pie and coffee will be served to invited guests at the annual Poweshiek county Farm Bureau banquet and fun night in Montezuma Thursday evening. A speech by W. B. Hamilton Des Moines secretary of the Iowa Farm Bureau federation and performances will close the program.
G R Ramsey Ames extension forester who supervised the forestry demonstration in Allamakee county will inspect the plots on September 30. He will also review requests for 1937 plantings and consider next year’s quota at one demonstration plot per township for 1938.
A sequence of sales is listed: September 23 at a Kenwood dairy farm 5 miles north of Cedar Rapids, a Guernsey auction on E G Swartzendruber farm 6 miles north of Wellman, and a sale on Charles Rogers farm 51.4 miles southeast of Brandon. September 24 features Beverly Cattle Company consignments. September 26 offers a 168 acre Frank Dostal farm sale 5 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids.
Webster Savings bank sold 37 improved acres of the Pete Huffman farm one mile south of Webster on highway 149 to Virgil Winegarden for 2700 dollars at 73 dollars per acre. Another 40 unimproved acres went to Nervel Thorburn for 3500 dollars at 87 1/2 dollars per acre. The entire farm brought 6200 dollars at 80 52 per acre with possession on March 1.
Heavy rains slowed the Elgin Canning corn pack as farmers could not harvest. The plant will shut down this week after five weeks of operation. Corn quality surpassed early expectations.
V C Ramseyer of Oskaloosa says more than 2,000,000 Iowa turkeys will go to market this year. Turkeys have become a commercial Iowa enterprise in about fifteen years. A C Gingerich of Wellman plans to market 500,000 dressed birds. Ramseyer notes the shift of turkey raising toward grain regions with alfalfa and corn. About a thousand people attend the Town Improvement Association meeting.
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