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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1940
Page
4
Iowa farm building activity rises as carpentry crews hammer away on at least 15 projects in Linn and surrounding counties. Economists note higher farm incomes and declining corncrib construction, with new barns, granaries, and cold storage facilities under way across several townships and farms.
A demonstration on septic tank use will be held at the Leslie Kerndt farm in Center township Allamakee county in the afternoon of Sept 24. The event is sponsored by the county Farm Bureau with cooperation from the Ames extension service and Portland Cement Company.
A nostalgic verse evokes an Indian Summer through autumn imagery. The speaker notes a mellow moon, crimson sunset, purple haze, brown fields, pumpkins, corn, and rural life as a lone rabbit darts among shocks. The piece ends with an exultant heart and a signature line.
Two county Farm Bureaus Washington and Keokuk announce a two county cornhusking contest set for Friday October 18. Six contestants per county will be allowed with entry lists closing on receipt. Field selection to be made September 30.
Extension engineer CH VanVinck from Iowa State College will discuss installing simple water systems in Jones County with two meetings in Jones on Wednesday. Attendees are invited to Community hall Onslow at 1:30 pm and the court house Anamosa at 2:30 pm. Farmers are expanding pressure water systems aided by REA electrification.
On the Harry Newman farm two miles east of Martelle, 100 pigs are fed and harvest corn in one operation. The hogs, housed on a 65 acre field, are driven to eat the ears as stalks are mowed or knocked over by a tractor in a fall practice some Iowa farmers use.
Iowa Veterinary Medical association schedules its next state convention for January 28 29 and 30 in Des Moines. About 600 attendees expected to discuss control of botulism sickness in horses and swine erysipelas. Dr H W Shoening of Washington D C will speak. Guy S Jones is president and C C Franks secretary.
Harvest of medium red clover on the Bill Burlton farm three miles east of Norway finished with a five bushel yield from 15 acres. Burlton cited dry weather in early August as the cause and described cutting the damp seed with a mower, turning by hand, and threshing with a hulled device after two thirds of the heads were dead.
Government grades on butter are adopted for all trading on the New York Exchange. Grading will be done by exchange inspectors with appeal grading by federal men. The exchange will apply government standards on futures and spot trades and will be recognized as a contract market by the commodity exchange commission.
INDEPENDENCE The second annual countywide meeting of the Buchanan county newlyweds organization is scheduled for the evening of Sept 25 with a dinner at 7 p.m. County Agent Dale Irwin will be in charge assisted by James C Green, assistant organization director for the Iowa Farm Bureau federation, and Ray Bell, first district organization director.
A second meeting of the newlyweds group in Winne shiek county is set for Tuesday evening at 7 30 p.m.
The Maynard Cooperative Creamery paid patrons 31 cents per pound for butterfat delivered in August.
Auction notices list sales on Tuesday September 24 including Frank F. Dostal four miles north of Ely and Abdu Omar closing out sale three point four miles south of Garrison. Wednesday September 25 shows Don Hunseeker closing out sale two miles west of Central City. Thursday September 26 features Edd Johnston estate farm of 200 acres twelve miles north of Lisbon and an additional 82 acres timber.
Washington Festicorn preparations target 1000 ten ear corn exhibits from Washington county townships and neighboring counties. The event runs Oct 1 3 with $400 prize money across 20 classes judged by Ed Dyas Ames extension agronomist.
Washington reports that by Sept 10 less than 10 percent of the 1940 Kentucky bluegrass seed crop remained with growers. Prices to growers averaged 79 cents a bushel for cured seed in the western district, up from Aug 13 levels, and lower than 94 cents last year and the 5-year average of 70 cents.
Linn county 4 H club members will exhibit seven head of dairy heifers at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress scheduled Sept 30 to Oct 6. The Thomases of Alburnett will show four calves, Muriel Thomas two, and Junior Hank of Marion will enter Holsteins. A Linn County dairy judging team and horse judging team also compete, with余isted contestants named.
Sixteen members of the Winneshiek county dairy calf club will compete in the 4-H show at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo from September 30 to October 6. Entries span Brown Swiss Holstein Milking Shorthorn with individual Guernsey and Jersey classes. The group includes John Moellers jr Leon Everman Raymond Baumgartner William Schrandt Cyril Shindelar Andrew Bakke Teddy Green Fred Holland John Hegg Wilbur Wise Emmet Nerlie Richard Moen Alden Wennes Kenneth Hanson Arlyn Hanson Victor Tinderholt and John Moellers Jr Victor Tinderholt. The club will enter the demonstration class and the judging team.
Four H club members chosen to represent Delaware county in the dairy judging at Waterloo on September 30 are Dale Patton Ryan Cyril Engler Hopkinton Ronald Willard Hopkinton and Alvin Volkner Ryan.
Grundy Center will field two judging teams at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle congress. The dairy team includes Carl Levers of Parkersburg Elmer Fritzel of Wellsburg Vernon and Edwin Arends of Ackley. The horse judging team features Carl Levers Virgil Slinker of Grundy Center Don Henningsen of Beaman and Elmer Fritzel.
Independence and Rowley participants enter dairy and horse judging teams. Milford Nachholz and Donald and Jack Crawford show four Guernsey heifers and three colts, with Bear Gleason, Lloyd Falcon, and others. County teams include dairy judging with Crawford brothers Ohrt Copenhaver and Patten.
On 60 acres near Springville, Sim Boland born 1875 in Fairfax discusses voting for Roosevelt, farm programs, hog prices, and taxation. He notes the farm helps from federal policy, criticizes packing firms, and mentions a $97 tax after home stead exemption.
An autumn roller skating party with a watermelon feed is planned for 4 H club boys and girls of Keokuk county on Friday evening September 27.
GRINNELL The Poweshiek County Cattle Feeders association will hold its fall meeting on Tuesday evening September 24, preceded by a 4-H baby beef steak dinner. Rex Beresford of Iowa State College extension will discuss cattle feeders outlook and W J Breckenridge of Dinsdale will speak on chrome grass pasture for beef cattle.
Postville area farmer Cecil Livingood shows a sugar cane stalk reaching over 11 feet with an expected average height above ten feet from his field. He notes the specimen was taken from his sugar cane patch northwest of town.
Eighty near Lisbon sells an 80 acre Sabina Grover estate farm for 96 dollars per acre to John Light of Lisbon with possession March 1. Arthur Day sells a 90 acre Hazleton farm to H W Bacon of Hazleton for 4400 dollars about 49 dollars per acre with possession March 1, 1941. Transaction handled by C I Nelson, Hazleton real estate broker.
The department of agriculture forecast a decline in European dairy cattle as feed shortages bite. In 1939 about 42.084 million cows and heifers were counted in 18 leading dairy nations, up 10 percent since 1930, with the 10 northern countries excluding Germany and Russia slightly elevated from WWI levels.
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