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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1935
Page
6
Farmers report most Fayette county corn has matured enough to resist frost with at least two thirds ready. Glenn Myers near Waucoma has started cribbing a six acre field, harvesting sixty bushels by Saturday night. Cribbing to begin on many farms as soon as a sharp frost occurs.
Iowa's annual husking derby to crown state champion will be held in Scott County around the first of November. Sponsors include Wallace's Farmer and Town Homestead with co sponsors Scott County Farm Bureau and the Davenport Kiwanis Club.
A man pays $1 000 for four seats in the seventeenth row at the Baer Louis prize fight and bets on the pork chop price. The phrase fence drift and woven wire appear as stray text in the clipping.
Hazleton area reports corn on the I A Morey and Son farm four miles northwest of Hazleton is well out of frost risk and ready for seed. Most corn has matured quickly during recent hot days. Soybeans are mostly in shock with some destined for seed. Few farmers are cutting corn while plowing remains limited due to dry ground.
The Wheatland area reports peaches beginning to ripen with fruit larger than typical and a promising, sizable harvest expected this season.
Mrs. John Simon of Walker reports picking a second crop of currants this season from her garden bushes.
Former teachers and pupils of Lewis Bottoms Fayette No 1 school four miles north of Palo will picnic Sunday Sept 29. A basket lunch at noon will be followed by a ball game a PTA program and amusements for children.
Oelwein Farmers Co operative creamery paid 30 cents per pound for last half August butterfat as remodeling of the building continues toward fall production. Monticello Farmers Mutual creamery reports 28 cents for first half and 30 cents for last half of August butterfat. last year 31 and 30 cents.
New regulations for the 1936 control program to be explained in a series of district meetings for wheat allotment committeemen and county agents. Jay Merrill of Ames, state supervisor, schedules meetings in Cedar Rapids New Hampton Mount Pleasant Chariton Dennison Red Oak Primghar and Ames from Sept 26 to Oct 3.
TIPTON The Cedar county beef producers tour, backed by the county Farm Bureau, will begin September 30 at 9 30 am from the Earl Elijah farm southwest of Clarence. It proceeds to the Henry Von Muenster farm near Stanwood, then the William Davidson farm west of Stanwood where dinner is served. Afternoon stops include the Frank Rhoads farm near Mechanicsville, the W J Donahue farm in Tipton, and the Ed Rohlf farm in Bennett.
McGregor plumber Alvin Adney found a mass of honey comb hanging from a branch of a hawthorn tree on the William Pixler farm. He took the branch to his shop, sparking curiosity among apiarians. Beekeepers note such open air homes are unusual and potential explanations include a swarm lingering while scouts search for a home or scouts failing to return.
A Brookings Institute study credits the 1934 corn hog reduction program and emergency farm actions with raising corn hog producers income by 170 million dollars. D A Fitzgerald notes drought and other factors also raised livestock prices, with the AAA contributing about seven percent of the increase. The report details financing from Bankhead relief, treasury funds, and federal relief programs.
Fitzgerald noted during the first three years of the AAA consumers were not greatly affected by the livestock program. He attributed this to the 1934 drought rather than the AAA and added the processing tax did not raise pork prices for available supplies.
E I Bell farm sale near Marengo features yearling heifers 29.50 to 36.50 per head with 2 year olds at 48.50 to 50.00 and 2 year old steers 43.50 to 56.25. Calves bring 16.50, yearling steer 39.50, yearling bull 36, cows 27.50 to 45. Aged horses and assorted machinery also sold, including wagon 26 and tractor 31.50.
Seventy cattle forty calves eighty hogs and sixteen horses sold at the Independence sale for a total of 3925 dollars. A large assortment of poultry farm machinery and household goods went also. Top cows brought 69 dollars for a Jersey and a Holstein. Top horse a ten year old bay mare sold for 120 dollars. Seven shoats brought 17 40 each and six steers weighing 750 pounds sold for 38 dollars each.
George Whitley of Fayette county exhibited the grand champion baby beef Hereford at the Big 4 fair in Postville with Clair Claxton of Randalia as reserve champion. Fayette county led with the county group of five Herefords and Hearts O Center won the girls’ demonstration contest.
About thirty members from Mahaska Keokuk and Wapello counties will meet at the Mahaska county Farm Bureau office in Oskaloosa Thursday morning for a judging tour and association picnic. Judging starts 10 30 at the Warren Cadwallader farm for Holsteins and 11 at Frank Hoover farm for Jerseys. A Lake Keomah picnic dinner follows with a sports program and a 2 p.m. address by Earl Schultz. Frank Fry is association tester.
An eighty acre tract belonging to the William Cuddy estate near West Union sold at auction for $20 per acre, totaling $1,600, with Ernest Cooper acting as executor.
Local listings announce two farm consignment auctions on September 25 near Wellman and Cedar Rapids plus a closing out sale near Martello. On September 26 an auction of the F E Anangst farm operates near Center Point with a horse sale by Sam Dean in Marion.
More than 600 farmers from Iowa Minnesota Nebraska and South Dakota returned home after an Iowa meeting to back the Economic Equality League in defending the AAA. The group aims to support production controls and a legal challenge to the tariff if the AAA is ruled unconstitutional.
Iowa City farmer James Beecher from Johnson County marketed forty-one Angus steers and heifers. They averaged 950 pounds and sold at 11 dollars per hundredweight, among the day’s high prices for the class.
Checks totaling 112 722 85 arrive for 1935 corn hog contracts in Buchanan. Arthur Satterlee, treasurer, reports 1190 contracts and plans distribution starting Wednesday across townships Rowley Jesup Aurora and Independence Farm Bureau offices with multiple distribution sites.
The Elgin Canning company finished its 1935 packing run after four full weeks. A total of 88,500 cases equaling 2,124,000 cans were produced. The largest load weighed 9,750 pounds hauled by Emil Schneider.
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