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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1939
Page
15
The State Tax Commission reports farm machinery valued at 22,203,000 in 1939, a sevenfold rise from 1933. Horses aged three years plus fell from 697,786 in 1929 to 461,165 this year, with a net 33 percent drop in horse valuations.
Dear Hattie jokes about aches from a Sunday saddle ride and cites biblical balm verses. The writer quips about organizing a liniment club after citing Jeremiah passages.
Representatives from federal agricultural agencies in Linn county will meet at the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce at 10 am on October 4. The conference, sponsored by the Linn county agricultural planning committee, aims to outline the 1940 agricultural outlook and how agencies and local groups can cooperate for greater achievement.
Decorah announces the second Winneshiek county agricultural planning meeting set for October 4. The program centers on how war will affect farm product prices and includes topics of general interest with speakers from the ACP SCS Smith-Hughes FSA and other groups.
Nineteen township meetings are planned in Linn county next week to elect township agricultural conservation officers. County Agent meeting dates and venues include Monday evening at Coggan Waubeek Troy Mills and Prairieburg. Tuesday afternoon Covington. Tuesday evening Bertram Mount Vernon Central City and Toddville. Wednesday Center Point Springville College Township Hall and Fairfax. Thursday Palo Marion and Mount Zion. Friday Walker Ely and Alburnett.
Beginning Monday meetings for Township AAA are set in Clayton county with sessions at 8 p.m. in McGregor Elkader Elkport Clayton Yearous school Fairview church Monona Reif school North Buena Vista Millville Garnaville Edgewood Volga City Farmersburg Guttenberg Center school Strawberry Point school Osborne Clayton school Wood U B church on successive weekdays.
Meeting dates for township AAA elections in Louisa county are scheduled the week of Oct 2. On Monday polling at Columbus Junction Cairo and Westport schools. Tuesday at Frog Pond Wyman and Letts. Wednesday at Fredonia. Thursday at Wapello Morning Sun and Toolesboro. Friday at Oakland and Oakville.
Wayne Norman, Washington county agricultural conservation committee chairman, released a list of evening educational meetings and township AAA officer elections. Dates span Oct. 2 to Oct. 6 with locations in Brighton Kalona Shiloh Cedar Center Seventy Six Crawfordsville New Haven Jackson Center Ainsworth Wellman Riverside and Washington.
The Gazette Want Ads present hunting gear in a cash and carry format. Readers can call 2-1121 to reach an Ad-taker and place listings in the ACTION marketplace.
More than 200 boys from 40 counties are enrolled with a projected 5,000 lambs to feed in the Iowa 4-H western lamb feeding project. Central pickup points at Waterloo Mason City Des Moines Spencer Sioux City and Omaha will supply lambs with shipments starting Oct 5–7 and show and sale days set for mid-October. McDonald and Quist oversee, with enrollment deadline Oct 7 and each boy handling one or two lots of 16 lambs.
Special to The Gazette Decorah reports 932 corn parity checks totaling 46050.64 received at the agricultural conservation association office. Cumulative parity checks now number 1911 totaling 91623.55 with 400 to 500 more due in two to three weeks, expected to total around 35000.
Des Moines AP reports some new corn already dry enough to shell with early husking and cribbing in northern and western Iowa. A good freeze could finish drying cobs, while livestock feed remains solid though water wells fail and streams run dry. In Columbus Junction, farmers hulled second crop clover and apples and pears are being graded and sold.
Seven men are employed to harvest the apple crop at the True fruit farm near Edgewood. The crop is estimated at better than 500 bushels and began Monday.
County agents county club leaders and Eastern Iowa 4 H Cattle Feeders members will gather at Hotel Montrose Cedar Rapids Oct 3 to review progress and plan for the year Rex Beresford Ames extension animal husbandman will attend enrollments for the five calf feeding project are due Oct 15 calves to be obtained and allotted between Oct 1 and Nov 15
John E Dunn of Cedar Rapids treasurer of the Linn County Agricultural Conservation association received 415 corn parity payment checks totaling 21689.03 for Linn county farmers. The county now has 2463 checks worth 146006.53 with under 100 checks still expected.
Wayne Norman, chairman of the Washington County agricultural conservation committee, announced that about 50 thousand dollars in corn parity checks have been received, bringing total county receipts to roughly 145 thousand dollars with about 40 thousand more expected.
A government corn delivery report from Benton County states two bins are being filled at Cheney and plans call for binning at Martello by Thursday afternoon. Farmers are delivering 1937 and 1938 crop corn securing Commodity Credit Corporation loans at 57 cents per bushel with a 7 cent storage allowance. others are fully settling loan obligations. Twenty one metal corn cribs with 34 650 bushel capacity are rising in North Manchester to store corn backed by government loans.
Waukon corn show offers fifty dollars in prize money for winners. The event on October 3 features fifteen classes for competitive entries.
Forty corn hybrids will be displayed at the hybrid corn field day sponsored by the Southeastern Iowa Experiment Association at the Conesville field station Friday at 1 p.m. Dr. C. S. Reddy and Stuart Younkin will lead the meeting to show hybrid performance under varying soil fertility.
Louisa County Farm Bureau sponsors four hybrid corn plots to aid farmers in observing field characteristics. County Agent Lael Moon announced one replication remains marked across the five replications in each plot. Plots lie south of the Carl Willey farm in Union township, on the Bruce Jennings farm in Elm Grove township, and south of the Marshall Strawhacker farm in Eliot township.
Listings cover multiple farm auctions across Iowa and Nebraska including C Jurgensen Chester White sale near Olin Beverly Cattle Co near Cedar Rapids J D Fisher near Marengo Mrs E L Stark near Central City Iowa Live stock Exchange Cedar Rapids Sandhills feeder calf sale O Neill Neb and Bassett Neb with dates from Sept 28 to Oct 4.
In Port Louisa township across from the J. Russell Bretz farm, husking dates will be announced later. Hybrids will be weighed to compare their output at husking time.
Fred Fritz, operator of a portable mill at Oxford Junction, recently purchased the Nolas Brothers estate of 120 acres six miles north of Oxford Junction for $20 an acre. The property has no buildings. forty acres are tillable, the rest timber and pasture. Immediate possession was given.
Patrons of Farmers Creamery and F. H. Hatch creamery received 27 cents per pound for top grade sweet cream butterfat in August and 26 cents for No 1 butterfat. Market butter has sold around 31 cents per pound for the past two and a half weeks.
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