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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1939
Page
4
Iowa State Tax Commission shows farm machinery valued at 22.2 million dollars in 1939, over seven times 1933 levels, with horses decreasing from 697,786 in 1929 to 461,165 this year. Colt crop taxed at 2.8 million, steers and cows shift modestly, swine valued at 4.09 million, and store merchandise down while oil stations rise.
Linn county agricultural planning committee hosts a 10 a.m. meeting on October 4 at Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce with federal agencies and local groups. Topics include 1940 outlook, agency roles, unresolved problems requiring group action, and cooperation for greater results. The afternoon session discusses USDA programs and local implementation. Open to the public.
Special to The Gazette Decorah reports Winneshiek county holds its second agricultural planning meeting on October 4. The program centers on an outlook discussion titled What will war do to prices of farm products, with topics of general interest and participation by A.C.P. S.C.S. Smith-Hughes vocational teachers Farm Security administration and other representatives.
A readers note jokes about aches after a Sunday ride and biblical balm quotes. The writer suggests a liniment club as a humorous remedy and cites Jeremiah verses for comic effect. The piece reads as light correspondence in a local page.
Nineteen meetings are scheduled in Linn county next week for election of township agricultural conservation officers. County Agent meeting dates and places follow: Monday evening at Coggan Waubeek Troy Mills and Prairieburg. Tuesday afternoon at Covington. Tuesday evening at Bertram Mount Vernon Central City and Todavville. Wednesday evening at Center Point Springville College town ship hall and Fairfax. Thursday evening at Palo Marion and Mount Zion. Friday evening at Walker Ely and Alburnett.
Beginning Monday township election meetings will be held in Clayton county townships at 8 p.m. The sequence covers Monday McGregor Elkader Elkport Clayton. Tuesday Yearous Fairview Monona Reif North Buena Vista. Wednesday Millville Garna ville Edgewood Volga City. Thursday Farmersburg Guttenberg Center Strawberry Point Osborne. Friday Clayton Wood U B church.
Township AAA elections in Louisa county are scheduled the week of Oct 2 with meetings at Columbus Junction Cairo Westport Frog Pond Wyman Letts Fredonia Wapello Morning Sun Toolesboro Oakland Oakville.
Wayne Norman announces evening educational meetings and township AAA officer elections in Washington county. Meetings are scheduled from October 2 to October 6 at multiple schools and community venues including Brighton Kalona Shiloh Cedar Center Seventy-Six Franklin Center Wellman Crawfordsville New Haven Jackson Center Ainsworth Washington Riverside.
Ames reports over 200 boys from 40 counties enrolled in the Iowa 4-H western lamb feeding project. About 5,000 lambs expected to feed, with 4,160 already enrolled, shipping Oct 5–14 to six central points. Each boy may feed 16 animals in one or two lots, then show and grade at a central sale.
Decorah reports 932 corn parity checks totaling 46050.64 recently received by the agricultural conservation association. Cumulative parity checks reach 1911 for 91623.55. another 400 to 500 checks valued around 35000 are due within two to three weeks.
Des Moines AP notes some new corn already dry enough to shell with husking starting across northern and western Iowa. A good freeze could further dry cobs, moisture ranges from 20 percent in some kernels to early storage in bins. Water shortages strain livestock as wells fail and streams run low.
H R McKinney and nearby farmers last week hulled their second crop clover. Winter apples are being picked and graded and sell for 50 cents to 1 dollar per bushel. Pears are priced at 50 cents per bushel.
Seven men are employed this week to pick the apple crop at the True fruit farm near Edgewood. The harvest, estimated at more than 500 bushels, began Monday.
County agents and 4-H leaders gather October 3 at Hotel Montrose Cedar Rapids to review the Eastern Iowa 4-H Cattle Feeders club progress and plan the year. Rex Beresford Ames extension animal husbandman will attend. Enrollments due October 15 with calves to be obtained and allotted between October 1 and November 15.
John E. Dunn of Cedar Rapids treasurer of the Linn County Agricultural Conservation association announced 415 corn parity payment checks totaling 21 689 03 dollars for Linn county farmers. The county now has 2 463 checks totaling 146 006 53 dollars with more payments expected.
Wayne Norman, chairman of the Washington County agricultural conservation committee, said parity checks totaling about 50 thousand dollars were received locally. The county has about 145 thousand dollars in parity payments to date, with roughly 40 thousand more expected.
Delivery of old crop 1937 and 1938 corn to the Commodity Credit Corporation bins continued Wednesday in Benton County. AAA committeemen at Vinton and Monticello reported bins filling at Cheney and Martello with grain pledged for CCC loans at 57 cents a bushel. Farmers shelling sealed corn receive a 7 cent storage allowance. others deliver grain to settle their loan obligations directly.
Twenty-one metal corncribs with total capacity 34 650 bushels are being erected in North Manchester for storing corn turned in on government loans. Each bin holds 1 650 bushels.
Waukon offers fifty dollars in prize money for a corn show to be held October 3. Fifteen classes are provided for entrants, with prize awards to top finishers.
Dr. C S Reddy and Stuart Younkin lead a field day at the Conesville station Friday at 1 p m showing 40 hybrid corn strains. Farmers will compare standability ear height acre yields and moisture content under varying soil fertility. Seed was produced this year for Iowa hybrids 939 3638 and Illinois 960 U S 35 U S 44 for Southeast Iowa Experiment association members.
Louisa County Farm Bureau sponsors five replications of four hybrid corn plots with only one replication marked. County Agent Lael Moon announced the study locations in Union township south of the Carl Willey farm Elm Grove township on the Bruce Jennings farm and Eliot township south of the Marshall Strawhacker farm.
A series of upcoming farm auctions announced for late September and early October. Listings include C Jurgensen Chester White sale near Olin, Beverly Cattle Co near Cedar Rapids, J D Fisher and Mrs E L Stark near Marengo Central City, Iowa Live Stock Exchange in Cedar Rapids, and Sandhills feeder calf sales in O Neill and Bassett Nebraska.
In Port Louisa township across from the J Russell Bretz farm the dates for the husking of the plots will be announced later. Weighing comparisons of the different hybrids will be made at husking time.
Oxford Junction broker Fred Fritz, operator of a portable mill, reports the purchase of the Nolas Brothers estate comprising 120 acres six miles north of Oxford Junction for $20 per acre. The land has no buildings, forty acres tillable, the rest timber and pasture, with immediate possession given.
Edgewood patrons of Farmers Creamery and F H Hatch creamery received 27 cents per pound for sweet cream butterfat during August and 26 cents for No 1 butterfat. Market butter sold at 31 cents a pound for the past two and a half weeks.
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