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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1933
Page
6
A Linn County hog study compares tankage and skimmilk as protein supplements over eighty five days on Clyde Scott’s farm near Marion. Three lots used corn with either tankage oats mix or skimmilk and oats, showing higher daily gain for the skimmilk group but greater feed cost.
R F A commentary questions why a son is refused by government and why a pig earns a bonus but is docked by the packer. It cites Waterloo Cedar Rapids and other centers where farmers face criticism for responses to Uncle Sam's sow buying program.
Secretary Henry Wallace endorses Fire Prevention Week October 8 to 14 and notes two rural fire prevention advances. The Civilian Conservation Corps is reducing fire hazards by building roads and clearing forests, and Oregon promotes 4-H clubs for rural fire prevention and control. Farm fires last year destroyed about 120 million dollars of property and caused ten deaths daily. Rural areas, housing 44 percent of the population, suffer over 60 percent of annual fire losses.
North English area sees a booming waterfowl trade rivaling Wellman with Bronze and White Pekin ducks. Major producer Will Grove and Son shipped 20,000 ducks to Chicago and New York from a 25,000 hatch, retaining 400 breeding birds, while other farmers like Merle Kirkpatrick and John Kirkpatrick raise and market hundreds more amid heat and drought challenges.
In Anamosa district court Judge Moffit hears an unusual bid to grant authority to execute a wheat allotment contract. L W Russel acting executor represents tenant Jesse S Lamp on estate land, aiming to enter a contract with the secretary of agriculture under the agricultural adjustment act for 1933 1934 and 1935. A local allotment committee will review applications. Wheat contracts due in Washington by December 1.
Rex Beresford, Iowa State extension specialist, outlines controllable factors in cattle feeding including buying feeders, marketing calves, and proper feeding. He notes possible low feeder prices if range numbers rise and highlights how financing, inflation, and beef demand affect profit. fall buys and price differentials between calf grades influence strategy.
Special to The Gazette reports three thousand five hundred Iowa wheat growers have agreed to reduce their wheat acreage over the next two years. Assistant director Murl McDonald says more than 175000 acres had been signed up by Monday night, the closing day for contract applications.
A wagon loaded with posts was burned at Vince Burda Place east of town. Mr Burda had burned off posts and, thinking the fire out, loaded them onto the wagon and hauled them to the barnyard.
Willie Willis says LT enjoys long visits with Puc but his mother worries about table manners and he fears spilling something during meals.
Tama county represented in Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress mainly in the dairy calf show with nineteen Holsteins and Jerseys entered. Exhibitors include Roland Norman and Harold Mitchell of Buckingham, Donald and Yvonne Mitchell of Reinbeck, Dick Bruene and Arle Hansen of Gladbrook, Wilfred Homolar of Elberon, Edith Reinig of Toledo. Jersey exhibitors Earl and Russell Lyon of Traer and Ruthany Rex Avery of Tama. Farm Bureau exhibit to place first, E S Estel requests, women’s projects with a booth and two demonstration teams plus a stunt.
Iowa City Edward Carson Martin Warren Victor Mueller and Howard Fountain comprise the Johnson County 4-H dairy judging team competing Monday at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress state contest.
95 per cent of Iowa corn crop is safe from frost damage per a weekly crop and weather bulletin by Assistant Federal Meteorologist S. E. Decker. Warm temperatures and showers aided rapid maturation and fodder harvesting continued. Fall plowing resumes in regions with recent heavy rains. some sowings of winter wheat in a few counties.
Chinch bugs have appeared on several Keokuk county farms with severe infestation on the Harry Shanafelt and Clemon Striegel farms in Plank township. County agent Maurice Soulis says war on the pests will begin after corn harvest and stalks will be burned.
A three day sale lineup lists a 60 acre farm two miles north of Toddville with John W. Alman as agent on Thursday. Friday features a livestock sale at Reload yards. Saturday offers a closing out sale four miles southeast of Cedar Rapids by Joe Metelak.
Allen Nash of Sinclair Cedar Rapids announced that government account pigs and pig sows will be received until Friday noon with no later acceptance. Processing pigs minimum weight drops from 81 to 71 pounds, lowering the current average to 81 pounds from 87, while tankage pigs average falls from 55 to 50 pounds.
The Federal Land Bank of Omaha reports more than 3 million dollars loaned since May 1 to refinance farmers obligations to closed banks. An extra 1 million was lent to creditors of borrowers in debt to closed banks. The bank shows 7.5 million in first mortgages and 587,768 in emergency loans since May 1, with 18 million more approved.
A group of 350 farmers from Buena Vista Clay Pocahontas and Palo Alto counties adopted a resolution in Laurens praising Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace and condemning critics who call for his resignation The meeting followed a Farmers Union push for Wallace to resign and heard plans for relief from R M Evans on pig slaughter and pork price support.
Omaha packing plants purchased over 300000 pigs and piggy sows for the government under the farm relief program to lift pork prices by eliminating surpluses. A prior tally listed 289563 lightweight pigs and 21463 sows soon to farrow. Purchases to stop at close of business Friday per government orders.
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