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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1938
Page
2
The Jones County home project chorus met for a regular rehearsal Monday afternoon at the Legion hall in Anamosa. Mrs. John Morse Wyoming county music chairman and Mrs. Arthur Wilcox Center Junction chorus director led the session.
A county and township AAA committeemen meeting was held at Center Junction High School on Saturday. L. T. Lorenzen, Jones county AAA chairman, and Roy Dyas, state committee field man, led the session to explain provisions of the 1938 farm program.
George B. Strayer state president of the Iowa Rural Young People’s assembly met Jones county rural youth officers on March 15 to aid planning of a long term program. The Jones county program committee also met with officers. officers named Donald Meeks president and others.
Iowa State college seed laboratory reports lower seed quality this year with high prices. Inferior clover and alfalfa seeds carry weed seeds including noxious varieties, risking weed spread and extra labor to eradicate. Farm Bureau offers free purity and germination testing through its office for members.
Jones county Farm Bureau officers led by W D McLaughlin Monticello president and H J Dirks Center Junction vice president are invited to a district Farm Bureau meeting at Cedar Rapids on Monday March 21. Eleven counties will be represented and state Farm Bureau staff will attend to discuss the 1938 general program.
The fourth training school on the home furnishing project will be presented at a series of meetings in the county during March 22 through 25. The lesson covers Commercial Floor Covering and Refurfacing of Linoleums and includes quality price and use study plus a linoleum resurfacing demonstration. Miss Nora Workman of Iowa State College will conduct the sessions.
Farmers in Jones county are urged to study a six point plan guiding the 1938 farm program. Secretary Wallace presents the core provisions including soil conservation permanence, national acreage allotments, and loan provisions to store surpluses for future need.
Four marketing quotas with penalties for over selling require a two thirds vote by producers to ensure farmer participation in a program that keeps surplus wheat off the market until needed. Five releases from storage supplement supplies during shortages on farm county or national levels. Six crop insurance for wheat from 1939 improves drought protection for producers and bread supplies, while gradual premium deposits build Ever Normal Granary wheat stocks.
The March 21 meeting of the Wyoming 4 H boys club will be held at the high school. Breeds to be discussed are Angus by Robert Nowachek Hereford by Melvin Sievers and Shorthorn by John Eichhorn. A brief history of the U S beef cattle industry will be presented by the club agent.
The Castle Grove 4-H boys club met Monday evening March 14 at Castle Grove School No 2. Olin Howie demonstrated rope halter making, the club agent spoke on sow and litter feeding and care, and Fred Kromminga led a general round table on projects and activities.
County club boys report strong gains in baby beef calves for February. John Benadom of Jackson township, in his first year as a feeder, cites Pinochle Hereford at 90 pounds, K. Domino Hereford at 64 pounds, and Rastus Angus at 80 pounds.
E S Dyas of Iowa State College extension agronomy warns that second generation hybrid corn loses 10 to 20 percent of vigor and can see yield drops up to 40 percent in drought years. Inbred weaknesses from the first year crop cause the decline, as tests from the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station show.
A. B. Caine of Iowa State College advises farmers to condition work horses for spring. Horses should gain weight weeks before field work with a gradual ration change to include concentrates and grain. Oats corn barley bran linseed meal alfalfa and clover are suggested feeds. hay should be limited to night feeding to aid digestion.
Earl A. Babty, Cedar Rapids transfer man, recalls his circus days with Clyde Beatty who rose to fame as a top wild animal trainer earning 2600 dollars weekly after Beatty won a coin toss for a pupil. Babty quit in 1931 to settle in Cedar Rapids. In Humboldt county Livermore a prank ended badly when Jacobson, 13, was burned after being doused with turpentine and a splash of flame from a lit match.
In Lakota Iowa Kossuth county a Presbyterian church counts seven twin pairs among members. Two twin couples share a surname through marriage. Three twin pairs are related by a family with frequent twin births. A rural school houses three twin pairs and a teacher is one of a twin pair.
A homemaker warns that accidental deaths in homes exceed car deaths and urges practical steps. Improve lighting on stairs, secure rugs, use rubber mats, wipe spills promptly, keep hot liquids away from children, and clearly mark medicines to prevent poisonings. Small changes reduce falls burns and poisoning risks at home.
A Cherokee Times columnist predicts that a change in official control will lead to a genuine investigation into emergency relief administration. Revelations will rival Teapot Dome in shock value and astonish future historians.
Old farm price records from 1910 onward are being sought by Iowa State College in cooperation with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Iowa State Planning Board. Researchers hope to extend a price series further back and welcome any records or dealer price lists for even one year. Contact R. Bentley, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa.
Frank Priebe discusses price policy for poultry and eggs, arguing market demand driven by quality and price is the best way to insure a stable market. He notes government buys eggs for relief if prices dip, and criticizes artificial supports like higher taxes on imports in favor of boosting consumption.
The Rock Rapids Reporter notes Secretary Wallace believes a new farm pill could stabilize corn prices around 60 cents or more. He calls this better than 40 or 50 cents but still short of fair long term earnings for farmers.
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association announces seed from newer crop varieties available for trial. Kanro soybeans, Early Korean Lespedeza, Sorap hybrid popcorn, Mukden soybeans, and Towa hybrids 931 942 939 13 are offered in limited amounts with postpaid and f.o.b. pricing. Growers are urged to plant comparative trials and report results to the association.
The article describes trial plots to decide on growing hybrids in future years. Hybrids will be sold in 1 peck lots for $2 each. Orders and remittances should be sent to the Farm Crops Department at Iowa State College in Ames Iowa.
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