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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1936
Page
7
Jones County Farm Bureau reports steady interest in steer and heifer projects for 475 pound calves bound for the corn belt. All classes of cattle show strong demand this fall as county youth and fathers participate in starmeine beef projects.
Fairview and Lovell Farm Bureau townships held their annual elections naming officers for the coming year. J. E. Merks of Anamosa will be fleet director of Purview township, succeeding Donald Ruhl. In Lovell township N.B. Clark’s successor is Walter Eby of Monticello as war director, with Mrs. Irvine Hinte as vice-chairman and women's group chair. Secretary and treasurer posts went to John Wilcox. Other reorganization meetings are slated for late October and early November.
The Iowa Farm Bureau federation launched a regional business study of agri cultural problems to put the industry on a business basis. Three regional meetings at Port Dodger Chariton and Waterloo drew 367 registrants to discuss tenancy, farm program lessons from 1932, and preventing future depressions under a slogan Keeping the Pipe Line Open.
Farmers from six county meetings back continuance of 1936 objectives with tweaks for 1937. Major suggestions include creation of a base established in 1936 as a standard for the 1937 plan, classification of nurse crops in loss prevention, greater funds for erosion control and weed eradication, and increased support for soil building practices. Ray Stivers notes the proposals will form a county report to the state committee, then to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, with about 40 farmers attending each meeting.
Nearly 92 attendees gathered at the H. J. Dirks farm barn for Scotch Grove Women's Community club annual entertainment despite rain. Alva Zimmerrman of Monticello supplied electric lights. Mrs. John Otten hosted a dinner party honoring Mr. and Mrs. James Mead on their fiftieth wedding anniversary with twelve children and many grandchildren present.
Economists warn that rising feed costs and tighter corn supplies may reverse past cattle profits. A USDA report notes higher production costs, potential shortages of choice steers this fall, and a shift toward more roughage as the 1937 spring market may be weaker than 1935. Beef competes with pork and poultry.
The Jones county warehouse board met in the Farm Bureau office in a regular session. They completed the corn loan program business and laid plans for the coming corn loan period. Secretary Clarence Mye Iham reported 33,472 bushels of corn concealed during the week.
The fourth annual corn husking contest was planned by the committee with a target date of October 29. The organizing group, including Lee Streets Ed Suzina Stanler Varroner and County Agent Carl Smuth, will choose the contest site and announce the location later. In other news, a Dav ihport story recalls a long separated reunion between a father Maurice Jones and his daughter Wilma Wright after decades of belief each was dead.
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