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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1940
Page
1
In Reaster area notes the O K Flaugh farm hosts midwinter purebred hog sales attract buyers from far regions. The piece describes Breeds Duroc Hampshire and Holstein stock, with 75 sows and 76 fall pigs, feeding practices, and the planned February 8 sales. A blizzard delayed photos. another visit planned.
The report notes Peter De Heus sale in MOT with Nebraska Major as top cattle entry, first Jun arling and Reserve Champion at the National Swine Show in Springfield Illinois. It describes eight hundred fifty pound weight, Major Bowes lineage, and hot competition at Town State Fair. The Flaughs display metal ventilators on their bus and a large Purebred Holstein herd led by two bulls, one from Washington Inn and the other Maytag farm Ormsby Chief, weighing around 1900 pounds. The dairy herd includes twenty cows and heifers, twenty eight Holsteins total, many records of butterfat and long Bang’s Disease free history.
A feature on O. K. Flaugh who farms near Pella with a cream route in Des Moines and a hand De Reus. The Flaugh family includes wife, two children Norma Jean and Kenneth, both 4-H members. Dwain De Reus aided stock care while the regular hand was away. Cattle on feed Jan 1 1940 estimated at 115 percent of 1939 levels. statewide gains for stockers and feeders through 1939, with December shipments slightly below 1938, and most cattle on feed under five months.
There was a great crowd at the Peter De Moun sly Walnut Grove farm sale on Wednesday with good feeling and strong bidding. Items sold included an A G tractor for 615 dollars, a tractor plow 82.50, a corn planter 871, a manure spreader 95.20, a slide delivery rake 75, a mower 55, harness sets up to 40 each, a team of three year old fillies 280, other lots over 100, cows up to 100, twenty yearling helpers 47.25 each, yearling steers 56.25, fall pigs up to 87 dollars, Clover hay 7.25 per ton, corn 50 cents per bushel, eats 88 cents. It was a real sale.
Marion and Dickinson counties have received dual coin allotments under the Agricultural Adjustment Administration 1040 program. O D Klein says listing sheets for each county showing farm allotments must be approved by the state committee before mailing. Approved sheets cover Adair Adams Audubon and Mahaska counties with allotments arriving soon. Corn acreage allotments statewide are about 11.7 percent below last year.
The program will not be uniform statewide but vary by counties and individual farms. General acreage allotments resemble 1939 levels though oats soybeans and other depletable crops may be planted. Corn and wheat remain special allotment crops and cannot be grown under general allotments.
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