Packers Advocate Ceilings For Hogs In Chicago Conference
In Chicago Friday 93 livestock producers with meat packers debated a meat control plan from the American Meat Institute. The plan urged government rationing licensing and price controls to align supply with civilian demand while reserving stock for the armed forces and lend-lease needs. Producers split over live hog price ceilings, with one group presenting data disputing packer margins.
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Two Chester White Sows Sold for 172.80 at Postville
Rucben Nolting marketed two Chester White sows in Postville for 172.80. They weighed a combined 1200 pounds. The article notes a humorous reference to mutton requirements: one man counting sheep and lamb each second, eight hours nightly, for 27 months.
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Postville
Rucben Nolting
First Linn county farmer buys tumble bug plow near Lisbon
Steve West, two miles south of Mt. Vernon, buys a tumble bug plow at Lisbon’s Petersen and De Clow store to contour plow 54 acres of corn. The double two-row tractor gang plow can be set to 12, 14, or 16 inch furrows and may be converted to single bottom use. Only a few of these plows exist in eastern Iowa with units near Monticello Arlington Elgin Decorah.
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FENCE DRIFT and the shift in farm support policy
The article discusses Triple A and the extension service moving from pure education to action. It notes Congress charged the agency to shift focus toward farm labor questions, but no broad procedural change occurred. County agents sometimes recruited farm hands, while extension work emphasizes efficiency and local cooperation.
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Some Good Litters In Winneshiek, Many Not So Good
Decorah reporter Ray Birdsell from Frankville said fourteen of his seventeen sows farrowed 102 pigs, with three sows due this week. Luke Courtney of Bluffton reports eleven pigs from one sow and eight from another. Overall reports are above average though many litters are smaller. Ground conditions favor early field work though farmers wait for warmer weather. Frost is lighter than usual and soil moisture is high, pastures and fall seeding wintered well.
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Ray Birdsell
Frankville
Luke Courtney
Bluffton
Fire kills 300 chicks at Marengo farm blaze
Special to The Gazette reports a Saturday morning fire at the Ben Tompkins farm near Marengo started from an oil stove. Fire extinguishers fought the blaze but the smoke suffocated about 300 young chicks.
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Marengo
Ben Tompkins
Postville FFA elects delegates to state convention
Special to The Gazette From Postville the Future Farmers of America chapter elected Ted Green and Gordon Landsgaard as delegates to the state convention in Des Moines on April 16 and 17.
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Postville
Future Farmers of America
Ted Green
Gordon Landsgard
Des Moinee
Farmers Urged to Produce Not Gripe About Regulations
CHICAGO UP M Clifford Townsend director of the food production administration urged farmers to recruit high school age youths women and older men to plant and harvest crops. He said they must enlist city and town cousins for help in this emergency and work with county boards to meet labor needs while regulations are necessary to work with the military. He urged focusing on producing food rather than worrying about rules.
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M. Clifford Townsend
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Food Preservation Project Initiated in Delaware County
At a joint meeting of the Delaware county home project and girls 4-H club committees County Agent W K Webster leads in introducing Hazel Rippey new food preservation specialist in Delaware Mrs Ellis notes home food production is vital as commercial packs go to military needs A plan for preserving and exchanging surplus produce includes canning centers if equipment is scarce and a labor plan for farm women with 4 H Victory clubs involvement and county leaders present including Mrs Paul McElmeel and Mrs H E Carruthers.
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Delaware
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Delaware County
Paul McElmeel
County Home Project
H E Carruthers
Mesdames Harold Wilson
James E. Patton
Verne Hermann
Austin Mead
George Kuehnle
Ralph Childs
Achievement Day Of Linn Farm Women Set for April 14
Linn county Farm Bureau women announce the annual achievement program on April 14 at Cedar Rapids. Home project chairman Mrs Douglass Ross of Marion says speakers include Mrs Raymond Sayre of Ackworth a state Farm Bureau committee member and Ensign Joan Elmsley of the WAVES based in Cedar Falls.
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Cedar Rapids
Douglass Ross
Marion
Home Project
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
State Farm Bureau Federation
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the Waves
Cedar Falls
Convict Help Suggested for Fort Madison Farm Classes
A Presidio article proposes Fort Madison Iowa state penitentiary add farm classes to help farm manpower. Writer Joseph Hesse argues convicts could become skilled farm hands and may teach classes for near-term releasees or parolees. Gramlich notes growing meat demand and a likely large 1943 need for corn and feeds, urging production security steps.
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Iowa State Penitentiary
Farm labor drop hits 1943 crop season
New York AP reports U S farmers face 125000 fewer farm hands since 1935 39 and farm family workers down over 500000. February 1943 agricultural employment about 90000 below year earlier with January February average 8410000 vs 8527000. Losses to military and war industries reduce efficiency as skilled farmers are replaced by less experienced hands women and youths. Iowa study adds 64250 farm workers to armed services from 1940 43 and 65000 to war industries.
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Division of Industrial Economics
National Industrial Conference Board
Iowa State College
Iowa
Armed Services
Gramlich Urges Early Corn Patches For Feed Safety
Howard J. Gramlich, Chicago and North Western agricultural agent, urges midwest farmers to plant emergency patches of early maturing corn to counter potential feed shortages in 1943. He warns adverse weather could curb late corn yields and notes early varieties can be ready for hogs by August, providing a safeguard amid drought or frost risks.
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Howard J. Gramlich
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Midwest
Gramlich
Coming Farm Auctions on April Dates Across Iowa
Auction notices list sales from April 6 to April 13. Jack Dahl closes out a 14 mile region sale, Geo H Kennedy handles Hampshire brood sows in West Liberty, Walker Livestock Exchange conducts an auction, and Iowa Livestock Exchange hosts a horse sale in Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Feed Oats in Demand Rise on Parity Talk and Transport Uncertainty
The May oats futures rose to 65 cents as cash No 1 heavy white oats reached 69 cents in Chicago. The rise is linked to strong feed demand amid curtailed corn movement and pending national bills to raise grain parity, plus doubts over transportation from Canada to fulfill contracted purchases.
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National Congress
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Canada
United States
Mares in Foal Bring $400 at Midway Horse Auction
At F. C. Smylie's Midway sale in Columbus Junction a team of fiveyearold sorrel mares in foal sold for 400 dollars. Other teams aged seven and eight years sold 225 to 300 dollars, a sixyearold roan mare 140, spotted saddle horses six and seven years old 140 to 150, and a 2yearold mule 160 dollars. Wednesday consignments included 250 head of Angus cattle at 14.50 to 15.50 per hundredweight and butcher cattle 14 cents per pound. Fall shoats 14 cents, and Henry county Farm Mt. Pleasant bought dairy cows at 140 dollars each.
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Henry County
Mt. Pleasant
Farm Union Head Supports Veto of Bankhead Bill
DES MOINES AP Donald Van Vleet president of the Iowa Farmers union asks Iowa congressmen to back President Roosevelt in vetoing the Bankhead bill. He says the president needs cooperation from farmers laborers consumers and investors for a seven point anti inflation program. He adds Iowa farmers seek fair stable prices and will cooperate to resist inflation.
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Donald van Vleet
Iowa Farmers Union
Iowa
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