Sowing of Oats Progressing Across Eastern Iowa
Eastern Iowa farmers report oats seeding starting in Decorah area and north toward Minnesota, with frost mostly gone. Rainfall varied Tuesday night with showers into Wednesday. spring work delayed by last season’s unfinished tasks but soil moisture favorable. Corn and soybeans in fields. pig losses linked to protein feed shortages and March weather. grass seedings largely winter-kill minimal.
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Decorah
Minnesota Line
Iowa
Independence
Cedar Rapids
Medley of past styles shapes modern wood carving
The text notes wood carving in Europe and America since the late 1700s has largely imitated historical styles, reflecting a continuity of craft traditions across continents and eras.
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Europe
America
Bright green pasture guide for Iowa farms and hogs
An Iowa field near Waubeck grows brome grass and alfalfa, providing forage for sows and litters. Notes Don Noller heading to Fort Sill for OCS. Advises cheap cattle feeder loans at Peoples Savings Bank and profitable use of summer pastures with rape, oats, and Sudan grass as emergency forage for cattle, sheep, and hogs.
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A. C. Knupp
Waubeck
Don Noller
Sigourney
Iowa State College
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Peoples Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Iowa State College Agronomists
Bertram
Jack Dahl
White Rock
Farrow
Peoples Savings Bank of
Scrap Drive set four mile square basis in Linn County
A county and community scrap salvage committee meeting in Cedar Rapids planned a rural scrap collection drive on a four mile square basis for Linn County during mid May. Gate signs will be provided to farmers and the sign reads This Farm is Clear of Scrap Is Yours. Attending chairmen from most Linn communities included Behle Ely Travis Tasbon Briggs Stambaugh Altheim Car son Hungerford Center Point Newman Strait and Nilles. Absent were Eve Marion and Newman Central City.
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Liman
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Palo
Marion
Central City
William Behle
Fairfax
Frank Krob
Ely
Carl Travis
Mt Vernon
Harlan Briggs
J Tasbon
Roy Stambaugh
Springville
Guy Altheim
Walker
Willard Carson
Troy Mills
J. B. Hungerford
Coggon
Merle Newman
Center Point
Merle Strait
Alburnett
L. J. Nilles
Louis Eve
Pete Lassen
Harvey Newman
Butterfat Averages 30.1 in Iowa County dairy herd
Marengo reports the Iowa County Dairy Herd Improvement Association record shows 331 cows produced an average 30.1 pounds of butterfat in March from 246,? cows. The top cow, owned by Alvin Teggatt, yielded 2312 pounds of milk with 92.5 pounds of butterfat. The top herd, Anton Heitshusen and Son's, averaged 46.5 pounds butterfat across 15 Holsteins.
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Marengo
Iowa County Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Alvin Teggatt
Anton Heitshusen and Son
Jones to Recognize Ten High Hog Producers
ANAMOSA The Jones County Farm Bureau with the Iowa Swine Producers Association and the Ames extension service will recognize the 10 Jones county hog producers with the best 1943 spring pork production records. County agent James F Kearns said eligibility requires submitting a name by May 1 and having at least eight sons to forrow by May 25.
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Anamosa
Jones County Farm Bureau
Iowa Swine Producers Association
Ames Extension Service
Jones County
James F Kearns
Farm Bureau
Kearns
Bombardier School Stresses Emotional Stability at Midland
The Midland Texas AAF Bombardier School emphasizes emotional stability training as essential for bombardiers to stay calm under enemy fire during combat readiness drills.
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Midland
Texas
AAF
Auction results from Bertram Volga City and Columbus Junction sales
A multi location sale report notes prices at Bertram for mares and horses plus cattle hens and feeding stock. Volga City items include corn pullets sows and heifers with prices. Columbus Junction results list oats corn hay feed milk cow and farm equipment prices with auctioneers Klotz and Duncan.
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Volga City
Sid
Guy Whitford
Columbus Junction
Balla C Fry
Klotz and Duncan
Collections Top Loans in Farm Security Offices Reported
Total collections by Farm Security Administration offices in Cedar Rapids Iowa City Maquoketa Marengo Mt Pleasant Sigourney and Washington for the year ended March 31 exceeded loaned amounts. The seven offices collected 384473.80 dollars and loaned 318411.50 dollars, per district supervisor Howard Dodge.
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Farm Security Administration
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Maquoketa
Marengo
Mt Pleasant
Sigourney
Washington
Howard Dodge
Toledo Cheese Factory to Be Reopened
A Toledo cheese factory is set to reopen after a meeting of about 50 farmers and businessmen. A national food products company is reported to plan opening the plant.
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Toledo
National Food Products Company
Randalia Farmers Prep Seed Oats and Clover
In Randalia many farmers worked the field Tuesday with discing done since Friday. On J F Ingels farm southeast of Randalia a seed oats planting photo shows Mr Ingels with his sons Howard and Marvin planning to sow 37 acres to Boone oats. Alfalfa and clover are also planned.
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Randalia
J F Ingels
Ingels
Howard
Marvin
Records Show Jones Farmers Use Income to Reduce Debts
Anamosa reports show 1101 instruments filed in Jones county recorder office in the first quarter. Of these 1101, 330 were satisfaction pieces and 86 were real estate mortgages. Thirty-one releases pertain to federal loans from the Federal Land Bank and the Land Bank commissioner.
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Anamosa
Jones County
Federal Land Bank
Land Bank Commissioner
Record of Real Estate Satisfaction and Mortgages in Early 1933
Ten years ago during the first quarter of 1933 the county recorded 184 satisfaction pieces and 203 mortgages on real estate reflecting the era’s financial activity and property dealings.
Primus Leaves Earlville Butter Factory for Plainfield
Elmer Primus, longtime buttermaker at the Farmers Cooperative Creamery in Earlville, is named the new buttermaker at the Plainfield creamery. He has served Earlville for two years in this role.
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Primus
Earlville
Elmer Primus
Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Plainfield
Wool Pool Repeats Across Decorah Winneshiek County
Members of the Decorah Winneshiek County Sheep and Wool association vote to pool their wool crop again this year with the Winneshiek Cooperative association. The move aims to streamline sales and secure better terms for growers in the region.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County Sheep and Wool Association
Winneshiek Cooperative Association
Altered AAA Advised Changes to Wartime Production Program
Agricultural economists D. Gale Johnson and O. H. Brownlee urged wartime shifts to the AAA. They called for abolishing most acreage restrictions, removing penalties, tying payments to war crop production, lowering loan rates, expanding practice payments, and coordinating local agencies. They also proposed non recourse short term loans for expanding operations and broader credit for feed livestock fencing lumber, but not land purchases.
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AMES
AAA
D. Gale Johnson
O. H Brownlee
Johnson and Brownlee
Johnson
Brownlee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Farm Auction Schedule Across Iowa Exchangers
Auctions set at Walker Livestock Exchange on Thursday April 8 and Iowa Livestock Exchange Cedar on Friday April 9. Cedar Rapids horse sale closing out by Charles McCreary in Center Point 542 miles southeast.
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Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Heiier
A. F
Tony) Sehmitz
van Horne
Gen. Basker
Walker Livestock Exchange
Chas. McCreary
Center Point
Contouring schedule set for Clayton county farms
Special to The Gazette lists twenty contour farming sessions across Clayton county next week. Events run April 12 to 16 with morning and afternoon times at farms near Elkport Colesburg Communia Strawberry Point Garnavillo and Clayton Center. Farmers Fritz Hageman Ellsworth Moser Dale Hansel Shaub Kruse Roll Knight Gibbs Berns Meyer Zapf Blank Eberhardt and others host sessions.
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Gazette
Elkader
Clayton County
Earl Hageman
Elkport
Ellsworth Moser
Colesburg
Dale Hansel
John R Shaub
Louis Kruse
Communia
Rawson Roll
Littleport
Harold Knight
Strawberry Point
Rae Gibbs
Marvin Berns
Frank Meyer
Garnavillo
Raymond Zapf
Clayton Center
Herman J Blank
le Roy L. Eberhardt
Contour Farming Favored by Tama County Farmers
Eighteen of 30 Tama county farmers prefer contour farming, citing soil and moisture savings and plans to continue. Ten expect yield gains, eight are undecided. fifteen believe contour corn stays clean, one disagrees, two undecided. One finds contour farming difficult, fourteen disagree, three undecided. County agent Burns Byram notes upcoming contour lay-out schools and demonstrations this spring.
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Tama
Gazette
Toledo
Tama County
Burns Byram
Byram
War work plants shift to Great Lakes region
Of America's 986 automotive plants, now engaged in war work, 792 are located in the Great Lakes states, highlighting the concentration of defense manufacturing in that zone and its impact on regional industry.
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America
Great Lakes States
Corn Replaced By Hay Shortage Hits Midwest Feeders
The Food Distribution Administration in Kansas City reports corn disappearance in the central western U S has been far above normal due to feeder demand and uncertain price parity laws. Alfalfa stocks are depleted and hay quality is poor with prairie hay in higher demand. Army demand and a Fort Robinson Nebraska delivery of 2000 tons at 25.80 dollars per ton shape the market.
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Food Distribution Administration
Kansas City
United States
Washington
Fort Robinson, Neb
Butter Production Dips 2 Percent Nationally
The U S Department of Agriculture reports creamery butter output fell 2 percent for the week ended April 1, returning to normal after a previous surge. The West North Central area including Iowa and Nebraska dropped 4 percent due to large burnings the prior week, though the region was 2 percent higher than 1942 and the nationwide gain reached 3 percent. The West North Central region supplied 49 percent of the nation’s butter production.
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Des Moines
INS
United States Department of Agriculture
West North Central
Iowa
Nebraska
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