Wheat Run Dwindles at Big Markets
Kansas City board of trade official pins government price policy for a farmers strike as cash wheat at the markets sunk to the lowest since 1903. Only 24 carloads received, nine with wheat, vs April 1945 average of nearly 300. Wheat stocks around Kansas City near 3 million bushels, down from 20 million last year. Millers warn of possible mill shutdowns without quick relief. two plants already threatened.
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Ansas City
Board of Trade
Walter R. Scott
Kansas City Board of Trade
Kansas City
S. P Mitchell
Kansas Flour Malls Company
Chicagoo (Ap
Aosas
Irr
Ecimreres
Delmt
Omaha
Dow-Jones Esini
Cotesio
FENCE DRIFT and thrift lessons in McGuffey era
R B C reflects on wheat shortages linking moral tales in McGuffey readers to thrift. A grandfather’s buggy ride memory about losing corn ears reinforces the waste-not ethic and the long view on conserving bread grain for future need.
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McGuffey
Receipts by Interior Markets Compared With Last Year
Receipts at the Interior markets are listed with city figures for this date and a year ago. Kansas City shows 37 versus 901,000 last year. Chicago 11 versus 66. Omaha 18 versus 17. Duluth 281 versus 94. Minneapolis 186 versus 239. St. Louis 11 versus 52. Wichita 10 versus 51. St. Joseph 5 versus 20. Indianapolis 11 with year ago unavailable. Sioux City 4 versus 14. Peoria 8 with prior unavailable. Milwaukee none.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Omaha
Duluth
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Wichita
St. Joseph
Indianapolis
Sioux City
Peoria
Milwaukee
House Passes Bill To Eliminate FSA
WASHINGTON AP The House passed a bill by Rep Cooley to abolish the Farm Security Administration and shift its lending duties to a Farmers Home Corporation within the Agriculture Department. A Senate bill would consolidate all farmer loan agencies into an independent agency outside Agriculture.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep. Cooley
D-N.c
Farm Security Administration
Farmers’ Home Corporation
Department of Agriculture
Flannagan
D-Va
House Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Lack of Shipping Space Ties Up Meat in Denmark
UNRRA says Denmark cannot export its meat surplus due to allocation rules and scarce shipping space. Copenhagen official calls the situation “sheer madness” as refrigerated transport shortages hinder exports despite warehouses full and UNRRA buying cattle and cheese from Denmark through other channels.
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Denmark
Washington
UNRRA
Jacob Tredegaard
Danish Agriculture Ministry
Copenhagen
Europe
Rural Women's Night Speaker at Benton County Event
Dr Marcus Bach head of religious education at the State University of Iowa will address rural women on Culture in the Corn field at the Van Hornel school on Wednesday evening April 24.
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Winton
Marcus Bach
State University of Iowa
Cornfield
Benton County
van Hornel
Iowa Farmers Seed Record High Across State
DES MOINES AP More than 4 million acres of small grain were seeded in Iowa last week as 81 percent of oats were planted by Saturday. Northeast district lags with just over half of oats seeded. Fields are in good shape with ideal conditions. pastures and hay meadows growing well. Clover and alfalfa winter kill averages 7 percent, confined to low wet areas. Plowing 38 percent complete, up from 35 percent prior week. Labor remains tight but adequate in scattered areas, and field work proceeds on schedule.
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DES Moines
Iowa
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Good Seed Is Best Buy Kling Tells C R Farmers Club
Henry Kling, president of Hamilton Seed and Coal, told Cedar Rapids Farmers club members that properly processed farm seeds are the best buy. He cited dockage in uncleaned seed and described seed-cleaning methods to remove weed seeds, noting timothy and red clover purity rates and the natural dormancy of seeds.
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Henry Kling
Hamilton Seed and Coal Company
Cedar Rapids Farmers Club
OPA
Kling
Timothy
Blind Veteran Starts Poultry Farm
Donald G. Hopker, 24, a Purple Heart recipient who lost his sight in World War II, returns to Palo to begin a poultry business with his wife Evelyn Jones. They moved into a five and a half acre home and remodel buildings for poultry raising, fencing two and a half acres, planting an acre and a half to potatoes, and have started with 40 laying hens and 300 pullets on order.
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Donald G. Hopker
Palo
Evelyn, Jones
Oakland
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Dibble General Hospital
Menlo Park
Hopker
Cedar Rapids National Guard
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Normandy
France
Belgium
Aachen
Army Rehabilitation Center
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Glenn Hopker
Donald
Sound Farm Land Use Objective of Little Sioux Project
Sound use of all farm land will be the key phase in the Little Sioux flood control project now underway. H O Ogrosky said at Sioux City as federal funds exceeding four million dollars will aid the effort to improve agricultural practices, raise rainfall absorption, and curb flood runoff and erosion. The second phase covers building structures to curb large gullies. Nearly three million acres are in the plan, with U S Department of Agriculture funds and Soil Conservation Service technical help. The extension service at Iowa State College handles educational work, with collaboration from other state and federal agencies and a 12-county Little Sioux agricultural committee.
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Sioux City
INS
Little Sioux
H. O. Ogrosky
Soil Conservation Service
Ogrosky
United States Department of Agriculture
Extension Service
Iowa State College
Northwest
Iowa
Little Sioux Agricultural Committee
Blue Will Open Plowing Contest
Governor Robert D Blue will fire the opening gun of the National Clean Plowing contest in Eden township Benton county on Saturday April 27. Prizes totaling 1000 dollars will be awarded to the winners of the contest under the auspices of the event.
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Robert D. Blue
Edén Township
Benton County
First Iowa corn borer control week event details
The Benton County Farm Bureau and WMT farm department promote the first organized attack on the corn borer per the U S Department of Agriculture. The Iowa program includes exhibits, demonstrations, crop dusting by planes, broadcasts from the grounds, two mass meetings with agricultural officials speaking, and the clean plowing contest.
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Benton County
Farm Parity Rider to OPA Bill Dropped
Washington AP A major threat to passage of an OPA bill acceptable to the administration lifted as farm state leaders agreed to withhold a controversial parity amendment to boost prices of agricultural goods. Rep Pace Georgia said he would press an alternate plan to link parity with other bills, while administration and Senate leaders warned of a veto if parity provisions remained in the OPA measure. The OPA fight moves to the House next week with a banking committee bill seen as acceptable after amendments.
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Ashington
Rep
Pace
D-Ga
Senate
Rules Committee
House
Truman
OPA
Banking Committee
Farm sale and farming notes from Maynard district
Farm briefs report Elmer Shaeffer and spouse selling their farm with stock and equipment to Ben Sheldon and wife. They stay at the local hotel until school year ends then relocate to Oelwein. Amana notes say farm departments will finish seeding oats this week and the society owns 26,000 acres with about one third under cultivation. Maynard also notes neighbors of F W Reinke, recently ill, harvested the oats on his farm.
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Maynard
Elmer Shaeffer
Ben Sheldon
Oelwein
High Amana
Amana
F. W. Reinke
Outlook Is Dark For Buying Cattle To Go On Grass
Iowa State College farm economist Francis Kutish said prospects are poor for feeder cattle purchases for grass finishing. Prices for feeder cattle are about $1.50 to $2 higher per 100 pounds than last year, while grass fed cattle outlook remains uncertain. Cattle numbers are high and adverse weather could boost marketings next fall amid ongoing subsidy uncertainty. He noted light feeder cattle marketing this winter and stocker feeder prices averaging $13.76 in January and February versus $12.38 a year earlier.
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Ames
Francis Kutish
Iowa State College Farm
Kutish
Neighbors help after fire destroys Howard Dodge shed
Howard Dodge of Center Point says neighbors are as helpful as ever after a fire destroyed his machine shed tractors and other equipment. The piece notes low cost farm loans from The Peoples Savings Bank and describes ongoing oats planting progress in a period between Cedar Rapids and Ames. It mentions plowing methods as demonstrations are planned in eastern Iowa counties.
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Howard Dodge
Center Point
Peoples Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
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