Eggs Will Be Exhibited By Fayette County Women
Fayette county rural women led by Harlan township chose exhibits on eggs and whole wheat nutrition to represent the county at state fair and Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. Putnam and Nlyria townships contributed displays on food for victory and whole wheat muffins as 200 attendees heard speakers on farm defense and nutrition.
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Fayette
Harlan Township
Fayette County
Nlyria Township
Waterloo
Putnam Township
Cedar Rapids
Mable Phipps
Ames
State Extension Office
Faye Procter
Frances Bunting
Bethel Township
Jefferson Township
Roy Joslin
Clarence
J. F. Ingels
Farm Bureau
Paul McElroy
Floy Morgan
4-H
Meta Jane Masters
Independence gardens show early green up and beet trial
In Buchanan county, oats are well sowed with damp areas. County Agent Dale Irwin notes farmers sowed rust resistant varieties though seed ran out. Spring wheat is above average, pastures greening, gardens planted. In MT. VERNON, G A Hunter’s garden shows radishes and lettuce up and plans to grow sugar beets again as in the last war.
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Independence
Buchanan County
Dale Irwin
MT. Vernon
G. A. Hunter
Hunter
Farm Credit Confab in Omaha to Discuss Cooperative Credit
Representative farmers and livestock operators from South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska will meet in Omaha on April 20 and 21 to discuss making cooperative credit more useful to farmers in the nation wide food production drive. Attending will be directors of production credit associations Oscar Halverson, W L Yates, Floyd D Young, H J Grunewald, Vern Morgan, C J Warner, Mrs Essie E Davis along with officials of the Production Credit corporation and the farm credit board.
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Omaha
South Dakota
Iowa
Nebraska
Production Credit Corporation
Farm Credit Board
Oscar Halverson
Mt. Vernon
S. D
W. L. Yates
Doniphan
Neb
Floyd D. Young
Lenox
H. J. Grunewald
Blairstown
Vern Morgan
Dakota City
C. J. Warner
Waverly
Essie E. Davis
Hyannis
Farmers Fine Financially by George S Mills in Des Moines AP
Iowa bankers say farmers are in fine financial shape as many pay loans early and land loans shift to amortization. Melvin W. Ellis notes banks guard against inflation and deflation cycles, predicts stable land values and continued support for agriculture. Deposits rise and banks post higher resources while paying lower deposit interest.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Melvin W. Ellis
Charles City
Ellis
Turbulent Iowa farm programs clash over war effort
In northeastern Iowa a Toledo training school and West Union convocation gathered Triple A FSA and Ames extension leaders to align soil conservation and education efforts. The war era friction, Wickard’s education memo, and planned field experiments mark a turning point toward coordinated farm programs and new fertilizer trials near Cedar Rapids under E B Norum and Jerry Meldrum.
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Tama
Benton
Poweshick
Jasper
Black Hawk
Marshall
Iowa
SCS
Toledo
C. H. van Vinck
Ed Dyas
Lester Clapp
Horace Cheney
Floyd Parks
Bryan Boatman
Ames Agricultural Extension Service
Emil Ledvina
Chelsea
West Union
Lawrence Brause
Ames Extension Service
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Ames Extension
Triple-A
Extension Service
FSA
Vace Ag
E. B. Norum
Jerry Meldrum
Ames
The
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Dennis Mulherin
Iowa Experiment Station
Ames Agronomy Department
Meldrum
Farm Outlook Meetings Scheduled In East Iowa
Davenport reports district farm management agent H. B. Howell will lead a series titled Your Business and the War. Four meetings are planned this week with an additional session on April 28. All events start at 8 p.m. in Eldridge DeWitt Tipton Muscatine and Washington.
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Gazette
Davenport
Iowa
H. B. Howell
Eldridge
DeWitt
Tipton
Muscatine
Washington
Soul Conservation in Dubuque Cow Lunch
A country woman notes cows' production lag and suggests a Dubuque cafeteria serving butter pats as a reminder of Pearl Harbor, mixing a rural agriculture critique with wartime sentiment.
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Dubuque
Pearl Haror
The Book He Is Leafing Over Has Been Used 76 Years
Elkader tribute recalls John F Becker, longtime secretary of Communia Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance association founded 1866. Minute book open since 1866, German roots, seven secretaries, early leaders Hochhaus to Becker. Origins tied to a 95 year old German led commune near Volga river settlement.
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Elkader
John F Becker
Communia Farmers’ Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Association
Towa
Hochhaus
Louis Arnold
William Greve
Charles Mentze
George Muegge
Henry Wistrick
Becker
H. H. Diers
Communia
Eltkader
Florence L. Clark
McGregor
Clayton County
St. Louis
Joseph Venus
Dubuque
Volga River
Volga
Home Canning Demonstrations This Week in Delaware
Four home canning sessions are planned in Delaware county this week led by Miss Frances Hettler and William T. Diamond. Meetings run 1 30 to 4 p m at Ryan Greeley Delhi and Manchester with about 144 rural cooperators attending. Hettler will cover hot water bath pressure cooker steam cooker and oven methods and the spoilage types fermentation putrefaction flat sour and botulism and their prevention.
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Manchester
Delaware County
William T. Diamond
Ryan
Greeley
Delhi
Frances Hettler
Ames Extension
Hettler
Maquoketa Valley REA Extends Wiring to New Members
Anamosa Iowa Maquoketa Valley REA board reports allotting materials to connect new members along existing lines and extend wiring to farmers with prior wiring, provided extensions do not exceed 2000 feet.
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Anamosa
Maquoketa Valley
REA
REA Board of Directors
Enough Scrap for Six Battleships Collected in Town
DES MOINES AP Junk piles on town farms have yielded 59,000 tons of scrap metal for the war effort with about 45,000 tons more to collect in rural areas. Iowa salvage director H C Plagman says the metal already gathered could build six 35,000 ton battleships. A three ton safe donated by The Pastime club on Hickman road west of Des Moines waits for a junk dealer to move it, but lack of help delays salvage.
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Des Moines
Towa
H C Plagman
Lowa
Iowa
Hickman Road
Plagman
Voce Ag Man New County Agent in Poweshick
Special to The Giarzette reports Kenneth Thatcher of Grinnell begins a part time assignment as Poweshick county agent after Loren Brown resigns for military service. Thatcher has been on the job a week and will not move to full time until June 1 while remaining employed at Grinnell.
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Brooklyn
Kenneth Thatcher
Grinnell
Poweshick
Loren Brown
Thatcher
Soils District Signup Planned at Paris School
The first farmer signup meeting for Linn county soils district is planned at Paris school northwest of Central City next Friday evening. Ray Audsley district farm planner will attend.
Ames to Intensify Dairy Plant Training for Shortage
Ames Iowa State College will expand dairy industry training to address a growing shortage of skilled dairy plant workers. A 12 month program starting June 8 will prepare men for immediate positions and credits may count toward a four year course after the war. The emphasis adds year round study for four year graduates and hands on production of butter cheese ice cream and milk products.
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Ames
Iowa State College
C Aiverson
Iverson
Hog hauled to Chicago fetches price per hundredweight
A Martelle farmer near Martelle sent a 775 pound sow to Chicago for George Hemdy. The sow sold Friday for 1375 dollars per hundredweight, yielding a total of 106.56 dollars.
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the Gazette
Martelle
Lowell Kohl
Martelle Trucker
Chicago
George Hemdy
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Jan) Sedlarek
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