WFA Plans Corn Survey and Shelling Aid to Ease Shortage
The War Food Administration will send crews into the corn belt to inventory surplus holdings and offer shelling trucking payments to move corn to storage or shipping centers. The plan aims to raise effective prices for farmers without a direct price increase, amid tight supplies and ongoing wartime shortages across corn, wheat, and other feeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Food Administration
Triple-A
Office of Price Administration
WFA
OPA
War Production
Board
Office of Economic Stabilization
Seven Shearing Hints From Iowa Sheep Association Official
Dewey Jontz, field representative of the Iowa Sheep Breeders Association, lists seven points for efficient sheep shearing. Emphasized are maintaining good body condition, hiring a careful shearer to avoid second cuts, working in a clean dry area, removing tags and burying wool, tying each fleece with paper twine, promptly bagging wool, and storing it in a dry place until shipment or sale.
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Dewey Jontz
Iowa Sheep Breeders’ Association
Livestock Losses Low During Winter Says Dr Franks
Des Moines Iowa Dr C C Franks state veterinarian says Iowa livestock faced fewer disease losses this winter despite higher herds Weather was favorable and low losses credited to good husbandry While overall outlook remains positive he notes growing labor shortages on farms as a concern
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Dr. Franks
Des Moines
Iowa
C. C. Franks
Franks
Firkins Warns on Burning Corn Stalks and Soil Health
Ames soils professor B. J. Firkins cautions farmers against burning corn stalks warning that loss of organic matter weakens soil. He notes war time cropping shifts reduce grass and legumes, speeds humus oxidation, hardens soil, lowers yields while stalks offer 3 to 4 dollars per acre value as fertilizer.
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B. J. Firkins
Ames
Iowa
Firkins
Livestock Industry Embraces Sanitation and Hygiene
Dr Franks notes livestock owners have become mindful of sanitation hygiene and preventive measures for herds and flocks. He says more livestock are on farms now than a year ago and wartime experience has improved owners' ability to manage larger animal numbers.
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Franks
ODT Gathers Data On Movement Of Perishable Crops
Davenport district office of the Office of Defense Transportation plans to collect data on moving perishable and seasonal farm crops in cooperation with the War Food Administration. Letters were sent to Tripe-A chairmen in 29 counties listing crops, transport dates, and facility forecasts. A transportation advisory committee may be formed to determine required motor truck equipment and address any transport gaps.
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ODT
Davenport
Division of Motor Transport
Office of Defense Transportation
War Foods Administration
Otto H. Wichelmann
Iowa
Illinois
O County
Wichelmann
WFA
Farm Transportation Committees
State Departments of Agriculture
Soybeans Provide Smother Crop for Weed Control
Iowa State extension botanist E. P Sylvester says soybeans act as an effective smother crop against bindweed Canada thistle quack grass and other hard weeds. With proper cultivation scheduling thinning erosion risk, soybeans can restore production in poor or abandoned land and leave soil in better condition after harvest.
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Ames
E. P Sylvester
Iowa State College Extension
Sylvester
WFA Reports Big Increases in Food Storage Stocks
The War Food Administration on April 1 released figures showing large year over year gains in cold storage. Frozen pork, lard, beef, poultry, eggs, butter, and cheese all show sizable increases versus last year and the five year averages, with government purchases possibly influencing totals.
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War Food Administration
Food Distribution Administration
Commodity Credit Corporation
WFA
Senate group accuses Associated Farmers of oppression in California
A U S Senate subcommittee report charges the Associated Farmers of California and local officials with a vast conspiracy to repress labor during 1935 to 1940. It calls for a labor practices act and condemns local government complicity, labeling the pattern as local fascism.
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Washington
Senate
Associated Farmers of
California
Senate Education and Labor
Robert M. la Follette
P.-Wis
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Associated Farmers
Feed Grain Outlook: 1944 Supplies Least Since 1937
Iowa State college economists report 1944 feed grain supplies will be the smallest since 1937 as animal units rise and prices push toward ceilings. Corn and oats stockpiles per unit are down sharply, and CCC reserves are low. Farmers expected to hold grain to guard against a possible short crop, while hog and poultry production shifts influence fall markets and prices. Iowa farmers had 293,552,000 bushels of corn on farms as of April 1.
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Ames
United States
Iowa Farm Economist
Iowa State College
Iowa State
Futhermore
CCC
Iowa
West
Atlantic
Ames Experts Warn of Tight Feed Grain Supplies
Experts warn corn and oats stocks are down from a year earlier with corn disappearance rising in the first quarter. Nationwide corn stock decreased 19 percent and oats 20 percent, signaling a likely small fall carry-over and a tighter feed grain outlook dependent on this year’s harvest.
Oldfather Buys Armstrong Mill, Moves May First
Special to The Gazette reports Erwin L. Oldfather Strawberry Point feed mill operator has purchased the Armstrong mill and will take possession May 1. Ray Ohl, his local employee, will move with him to the new location.
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Strawberry Point
Erwin L. Oldfather
Armstrong
Ray Ohl
Potatoes Stored in Iowa Consider Sold at Loss
Des Moines IDPA reports 15 carloads of No 2 potatoes from the 1943 Iowa crop stored in northern counties Hancock Kossuth Osceola Sioux and O Brien. The Commodity Credit Corporation plans to sell at a loss to avoid waste as new crop arrives. Hazen states interest from southern feeders for hog feed but notes drawbacks.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Iowa
AAA
Hervey E. Hazen
Commodity Credit Corporation
Hancock
Kossuth
Osceola
Sioux
O’brien
Hazen
Untitled historical note on disposal methods
The text discusses two potential uses for a substance: cooking as a necessity and, alternatively, extracting it for the production of commercial alcohol. It presents these as possible disposal methods rather than confirmed actions.
Team of Mares Brings £390 in Horse Sale
A Columbus Junction sale report lists a team of mares aged seven to eight selling for 390 dollars. Other lots included sorrel geldings at 380 dollars, sorrel mares at 315, lightweight roan mares at 260, black geldings at 220, with singles from 110 to 165 and a mare colt at 35 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Columbus Junction
Livestock Sale Totals Reported Across Iowa Auctions
One hundred thirty three horses sold at the regular livestock sale last week. Heneford stock cows brought 90 to 112 dollars, milk cows 125 to 139. Feeding shoats, 160 head, sold 13 to 13.70 per hundredweight. Auctioneers were Paul Klotz and H M Duncan of Columbus Junction and E H Dunlap of Wapello.
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Heneford
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
Columbus Junction
E. H. Dunlap
Wapello
First to shear sheep in Decorah area
D E Morse of Decorah is the first farmer in the area to shear his sheep. He sheared thirty six Hampshire ewes, averaging about 9 pounds each. His February lambs weighed up to 70 pounds.
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Decorah
D. E. Morse
Devorah
Hampshire
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