Farmers Study Clean Plowing at Meetings
About 350 Iowa farmers attended two clean plowing demonstrations near Mt Vernon and Alburnett to learn pest control for the European corn borer. ISU specialists urged absolute clean plowing before May 15, detailing hitch alignment, cutter settings, trash covering, and wheel positioning to reduce draft and improve yields.
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Rex Conn
Inn County
Vernon Burge
Mt. Vernon
H. A. W. Koch
Alburnett
Iowa
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State College Extension
Dale O Hull
Ames Extension Agricultural Engineer
Hull
Series of Meetings Promote Clean Plowing Against Corn Borer
Gunderson and Hull lead a spring campaign across 18 eastern Iowa counties with 36 meetings drawing about 100 farmers per stop. The drive culminates in the national clean plowing contest in Eden township Benton county on April 27, with entries from as far as Warren county. Governor Blue to fire the starting gun as Benton county Farm Bureau and radio station WMT sponsor the event.
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Linn County
Gunderson
Hull
Iowa
Eden Township
Benton County
Newhall
Benton County Farm Bureau
WMT
Warren County
Governor Blue
Saddle Horses Top At 325 In Sale At Cedar Rapids
Approximately 100 head of saddle horses, pleasure horses and ponies were sold Tuesday at the Iowa Livestock Exchange sale in Cedar Rapids. Top was 325 dollars for a spotted mare consigned by Earl Pickerell. buyers included Eli Shada, George Filloon, and a Chicago purchaser. Buyers from Milwaukee and Chicago attended the event.
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Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
Top
Eli Shada
Springville
Earl Pickerell
George Filloon
Central City
Charles Smith
Chicago
William Beatty
Atkins
Frank Bedell
Milwaukee
Continued Margarine Shortage Predicted Worldwide
A spokesman for the food industry said the present margarine shortage will continue and may worsen this year as vegetable oils used to make margarine remain desperately scarce worldwide. Supplies are low and prospects for a substantial rise are poor. Decorah note adds that twenty Winneshiek county 4-H club boys planted oats observation plots.
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New York
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Keeping a Farm Safe In Spring Work Practices
H C Seivers of Olin shows a brooder house floor made of 2x4 frames with mesh hardware cloth for easy cleaning. The Peoples Savings Bank Cedar Rapids explains a Farm Service Department created to support farm customers financially. Emphasizes preventing farm accidents as spring work begins, urging checks on machinery, fasteners, shields, and tool storage to reduce injuries and losses.
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H. C. Seivers
Olin
Peoples Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Farm Work Is Advanced For Season In Iowa
Des Moines report notes seeding of oats and small grain nearly finished by April 13 with 97 percent in ground. Conditions favorable, stands likely above average, though wet in south central and southeastern Iowa delaying some work. Minimal frost damage reported, pastures growing but not outstanding. cattle and sheep gaining forage from pastures.
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Des Moines
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Iowa
South Central
Maynard Oat Sowing and Field Preparations Underway
Maynard and Oat sowing have been completed and many fields are being prepared for corn planting. Traer William Alcorn sent 42 head of steers averaging 1,080 pounds each to Rath Packing in Waterloo last week.
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Maynard
Traer
William Alcorn
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
Guy Smith Named North Central PMA Field Director
Des Moines AP Guy Smith of Russell Indiana has been named north central director of the PMA field service branch in Washington The announcement comes from PMA administrator Robert Shields The north central division includes Iowa and other Corn Belt states Smith has worked in AAA and crop insurance since 1933 and has held roles from county committee chairman to Iowa AAA committee chairman He has served as assistant director of the AAA north central division since 1943.
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DES Moines
Guy Smith
Russell
North Central
Production and Marketing Administration
Washington
Robert Shields
PMA
U. S. Department of Agriculture
AAA
Iowa
Smith
Lucas County
Iowa Aaa
AAA North Central Idivision
Rural Youth party slated at Olin gym April 26
Anamosa Jones County Rural Youth association sponsors a county wide 4-H and rural young peoples party at the Olin school gym on April 26.
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Anamosa
Jones County Rural Youth Association
Olin
Nation faces wartime meat ration until fall
Agriculture department projects April through June civilian meat at 132 pounds per person annually, down from 147. War impact mirrors 1943 rationing levels as Lehman urges renewed controls to aid famine relief, echoed by CIO PAC. Truman signals openness but hopes rationing stays unnecessary.
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Ashington
Agriculture Department
Herbert H. Lehman
UNRRA
Lehman
CIO
Political Action Committee
Truman
Famine fears and meat rationing loom for next winter
A mass meeting forecast a harsher overseas famine than government estimates. Secretary Anderson warned against wheat rationing, noting it would delay relief and encourage hoarding. Meat supplies this quarter are set at 5.36 billion pounds versus 6.03 billion last quarter, with 85 percent allotted to civilians, six percent to the armed forces, and the rest to territories and overseas areas.
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Anderson
United Nations Forum
Agriculture Department
U. S
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