Set Up Machinery for Corn-buying By REX CONN
In Sioux City forty nine Iowa, eighteen Minnesota and thirteen Nebraska Triple-A committees meet to plan corn movement into commercial channels. Leroy K. Smith presides as AAA regional director. meanwhile coast to coast farm groups discuss government funded shelling, transportation, and purchase of corn via the Commodity Credit Corporation.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Leroy K. Smith
North Central
The
AAA
South Dakota
Missouri
Grundy, Tama
Poweshiek
Washington
War Food Administration
Illinois
Indiana
WFA
Commodity Credit Corporation
Fred M. Vinson
Chester Bowles
Marvin Jones
Chicago
Cheese Production Rises 5 Percent for Week
U S dairy data show American cheese output for the week ending April 13 up 5 percent from the prior week. It marks the eighth straight weekly gain. Year on year output is down 2 percent. Wisconsin milk output for April 1 is up 1 to 2 percent from a year earlier, aided by a 3 percent rise in milk cows offsetting a 1 to 2 percent drop per cow.
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Chicago
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin
Tests Show How To Get Most Beef From Least Corn
University of Illinois experiments on two year old feeder cattle show optimal beef yield with minimal corn. Keep cattle on pasture until two years, finish good feeders with full corn feed, and use legume hay to avoid protein supplements. Results indicate profitable spreads between feeder and finished cattle and higher edible meat yield per corn used.
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Fred Francis
Sleeter Bull
W. E. Carroll
Sod Waterways Recommended by Conservationist
Lafayette Ind Gullies may be converted to sod waterways with light work. Extension soil conservationist R O Cole of Purdue University advises shaping banks to gentle slopes, filling gullies, then creating a dish shaped shallow area seeded with sod. Widths should handle runoff and allow mowing, with manure, fertilizer, and lime added for fertility.
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Lafayette
Ind
R. O. Cole
Purdue University
Eradicate Moles Requires Skill and Patience
Gardeners learn from Iowa State extension entomologist Harold Gunderson that moles, though beneficial for eating insects, can wreck lawns with extensive tunneling. Traps use rolled runways to locate main tunnels, with quick reset if first bait fails. gas and dust methods, scooping out live moles, moth balls, and lead arsenate offer controls though effectiveness varies and poisons are rarely reliable.
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Harold Gunderson
Iowa State College Extension
Farm Science Reporter
Parasite release planned to fight Iowa corn borer
Iowa will release 85 000 borer parasites this spring to combat European corn borer damage. Secretary Harry D. Linn said the flies will be released in 14 eastern counties after being shipped from the northeast and stored in Moorestown. The program, costing about 5 000 dollars, aims to reduce borers whose spread since 1942 now reaches 57 counties.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Harry D. Linn
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Jersey
Federal Laboratory
Moorestown
Linn
Clinton
Scott
Jackson
Carl J. Drake
Iowa State College Experiment Station
Corn Stocks on Farms Smallest In Six Years
Iowa farmers held 293.6 million bushels of corn on April 1 1944 about 49 percent of the 1943 crop. Disappearance since January 1 1944 totaled 192 million bushels, amid war demand and livestock feeding needs. Soybeans on farms stood at 9.83 million bushels. oats on farms were 77.29 million bushels, near 1943 levels.
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Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Seeding Mixture and Cover Practices for Fields
The guidance prescribes seeding a mix of red top and timothy with optional bluegrass alsike clover and lespedera. Oats may be planted as quick cover, followed by a light mulch of straw hay or weeds. Water from above the seeded waterway should be diverted, and fields should not be plowed. if draws are sod covered, keep a wide sod strip when breaking soil.
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Gale
FSA Borrowers Sell 49 Percent More Meat in 1943
War Food administration notes that Farm Security administration borrowers increased production across five key war foods in 1943 versus 1942. Milk, eggs, pork, mutton and beef all rose, with total livestock and product sales up significantly, covering millions of men. The surveyed group included 311,880 active borrowers operating farms in both years.
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Farm Security Administration
War Food Administration
FSA
Jones Seeks Wheat and Cotton Insurance, Drops Corn
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones urged Congress to restore insurance for wheat and cotton in a new bill but recommended striking corn tobacco and rice from the measure. The plan would cover wheat and cotton next January and corn tobacco and rice in 1946 with varying coverage. Fulmer hopes the committee will include insurance for all three crops despite Jones suggestion.
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Washington
Marvin Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Fulmer
D-S.c
Congress
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
House
Jones
Budget Bureau
Spring Burning Harms Wildlife and Fertility in Iowa
DES MOINES UP reports the Iowa Conservation Commission warned that spring burning fails to improve pasture and hay land and routinely destroys young rabbits and nests of ground nesting birds, especially pheasants. Fire harms the organic matter soils rely on and burning in April and May endangers wildlife.
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Des Moines
Iowa Conservation Commission
Commission
Agriculturists Prefer Girls as Farm Workers
New York agriculturists report a labor shortage eased by girls as farm workers. Cornell University rural sociology finds girls more cheerful and persevering, less prone to fatigue, particularly in late afternoon camps.
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Ithaca
N. Y
New York
Cornell University
Creamery to Stop Butter Production at Oxford Junction
C W Rouse owner of the Oxford Junction creamery says butter will no longer be manufactured due to inability to secure help. He will continue locker plant operations and ice cream production.
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Oxford Junction
C. W Rouse
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