Sabath Charges Packers Caused Meat Shortage
Rep. Sabath accuses large meat packing firms of deliberately creating a meat shortage and seeks a House Banking and Currency Committee investigation. He plans to introduce a resolution calling for an inquiry by the committee, with referral to the House Rules. He cites public-record figures to argue a packer-led stall and cites an aim to discredit the Office of Price Administration and government food programs.
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Ashington
INS
Rep
Sabath
SUIKC
Abamidu Wie Buuvycssikment
House
House Banking and Currency Committee
Rayburn
House Rules Committee
Department of Agriculture
Closing Out Sale Announced After Farm Sale
Closing out sale at residence three miles north and one mile of Palo on Rock Road. Buyer may purchase farm contents as the vendor liquidates assets from the former property. Sale details provided verbally by owner with address description for locating the home.
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Palo
Rock Road
Auction notice for farm stock and equipment listing
On Monday April 29 at 12 30 sharp Emil Stodola owner and WW Lamguns auctioneer offer mil cows heifers calves Jersey cows churn equipment rakes harnesses cream cans and farm implements. Pals Savings Bank clerk observes. Participants include McCormick Ginder and MaCarsick mowers with various farm tools and supplies listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCormick
MaCarsick
Nuvellers Gall Hammermill
Harnesm Sam Gailies
Alewtria
Eibutn
Ateni
Emil Stodola
Lamguns
Pals Savings Bank
Waxy corn acres to be increased in Iowa in 1946
About 20 000 acres of waxy maize will be grown in Iowa this year to supply 33 million pounds of starch for industry. Centered in Hamilton county with 3 000 to 4 000 acres, the crop extends into adjoining counties to reach the goal. The crop, first grown commercially in 1943, fills a starch gap once met by imports.
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Ames
Iowa
Hamilton County
East Indies
China
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
USDA
Belle Plaine-Funk Brothers Seed Planting Corn on Local Farm
Belle Plaine area report notes Funk Brothers Seed company began planting corn Thursday on the Fred McCulloch farm south of here according to J C Ellis production manager. A purebred Holstein cow owned by Paul McElmeel of Greeley recently completed a 365 day record of 500 pounds of butterfat and 13 502 pounds of milk on two time milking at nearly 110 years of age.
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Belle Plaine
Funk Brothers Seed Company
Fred McCulloch
Here
J. C. Ellis
Greeley
Paul McElmeel
Corn Drying Temperatures Studied At University Of Nebraska
Agricultural engineers at the University of Nebraska report preliminary findings on high moisture corn dried at 200 to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. Samples showed no market grade changes in some tests but shelling revealed shriveled germ ends and heat damage at higher temperatures. Feeding tests with rats showed reduced growth in some groups, prompting further study before determining feed value effects.
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E. D. Yung
Department of Agricultural Chemistry
Dairy Husbandry Department
Iwo
Yung
Wheat Prices Observed Declared By OPA Official
Chicago AP Rae E Walters regional OPA administrator Friday dismissed reports of farmers selling wheat above ceiling prices as unfounded. Walters said OPA personnel monitor industry and reports show strong compliance with price orders, urging farmers to cooperate to ship more wheat and flour to war-torn Europe in the current emergency.
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Chicago
Rae E. Walters
OPA
Walters
Office of Price Administration
Europe
Neighbors Plow 70 Acres for Ill Farmer Near Marion
Bill Larimer, a local farmer who has been ill for weeks, was surprised when 14 neighbors with tractors arrived Thursday to plow 70 acres of his land. Involved helpers included Charles Dukek Virgil Smyth Bill Blin Robert Hagerman Earl Dukek Hubert Blackford Robert Hite Harold Peterson Ivan Gilmore Leonardo Trachta Glenn Dahms Paul Hickman Frank Frederick and Jim Wilt.
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Marion
Bill Larimer
Here
Charles Dukek
Virgil Smyth
Bill Blin
Robert Hagerman
Earl Dukek
Hubert Blackford
Robert Hite
Harold Peterson
Ivan Gilmore
Leonardo Trachta
Glenn Dahms
Paul Hickman
Frank Frederick
Jim Wilt
Cattle Feeders Will View Ames Tests on May 17
Farmers attending the annual Cattle Feeders Day at Iowa State College in Ames on May 17 can compare the feeding value of ear corn silage from high moisture corn to a standard steer ration. Tests, led by C. C. Culbertson, cover rate of gain, feed cost and cattle grades, with two trial groups on ear corn silage plus supplement and two on shelled corn silage with supplement.
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Ames
Towa State College
C. C. Culbertson
Iowa State College
Three Groups Dealing With Food Problem
An explainer by James Marlow outlines the three main bodies handling world food issues. UNRRA distributes free food to nations unable to pay, led by Fiorello LaGuardia. The combined food board parcels food to those who can pay and to UNRRA, financed by contributing nations. The famine emergency committee, led by President Truman with honorary chairman Herbert Hoover, publicizes famine threats and recommends conservation, with 13 nations receiving UNRRA aid.
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Washington
UNRRA
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Food Board
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
Combined Food Board
Truman
Herbert Hoover
Albania
Austria
Russia
Ukraine
China
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Italy
Poland
Yugoslavia
Finland
Hungary
Philippine Islands
Hoover
Decorah Creamery to reopen under Buffalo operator
The Canoe Farmers' Cooperative creamery, closed since last October, will reopen May 1 under I. N. Meline of Buffalo New York. He will run it with a locker plant and an egg buying station and market butter in Buffalo, where he has shipped butter before from Forest Lake Minnesota. The creamery lies 13 miles northeast of Decorah.
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Decorah
Canoe Farmers’ Cooperative Creamery
I. N. Meline
Buffalo
N. Y
Forest Lake
Minn
Combined Wheat Premium And Certificate Plans Announced
Secretary Clinton Anderson and UNRRA Director Fiorello LaGuardia disclosed two wheat pricing options for farmers marketing wheat before May 25. The 30 cent premium aids Europe, while the certificate plan lets growers sell now and receive payment at the prevailing price chosen between now and March 31, 1947.
Veishea Horse Show Opens 1946 at Iowa State College
Iowa State College hosts the Veishea celebration with the first horse show of 1946 on May 9 10 and 11 a 718 purse event judged by Dean E A Trowbridge of Missouri University.
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Ames
INS
Iowa
Iowa State College
Dean E. A. Trowbridge
Missouri University
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