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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1943
Page
7
Eastern Iowa sees beneficial rain Monday night aiding oats, pastures, and new seedings despite frost damage in some fields. Plow work accelerates as corn planting nears mid May. manure buildup from winter is being spread, with labor tight and fields still lingering in mud.
Alberta Achenbach of Lisbon Verna Lee Dircks of Clarence Shirley Bachman of Clarence Bethany Hegarty of Stanwood Mildred Lenker of Wilton Junction Betty Rix of Clarence Lorraine Thompson of Mechanicsville The election will be held at the mother and daughter banquet in Tipton Saturday evening.
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Harold Nilsson of the Soil Conservation Service reports more than 150 Linn county farmers contouring crops this season, up 35 percent from last year, and Jones county showing a 100 percent increase. Total contour cropland totals about 8 000 acres in Linn and 9 000 in Jones. Demonstrations in Jones county covered 13 farms with 99 attending, yielding average corn gains of 10.2 bushels per acre and soybeans up 3.2 bushels for farmers who contoured since 1942.
Representatives from the Ames extension service the canneries in Benton county the USDA war board the draft board and the United States ex- are slated to meet in Vinton on Thursday to discuss farm labor issues and wartime needs.
County Agent Don Groves asks Cedar Rapids area residents from the employment service to attend a farm labor conference Thursday evening at the local office. The event aims to discuss labor needs and coordination for agricultural work.
Seventeen friends and neighbors with five teams and wagons gathered at the Rudolph and Gotlich Stanke farm to pick corn last week. Helpers included Robert Stanke Dale Kitzman Robert Schultz Will Laverne Ed Scharf Elmer Vail Oscar Ewald Wayne Fred Myers Shorty Hicklin Theodore Just Kermit Herr Frank Wilson Orval Green Lawrence Dugger and Aaron Dyke.
Public sale announced for Saturday May 1 at W J Anderson farm. Auctioneer S Alburnett will conduct the farm auction with details brief.
Ames experts Carl J Drake and H M Harris say the European corn borer has reached Iowa but no commercial damage yet. Weather will decide how soon, and no changes in farming practices are needed now. Signs of damage will be broken stalks and tassels. a new multi generation problem requires new control measures.
Iowa State College has arranged two conscientious objector camps with the national selective service and the U S department of agriculture to aid food production. Ten men arrived to staff camps at the agronomy farm near Ames and the vegetable crops farm at Crystal Lake. The camps operate under church supervision and focus on hybrid corn and soybean seed production, pig feeding, and dairy work.
Miss Laura Heddle Cedar county home demonstration agent announced a series of afternoon demonstrations on canning and freezing fruits and vegetables in May. Events run May 3 Stanwood school May 4 Springdale school May 5 Mechanicsville school and May 6 West Branch municipal building. The note also mentions hides used in making equipment for fighting men and belts for war industries.
Des Moines AP James Patton president National Farmers Union urged a steeply graduated federal land transfer tax to curb farm land inflation and prevent boom bust cycles. He backed heavier income taxes and a compulsory saving plan and opposed wage increases in the coal crisis while criticizing Pace bill changes to the agricultural parity formula.
The text discusses crop surpluses especially cotton and notes labor's reduced role due to hybrid seeds and mechanization. It warns altering the formula could lower net returns for farmers, emphasizing corn and wheat as key crops for livestock feed. The Pace bill has returned to committee in Congress.
Des Moines United Farmers Union leader James G. Patton urged a $1 billion credit appropriation to aid 3.8 million underemployed farm families. He proposed supplying money, machinery, materials, and technical help, plus retraining 100000 skilled workers and creating a mobile land army to raise output.
Vernon Nelson near Marion reported a sow he bred gave birth to three piglets that died. He later placed the sow with fattening hogs and several days later discovered she had farrowed nine additional piglets.
Laura E. Heddleson home demonstration agent announced plans for the annual Cedar county 4-H event to be held in the Tipton Methodist church basement on May 1.
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