Cedar Rapids PCA directors accept manager’s resignation
Four of five Cedar Rapids Production Credit directors meet in special session and accept the resignation of secretary-treasurer Henry Dye effective June 1 under pressure from Omaha regional headquarters. The move follows an Omaha veto over local actions amid questions about Dye’s farming knowledge and loan volume.
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Omaha
Cedar Rapids Production Credit Association
Cedar Rapids
Henry Die
H J. Grunewald
Blairstown
Joe G Raim
Solma
Sesson
Raim and
Pearson
Hursh
Mitchell
Dye
Viergutz
Walter Anderson
Omaha Production Credit Corporation
Dye Anderson
Washington
Iowa
Anderson
Roy Lukanitsch
Waterlow
Gladbrook
Ames Extension Service
George Dillon
Lukanitsch
Linn
Benton
Johnson Counties
Tama and Jones
South Dakota
Wyoming
Nebraska
Clark
Grunewald
Farm Security Administration
PCA
Emmetsburg Pca
J. Henry Dye
Arbor Day Planting In McGregor To 7000 Trees
McGregor observes Arbor Day with 7000 trees planted on 10 acres of reforestation land. Booster club and town sponsor. 2000 trees purchased locally, 5000 donated by government. Forester S N Runkel and Don Sheet oversee planting of pines spruces and firs, with Mayor Walter and John Sloane leading.
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Mcgregor
Booster Club
S.N. Runkel
U.S Soil Conservation Service
Marion
Don Sheet
McGregor Unit
The
Soil Conservation Service
J. F. Walter
John Sloane
S. T. Runkel
SCS
Emerson Wolf
Paul Kossack
Fire Destroys Johnson Farm House Near Decorah
Decorah reports a fire Saturday morning destroyed Henry Johnson's farm house seven miles north of Decorah with most contents lost. High winds aided the blaze but the Decorah rural fire crew prevented spread to nearby properties, causing an estimated loss of 2500 dollars.
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Decorah
Henry Johnson
Muddy Floors and Farm Women Says A Formula Is Needed
A country woman in Ky laments soil erosion and asks for a magic formula to erase muddy tracks from floors and towels. She imagines a cleaner that removes hay chaff dust from ashes and bits of debris from buckets and baskets. The piece highlights farm wife concerns alongside farmer soil problems.
Center Point Farmers Lead Early Iowa Corn Planting
Center Point residents Paul Mager and Ed Klima report the first corn planting in east Iowa this spring with 22 and nine acres, as Des Moines notes Iowa expects the smallest corn acreage in 37 years. Farmers ready with tractors and planters anticipate peak planting mid next month.
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Paul Mager
Ed Klima
Center Point
Mager
Mr. Klima
East
Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa Farmers Plan Smaller Corn Acreage For 1940
Iowa farmers expect to plant 8.913 million acres of corn, an eight percent cut from last year, while average labor per acre falls to 17 hours. AAA forecasts and record stored supplies drive reductions, with soybeans, hay, and rotation pasture rising. Iowa State College notes belt-wide shifts toward AAA participation despite allotment cuts. The April 1 corn on Iowa farms totals 385.257 million bushels, about 80 percent of the 1939 cribbed crop.
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AAA
Iowa State College
Iowa
Farmers Plow 75 Acres for Joe Sheeley Near Coggon
Neighbors reported by The Gazette gathered Thursday to plow 75 acres for Joe Sheeley near Coggon who has just returned from Colfax Springs hospital after a month with rheumatism. The work involved ten farmers including Joe Smith Tom Brunen Frank Havlik John Reilly Patrick Reilly William Durham J P Flanagan Elda Smith Joe Burke and Bernard Behan. Women provided a basket dinner for the volunteers.
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Coggon
Joe Sheeley
Colfax Springs
Sheeley
Joe Smith
Tom Brunen
Frank Havlik
John Reilly
Patrick Reilly
William Durham
Potatoes Survive Winter Beneath Dry Ground Near Marengo
Knut Gunderson, a Marengo area farmer, plowed up potatoes that had not frozen last winter. The crop, left in the ground when the patch was dug last fall, proved to be of good quality and suitable for peeling and cooking.
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Spreial
the Gazette
Marengo
Knut Gunderson
Wallace backs government banking plan to fix farm credit
Secretary Wallace urged dissolving federal land banks and moving mortgage credit under government control. He proposed 3 percent long term rates, debt reduction for arrears, and direct government lending, arguing current system hurts farmers and must be overhauled despite opposition from Farm Bureau and Grange.
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St. Paul
Farmers Union
National Federation of Grain Cooperatives
Farm Credit
Federal Land Banks
Farm Loan Associations
Home Owners Loan and Reconstruction Finance Corporations
Congress
Roosevelt
Farm Credit Administration
Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Grange
Farm Bureau
The
Europe
Latin America
Wallace Defends Farm Credit Changes At St Paul Rally
About 15 000 farmers from 18 states packed the St Paul municipal auditorium to hear Secretary Wallace and Farmers Union officials support liberalizing farm credit and cutting loan interest. Railroads ran 10 special trains highlighting the reach of the gathering.
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St. Paul
Georgia
California
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Missouri
M. W Thatcher
Farmers Union
Wallace
American Bankers Association
Farm Credit Administration
Deepartment of Agriculture
Knotek Brothers Sell Carload of Duroc Jersey Hogs
Knotek Brothers of Riverside report selling a whole carload of Duroc Jersey boars and gilts to Charles Allen of Jacksonville Florida. Hogs ship May 10 include 55 fall gilts, September and October farrows and four boars. Gilts averaged 19.50. boars 70. Pathleader and a litter mate to Fancy Ace, 1939 Iowa junior champion, were among boars sold. .selection included stock raised by 4-H members Washington county.
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Harald Timm
Muscatine
Knotek
Raymond Bell
Stanley Chabal
Edward Chabal
William Maas
Washington County
Pathleader
Fancy Ace
Iowa
Knotek Brothers
Pastures Below Normal In Independence Area
Oats are well up in Buchanan county and look green yet grow slowly from cool weather. Pastures fail to meet normal and farmers expect the hay crop to be short. Farm work centers on plowing for corn.
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Gazette
Independence
Buchanan County
Linn County Farm Bureau Week Meeting Schedule
Three sessions listed this week. On Tuesday at 1 15 p.m. a rat killing demonstration at Walter Williams farm near Toddville. On Wednesday at 10 a m 4 H girls rally day plans at Y M C A Cedar Rapids. At 8 p m Otter Creek township Farm Bureau meeting at Alburnett high school.
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Linn County
Walter Williams
Toddville
Cedar Rapids
Otter Creek Township
Alburnett High School
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Local Credit Agency Board
Ray Anderson
Dinsdale
H W. Mitchell
Ames
Fieldman
H. A. Viergutz
Breakenridge
Henry A. Wallace
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
Enemies of Agriculture
Raim
Charles Cabalka
Weing Road
Merie E Garmoe
Has Eee
Johnson
Hughes
1St St
Center Point Farmers
Holstein
Guernsey
Shover's
Shover
Marion Blvd
Secretary of Agriculture
New Deal
Battles Trojan Horse
Knotek Bros
Durog
E. Cohn & Sons, Inc
9Th Avenue
3D Street
Penick & Ford L
F. Trellis
Hamilton Seed & Coal CO
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