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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1943
Page
8
Iowa crop reporter Charles D Reed reports oats barley and flax show good stands after warm days with moisture. flax damaged by freezes is small in extent while flax stands are injured beyond recovery in some patches. corn planting preparations and plowing progress amid floods draining along the Missouri river.
Iowa creamery butter production for the week ending April 22 increased 4 percent from the prior week, while still down 1 percent from the same week a year earlier. Nationally, output rose 5 percent from the prior week and 2 percent year over year. The West North Central region including Iowa grew 4 percent week to week and 2 percent versus last year.
A. R. Evans of the Federal Soil Conservation Service, based in Anamosa, left this week to assume charge of the Creston office.
Four state National Cooperative Elevator Association delegates meet in Omaha advocating continued Commodity Credit Corporation loan support and parity for agriculture to aid war needs. They call for farm work furloughs for service members when county war boards approve and do not hinder military duties. Officers include Oscar Helmne Paul Peeler and Roy Bender.
One of four district meetings for the dairy herd improvement association supervisors took place in the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce for eastern Iowa testers. Floyd Arnold, Ames extension dairyman, led the event with a group photo featuring numerous county agents and testers from across Iowa.
War Food Administrator Chester C Davis told the United States Chamber of Commerce that farmers are planting every available acre in the patriotic spirit of America. He urged cooperation and noted government steps to recruit harvest hands and adjust farm worker deferments to improve the labor outlook.
Gardens planted early in Maynard show oats sprouting though reseeding was needed after a cold snap. Farmers stay busy preparing ground for corn and other crops.
Ames 4 H girls raised 136 593 in war bonds and stamps, including 16 184 in March. Four H girls bought 10 579 of the total. Maxine Burch of Winterset, state chairman, noted Hardin county led last month with 3 763 and Henry county was runner up with 2 181.
The 40mm anti air craft gun used by Marines in the Solomons is described as fast, automatic and costing 24000 dollars. Home buyers cannot own one but can purchase War Bonds to fund these weapons and support troops, with the message you lend your money for their lives.
A U S food administration report shows United States per capita consumption of beef veal pork lamb and mutton at nine pounds in February, including military shipments but excluding lend lease. This is up from 0.7 pounds in February 1942 and 16 percent above the February long term average.
Mildred Hutchins Mrs Olivette Werling Bernice Becker and Laura Heddleson county home demonstration agent plan to represent Cedar county at the all day food preservation refresher course in Cedar Rapids Friday Miss Heddleson reported today The refresher course in charge of Miss Mary Rissinger Ames extension nutritionist is scheduled for all vocational homemaking instructors county home economists and other professional home economists of eastern Iowa counties
Winneshiek county fair board selects August 20 22 for the 1943 Decorah show at a Tuesday meeting. Local officials confirmed event dates and preparations for the fair.
An audience of farmers gathered last week at the Stephen West farm south of Mount Vernon to see contour plowing and a tumble bottom plow. Demonstrations in Linn County tout contour layouts and pest control, with Bul lec tin P43 advertised for rodent pest control.
Eighty one head of Angus cattle topped at $700 at the Marion County Angus Breed ers association consign ment sale in Knoxville. Fifty four females averaged $335 as buyers from Iowa Missouri Mississippi and Oklahoma attended the event.
The Cedar county farm labor committee headed by county agent Howard Hamilton includes H C DeKock representing county school superintendents C HH Banks for Cedar county veterinarians and the Greater Tipton club Arnold Meier from the county Triple A George Thomson war board member J Morris Christy representing vocational agriculture instructors Ralph Johnston farmer and Mrs H L Witmer representing farm women The group plans a Wednesday evening meeting to mobilize Cedar county manpower for farm work.
John Martins president of the association announced the annual meeting will be held Friday in Waukon. The event is organized by the Allamakee Dairy Herd Improvements association and named for upcoming annual activities.
Frank Nye reports farmers nationwide asked to contribute obsolete rural scrap to meet a 183000 ton quota by June 30. Herbert Plagman of the War Production Board warns city scrap is exhausted and urges farmers in Iowa, including Linn County with a 1800 ton target, to donate or sell equipment to support war needs. Weather delays may shift focus to May and June collection efforts.
Auction events set for Friday April 30 at Iowa Live Stock Exchange in Cedar Rapids and Saturday May 1 at W. J Anderson with S Alburnett outreach. Linn county farms numbered 3,200 to 3,500 face a quota of about half a ton each to meet the drive. Salvage stations and rural schools still hold heavy scrap as black tin and wire is prepared for mills.
Rep Charles B Hoeven says the agriculture department appropriation bill was rushed with many vital items blocked by points of order. He blames the appropriations committee for writing items into the bill and says the senate must now reinstate provisions stripped by those orders.
The article notes a national goal to secure peanut oil in sufficient quantity to fill 14 thousand railroad tank cars, indicating large scale agricultural processing and logistics priorities for the year.
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