Bill to Seperate REA From Agriculture Dept
Senator Ellison D Smith announces plans to introduce legislation to remove the Rural Electrification Administration from the Agriculture Department. He cites prior efficiency and urges a politically neutral, separate agency. The subcommittee attacks REA Counsel Nicholson over a Chicago speech, labeling it shocking and inappropriate. Nicholson defends the remark as facetious and incidental.
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Chicago
Nicholson
Smith
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Ross Richards
Rea
Mt Auburn Land Sales Reported to Keystone and Vinton Buyers
Mt. Auburn area reports two parcels sold nearby. An unimproved 80 acre tract four miles west sold to William Junge of Keystone. A well improved 80 acre farm four miles west sold to M. F. Allen of Vinton. New owners will take immediate possession.
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MT. Auburn
al Wiese
Here
William Junge
Keystone
M. F. Allen
Vinton
Kellogg's All Bran Linked to Relief from Constipation
A reader testifies after years of constipation that daily Kellogg's All Bran improves regularity and wellbeing. Scientists cite cellulose as key, noting All Bran is a gentle regulating food, not a purgative.
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Samuel D. Blank
Kings Highway
Brooklyn
New York
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Von
Webster County First to Finish Corn Survey
Webster county Iowa announced a county wide survey of corn pledged for delivery to the government under the corn freeze with 1 774 845 bushels pledged in the first 36 hours by township AAA committeemen. John E Scharf said the figure near two million was reached Wednesday and shelters are readying corn for delivery to the Commodity Credit corporation First delivery to CCC was made yesterday afternoon.
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Des Moines
Webster County
Iowa
Township Aaa
John E. Scharf
County Aaa
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
AAA
Scharf
Corn Products Plant to Shut Down Amid Corn Shortage
The Argo Illinois plant of Corn Products Refining Co will close this weekend as corn supplies exhaust leaving three other plants under strain Pekin Illinois closed for weeks and Kansas City operate at 40 percent capacity The industry reports stock levels near a week’s supply and warns further cuts unless corn deliveries improve.
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New York
Corn Products Refining Company
Argo
Pekin
Kansas City
George M Moffett
Moffett
J Max Widmer
Penick and Ford
Cedar Rapids
WFA
Widmer
Decorah buys 45 acre Matt Pitz enberger farm
Decorah O B Gnodno has purchased the 45 acre Matt Pitz enberger farm at the edge of Decorah, expanding local agricultural holdings and signaling ongoing rural land activity in the area.
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Decorah—O B Gnodno Has
Matt Pitzenberger
Decorah
Marielle Farm Shows 15 Sows and 129 Pigs Sunlit
Lloyd Aller 18 examines 15 sows with 129 pigs on Tony Aller's farm 3 miles north of Marielle. Yearling Poland China sows farrowed late March in movable hog houses. Pigs sired by a 2 year old Duroc boar. Sows fed corn and protein supplement. pigs fed cracked corn wheat ground oats and protein supplement. Automatic hog waterer supplies water.
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Lloyd Aller
Tony Aller
Marielle
Poland
China
Dry Milk Aid To Dairying In Postwar
Iowa State College specialists say dry skim milk offers postwar market potential beyond butterfat income. Expansion depends on more efficient farm to creamery separation, cooling equipment, processing capacity, and strategic plant locations to meet rising civilian demand and reduce transportation costs.
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Gazette
Ames
Iowa
A. W. Rudnick
A. D. Oderkirk
Iowa State College
Iowa Farm Economist
Creamery
Milk Association
Vegetable Proteins Prove Effective in Turkey Feeding
The United States Department of Agriculture reports that young turkeys fed all vegetable protein diets perform as well as those given animal proteins. Soybean and peanut meals featured in 28 week trials with 640 turkeys show similar weight gain and lower cost per pound of gain compared with traditional starters containing milk and fish meal.
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Washington
Bureau of Animal Industry
United State Department of Agriculture
Team Sells 2-Year-Old Straw Berry Roan Mares
William H. O'Brien, a local farmer of Coggon, sold a matched team of two 2-year-old straw berry roan mares to Orville Corbin of Wadena for 350 dollars. The deal was reported in The Gazette as a local agricultural transaction.
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William H. O’brien
Orville Corbin
Wadena
Feed shortages plague Kansas City grain market in war era
Demand outstrips supply as War Food Administration reports the April 25 period shows critical feed shortages. Mills operate near idle capacity with minimal cash millfeed offerings and trading at ceiling prices. Wet weather and diversion of corn to wet processors worsen stockpiles for mixers and stockmen.
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Kansas City
War Food Administration Market
WFA
Canada
Cash Income Up for Farm Record Group
Net cash incomes for 160 Mississippi Valley Farm Business association members rose from 6342 dollars in 1942 to 6957 dollars in 1943. Management returns fell from 6993 to 5878 dollars due to higher rents, costs, and labor charges, though inventories were liquidated in 1943. Livestock margins narrowed with feed value per 100 dollars rising from 168 to 147, while average farm power and equipment costs increased to 8.33 dollars per acre.
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Ames
Mississippi Valley Farm Business Association
H. B. Howell
Iowa State College
Howell
Association
Farm association reports shifts in costs and labor
The Mississippi Valley Farm Business association members cut feeder cattle losses, used two months less labor per farm, and aligned livestock to their feed. In 1942 feed use rose 20 percent above produced, last year only 2 percent. Larger farms boosted operating costs yet maintained volume. Cedar to Washington counties summarized by Iowa State College.
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Association
Mississippi Valley Farm Business Association
Cedar
Clinton
Johnson
Louisa
Muscatine
Scott
Washington
Iowa State College
Corn Allotted to Hog Serum Plants in Sioux City
Hog cholera serum plants in Sioux City Iowa faced a corn shortage after a government freeze. The AAA allowed a 10 day supply while awaiting Washington approval for sale funds. Plants expect the order to release funds this week.
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Sioux City
AAA
Washington
Corr emphasis in War Food Drive on corn and soybeans
Major General Edmond B. Gregory urged Storm Lake residents to boost corn and soybeans for feed and military uses. He cited cornstarch output, foundry material for ships and weapons, and cannery production as vital metrics, praising farmers for voluntary wartime sacrifice.
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Storm Lake
Edmond B. Gregory
Food For Victory
Jowas
Gregory
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Tru-Site Optical CO
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Iowa Theater
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F Ave
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