FAO Head Outlines International Triple A Plan
Sir John Boyd Orr, head of the FAO, proposes a world food board to stabilize prices and expand production. The plan mirrors the AAA ever normal granary and prewar food stamp ideas, aiming to buy, store, and sell surpluses to avert shortages and malnutrition worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Posal
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Copenhagen
Sir John
FAO
AAA
International Farm Agency
World Food Board
Oats Yield Averages 103.8 Bushels Per Acre At Farm
Ten acres of Clinton oats on the Tieskotter Brothers farm near Ossian yielded an average of 103.8 bushels per acre.
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Ossian
Tieskotter Brothers
New Cattle Price Records Set On Omaha Market
Joe Kitt of Templeton Ia sold 23 Herefords for 27.75 per hundred weight on the Omaha livestock market Monday. The top average weight was 1,276 lbs yielding about 8144 dollars. Feeder steers also hit a record high of 19.00 per hundredweight. The 300 white-face steers from Faddis Kennedy Cattle Co Sheridan Wy were part of the shipment and grazed in Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Joe Kitt
Templeton
Aha
Kitt
Faddis-Kennedy Cattle Company
Sheridan
Wyo
Montana
Cedar Falls Man Buys 313 Acre Voorheis Farm
Arthur G. Wright of Cedar Falls purchased the 313 acre Mrs Charles Jacobs farm in Lincoln township Black Hawk county for 300 dollars an acre. The three hundred acre property includes two modern houses and will be ready for possession March 1 1947.
Geneseo Farm Sells For 145 Per Acre
Lawrence Boswell of Van Horn buys the R. L. Tompkins farm near Geneseo for 145 dollars per acre. Possession is set for March 1, 1947.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneseo
Lawrence Boswell
van Horn
R. L. Tompkins
Here
Cattle Kill Tripled in July After Price Controls End
Special correspondence reports July cattle slaughter rose sharply after price controls were removed. Cattle slaughter reached 1,233,979 head, a new July record, with hogs totaling 3,862,690 head and sheep and lambs at 1,737,881 head. Year to date totals remain below 1945 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pye
Department of Agriculture
OPA
Hog Hill
Judging To Take Place Wednesday At Buchanan Fair
INDEPENDENCE All livestock classes will be judged Wednesday at the Buchanan county fair. Judges include Rex Beresford of Ames for baby beeves sheep and hogs Albert Wilkins of Ames for horses and Bill Diamond of Des Moines for dairy cattle. One hundred fifty two head of stock entered in the junior livestock show. One hundred and fifty 4 H club girls will exhibit at the 4 H club building 750 quarts of food processed this year. Ten township clubs prepared booths and eight demonstration teams will show better methods of food preservation on Wednesday. Virginia Vaupel college Goats home economist will judge the girls exhibits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Buchanan County
Rex Beresford
Ames
Albert Wilkins
Bill Diamond
Des Moines
Virginia Vaupel
College Goats Home Economist
Johnson County 4-H Show Opens
IOWA CITY The eighteenth annual Johnson County 4-H achievement show opens here Wednesday with judging of 4-H girls exhibits at the community building and judging of dairy calves at the national guard armory. Swine and sheep will be judged Thursday and the baby beeves and purebred beef heifers on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Johnson County
National Guard Armory
Smallpox Vaccination Report Says Carrier Risk Noted
A report notes that vaccination may render a person a carrier of cowpox virus and could enable transmission to cattle. The finding warns of spread potential from vaccinated individuals to cows and stresses monitoring.
Contour Plowing Contest Sees Fourteen Entries
Fourteen entries were received for the 3 county contour plowing match at the Ray Hooper farm near Gladbrook as part of the Gladbrook corn festival and Tama county 4-H show. Prize money totals 150 dollars plus county prizes with the cone test at 2 p.m. Judges include Richard Wilcox and C H Van Vlack and Lawrence Hammerly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladbrook
Hooper Farm
Mel Shanda
Tama County
Tama, Marshall and
Grundy
Shanda
Richard Wilcox
Ames
C. H. van Vlack
Iowa State College Extension
Lawrence Hammerly
Newton
Jasper County Soil District Board of Commissioners
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Dunloggin LaMaster
Alfred M. Paper
Stockton
Weaver Witwer
Cedar Rapids
Tallcorn
Ormsby
Meshaminy
Leland As
Elberon
Elwood Burlingame
Brooklyn
John Droste Waverly
Gazette
lowAyr
Nancy
Howie Lang and Sons of
Ayrshire
Langs
Nelly
By Ovid A. Martin
Ashington
International Agriculture Adjustment Administration
John Boyd Orr
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Washington
O'Neal
Becker
Roofing & Insulation Company
14Th Ave
Krepela
Vining—D. A. A. Pace of
Tong
Vencil Krepela
Ere
Beverly Cattle Company
WMT
Cedar Falls
Voorheis
Osage
Flint Hills
Buchanan Fair
Fancy
Canning
Freestone Elbertas
Second Street
Electrocuter
Lef
Pepto
Alophen
Absorbine Jr
Miles
Alka Seltzer
Sloan’s Liniment
Carter
Jergen
Westpok
Ward
Phillips
Magnesia
Isco
D.D.T
Fitch
Winsiey
JOS. Barnett & CO
First Ave
Cedar Rapids Gazette
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