FAO Head Proposes World Food Board To Stabilize Markets
Sir John Boyd Orr outlines an international world food board at the FAO conference in Copenhagen. The plan would buy surpluses when prices fall and sell to needy areas at cut rates, using a revolving fund and grants to finance stabilization amid potential global famines.
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Sir John Boyd Orr
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Copenhagen
Sir John
FAO
World Food -Board
International Farm Agency
World Food Board
Clinton oats yield per acre tops one hundred bushels
Ten acres on the Tieskotter Brothers' farm near Ossian produced an average of 103.8 bushels of oats per acre.
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Ossian
Tieskotter Brothers
Vining D A A Pace Acquires Ven Dl Krepela Farm
D A A Pace of Toledo recently bought the Ven dl Krepela estate farm located north of here.
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Vining—D. A. A. Pace of
Toledo
New Cattle Price Records Set On Omaha Market
On Monday in Omaha Joe Kitt of Templeton Indiana sold 23 Herefords for 27.75 per hundredweight, a record high. The cattle averaged 1 276 pounds and brought about 8144. A new feeder steer high of 19.00 per hundredweight was set, surpassing the prior 18.00. The top lot came from Faddies Kennedy Cattle Co Sheridan Wyoming, with cattle grazed in Montana. Smallpox vaccination note warns carrier risk of cow pox to cattle.
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Omaha
Joe Kitt
Templeton
Kitt
Faddis-Kennedy Cattle Company
Sheridan
Wyo
Montana
Cedar Falls Man Buys 313 Acre Voorheis Farm
Arthur G. Wright of Cedar Falls paid $300 per acre for the 313 acre Mrs Charles Jacobs farm in Lincoln township Black Hawk county. The farm features two modern houses and will transfer on March 1 1947.
Geneseo Farm Sold For 145 Per Acre
Lawrence Boswell of Van Horn buys the R. L. Tompkins farm near Geneseo for 145 dollars per acre. Possession will be given March 1, 1947.
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Geneseo Farm
Geneseo
Lawrence Boswell
van Horn
R. L. Tompkins
Here
Cattle Kill Tripled in July After Price Controls Lifted
Special Correspondent Crescore reports July cattle slaughter surged to a July record of 1,238,979 head after OPA price controls were removed. Hog kill reached 3,862,690 head, while sheep and lambs were 1,737,881 head and calf kill rose to 542,380 head. Year to date totals remained below 1945 levels.
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Crescore
Department of Agriculture
OPA
Osage
Flint Hills
Judging Set For Buchanan County Fair Wednesday
INDEPENDENCE All livestock classes will be judged Wednesday at the Buchanan county fair. Judges include Rex Beresford of Ames for baby beefs sheep and hogs Albert Wilkins of Ames for horses and Bill Diamond of Des Moines for dairy cattle. One hundred fifty two head entered in the junior livestock show. One hundred fifty 4-H club girls to exhibit at the 4-H building 750 quarts of food processed. Ten township clubs prepared booths and eight demonstration teams show better methods of food preservation Wednesday. Virginia Vaupel Fayette county home economist will judge the girls exhibits.
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Independence
Buchanan County
Rex Beresford
Ames
Albert Wilkins
Bill Diamond
Des Moines
Virginia Vaupel
Fayette County
Johnson County 4 H Show Opens
Johnson County 4 H show opens here Wednesday with judging of girls exhibits at the community building and dairy calves at the national guard armory. Swine and sheep judged Thursday and baby beeves and purebred beef heifers Friday.
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Iowa
Johnson County
National Guard Armory
Contour Plowing Contest Draws Fourteen Entries
Gladebrook reports fourteen entries were made in the three-county contour plowing match Thursday afternoon on the Ray River farm, showcasing farmer participation and competition in soil conservation efforts.
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Gladbrook
Farmers to contest near Gladbrook for corn festival
Hooper farm three and one half miles south of here hosts a match connected with the Gladbrook corn festival and Tama county 4-H show involving Tama Marshall and Grundy counties. Prize money totals 150 dollars plus county prizes. Contest starts at 2 p.m. Judges are Richard Wilcox from Ames C H Van Vlack from ISU Extension and Lawrence Hammerly of Newton.
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Hooper Farm
Mel Shanda
Gladbrook
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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Alfred M. Paper
Stockton
Weaver Witwer
Cedar Rapids
Tallcorn
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Donald
Nelson Rehder
Maytag
Meshaminy
Leland Skoog
Elberon
Elwood Burlingame
Brooklyn
John Droste
Waverly
Gazette
lowAyr
Nancy
Howie Lang and Sons of
Langs
Nelly
Ovid
A. Martin Ashington
International Agriculture Adjustment Administration
14Th Ave
Krepela
Beverly Cattle Company
WMT
Eogee SN
Associated Press
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Washington
O'Neal
Jos
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Falls
Voorheis
Fancy
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Crate
Peoples Groceries
Buchanan Fair
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3Rd ST
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Second Street
Scheitre All Metios
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Pepto
Alophen
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Absorbine Jr
Miles
Alka Seltzer
Sloan's Liniment
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Jergen
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Ty Ward
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