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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1944
Page
5
Government and industry fear large household food reserves could alter postwar demand. Officials expect a slump in military and foreign relief needs as war ends, risking price drops and economic distress unless softened. Home preserved items like canned fruits vegetables and staples may be substantial.
Officials warn that after the war housewives may use stockpiled ration items instead of buying at grocery stores. Weeks or months of reduced sales could affect grocers processors and farmers as civilian purchases rise with returns of automobiles refrigerators and other war restricted goods. Families reportedly ate better during the war due to limited shopping options.
Farmers may apply for new light pick-up trucks now in dealers hands under a memorandum to county Triple-A committees from state AAA chairman A. J. Loveland. Trucks must be 9 000 pounds gross weight or less and in stock with dealer statements of make and serial number. Orders go through county AAA committees to district ODT offices.
Federal inspection shows cattle and sheep slaughter up at 32 centers last week while hog slaughter drops from the prior week. Cattle tally 233,036 head vs 219,844 previous week. calf slaughter up to 124,727 from 111,856. sheep and lambs 376,357, higher than the prior week but below last year. Hog slaughter 723,012, down from 801,941 and 860,335 a year ago.
Federal meteorologist Charles D. Reed reported mixed corn conditions across Iowa last week. While heat and drought threaten some western Missouri River counties, overall corn advanced from roasting ears to hard dough, with early-planted fields tall and developing ears. Soybeans showed strong growth and pods forming, fall plowing began, and red clover alfalfa seed harvests continued despite some poor flax yields.
DES MOINES INS The Wartime Swine Industry council issued a bulletin with methods to conserve corn by using substitute grains and better feeding. For pigs under 75 pounds mix multiple grains, for over 75 pounds use cracked wheat or barley as corn substitutes, and use supplements with protein vitamins and minerals to cut grain needs. When not on pasture feed leafy legume hay and rely on good pastures to reduce protein supplements, utilizing the abundant wheat.
Public sale of farm assets as Walter Frick relocates to Alburnett. Auction at the farm 1 mile south and 1 mile east of Alburnett on Saturday August 10 starting 1 PM. Items include home furniture tools hardware and household goods listed with quantities. Herman Koch clerk Central City Georgia auctioneer in Alburnett.
E A Gannon Purdue extension dairyman urges dairymen to maximize roughage amid shrinking feed stocks. He cites rising U S livestock numbers and lower carry-overs, offering eight concrete steps from harvesting roughage to culling low producers to stretch supplies.
Aberdeen Angu s breeders from Benton Iowa Johnson Cedar Jones and Linn counties will meet at the Montrose hotel in Cedar Rapids Monday at seven for dinner and to organize a district breed association. Walter Brown Des Moines secretary of the Iowa Beef Producers association guides the plan. Speakers include De Witt Mallory Carl Oldson and local organizers A J Dice and F T Plummer.
Triple-A chairman Tipton-Hy Von Muenster urged Cedar county farmers to obtain limestone deliveries early. He said about 122000 of 163000 soil-building payments could be earned from applying at least 75000 tons of agricultural limestone. Last year Cedar county spread 47000 tons. only 10000 tons have been applied so far under the 1944 conservation program.
The plan calls for removing non laying birds from the flock on a regular basis and selling the entire old flock by early fall if feasible. The strategy aims to streamline stock and maximize return before colder weather and market shifts.
Special to The Gazette. Urbana Illinois. W W Yapp of the University of Illinois warns that rapid expansion could leave two million extra dairy cattle after the war hindering postwar adjustment. He notes shortages of protein concentrates and labor slowed 1944 milk output from 1942 peak and that dairymen failed to fully utilize available cows. Adjustments to demand come slowly and require anticipation.
Glenn Miller of Marion repairs farm machinery at his father's farm shop using tools including an electric welder. He perfected a tractor front wheel modification to narrow the tread for cultivating between rows. The notice also promotes 314% Farm Mortgages at The Peoples Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids and warns farmers on Hessian fly free date for fall wheat and volunteer wheat destruction.
Yapp warns against overoptimism about postwar dairy demand. He says better feeding and more labor can raise output with fewer cows, suggesting culling underperforming cows now. Farmers should keep calves only for replacements, remove least efficient cows for beef, and retain only heifers from top cows.
Nine registered Holstein heifers from W. R. Martin and Arle Lienau near Waucoma were shipped to Ecuador by boat from New Orleans via the Panama Canal. The export is part of a 30 heifers and 30 bulls purchase by Edward Houston of Bourne Texas for the Ecuador department of agriculture to supply farmers on a cooperative basis.
Threshing near Troy Mills nears completion with oat yields ranging from 18 to 50 bushels. Some fields produced well while others were light and poor, straw remains short. Some farmers have begun fall plowing.
Straw berry Point reports the Buckley farm of 328 acres near here sold at auction to Miss Helen Buckley for 100 dollars per acre. The farm had been in the Buckley family for 91 years with Cecil Ryan as the tenant for seven years. Festina notes Alvis Elsbernd bought 100 acres from Ernie Hagen of Calmar at 130 dollars an acre. Ft Atkinson records Stanley Sindelar buying 40 acres of Joseph Zobal estate farm plus lots for four thousand dollars.
Mrs. A. W. Kuhlman sold her 43 acre farm four and one half miles north of Edgewood to William Thurn Sr. The price was not disclosed. About half the tract is under cultivation.
The American Soybean Association will hold its twenty fifth annual meeting at the University of Illinois Urbana September 12 13. J E Johnson of Champaign association president has announced. Soybean growers dealers processors and others interested in the crop are invited.
Kansas City AP reports Chester Bowles head of the Office of Price Administration sent a letter stating there are no plans to reduce cattle maximums this fall or winter and no indication corn ceilings will be raised. He notes price variations may occur due to supply and demand without changing stabilization maximums and any changes would be minor and not affect livestock costs. The Kansas City Star cited cattle feeders seeking assurance against policy shifts during the feeding season.
A farmer guidance note states that normal ear corn typically yields about one ton of silage for every six bushels of corn, describing the conversion rate used in silage making.
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