Markets Little Affected By Outbreak Of Hostilities
Markets in New York showed little change during the first week of hostilities. Butter supplies remained heavy, eggs and beef/pork cuts varied little, and onions potatoes cabbage and turnips sold better amid colder weather. Night fruit and vegetable selling may shift to daytime due to possible blackouts, while demand for dressed poultry rises as live poultry receipts fall.
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New York
York City
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Garden seeds and fertilizer shipped to England farmers
Seventeen tons of garden seeds and fifty tons of fertilizer have been shipped to English farm women by the Farm Bureau Federation in the United States. Mrs. Raymond Sayre of Arkworth reports distribution will be handled by the Women’s Institute of Great Britain.
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Farm Women
England
Farm Bureau Federation
United States
Raymond Sayre
Arkworth
Gazette
The
Women's Institute of Great Britain
Japan
Australia
South Africa
New Zealand
United Kingdom
South America
Pacific
Complete Farm Equipment and Livestock Auction Near Central City
Quitting farming, Adolph R. Kula offers 12 Guernsey cows and heifers, 7 purebred Hereford hogs, 100 Rhode Island Red pullets, household goods, hay and grain, farm machinery, and work horses. Auction Thursday December 18 at noon on Lon Wieneke farm, Mitchell and Lassen, with state bank clerk.
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Lon Wieneke
Central City
Linn County Home Co
Guernsey
Krohler
Tewis Bigelow
Phileas
Adolph R. Kula
Mitchell and
Lassen
Auris
Monticello State Bank
Holstein Auction At Amboy Sells 60 Head For $216 Avg
Sixty head of purebred Holsteins including calves and heifers sold at Amboy Alabama to settle the W A Green estate. An eight head group brought $2 700 led by a $500 top cow bought by Paul S Dougherty of Crestwood Kentucky. Local buyers included Clem A Westermeier Earlville Horace W Dodds Danville Arnold L Kraft Davenport and Herbert J Wiemann Burlington.
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Amboy
W. A. Green
Mr Green
Howard “Hod” Green
Cedar Rapids
Paul S. Dougherty
Crestwood
Clem A Westermeier
Earlville
Horace W. Dodds
Danville
Arnold L. Kraft
Davenport
Herbert J. Wiemann
Burlington
CCC Loans On Barley And Wheat Announced
The Commodity Credit Corporation reported through December 6 1941 it made 21995 barley loans on 15981754 bushels in 20 states and 487973 loans on 331849807 bushels of 1941 wheat totaling 325982119 dollars. Barley loans average 40 cents per bushel with farm storage dominating. Wheat loans include 102704190 bushels on farms and 229145617 bushels in public warehouses with Iowa accounting for 2994 loans and 795383.19 dollars in value.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture Today
Commodity Credit Corporation
Iowa
Iowa Corn Cobs Milled Amid Mystery Of New Industry
In Iowa at Northwestern Milling two men Guinan and Day supervise cob grinding for possible nitro cellulose and gunpowder production. The venture, shrouded in secrecy, hints at wartime demand with suppliers claiming orders from coastal and Canadian plants.
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Onawa
Northwestern Milling Company
Iowa
California
Glendale
Calif
Francis E. Wilkinson
Missouri Valley
Joe Guinan
Francis Day
Guinan
Day
Midwest
Wilkinson
O. R Sweeney
Chemical Engineering
Iowa State College
D. D. Mosses
DuPont
More Farm Workers on Dec 1 Than Year Ago
Washington reports 9,349,000 people worked in agriculture on December 1, up from 9,320,000 a year earlier. The number of hired farm workers totaled 2,233,000, largest for that date since 1935, with only 344,000 fewer than November 1.
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the Gazette
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Fits Into Food For Freedom Drive
Edmund Ruff, a farmer near National, plans a major soil and moisture conservation program with Clayton county SCS. He will terrace about two thirds of his rolling farm and add contour sod buffer strips, aiming to reduce soil loss and improve yields while continuing a corn oats clover rotation with a shift on two fields to a six year mix including alfalfa hog pasture.
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Gazette
Eleader
Edmund Ruff
National
Ruff
Clayton County Scs
SCS
Defense Plans Call For Garden On Every Farm
A national defense garden conference in Washington on December 19 and 20 will launch a 1942 garden campaign led by Secretary Wickard and Paul V. McNutt. The plan urges farm, home, and community gardens plus expanded school lunch programs and vitamin rich crops, aiming for 1,300,000 additional farm gardens in 1942 and a total of 5,760,000 under the Food for Freedom program.
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Washington, D. C
National Defense Garden Conference
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Defense Health and Welfare Services
Paul V. McNutt
Department of Agriculture Garden Committee
Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services
Wickard
Hand Crushed in Iowa City Picker Accident
Iowa City area farmer Robert Lenz suffered a crushed right hand in a corn picking accident. He was rushed to the hospital where doctors amputated his hand above the wrist.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Robert Lenz
19 Baby Beef Members Enrolled In Delaware
Nineteen 4-H boys and girls in Delaware county have enrolled in the 4-H baby beef project for 1942. The enrollment deadline is January 1. Members include William Harder Ruth Harder Jim Cramer Virgil Wessel Claude Hunt Frank Orr Norman Appleby Marvin Schulte Raymond Schulte Melvin Lockwood William Meisgeier John J Billmeyer Francis Fangman Dean Wenger Joe McMahon Milton Retz Daniel Robinson Homer W Brockmeyer and Paul Robinson.
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Manchester
Delaware County
William Harder
Ruth Harder
Jim Cramer
Virgil Wessel
Claude Hunt
Frank Orr
Norman Appleby
Marvin Schulte
Raymond Schulte
Melvin Lockwood
William Meisgeier
John J. Billmeyer
Francis Fangman
Dean Wenger
Joe McMahon
Milton Retz
Daniel Robinson
Homer W. Brockmeyer
Paul Robinson
Vast Farm Auction Near Vinton Details Livestock and Equipment
A public sale near Vinton starts at 10 30 a m featuring horses cattle and calves including 68 grade black Angus and Shorthorn stock 19 Black Angus calves plus 18 cows 2 Shorthorn cows with calf at side and 1 Black Angus bull 5 years old Also 46 good feeding hogs 200 Rhode Island pullets 108 Hampshire laying hens and grain hay and miscellaneous farm gear Highlighted items include tractors plows binders hay loaders corn planters and more with cash or bankable notes terms and Lutheran Ladies serving lunch conducted by George Koster Schmitz and Long auctioneers
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Miles Noutheast
Vinton
Guernsey
Rhode Island
Hampshire
Massey-Harris
John Deere
T. Disc
International
Bob Aled
George Koster Schmitz
Long
Aucta
State Bank
Wool Prices Advance in Boston as War Demand Rises
Wool prices in Boston rose for a third straight month as army orders, record mill consumption, and tighter US supplies support values. Ceiling prices for raw wool were set to mirror December week levels, with formal schedules to follow.
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the Gazette
Boston
United States
Office of Price Administration
Farm Auctions Schedule December North Iowa
Auction notices list multiple farm sale days from December 1 to December 23 across towns including Springville Marion Center Point Lisbon Williamsburg East Amana and Tipton with closures and public sales led by Ed Bebee Schonberg Mette Wm Freeman J F Sanders Tamblyn Diouhy Elkins Gene Newman Pavelka Stoner Worrell Kula Koster Reed er Moss Becker Morningstar Zabolitsky Son Lenoch Arne Tracht Son and others detailing closings and locations hundreds of miles apart.
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Ed Bebee
Mi. E
Springville
Phillip Carney
N. Mt. Vernon
Schonberg & Mette
E. Walker
Wm. Freeman
N.E. Newall
J. F. Sanders
Mi. W
Tamblyn & Diouhy
Mi. S
Fairfax
R. J. Elkins
Mi. SE
Marion
Gene Newman
Center Point
John E. Pavelka
Central City
George Koster
East Amana
Frank Lenoch
S.E
Williamsburg
Leora Arne
Tracht & Son
N.E
Tipton
Cotton Planters Approve 1942 Marketing Quotas
Farmers voted to support rigid marketing quotas for the 1942 cotton crop in a Saturday referendum. With over a third of ballots counted, supporters led 356,604 to 15,775 as the control program gained backing.
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Washington
4 H Officers Elected in Linn and Benton Counties
1942 4 H officers named in Linn county include Genevieve Koch and Wayne Ford of Central City with several others listed from Marion Cedar Rapids Mt. Vernon and Springville The Vinton Benton county banquet named Raphael Kelly Van Horne as 1942 4 H boys president with George Radeke Luzerne Karel Urice and Austin Brandt among officers Additional speakers included Rev A N Rogness and county Farm Bureau president Otis Tuttle plus honored club members and a 4 H program wrap up
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Springville
Linn County
Genevieve Koch
Wayne Ford
Central City
Jeanette Hagerman
Marion
Edith Gensicke
Cedar’ Rapids
Shirley Carver
Mac Towers
Jack Gill
Eli Shada
Howard Fischer
Mt. Vernon
Lois Frederick
Harold Thomas
Whittier Willing Workers Club
Barbara Lieberknecht
Palo
Vinton
Raphael Kelly
van Horne
Benton County
George Radeke
Luzerne
Karel Urice
Austin Brandt
la Porte City
A. N. Rogness
Ames
Otis Tuttle
Norway
Farm Bureau
Oren Thompson
Robert Schneider
Solon Woman Grows Unusual 1 1 2 Pound Lemon
A Solon gardener, Mrs. Charles Pertlicek, produced a one and a half pound lemon grown outside in summer and brought indoors for cold weather. The lemon, still partly green, was picked Sunday as Iowa’s unusual garden offering.
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Solon
Iowa
Charles Pertlicek
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T'S
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U. S
Britain
Linn and Benton
Benton
Henry Blank
Henry
Congress
Ensvne
America
Germany
Italy
Newspaper Publishers Committee
Lexington Avenue
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