Herbert Hoover of Oskaloosa Named Iowa 4-H State President
Herbert Hoover aged 20 of Oskaloosa has been elected Iowa 4-H club state president for the coming year. Other officers include Deane Rinner vice president John Kenney secretary Theodore Cottrell treasurer and John Droste historian. Hoover noted for 4-H livestock success and three demonstration teams also serves on rural life and livestock committees.
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Ames
Herbert Hoover
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Iowa State College
Deane Rinner
Pleasant
John Kenney
Vail
Theodore Cottrell
Vinton
John Droste
Waverly
Hoover
Mahaska County
National Rural Life Association
Washington County
Crawford County
Kenney
Omaha
Chicago
Droste
Memphis
Tenn
Few Iowa corn bushels sealed under wartime program
Des Moines report shows only 2,151,003 bushels of the 1943 Iowa corn crop placed under seal by Jan 1, well under prewar and wartime storage levels. Iowa Commodity Credit Corp official Maurice O'Reilly notes the small seal total compared with 1939 peak, 1940 1941 releases, and last year’s loans. Remaining reserves include 4,000,000 bushels of soybeans and small amounts of feed wheat and corn.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Maurice O'Reilly
Commodity Credit Corporation
O'Reilly
Quality of Iowa Butter Praised
Ames AP Praise for the quality and quantity of Iowa butter and the cooperative spirit of its producers came from War Food Administration official Tom G Stitts. He noted Iowa produced 67,000,000 pounds of butter in 1943 for the government, 15 percent of national orders, calling it a contribution to the war effort. He commended Iowa’s no rejections by federal graders and urged developing a large-scale milk drying industry in the state.
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AMES
Iowa
War Food Administration
Tom G Stitts
Dairy and Poultry
WFA Office of Distribution
Flax Seed Varieties Viking and CI 977 Reach Fair Yields
Two yellow seeded flax varieties, Viking and CI 977, produce fair yields but are short and susceptible to soil borne diseases, making it hard to establish a good stand of either.
Farm Auction Schedule February 11 to 24 Near Iowa Cities
A compact list of farm auctions spanning February 11 to 24 across multiple Iowa locations. It notes sale hosts including Jayne & Kershner, Zack McArthur, Leonard Gough, Minnie G. Shafer, J B Seechusen, Wouts, Rizner, Kline and Wood, Van Note estate, and Howard A Knapp, with towns such as Marion Cedar Rapids Iowa City Center Junction and more.
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Jayne & Kershner
Marion
Zack McArthur
Fairfax
Leonard Gough
Iowa City
Minnie G. Shafer
Toddville
J. B. Seechusen
Chester Sow
Center Junction
Brandon
Iowa Co. Duroc
Homestead
W. B. Carpenter
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Kline and Wood
Mechanicsville
C. W. van Note
Howard A. Knapp
Alburnett
Butterfat and dairy totals for Lowden cooperative in 1943
Lowden Cooperative Creamery reports 261,725 pounds of butterfat delivered in 1943. Butter made totaled 324,621 pounds with 289,016 pounds shipped east, 14,614 pounds sold locally, and patrons receiving 21,246 pounds. Total dairy receipts reached $152,156.49. Hugo Meyer elected president for 1944. other officers and directors named.
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Lowden
Lowden Cooperative Cream
Very Association
Hugo Meyer
William J. Kahl
Mattheissen Pauls
Emil Dircks
George Strackbein
Paul Werndt
Emil Stolte
LeRoy Hansen
Electrician Injured While Wiring Barn Near Williamsburg
Herbert Rusbult a Williamsburg electrician was injured Wednesday when a ten foot fall from a ladder after touching a live wire left him with severe bruises shock and burns on both hands. He was wiring a barn on the Orville Schlesselman farm eight and a half miles east of town and attempted to shut off current when his bare hands contacted the wire and he could neither move nor speak. He then leaned forward to respond to his father calling from the ground and slipped from the ladder breaking contact with the wire.
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the Gazette
Williamsburg
Herbert Rusbult
Williamsburg Electrician
Orville Schlesselman
Iowa farmers urged to apply more fertilizer this year
Ames agronomists A J Englehorn and H R Meldrum estimate Iowa needs about 390000 tons of fertilizer on fields, crops, and pastures for maximum production. They rank regions by need, specify percent fertilization by crop, and detail fertilizer types and tonnages for the state's northeast dairy, southern pasture, eastern livestock, cash grain, and western livestock areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Englehorn
H. R. Meldrum
Ames Agronomists
Farm Science Reporter
Iowa
Englehorn
Meldrum
Englehorn and
98 Percent of 1943 Iowa Crop Moved by Truck
DES MOINES Iowa 98 percent of the 1943 farm crop moved by motor trucks from farm to market or rail junctions despite fewer vehicles than 1942. John H Gillespie district manager of motor transport for the office of defense transportation stated trucks moved about 1 600 000 loads with farmer owned units dominating. Cooperation of farmers and truck operators with the conservation program enabled the feat through county transportation committees and federal state agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
INS
John H. Gillespie
Office of Defense Transportation
Gillespie
ODT
Holstein records 441 pounds butterfat in 357 days
Notice of Appointment of Administrator issued in Linn County Iowa. Joseph Cornally named administrator of Edward Connally estate. Probate No. 13737. Clerks office requests all debts and claims be presented promptly. J B Howell attorney.
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Dyersville
Clarence L. Vaske
State of Iowa
Linn County
S&s
Edward Connally
Iowa
Merger of Farm Loan Associations Proposed
At the Montour Farm Loan association annual meeting in Toledo the group voted to merge with the First National Farm Loan association of Marshalltown and the Beaman Farm Loan association. If completed the unit will be named Central Iowa Farm Loan association with seventy two members present. Officers for next year were named pending merger outcome.
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Toledo
Montour Farm Loan Association
First National Farm Loan Association of
Marshalltown
Beaman Farm Loan Association
Central Iowa Farm Loan Association
Miss Claudia Weinman Named Iowa State Extension Home Economist
Miss Claudia Weinman of Decatur Alabama is appointed county extension home economist at large for the agricultural extension service at Iowa State College. Director R K Bliss announced she will begin work this week.
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Gazette
Ames
Claudia Weinman
Decatur
Ala
Agricultural Extension Service
Iowa State College
R. K. Bliss
Weinman
Dissolution Agreement Relinquishes Partnership at Cedar Rapids Station
Article records a 1944 partnership dissolution between David W. Scott and V. Crandall Weaver of Linn County Iowa. It stipulates Scott relinquishes all claims to the service station at 232 16th Ave SW, Weaver assumes liabilities, and Scott must publish notice of dissolution. The document is notarized by Ethelyn M. Scott in Linn County Iowa.
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David W. Scott
V. Crandall Weaver
Cedar Rapids
County of Linn
State of Iowa
Crandall Weaver
16Th Ave
W. Scorn Avid
Crandall Weave
Iowa
Linn County
A.D
Ethelyn M. Scott
W. Crandall Weaver
State of
Towa
Farm auction listing items and equipment on hand
A Monday sale offers 2 head of horses and 44 head of cattle including Guernsey and red cows with calves, 2-year-old Guernsey heifers, hogs, hogs, and pigs, grain and hay, poultry with a new brooder house, chicken waterer, and a large variety of farm machinery and household goods. Items include a Case manure spreader, hay loader, several harrows, DeLaval milking units, cream separator, ice box, parlor furnace, and more.
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Guernsey
Alde
Hampshire
Chester
Ed Attwood estate farm sold for 6500 dollars
Mrs Woody McQuerry of Williamsburg has purchased the Ed Attwood estate farm located one half mile south of here for 6500 dollars. Possession will be given this week.
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Troy Mills
Woody McQuerry
Williamsburg
Ed Attwood
Here
Iowa Feeder Cattle Imports Climb in January 1945
Iowa brought in 41,650 head of feeder cattle and calves in January, down slightly from 42,687 in January 1943, according to a WFA report. For 1943 total in shipments across eight states reached 2,362,821 head, down from 2,564,348 in 1942, while Iowa’s lamb in shipments in January stood at 43,789 versus 49,340 in 1943.
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Iowa
WFA
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Towa Butter Down 11 Percent from Year Ago
Iowa butter production for the week ending Feb 10 fell 1 percent from the prior week and was 11 percent lower than the year-ago period. National output dropped 1 percent week to week and 10 percent from last year. January total milk output reached 86 billion pounds, up 4 percent from December but down 2 percent from January 1943.
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Iowa
Department of Agriculture
United States
New Elevator Manager Named at Mt Auburn
Grover Wiese will succeed Ralph Gardner as manager of the Mt Auburn grain elevator. Gardner is moving on to a farm position.
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Center Point
Alburnett
MT. Auburn
Grover Wiese
Ralph Gardner
Mr. Gardner
Electric pig brooders aid Lowa farms in 1944 plan
The 1944 food production plan emphasizes conservation with focus on saving pigs at birth and marketing more hogs. Iowa State College Swine expert E L Quaife promotes on farm electric pig brooders as safer, economical heat sources. Builders can make brooders from lumber, reflector and bulb with heat on before pigs arrive.
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E. L
Quaife
Iowa State College
Record Meat Stocks Hit New U.S. High on Feb 1
War Food Administration data show total frozen meat holdings at 1 064 902 000 pounds on Feb 1 the largest in 24 years. Beef 240 738 000 pounds pork 643 798 000 lamb and mutton 34 373 000 and trimmings 145 993 000. Lard 230 496 000 and frozen poultry 239 800 000 pounds also rise while cured pork cuts 15 493 000 and lard plus rendered fat outside processors reach 89 806 000 pounds.
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War Food Administration
United States
FDA
FSCC
Cows Top at 137 in Waukon Area Sale
Cows topped at 137 dollars at the E. O. Gijefle estate sale nine miles southeast of here Friday. Heifers brought 72 dollars, steers 85 each, chickens 1.25, oats 0.79, corn 0.89, hay 8 dollars a ton. In Columbus Junction, E. Aldershot sold a blacksmith and welding tools line at auction. An electric welder went for 125, acetylene outfit 150, 6-foot lathe 195, heavy electric drill 85. The 1943 lambs dressed total 23,200,000 head, up seven percent.
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Waukon
E. O. Gijefle
Here
Columbus Junction
E. Aldershot
Merits of Kansas Common Alfalfa Described by Ames
Ames agronomists report Kansas Common alfalfa seed could help Iowa sustain its one million acres for livestock. In 21 field trials from 1927 to 1943, Kansas Common yielded 95 percent of Grimm and 85 percent of Ladak or Cossack forage. Ladak and Cossack have led Iowa yields for years due to wilt resistance. South Dakota Common surpassed Kansas by about 10 percent in the same period.
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AMES
Iowa
Kansas
C. P. Wilsie
Wilsie
South Dakota
Expanded Tenant Purchase Program To Be Proposed
A special House committee drafts a bill to expand farm tenants' ability to buy small farms with government loan guarantees up to 90 percent, rising to 100 percent with adequate personal property value. veterans receive preference. The plan, tied to transferring Farm Security assets to the Farm Home Corporation, also discusses postwar crop insurance for wheat, cotton, corn, and tobacco.
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Washington
House
Rizley
R-Okla
Farm Security Administration
Farm Home Corporation
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Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar R
A. F
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van Horne, Ia
George B. Easker
Cedar Rapids, Ia
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Waterlco
Williams
Joseph Cornally
J. B. Howell
Milton Houts
George Price
Alburnett State Bank
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Louis Dvorak
Mt. Vernon
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Peoples Bavings Bank
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