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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1945
Page
10
G L Jordan of the University of Illinois foresees 1945 to 1947 as a transition period with high food demand and continued wartime protection for farmers. He cites a looming national debt, shortages and the need for farm organization to sustain peacetime employment for veterans and war workers, with exports and ceilings shaping prices.
Nebraska aims to secure 100 million bushels of wet corn with more than 1.6 million bushels crated in the past week. Director J. C. Swinbank says cribbing over three million bushels daily is needed to salvage the crop. Farmers agencies railroads and grainmen unite to supply cribs and labor to move wet corn before it spoils. Lack of storage and transport fuels the effort as bumper crop remains on the ground.
Farmer buyers alerted to a sequence of public and private farm auctions and closings. Listings include L R Drake Chas Grovert Gerhart Wenndt administrator Emil Dolezal Leona Kirk Art Rathje Fred Bossen Earl Jula Amos Jiroutek Fred Jones Earl Daubenmeier J M Wright with sale locations around Marion Vinton Clarence Mt Vernon Shellsburg Cedar Rapids Prairieburg Springville Walker.
ANAMOSA The annual stock holders meeting of the Jones National Farm Loan Association will be held at the courthouse here Friday. President Henry Adams announced Guy Hunter of Omaha, assistant vice president of the Federal Land Bank, will be the chief speaker. One director will be elected for a three year term.
The War Food Administration publicized a new price support plan for 1944 dry peas tied to 1945 goals and potential future policy. It limits support to crop portions within set goals while crops beyond those goals sell at market rate. The support price drops from 5.65 to 4.50 per 100 pounds this year.
A survey of 18 southwestern Kansas counties found more than 2.48 million bushels of grain sorghum rotting on the ground due to exposure. The report cites a shortage of grain cars, with an additional 6.98 million bushels of grain sorghum and 16.78 million bushels of wheat awaiting shipment in elevators and on farms. Lawrence Norton, AAA state committee chair, notes the stored grain will spoil faster with warm spring rains.
The annual feeder's day at the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture, set for April 20, was cancelled by the Washington war committee on conventions. University officials and the Nebraska Livestock Breeders and Feeders Association requested the permit. this is the first cancellation since 1913, reported Prof. Wm. J. Loeffer.
The Office of Price Administration raised producer ceiling prices for fresh strawberries. The change will lift retail prices by about four cents per pint and apply from February 21 to March 15 in Zone 1 producing areas including North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas and states east of these.
A nostalgic look at how farm smokehouses once common for curing meat have largely disappeared. Few farmers still slaughter and render lard at home as community lockers and commercial slaughterers replace the old practice. The piece laments the loss of a traditional, soulful rural craft.
Officers re-elected at the annual meeting include Henry Fos sum president Lou Sherman vice president Ed Schoenthal secretary treasurer and board members Mrs William Whalen and Oscar Sorum William G Ashline was re elected manager The annual report shows business 1936 at 44000 and 1943 at 286163 Stockholders vote unanimously to install a locker system for Waukon.
Littleport Offiers elected at the annual meeting of the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Saturday Ray Teiden president Roy Ruegnitz vice president J J Wiley secretary Ed Hakert treasurer and Ed Hakert and Adam Thein named directors for two year terms The secretary's report shows 806058 pounds of cream purchased with 31 percent test 310610 pounds butter manufactured 249676 pounds butterfat 244 percent overrun and net price for sweet cream 55 cents per pound.
URBANA Ill That five month pregnant yearling heifers reach a higher finish than open ones during the same feeding period. price discrimination against pregnant heifers is not justified when sold by the fifth month of gestation according to R R Snapp and Sleeter Bull of the Illinois agricultural experiment station.
Two demonstrations for fruit tree pruning will be conducted in Cedar county on Thursday led by H. E. Nicol extension horticulturist of Iowa State College. The morning session is at the Willard Light farm near Mechanicsville and the afternoon at Scattergood school near West Branch, featuring laying out a new orchard.
Iowa has contracted over 69 000 bushels of corn as the start of a government war stockpile program. State chairman A J Loveland announced the 49 county effort with a 22 200 000 bushel state quota. Deliveries must be completed by Sept 1 with farmers paid the ceiling price after loan value deductions.
Vinton high school senior FFA members join five implement dealers for a See It Yourself day Friday afternoon and evening. Demonstrations and a film on machinery repair and soil conservation highlight the program. E. M. Cree leads vocational agriculture instruction.
The War Food Administration voted to spread the small pork supply more evenly among civilians, military and lend-lease users. After February 25 non-federally inspected slaughterers may collect subsidies on only 50 percent of hogs paid last year, aiming to push more meat through federally inspected large plants.
The text notes that globally two farm families are needed to feed themselves plus one other family, while in America a single farm family feeds itself and four additional families, eight times the world average.
Des Moines reports 2 121 equine encephalomyelitis cases in 1944 with 460 deaths among 447 Iowa horses. Vaccination reduced fatalities, and veterinarians note rainfall and April–Sept precipitation tied to the surge. Eastern type not evident but vaccination efficacy urged remaining vigilant.
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