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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1946
Page
7
Secretary Anderson approves final 1944 crop goals totaling 296,001,000 acres for crops including rice, dry beans, sugar beets, flaxseed and soybeans. Revisions reflect state and local input while rejecting further increases for peanuts, potatoes, and barley. Livestock goals adjusted to reflect feed supplies and poultry and egg targets near earlier recommendations.
Washington AP reports a growing shortage of protein feed for livestock and poultry prompted the agriculture department to reestablish wartime controls. Limits cap high protein meal use and restrict poultry mixers to a percentage of 1945 monthly quantities, with a 30 day supply rule and a ban on soy byproducts in feeds.
Gene Harsch, secretary of the Hampshire Swine Record Association, died suddenly of a heart attack leaving his Peoria office Friday evening. Funeral services were held Tuesday in Peoria. A passionate breed secretary and advocate, he contributed to belted breed progress and interbreed and commercial swine production activities nationwide. His loss is felt across American agriculture.
Clarence hosts its third annual cooperative day at the high school gym on January 19 with the Clarence Shipping association Dayton creamery and locker plant and Clarence Cooperative company sponsoring. The shipping association meeting begins at 10 30 a m and a free lunch follows at noon. Howard J Gramlich of Chicago Northwestern railroad will speak on The Road Ahead. A W Rudnick of Iowa State college will demonstrate washing a cream separator in two minutes. More entertainment is planned.
The Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association warns that heavy feeding of moldy corn can cause dangerous mold poisoning in livestock. The monthly bulletin cites digestive upsets increasing swine susceptibility to cholera and erysipelas and recommends mineral supplements to offset immature corn deficiencies. Reported outbreaks include hog cholera and swine diseases across multiple eastern Iowa towns, with several farm losses noted for hogs and cattle.
Maplecrest Turkeys of Wellman has purchased the Kalona turkey business owned by Ray Hochstettler and plans a new plant with a daily dressed turkey capacity of three carloads. Marvin Gingerich remains Kalona plant manager. A. C. Gingerich is Maplecrest president and E. N. Foster vice president.
Dr. Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College ext says 90 percent farmer adoption of known controls would erase the corn borer as a crop pest. The 1945 survey shows seven counties with over 100 borers per 100 stalks, heaviest in Johnson and adjacent counties. Dr. Carl J. Drake notes life cycles tie to planting dates, with medium-early planting likely best for control.
U S agriculture calls on farmers to raise flaxseed plantings for 1945 to meet 1946 and 1947 drying oil demand. Major states, led by Minnesota and North Dakota, are urged to expand output while Montana and North Dakota are exempt from the increase. The 1946 flaxseed price support is set at 53 60 per bushel at Minneapolis.
Benton county leads consignments to the Iowa Hereford association show and sale at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids January 28 29. Benton county consignors include Leland B Auld M A Hall Vinton L F Keep and Son John Dick Schild Belle Plaine Ivan M Pollock Mr Auburn Oscar Sevig Walford C H Sick and Son Blairstown Tuttle Brothers Norway.
A sequence of farm auctions and closing out sales announced across Iowa counties. Listings include C J Miller near Mechanicsville Donald Byers near Central City Elmer Burr near Center Point and multiple sales at Blairstown Clarence Marion Hawkeye Downs Walker Linn county home and other locations with dates from January 17 through February 8.
Washington AP officials from the Agriculture Department express confidence that the 1946 sugar production program will boost beet sugar output. They cite planting intentions by Midwestern and Western growers and say the national goal of 1,025,000 acres will be reached, up from 779,000 acres planted for 1945.
December slaughter increases pushed pork stocks to 321.1 million pounds, nearly tripling from a month earlier. Beef holdings rose to 180.5 million pounds, veal to 12.33 million, lard to 78.54 million, with all meats higher than December of prior year.
Meat supplies show a near normal increase for the season but a general strike across the industry hampers distribution. Large packers are largely idle, making civilian movement unlikely even as much of the meat is held outside plants and may be consumed if the strike endures.
Winneshiek county agricultural association elected E. T. Haugen W. P. Rowan and Dale Ahern to three year terms at the annual meeting Monday. Reports showed a 1945 fair net profit about 1900 after expenses and paying a 4000 debt. Oakdale Ormsby Fobes Felton a state sanatorium Holstein Friesian cow has produced 103894 pounds milk and 3514 pounds butterfat in five lactations with good plus in type.
Ernest Sieveka of Wyoming plans a closing out sale of all personal property on February 1. Cedar Rapids Farm Service Department offers 344% farm mortgages on improved Linn County farms. Iowa State College agronomists advise pasture renovation this winter with lime application and specific seed mixes for acidic and non acidic soils, including sweet clover, alfalfa and red clover, with seeding methods and fertilizer rates.
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