Air Force Joins Battle To Save Range Livestock
Utah faces a severe blizzard as officials plan air lift relief for stranded cattle and sheep. The Fourth Air Force will use C 82 transports from McClelland field to Fallon and Ely Nevada to drop hay and parachute feed to up to two million head in western rangelands.
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Air Force
Alt Lake City
INS
Nature
Utah
Salt Lake City
James A. Hooper
Utah Wool Growers Association
National Guard
Alta
MacClelland Field
Fourth Air Force
Hamilton Field
San Rafael
Calif
McClelland Field
Fallon
Reno
Nevada Stockmen's Association
Ely
Nev
Nevada
George Swallow
Garrison Co-Op Annual Meeting Highlights 1948 Report
Patrons of the Garrison Cooperative Creamery held their annual meeting in the Legion hall with over 400 attendees. Guest speaker B W Patsey reviewed quality progress and urged ongoing sanitation. three directors were elected for three-year terms and officers to be named next Monday. Creamery data showed 809,999 pounds of butter produced and $607,592 in butter sales for the year, with $554,465 paid to patrons for butterfat.
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Garrison
Garrison Cooperative Creamery
Legion Hall
B. W. Patsey
Patsey
State Conservation Commission
Iowa
L. E. Kasser
Everett Mayhew
Mr. Auburn
Myron Inman
Vinton Emory Williams
Vinton
Lloyd Doerzman
Corwin Miner
Leland Skoog
Byron Erwin
Glen Christie
Paul E. Zimmer
Zimmer
Garrison Creamery
Glenn Henkle
Byron Irwin
Glenn Chrise d Doerzman
Emory Williams
L. E. Kaiser
Long Range Farm Policy Aims to Shield Agriculture from Abundance
Congressional leaders clash in Washington over a long range farm policy to prevent price collapses from plentiful harvests. The Aiken Hope bill may need revision but all sides want protection for farmers. Secretary Brannan favors price supports at 90 percent parity for basics and high supports for non basics with measures to boost consumption.
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Congressional
Washington
McBeth
Hell
Brannan
FENCE DRIFT RESTRICTS BIRD FOOD DURING FREEZING RAIN
Ice coated landscape blocks pheasants and other birds from weed seeds and grain. Winter birds face starvation as food runs low. A few corn shacks or brush piles can provide grain and suet to help game birds and song birds survive.
Mercy flight set to rescue storm bound cattle in California
Sixteen C 82 flying box cars stand ready at McClellan Field Sacramento for a mercy mission to airlift thousands of cattle and sheep stranded by storm and facing starvation. The plan involves massed takeoffs to deliver relief supplies and save livestock.
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Delta
Salt Lake
Hill Field
Utah State Highway Patrol
Burley
Ida
Sacramento
Cal
INS
McClellan Field
Farm stock and farm implements auction notice
Friday sale lists cattle cows calves and dairy stock including Jersey Guernsey and Shorthorn cows with calves, yearling heifers, steers and a sow, plus tractors, plows, a corn picker, a Chevrolet tow truck and farm building items. Also listed are corn oats hay straw and loose straw bales for sale.
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Ood Bay
Keats Springer
Yre
Guernsey
Jersey
Guernsey Cross
Sida
Deere
Ossian Henry and Larson win top prize in corn contest
Henry Ossian and Harry Larson won first prize in the Charles City corn contest held last week. They produced 136 bushels per acre on a five acre plot planted on the contour.
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Ossian
Henry
Harry Larson
Charles City
Prices high at Nichols purebred Angus sale
Columbus Junction reports a top bid of 445 dollars for a young bull during the dispersion sale last week. The 30 head average, including calves, was 253 dollars per head.
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Columbus Junction
Nichols
Northeast Iowa Dairy Improvement Association Elects Officers
Officers elected at a Postville meeting include Art Seeland of Monona as president Fred Everman of Postville as vice president and John Rooster of New Albin as secretary treasurer.
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Postville
Northeast Iowa Dairy Improvement Association
Art Seeland
Monona
Fred Everman
John Rooster
New Albin
Coming Auctions in The Gazette Area
A sequence of scheduled dissolution and closing out sales listed by date and location. Auctions cover livestock hay grain machinery household goods and purebred stock at multiple farms and towns including Ladora Rowley Central City Iowa City Center Point Van Horne Conrey Downey Tipton Cedar Rapids Dyersville Marion and Linn County homes. Public land auction noted Rudolph Moser estate with 200 acres.
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Housel
Coover
Ladora
A. N. Scott
Rowley
Lester Kula
Central City
Nagle Farm
Iowa City
Lester Stanard
Center Point
George Hagen
van Horne
L. H. Mullnix
Conrey
C. C. Bender
Downey
Gladys and
Russell Anderson
Hampshire
Fruehaus Farms
Cedar Rapids
Joe Kubik
Rudolph Moser
Strawberry Point
Gregor Vaske and Sons
Dyersville
F. W. Stewart
Marion
Howard Pflughaupt
Linn
Sprays Drift as Far as Dusts Says USDA Expert
Urbana Illinois The argument over drift distance ends. Frank Irons of the USDA reports sprays drift as far as dusts if particle size is the same. He notes sprays usually drift less due to larger droplets while dusts with many tiny particles linger and blow about. He forecasts rapid growth of aerial spraying for weed, insect, and disease control to come years.
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USDA
Irons
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Wallace West
Air National Guard
Guard
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New
Garrison Co-Op
Beelzebub
Ben Jonson
Sherman Johnson
Usisa Bureau of Agricultural Economics
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Mar
Reeder
Tipton
Aseatine
Wilbue Colby
Tipton State Bank
Sorinkis
ABE
Creomullio Gor
Angus Sale
W. Roberts
TOF
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
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Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Ays
Iowa Iron and Coal CO
DIAL
Hoyt Thomas
D.C
Cedar Rapide
Rzo
St. SE
T’s, L's Unions Pipe
Larimer
the Suns
Campbell's
Hills Bros
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