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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1945
Page
5
Des Moines reports show Iowa farmers facing manpower strain as older growers are drafted and farm youth are sent to war plants. Officials debate lower production goals while predicting possible acreage shifts and reduced livestock output as 1945 targets set for corn, beans, sorghums, oats, wheat, flax, hay, and seed crops.
Work horses sold from 40 to 55 dollars per head at the Empre Attig sale two miles southeast of Lone Tree last week. Milk cows brought 94 to 118 dollars, calves 18 to 25, stock cows 75, sows 55, shoats 14. Loose hay 14 per ton, baled hay and straw 65 to 85 cents per bale, corn 1.02 dollars, oats 70 cents per bushel.
In a heated, tongue in cheek tirade, a speaker pleads for repayment of bail, questions police beliefs about firing pistols to defend a radio wag, and humorously takes blame for pushing Twiggs into a sticky situation amid town tensions.
A dense schedule of farm auctions and closings across Iowa from late January to February. Listings include Julia Holtman near Atkins, C M Wolbert at All-Iowa fair grounds Cedar Rapids, Ralph Carson near Rowley, A T Benn estate near Cedar, and many others in Linn, Jones, Cedar, and neighboring counties. Strong entities include Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids, Am ber, Alburnett, Marion, Anamosa, Vinton, Mount Vernon, and Solon.
Clarence Shipping association re elected directors at its annual meeting. F. J. Bachman serves as president with William Roth as secretary-treasurer. William Schroeder Arnold Pruess John Ibsen and Clarence Bixler are directors and manager respectively. For the second year running the group moved 953,073.58 dollars of livestock across 486 decks to the Chicago market including 25,982 head of cattle hogs and sheep.
Chicago grain futures fell across the board as favorable war news and optimism about quick hostilities ending weighed on prices. Wheat, corn, oats, rye, and barley all declined, with cotton also slipping, while December wheat and corn hit new season lows on the week.
Three Iowa men from Muscatine Montrose and Ames travel to Marianna Florida to arrange for improved sweet potato seed for about 3 000 acres grown in southeast Iowa. W A Hendrikson of Estherville Iowa State Vegetable Growers association president notes consumers rely on southern seed stock for soft orange varieties and on a few local growers for the dry Yellow Jersey used in baking.
Chicago AP report shows industry spokesmen urging immediate federal action to relieve a wartime butter crisis. They pressed for higher butter base price, increased production payments, broader cream sales limits, and policies that encourage output to meet domestic needs amid record milk production and reduced butter supply.
Richards states civilian butter allocation this year provides about two ounces per person per week, less than a pat per day. He notes government controls farm production via prices and argues returns to producers should be raised to increase butter without cutting other essential dairy outputs.
CHICAGO AP heavy wartime butter and fortified margarine use will leave the market ready for expanded sales after the war. Charles E. Lund of the U S Bureau said 1944 fats output will be a record. 1945 output may drop about one billion pounds but stay 2.7 billion above 1935-39. With stocks and imports, 11.3 pounds per person should cover civilian military and lend-lease needs. Butter production stays low in 1945 and rationing likely to continue. demand remains strong.
Ames dairy expert Dwight Espe of Iowa State College advocates breeding heifers at 15 months rather than 21. He says earlier breeding lets cows start production by 24 months and pay back feed costs, noting little evidence of stunting if growth up to 15 months is normal.
DES MOINES AP Farmers should plan now for 1945 lime needs and file applications with their county AAA committee. H E Hazen said contracts mostly complete, with some lime already moving to farms with light snow. The government will not cover full delivery on the farm price. farmers must pay the difference to the producer. The f o b option may be popular this year, letting farmers haul themselves while still receiving the quarry credit rate. Credit averages about 70 percent statewide for farm delivery. Where no county contract exists, farmers may deal directly with the lime producer and claim credit based on crop and pasture acres.
Officials warn that heavy farming to meet wartime food goals is exhausting the land. Despite 1.5 million more acres in crops, authorities stress soil conservation and lime programs. Farmers urged to follow all best conservation practices to protect soil health.
The Agriculture Department said on Friday that the nation's potato supply on January 1 was 23 percent under the previous year. Dealers and growers held an estimated 103,530,000 bushels versus 134,020,000 a year earlier, a figure supporting forecasts of a potential spring shortage.
Average butterfat per cow among 15 931 tested dairy cows in Iowa rose to 24.8 pounds in December from 23.9 pounds in November. The gains reflect improved production across the herd improvement association data.
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