OPA Sets Cattle Price Ceilings Monday Nationwide
The Office of Price Administration establishes live cattle ceilings from 17.25 to 18.60 per hundredweight, effective Monday, in a nationwide move to curb black markets and price squeezes. An overriding ceiling applies at 10 market centers and 24 zones, with exemptions for breeding and youth farm programs. additional controls include drove compliance and slaughterer killing limits.
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OPA Sets Processors Ceilings on Soybeans
The OPA fixed 1944 crop soybean processor ceilings effective now. Base grade U.S. No. 2 soybeans with 14 percent moisture cap at $2.10 a bushel, reflecting CCC support of $2.04 plus six cents for storage. Other grades vary by CCC contracts. elevators may add five cents handling. merchandisers up to 2.14 cents at terminals or one cent otherwise.
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Waukon Creamery Co Holds Annual Election
Waukon Farmers' Creamery elected officers at its annual meeting led by John K. Schon as president and Ben Hansmeier as vice president Alert Roe was named secretary with George Hexom and Lester Neverman as directors. Net butter sales last year were 857 075 pounds bringing 396 889 88 dollars. Buttermilk and cream sales totaled 5330 and 5330 dollars respectively with total receipts 401 691 73 dollars patrons were paid 367 408 20 dollars after expenses.
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Waukon Farmers’ Creamery Company
John K. Schon
Ben Hansmeier
Alert Roe
George Hexom
Lester Neverman
Roland Herman
Jan 30 to Feb 21 Farm Auction Listings in Gazette
A sequence of farm sale notices across Iowa from Jan 30 to Feb 21 includes J C Holbert Hereford show and sale at Cedar Rapids, Ralph Carson near Rowley, William Vick near Linn County home, Baty & Deal near Troy Mills, and multiple Duroc and Hampshire auctions at venues such as Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids Lis on Am r. Central listings cover Walnut stations, Williamsburg, Lisbon, Homestead, Solon, Center Junction, Mount Vernon and Marion with distances noted in miles and directions.
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Maurice Johnston
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Johnston
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
J. C. Holbert
Ralph Carson
Rowley
William Vick
Linn County
Baty & Deal
Troy Mills
Congress Grounds
Waterloo
Iowa County Duroc
Homestead
Zack McArthur
Duroc
Fairfax
Mile
Wolrab
Berkshire
Hawkeye Downs
John van Buren
Prairieburg
Owen & Kershner
Center Point
Marvin Topinka
Solon
H. G.eManuel & Son
Hampshire
Center Junction
Oscar Busenbark
Marion
J. H. Davis
Martello
Coggan
James J. Stadler
Chelsea
I. R. Drake
Directors Named by Calhoun Creamery Co
Calhoun creamery annual meeting names directors Fred Zimmerman Leo Strub Joseph Weipert Clarence Feuerhelm and Qle Orness. Report shows 647154 pounds butter produced last year total receipts 300696.43 butter milk sold 2567.50. Average butter price 0.4645 cents and butterfat price to patrons 0.5241 cents. Fayette county Holstein Breeders association to hold annual meeting Feb 3 at Legion hall.
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Calhoun Creamery
Fred Zimmerman
Leo Strub
Joseph Weipert
Clarence Feuerhelm
Qle Orness
Fayette — Fayette County
Holstein Breeders Association
Legion Hall
Pork Shortage Looms as Hog Receipts Decline In Iowa
Iowa DHIA report shows 2.4 percent of association cows culled for udder trouble and mastitis fighting in Illinois, while hog runs shrink nationwide. Chicago buyers ration hogs to packers. WFA sets aside lard to meet war needs. 4-H teams push cattle grub control across counties as dairy gains from treatment are noted.
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Chicago Commission
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Harold “Tiny” Gunderson
Ames Extension
Cedar Rapids
Butler County
Story County
Tama County
Gunderson
Center Junction Co op annual meeting reports butter and livestock data
Center Junction hosts annual meetings of the Farmers Mutual Cooperative creamery and the Center Junction Shipping association. Creamery manager Herbert W. Cox cites 246563 pounds of butter from 192227 pounds butterfat at 24.4 percent overrun and 55.5 cents per pound butterfat. costs 3.1 cents per pound produced. patronage dividends total 1700 for 165 members. Directors elected George Slater and John Rickels. Orlie Dawes fills vacancy. Shipping association manager Jack Seehusen reports 8047 hogs sold for 268810.79 and 454 cattle valued at 45243.50. Association officers: H J Dirks president, Frank Dawes vice president, Art Wilcox secretary, John Huspin and Stanley Wagner directors.
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Center Junction Shipping Association
Herbert W. Cox
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John Rickels
Orlie Dawes
H. J. Drake
Art Wilcox
Eddie Miller
Jack Seehusen
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H. J. Dirks
Frank Dawes
John Huspain
Stanley Wagner
Direcors
COLUMBUS JUNCTION FARM SALE REPORTS varied livestock prices
At Jay E Sellers farm eight miles south of Columbus Junction, Hereford and Angus cows sold from 94 to 115 dollars. Heifers brought 75 to 80 dollars, calves 25 to 35, feeding shoots 14 to 19, winter pigs 12 to 14, sheep 13. Chickens 1.40, work horses 45 to 50. 3 000 bushels corn 97 cents, 400 bushels oats 5, bale hay 75 cents a ton.
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Jay E. Sellers
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Dale
Purebred Americanism Highlighted At Iowa Hereford Banquet
Governor Robert D Blue urged 500 farm leaders in Cedar Rapids to pursue purebred Americanism, denouncing collectivism and foreign ideologies as war costs reach 250 million daily. He warned of postwar wreckage unless vigilance remains high. The event featured speakers from the Hereford groups and a re-elected slate of directors with Turkington as president. Judging of 333 entries began and sales of females and bulls were scheduled for Monday night and Tuesday morning respectively.
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Iowa Hereford Association
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Don Hines
J. E. Halsey
Des Moines
Linn DHIA No. 2 Herds Average 20.3 Lbs Fat
The 560 cows on test in Linn DHIA No. 2 during January produced 437 pounds of milk and 20.3 pounds of butterfat on average, with 165 dry cows. Henry Gensicke and son of Cedar Rapids led all herds with 22 registered Guernseys, 2 dry, averaging 654 pounds of milk and 34.7 pounds fat. John Klinger's Marion 12-cow Jersey herd followed at 612 pounds milk and 34.4 fat. Remember the March of Dimes.
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Cecil E. Haworth
Association
Henry Gensicke
Marion
Oxford 80 Sells For 125 per Acre In Iowa County Farm Sale
John Donahue sold his 80 acre farm six miles south of Oxford to W F Miller of Iowa City for 125 dollars per acre. Land and improvements are fair. Possession will be given March 1. The Iowa Land Company of Iowa City handled the sale.
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