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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1946
Page
8
AP reports that expired OPA food subsidies lowered the average consumer grocery bill by roughly $12 yearly. Government costs ran about $1.455 billion annually, mostly on meats and milk, with meat subsidies aiding slaughterers and feeders.
Nine Iowa county corn growers have entered the 1946 ten-acre yield contest as announced by D H Zentmire county extension director. Participants include Langlas and Schafbach brothers of Marengo Adolph Hudepohl Koester brothers Witte and Fick en Iowa County Home Alvert Mews Jr and Friedmund Hudepohl of Williamsburg. A gold medal will be awarded to each grower who produces 100 bushels or more on a ten acre tract.
Mayo Clinic doctors tell the American Medical Association that farming is the most hazardous occupation with appalling injury severity. They urge prevention through farmer education about how, where, when, and why accidents occur and note the lack of safety laws for farms compared with other industries.
Next Tuesday visitors will tour the North Iowa Experiment association farm near Kanawha. Dr. Charles S. Reddy of Iowa State college says college specialists will explain work on disease resistant oats barley flax and experiments with sugar beets and soybeans.
Decorah assistant state apiarist Oscar Ramum will lead a beekeeping demonstration for Winneshiek farm boys aged ten to twenty at the A. J. Kuhn yard near Calmar on Friday, July 5.
Minneapolis based Cargill bulletin reports cool weather moisture and some hot days boosted overall grain crop progress. Spring wheat gains from recent rains. western North Dakota and eastern Montana show temporary relief but some areas may still miss average yields. Oats look to a bumper crop with small increases expected for barley rye and flax also generally good.
Edwin Becker of Dundee bought the 110 acre L. B. Longnecker farm three miles southeast of Aurora in Delaware county for 107.50 dollars per acre. The farm has...
In a Manchester listing handled by Baum Realty Service, the property with well-timed Carrington and Clyde soil and electricity is set for Becker’s possession on March 1. The deal highlights average improvements and a located in a good community.
The Civilian Production Administration said farm machinery production rose over 20 percent in May to 58.5 million dollars, from 48.6 million in April. The gain followed the settlement of the International Harvester strike, but activity was still curtailed by stoppages at J I Case and Allis-Chalmers plants.
Winneshiek county agricultural association selects W. F. Baker as chairman and Dwight Bannister as secretary for the centennial committee. Members include E. T. Haugen S. S. Feque Mrs C. J. Ander a ville C. F. Steen and T. R. Roberts. A pageant is planned for the Aug 15 opening night of the county fair with Mrs. Helen Bodensteiner aiding directing.
Traer buyers paid $2.00 a bushel for corn in local elevators as sales ran heavy through north Tama county. Shelters and trucks were in short supply due to a surplus in biffis among farmers.
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