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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1944
Page
4
The government, via the Commodity Credit Corporation, considers buying wheat to steady prices near parity while using loans and livestock feed programs. Officials hint at keeping futures traders unsettled and may adjust ceilings to maintain the price spread.
The Omaha OPA office set base prices for ungraded alfalfa hay to aid producers dealers and retailers in applying last week’s ceiling rules Nebraska bases range from 20 50 a ton January to April to 20 for December Iowa bases are 22 20 50 21 and 21 50 for the same periods Markups reflect top quality baled hay transport warehousing and other costs
Des Moines AP Farmers submit applications for supplemental gasoline rations at the Des Moines district OPA office to replant flooded crops and continue seasonal farm work. P H Chamberlain notes need must be bona fide and that crops come before farmers in gasoline priority, with county AAA approval required.
H. P. Van Houten of Wapello bought the 169 acre farm of George Wykert four miles east of Columbus Junction. G N Duncan of Columbus Junction handled the transaction. Possession will be given March 1 1945. Van Houten recently sold his 200 acre farm east of Wapello to John Allison of Edwardsville Illinois.
Tipton reports Cedar county boys Ronald Armstrong Mechanicsville Billy Busching Tipton Ronald Ellyson West Branch and Robert Severin London will attend a 4 H training school at DeWitt on July 12. Other county boys from Jackson Clinton Scott Muscatine and Cedar counties will study corn porer identification and control program.
Neighbors and friends plowed disced harrowed and planted 40 acres of corn and put up the hay crop for Oscar Misel a farmer near here who is suffering a broken leg. Helpers included Charlie Kienle Frank Mathes Orlo Mitchel Art Beardshear Freeman Jordman Ernest Zuber Ernest Wagner Dean Wagner Jimmie Merrit Ralph McBride Forrest McBride and John Vaughn.
Iowa sawmill operators face revision War Production Board order L 335 controlling output and distribution. Large mills over 100,000 board feet yearly fall under new rules effective Aug 1. Farmers and other buyers need certification or must buy through certified distributors. Fobes from Timber Production War Project explains.
Iowa county selects Virginia Driscoll of Williamsburg Helen Maas of South Amana and Eleanor Folkerts of Victor to represent at the girls 4-H club state convention in Des Moines They will be accompanied by Henrietta J Moershell
Department of Agriculture figures show Iowa farm income for January through April 1944 reached 587.358 million dollars, up from 472.786 million in 1943. April alone totaled 134.711 million, with livestock and livestock products contributing 118.359 million and crops 16.352 million, while 1943 April amounts were 92.116 million and 17.156 million respectively.
Clayton County farmers increase contour farming to 18,700 acres among 600 growers. I L Christensen reports 360 farmers cover 8,750 acres with strip cropping and 24 farmers build 2314 miles of terraces.
The War Food Administration announces that starting July 1 farmers may buy milk cans without a purchase certificate. Allocation for milk can materials has been provided by the War Production Board as demand from new dairy plants taps down.
An educational booklet titled What Causes Epilepsy? with doctors’ opinions will be sent free to readers who write to the Educational Division at 535 Fifth Ave New York NY Dept Gni4. The ad invites inquiries and promises valuable insights on the topic.
War Food Administration officials disclosed that 700000 city workers must be recruited to bolster farm labor by October during the 1944 harvest. The plan includes adding 20000 Mexican workers by summer's end, with 11285000 agricultural workers already employed and 78 percent in family labor roles.
DES MOINES The Iowa Purebred Sheep Breeders association will stage its ram show and sale at Iowa State College Ames on August 26. Field representative Dewey M. Jontz announced about 110 rams from Hampshire Shropshire Oxford Cheviot Corriedale Suffolk and Southdown breeds will be offered. Entries will be sifted by a committee to ensure quality.
Kenneth Quinn Traer suffered fractured wrists and a deep forehead cut when a hay rope broke Thursday at the R. P. Young farm. Local emergency responders treated him at the scene and no further injuries were reported.
The USDA interbureau postwar committee outlines guidance for veterans and others to establish on farms after the war. It discusses land availability through irrigation drainage and clearing, possible creation of up to 350000 family farms in five years, and up to 300000 new full time farms in ten years with care to avoid overcrowding and inflated land prices. It stresses farm tenure suited to ability, on farm guidance, and credit conditions tied to living and farming needs.
Waukon farmer Roy Flage, 48, died from a broken neck after crashing through a hay chute in his barn. Stanley Fox, 29, of Rossville, was severely injured when he fell from a hay load, breaking his back. Flage leaves a widow and a son.
Iowa State College entomologist H. L. Gunderson advises using .5 percent rotenone dust to control raspberry sawfly larvae on raspberry leaves. Applying with a dust gun or cheesecloth bag prevents residue on fruit and avoids lead arsenate as berries near ripeness, though moisture may affect yield and berry size.
Iowa State College entomologist Harold Gunderson reports cutworms damaging corn on farms across the state, especially second and third plantings. They tunnel into stalks near ground level, causing plant death and leaf feeding, often confused with sod webworm or stalk borer damage. Control advised by spreading grasshopper bait at dusk using a bran mix with paris green or white arsenic, covering about 10 acres per batch.
Mrs Wendell Hunt fell from a hay load and was run over by a wagon and loader suffering cuts and bruises. Her husband Mr Hunt had burns from a house fire several months earlier.
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