War Food Administration Urges More Cattle Shipments
CHICAGO AP The War Food Administration urged cattle producers to increase shipments in the next months to prevent a cattle glut in October. Officials warn packers with reduced staff and equipment cannot handle the receipts and railroads may lack livestock cars. A Prairie Farmer survey notes high direct moves to slaughterhouses, with protein feed and labor as major constraints. About 66 percent oppose floor and ceiling prices on feeders and finished cattle. Half of producers would buy cattle to feed if a floor on finished cattle were guaranteed for two years postwar. If glut risk grows, marketing committees may form to control shipments and avoid embargo costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
War Food Administration
Prairie Farmer
ODT Authorizes Industry Transportation Advisory Groups
Des Moines AP Don ald Wigton district manager announces the Office of Defense Transportation will authorize and urge producers carriers and handlers to form industry transportation advisory committees. The groups will help district managers maximize motor truck use to move farm products amid rising wartime demand. Committees may direct vehicle use and divert vehicles to meet emergency needs, assisting in getting farm products to locations of greatest need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
Donald R. Wigton
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Wigton
Industry Transportation Advisory Committees
Legume-Livestock Program Follows AAA Chairman at Independence Farm
On a 200 acre farm six miles southeast of Independence Homer Soules Buchanan county Triple-A chairman and son Merle run a legume and livestock program. They limed fields, seeded 53 acres to legume and brome for permanent pasture, and prioritized alfalfa with careful fertilizer use. The operation includes 35 acres of corn, 4 of soybeans, 43 of alfalfa, plus pasture and feedlots with 60 cattle and 40 hogs currently. Soules notes wartime feed grain demand shapes cropping decisions and aims to produce meat while growing roughage on land prone to erosion.
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Homer Soules
Independence
Soules
Buchanan County Triple-A
Merle
Mr. Soules
Gazette Farm
Fayette and Lindley
C. H. Wilson
Buchanan County
Triple-A
Lower Rates on West Coast Meat Shipments Seen
TOPEKA Kansas Materially lowered freight rates on meat products from the midwest to the west coast can be expected by next spring Byron M Gray rate counsel for the Kansas Corporation commission said Saturday Gray has been advised by George J Hall an examiner for the Interstate Commerce commission that Hall has recommended a new rate schedule applying to packing centers in Kansas Iowa Nebraska Colorado South Dakota Illinois and Oklahoma and to all important Pacific coast points Gray led Kansas fight for a lowered rate schedule Brome grass may be seeded with alfalfa in the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Midwest
West
Byron M. Gray
Kansas Corporation Commission
Gray
George J. Hall
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hall
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
South Dakota
Illinois
Oklahoma
Pacific Coast
Corn Pasture and Supplement Summary
The note extols hog profits from pigs with rapid gains on minimal feed and effort. It promotes Big Gain Mineral Stock Food as a triple value feed with proteins, vitamins, and minerals, claiming great gains for pigs on pasture self fed with corn and Big Gain.
Record Fruit Harvest but Less Canned
Washington reports civilian supplies of canned fruits will dip next year due to higher production in certain crops and strong 1944 crop conditions. Peaches up 60 percent from last year, apricots thrice, cherries 70 percent higher, but 1945 civilian canned peaches set one third below last year. Pears about half prewar availability, dried apricots limited, yet more apples and applesauce expected for civilians.
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Washington
Dment
Department
Eight Candidates Named for State 4-H Offices
Ames Iowa 4 H girls choose eight candidates for 1944 45 state officers at wartime convention at Iowa State college Tuesday night Candidates were chosen on home economics war service scholarship and community service Jean Ann Freese 17 from Monticello leads a slate that includes Frances Bailey Atlantic Margaret Ann Borgmeyer Ames Beverly DeWolf Gilmore City Alberta Illian Walcott Catherine Illiam Walcott Helen Flackey Afton Mary Lee Phillips Barnes City with the highest vote to become president and next three to serve as vice president secretary treasurer and historian The three day convention opens Monday with a keynote by Mrs Edith Barker and a talk by Dr William Blatz Toronto university.
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Ames
Lowa
Iowa State College
Edith Barker
Frances Bailey
Atlantic
Margaret Ann Borgmeyer
Beverly DeWolf
Gilmore City
Alberta Illian
Walcott
Jean Ann Freese
Monticello
Helen Flackey
Afton
Catherine Illiam
Mary Lee Phillips
Barnes City
Michigan
Wherry amendment drives farm price policy debate
Government price control agencies face a central puzzle over the Wherry amendment to the OPA law. The clause ties the President to action to maintain parity, but its meaning remains contested as farm prices linger below both parity and announced support levels. Washington seeks guidance to shape future price policies. Drought tightens belts across the Corn Belt, with Central Illinois and Ohio hit by heat and dry weather reducing corn yields and threatening canning crops.
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Wherry
WFA
L. C. Arends
Seventeenth
Illinois
Champaign
Washington
Ilinois
New Holland
Tiil
United Press
Ohio River Valley
Indiana
Ohio
Neighbors Disc Harvests 15 Acres Beans and 60 Acres Corn
Neighbors harvested 15 acres of beans and cultivated 60 acres of corn on Thursday. Assistants included Gus Brender, Harold Brender, Vernon Zach, Edward Vonouse, Leonard Suputar, Tom Svoboda, Jerry Ross, Billi Brender, Joe Horak, and Leonard Serbousek. Mr Coufal diagnosed with Malta fever.
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Mr Coufal
Malta
Gus Brender
Harold Brender
Vernon Zach
Edward Vonouse
Leonard Suputar
Tom Svoboda
Jerry Ross
Billi Brender
Joe Horak
Leonard Serbousek
Cotton Acreage Down 6.7 Percent for 1944
The Agriculture Department estimated U S cotton acreage in cultivation on July 1 at 20,472,000 acres, 1,470,000 fewer than last year and 7,717,000 below the 10 year average. Assuming average abandonment, harvest acreage in 1944 would be about 20,081,000 acres.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
United States
Department
Two Estate Farms Sold Near Dysart
The James Baker 160 acre estate farm in Dysart was sold by the two heirs Mrs Inez Dickson and Mrs Elsie Kaiser to L C Hennings of Keystone for 28000. J W Traer handled the sale. The Niels Schmidt estate farm north of Dysart sold for 15000 to Lou Fuss and David Milne, both of Dysart, with possession on March 1 1945.
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Dysart
James Baker
Inez Dickson
Elsie Kaiser
Waterloo
L. C. Hennings
Keystone
J. W. Traer
Niels Schmidt
Here
Lou Fucss
David Milne
Volga City Farmer Dies of Burns
Volga City, Iowa June Volga City farmer William Nydegger died Friday morning from severe burns suffered Thursday when his tractor exploded while he was filling the gas tank with the motor running. He was taken by ambulance to Oelwein hospital. Survived by his wife three daughters Dorothy Darlene and a son William.
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Volga City
William Nydegger
Here
Oelwein Hospital
Harold Christeleit
Volga
Dorothy
Darlene
William
Milk in Chickens: Consistency Trumps Sour or Sweet
A quirky claim notes that feeding chickens milk, whether sweet or sour, matters less than consistency in the feeding regime during a storm. It emphasizes stability over flavor.
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WFEA
AAA
Rex Conn
Gazette Farm Editor
Louies
Honeymead
Cedar-Rapids
Riverside
Cedar Rapids
BIG Gain
West Union
William Blatz
Toronto University
OPA
Clarence
Auto Electric Shop
2Nd Ave. SE
Sears Farm
DIAL
Necro
Denver Serum CO
First ST. SW
Agricultural Extension Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Colleges
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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