Governor to Address Linn 4-H Meeting at Hawkeye Downs
Governor B. B. Hickenlooper will speak at the Linn county 4-H achievement show in Hawkeye Downs Thursday evening. He will crown the Linn county 4-H food production queen from twenty club nominees and their parents will join Gazette guests for a Wednesday dinner. Weather notes cite rainfall relief but one third of Iowa needs rain badly with variable corn progress and crops under heat.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
B. B. Hickenlooper
Linn County
Hawkeye Downs
A _ County Extension
Offringa
Wednesey
Gazette
Detasseling Underway On 74 Acre Lee Stinger Farm
Detasseling started Tuesday afternoon on a 74 acre field of hybrid corn at the Lee Stinger farm. Sixty girls with an Anamosa woman supervising carry out the task.
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MT. Vernon
Lee Stinger
AAA Seed Harvest Payments Raised Under 1944 AAA Plan
The state AAA committee announced an upcoming change to the 1944 program removing the 25 acre limit for harvesting seed. Farmers may qualify for 3.50 per acre on all harvested seed plus poundage payments of 344 cents for red clover and 2.5 cents per pound for alfalfa and alsike. Payments drawn from a 12,500,000 fund for the 1945 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1944, with about 60 percent planned for expanded seed acreage payments.
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AAA
State Committee
Sai
Farm Machinery Output Up Leads to Smaller ration list
Washington report notes increased farm machinery production allows cutting 31 types on the ration list to 19 after July 20. The 19 continued types include combines, corn binders and pickers, manure spreaders, mowers, rakes, hay load ers, balers, tractors, grain drills, potato planters and diggers, silo fillers, irrigation pumps, power sprayers, garden tractors, water systems, power pumps and farm milk coolers.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Wolrab boy suffers hand injuries on Iowa hay farm
Vincent Wolrab, four year old son of Mr and Mrs Milo Wolrab, caught both hands in a pulley during hay making Friday on the Wolrab farm. He sustained severe lacerations and was hospitalized in Iowa City.
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MT. Vernon
Vincent Wolrac
Milo Wolrab
Wolrab
Iowa City
Corn Stocks on Iowa Farms Least Since 37
Iowa farm stocks on July 1 1944 show 173,735,000 bushels of corn, about 8,000,000 above the ten year average and 62,000,000 below last year's 235,631,000. The carryover equals 29 percent of last year’s crop, the lowest July carryover since 1936–37 drought. Oats total 34,962,000 bushels, 19 percent of last year, near ten year average. Soybeans reach 3,540,000 bushels, the largest July farm storage on record, about 9 percent of last year’s harvest. Farmers store beans mainly for seed amid record acreage.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Wounded Veteran To Speak at Monticello Rally
Sgt. Allen F. Anderson of Watertown Wisconsin will speak at a Jones county fairgrounds rally on July 20. He is a paratrooper veteran wounded in Sicily and treated at Schick Hospital Clinton. Other army and navy speakers will discuss manpower needs for harvesting and processing canning crops.
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Monticello
Allen F. Anderson
Watertown
Wis
Jones County Fairgrounds
M. W. Sliter
Cedar War Manpower Commission Office
Anderson
Sicily
Schick Hospital
Clinton
Army
Navy
Jones County
Sliter
Andy Woolfries
Cedar Rapids
British Isles
The
Royal Way
War Manpower Commission
Carter's Little Liver Pills Advertises Digestive Aid
A vintage ad touts natural digestion help with veg juice and herbal flow. It claims two pints of vital juice aid digestion and promises relief in about 30 minutes. The copy urges taking Carter's Little Liver Pills as directed and buying at drugstores for 10 or 25 cents.
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Carter
Nature
15 000 Paid For 240 Acres At Edgewood
Special to The Gazette Edgewood Mr and Mrs Jesse E Gleason of Edgewood purchased a 240 acre farm three miles east of here on highway 10 from Spahn and Rose Lumber company for 15000 The farm has 160 acres under cultivation the rest being good pasture land Immediate possession given subject to a lease to Gordon Tibbett of Edgewood The deal was handled by the Kernahan Land company of Oelwein
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Edgewood
Jesse E. Gleason
Here
Highway 10
Spahn and Rose Lumber Company
Gordon Tibbett
Kernahan Land Company
Oelwein
Walker-Fred Weber sells 80 acre farm near Walker to Everett Joyce
Special to The Gazette reports Fred Weber has sold his 80 acre farm about 314 miles east of Walker to neighbor Everett Joyce. Possession is to be given March 1.
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the Gazette
Walker
Fred Weber
Everett Joyce
Farms Sold Near Ryan at Noted Prices
Mrs Maraguete Drum sold her 120 acre farm two miles east of here to Peter Lahr for 15000 dollars. Albert Zumbach bought the 127 acre Kate Sullivan farm six miles east for 100 dollars per acre. Both properties are well improved.
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Ryan
Maraguete Drummy
Here
Peter Lahr
Albert Zumbach
Kate Sullivan
Chatter on grazing, clipping, and cattle care tips
The note discusses Bennett farmer F W Schiele selling 60 fat steers on the Chicago market, urges clipping pasture weeds at bud stage to promote grass, cautions against heavy clipping that smothers forage, and advises dairy herd management in heat with shade and water. It ends by promoting low-cost farm loans from The Peoples Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids.
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F. W. Schiele
Bennett
Chicago
Peoples Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
OPA Sets 1944 Potato Prices nationwide July 15
OPA announced nationwide prices for the 1944 potato crop and set dollar and cent prices for sweet potatoes. White potato prices remain near 1943 levels while sweet potatoes average about ten cents per pound. July 15 effective, with July adjustments in Nebraska Kansas Maryland North Carolina and Virginia due to weather. Prices range from 3.00 per cwt in Maryland to 2.50 in Utah.
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Washington
INS
OPA
Nebraska
Kansas
Maryland
North Carolina
Virginia
Vermont
Utah
Idaho
Arm Broken by Pulley Threatens Local Farmer
Lavern McCollister a farmer west of Toledo suffered a broken arm Monday when his arm was caught in a pulley while grinding chicken feed.
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the Gazette
Toledo
Lavern McCollister
Here
Johnson 4-H Clubs Lead in Bond Sales
Johnson county 4-H girls clubs won the banner at the state convention after reporting bond and stamp sales of 507139.33. Across 89 counties total sales reached 1792724.05, with Mahaska Webster second and Cass Muscatine Pocahontas honored for good records.
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Ames
Johnson County
Mahaska
Webster
Cass
Muscatine
Pocahontas
Iowa Milk Output in June Falls From 1943 Peak
Iowa dairy herds produced about 737 million pounds of milk in June, 37 million below last year’s June record. Output is the lowest for June since 1940 and slightly under May 1944’s 748 million pounds. Numbers of milk cows are near last year, but per cow production remains below last June’s level due to labor and feed constraints.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Iowa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Carl
Limited Embargo on Chicago Wheat Shipments
Chicago embargo blocks all wheat shipments except from Illinois and Indiana effective midnight Tuesday. J S Brown of the Interstate Commerce Commission says a permit system is needed to prevent overload as public elevators near capacity. Illinois and Indiana growers may ship without a permit. other states must apply and may face delays.
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Chicago
Indiana
Ilinois
J. S. Brown
Rmit
Brown
Illinois
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