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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1946
Page
2
Special Correspondent reports that USDA officials predicted a $1 billion yearly farm building boom for five years beginning 1947, contingent on farm incomes staying high. They cited needed repairs, new layouts, timber management, and subsidies to help low income farmers and rural slum clearance.
A maple tree in John Schliemann's yard on Seventh Avenue in Belle Plaine near Guinnville is over 100 years old. It was a sapling in 1855 when Decatur Parks, grandfather of Mrs. C C Gay, first lived at the house.
Mrs Anna Pautz of Vancouver Washington says she suffered with rheumatism and arthritis for years and is now free from pain. She offers to answer inquiries and provides her P O Box 825 for information and contact.
A USDA survey of 382 Corn Belt farmers across Iowa Nebraska and Illinois finds rising reluctance to buy land. Seventy five percent would postpone purchases with many awaiting four to six years and tenant farmers more cautious. Only about 20 percent plan to buy and most intend to wait.
The piece outlines wartime shifts in dairy use with fluid milk and cream rising to 56 58 percent of butterfat in 1944 1945 and ice cream up 95 percent in early 1945. It notes butterfat per capita at 31.7 pounds and outlines implications for butter output and prices under evolving policy.
Members of section one Iowa Creamery Operators association held their annual picnic at Pike's Peak in McGregor last Thursday hosted by Mr and Mrs Otto Pagel and Mr and Mrs Otto Kline. John Quist of Ames spoke on current problems in the dairy industry and district resolutions for the Des Moines state convention. Winners in butter scoring and judging were announced with Goltz and Pagel among leaders. official judges included representatives from National Butter, Christians Butter, and the state agriculture department.
Iowa State College farm economists say civilian employment remains high and liquid assets sustain inflation risk. With returning soldiers finding work, labor shortages persist, manufacturing output rises, and demand for farm products stays strong into 1947. Hog prices stay firm. 1946 pig crop down 7 percent from 1945. Poultry flocks shrink and meat supplies may tighten.
Economists warn that future price movements depend in part on effects of the revived OPA. Machinery is the cause of 30 percent of all fatal farm work accidents.
Scattered showers early last week slowed threshing in West Union. Combining progressed, corn yields look good, and detasseling is underway in hybrid seed fields.
Willard Eiler of Tipton reported a 2514 acre Clinton oats field near Stanwood yielded 2 225 bushels at Stanwood averaging over 87 bushels per acre The grain weighed 35 pounds per bushel tested 10 percent moisture It was drilled at 1 to 1 1 4 bushels per acre on April 1 2 and windrowed July 19 20 The field stood 40 to 42 inches tall and did not lodge It was one of six Cedar county fields seeded to Clinton oats this year.
Rainy weather slows some fields but Belle Plaine reports harvest two thirds done. Oats are lighter than last year while hay and straw yield up to three tons per acre. Much hay and straw baled in the field. Corn prospects excellent for the season. Potatoes and fruit show good quality and quantity.
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