Week of warm dry weather would aid belated Iowa corn
Weather summary notes a hopeful tone from Charles D. Reed about a week of warm dry weather helping the belated corn in Iowa. In the north central and northwest counties corn is cultivated, weed free, four to six inches high, colors good. In much of the southern two thirds weekly rainfall exceeded two inches, with Marshalltown at 4.0 and Shenandoah at 5.0 inches, limiting field work to occasional days.
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ES Moines
INS
Weather Bureau
Charles D. Reed
Iowa
Banthan
Northwest
Marshalltown
Shenandoah
Fence Drift Fails in Woven Wire and Flooded Lowlands
Large tracts of lowlands are submerged with heavy erosion and mud covering crops. Replanting becomes necessary as germination delays, and some counties may shift from corn to soybeans. Farmers face choosing between poor corn stands and late replants, while frost risk threatens new plantings. Seed and soil losses compound the hardship. Poems by Mrs. C Violet McLotte Wilson are noted in the same clipping.
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C Violet McLotte Wilson
Self dipping hog wallows aid mange control on farms
A farm advisory note from an Iowa extension expert promotes hog wallows to control mange in spring pig herds. It details wallow sizes for up to 100 pigs, safe use of lime sulfur solutions or oil dips, and steps to prevent overheating, with guidance on preparing and refilling the wallows.
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K. W. Stouder
Towa State College Extension
Nighttime corn cultivation and soggy soils plague Iowa fields
Reed notes soils saturated to depths near the permanent water table as streams overflow after moderate showers. Iowa farmers push field work by day and night with headlights on tractors while soybeans plant slowly and hay and alfalfa progress. Despite thrifty Victory gardens, yields may lag last year.
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Reed
Iowa
Iowa farmer shows tractor with improvised planter spread
Wayne Taylor of Hamilton county operates a tractor with cultivators to loosen rain beaten soil before planting corn. An eastern Iowa farmer, Kenneth Wagner near West Liberty, used a similar outfit. Taylor’s planter features elongated boxes made from discarded chicken waterers mounted over standard boxes.
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Iowa Daily Press Association
Wayne Taylor
Hamilton County
Iowa
Kenneth Wagner West
West Liberty
Ag Outlook Presented for Ames Farmers in 1943
Ames extension economists presented a farm outlook noting livestock production at an all time high and 1943 corn needs may exceed 500 million bushels. A 50 bushel per acre crop could meet seed usage if yields reach the five year average, with 560 million bushels possible from increased acreage.
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Ames
Ames Extension
Iowa
92 Head Listed For Brown Swiss Sale Thursday
The 92 head consignment of Brown Swiss cattle arrived at Cedar Rapids for the Eastern Iowa Brown Swiss breeders auction set for Thursday at Hawkeye Downs fairgrounds. Among consignors are Orville Thom Winthrop T H Bany Waverly Roy Steege Waterloo Elmer Mussman Vinton John Frumbach son Ryan Henry Leichty Mt. Pleasant Albert Fischer Mt. Vernon L Hasselman New Sharon C A Morey Fairbank D F Andre Mechanicville and A L Killian Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Hawkeye Downs Fairgrounds
Orville
Thom
Winthrop
T. H. Bany
Waverly
Roy Steege
Waterloo
Elmer E Mussman
Vinton
John Frumbach
Ryan
Henry E. Leichty
Mt. Pleasant
Albert
Veterinarians to Hear 50 Year Practitioner
J. H. Spence from Clinton will report on fifty years in general practice at Cedar Rapids during the East Central Iowa Veterinary Society June dinner program. The technical program includes a discussion on food poisoning by Dr. Donald L. Jones of Walcott and a talk on Bovine mastitis by Dr. Ralph C. Hawk of Clinton.
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J. H. Spence
Clinton
Cedar Rapids
East Central Iowa Veterinary Society
Donald L. Jones
Walcott
Ralph C. Hawk
Hickenlooper Attacks OPA On Price Controls
Springfield Illinois AP Governor Hickenlooper of Iowa accuses OPA price controls of strangling production and causing food shortages. He cites weather, labor, machinery limits, and interdepartmental disputes, urging immediate steps to ensure 1944 agriculture and avert dire results.
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Springfield
Ill
B B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
OPA
Cedar County Approves Beekeeping Foul Brood Fund
The Cedar county board of supervisors appropriated 150 from the general fund to combat foul brood among bees after 39 beekeepers petitioned. Iowa law requires only 15 petitioners to trigger the appropriation.
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Tipton
Cedar County Board of Supervisors
General County Fund
Iowa
War Food Administration rejects drastic meat cuts
The War Food Administration and the War Meat Board said they will not drastically cut animal product output and will substitute more vegetable foods. Chester C. Davis promised full support while Lieut. Col. Jay L. Taylor noted adjustments in production and diets are needed to meet wartime needs. Prices for cattle were already high in some areas, signaling distribution squeezes to be corrected for the war effort.
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Chicago
War Food Administration
War Meat Board
WFA Cattle and Beef Industry Advisory Committee
WFA
Chester C. Davis
Jay L. Taylor
Davis
Col Taylor
War meat board forms price subcommittees
In Chicago the war meat board acting on War Food Administrator Chester C Davis move to curb meat price squeeze forms two subcommittees. One, led by Paul C. Smith of Swift and Company, will set slaughter cattle prices by grade to align with wholesale ceilings. The other, chaired by Norris K. Carnes of the Central Co operative Association, will study margins for cattle feeding and advise on feeding, pasture use, and marketing policies.
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Chicago
War Meat Board
War Food
Chester C Davis
Davis
Cattle and Beef Industry Advisory Committee
Meat Board
Paul C. Smith
Swift and Company
Norris K. Carnes
Central Co-operative Association
South St. Paul, Minn
Rowley Fire Destroys Tires and Tractor Parts
A fire Monday destroyed Lloyd Van Tassel’s tires and part of a tractor five miles southwest of Rowley. A gas pipe leak is believed to have caused the blaze. Rowley fire department responded to the incident.
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Rowley
Lloyd van Tassel
County Agent in Benton Resigns
VINTON Don Groves county agent in Benton since June 19 1939 submitted his resignation to the Farm Bureau board of directors Monday evening Groves resigned to take a fieldman position with the Iowa Farm Bureau federation Des Moines He plans to begin work for the state farm organization on or before July 15.
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Vinton
Don Groves
Benton
Farm Bureau Board of Directe Seee
Groves
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Des Moines
State Farm Organization
4 Percent Gain in Make Of Butter Reported
Des Moines dispatch reports the nations butter output for the week ending last Thursday rose 4 percent from a year earlier. Seasonal gains varied from 3 percent in the west north central region to 13 percent in the north Atlantic area. Iowa's production rose 3 percent year over year, Minnesota up 2 percent, while Wisconsin in the big three butter states fell 4 percent.
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Des Moines
INS
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
West North Central
Iowa
North Atlantic
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Lamb Grading Demonstration at Decorah June 22
Decorah hosts Winneshiek county lamb grading demonstration and sale on June 22 led by G. W. McDonald. Packer buyers will bid on the lambs, following last year’s 406 head graded and sold. organizers expect a larger turnout this year.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
G. W. McDonald
Rock Phosphate as Bonemeal Substitute for Chickens
A New York State Emergency Food Commission report from the committee on animal nutrition notes wartime shortages push substitutes. Defluorinated rock phosphate can replace bonemeal for poultry phosphorus, with vitamin D boosts helping use of available phosphorus. limestone grit and ground limestone provide calcium.
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New York
Committee On Animal Nutrition
New York State Emergency Food Commission
Brof. L. A. Maynard
Cornell
Hart Named to Treasury for Tax Research Division
Ames Iowa Albert G Hart a professor of economics and sociology at Iowa State college will join the United States treasury department for three months to work in the division of tax research.
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AMES
Albert G. Hart
Iowa State College
United States Treasury Department
Division of Tax Research
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