Price policies criticized by Illinois Dean in wartime remarks
Dean H P Rusk of the University of Illinois agriculture college argues that price controls at too many stages distort market signals. He urges flexible pricing near retail level, warns of surpluses and deficits among farm goods, and calls for adjustable ceilings and supports to balance production with demand. He notes hogs, corn, and feed issues, and stresses price relationships over fixed controls. He ends by suggesting late spring is best to sell old roosters.
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Chicago
Dean H. P. Rusk
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Congress
Dean Rusk
Omaha
OPA
Patton
Rapid Livestock Cuts Urged As Feed Supplies Shrink
The chart shows cattle hogs and poultry rising from 1939 to 1944 as reserves of feed grains supported growth. With reserves exhausted, production must switch to a current feed basis. War Food administration aims to cut hog and poultry output and sharply market cattle to align inventories with anticipated supplies.
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War Food Administration
Weather and policy clash with postwar farming plans
The piece discusses late corn planting risks and the viability of soybeans and buckwheat for late-season crops. It urges balanced postwar policy, argues against lab or union hostility to agriculture, and notes Missouri and national food policy aims, with forecasts of mechanization and farmer prosperity.
Miss Doro Roberts Named Food Preservation Assistant
Special to The Gazette. Miss Doro Roberts, home economics teacher at Rolfe, will serve as special food preservation assistant in Delaware county until August 31, County Extension Director W. K. Webster has announced. Keep pigs out of old hog lots to prevent disease and parasites.
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Manchester
Dorothy Roberts
Rolfe
Delaware County
W. K. Webster
Insecticide Screen Paint Promises Safe Pest Barrier
An invisible paint called 2-Way Insecticide Screen Paint kills insects on contact without harming humans or animals. It coats screens to prevent entry and keeps pests from hopping off doors. Sold through dealers or Hanley & Kinsella Laboratories at 1218 Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Hanley & Kinsella Laboratories
Olive
St. Louis
Herlev & Kinsella Laboratories Inc
Olive St
Milkweed to Substitute For Kapok War Effort Steps Up
War Food Administration and agriculture officials organize milkweed seed pod collection in 26 states to produce waterproof floss for life jackets. Target minimum 1.5 million pounds for 1944, with processing plant in Petoskey Michigan and 4-H and Boy Scout participation. Pods collected in 50-pound bags, dried in sun, then shipped. payments set at twenty cents per bag.
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Washington
War Food Administration
United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Petoskey
Mich
WFA
Michigan
All Grain Futures Slumped Week Ended June 9 in Chicago
In Chicago grain futures edged lower with a nervous, irregular week. The War Food Administration notes liquidation early, brief rally on invasion news, then losses as favorable crop reports weighed in. Corn movement to local markets rose slightly while Canadian oats shipments arrived and carrot receipts stayed light.
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Chicago
Office of
War Food Administration
Iowa
May Iowa milk production dips from 1943
Iowa milk production for May 1944 is estimated at 748 million pounds, down from 772 million pounds in May 1943. Five month total reaches 2,952 million pounds, second to 1943, with pasture conditions at 99 percent of normal the highest in 25 years.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Carl
REA Allots $125000 To Iowa Cooperative
Washington The Rural Electrification administration announced a 125000 dollar allotment to the Federated Cooperative Power association of Hampton Iowa. Funds will expand a substation near Allison and fund a 500 kilowatt generating plant near Klemme. Total REA allotments reach 495 million plus.
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Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Federated Cooperative Power Association
Hampton
Iowa
Allison
Klemme
Ant Control Methods Told by Gunderson Ames Entomologist
Ames entomologist De L. Gunderson explains how to identify what attracts ants in homes and outdoors. He recommends injecting carbon disulphide kerosene or cheap gasoline into nests four inches deep, then sealing the holes and covering the nest for 24 hours. If needed, repeat in three to five days. For sweet-attracting ants use tartar emetic bait.
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Gazette
Ames
de . L. Gunderson
Iowa State College
Ant Bait Preparation Instructions From Historical Text
The guide describes dissolving four ounces of sugar in a quart of water to bait grease ants, and mixing one fourth ounce of tartar emetic into melted fat for the same purpose. It warns to place poison in shallow containers away from children and pets, noting ants may not die immediately and will return to nests to feed the queen and larvae. Several treatments may be needed to eliminate all colonies.
Another Fruit Spray Needed This Week
Ames report states the second cover spray should be applied to fruit trees this week as adult codling moths appear in central Iowa around June 1. Larvae are typically ready to enter fruit about two weeks after. Use the same materials as the first spray: 214 quarts liquid lime sulfur or 2% pounds dry form, 12 pounds hydrated lime, and 1% pounds lead arsenate per 50 gallons. Fruit set is lighter than expected in many areas.
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Ames
H. E. Nichols
Iowa State College Extension
Iowa
Nichols
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