Garden farm thrives in jungle on Guam 500 acres
GUAM reports a 500 acre experimental farm amid jungle run by U S sailors and Seabees as part of foreign aid to rations. Production tops a million pounds of vegetables since September with corn leading yields and crops including papayas pineapples and bananas. Irrigation soil acidity pests and coral limit output while natives assist and guards deter pilfering of crops.
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Guam
Gi.'s
Erie Lundhorm
Salinas
Calif
United States Foreign Economic Administration
Lundholm
Hawaiian Islands
United States
Cpl
Harold Mayo
Santa Monica
Cali
Seabee
Ensign Edward Sehwehert
Sauk Centre Minn
University of Minnesota
California
Wei
Lundheim
John RoCorrier
Turpede Man
Mason City
Tra Johnnson
Seaman
Argyle
Ives to Lead Teaching At Inter-American Institute in Costa Rica
Norton Ives of the agricultural engineering extension staff at Iowa State College will leave this month for Turriaba Costa Rica to join the Inter American Institute of Agricultural Sciences. He resigns from Iowa State to advance teaching and research in agricultural engineering. The institute, initially backed by the Pan American Union, aims to train students from 21 American republics.
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Crazette Ames Norton Ives
Agricultural Engineering Extension
Toca State College
Costa Rica
Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Turrialba
Ames
Towa State
New
Inter-American Institute
Pan American Union
Ives
Volga City Farm Bought By Dr Grant
Dr R E Grant purchased the Idt acre Mis Bertha Stinger farm near Volga City. The deal includes twenty purebred Hereford heifers all of the Hapelet and Prince Domino Ene bloodlines.
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Volga City
Dr R E Grant
Here
Food hearing in Omaha targets OPA policy shifts
At an Omaha hearing the House Food Investigating Committee chaired by R. B. C. Anderson heard producers press for subsidy cuts and price controls changes. Witnesses charged OPA with blame for hog price ceilings while noting subsidies administered by WFA, and discussed easing or removing ceilings to boost producer profitability. Woolen topics included poultry ceilings, black markets, and the impact on corn prospects across Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri amid wet conditions and late planting.
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Omaha
Clinton D. Anderson
House Food Investigating Committee
Union Stock Yards
Stock Yard Company
Plumer Martin
Farmers Union Commission Company
Ed Janicke
Omaha Livestock Exchange
Anderson
H. L. van Ambrugh
Rufus Howard
Nebraska
Clinton Anderson
New Mexico
Truman
Hal Holmes
Washington
Worsk
Illinois
Herter
Massachusetts
Clements
Kentucky
OPA
Ernest Strait, Jr
Hoskins
Nebraska Livestock
WFA
F Magdanz
Pierce
Neb
Nebraska University Agriculture Faculty
Don Turnbull
Kansas City
International Baby Chick Association
Turnbull
Iowa
Missouri
1103 Acres Land Sale Near Garner Iowa
The transfer of 1 103 acres from F W and Nina Niesz to William Dambacher of Sangamon Illinois was a major recent land deal in Hancock County. The record carried 121 55 in revenue stamps indicating a consideration over 100 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garner
F. W
Nina Niesz
William Dambacher
Sangamon
Ill
Hancock County
Ceed
Greeley-Milton Kinzle Buys 320-Acre Estate Farm
Greeley-Milton Kinzle of Cascade has purchased the 320 acre J A Schneider estate farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Milton Kinzle
Cascade
J. A. Schneider
Egg Production In Iowa High Despite Slight Dip
Des Moines reports May 1945 Iowa egg production at 519 million. Though down 3 million from last year and 2 million from two years ago, May set a record except for the two cited years. Highest lay rate recorded, at 1 817 eggs per hundred layers, with improving flock quality and strong market demand. Year to date production around 2.265 billion, down about 3 percent from last season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Farms Covered by Federal Insurance on Crops
Washington AP says about 178000 farms have crop insurance through the War Food Administration this spring. Roughly 15000 spring wheat on 26000 farms, 98000 cotton on 116000 farms, and 30000 flax on 186000 farms. Winter wheat insurance to begin in about a month. Dead line for Iowa is Aug 31 or when seeding begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
War Food Administration
WFA
J. Carl Wright
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Congress
Iowa
Ditching Demonstration Draws 400 In Linn County
About 400 people from Linn and nearby counties attended the ditching demonstration on the Paul Minor farm six miles south of Cedar Rapids. W C Lane of Des Moines, an explosives expert, led with cooperation from the Soil Conservation Service and the Linn County Farm Bureau.
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iLinn
Paul Minor
Cedar Rapids
W. C. Lane
Des Moines
Soil Conservation Service
Linn County Farm Bureau
Returning Vets Assured Funds For Farm Loans
DES MOINES AP Half of the 50 million dollar Farm Security program funds are earmarked for veterans of the present war to purchase farms. Iowa will receive 896,302 for the fiscal year. Veterans may buy in any county, with loans up to 100 percent of price, repaid over 40 years at 3 percent interest. Several veteran applications already filed, with a large number expected as 2 million soldiers are discharged next year. %
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Des Moines
Congress
H. L. Young
State Farm Security Administration
Iowa
FSA
Young
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