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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1945
Page
3
The Republican congressional food study committee blamed the government for a fats and oils shortage projected to last until late spring or summer 1946. Butter lard and other oils would fall well below 1941 levels, prompting calls for better interagency action and policy changes.
Sources predict new Secretary Anderson will argue for shipping abundant staples like grains and cereals to Europe rather than luxury foods. He may target fats and oils shortages while sugar remains tight in 1945 as beet production in Europe resumes. By next year U.S. sugar shipments to the Philippines may decline with industry rejuvenation.
The north central livestock marketing research committee will meet Thursday and Friday at Iowa State College. Members include land grant colleges in 10 states Kentucky Oklahoma and the USDA bureau of agricultural economics. The group analyzes hog price differentials by place of marketing weight divisions and grades under supervision of state agricultural experiment stations.
AMES Iowa State College agronomy head Dr W H Pierre announced adjustments to soil and water conservation field days at the Cla rinda experimental farm. The events moved from June 27 29 to July 16 18 due to weather delaying planting and crop growth making results inaccessible on the original dates.
Cattle on pasture have gained well this year as white clover dominates permanent pastures. After early thinness, herds appear sleek and fat now due to lush balanced forage cool weather and fewer flies.
Fifty six Aberdeen Angus cattle sold in Pleasant Plains Illinois for an overall average of 1740 dollars, the highest in 25 years. The top cow brought 15000 dollars to Mr and Mrs Fowler McCormick of Barrington Illinois, a new high price for a cow in the United States. Johnston brothers of Belton Missouri paid 10600 dollars for the top bull. Sale by J Garrett Toland. Purchases spanned Maryland to Washington and into Canada.
A deed filed with the County Recorder transfers Mrs. Sarah Grindeland's 15912 acre farm in Highland township to Sanford B. and Elsie S. Osmundson for 12000 dollars. The outlying half acre hosts a township school.
USDA reports last year milkweed floss campaign yielded about 2,150,000 bags of pods and roughly 1,650,000 pounds of floss. Government needs will be met, so no collection program will run this year. Milkweed floss division of War Hemp Industries, Inc. in Petoskey Michigan will be closed.
Victor J. T. McGarry sold a mixed load of steers and heifers in Chicago on Monday at a price of 16 dollars per hundredweight.
Eastern Iowa Cattle Feeders association members meet in Cedar Rapids Tuesday evening. A new committee to draft constitution and by laws is named, including President Earl Elijah of Clarence and members Russell Willer Tipton Earl Alcorn Vinton and Ted Kemper Center Point. Other speakers include Will H. Miller secretary of the Kansas Livestock association Walter Brown Iowa Beef Producers R. F. O'Donnell Ames and Fred Hinkhouse West Liberty. Additional officers and directors present: Otis Tuttle Norway vice president Hazel Johnson Cedar Rapids secretary H J Ross Cedar Rapids treasurer Horace Thompson Vinton Clayton Welsh Winthrop Clark Heitman Williamsburg Lee Colony Iowa City Roy Wagner Maquoketa.
The WFA marketing services office reports about 75 percent of Montana lambs contracted for future delivery by late last week. Contracts run $12 to $13 per hundredweight for bands, with $13 on ewe lambs and $12 on the wether end. Whiteface yearling ewes fetch $12.50 to $14 per head, with similar activity in Wyoming and eastern Oregon as moisture boosts range feed and maturing prospects.
Leslie M. Carl of the Iowa crop and livestock reporting service says conditions improved last week but remain unsatisfactory for warmth and dryness. He notes floods, saturated soil, slow growth of corn and small grains, and variable soybean planting with two thirds in by now.
Chicago report says raising poultry ceiling by 8 cents a pound could boost meat supply and curb the black market. Prairie Farmer cites 85 percent of Midwestern poultrymen support increasing from 29 to 37 cents, predicting growth in orders for chicks. Farmers claim low ceilings push flocks out and 80 percent of poultry sales occur above the ceiling.
Washington reports the agriculture department says Americans will receive 5 to 10 percent fewer calories in 1945 than the prewar year. The diet still holds a safe margin above minimum standards despite cuts in meat fat and sugar. Produce merchants warn of a potato famine in the eastern U S. Overall food consumption may dip 5 to 7 percent from last year’s peak.
West Branch dairy herd improvement association held its annual meeting electing John Offringa as president, Albert Timm as vice president, Ivan N. Gates as secretary-treasurer, and C Earl Smith with Walter Coxon as directors. Henry J. Simon was re employed as tester.
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