Fewer Chicks On Farms Than Year Ago
A Department of Agriculture report shows 609,611,000 chicks and young chickens on farms June 1 to 10, down 19 percent from last year but 19 percent above the 10 year average. May hatchings fell sharply with 221,787,000 chicks hatched versus 312,468,000 last May, a 29 percent drop. Eggs set in May totaled 215,238,000, down 48 percent from May last year. Production for the first five months of 1944 dropped 12 percent from 1943. In Iowa May chick hatchings were 29,407,000, vs 33,417,000 last May, with five month production at 94,142,000. Eggs set in Iowa May totalled 20,794,000 with 128,517,000 eggs set in the first five months of 1944.
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Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Doe Encounters Man at Door in McGregor
Special to The Gazette. Harry Scott, a mile from McGregor, was greeted at his back door by a doe. The deer stood briefly, then fled into the woods, jumping a high fence on the way.
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the Gazette
McGregor
Harry Scott
Shucks Lets Talk It Over A B C 1945 Triple A Program
A memorandum from A J Loveland Iowa state AAA chair outlines a continued postwar Triple A with minor changes focused on soil conservation. County committees discuss revisions, with payments mainly soil building up to 50 cents per acre and practices like liming fertilizer contour farming and grassed waterways.
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A. J. Loveland
AAA
Iowa
Oleo Labeling Question Raised in Linn Suit
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Harry D. Linn filed a Polk County suit seeking a declaratory judgment that all imitations of butter, whether mixed or unmixed, are oleomargarine and must be labeled accordingly. The action responds to Dahl’s 1943 petition seeking to halt a 5 cent per pound oleomargarine tax on Jelke’s Good Luck products. The case names Jelke Company and Hoxie Fruit Company as defendants, with prior rulings by federal and state authorities referenced.
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Des Moines
Harry D. Linn
Iowa
Jelke
Linn
John F. Jelke
Hoxie Fruit Company
Dahl
United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Tasty Leghorn Fry For a Quarter Says Neb Poultryman
LINCOLN NEB UP FE E Mussehl head of the poultry department at the state agricultural college completed the first phase of an experiment on Leghorn cockerels. He says seven pounds of feed costing about 3 15 per hundred pounds will yield a two pound marketable broiler. The study titled effect of certain vitamin additions to a specific ration for Leghorn broilers shows two bits can make a fry from a Leghorn baby cockerel, with caution not to feed after 2 1/2 pounds as quality declines.
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Lincoln
Neb
E. Mussehl
State Agricultural College Poultry Department
Mussehl
Society Horse Show Set for July 16 at Maquoketa
Sixteen events are offered at the first annual society horse show sponsored by the Jackson county fair association to be held Sunday evening July 16 in Maquoketa. L H Rasmussen, chairman, announced premiums totaling about $1000 and horses and equipment valued over $100,000. Proceeds will fund fair grounds improvements.
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Maquoketa
Society
Jackson County Fair Association
L. H. Rasmussen
Rasmussen
Farmer Injured Jumping From Slipping Hayload Near Here
McGregor Harvey Schriver, a local farmer, fractured two bones and severed ankle ligaments after leaping from a slipping hayload Friday. He was treated at McGregor Hospital. Daily pig gains linked to feed amount.
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the Gazette
McGregor
Harvey Schriver
McGregor Hospital
Items in storage rise except apples and butter
War Food administration reports cold storage of all food items except apples and creamery butter rose from a year earlier and above the 5 year average. Apple storage space increased in May for dried fruit shell eggs and lard. Butter totals stood at 69,659,000 pounds on June 1 with May 1 at 69,276,000 and the 5 year average at 62,835,000.
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War Food Administration
Poultry and Egg Stocks Rise From May to June
June 1 stocks show eggs at 17,477,000 cases including shell and frozen up from 12,777,000 a month earlier and 14,878,000 a year earlier. Frozen poultry total 122,733,000 pounds, down from May 1 and above last year, with a five year average of 66,680,000.
Two Ossian Men Hurt In Falls on Farms
Special to The Gazette Ossian George Ban carpenter Saturday fell from a high ladder and fractured his spine while repairing a barn on the Martin Tinderholt farm. He was taken to the Iowa City hospital. Walter Oxley another Ossian workman fell from the roof of a barn last week and broke his nose and left arm sprained his right arm and suffered cuts and bruises.
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the Gazette
Ossian
George Ban
Martin Tinderholt
Iowa City
Walter Oxley
Fence Drift and Patience in a Wet Hay Season
A farmer battles wet weather and scattered showers to harvest hay. Weedy corn, needful beans, and a browning alfalfa force repeated mowing and decision making about barn storage versus outdoor stacking. The piece highlights the patience required in farming through a difficult season.
Farm Bureau Women Meet at Des Moines State Conference
Three hundred Iowa Farm Bureau women were registered for the annual summer conference in Des Moines. Sessions opened Sunday night under Mrs Raymond Sayre, the state committee chair, with meetings set to run through Tuesday.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Farm Bureau
Raymond Sayre
Dairy Transportation Plans Approved by OPA
Omaha dairy transportation plans approved by the Office of Defense Transportation cover farm to market routes in four Nebraska counties and four adjacent Iowa counties near Sioux City, plus seven southwestern Iowa counties. Coordinated pickups reduce duplicate service in Sioux City areas, saving about 138000 truck miles annually. seven southwestern counties save roughly 467000 miles a year.
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Omaha
WJ. Hons
Office of Defense Transportation Manager
Nebraska
Iowa
Sioux City
Haas
4-H Delegates Chosen for State Girls Convention
Anamosa Jones county delegates to the state girls 4-H convention in Des Moines July 10-12 are Abbie Ann Tudor of Olin the county president Alice Clark of Scotch Grove the county vice president and Jean Ann Freese of Monticello a candidate for state 4-H office They will be accompanied by Mrs J M Tudor of Olin the local club leader and Mrs Lloyd Robertson of Anamosa the girls club agent.
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Anamosa
Jones County
Des Moines
Abbie Ann Tudor
Olin
Alice Clark
Scotch Grove
Jean Ann Freese
Monticello
J. M. Tudor
Teader
Lloyd Robertson
Rally Day in Keokuk County 4-H Girls Set June 30
Sigourney Keokuk county 4 H girls schedule their annual Rally day in Keokuk June 30 with Lorraine Guernsey, county extension home economist, making the announcement.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
4-H
Lorraine Guernsey
County Extension Home
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