Floods Follow Downpour in Eastern Iowa
A two to three hour deluge in eastern Iowa drenched Jones and Cedar counties with seven to eight inches of rain. Roads flooded, bridges washed out, and towns like Oxford Mills Oxford Junction Cooksville and Lost Nation isolated. Farms suffered extensive surface runoff losses and hundreds of cattle hogs and poultry were displaced or killed.
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Jones
Cedar Counties
Cedar Rapids
Lisbon
Stanwood
Ed Rigby
Oxford Mills
Oxford Junction
Cooksville
August Steffens
George Bolicek
Robert Barber
Highway Commission
Highway 138
Cascade
Springville
Wapsipinicon
Maquoketa
Calmus
Lost Nation
Bear Creek
Wyoming
Calamus
Key West
Dubuque
Monticello
Anamosa
Closing Out Sale At Farm Campment On 2167 First Avenue
Closing out sale due to sons' military service and owner’s government work occurs Saturday July 1 at 1:00 PM at the farm campment on 2167 First Avenue. Items include work horses, cattle including Guernsey and Jersey breeds, hogs, sows with litters, miscellaneous farming gear, wagon, hay rake, plows, harness, and window frames. D. W. Staub owner. PC Lassen auctioneer. United State Bank clerk.
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First Avenue
Cottage Grove Avenue
Axddle
Fence Drift Caught in the Woven Wire
A flood swept Cedar county trapping wildlife. A coon battled the current in a flooded creek while bedraggled rabbits huddled on high ground. Pocket gophers fled underground and nesting pheasants and young were likely lost as surface waters covered nesting sites.
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Cedar County
Butter production steady in week ending June 15
Des Moines bureau reports 43,400,000 pounds of creamery butter produced in the United States for the week ending June 15, unchanged from the prior week. Year over year, output drops 11 percent. Iowa and Minnesota up 2 percent while Wisconsin falls 5 percent. Wisconsin shows a 3 percent rise from a year ago.
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DES Moines
INS
United States
Des Moines Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Mexico to Furnish 6000 Additional Farm Workers
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones said Mexico will provide 6000 agricultural workers this month beyond its quota to prevent a sugar beet production crisis. About 20000 laborers are planned in total, with most on sugar beet farms across 15 states to save roughly 60000 acres of beets.
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Washington
Marvin Jones
Mexico
United States
Jones
Midwest
War Hemp Industries, Incorporated
Iowa
North Africa
South America
Caribbean
Britt
Eagle Grove
Hampton and
Grundy Center
Neighbors Aid Misel After Corn Replanting Effort
Neighbors and friends of Oscar Misel assist in replanting his corn for three days after he broke his leg while caring for stock during the high water.
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Marengo
Oscar Misel
Misel
Iowa Farm Bureau Women Adopt New 1944 45 Goals
Iowa Farm Bureau women adopted new goals at a Des Moines meeting. The plan emphasizes leadership tenure, younger participation, school governance, local school legislation support, home and community recreation, and serving on the county 4-H committee.
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Iowa Farm Bureau
DES Moines
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
Iowa Congressman predicts drop in hog stock numbers
Washington AP reports Representative Martin R Ja says price support program flaws and hog price ranges will curb hog raising. He cites protests to War Food Administration and Office of Price Administration over packers buying only hogs outside 200 to 270 range. He links Iowa rains and corn demand to a likely short feed year.
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Washington
Martin
R-Ja
War Food Administration
Office of Price Administration
Iowa
Home Economist in Muscatine Resigns
Miss Frances Byrne, Muscatine County home economist, resigned at the Farm Bureau board meeting to take home demonstration work in Alaska's Matanuska valley near Anchorage. She will leave July 15 after arriving Nov 1, 1941, and she expanded the county girls 4-H program and home project field during her tenure.
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Muscatine
Frances Byrne
Farm Bureau Board
Matanuska
Anchorage
Alaska
Byrne
Sixty Fairs Planned Across Iowa This Year
Iowa will host at least 60 county and district fairs this year, state fair board secretary Lloyd Cunningham said. He noted 82 fairs were held in 1943 and attributed the drop to transportation issues. Most fairs will showcase 4-H club animals with few commercial herds traveling the circuits.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
State Fair Board
Lloyd Cunningham
Cunningham
Hemp a Paying Crop Reports II Economist
The Farm Editor notes hemp cost Illinois farmers 21.19 a ton in 1943 from 112 farms. Per acre cost 55.02, about double corn, with 2.6 tons per acre at 42.90 per ton making it profitable. Labor and trucking details, seed costs, and 1943 wartime hemp mill expansion follow, plus postwar industry pressures and a Senate inquiry into curtailment.
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Illinois
R. H. Wilcox
University of Illinois
Wilcox
Economist
Senate
Gillette
Iowa
S. H. McCrory
Commodity Credit Corporation
War Production Board
Parasite Release Set For Iowa Corn Borer Fight
Secretary of Agriculture Harry Linn announced that 21,000 parasites to combat the corn borer will be released Wednesday in Clinton Scott Cedar and Linn counties. This marks Iowa’s second such release, with the first batch set free last week in Clinton county.
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Des Moines
Clinton
Scott
Cedar
Linn
Harry Linn
Iowa
Clinton County
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Burgess
R. C. Workman
Willard Eiler
Rex Conn
Northwestern Railroad
Tipton
A. R. Bartel
William Naber
T.B
Bangs
Guernsey
D. W. Staub
PC. Lassen
United State Bank
KR. B. C
E. Cohn & Sons
Federal Land Bank
Harold B. McTavish
3Rd Ave
Farm Editor
Bowman Cattle Co
Town
Cc. D. Wendel
Dr. Louis C. Kaiser
Higley
Optometrisl
Beverly Cattle Company
WMT
Angelus
Lady Esther
Burns
Dewitt Kidney Pius
Tane
Dram Sale
Houbigant
Chantilly Renoir
Chichi
DeRaymond
Piix
Faberge
Aphrodisia Tigress
Chambray
Elizabeth Arden
Cyclamen
Arrid
Doren
Dentur-Eze
Gary
May's
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