New Deal Fights to Preserve AAA Control Over Farm Production
The fight over wartime food policies centers on preserving the AAA under government direction while farm bloc leaders press to end subsidy payments and boost price ceilings. Administration argues higher ceilings fuel inflation and wage demands, while farm advocates say consumers can bear higher prices and proper pricing will steer output. A showdown on 1945 AAA funding looms as farmers warn of a weakened system without subsidies and local committees.
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Ashington
New Deal
AAA
Congressional Farm Bloc
Farm Bloc
Europe
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
National Cooperative Council
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Farm Broc
Congress
Edible soybeans favored for Iowa gardens this year
Ames extension horticulturist L C Grove recommends edible soybean varieties Banesi Willems Hokkaido and Higan for garden production in Iowa. He notes soybeans provide fat vitamins minerals including iron calcium and phosphorus and riboflavin and thiamin. Soybean sprouts supply ascorbic acid and can be used in salads and mixed with other vegetables.
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Ames
L. C. Grove
Ames Extension Horticulturist
Iowa
Professor Grove
Willems
Hokkaido
Higan
Fayette Rural Youth Group Plans Meeting Next Tuesday
Fayette County Rural Youth group, recently reorganized, will meet in Fayette next Tuesday evening, according to a special bulletin from The Gazette. The gathering aims to discuss community activities and youth programs.
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Gazette
Fence Drift and Farmers’ Plan for Government Aid Powwow
R F A notes Hickenlooper’s Des Moines meeting on March 15 with Iowa officials to discuss solving farm problems. He proposes using small town sheds to house livestock tended by aging former farmers and using railway rights of way and empty lots to graze and feed. He questions if government channels could boost production and suggests cooperation from elevator operators.
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Hickenlooper
Des Moines
Iowa
Poultry Production Parley Planned in Chicago
Kansas City reports the International Baby Chick association will sponsor an all industry wartime conference in Chicago in July 1942. The event aims to unite the poultry sector to meet wartime food goals with a program to study problems inventory tools and spur cooperation from producers hatcherymen manufacturers to consumers.
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Kansas City
International Baby Chick Association
Chicago
J. Turner Mills, McNabb, II
Mills
CCC Allots 88 Cars of Soybean Meal to Iowa
Des Moines AP A J Loveland Iowa USDA war board chairman announces 88 carloads of soybean meal available to Iowa farmers in March. Meal shipped from southern processing mills and allotted by the Commodity Credit Corporation to supplement livestock protein feeds. Farmers apply to local agriculture war board offices for distribution through selected dealers.
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Des Moines
Iowa
A. J. Loveland
Usda War Board
Southern Processing
Commodity Credit Corporation
Agriculture War Board
AAA
Loveland
Hog Production Meetings Set for Fayette in March
A series of 12 hog production meetings is scheduled in Fayette county during March. County agent M. C. Wangsness announced. The first sessions take place March 10 in Fayette, March 11 in Alpha, and March 12 at the Illyria church.
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Fayette
Fayette County
M. C. Wangsness
Alpha
Illyria Church
Notice of Cedar Rapids School Election
Qualified electors in Linn County Iowa are notified the regular election for the Independent School District of Cedar Rapids will be held Monday March 194%. Polling places include First City Precinct at Hearn Stevenson Motor Company and Second precinct at Fire Station Three. The list details numerous precincts and polling sites with boundaries and street references. Three directors, C Bledert, Charles Penmisereth, and Dr. E W Lunpuist, are to be elected. The secretary of the board administers the notice.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Iowa
Pelling Place
Hearn-Stevenson Motor Company
Second Avenue
B Avenue
Third Precinct
Third City
Section
Township 83
Red Cedar River
Chicago and Northwestern Rahiway Company
D Avenue
Third Street
Tt Lake
Cedar Lake
Center Point
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul & Pacific Railway Company
Pelling
Oakland Road
H Avenue
Fourth Cite
Benjamin Franklin High
Twentieth Street
Fifth Precinct
Fifth City
Hmits
Arthur School
Twenty-seventh Street
Sixth City
29Th Street
Pelline Place
Kenwood Park Library
First Avenue
Seventh Precinct
Seventh City
Jackson School
Fourth Avenue
Twelfth Street
Eighth Precinct
Eighth City
Section 14
Eighteenth Street
Ninth Precinct
Ninth City
Pire
Seventeenth Street
Tenta City
Section 13
Dairy Dale
Bever Park ¢Alace
Bever Park
Eleventh Precinct
Eleventh City
Section 25
Scheel
Petling
Sixth Avenue
Pourte H
Fourteenth City
Toumite
Cormer
Section 35
Poelling Place
Street
Fifteenth City
Hayes School
Twentieth Avenue
D Street
Sixteenth City
Iceman City
Tayior School
Fifth Avenue
City Barn
Seventh Avenue
Nineteenth City
Ho Avenue
Sixth Street
Hog Cholera Outbreaks Reported Across Iowa Communities
Recent hog cholera outbreaks reported this week to the Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association affected multiple communities including Cedar Rapids Springville Norway Clarence Olin Elwood Macomb Monmouth Wyoming Charlotte Creston Clinton Albant McCausland Durant Dixon Plainview Bennett West Liberty Sigourney Harper Montezuma Jesup Dunkerton Westgate Iowa City Deep River Oxford Vinton Waterloo and Solon. A Johne's disease case in cattle was reported near Keystone.
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Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Cedar Rapids
Springville
Norway
Clarence
Olin
Elwood
Maquoketa
Monmouth
Wyoming
Charlotte
Creston
Clinton
Almont
McCausland
Durant
Dixon
Plainview
Bennett
West Liberty
Sigourney
Harper
Montezuma
Jesup
Dunkerton
Westgate
Iowa City
Deep River
Oxford
Vinton
Waterloo
Solon
Johne
Keystone
Benton County Cattlemen Set Meeting in Vinton
The Benton County Cattlemen's association holds its annual meeting and dinner program in Vinton Thursday at noon Rex Beresford of Ames will speak at the event.
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Vinton
Benton County Cattlemen's Association
Rex Beresford
Ames
Farm sale in Vernon County nets 116 per acre
Vernon Auker of the Equitable Life Assurance Society reports the sale of the 159 acre Johnson farm four miles southeast of here. Emil Baxa sold to Burdette Conklin of Lisbon for 116 dollars an acre. Possession given March 1. Roy G. Busby, Iowa City broker, handled the transaction.
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Vernon A. H. Aukerman
Equitable Life Assurance Society
United States
Johnson
Emil Baxa
Here
Burdette Conklin
Lisbon
Roy G. Busby
Iowa City
Equitable Life Sells 320-Acre Carpenter Farm Near Alburnett
The Equitable Life Assurance Society reports the sale of the 320 acre Carpenter farm five miles north of Alburnett. Gilbert DeSotel sold to Mrs. Peggy Yaw of Cedar Rapids for 395 an acre with possession given March 1. George P. Witwer of Cedar Rapids brokered the deal.
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Alburnett
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Carpenter
Gilbert DeSotel
Peggy Yaw
Cedar Rapids
George P. Witwer
13 Percent More Chicks Hatched Last Year Than in 1940
Washington reports that 1,184,657,000 chicks were produced by commercial hatcheries in 1942, up 13 percent from 1941. December hatchery output reached a record 29,145,000. Hatcheries also held 2,026,000 turkey poult orders as of January 1, a 33 percent rise from a year earlier.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Stock Share Farming Pays High Dividends
Iowa State College agricultural foundation reports in 1942 that stock share farming boosts income for both landlord and tenant across nine farms. Tenants on stock share leases gained an average of 1183 dollars, versus 763 on crop share. landlords saw similar gains, but note that suitability and interest in livestock are required for profitability. The report suggests the shift could aid national food programs by increasing livestock production.
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James Wallace
Foundation Farms
Foundation
Farm Auction Listings Show Three Public Sales
Auction notices outline sales by G. Smith Estate in Cedar Rapids Marengo and Mechanicsville, plus Bill Janss near Troy Mills. March 3 to 5 feature 29 acres and machinery at a sales barn with 3 percent commissions and locations in Iowa.
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G. Smith
Cedar Rapids
Marengo Sales Barn Co
Walter Nanke
Mechanicsville
Bill Janss
Troy Mills
Half of FSA's Homestead Projects To Be Liquidated
The Farm Security Administration announced that about half of its rural homestead projects will be liquidated this year due to improved agricultural income. About 175 projects costing $138 million were started by the former Resettlement Administration and now underway for sale to low income families under long term, low interest plans.
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Washington
Farm Security Administration
Congress
Resettlement Administration
FSA
Liquidation will determine recoverable investment value
Officials say it is impossible to estimate how much of the investment will be returned until liquidation is completed, as projects had cost more than the sale value.
Iowa Butter Output Rises in January Declares USDA
A United States Department of Agriculture report shows Iowa creameries produced 17,350,000 pounds of butter in January, 5 percent above December’s 16,500,000 pounds and 1 percent below January 1942. National output reached 122,880,000 pounds, up over the prior year and above the ten year average. Iowa remains the second highest butter state behind Minnesota with 25,100,000 pounds, Wisconsin at 12,500,000.
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United States d T of Agriculture
Iowa
United States
Minnesota
Wisconsin
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