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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1945
Page
8
Federally inspected meat production remained relatively steady last week, with a slight dip in beef offset by small hog and pork gains. Total output reached about 282 million pounds, versus 284 million the prior week and 392 million a year ago.
Crop insurance will be available to flax growers in 42 counties this year. Agricultural Adjustment administration officials announced recently. Rates vary by county and are based on yields per acre with coverage up to 75 percent of the average yield, payable on flax produced.
On the J E Owens farm near Cedar Rapids a public sale of livestock and farming equipment is announced. Lots include a span of buckskins a buckskin mare colt several teams cows heifers and calves hogs sheep machinery including tractors plows discs planters harvesters and assorted household items lunch served by Lincoln Ladies Aid auctioneers Tony Schmitz and state bank of Vinton clerk J. E. Owens owner.
Closing out sales listed for Mrs Reed Hawthrone 134 miles NW of West Liberty on March 12. Caroline Kettering at 14 miles NE of Lisbon. Joe Sedlacek public sale 2.5 miles SE of Central City. J E Owens public sale 4 miles SW of Palo. Iowa State Angus show and sale at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids March 16-17.
Painter Hereford company of Roggen Colorado boosted Angus breeding stock at the National Angus sale in Chicago last week with 17 females and 4 bulls. Top purchase was Entangle of Woodlawn at 3600 dollars, with other prize winners Elba Marshall S 17th at 2500 and Blackbird of Pinehurst 56th at 1800. Prior buys included 36 head from Henry Wichman Malcolm and 12 from John Ohland Malcolm, plus 8 cows and 4 calves from Eylar ranch Den ton Kansas and 12 females from Alvin Sunderman Clarinda Iowa.
At the annual Strawberry Point Farmers Creamery Association meeting M H Eder was elected director for a three year term to succeed L Frederick. By laws were revised to provide for election of secretary by the board. C F O Rourk is secretary. The annual report shows 981,298 pounds butterfat purchased with 563,017 sold as cream and 418,281 churned. Average price paid 54.7 cents per pound. Holdover board members are M A Axtell president G E Dunfrund treasurer Will Knight W G Smith A R Dittmer and Chris Otterbeck.
Farmers weigh milk subsidy limits against profits as a $30 two week return for 100 cows traces to labor costs. Iowa Farm Bureau leaders dispute profitability, noting cow prices up to $200 per head for good stock. Mud and labor burdens across black soil fields complicate agriculture during wartime. Farm population has fallen about 157 percent since 1940, with 1.65 million farm men in the armed forces and many moving to war industries.
Beltsville Small White turkeys bred by the USDA showed exceptional egg production in 1944 with two birds laying 211 and 206 eggs respectively at the Beltsville center in Maryland. Both hens produced over half their eggs from January to May and had high fertility and hatchability, signaling a potentially dual quality line for meat and eggs.
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Cedar Rapids officials warn tardy filers and nonfilers among farmers and farm workers to meet 1944 income tax obligations with thresholds of 500 dollars yearly income and 42 dollars per month. Dairy stock tax rules spark confusion as Treasury regs update. Separate report notes food shortages raise hen prices and shifts in cattle production amid labor woes and feed shortages.
Notice to Cedar Rapids Linn County electors that the regular school election will be held Monday March 12 1945. It lists precinct polling places including First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeenth Eighteenth Nineteenth Twentieth Twenty second Twenty third precincts with specific polling venues and boundary descriptions. Two directors to be elected for three year terms. Secretary W Lundquist signs for the board.
Farm mortgage terms from The Peoples Savings Bank of Cedar Rapids offer 60 percent of appraised value for up to ten years on Linn County farms. Mervin Knapp, now near Troy Mills, asks about March field work with frost out and pasture renovation. Advice covers discing, soil preparation, lime timing, and seeding mixes for various soil types.
Des Moines reports a five day embargo on shipments east of midwest states due to European food needs. Walter C. Berger of the War Food Administration says relief may come after midsummer as the box car shortage persists. Hay supplies moving to New England helped cancel hay shipments from Nebraska and South Dakota ports.
Plainfield March wartime farming concerns push soybean seed inoculation. Howard L. Roach, president of the American Soybean Association, cites soil fertility depletion from heavy cropping and seed shortages as reasons to inoculate. He notes 1945 goals match 1944 and inoculation can lift yields 10 to 15 percent by improving nitrogen in the soil.
The 1944 harvest totaled 6.182 billion bushels of wheat corn oats barley rye sorghum grains flaxseed and soybeans, up from 5.716 billion last year and above the 10-year average of 4.604 billion, while still below the 1894 peak.
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