Surplus Wheat to the Fed Livestock in Jackson County
Ames Iowa farmers weigh oats prospects for 1942 and 1943. H D Hughes says oats remain important as a nurse crop and for feed with rust resistant varieties and early sowing. Seed shortages, substitute feeds, and war needs shape a cautious outlook for oats this season.
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Ames
Iowa
H. D. Hughes
Ames Farm Crops Department
Boone
Tama
Marion
Hancock
Hughes
Joe Robinson
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association
Goldfield
Luzerne
Marshalltown
Roland
She's a Soldier Too
German born Mrs. Ben J. Tylee manages an 80 acre Whittier farm as her husband, a private in the air corps at Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, serves in the armed forces. She takes on labor, selling horses to near Norway and tending crops and stock while the war effort continues.
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Germany
United States
Ben J. Tylee
Whittier
Tylee
Air Corps
Sheppard Field
Wichita Falls
Tex
Gazette
Norway
Toddville
Army of Occupation
Kindel
Coblenz
Manchester community sale yields varied livestock prices
Greeley Brvood sows sold for 40 dollars each at the Manchester sale on Thursday. Top veal calves brought 14.50 per hundredweight. Milk cows in good condition sold at 90 dollars, springer heifers 75 to 85, aged horses 40 to 70, 135 feeder pigs 15.30 each. Wild hay brought 0.50 per bale.
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Greeley
Manchester
Postville Farm Coop Cheese Factory February Output
The Frankville Farmers Cooperative Cheese Factory produced 35 287 pounds of cheese from 363 184 pounds of milk and 11 914 4 pounds of butterfat in February an increase of 3783 pounds from the previous year. Butterfat paid 61 cents a pound in February up from 40 cents in 1941. Mrs Daisy Kneeskern secretary reports.
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Postville
Frankville
Fayette county plans to boost 1943 farm output for war needs
Fayette county agricultural planning committee in a Fayette session urged maximum feed production on every farm and conversion of feed into livestock products. A sub committee headed by Hitch Brow nell and Wilson noted the need for publicity, contour planting for soybeans, and labor and equipment exchange to offset a 10 percent production drop. Sanitation, balanced rations, housing, and better legume hay were identified as key hog dairy and poultry goals with pasture rejuvenation set for spring.
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Fayette
Fayette County
L. D. Hitch
Elgin
H. M. Brownell
Robert Wilson
Land sales in Linn county report three farm transactions
The Tait and Wagner company of Cedar Rapids reported three Linn county farm deals. Howard Francis sold his 100 acre Cedar Rapids north farm to Abdo Omar for 105 dollars per acre cash and rents back for this year. The Ashlock estate 120 acres near Center Point sold to Joseph Victor who resold to Attorney Thomas L. Woods at about 65 dollars an acre after Victor joined the military. The Virt Newman 31 acre Center Point property sold to Fred Remington of Ely for 2750 dollars cash. land described as rolling with buildings and conveniences.
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Tait and Wagner Company
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Howard Francis
Abdo Omar
Francis
Omar
Ashlock
Center Point
Joseph Victor
Victor
Thomas L. Woods
Farm sales near La Porte City and Maynard
A 213 acre farm one mile southwest of La Porte City sold to Mr and Mrs Earl Wilt of La Porte City for 23000 dollars. The Maynard Savings Bank sold its 160 acre farm tenanted by Martin Knief two and a half miles west of Maynard to Smith Brothers of Oelwein for 51000 dollars.
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la Porte City
Earl Wilt
Maynard
Maynard Savings Bank
Martin Knief
Smith Brothers of
Oelwein
Cedar Rapids Contest Butter Scores 94 in State Meet
Theron S. Smith, termaker for Cedar Rapids cooperative dairy, scored 94 percent on butter in the state educational contest held at Epworth. Several others, including A. P. Andersen Ames and N E Fabricius Ames, also posted 94s, with a list of 93s from various towns.
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Theron S. Smith
Cedar Rapids
State Contest Set for Williamsburg on April Fifteenth
A list of contestants includes Herbert Hagen Oelwein O Harms Emmetsburg Howard Holthaus Edgewood Harold Hunt Williamsburg Lester Johnson Emmetsburg George Jorgensen Coulter R Jorgensen Grafton Henry Kamps Durango and others. The next state contest will be staged at Williamsburg April 15 with participants from numerous towns.
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Herbert Hagen
Northwood
Albert Harms
Oelwein
O. A. Harms
Howard Holthaus
Edgewood
Harold Hunt
Williamsburg
Lester Johnson
Emmetsburg
George Jorgensen
Coulter
R. Jorgensen
Grafton
Henry Kamps
Durango
E E. Kelley
Russell Medin
Whittemore
B R. Minger
Guttenberg
J. M. Moore
Ruthven
Rick Nankige
Koren
Boyden
Verni O'Connor
Dyersville
L. C. Peterson
Story City
Elmer Primus
Earlville
George Press
Alta Vista
T. W. Reida
Brooklyn
Milton Rieckert
Petersburg
Gordon Sanding
Wallingford
B. Scholten
Hull
W. A. Schroeder
Randalia
I. L. Seeman
Algona
Alvin Thoresen
Garnaville
W. F. Wargowsky
Nine Cars Ordered From Triple-C for Livestock Feed
Jene-Charles Van Gorder, Jackson county AAA chairman, announced nine carloads of wheat totaling about 13 000 bushels will be bought from the Commodity Credit Corporation Chicago at 86 cents a bushel fob railway station. Wheat will be shipped from surplus areas to Preston M Answer Maquoketa and Bellevue for cattle feeding and pig rations, in 200 to 300 bushel lots to many producers.
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Jene
Charles van Gorder
Jackson County Aaa
Commodity Credit Corporation
Chicago
Preston
Ma~quoketa
Bellevue
van Gorder
Jackson County
Benton County
Triple-A
Postville Creamery Pays 40c for Top Butterfat
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery will pay 40 cents a pound for February butterfat. Secretary Carl Welzel reported total February butterfat payments amount to $19,230.56 from 59,801 pounds of butter produced using 48,166 pounds of butterfat, slightly below February 1941 production.
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Postville
Carl Welzel
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company
Welzel
Canning Plant Plan To Be Discussed In Manchester
A meeting to drum up support for a proposed new canning factory in Manchester will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. The plant would be built if 500 acres of tomatoes can be procured. State War Board chairman Albert J. Loveland of Des Moines and E. H. Gunter of Guttenberg will speak and oversee the project.
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Manchester
Albert J. Loveland
Des Moines
State War Board
E. H Gunter
Guttenberg
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Hampshire
Farrow
Sam Fernow
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A. F, Leckwood
Magnetos
Frank Brownell
Stanley
Paul E. McElroy
Homer Chapman
Robert Ponsar, Jr
West Union
W. S. Rothlisberger
M. E. Talcott
Kermit Teig
Wadena
AAA
Herbert Meisgler
Arlington
Kenneth Kerr
H. M
Black Hawk County Court House
Waterloo
Northwestern Life Insurance Company
E. A. Kriz
First St. SE
Bulk Oil CO
Third Street
Triple
Postville Creamery
Aes Morris
Economy Lumber Co
First Stree
Iowa Livestock Exchange
A. F
Tony) Sehratt
George B. Exsker
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