Wheat shipments bolster Iowa feeding program totals
Seventy two carloads about 108000 bushels of CCC wheat have been shipped into 34 Iowa counties under the feeding program begun March 1 by CCC and AAA. Most grain goes to counties lacking corn and is sold to farmers at 87 to 90 cents per bushel for livestock feeding.
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Iowa
Des Moines
H. L. Dieterich
State Aaa Committee
Federal Commodity Credit Corporation
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Dieterich
Chicago
Kansas City
Polk County
Cerro Gordo
Clay
Osceola
Jones
Kossuth
Marion
Worth
Clinton
Dubuque
Dickinson
Hardin
Linn
Mahaska
Scott
van Buren
Allamakee
Benton
Black ,Hawk
Chickasaw
Clarke
Dallas
Davis
Emmet
Floyd
Henry
Jefferson
Lyon
Palo Alto
Plymouth
Sac
Wapello
Warren
Winnebago
Butter Output Rises Slightly in West North Central Region
Creamery butter production for the week ending March 19 rose 0.4 percent from the prior week in the West North Central area covering Iowa and Nebraska, yet fell 6.3 percent from the same week last year. Milk diverted to cheese factories and condensers is cited as a major factor by the USDA bulletin.
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Des Moines
West North Central
Iowa
Nebraska
United States Department of Agriculture
Adlerika Helps Bowels Move Comfortably
Advertises Adlerika as a laxative aid for constipation and gas with ingredients that attract moisture to soften waste. Claims it leaves bowels refreshed and clean and urges trying it at the next episode of discomfort. Sold by druggists including May Drug Store.
How to Feed Wheat in Hog Rations in Iowa
Agricultural guidance notes wheat as a profitable hog feed in Iowa with price comparisons to corn and oats. It covers digestible nutrients per feed unit, grinding versus whole feeding, and practical mixtures for fattening hogs sows piglets and pasture or dry lot systems with protein supplements and minerals.
Ames Economist In Argentina Industrial Survey
John A. Hopkins associate professor at Iowa State College leads an industrial survey of Argentina. He travels from Miami with Armour Research Foundation members Frances Godwin and John E. Schellenberger to study agricultural and industrial engineering and related chemical and agricultural biochemistry over a six month field period. The effort is at the request of the Argentine Trade Promotion Corporation.
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Hopkins
Argentine Trade Promotion Corporation
High Prices Paid For Farm Machinery At Auction
Machinery sold high at the Harry Jacobs sale south of Springville as farmers, unable to get new equipment, bid strong. A used tractor went for 840 dollars, plows for 109 and 137.50, a corn planter 172.50, milking machine 270, roughage mill 240. Jersey cows 90 to 125, yearling heifers 56 each, broad cows 58, 42 fall pigs 14.70 each. Corn 79 cents a bushel, hay 10 a ton. About 1 000 people attended. Challis of Lisbon was auctioneer.
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Springville
Harry Jacobs
Jersey
Challis
Lisbon
May Overlook Field of Industrial Alcohol from Farm Crops
Senator Guy M. Gillette says industrial alcohol from farm crops is a vast untapped field that must be seized now. He spoke after a senate agriculture subcommittee hearing on turning surplus grain into alcohol for synthetic rubber and defense needs. Dr. R E Buchanan cited defense council underestimation of demand and noted Germany sourced much rubber from alcohol.
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Gillette
Washington
Guy M. Gillette
D-la
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
America
R. E. Buchanan
Agricultural Experiment Station
Ames, Ta
National Defense Council
Defense Council
Gary Reelected Head of Montour Farm Loan Assn
TOLEDO Charles FE Gary of Montour was reelected president of the Montour National Farm Loan association in an organization meeting here Tuesday B I Harms of Marshalltown was reelected secretary treasurer He is also secretary treasurer of the Beaman National Farm Loan association and the National Farm Loan association of Montour George S Mitchum Montour was reelected vice president of the Montour association Members of the investigation committee for the coming year are Charles E Gary and A M Merritt Montour, members of the loan committee are Gary, Merritt and J W Schroeder Tama Alternates are Delmar Latham LeGrand and George S Mitchum
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Toledo
Charles FE. Gary
Montour
Montour National Farm Loan Association
B. I. Harms
Marshalltown
Harms
Beaman National Farm Loan Association
National Farm Loan Association of
George S. Mitchum
Montour Association
Charles E. Gary
A M Merritt
Gary
Merritt
J. W. Schroeder
Tama
Delmar Latham
LeGrand
Protect the Protectors Protect the Protectors
Johnson county rural women 250 strong displayed nutrition for health and national defense at the community hall in Iowa City. Exhibits and talks covered food value, canning, vitamin emphasis, and remedies for rationing plus a defense savings plan discussion by local leaders.
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Ellen Borghart
Iowa City
United States of America
Johnson County
Clear Creek Township
Union Township
Fremont Township
Liberty Township
Washington Township
Sharon Township
Penn Township
Pleasant Valley
Scott Township
West Lucas Township
Lincoln Township
E. T. Hubbard
Vern Bales
Jessie Gordon
Aila Hiltunen
Daughters of Democracy
Home Project Women
Johnson County Women’s Chorus
Alex Young
Lloyd Burr
Bion Hunter
Frank Williams
Johnson County Defense Board
Defense Savings Plan
Emmett Gardner
Elizabeth Peterson
Ames
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Claim Bile Flow Help
An old advertised health blurb touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy to stimulate bile flow and relieve digestive discomfort. It claims two pints of bile daily and urges readers to obtain the product at 104 and 25 cents, with directions for use.
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Carter
High Feeding Costs Would Be Harmful To Livestock
Iowa State College experts T. W. Schultz and D. Gale Johnson warn that a bill restricting Secretary Wickard from selling stored grain below parity would raise feed costs and curb livestock expansion. They urge keeping feed costs low to maintain favorable feeding ratios for hogs dairy cattle and other livestock.
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Ames
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
T. W. Schultz
Iowa State College
D. Gale Johnson
Schultz
Schultz and Johnson
Iowa
Johnson
Tomatoes Are Wanted For Manchester Cannery Project
A statewide drive to establish a Manchester tomato canning plant moved forward after a Delaware county AAA meeting. Officials said a $1,750 per ton cash price would be paid for Grade No 1 and No 2 tomatoes with a potential 100000 cases packed this season if 400 to 500 acres are contracted.
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Chet McCarthy
AAA
Delaware County
McCarthy
Gunter
Manchester
Alton
State Aaa
A. L. Loveland
United States Department of Agriculture
Diversified farming and erosion tips from Iowa notices
Lloyd Hatfield of Shellsbury diversifies by raising hogs and cattle including a Shropshire-Oxford cross sheep. Harry Jacobs of Mount Vernon held a March 23 closing sale and plans to move to Cedar Rapids. Myron and John Oxley of Marion add portable hog-houses to boost pig production on alfalfa ground. Advice highlights grassed waterways as simple erosion control, with 16 to 20 foot wide channels and grass carried to slope tops to direct water onto grass, saving soil and reducing equipment wear. The Cedar Rapids bank offers farm property financing through its Farm Service Dept.
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Lloyd Hatfield
Shellsbury
Harry Jacobs
Mount Vernon
Cedar Rapids
40.9 Percent Gain in Soys Indicated
Washington reports a 40.9 percent rise in soybean acreage for 1942 under the government expansion program. Farmers on March 1 planned 14,085,000 acres, up from 9,996,000 in 1941 and 10,513,000 in 1940, with state readings for Illinois Iowa Indiana and Ohio.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Ohio
Benton Newly-Weds to Meet on Tuesday
A meeting of young married farmers will be held in the basement of the Presbyterian church next Tuesday at 7 15 p m The program includes a speaking session followed by a panel discussion on What Is it Going to Take to Win the War
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Gazette
Winton
Presbyterian Church
Public sale of farm stock and equipment near Mount Vernon
A public sale will be held at the seller's residence on the Lower Fajisades road 214 miles southwest of Mount Vernon on Tuesday March 31 starting at 12 30 PM. Featured are two horses a blue roan brood mare hogs farm machinery soybeans alfalfa hay clover seed harness and farm supplies with plans to accommodate buyers for cows calves brood sows and more. Proceeds to be handled by Vernon Bank and Trust Co with W Challis as auctioneer and Co W Evitts owner.
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Mount Vernon
Fajisades Road
All Rock
Aingle
McDeering
Little Genius
W. Evitts
W. ¥. Challis
Tisbon
Vernon Bank and Trust Co
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Charles van Gorder
County Aaa
Farm Editor
Helena Dilger
Winneshiek County
Ed R. Ulen
Decorah
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Miss Dilger
Mr. Ulen
Miss
Ture
Ruth Cessna
Quaife
Montour Farm Loan Assn
Twiggs
Horatius
Goldie
Williams
Jis
Tor Williams
Triple-A
Jess Alton
E. H. Gunter
Guttenberg
Jim Forrest
Guttenberg Canning Company
United States Employment Service
The
Peoples Savings Bank
Farm Service Dept
Myron
John Oxley
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Tony) Schmitz
George B
National Optical
First Avenue
Roosevelt Hotel
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