Livestock Men hail Davis appointment as farm aid
The Chicago based report notes President Roosevelt named Chester C. Davis to head food production and distribution in the Agriculture Department. National livestock leaders say the move may ease Wickard’s heavy workload and calm farm tensions while stressing Davis’s prior AAA experience and independent streak.
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Davis
Wickard
Roosevelt
Chester C. Davis
Department of Agriculture
Claude R Wickard
Chester Davis
P. O Wilson
National Livestock Producers Association
United States
Justice Byrnes
Judge Jones
Leon Henderson
Henderson
OPA
Congress
AAA
Henry Wallace
Federal Reserve Board
Roosevelt - Hopkins-Wallace
Iowa
Midwest States
James Byrnes
Triple-A
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
Top Butterfat Prices Reported at Postville Creamery
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery reports February prices for butterfat at 64 cents a pound for sweet cream fat and 33 cents for grade No 1 fat. This compares with 40 and 38 cents a pound last February. The month yielded 64140 pounds of butter from 7216 pounds of butterfat.
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Postville
Harri N Turner
Postville Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company
Chief of REA Loans Dies
Lt Louis Falkenwald 41, chief of the application and loans division of the Rural Electrification Administration, a pioneer in rural electrification, died here Thursday.
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REA Loans
LT Louis
Charles O Falkenwald
Application and
Ieans
Rural Electrification Administration
United States
High interior hog prices mark 20 year peak this week
Des Moines report shows new high prices for interior hogs over 20 years with demand broad through the week. Packers stay steady amid high costs while forecasts expect relief from rationing and slaughter programs, as receipts lift and edge past year ago figures.
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Des Moines
Weelnesedas
Chicago
Farm Union Leader Opposes Bankhead and Pace Bills
Donald W Van Vieet president of the Iowa Farmers Union urged Iowa congressmen to oppose the Bankhead and Pace bills labeling them inflationary. He warned the parity change would lift consumer costs by about 18 to 17 percent and spark an inflation spiral harming Iowa farmers. He claimed the farm bloc supports inflation and called for floors and ceilings to stabilize prices.
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Des Moines
INS
Donald W van Vieet
Iowa Farmers Union
Iowa
Pace
van Vieet
Dang
van Vleet
Ames Woman to Promote Victory Gardens in Cedar Rapids
Dorothy Baltz Hamilton of Ames will serve as assistant to Margaret Stewart to organize groups and educators in victory garden and food preservation efforts in Cedar Rapids and nearby. Linn county home economist Rex Conn announced the assignment beginning April 1. Hamilton, a 1940 Iowa State College dietetics graduate, studied in Chicago and taught in a Westfield high school. her husband is in military service.
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Cedar Rapids
Dorothy Baltz Hamilton
Ames
Rex Conn
Hamilton
Margaret Stewart
Linn County
Conn
Iowa State College
Chicago
Westfield
Sioux City
Quaife Proposes Restricted Protein Rations for Hogs
Quaife Iowa State College extension swine specialist suggests specific protein limits aligned with USDA guidance. He details mixtures for brood sows, nursing pigs, and hogs up to 100 pounds, and notes adjustments for heavier hogs and possible substitutions with commercial feeds.
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Quaife
Iowa
Series of Victory Garden Meetings Planned in Manchester
A sequence of meetings on planning a garden layout and dates of first and successive plantings starts next Monday in Manchester. Similar sessions follow in Delhi next Tuesday and Earlville Thursday night with Earl New of Manchester, Delaware County Victory Garden chairman, speaking next Friday evening.
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Manchester
Delhi
Earlville
Ryan—Earl New
Delaware County
Victory Garden
Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Advertisement
An ad for FASTEETH promises relief from loose false teeth with a powder that holds plates firmer and more comfortable. It stresses gum soothing effects and reduces embarrassment, urging readers to buy FASTEETH at drug stores.
Steer market rises to new highs amid strong demand
Chicago reports a broad advance in cattle prices led by eastern shippers and order buyers. Steers mostly gain 25 cents weekly, with strictly choice up to 17.60 and near choice heifers 15.50 to 16.25, while cows and bulls hit record highs and replacement calves reach 16.75.
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Chicago
Farmers Urged to Drench Sheep for Nodule Worms Now
Special to The Gazette Ames A final reminder for sheep raisers to drench their animals with phenothiazine before turning them out on pasture was issued by Dr K W Stouder Iowa State College extension veterinarian. The dose is one half ounce for a lamb and one ounce for mature sheep.
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Ames
K. W. Stouder
Iowa State College Extension
Stouder
$150 an Acre For Bare 80 Ac Near Dysart
Moeller Brothers Realty reports the sale of an unimproved 80 acre farm three miles southwest of Dysart to Charles Krafka for $150 an acre. Land owned by Mrs. William Skersick of Cedar Rapids and farmed by Roland Degner.
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Dysart
Moeller Brothers Real Estate
Charles Krafka
William Skersick
Cedar Rapids
Roland Degner
Predict Farmers May Supply Nation s Drugs and Spices
Chicago reports at the ninth annual National Farm Chem club conference that American farmers may grow all imported spices herbs and seeds locally. spice dealer John Sokol says the western hemisphere can supply every imported item, with farmers already cultivating spices this season. Ohio State university professor Alex Laurie adds that most drugs formerly imported will be grown by farmers this year, digitalis excepted.
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Chicago
John Sokol
National Farm Chemurghc Council
Alex Laurie
Ohio State University
Digitalis
Pacific
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AIC
Hallen
WiLliams
Wre
Bankhead
Farm Union
Dorothy Hamilton
Ryan
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Laaed
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Groer
Wisconsin Lumber CO
DIAL
Coryell
Aqboon Amoen
Goce
Associated Press
Marlin Spencer
New Guinea
Jager
Thomas Jager
Greenville
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Robert Amans
Superior, Wis
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