Milk Strike Fizzles Out In Missouri
NEOSHO Mo UP a strike of dairy farmers against two major milk canning companies ended abortively Tuesday less than 12 hours after it began. About 400 of 2500 expected dairymen gathered to picket around Pet and Carnation plants, while deliveries continued. Jim Williams president of the Dairy association said it seems wise to go on with deliveries. The strike sought 4.50 per hundredweight for milk now selling around 3.00, as canners cited OPA ceiling limits preventing higher pay.
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Neosho
Southwest Dairy Association
Jim Williams
Dairy Association
Neosho Municipal Auditorium
Willow Run Ends War Era With First Farm Machinery
DETROIT AP The first peacetime product of the Willow Run plant was completed as Graham-Paige Motors rolled the first Rotiller farm machine off its lines. Joseph W. Frazer, company president, said the machine was finished five months after Graham-Paige and Kaiser-Frazer moved into the former bomber plant where hundreds of bombers were built during the war.
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Detroit
Willow Run
Graham-Paige Motors Corporation
Joseph W. Frazer
Graham-Paige
Kaiser- Frazer Corporation
Grass Fire Ravages 77000 Acres in South Dakota
A prairie fire near Promise in Dewey County blackened nearly 77,000 acres from Monday to Wednesday, threatening farm homes and destroying hay stacks and leased grassland. The blaze stretched six to eight miles wide, bordered by the Moreau River and the Missouri, with cattle trapped but eventually escaped. Farmers misfortune included a Cavant farmhouse spared by barren yard and Chicago Cattle Company lands heavily affected.
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Promise
Dewey County
Missouri River
Moreau River
Missouri
Cavant
Chicago Cattle Company
Field work underway for Winneshiek county farmers
Special to The Gazette reports farmers in Winneshiek county have begun field work and, with favorable weather, expect general activity by week’s end. In the southwest cover Ed Bakula Ed Bouska and John Neuzil have plowed fields while John Hauber of Calmar has a large field ready and nearby Decorah residents including William Beard have sod plowed.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
Ed Bakula
Ed Bouska
John Neuzil
John Hauber
Calmar
William Beard
Farm real estate values near 1945 peak pace
By late 1945 farm real estate values continued rising and, as of November 1, stood just under one fourth below the 1920 inflation peak. The modest dip from the wartime surge reflects postwar market adjustments impacting agricultural land prices.
Nesting Birds of Iowa By Ellis Hicks
Shrike becomes common in late March in Iowa. Slated gray head and back with white underparts and distinct wing and tail markings describe its plumage. It perches on posts, hunts grasshoppers and crickets then tears flesh with a hooked bill, impaling prey on thorns or wires. It nests in shrubs and hedgerows with 4 to 6 dull white eggs spotted brown and lavender. Its diet is mostly insects with some mice reptiles and small birds.
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Ellis Hicks
Iowa State College
Iowa
New Insecticide Supplements DDT
Lincoln Nebraska Congress heard of a new insecticide benzene hexachloride, said to rival DDT. University of Nebraska entomologists say it supplements, not rivals, the war insecticide. Known as 666 and gourmexane, it may supplant DDT in flies but lacks a catchy nickname.
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Neb
Congress
Agricultural Department
House Appropriations Committee
University of Nebraska
United States Department of Agriculture
Complete Closing Out Sale at Joe Stock Farm Center Point
ill health sale at Joe Stock farm three miles south of Center Point on rock road on Saturday March 30 starting at 1:00. Team of black geldings, cattle including Guernsey cows and calves, poultry, corn and oats, machinery and tools, furniture items, and assorted household goods. Auctioneers Glenn Hoglan and Eldon Dennison, Center Point.
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Center Point
Rock Road
Guernsey
Guernsey Helfer
New Hampshire
Buiffets
JOE Stock & Son
Glenn Hoglan
Eldon Dennison
Congressional Puzzle Grid Yields Wordplay Challenge
A puzzle passage lists horizontal and vertical clues for a U S Congress themed crossword. Notable items include references to Augustus and numbers, with entries covering narcotic trustworthiness circle and Alaskan city among others, inviting solvers to fill a grid.
Benzene hexachloride Shows Mixed Cotton Pest Results
University of Nebraska entomologists report benzene hexachloride works well against boll weevils and similar pests and outperforms calcium arsenate in cotton. It does not beat DDT on all insects and may not replace it. Two applications beat eight of the old method, but field results vary and no large quantities are yet available for testing.
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University of Nebraska
Manchester FFA Member Is Given Holstein Heifer
Manchester high school freshman Leland Jones, 15, received a pure bred Holstein heifer through a three member FFA committee during the annual FFA father son banquet at the Community church dining room. Selection cited plans to use the heifer as a herd foundation and was presented by Paul McEl meel of Greeley. Hugh Muncy, Waterloo farm director, spoke. Prairie Center Grange served. Farmers here report good litters but fewer pigs due to fewer sows.
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Thea Gazette
Manchester
Leland Jones
Manchester High School
FFA
Paul McElmeel
Greeley
D. W. Martens
Community Church
Hugh Muncy
Waterloo
KXEL
Prairie Center Grange
Farm Bureau Roll Passes 100 000 Mark
Iowa Farm Bureau federation near 100,000 member goal for 1946 with 100,244 paid-up members. Wayne Tyler notes growth about 10,000 yearly for five years, second in state to Illinois. Benton county tops with 2,283 members, Buena Vista 1,691, Clinton 1,618, Clayton 1,583.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Wayne Tyler
Tyler
Iowa Farm Bureau
Illinois
Benton County
Buena Vista
Clinton
Clayton
Contoured corn yields best in Tama County tests
Contour planted corn produced 81 bushels per acre versus 71.2 for straight-row crops in Tama and Carrington soil plots with a 6 percent slope. Tests, run with Iowa State and Dr G M Browning oversight, involved Emil Rickert Gladbrook Harry Albert Reinbeck Earl Lyon Russell Winders Toledo and John Harrison Garwin. Results to continue next year announced Tama soil district chairman Robert Lyon. commissioners Fred Bruene Gladbrook and William Kremenak Toledo.
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Gazette
Toledo
Tama County
F. P. Reed
Soil District
Reed
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
G. M. Browning
Tama
Carrington
Colorado Wheat Is National Winner For Fourth Year
Colorado wheat won the national contest for the fourth consecutive year as Luther F. Givens of Sterling took the Philip W. Pillsbury prize with hard red winter wheat testing 64.8 per bushel. R. E. Condon of Platteville earned second with 64.5 on hard red spring wheat. 16 states contributed. Special awards went to D. F. Sakuth, Ralph Osborn, Appleton Brothers, and William Franzen.
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INS
Colorado
Luther F. Givens
Sterling
Colo
Philip W. Pillsbury
Givens
United States
Chicago Union Stockyards
R. E. Condon
Platteville
D. F. Sakuth
Yuba City
Calif
Ralph Osborn
Culver
Ind
Appleton Brothers
Canadaigua
N. Y
William Franzen
Mapes
N. D
Iowa Farmers Face 1946 Goals Amid Machinery Shortages
Iowa farmers plan a 150000 acre crop increase to meet world emergency, but gear and labor shortages loom. Strikes and production delays have delayed machinery, while many former farm workers seek industry or GI training. Draft calls may triple, threatening farm labor unless deferrals are granted, leaving 70 percent of farmers not taking a summer break and 24 percent of Midwestern farmers already facing hard choices.
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OWA
OPA
G.I
Iowa
Farmers seek trustworthy help as labor tightens
They note that livestock and dairy farmers are especially bound to the job when experienced and reliable help is scarce, indicating ongoing labor shortages and the need for dependable workers.
Stockmen Seek Termination of Price Controls
Washington lawmakers heard livestock groups urge removing price ceilings and subsidies to avert a meat shortage. H. M. Conway of the National Livestock Producers Association warned city meat shelves could be bare in six months unless controls are lifted. He argued modest price rises only for top grade beef and proposed June 30 as a likely end date for the price control act. Joe Montague of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association backed the call, saying consumers would pay more only for prime beef and ranchers could lose money overall.
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House Agriculture Committee
Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association
H. M. Conway
National Livestock Producers Association
Conway
Joe Montague
The
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
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