Publicity Plan Outlined for War Food Corn Freeze Drive
Radio and newspaper farm editors and officials met in Omaha to finalize publicity for the War Food Administration corn freeze. They stressed not raising the 1943 ceiling, and publicizing lifting the freeze once 80 million bushels are under CCC control. Eight field teams will show films across 125 counties with talks by war veterans to urge farmers to sign government sales agreements.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
A. J. Loveland
Iowa
Triple-A
A. K. Chester
Nebraska
AAA
Leroy K. Smith
Washington
Smith
Army
Illinois
Indiana
Minnesota
Ralph Riggs
Ashton
Neb
Riggs
Harry Coffee
Omaha Union Stockyards Company
Coffee
Omaha
Farmer professor argues against hog price ceiling shift
Ames cattle expert J C Holbert condemns OPA plans to lower heavy hog ceilings to 14 dollars per hundredweight in Chicago starting May 15. He contends the move misrepresents farmer motives and warns it will curb meat production while noting WFA supports hogs up to 270 pounds at 13.75 dollars until September 30.
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J. C. Holbert
Ames
Washington
Iowa
OPA
Chicago
Gazette
Holbert
Cedar Rapids
America
War Food Administration
WFA
Potatoes Fed To Hogs at Chicago Yards
In Chicago cattle market history the stockyards served potatoes to hogs for the first time. Observers called the experiment doubtful as hogs either ate or avoided the spuds. Potatoes were used due to a corn shortage across livestock terminals amid heavy hog arrivals and delayed plantings from spring rains and floods. Demand for hogs remained slow with packers holding large pork stocks and Lend lease purchases reduced.
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Chicago
Yards
Farmers Push Seeding With Long Hour Trips
In Decorah Winneshiek County farmers spent long nights seeding, with about 50 to 75 percent of the county's planting finished after extended tractor work last week.
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the Gazette
Decorah
Winneshick County
Peak Egg Marketing Expected In Two Weeks
DES MOINES Iowa experts say egg marketing will peak in about two weeks though farm production already tops. George B Sheehe War Food Administration urges greater egg use by homemakers restaurants and institutions to prevent spoilage and support wartime food supply. The WFA has stored shell eggs and purchased dried eggs to meet lend lease and institutional needs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
George B. Sheehe
WFA
Sheehe
Mr. Sheehe
Armed Services
War Food Administration
Eggs piling up in Midwest stores prompt home storage tips
Prices average 26 cents per dozen to farmers as record egg supplies flood in the Midwest. Government advisor Sheehe warns of spoilage risk due to limited cold storage and urges civilians to store eggs at home. Four methods include water glass, mineral oil, freezing liquid eggs, and dry ice fumes in jars. If each family stores one extra dozen weekly for four weeks, markets can normalize.
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Sheehe
United States
Farmer Loses 500 Chickens in Brooder Stove Explosion
Leslie Moryle, a farmer six miles east of here, reported last week an explosion in the brooder house stove that killed about 500 chickens. Authority inspectors investigated the blaze and the loss was put at roughly five hundred head.
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the Gazette
Strawberry Point
Leslie Moryle
Here
Cedar County Agent Appeals for Farm Labor Help
Cedar County Extension Director Howard A Hamilton urged registering high school students who can tractor and asked business and professional leaders to free farmers a few hours daily. He noted planting requires about 225 man hours per 75 acre farm and many tractors must run around the clock to meet timely sowing, stressing wartime urgency and calling for recruitment captains in civic groups.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Howard A. Hamilton
Hamilton
Europe
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