Expanded All-Iowa Livestock Exposition Planned Aug 15-22
The All-Iowa Livestock Exposition will feature a double header Aug 15 to 22 at Cedar Rapids with new 4 H market pig classes for East Iowa boys and girls 10 to 21. The event expands dairy cattle and beef classes and includes auctions on Aug 22. Underwriters include the chamber of commerce and show management amid $3 000 to $3 500 in added costs.
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Cedar Rapids
All-Iowa Committee
William Rinderkneent
Chamber of Commerce
Victory Club
East Iowa
C. D. Moore
All-Iowa
G. D. Moore
Moore
Ames
State 4-H Girls to Convene at Iowa State College
Ames 4-H girls meet June 10 to 13 at Iowa State College to discuss wartime roles and contributions. Delegates include leader Mrs Edith Barker and guest experts from Carnegie Foundation and Pratt Institute. Preconvention training June 8 and 9 features panel discussions and morale-building recreation for 20 counties.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Edith Barker
Barker
Ursula Hubbard
Carnegie Foundation
Elmina Locke
Lincoln High School
New York City
P. C. Taft
Hazel Spencer Voorhies
Pratt Institute
New York
Cattle Hold Back Amid Sharp Price Drops and Curtailments
Chicago reports show cattle producers cutting shipments after price declines following the OPA ceiling on dressed beef. First four months receipts total 2,996,157 head, with midweek runs stabilizing as packers seek available stock. The article notes absence of prime steers and details a Muscatine feedlot tour and local association leadership changes.
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Chicago
Office of Price Administration
CPA
Margarine Tax Debate Touched By Nutrition Official
M L Wilson of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Service urged federal and state delegates at a war restrictions conference to drop taxes on colored and uncolored margarine. He argued science supports margarine fortified with vitamin A as a nutritious alternative to butter and urged elimination of discriminatory laws. The proposal circulated in Washington via a press release from the Association of the Southern Commissioners of Agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Stimpson
Washington
D. C
M. L. Wilson
Office of Defense Health and Welfare Service
Wilson
Defense Health and Welfare Service
Paul V. McNutt
Roosevelt
Association of the Southern Commissioners of Agriculture
International Livestock Exposition Cancelled for 1942
CHICAGO AP The International Livestock Exposition praised as the barnyard world fair for 42 years will not be held in 1942 due to war and projected transportation shortages. Last year 12 000 to 14 000 animals came from across the U S and Canada with attendance over 400 000.
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Chicago
North America
Canada
William Ogilvie
Defense Transportation
Washington
Illinois
Pigs Weighed Average 45 Pounds at 56 Days West Liberty Farm
One hundred twenty eight pigs on John Hendricks farm southeast of West Liberty were weighed on Wednesday. They averaged 45 pounds at 56 days of age, Muscatine county agent John Morris reported after recording the weights.
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West Liberty
John Hendricks
John Morris
Muscatine County
Wellestown Hog Auction Promises Profit During War Years
A Wellestown group offers hogs sired by Walnut Row Leader and the first prize heavyweight barrow winner from 1941 Town State fair. The note argues hog raising aids farm income during wartime and invites buyers to bid their own price under limited breeding hours.
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Wellestown
Walnut Row
Barrow
Town State Fair
Canning Goals To Be Met In Iowa War Production
A. J. Loveland reports Iowa canneries nearing capacity for wartime canned goods. Forty sweet corn plants contract 51 374 acres for 4 030 000 cases, tomatoes 6 340 acres for 1 800 000 cases, peas 4 108 acres for 378 000 cases, across six pea plants.
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Des Moines
A. J. Loveland
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Iowa
Section 13 Buttermakers Meet May 14 in Central City
Cedar Rapids dairy man Theron Smith announces the May meeting of Section No 13 of the Iowa Creamery Operators association. The gathering on May 14 at 4 pm in Central City will be hosted by Mr and Mrs B H Johnson and will include butter scoring and judging contests a business meeting and a social evening.
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Central City
Theron Smith
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Creamery Operators Association
Central
Iowa farmers buy about a million bushels of wheat for feed
Iowa AAA reports roughly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat bought since February for livestock and poultry feed. County committees purchased the grain from CCC stores at 88 cents a bushel with Linn county receiving the largest share, followed by Cerro Gordo and others across 82 of 99 counties.
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Des Moines
Iowa
AAA
A. J Loveland
Iowa Aaa
Commodity Credit Corporation
Towa
Linn County
Cerro Gordo County
Clinton
Howard
Dubuque
Winneshiek
Jones
Fayette
Worth
Washington
Mahaska
Jackson
Scott
Black Hawk
North Central
Ed O'Neal Leads Iowa Delegation at Farm Bureau Confab
A gathering in Moline Illinois hosted Ed O'Neal president of the American Farm Bureau federation with Cedar Scott and other eastern Iowa counties. After dinner attendees discussed setting production goals and reducing nonessential governmental agricultural agencies.
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Snecini
Gazette
Moline
Cedar
Scott
Iowa
Illinois Agricultural Association
Ed O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Modern Farmhouse Near Onslow Destroyed by Fire
The eight room farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Norris near Onslow was destroyed by a basement fire discovered around five in the morning. The family escaped unharmed and only the structure and insured contents suffered loss with $4,500 on the house and $150 on furniture and clothing.
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Gazette
Onslow
Frank Norris
Norris
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Ray Anderson
E. Cohn & Sons
St. SW
William Ferris
Henry Martz
Durant
Muscatine
Wilton Junction
Herman Anberg
Co-Op Commission
Rex Beresford
Martz
Nicols
William Sauer
Fred Kaufmann
Ernest Fick
Fred Bohnsack
Henry Schnack
Burt Metcalf
Nias
Vernon Shepard
Lee Riggs
Letts
John D. Morris
Anamosa
D. E. Brickley
Mer
Lee Bebee
J. C. Landenberger
Optometrist
Third Street SE
Cedar Rapids, IA
Williams
Twiggs
Big Otto
Heill
International
Berkshire Sale
Eldorado Farm
U. S. 30
Leo Boddicker
Newhall
Canning
Buttermakers
Riverside Feed Mill
Fourteenth Ave
Iowa City
D. J. Gatens and Sons
Uncle Sam
Poultry - Egg and Hatchery
A Avenue NW
Second Avenue
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