Two Way Plow Put To Work On Hursh Farm South Of Marengo
Everett Hursh's farm near Marengo features a rare Iowa County two way plow in use by Bud Jacobs to till a 34 acre corn field. The implement turns furrow dirt either direction, with contour work and buffer strips preserved by adjusted lifting and headland space. Additional plow types exist, including a tumble bug variant, but Hursh uses the land running wheel style with automatic hitch for each side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Hursh
Marengo
Willard “Bud” Jacobs
Hursh
Jacobs
Iowa
Windy Then Calm and Cost of Living Subsidy Debate
A 1943 survey notes fluctuating winds of policy and weather affecting food production. An OPA price rollback for meats butter and coffee takes effect June 1 plus a proposed RFC funded subsidy to pay processors for price cuts. Congressional opposition grows amid fears the plan favors handlers over producers.
Packers Get The Cash
AP reports the meat coffee butter price subsidy plan would pay processors to offset producer costs, aiming for a 10 percent June 1 retail price cut while keeping producer prices steady. Officials say packers would receive payments to enable cattle buying, not to boost profits, with subsidies financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and an estimated annual cost around 400 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William T. Peacock
Ashington
OPA
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Decorah FSA Loans $68,500 to 71 Borrowers
Decorah Office of the Farm Security Administration reports $68,500 loaned to 35 new and 36 supplementary borrowers in Howard, Allamakee and Winneshiek counties. Funds covered purchases of 212 cows, 264 sows, 440 hens, 11,000 chicks, 14 movable buildings, 318 for crop seed, 20 for garden seed and 10,815 for feed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Farm Security Administration
Howard
Allamakee
Winneshiek
John Stewart
Rage
Cascade feeder tops market with 1399 lb steers at 17.50
Ed Reiter of Cascade sold a load of 1399 pound steers in Chicago for 17.50 per hundredweight, the top price of the market, highlighting strong demand for feeder cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Cascade
Ed Reiter
Chicago
War food labor survey discussed by Benton county group
Benton county’s war food labor committee met in session to plan surveying school children over 12 for labor availability in farming and food processing. A county wide registration of extra labor was planned later in the month. Committee members include Mr Groves Ivan Trottnow Garth Carrier Mrs Harold Miller and Mrs C D Miller of Vinton plus Lewis Falck Bob Burrows Harry Weichman and Walter McAllister of the USES Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
Benton County
War Food Labor Committee
Donald B. Groves
Groves
Me Abers
Ivan Trottnow
Garth Carrier
Harold Miller
C. D. Miller
Hogs Bring 14.89 as Vinton Farmer Sells 59 Pigs
George Katz of Vinton sold 59 hogs at Chicago Friday. The hogs averaged 298 pounds and brought 14.80 per hundredweight, higher than the typical price for stock of that size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
George Katz
Chicago
Davis Telegram Denies Immediate War Board Shakeup
Chester C. Davis acts as War Food administrator denying an imminent field organization change. He asks county Iowa USDA war boards be informed that field representatives will be consulted before any decisions and thanks boards for efforts to boost agricultural output for the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Davis
Agricultural Agency
Iowa
Kansas
Oklahoma
Washington
Usda War Board
Chester C. Davis
Usda War Boards
WAR Food Administration
Two Men Shear Record of 100 Lambs Each Per Day
Clarence area records a sheep shearing feat as Homer and John Achey ranch on Frank Miller farm northwest of Clarence. The pair reported shading more than 100 lambs daily and totalled 1,333 lambs in a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Clarence
Homer
John Achey
Frank Miller
Winthrop Ten Acres Rented for Potato and Hybrid Corn
Special to The Gazet reports that ten acres of Winthrop farmland have been rented and will be planted with potatoes and hybrid corn. Members donate seed and labor, and proceeds from product sales will go to the church treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazet Winthrop
Winthrop Funds
Church
Iowa's Champ Shell Loader Honored for Egg Production
A Buff Orpington owned by Julius Hopker ten miles north of Cedar Rapids earns an "E" award for war equipment production. Keeper Babenr gp 14 presents the hen as Iowa's champion shell leader, citing a double yolk egg laid daily since early January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orpington
Julius Hopker
Cedar Rapids
Babenr Gp 14
Iowa
Beef Cattle Fat and Lean Tests Reported by Wilson and Co
A test near Cedar Rapids shows yearling and two year old steers can reach high quality fat grades with limited fat, yielding carcasses in three lots AA minus A plus and B. Results from 150 head slaughtered at Cedar Rapids and analyzed in Chicago. cooperators include feeders United States department of agriculture National Livestock and Meat board and University of Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Thegricultural Relations Division
Chicago
United States Department of Agriculture
National Livestock and Meat Board
University of Illinois
Big Gain Pig and Sow Ration Plan
A five way saving plan to start pigs strong for a fall market. It promises saving nursing flesh on sows baby pig fat labor and time while boosting profits by growing thrifty pigs earlier.
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Weather
Washington Vic
Ray Anderson
RFC
Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Steagall
House Banking Committee
Fulmer
House Agricultural Committee
Representative Halleck
House
Small Business Committee
Congress
Halleck
Commodity Credit Corporation
White House
Namosa
Maquoketa
Maquoketa Valley
REA
Edgar D. Beach
Anamosa
Beach
Department of Agriculture
United States
National Organization
Jones County
Farm Bureau
Federal
Florence Althen
Ethel Soper
Alice L. Rohwedder
Mabel Fisher
Packers
Neo
Packer
Agriculture Department
For
Decorah Fsa
Louis C. Kaiser
Marion, Iowa
Benton Committee
E. Cohn
Davis
Mr. Davis
Wired
A. J
Hereford
Texas
Tama Cattle Company
Tama
U. S
BIG Gain
West Union
C St. SW
Dial
Iowa City
Crandic
WMT
Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City Railway
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