Hog Prices Reach New High Amid Heavy Hog Run
Southern Minnesota prices rise to a peak of 9.40 with heavy hogs and packing sows posting the highest levels since 1937. The five day period saw light and medium weight butchers gain 25 to 35 cents, while heavy hogs over 270 pounds and packing sows advanced 35 to 50 cents. Interior Iowa buyers target 180 to 300 pound hogs with minimal weight penalties. Receipts in the interior were the heaviest since March, with 160 000 head marketed Monday through Friday and larger centers estimating 236 000 head over four days.
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Minnesota
Iowa
Fence Drift in woven wire and ship fares rise cited
A brief letter from India notes a fence drift caught in woven wire and reports a boat fare from Bombay to New York via Cape of Good Hope at 730 dollars, up from 550. The writer praises midwestern life as another reason for gratitude.
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Bombay
New York
Cape of Good Hope
India
Pork price and loan declines across markets amid week shift
The comparable period shows wholesale fresh pork prices in Chicago down by about 50 cents to $1 per hundredweight. Far eastern centers reported losses of 50 cents to $2. Top loans in Chicago fell from $20 to $19, while New York City's late top stood at $18.50, down from $19.50 the prior week.
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Chicago
Far East
New York City
Champion Elm of Iowa Felled by May Windstorm
The giant elm on the Arthur C. Kress farm one and a half miles north of Quasqueton was felled by the May 15 windstorm. Selected as Iowa’s champion elm and dedicated in summer 1932, the tree had a 5.5 foot trunk diameter and about 75 feet of limb spread.
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Quasqueton
Arthur C. Kress
Federated Garden Clubs of
Iowa
Maynard Creamery Pays Patrons 37 Cents for Butterfat
The Maynard Cooperative Creamery reports to patrons that butterfat for April was paid at 37 cents per pound. C H Paul serves as secretary and conveys the payment figure.
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Maynard
Maynard Cooperative Creamery
C. H. Paul
Soaking Rains Relieve Iowa Drought Threat in State
AP reports soaking rains in the last 48 hours eased drought fears across Iowa. Central Iowa benefited most, with over an inch in many towns including Indianola 1.9 inches and Des Moines 1.23. Cooler, fair weather was forecast to follow with temperatures rising by Saturday after a high of 81 in Keokuk and a low of 35 in Bloomington.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Oo Weather Bureau
Funay
Charles D. Reed
Indianola
Waukee
Guthrie Center
Knoxville
Clarinda
Creston
Pupwd
Davenport
Keokuk
Inwood
Postville Co Op Pays 38 Cents For April Butterfat
Postville Farmers Creamery directors set 38 cents per pound for April butterfat, with 90 469 pounds of butter from 72 868 pounds butterfat received. Creamery secretary Gale Welzel notes a $6 807 15 increase over April 1940, as higher butterfat intake and spring pastures boost production toward a planned over one million pounds of butter this year. OSSIAN Silver Springs Cooperative Creamery also paid 38 the last half of April.
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Postville
Postville Farmers Creamery
Gale Welzel
Creamery
Ossian — Silver Springs Cooperative Creamery
Fieldman Named for Northeast Iowa Farm Bureau District
O. S. Beeler, Iowa Farm Bureau field director, announced Wayne Tyler of Allison will serve as fieldman in the reorganized First district. Tyler, a former Butler county agent, will begin by July 1 with membership responsibility in Howard Winneshiek Allamakee Chickasaw Fayette Clayton Black Hawk Buchanan Delaware Dubuque Tama Benton Linn Jones and Jackson counties.
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O. S. Beeler
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Wayne Tyler
Allison
State Farm Bureau
Tyler
Butler
Beeler
Howard
Winneshiek
Allamakee
Chickasaw
Neighbors Help Mrs. Cusher After Horse Loss Delays Plowing
Neighbors of Mrs. Stella Cusher aided her son Robert with spring plowing halted by the loss of a horse. Mrs. Cusher, with help from her mother and sister, served a hot dinner. Driving tractors were Glen Siver Henry Schnoor Ivan Henipy Walter Getelman Oscar Kennon Lyle Biegle and Harvey Barber.
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Gazette
Martelle
Stella Cusher
Robert
Roosevelt to Sign Farm Bill Parity Cash Aid Cut to 212 Million
President Roosevelt plans to sign the farm bill enabling 85 percent parity loan rates for key crops. A compromise trims cash parity payments to 212 million dollars, with loans totaling about a billion and a separate 500 million for soil conservation. The White House, Wickard, and Rep. Cannon agreed, as AAA reorganizes wheat allotments for 1942 amid surpluses and lost foreign trade.
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Roosevelt
White House
Wickard
Rep. Cannon
House
Congress
Senate
Agriculture Department
AAA
Farm parity plan eyed to guarantee 100 percent returns
Washington reports a tentative accord between the administration and congressional farm leaders on a parity program for 100 percent returns on basic crops this year. The measure would set government loans at 85 percent of parity for cotton wheat and corn with extra appropriations to cover the remaining 15 percent. Senators Bankhead Russell and Cannon discussed the deal with Secretary Wickard, who said all differences were resolved.
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Washington
Congressional
Bankhead
Ala
Russell
Cannon
House
Agriculture Department
Wickard
Farm Field Day Highlights University of Wisconsin June 7
Madison reports the annual Farm Field Day at the University of Wisconsin on June 7 will cover themes such as using salt to prevent poultry cannibalism vitamin C for breeding trouble in cattle ground corn as a silage preservative effects of the war on farming milk house construction and milk cooling protein substitutes trench silos portable hog houses and crop starvation warning signs.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin
Heifers Bring $11 At Chicago Market
Charles M. Karsch, manager of a Weaver Witwer farm unit north of Marion, marketed three car loads of heifers Wednesday in Chicago at 11 dollars per hundredweight. One load averaged 931 pounds and the other 49 head averaged 850 pounds.
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Charles M. Karsch
Witwer
Marion
Chicago
Washington Calf Vaccination Co-Op Ends Fourth Year
The Stillaguamish valley dairy cooperative in Snohomish county Washington marks its fourth year of vaccination against Bangs disease begun June 1 1937. The Washington Cattle Health Association has 220 member herds with five abortions among 1 500 vaccinated calves, cost to members totaling 7 813 dollars. Members report strong continued support low withdrawals and rising demand for vaccinated stock.
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CARD
Dairyman
Fort Atkinson
Wis
Farm Magazine
Stillaguamish
Snohomish County
Washington
Washington Cattle Health Association
Wisconsin Dairy Magazine
Charles H. Grewe
Valley Gem Farms
Bureau of Animal Industry
Apple Exports Hit Thirty Year Low in 1940 41
The Foreign Crops and Markets report shows U S apple exports for July through March 1940 41 totaling 739 600 bushels, about 75 percent below last season. Europe shipments dwindled, Latin American markets fell, while the Philippines and Cuba led exports with over 100 000 bushels each.
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Canada
Europe
Finland
Sweden
Brazil
Argentina
Philippine Islands
Cuba
Government moves surplus corn to northeast storage
Secretary Wickard announced the agriculture department will relocate 10 500 000 bushels of government owned corn to northeastern cities to guard against shortages from transport disruptions tied to the defense program. About half is already stored or in transit with destinations including Buffalo Albany Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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Washington
Wickard
Agriculture Department
Midwest
Buffalo
Albany
Baltimore
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Philadelphia
Government moves corn to feeding zones and stores wheat
The government shipped several thousand bushels of corn from Cedar Rapids and sent fifty carloads of Kansas City wheat to Cedar Rapids for storage. Storage space is being cleared in Mississippi River towns for government wheat, with about 2,000,000 bushels of wheat expected to be stored there by harvest time.
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Cedar Rapids
Kansas City
Southwest
Mississippi River
Iowa
169 Million Pounds Vegetables Imported From Cuba Mexico
Shipments of vegetables from Cuba and Mexico to the United States for the current season Nov 23 to Apr 15 totaled 169 360 000 pounds. Mexico supplied 91 791 000 pounds, up sharply from 33 205 000 last season, while Cuban exports reached 77 569 000 pounds though below last season’s peak.
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Cuba
Mexico
United States
Wisconsin Dairy Promotion Tax Bill Defeated
Wisconsin lawmakers defeated a dairy advertising check off bill 47 to 36 after reconsideration in the Assembly. The measure would have imposed a one cent check off during the first two weeks of June to fund dairy promotion. Opponents argued big processors like Kraft avoid contributing and that farmers would be taxed without guaranteed benefits.
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The
Dairy Record
St. Paul
Wisconsin
Iowa
Assembly
Michigan Senate
Michigan
Daily Record
Pro-Convoy Talk At Iowa AAA Meetings Outlined
Hervey Hazen of Des Moines addressed county AAA committeemen from Clinton Scott Cedar Johnson Linn Jones Dubuque and Jackson in Iowa City. He warned of Nazi expansion and urged convoys to protect foodstuffs and munitions for Britain as part of spring farm program and wheat referendum planning set for May 31 with meetings scheduled across the region.
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Wickard
Hervey Hazen
Des Moines
AAA Committee
Clinton
Scott
Cedar
Johnson
Linn
Jones
Dubuque
Jackson
Hazen
Atlantic
Britain
Harold Simmerson
State Aaa
Roy Dyas
District Aaa
Dyas
DeWitt and
Davenport
Tipton
Town City
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
Maqoketa
Beef Tour Planned by Wapello-Louisa 4-H Members
The 4-H baby beef club of Wapello Louisa counties will tour June 2 and 3 with a picnic dinner and a noon ball game. Stops include the homes of all county beef club members.
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Wapello
Louisa County
Beef Club
Beef Markets Hit New Low As Trade Requests Support
Beef organizations petitioned Washington for help as heavy steers fell to new low quotations this week. Telegrams to agencies claimed good heavy steers can match lighter stock in beef value, while bulk sales ranged from 10.25 to 11.50 and the Chicago average slid to about 9.90. Cattle, heifers, cows, bulls all declined with only thin grades holding relatively firm amid weaker overall prices.
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OTH
Kansas City
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