Anderson Seeks Better Meat Distribution to Shoppers
Rep elect Clinton Anderson pledges steps to channel more meat to grocery stores while warning that current rules send meat to restaurants too often. He cites abundant production and targeted allotments as keys, with OPA and Bowles maintaining quotas and reducing non federally inspected slaughterers to curb maldistribution.
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Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
Secretary of Agriculture
War Food Administrator
Blue Network
Anderson
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Chester Bowles
Fulbright and
McClellan
Arkansas
Arkansas Independent Meat Packers and Slaughterers Association
Bowles
Linn Outlines War's Effect On Agriculture
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Harry Linn says World War II affects farming with both positives and negatives. Prices rise and more land is cultivated, but soil erosion worsens with soybeans. Livestock emphasis, fertilizer shifts, insecticides, and new farming tech offer future gains amid supply and war-related challenges. Supplies of Argentine corn total about 220 million bushels for the current season.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Secretary of Agriculture
Harry Linn
Linn
Iowa
Towa
Argentina
USDA
Office of Foreign Relations
Loveland Estimates 70 Percent of Iowa Corn Is Planted
Des Moines AP A J Loveland, chairman of the State Agricultural Adjustment agency, said Iowa's 1945 corn planting is 40 to 70 percent complete. The northwest is nearly done, the north generally 70 percent, while the southern half shows only 30 to 40 percent in the ground. The crop began to emerge last Friday and looks good, though daily delays increase frost risk this fall.
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Des Moines
Iowa
A. J. Loveland
State Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Loveland
AAA
Winneshiek County Plow Progress and Weather Update
About three quarters of the corn had been planted in Winneshiek county as May opened. Replanting is occurring and more may follow with warm weather. Pastures are growing and livestock feed is ample. Small grain shows improvement. Rain Sunday slowed field work on Monday.
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Decorah
Winneshiek
Silage fed lambs prove most profitable in Iowa trial
An Iowa State College experiment at the Iowa agricultural experiment station led by C C Culbertson found silage fed lambs most profitable. Starting with 300 Montana white faced lambs, two groups fed silage plus corn and alfalfa outperformed silage free groups in daily gain and return, with final weights around 112 pounds and profits near the 166 to 1610 per hundred range depending on feeding regimen.
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Ames
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
C C. Culbertson
Montana
Farm Science Reporter
Culbertson
Jess
Toledo Acreage Sold By Local Agent
Two acreages north of Toledo were sold last week by John Boles, local real estate agent. John Reinig of LaPorte, Iowa, formerly of Toledo, bought the Ben Martin farm totaling twenty seven and three fourths acres. C E Townds and eight and one half acres were purchased by H M Olson of Morrison, Iowa, who plans to build a machine shed.
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John Boles
John Reinig
LaPorte
Iowa
Ben Martin
C. E
H M. Olson
Morrison, I
Ison
Fence Drift and Blooming Roses Across Davis County
Bright clumps of red roses bloomed along Davis county roads on Monday. Southern Iowa reports a favorable year with fields of an important crop looking excellent though bluegrass heads out early due to late frosts hastening seed formation.
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Davis County
Iowa
Wisdom Herefords average $650 in Bloomfield sale
Seven dozen Herefords sold near Bloomfield with 71 head averaging $650. Females averaged $684.50 and bulls $447.50. top price $2,650 for a Flat Top heifer. The Bluegrass Hereford sale at Davis County Fairgrounds saw 52 head average $337 with top bulls at $700. Auctioneers A. W. Thompson and Guy L. Pettit conducted both sales.
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John Wisdom
Here
Flat Top Ranch
Charles Pettit
Texas
M. P. Bishop
Bloomington
Bluegrass Hereford Association
Davis County
Sawyer
Donald
Centerville
George Garton
Humeston
Reno
Bush
Boomfield
A. W. Thompson
Lincoln
Neb
Guy L. Pettit
Bloomeee
Federal Farm Labor Man Confers at Ames
AMES I H Schmitt chief of the Victory Farm Volunteer division of the extension farm labor program conferred here Monday and Tuesday with John R Fitzsimmons state supervisor of emergency farm labor. Schmitt is observing the VFW recruitment program in Town and other north central states and advising with state supervisors on administrative matters. He was formerly superintendent of schools at Davenport.
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Ames
I. H. Schmitt
Victory Farm
John R. Fitzsimmons
Schmitt
VFW
North Central
Davenport
Seed Analyst's School Set at Ames College
A three week seed analyst's school for Iowans will be held at Iowa State College from June 11 through June 29. R H Porter, head of the Iowa State College seed laboratory, will conduct the school. Enrollment notices should be sent to him.
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Ames
Iowa State College
R. H Porter
Iowa State College Seed Laboratory
Black Market Blamed for Iowa Egg Shortage
AP reports a statewide egg shortage blamed on black market activity. Secretary Earl Mason cites independent operators trucking eggs to Chicago, higher prices from bypassed shippers, wartime per capita egg consumption rising, and price speculations under OPA rules. Army orders and prior glutted markets also affected supply.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Earl E. Mason
T Iowa-Nebraska Poultry and Egg Institute
Mason
Chicago
Office of Price Administration
OPA Raises Ceilings On Early Apple Crop 1945
The OPA raised the ceiling price for early apples of the 1945 crop by 68 cents a bushel from 2.85 to 3.55, boosting retail ceilings about 1.14 dollars per pound. The higher ceilings take effect Tuesday and run through June 20.
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OPA
Washington
Holland to Export Tulips to United States
The official Netherlands news agency said Holland will export limited quantities of flowering bulbs to the United States this fall. Much of the soil needs several years of attention to restore fertility and growers face fertilizer shortages.
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London
Holland
United States
Netherlands
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