Insect Damage to Legumes Reported Across Ames Area
Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College notes widespread leaf injury from pests on sweet clover red clover and alfalfa this spring. The clover leaf weevil and sweet clover weevil threaten leaves while the clover root weevil targets roots. Farmers should cut and remove affected fields and may use lead arsenate sprays on young clover and alfalfa. late-season deep plowing can reduce larvae and adults.
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Ames
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State College
Gunderson
Cover Spray Needed Now on Fruit Trees
Notices to fruit growers from eastern Iowa county agents warn that the first cover spray is due this week. Wet weather favors diseases like apple scab and brown rot, threatening unsprayed orchards. recommended mix is 214 quarts liquid lime sulfur or 2% pounds dry lime sulfur with 1 1/2 pounds lead arsenate and 1 3/4 pounds hydrated lime per 50 gallons of water.
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Iowa
Further Increase In Ice Cream Quotas Granted
Des Moines Iowa announces higher ice cream quotas for June and July to utilize heavy milk output. June quota up to 185 percent and July to 75 percent with richness limits rising to 24 percent in June and July. August returns to 22 percent richness and 65 percent base usage. Goal is to ease processing shortages and boost civilian frozen dairy supply by over 30 million gallons vs last summer.
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Des Moines
George B Sheehe
Iowa
Office of Distribution
War Food Administration
Shevhe
Corn About Half Planted In Winneshiek County
DECORAH The county's most advanced corn field sits on the Decorah hospital farm north of Decorah managed by John Schnitzler with 125 acres already in cultivation. Planting is ongoing in shifts, keeping pace with other fields where about half the corn is in the ground. June is expected to bring larger plantings. small grain has progressed rapidly and pastures have kept up with grain.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
Decorah Hospital
John Schnitzler
Inherited Tendency to Bloat Found in Cattle Study
U S Department of Agriculture and Montana researchers at Miles City and Montana Experiment Station report inherent differences in cattle capacity to withstand heavy grain feeding without bloating. Analysis of progeny from 13 Hereford sires showed some bulls produced calves that rarely bloated while others produced prone offspring. Eight steers per bull fed 265 days in the first year.
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Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
Range Livestock Experiment Station
Miles City
Mont
Montana Experiment Station
Bloat Occurrence Varies Across Sire Groups in Feed Study
The study notes bloat appeared eight times in one sire group and 184 times in another. In the following year, using eight sire groups fed for 252 days, bloat ranged from 88 cases to one, indicating wide variation among groups and years.
Combine Size Has Little Effect on Operation Cost
Lincoln Neb The cost of operating different size combines is nearly the same and annual acreage and grain condition drive per acre costs F J Chase farm economist Nebraska University says based on state operator records. He notes that good harvests favor per acre charges while poor yields justify payment by the hour.
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Lincoln, Neb
F. J. Chase
Nebraska University
Shour Chase
West Indies Workers to Help Farm Labor This Summer
About 900 workers from Barbados will arrive mid June to work on Midwest farms for summer and fall under War Food Administration programs. The effort mirrors agreements with Jamaica and the Bahamas, joining roughly 32 500 Mexican workers and others already employed in American agriculture.
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Barbados
British West Indies
Midwest
War Food Administration
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Bahama Islands
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Farmers Host Rotary Dinner in Oelwein
Members of the Oelwein Rotary club hosted farmer friends at the annual farmer business man dinner held Monday evening at the Mealey hotel.
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Rotary Oelwein
Oelwein Rotary Club
Mealey Hotel
End of Corn Freeze By June 15 Hinted
CHEROKEE AP Guy W. Smith assistant AAA director for the north central area told 60 AAA committeemen from 20 northwestern Iowa counties he hopes enough corn can be purchased to lift the freeze order by June 15. The original order, imposed in 125 midwestern counties April 25, aimed to extend until June. Smith said about 50 million bushels have been purchased toward a goal of 80 million. Committeemen were told to contract with the Commodity Credit Corporation and the War Department under the freeze, with a 50 cent per bushel down payment and the balance due upon contract completion.
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Cherokee
Guy W.smith
AAA
North Central Area
Iowa
Midwestern
Une
Smith
Commodity Credit Corporation
War Department
County Aaa
Heavy Wildlife Loss as Iowa Floods Drive Refugees
Milwaukee railroad workers report wildlife taking shelter on the river bottom grade across the Iowa river flood near here. Three rattlesnakes with six four and three rattles were killed. Skunks rabbits squirrels and groundhogs were among the refugees. Sportsmen say young pheasants and rabbits suffered heavy losses.
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Middle Amana
Milwaukee Railroad
Rotenone Plantings Move Toward Wartime Supply
A Middle America Information Bureau report says rotenone producing plants in the American tropics will be harvestable late this year to aid wartime insecticide needs. The compound harms insects and parasites but is considered safe for humans and animals, with extensive military and veterinary uses cited.
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Tropical America
Middle America
Retenone Seen As Key Insecticide For War Needs
The British Army Medical Corps and allied services report extensive tests and use of rotenone to treat skin diseases and combat insects. Retenone is praised as the world’s most versatile insecticide with protective and curative value for people, animals, plants, and fowls. Planting of retenone crops aims for harvest in 1944 to address wartime deficits, with Middle America seen as a potential long term supplier as demand grows after the war.
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United States
United Nations
Victory Gardens
Army
American Tropics
Java
British
Malaya
Armiy Medical Corps
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