Crop Limits Likely at Next Session
Washington (UP) The Truman administration aims to keep farm prices profitable while urging farmers to limit output if surpluses threaten. Brannan pushes a long range program pairing price supports with exports and acreage controls, arguing supports alone fail. He favors flexible supports and an acreage plan, while Congress debates realism and costs.
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Washington
Truman
Charles Brannan
Brannan
Congress
Cooley
Grange Committee
Farm Organization
Fruit Growers Begin Annual Meeting at ISC
The Iowa Fruit Growers Association opens its eighty third annual convention at Iowa State College in Ames with Wheelock Wilson of Marshalltown delivering the opening address and discussing marketing fruit in Iowa. Thursday activities include five affiliated groups such as the Iowa Beekeepers Association and the Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa. The banquet will award two honor awards and five certificates of merit for contributions to horticulture in the state. last year’s honoree was Frank C. Pellett of Atlantic.
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AMES
INS
Iowa Fruit Growers’ Association
Memorial Union
Iowa State College
Iowa State Horticultural Society
Wheelock Wilson
Marshalltown
Fruit Growers’ Association
Iowa
The
Horticultural Society
Iowa Beekeepers’ Association and Women’s Auxiliary
Iowa Nut Growers’ Association
Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa
Iowa Gladiolus Society
Frank C. Pellett
Atlantic
Berlin Relief Club Seeks Donations For Needy
Merle Potter, aide to Berlin chief of staff, urges bundles of clothing or donations to aid the beleaguered residents of Berlin. He notes Thanksgiving wishes and Christmas needs, offering a membership card in the Schornsteinfeger club for gifts sent to OMGUS Berlin APO 742 care of Post Master New York.
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Merle Potter
Berlin
Potter
c/o
OMGUS
APO
New York
Schornsteinfeger Club
Grange Rejects Subsidies and Crop Controls
The National Grange committee rejected rigid crop controls or cash subsidies to keep farmers prosperous. It urged industry output growth to balance farm production and warned subsidies inflate debt and hurt consumers. The proposal clashes with Rep. Cooley who seeks higher supports and broader controls to prevent surpluses.
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Cortland, Me
National Grange Convention
Farm Organization
Grange Agriculture Committee
The
Grange
Closing out sale at Lloyd Shank farm
In Blairstown the sale featured corn at 1.03 per bushel and cattle prices with cows 230, heifers 125, spring calves 31. Farm machinery fetched 1960 for a hay baler, 700 for a combine and 1550 for a tractor.
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Blairstown
Lloyd Shank
Farmers Begin European Trip
Thirty midwestern farmers, radio and newspaper men left New York for Paris to study the Marshall plan in action. Sponsored by an Omaha radio station, the group will visit France England Denmark Holland Belgium Luxembourg Switzerland and Italy. They will live with farm families, take notes, and report back to Midwest farm groups.
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New York
INS
Paris
Europe
Omaha
Air France
Idlewild
France
England
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Italy
December Election Set For AAA Committeemen
DES MOINES UP Township AAA committeemen will be elected Dec 1 9 the state Production Marketing Administration said Wednesday Township committeemen will choose county AAA committees Dec 10 Each township is entitled to one committeeman and each county to three They will carry on the price support crop loan and soil conservation payment programs at the local level.
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Des Moines
State
Hill Urges F B Members To Take More Active Part
Des Moines President Howard Hill of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation urges members to engage more in Farm Bureau activities. In his annual address at the thirtieth convention he touts a long range farm program and political influence, noting membership at 134000 and dues rising to 15 dollars while stressing the bureau's role in representing farmers.
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Hill
F.B
Des Moines
Howard Hill
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Federation
Iowa
Farm Bureau conference warns of lean years ahead
The Iowa Farm Bureau urged counties to build cash reserves, with treasurer Don Groves proposing a $50 000 goal per county. Hill emphasized policy work to reflect farmers needs and stance. Austin Finnessy warned against repeating World War I era subsidies while noting farmers do not set prices. The annual election and final resolutions are scheduled for Thursday morning, with the convention closing at noon.
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State Federation
Don Groves
Austin Finnessy
Iowa State Federation of Labor
Banker Loses Hand In Picker Accident
Robert Banker lost his left hand in a corn picker accident on the Carl Melcher farm near Monona on Monday. He was taken to Postville hospital where doctors amputated.
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Monona
Robert Banker
Carl Melcher
Postville Hospital
Coming Advertised in The Gazette Livestock and Sale Lot Dates
Multiple closing out sales listed with dates times and locations in The Gazette. Entries cover livestock hay grain machinery household goods and farm products near Springville Independence Watkins Stanwood Center Point Walker Mechanicsville and Center Point with sellers including John Ketelsen Clancy and Wise Harvey Grogan Howard Biere F W Deiter Mette estate Clyde Williams Walter Stoecker and Ray Schrunk.
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John Ketelsen
Springville
Clancy
Wise
Independence
Harvey Grogan
Watkins
Howard Biere
Stanwood
F. W. Deiter
Alburnett
Clifford Tull
Center Point
Mette
Walker
Clyde Williams
Mechanicsville
Walter Stoecker
Ray Schrunk
Manchester Talk on New Crop Varieties by Iowa State Agronomist
Jerry Mel drum of Iowa State College agronomist will discuss new crop varieties at Manchester High School on Nov 29. He will address the regular evening school class and others interested in new crops.
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Manchester
Jerry Meldrum
Iowa State College Agronomist
Manchester High School
Beenken Brothers Buy Hayes Farm Near Buckingham
Robert and Donald Beenken purchase the 160 acre Hayes farm two miles northeast of Buckingham for 32000 dollars, 200 per acre, with possession March 1, 1949. Hayes family owned it over 60 years and reserve the right to live on the farm. Beenken will move a house from the Schroeder place and continue operating that Schroeder farm on highway 63.
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Buckingham
Robert
Donald Beenken
Margaret
Edward Hayes
Hayes
Robert Beenken
Henry Schroeder
Supply of Soybeans Is Largest on Record
Chicago reports a record 208 million bushels of soybeans for the 1948 49 season, up from 187 million last year. PMA notes continued strong processing in 1947 48 and prices around a dollar, far below the January 1948 peak. The 1948 crop is estimated at 205.8 million, the largest ever, 13 percent above 1947 and 2 percent over 1946.
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Chicago
USDA
PMA
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Agriculture Department
Department of Commerce
Commerce
Charles Sawyer
Republican Eightieth Congress
ISC
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Twelfth Avenue and
Twelfth Street
Cedar Rapids
Tony Schmitz van Horne
George B. Basker
White Eagle Coal CO
First Street
Ovid A. Martin
Price
J. W. Fichter
Ohio Grange
Fichter
House Committee On Agriculture
Rep
Dn.c
Star Farmer
Kenneth Cheatham
Greenville, Ill
Star Farmer of America
FFA
Kansas City
AAA
Acar
Toddville
Oliphant Cemetery
John Deere
J. D
Mrs. Clifford Tull
Hallerfelt
Simmons
Childs
BABY
Hallerfest, Inc
Third Avenue
the Farm Bureau the ‘Voice For Agriculture
Optical Service
M. E. Garmoe
Optometrist
Third Street
Beenken Brothers Bay Hayes Farm
Thermogas Rapid
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