Ames economist brands price control a fake at farming meeting
Hart of Ames warned inflation will surge in 1942 with buying power set to outstrip goods by 7 billion dollars. He projected farm income rising to 100 billion, savings up to 19 billion, and rising taxes, advocating increased voluntary and forced savings to curb inflation. Irvin F Meyer elected president of the Northeast Iowa Farm Business association with a slate of officers and directors.
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Kert G. Hart
Ames
Northeast Iowa Farm Business Association
United States
Dr. Hart
Ames Economist
Government Services
Hart
West Union
Leo Winter
New Hampton
Ross Childs
Manchester
Don Miles
Riceville
Carl Malone
Dorothy Simmons
Will Pierce
Nashua
John Heinz
Peosta
More Plants Expand Cheese Making Across Iowa Cremeries
The Farm Editor Richard Trapp reports cooperative creameries in Iowa moving toward cheese production. West Union dairymen supplying 12 percent of volume favor delivering whole milk for cheese, with a 20 percent patron response to expansion surveys. Decorah added processing capacity. Strawberry Point makes casein. Oscar Hauskins notes about 10 percent of North English volume may shift to cheese as expansions and equipment orders proceed.
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Richard Trapp
Cooperative Creamery
West Union
Gazette
Decorah
Strawberry Point
Independence
Iowa City
Washington
North English
Oscar Hauskins
South Iowa
Hauskins
Moisture In Corn Averages 20.5 Per Cent
Des Moines reports average corn moisture 20.5 percent from 220 samples tested by meteorologist Charles D. Reed. The figure is 13 percent higher than last year at this time and is the maximum allowed for government loan scaling. Reed notes 56 percent of samples are below 20.5 percent.
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Des Moines
Charles D. Reed
Reed
Farmer suffers mangled wrist in corn picker accident
NORWAY Ed Miller, a farmer two and one half miles north of Norway, sustained a seriously mangled right wrist in a corn picker mishap Saturday morning. He was taken to a Cedar Rapids hospital for treatment.
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Norway
Ed Miller
Cedar Rapids
Tama youth hurt when tractor overturns near Tama
Special to The Gazette. Tama Bernard Klima, 28, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Klima farmers southeast of Tama, suffered a six inch scalp laceration and possible skull fracture and several fractured ribs Monday when he lost control of the tractor he was driving down a road and it overturned into a ditch. He was taken to the Tama clinic where X ray examination was made, and then removed to a Marshalltown hospital.
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The
Gazette
Tama
Bernard Klima
Frank Klima
Tama Clinic
Marshalltown
4 H Nutrition Training School at Anamosa Dec 1
Miss Gladys Adams Ames extension clothing specialist will conduct a 4 H leaders nutrition training school here Monday starting at 10 a.m. in Anamosa.
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Anamosa
Gladys Adams
Ames Extension Clothing
Nutrition training session for 4-H leaders in Keokuk County
Miss Esther Everett from Iowa State College 4-H staff will conduct a nutrition training school for older 4-H girls and leaders in Keokuk County. The meeting will be held here on December 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Esther Everett
Iowa State College
4-H
Manchester Vocal Boys Present Parents Night Program
Manchester high school vocational agriculture hosts parents of 53 students for a first night meeting. Speakers cover animal husbandry, crops and soils, farm mechanics, supervised farming plans and FFA work. Officials C W Bangs and W H Magdefrau attend as films showcase supervised farm projects.
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Manchester
Manchester High School
Vocational Agriculture Department
Vernon Lubben
Junior Millam
Roger McIntosh
Milton Arnold
Marian Hull
Robert Ellis
Glen Jeffries
Billy Zebuhr
C. W. Bangs
W. H Magdefrau
Co-Op Marketing Meeting At Des Moines Dec 9 10
Des Moines Iowa cooperative livestock marketing associations will hold their twenty second annual convention on December 9 and 10. Secretary J C Williamson Chariton says topics include stabilizing live stock prices surplus marketing administration handling of products and improving services of local cooperatives.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Thanksgiving Prayer for Harvest and Peace
A reflective prayer thanks God for corn, harvest abundance, and family warmth. It contrasts fullness with famine and violence, asking for peace and aid for starving and harmed people. The verse closes with a plea for justice and mercy.
4 H Clubs Elect New Officers Across Counties
A sweep of 1942 officer elections listed Be Natural 4-H Linn county Dora Tretz as president and Doris Ross as vice-president with others named as secretary treasurer historian and reporter. Other clubs including Oxford Live Wires Waubeek Jolly Neighbors Union Sunny Sals Calmar Comrades Clermont Clover Clovers Volga Bluebirds Amana Best Climbers Marengo Busy Bodies Wayne Busy Bees Onslow and more announced new leaders and posts.
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Be Natural
Linn County
Be Natural 4-H
A. W. Savage
Dora Tretz
Doris Ross
Roberta Monaghan
Catherine Ironside
Winifred Hamblin
Celia Jane Henderson
Oxford Live Wires
Jones County
Robert Nowachek
Louis Lasack
Merlin Lazare
Keith Barber
Waubeek
Melvin Kent
Harold Stewart
Mary Louise Peck
Lyle Peck
Jolly Neighbors
Allamakee County
4-H
Elizabeth Gruber
Betty Lou Gramlich
Margaret Stabe
Lois Ann Gruber
Dorothy Stabe
Union
Sunny Sals
Fayette County
Antoinette Berns
Beverly Grimes
Betty Stolle
Wanda Hand
Josephine Wiley
Calmar Comrades
Winneshiek County
Angela Huber
Calmar Comrades 4-H
Dorothy Flaskerud
DeEtta Humker
Mary Kipp
Volga Bluebirds
Clayton County
Evelyn Stannard
Lavon Martin
Helen Biedermann
Mary O'Brien
Mary Dittmer
Frank O’brien
William Wilker
Amana
Iowa County
Helen Berger
Emil School
Helen Pitz
Florence Pitz
Doris Berger
Marengo
Barbara Tompkins
Bonnie Marie Shaull
Evelyn Kiel
Shirley Denzler
George Cronbaugh
Rachel Misel
Clay
Cows Top At 116 Dollars in Blairstown Sale
Special to The Gazette Blairstown Henry Dill closing out sale saw a Jersey cow fetch 116 dollars at the southeast edge of Blairstown. The high horse was an eight year old roan mare at 132 dollars. Two yearling heifers brought 46 and 44 dollars. Barn hay sold for 10 dollars a ton. Oats brought 42 cents a bushel. A manure spreader 139 dollars, a mower 84 dollars, and a corn planter 52.50 dollars.
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Blairstown
Mary E. Retz sale nets five thousand dollars
The auction five miles north of Manchester drew about four hundred farmers. Feeder pigs brought 10.10 each, sows 20, young pigs 4.75. Guernsey cows averaged 80. two-year heifers 41. yearling heifers 31. five months bull 40. Ear corn sold 59 60 cents, shelled corn 60 cents. Atlas sorge shocks 31 cents, hay 10 9.85 9.75 a ton. Tractor 227. plows 70 each. disc 27. corn binder 30.
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Manchester
Mary E. Retz
Guernsey
Whittier Sale At Sydney Clark Farm Highlights Prices
At the Sydney Clark sale two miles northeast of Whittier on the Downing farm two 2 year old heifers sold for 84 dollars each cows topped at 98 dollars and horses at 75 dollars a coming 2 year old colt brought 50 dollars feeding shoots brought 10 to 13 dollars two sows with ten small pigs sold for 32 dollars. Ewes brought 8 dollars a head sixty one cents a bushel was paid for corn and hay sold at 9.50 a ton.
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Gazette
Whittier
Sydney Clark
Downing Farm
Five-Year-Old Horse Tops Sale At Manchester Farm Auction
At T. P. Smith’s farm five miles northwest of Manchester a five-year-old horse sold for 101 dollars, an eight-year-old for 85.50 and a 13-year-old for 31. A five-year-old Holstein cow brought 90, ten head of three-year-old Durhams averaged 50, two-year-olds 45, and two-year-old steers 69 and 70. Corn sold 60.144 and 61 cents, oats 52.42 and 53 cents, 200 bales straw 48 cents, grain binders 40, hay loader 53.
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the Gazette
Manchester
T. P. Smith
Creamery Operators to Meet in Decorah December 4
Alvin Thoreson announces the annual meeting of Section No. 1 of the Iowa Creamery Operators Association at Decorah on December 4. The event includes a farewell party for Nels M. Larson and his wife as Larson leaves after 22 years at Decorah Ice Cave creamery, to be succeeded by Clarence Numedahl of Preston, Minnesota.
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Decorah
Alvin Thoreson
Iowa Creamery Operators’ Association
Nels M. Larson
Larson
Clarence Numedahl
Preston
Minn
Arnold To Meet Dec 3 With Jones Dairymen
Floyd Arnold Ames extension dairy specialist will discuss feeding and cattle care to boost production for national defense at a Jones county farmers meeting in Monticello on December 3.
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Monticello
Floyd Arnold
Ames Extension Dairy
Jones County
Foreign Eggs Imported From Argentina Boost U S Supply
The Agriculture Department notes 7,697,040 dozen Argentine eggs entered the United States between July 1 and November 14, 1947, with 900,000 to 1,500,000 more expected by December 15. Argentina had not exported shell eggs to the U S in ten years until July 1, and shipping limits to the U K drive the trade. The U S import duty on shell eggs is five cents per dozen.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Argentina
United Kingdom
Neighbors Help Viola and Delhi Husking Tributes
Thirty five neighbors near Viola turf Ray Newhard ill. They husked 1100 bushels of corn and served a chicken dinner. Fifteen neighbors near Delhi husked for Jesse Atkins who has been ill, with several named huskers and helpers listed.
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Viola
Ray Newhard
Delhi
Jesse Atkins
Atkins
Jesse Toms
Glenn Pettlon
Clarence Pettlon
Hancher To Speak At State Ag Convention
President Virgil M. Hancher of the University of Iowa and W. Earl Hall editor at Mason City will headline the state agricultural convention in Des Moines on December 10. About 200 delegates from fairs farmer institutes and related groups are expected as officers and directors are chosen after committee reports.
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DES Moines
Virgil M. Hancher
University of Iowa
W. Earl Hall
Mason City
L. B. Cunningham
Iowa State Fair Board
Farmer’s Institutes
Alsike Clover Seed Prices Rise in Oct to Nov
Prices paid to growers of alsike clover seed rose by 1.55 per 100 pounds between October 7 and November 10, reaching 14.85 per 100 pounds for clean seed. The 5 year average was 17.10, and 60 percent of the 1941 crop had been sold by November 10, with movement slowest in western Oregon and fastest in northern Minnesota.
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Gazette
Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Oregon
Minnesota
Farm Auction Roundup Near Cedar Rapids and Monticello
A sequence of farm auctions announced for late November and early December across Iowa. Listings include George Briggs 314 miles southeast of Lisbon, Cedar Rapids Livestock Exchange, John Ram melsberg near Atkins, Hoag and Bartels near Monticello, and multiple closings near Walker Anamosa Martello Ryan Ryan Monticello Cedar Rapids Springville and Marion with dates November 28 through December 9.
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George Briggs
Lisbon
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
John Rammelsberg
Atkins
Hoag and Bartels
Monticello
Mary C. Woodfin
Walker
Grabbe and
Kennebeck
Anamosa
McPherson
Martello
A. T. Fairbanks
Louis White
Marion
Preston & Son
Ryan
Ludvig Petrak
Healy
Butler
Springville
Farm Bureau Membership Drive Kicks Off in Benton
More than 275 leaders team captains and workers gather in Benton county Monday at noon to launch the 1942 Farm Bureau membership drive aiming for 1 250 members. Otis Tuttle, president, announces kickoff with Harry Weichman assisted by Wayne Tyler in charge of district organization.
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Winton
Benton County
Farm Bureau
Otis Tuttle
Harry Weichman
Wayne Tyler
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Million Pounds Butter Made by Luana Co op
The Luana Farmers Cooperative Creamery reached one million pounds of butter in 51 years of service. The one millionth pound was specially labeled and bought by the Luana high school's hot lunch department.
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Luana Co-Op
Luana
Sale of cattle hogs and farm stock at 17 oclock a.m
Auction announces sale of 21 head Hereford cattle and cows with calves, purebred Hereford heifers and bulls, milk cows, Shorthorns, 67 head hogs and poultry, plus farm machinery. Animals range from 2 to 4 years, calves for 4 H club, and several calves for selection. Payment cash with clerk. lunch served by Sliver Creek Ladies Aid. Preston and Son, Cecil Ryan, auctioneers. Baxter clerk.
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W. H
A&w
Sliver Creek Ladies' Aid
J. Preston
Cecil Ryan
U. S. Baxter
Barnyard Practices and Livestock Trends Highlight Iowa Farm Update
Vernon Nelson of Marion adopts soil conservation methods such as terraces and contour planting. Frank O'Hara of Coggon runs 18 white faced heifers. Weiler Brothers of Ryan buys 840 pound steers for feeding. Cedar Rapids bank offers Corn Loans. U.S. horse and mule data show rising foal counts and steady demand, with 1940 Iowa census listing 728,213 horses and 45,680 mules on 179,776 farms. Horse and mule group forecasts calm outlook and potential profitable sale of well trained animals.
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Vernon Nelson
Marion
The
Soil Conservation Service
United States
Horse and Mule Association of America
Iowa
Horse and Mule Association
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