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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1944
Page
10
Interview with Emil Ledvina, owner of 164 acres near Chelsea and renter of 80 more, on pig farming results, feed plans, calf herd, contour farming with Tama County Soil District, hog prices, postwar farming prospects, and political leanings including Roosevelt and Gillette.
Des Moines AP reports Iowa sees 12 farm fatalities in first half of October as corn pickers and binders approach. Iowa Safety Council urges precautions. most deaths due to machine accidents, with August and September totaling 18 and 17 fatalities respectively.
Report notes that 129 vocational agriculture schools in the state include farm accident reporting as a 1944 45 project. The program trains students to document incidents and improve safety awareness across farming communities.
A sequence of farm and livestock auctions scheduled from Tuesday October 24 to Friday November 3 in Cedar Rapids Ely Olin Urbana Mt Vernon Shueyville Central City Clin and Hawkeye Downs. Sellers include Kin zey Klima Freeman Downing Horak Spryland West Jur gerson Sie merland Wardwood Witwer Hindman with sales of saddle horses and Duroc hogs. Sales occur at multiple rural sites near airports towns and farms culminating at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids.
The 200 acre farm of the Mrs. O B Riggs estate six miles northeast of Iowa City sold to Hugh Dunlap of Iowa City for 150 dollars per acre. The land is well improved. The sale was made by the Iowa Land Company of Iowa City. Possession will be given March 1.
Anton Wardenburg bought the 80 acre W. J. Stotler farm six and a half miles southwest of Vinton at 195 dollars per acre. A 160 acre Dysart farm tenanted by Wardenburg near Dysart was sold by Tony Schmitz to Charles Peterson at 160 dollars per acre.
Grain futures in Chicago showed broad strength last week led by rye despite a sharp break after a reporting order. Wheat and oats followed the trend while corn remained active on a weaker cash demand with limited spot selling and a notable sale of old crop white corn at $1.0914. Soybean receipts rose with high quality reported as market activity varied across grains.
Maj. Gen. Edmund B regory, army quartermaster general, said reserves of food on hand will be consumed before demobilization ends. He added the army has never maintained excess food beyond what is needed for military operations.
The speaker says reports of large food surpluses could be dumped on the market, destabilizing prices. He rebuts critics, noting they may be sincere but have not verified facts or analyzed the food situation logically.
In Decorah the soybean yield in the county's southwest corner is reported excellent. Fort Atkinson saw heavy activity late last week as growers delivered crops to the farmers cooperative. Long unloading lines stretched a quarter mile each direction with tractors hauling two to three box loads of 75 to 80 bushels.
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