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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1945
Page
5
The OPA under John Collet requires dealers with 1000 pounds or more of butter to report inventories as of Oct 31 and pay five cents per extra pound before the Nov 1 wholesale price increase and subsidy removal. Violations will be vigorously prosecuted.
August lend lease food deliveries fell to 333,131,084 pounds the lowest since early war days and about half July. UK and British services overseas received 59 percent of 186,594,922 pounds. Russia 19 percent. others 22 percent. UNRRA aid for Czechoslovakia Italy Poland Yugoslavia Greece Albania Egypt totaled 90,986,192 pounds. Cash sales declined from 59,516,302 to 22,112,904 pounds.
Special to The Gazette from Urbana Illinois reports a large corn crop expected across northern central and east central Illinois with 60 to 90 percent maturing before frost. Weather may affect drying and spoilage risk. wait several weeks to harvest. Estimated yield around 41 8 bushels per acre, higher than 1944 and above ten year average.
Analysis notes higher replacement cattle prices at Chicago near $13.00 as western run misses, with feed shortages and wet corn boosting demand. Iowa soybean acreage fell from 2,129,000 in 1944 to 1,905,000 this year while Illinois and Indiana see soybeans embedded in cash cropping. The piece also urges investment in Victory bonds to hedge inflation, arguing government debt as protection against wartime inflation.
Urbana report says lime, phosphate and potash keep soil fertile and aid weed control. Crop rotation reduces weed establishment by limiting exposed soil and speeding moisture loss after rain, crucial in the 1945 wet season. Weeds resist erosion but crops offer easier control when soil fertility is maintained.
Farmers find that a fertile well prepared seedbed reduces weed pressure. Most common field crops planted in such soil outcompete annual weeds, making weed control easier and more effective. The emphasis is on soil quality as the primary weed management strategy.
The newly completed locker plant in Onslow filled its 185 box capacity during the first week of operation, marking a strong start for the facility and signaling steady demand.
The Equitable Life Assurance society sold the 200 acre Hein farm, six miles north of Jesup, to Elton H. Guinn of Waterloo for $90 an acre. Dell Miller will operate the farm, and possession is to be given March 1. The sale was conducted by R. E. Heal of Manchester for the Iowa Land and Loan Company.
In Hollandale and Hayward Minnesota the carrot season closes as Cooperatives pay about 11 dollars per ton for carrots averaging 110 dollars per acre. Fairmount Canning buys the crop sending diggers conveyors and trucks to Waseca. Hollendale grows about 125 acres and Hayward about 20. Nearly 1 000 acres of sugar beets harvest for the Mason City Iowa mill with growers paid direct.
Lincoln Nebraska farm income is projected to reach a new record of 700 million dollars this year. State agriculture director Rufus M Howard announced the forecast on Monday. The prior peak was 657 million dollars in 1943.
Agriculture experts told a House subcommittee that mechanization could cut hand labor in sugar beet harvesting by up to half in a few years. Three to four years to a machine halving labor. tests run in Colorado Michigan California. mono-germ seed may reduce crop care labor. disease control remains challenging across Michigan Indiana Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and the Pacific Northwest.
Public auction Thursday November 1 hosted by Mrs Chas Bixler at 214 miles southeast of Springville. Closing out sale Saturday November 3 by John Knapp in Marion. Hampshire hog sale Monday November 5 by C W Smith three miles west of Mt Vernon. Closing out sale Wednesday November 7 by John J Benish eight miles south of Cedar Rapids.
Senator Milton R Young of North Dakota introduced a bill to lengthen the petty price guarantee from two years to five. He argued that two years provides little security for farmers to plan the future and that extending parity would better stabilize prices after the war.
The Omaha feeder calf show selects 400 calves from 2,500 top steer and heifer entries to be sold to 4 H groups after the auction at Omaha Union Stockyards. The blue ribbon calves go to 20 groups for 4 H clubs, while the remaining 2,100 are sold in lots of 20 or more. Harry Coffee, president of Union Stockyards, says the sale aims to supply a better calf brand for 4 H feeders seeking larger groups.
North Liberty officials from the True Blue 4 H club elected Saturday with Arlene Wolfe as president Evelyn Davis as vice president Patricia Brender as secretary treasurer Barbara Burdick as historian Shirley Coglan as reporter and Mrs Lloyd Rinehart named leader.
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