Clinton P Anderson Salutes Iowa Agriculture and History
Clinton P. Anderson extols Iowa's land and farmers in a wartime tribute linking strong agriculture to full employment and global hunger relief. The piece recalls Cedar Falls Waterloo mills, the Cedar Mill, and historic threshing, plus notes advances in green manure seeds, Korean lespedeza, and soybeans now grown widely across southern Iowa.
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Iowa
Clinton P. Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Sturgis
Cedar Falls
Overman
Waterloo
Spafford
Cedar Mill
Minnesota
Cedar River
Waterloo and
Cedar Falls Union Mill Company
Waterloo Mills Company
Mills Story Through Iowa Milling History
A historical overview traces Iowa milling from 333 flour mills in 1860 with $2.6 million investment to today’s focus on animal and poultry feeds. It notes early dams and mills, governors who were millers, the Cedar River region's rise, and the shift from flour to feed as a major Iowa industry. The piece highlights Kilgore Kirkwood, the Underground Railroad era mills, and the Cedar Valley evolution near Cedar Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Kirkwood
Terrill
Town City
University of Town
College of Applied Science
Iowa City
Iowa City Manufacturing Company
Coralville
Clarkville
Clark
Samuel J. Kirkwood
U. S
Masonville
Wellman
Washington County
Underground
John Brown
Cedar Valley
Cedar River
Cedar Falls
William Sturgis
Cédar River
Sturgis
Forage Crops Coming Ahead From H D Hughes at Iowa State College
Iowa farmers gain appreciation for forage crops and pastures. The piece notes beef and dairy gains from clovers and alfalfa, lime and phosphate needs, and pasture improvement via improved bromegrass and sweet clover varieties developed by Iowa and other stations.
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H. D. Hughes
Iowa State College
Towa
Iowa
Kentucky
Fisher
Lincoln
Meat Packers First Situated in Mississippi
J L Coverdale of Bath Packing Company, Waterloo recounts Iowa meat packing history from winter slaughter practices, river transport, and river town plants to rail and refrigeration driven expansion. He notes early hogs and cattle weights, the 1900 federal meat inspection, hog type shifts with WWI demand, and the rise of 4-H market hog projects shaping breeding and feeding in Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Coverdale
Bath Packing Company
Waterloo
Iowa
Mississippi River
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Des Moines
Sioux City
Fort Dodge
Perry
Marshalltown
Storm Lake
Estherville
Spencer
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Evolution of meat cuts and regional packing shifts in Iowa
The text traces a shift from large carcasses to handy 1000 to 1250 pound steers and 200 to 260 pound hogs due to urban living and refrigerator limits. It notes the railroad moving packing centers from Cincinnati to Chicago, later changing as interior packing plants emerged. Livestock increasingly moved by wagon then truck, with over 60 percent of Iowa hogs marketed within the state.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
Iowa
Phillips Petroleum Expands Ad Program in Midwest
Phillips Petroleum announces a broad advertising expansion reaching about 1000 newspapers in the middle west. The program adds general merchandise lines to fuel sales, including refrigerators radios washing machines hardware items fishing tackle sporting goods and stock remedies through dealer stations led by Carl Egger in Monticello.
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Phillips Petroleum
Carl Egger
Phillips 66
Monticello
Phillips Petroleum Company
Middle West
Phillips
Phillips ad campaign promises ample gas oil sales by 1947
Egger notes dealers will see continued Chevrolet gasoil and motor oil advertising as production reaches full output by year end. The expanded campaign aims to secure an adequate market for all Phillips merchandise, with Want Ads urged for quick results.
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Phillips
Egger
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Spain
Madrid
Nebraska
Kansas
Texas
Colorado
Missouri
Corn Belt
U.S
Mark G. Thornburg
Iowa Feed Institute
Iowa Territory
Meat Packers
Mississippi
Keted
Anna Pautz
P.O. Box
Vancouver
Wash
Nue-Ovo Laboratories
Farmers Co-Operative
Federal Land Bank Farm Loan
National Farm Loan Associations
Harold B. McTavish
Secy.Treas
3Rd Ave
S. E
Over Light Company
Anamosa
Express
Guernsey
New Yorker
Rhode Island
Deere
DeLavel
John Matthiessen
Joe Herard
Cascade
Majestic
Olson
Phonograph
Voss
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