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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1948
Page
2
Efficient fertilizer use boosts yields by combining plant food with good soil management. Farmers often rely on fertilizer as a crutch, neglecting root access and soil structure. Rotations including legumes and grasses help build a thick, well aerated soil layer for higher production.
The text notes organic matter improves soil with air spaces and quick water infiltration, while dense legume stands require phosphate and potash from commercial fertilizer for strong growth. It adds that even thick stands must be partly turned back into the soil rather than cut for hay or grazing to build soil structure.
The article reports on a cow named Bossy with detailed daily statistics. Bossy grazes seven and a half hours, with 60 percent daytime grazing and 40 percent at night. She spends five hours eating at 50 to 70 bites per minute and chews for seven hours. Bossy lies down twelve hours in nine sessions and travels two and a half miles by day and one and a half by night. She drinks ten times daily.
The Department of Agriculture estimates that about 100 million acres of once good crop land have been ruined or nearly ruined by erosion. Another 100 million acres are badly damaged and 100 million more erode too fast. Of about 460 million acres of good crop land in the United States, all but roughly 7 percent face erosion unless protective measures are adopted.
The article notes windbreak planting around farm buildings as a key improvement, improving appearance while saving fuel and protecting buildings and livestock. It also mentions farmers extending windbreaks to shield gardens on the south and west sides.
As 2:22 p m EST approaches on December 7 1941 the nation shifts from a quiet prewar Sunday to urgency. Reports from Washington announce a Pearl Harbor crisis while Americans across coasts hear of troop movements and looming conflict. The article notes Roosevelt succession remarks and incoming news from the Pacific as press services await the President's pronouncement.
Sunday visitors came to the Ed Bosma and Alfred Yahnke homes while Mrs. VanHoose and Mrs. Carman traveled to Albert Lea to visit Knut Herem and infant in Naeve hospital. Other gatherings included Brainerd visitors with G A Carman, a weeklong stay for Johanna Westendorf, Thanksgiving calls at Latimer and with the Hansen and Harms families in Mason City, Forest City, and Bristow.
Mrs Mary Pookes and Mr and Mrs Henry Bronleewe visited relatives at Amington over the weekend. Miss Gwendolyn Kiewiet of Omaha spent the past weekend in the parental Wm Kiewiet home. Mr and Mrs Marvin Elman of Forest City are the parents of a 7 Pound 6 ounce daughter Diane Mae born at Forest City hospital November 25. Mr and Mrs Bob Beaver of Northwood were weekend guests in the E G Sickles home. Mr and Mrs Frank Beaver and Philip of Albert Lea were Sunday callers. The Harold Elman family Mr E G Sickles Mrs Bertha Beaver and Mr and Mrs Guy Beaver and Bonna were entertained at dinner Thanksgiving Day in the home of Mr and Mrs Maynard Beaver at Northwood.
Mr and Mrs George Beaving entertained at Thanksgiving Day dinner with Mr and Mrs Don Bennett and daughter of Thompson, Miss Gwendolyn Kiewiet of Omaha Nebraska, and Mr and Mrs Wm Kiewiet.
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