Apply Lime On Corn Ground For Next Year Seed
Extension specialist J L Boatman of Iowa State College advises applying lime to corn ground in spring preceding a year to seed small grain and a legume. Spreading can occur after corn emerges but before it grows too tall. Finer limestone improves results. good lime should pass a 40 mesh screen with 60 percent dust.
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J. L. Boatman
Iowa State College
Boatman
Mr. Boatman
Solis
Ac Ames
New Livestock Law 18 Effective July 4th
Two new laws govern dairy and breeding cattle importation and amendments to the tuberculosis eradication law. Cattle imported after July 4 must be retested for tuberculosis within 60 days, unless from accredited herds or those with two clean tests under the area plan. Importing cattle must pass the agglutination test for contagious abortion. Counties not yet testing will be asked to levy funds to start next year.
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Iowa Department of Agriculture
Small losses on reactor cattle reported by agriculture dept
Figures tabulated by the Town Department of Agriculture show April losses paid for reactor cattle amount to about one fifth of the appraised value. The remainder comes from salvage, state and federal indemnities. Average appraised value per head was 115.47 dollars, salvage 51.42, indemnity 41.12, totaling 92.54 received on cattle appraised at 28.03 dollars for the farmer.
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Dehnent
Agriculturée
M.C. Thornsburg
Secretary of Agriculture
Tive
Hia Aéhiare
Thornburg
Inflected Herds Prompt New Infections
The text notes that in the test the producer bears only a small share of the cost, except when the herd is unfortunately infected, implying systemic vulnerability and financial risk for producers in diseased conditions.
This Dog Knows Its Stuff in Des Moines Evening Rail Tale
A Rawleigh near Estherville collie, owned by the M and St L section foreman, meets the Des Moines bound train nightly for four years and retrieves his master's evening paper. Conductor Chas Keating tosses the paper, and the dog signals if the train is late by barking to be let back inside.
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Rawleigh
Estherville
Des Moines
Chas, Keating
Talks From An Iowa Farm Across The Ocean To Norway
Mrs WH Nacrem of Story City in Story County received a telephone ring from Oslo Norway revealing a sister's message. The piece notes radio and wireless advances have made long distance communication commonplace. It recalls a previous event when an Iowa woman aboard a ship to Australia broadcast a message and a distant recipient relayed it onward by wire.
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Iowa
Ocean
Norway
WH. Nacrem
Story City
Story County
N. B. Leander
Oslo
San Francisco
Australia
Honolulu
Historic Gardner log cabin seized in debt action
In Dickingon county a district court suit by Wm. Fraser against Albert L. and Mary Jane Sharp seeks foreclosure on property in Arnolds Park. The Gardner log cabin, a historic lake region site, is tied to the case with an amount over $2000 involved. The cabin was linked to Abbie Gardner Sharp, survivor of the Spirit Lake massacre.
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Dickingon County
Wm. Fraser
Albert L. Sharp
Mary Jane Sharp
Arnolds Park
Gardner
Lake
Abbie Gardner Sharp
Spirit Lake
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