How to Treat Wire Cuts
First aid is crucial for wire cuts to reduce scarring and speed healing. Do not use dust or lime to stop bleeding. bleeding that can be stopped by powders often ceases on its own. Frequent washing irritates wounds. Look for small concealed stab wounds from nails and keep them clean and disinfected. Use tincture of iodine promptly and monitor for pus as signs of infection. If bleeding is heavy or a deep wound shows, call a veterinarian. After bleeding stops, wash with warm water and disinfectant. Wounds may take about three weeks to heal. watch for odorless discharge and shrinking swelling. Antitoxin helps prevent lockjaw after puncture wounds. avoid lime crusts that block air. For leg bleeding, tie a rope loosely and twist, then apply bandages or pressure until a veterinarian arrives.
Silage Packing Rules From Farm Silo Guidelines
Practical guidance on packing silage to prevent spoilage parallels canning. Four workers with 30 to 40 pound tampers pack silage in 12 to 15 foot silos while the cutter runs. Air removal, even tamping, and spreading ears and heavy particles to the center are emphasized to keep silage fresh.
Glue Inoculation Method For Alfalfa Seed
Farmers planning late alfalfa seeding can inoculate seed with glue. Dissolve two handfuls of furniture glue in a gallon of boiling water, cool, moisten seed with one quart per bushel, then mix with soil dust. Use soil from nearby inoculated plants, dry in shade, pulverize, then scatter dust over seed and sow.
Feed the Colt Well for Future Growth
Ohio State University expert J B Coffey warns skipping colt feed wastes money as draft-horse values rise. He urges early feeding with crushed oats and bran, plus alfalfa and clover hay, to prevent stunted growth that never fully recovers. Burdock Blood Bitters ad promotes clearer skin and digestion. Price $1.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. 8. Coffey
Animal Husbandry Department
Ohio State University
Prof
Coffey
Show Your Brood Stock at Fairs, Breeders
Breeders often avoid showing horses at fairs to dodge training, transport costs, and ring losses. Persistence at fairs builds prestige, higher prices, and public attention, while non exhibitors risk declining stock and business. Leading exhibitors become leading breeders and sellers over time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Marketing as Key to Poultry Profits
Profits hinge on marketing in poultry farming. A poultryman must sell himself, build demand, and supply clean strictly fresh eggs. Time ingenuity and quality products attract buyers willing to pay 4 to 6 cents more per dozen. Superior markets yield the highest returns through careful preparation and presentation.
Five Acres Enough for a Poultry Plant on Small Land
The piece argues five acres suffice for a poultry plant with one or two workers and equal or greater profits than larger setups. It warns against relying on hired care, outlines needs for large houses and runs, double runs if possible, and space for vegetable crops to provide green feed and winter storage roots.
Kidney trouble relief and health improves with Foley's pills
Ambrose Gary of Sulphur, Okla, testifies kidney trouble limited his walk for ten years. After three months on Foley's Kidney Pills he reports relief from the first bottle and complete improvement after three bottles. Ad reads for Dr. King’s New Life Pills as a laxative and purifying tonic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambrose Gary
Foley
Ady
Public Library of
Cincinnati
Poland Chinas Through Color Driven Breeding Trends
The article traces Poland China hog breeding shifts from spotted and color focused lines to size and prolificacy, noting color alone does not affect litter size or thrift. It warns that narrowing selection to fashionable blood lines reduces vigor and litter yield while larger, old fashioned stock may yield bigger litters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Cure Hog Cholera With Oats
A farmer recounts a method for hog sickness once labeled cholera that proved pneumonia in his herd. By feeding boiled oats to seven sick hogs and delivering warm oat water three times in ten hours, three pigs survived. He stresses avoiding sour oats and using small pint doses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Ward
Cheap Feed Crop Sparks Farmer’s Mixed Grain Harvest
A farmer short on winter feed in August improvises by sowing joat stubble after rain and spreading a mix of grain from his granary. The crop, including corn soybeans peas oats millet and rye, grew well and yielded several loads of good feed. He suggests others might try this method.
Sloan Liniment Claims Pain Relief by One Application
A testimonial from James S. Ferguson of Philadelphia praises Sloan's Liniment for knee pain relief after years of suffering. The ad urges readers to try it, claims rapid relief, and markets cases of the product alongside Hutchinson Grocery Co. as a distributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamess. Ferguson
Phila
Sloan
Board of Supervisors Reject Bridge Bids and Parole County Home Inmate
At 1 30 p m on August 21 1916 the Board of Supervisors met with all members present. Bids for a bridge setting were opened from Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works and Ward Concrete Construction Company but rejected as too high. The board moved to parole Chris Lee from the County Home at Freeport to his own family and adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works
Ward Concrete Construction Company
Chris Lee
Freeport
Green forage cuts hog feed costs in Ohio trials
Ohio experiment station trials show alfalfa clover rape soybeans and blue grass cut pork production costs. Clover reduced 71 pounds corn per 100 pounds gain, rape 64, soybeans 54, with pasture plus corn. An acre feeds about 30 hogs three months. blue grass best in spring. Ad page note on Dean's pills ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Experiment Station
Notice in Winneshiek County real estate case 1916
District Court of Iowa Winneshiek County publishes notice to numerous defendants in a quiet title action seeking to quiet plaintiff Peter Dinger’s title to the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 34 town 7 west of the fifth principal meridian and to fix the estate. defendants must answer by September 7 1916 or face default and judgment. Also probate notice for Helga Hokaasen estate asks final report filing by September 1914 and hearing September 18 1916. administrator Albert Anfinson seeks discharge and bond release after collateral inheritance tax confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winneshiek County
Towa
Decorah
Iowa
Albert Anfinson
District Court Notice of Estate Partition in Winneshiek County
Helene Hersrud seeks partition of Andrew Hersrud real estate in Town Winneshiek County Iowa with heirs Minnie Engrav Hans Hersrud Clara Teslow Pauline Thorstenson Alice Hersrud Hazel Benson Arthur Benson Howard Benson and guardian B K Benson. If not answered by Sept 18 1916 default judgment may be entered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of Town
Winneshiek County
Helene Hersrud
Minnie Matilda Engrav
John Engravy
Hans A. Hersrud
Celia Hersrud
Clara Antonetta Teslow
Edwin Teslow
Pauline Elizbeth Thorstenson
John Thorstenson
Alice Maria Hersrud
Hazel Mildred Benson
Arthur Benson
Howard Benson
B. K. Benson
District Court of
Iowa
Andrew ©. Hersrud
Township Ninety-eight
Pauline Elizabeth Thorstenson
Hazel Mildred ‘Benson
Decorah
W. M. Strand
Andrew Hersrud
Administratrix
Mutual Protective Insurance Association Incorporation Notice
Notice of incorporation for the Emian Mutual Protective Insurance Association based in Spillville Winneshiek County Iowa. It outlines the purpose to insure farm buildings and contents against fire and fishing hazards and to be governed by a seven director board with officers elected annually. Maximum indebtedness set at 2500 dollars, private property exempt. Names of organizers listed and attorney retained. Also notice of administrator appointment for John Jacobson estate in Fremont township Decorah Iowa with bonds and claims process noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emian Mutual Protective Insurance Association
Spillville
Winneshiek County
Towa
John Jacobson
Fremont Township
Lof Winneshiek
Ennie Jacobson
Decorah
Iowa
W. M. Strand
Beards Warned to Reply in Iowa Foreclosure Suit
In Winneshiek County District Court of Iowa a foreclosure action is filed by executors of George Phelps seeking $2662 plus six percent interest from 1916 on a joint note dated June 25 1906. The suit covers mortgage on Otis and Stevens additions in Decorah Iowa with a lien proposed from June 23 1906. Defendants Nellie P Beard L W Beard J C Beard and Lillian Beard are to answer by Sept 18 1916 or default judgment will be entered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Iowa
Winneshiek County
William A. Sanford
Williams
Carpenter
Thomas F. Phelps
George Phelps
Nellie P. Beard
L. W. Beard
J. C. Beard
Lillian Beard
District Court of
State of
Iowa
Winne‘shiek County
Winship and Kinyon
Otis and Stevens
Decorah
Towa
Quiet Title Action in Decorah District Court
In Winneshiek County Iowa Adam Wepler and Emma Wepler sue Elizabeth Day William Parkman Anthony Hegg Andrew K Sagen Olga Sagen and all spouses heirs transferees and unknown claimants of lots 6 and 7 in block 12 Park Addition Decorah Iowa to quiet title in the plaintiffs and bar any adverse claim. Defendants must appear before noon September 2 1916 or default will be entered. hearing to begin September 18 1916 at Decorah courthouse Boice Hook Attorneys for Plaintiffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of Iowa
Winneshiek
Peter Dinger
Henry Bender
Lizzie Bender
Diebold Stoskoff
Catherine Stoskoff
Caroline Gross
John Gross
Katie Kohler
Alfred Kohler
Marie Barth
Valentine Barth
Emma Thoman
Lawrence Thoman
Julia Korstad
J. M. Korstad
Idena Thoman
Alfred Thoman
Clara Severson
Henry Severson
Samuel Stoskoff
Mary Stoskoff
Frances Lien
Oliver Lien
Dick Stoskoff
Jule Stoskoff
Jessie Vogel
Henry Vogel
John Stoskoff
Bertha Stoskoff
John Hodgdon
District Court of Town
Winneshiek County
Decorah
Town
District Court of
Iowa
Adam Wepler
Emma Wepler
Elizabeth Day
Wiliam Parkman
Anthony. Hegg
Andrew K. Sagen
Olga Sagen
Park
City of
Towa
Yoing
You An Tebey
District Court
Said County
Court House
Pont 31 Boice & Hook
Notice of Probate Hearing for Henry W. Meyer Will
Court in Winneshiek County Iowa sets September 18 1916 at 1:20 PM in Lincoln township to hear probate of the purported last will of Henry W. Meyer deceased. Attend to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate and note the clerk Olai Kallevang along with deputy S J Moore and attorney A F Barker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winneshiek County
Iowa
Henry W. Meyer
Lincoln Township
Olai Kallevang
J. Moore
A. FE. Barker
Wenzel T. Wagner
Towa
S. J. Moore
Notice to bidders for Burr Oak school house
Notice to bidders for erecting a school house in Burr Oak Independent District No 8 Winneshiek Iowa bids due September 16 1916 at 1 PM contract awarded to lowest responsive bidder board may reject all bids Plans and specifications available by writing to County Superintendent or the meeting secretary Alice Price Secretary Prosper Minn July 18 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burr Oak
Winneshiek
Iowa
Alice Price
Ad Prosper
Minn
Frye Sues to Quiet Title in Hesper Parcel in 1916
Frank Frye seeks to quiet title to the west seventy five feet of the north twenty nine feet of Lot Seven in Block Three Hesper Winneshiek County Iowa. Defendants include H A May dale W S Bradford Sarah Ann Worth Edwin Salverson Agnes Halverson and unknown heirs. If no appearance by September 18 1916 a default and decree will be entered. Attorneys Boice and Hook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of
Iowa
Winneshiek County
Frank Frye
Frank H. Frye
H. A. Maydale
W. S. Bradford
Sarah Ann Worth
Edwin Salverson
Agnes Halverson
Hesper
District Court of Iowa
Court House
Decorah
Boice & Hook
Notice of Appointment for Nels H. Refsdahl Estate
Martha Refsdahl has been appointed executrix of the estate of Nels H. Refsdahl in Decorah township Winneshiek County Iowa. All creditors must present their claims and debtors pay what they owe. Executrix Martha Refsdahl dated August 12 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nels H. Refs‘dahl
Decorah Township
Winneshiek
State of Iowa
Martha Refsdahl
Decorah
Iowa
W. M. Strand
Also Mentioned on This Page
California
Hutchinson Grocery Co
Official
Proceedings OF the Board OF Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
J. P. Kuen
Oscar Winger
Dean
Ae J. Soukup
J. F. Korbel
J. Pecinovsky
J. B Macal
F. J. Soukup
J. C. Kubesh
F. J. Tupy
Reed & Pergler
Attorneys
Ecorah State Bank, Aditrator
Nels H. Refsdahl
Decorah State Bank
Winneshiek Hotel
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