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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1930
Page
3
Miss Rubyn Chinn conducts a National Dairy Council nutrition feature about Bill a four year old with a healthy appetite. It outlines feeding rules including regular meals small portions and variety plus a chicken timbales recipe and cottage cheese custard with steps and ingredients.
Town farmers report on January 1 current year holding include 1 025 000 horses 10 041 000 hogs 1 131 000 sheep and 3 922 000 cattle Expenditures total about 17 million with 11 million from direct taxes 1 7 million from insurance taxes 1 2 million stamp tax on cigarettes 1 225 000 inheritance taxes and balance from department fees Sudan grass seen as sailing crop for livestock Fly control advice given including daily manure spreading and hellebore treatment with ratios for manure larvae destruction
Collins farms southwest of Hawkeye run a 24 hour schedule under Manager Harold Burt assisted by Andrew Barry. Lloyd Wickham works noon to midnight, Robert Weideman midnight to noon, with 240 acres dragged since Sunday. Floodlights on the tractor and the moon aid operations. three lights supplement night work. Also reported is the largest agricultural limestone order ever placed in Iowa by Collins Farms Co. of Cedar Rapids for a beet sugar factory in Mason City. Delivery of 8,476 tons of by product limestone begins immediately, totaling 169 1-2 carloads of 50 tons each. Hawkeye and other towns receive none of the lime. Limited to New Hampton 1,000 tons, Alta Vista 900 tons, Arlington 700 tons.
Illyria township cooperators met at the church to decide on a campaign against pocket gophers with a plan to assign one organizer per section and charge landowners ten cents per gopher plus the county bounty. The group aims to reduce hundreds of dollars in annual damage by coordinating a neighborhood effort beyond individual farms.
Names from Alpha and Van Clein visit Prairie du Chien Wisconsin. Advice on serving sweets, pork cuts, market weight, and practical laundry and folding tips. Notes on Ida Baldwin’s Waterloo return and Gruver family involvement. Contains miscellaneous domestic observations and aphorisms.
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