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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1931
Page
4
Want Ad rates note per word for advance payment or 7.5 cents per line if not paid in advance. Minimum 25 cents. Numerous entries list farm equipment, livestock, produce, plants, clothing, and services from Elgin Iowa to Postville Iowa. Includes notices for sale bulbs hay tractors gates fences and a beauty salon contact.
The piece explains a grand jury proceedings term true bill as the finding that a crime has been committed and a named person is indicted. It notes the prosecutor presents facts, leading to the jury’s formal charge against the accused. Badminton origins and an odd note on police helmet reuse are also touched.
Elgin pupils presented a grade operetta last Friday before a good audience. The grade band wore white uniforms and performed amid charming costumes depicting Will o the Wisps and Elves. Instructors earned praise for teaching pantomime. students impressed with fine dancing and staging.
Practical tips for poultry and crop management from a historical agricultural note. Highlights include raising chicks on clean ground for fast growth, avoiding deep sowing for large seed beans like soybeans, using Kudzu and other climbers to beautify farm structures, selecting small seed potatoes for better yields, and maintaining weed control to prevent seed spread. Also covers space requirements per bird, weed seed prevention, and year round green feed strategies with double yarding on sandy soils.
The guide explains preparing a poisoned bran ball using bran, white arsenic or Paris green, and syrup or molasses, then broadcasting it along plant rows at dusk. It notes cutworms feed at night and overwinter in soil, advising preplant applications to reduce overwintering populations before crops emerge.
The report notes windmills were originally employed for pumping water rather than grinding corn in the Near East, where their purpose focused on lifting water in arid regions.
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