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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1929
Page
3
Two Minute Talks OUR WOMEN READERS discusses picnic menus with balanced meals for National Dairy Council events. It offers practical tips, shows sample menus and recipes like Creamed Chicken and Celery and Cheese Salad, and explains how to plan portions to avoid indigestion and provide nutritious, hot dishes brought just in time.
Tips cover water practices for poultry in sun, silage timing for dairy cows, and debunking wool-face sheep myths. It cites USDA findings on Rambouillet fleece, roach control by fluoride powders, and active dairy association programs with average cow butter production around 180 to 295 pounds yearly. Also notes visiting relatives in Postville and Floyd Sires and Anna DeSart residences.
Use the right needles for your sewing machine and keep a supply for expected thread sizes. Chocolate appearing white means fat melted from warmth but remains safe to eat. A wire basket aids canning by lowering jars into boiling water for tomato and peach skins removal.
The article explains alfalfa pastures support 8 to 10 hogs per acre at 100 pounds each with minimal stand injury, noting eastern regions require fewer hogs per acre than irrigated western areas. It recommends a grain feed of 2 pounds per 100 pounds of live weight and provides two grain mixtures for pasture supplementation including oats, bran, corn meal, and cottonseed meal. Trade in Elgin. It Pays.
The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War will meet at the American Legion hall in Fayette on August 17 at 2 p m to elect officers. Full attendance requested by J J Earle.
A quirky note explains ants tend aphids as cows, guarding and moving colonies with honeydew as a staple. Local items mention Berg’s new stock, Oelwein Business College’s 81st year start, Grace Bowen visiting from Buffalo, and ads urging readers to keep old customers with want ads. Regulars include Adolph Lehman back at Thomas’s, Berg receiving Hart Schaffner Marx cloth, and Donald Stoehr visiting with Robert Vaughn in Elgin. Ralph Allen handles American Can Co duties at three canning plant sites for the season.
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