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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
4
The text offers practical farming notes on crop hybrids and seed testing, flushing ewes to raise lamb crops, safe hog dipping timing to avoid pneumonia, and houseplant watering practices. It emphasizes timing, moderation, and observing conditions for best results.
Annual report figures list various monetary amounts in dollars such as 4753.12 534.40 5936.25 1293.60 and 31.04 180.84 4079.70 10605.77 3838.16. The long sequence includes 12729.05 10847.31 23576.36 184574.63 and 184611.81 with additional numbers 12407.48 172204.33 and 172129.88. No context or labels are provided for these figures.
Local farmers in eastern Iowa favor Bolson's Hi Test Mineral Conditioner for hogs cattle calves sheep horses and poultry. It saves feed keeps stock in good condition and pays big dividends. Priced low. C M Kneeland of Clermont promote this product to area granaries.
The Clay ton County Farm Bureau will hold its annual meeting on Monday Dec 18 at the E kader opera house starting 10 am with farm bureau chorus, welcome by Joel Clark and remarks by state senator Paul Stewart. Reports by Otto Elvers Oliver Eno and others. Afternoon includes officer elections.
Twenty Clayton County Junior Farm Bureau members met at the Elkader Junior College building on Friday evening December 6 for their annual meeting and to elect 1941 officers. Valmah Mueller Garnavillo was named president and Dale was elected to another officer post.
The passage explains moisture needs for cereals. Rolled oats require water roughly twice the cereal measure. Granular cereals like cornmeal absorb five to six times their measure. Whole grains such as negi take about two quarts, about weight times as much water as cereal.
In Towa pasture work lifts new grass types and mixes from curiosity class. Brome grass and alfalfa blend into a highly palatable, drought resistant mix. Trials show 60 percent more livestock support than bluegrass in a season. Electric device fixed by Nels Johnson causes his death in Hastings. Ruth Currans finds 25 ancient coins in Ruthven garden. Harry Hopkins studies professional baseball finance at Grinnell College.
Mrs Reid, formerly of London and now in Monong, addressed the Elgin Study Club in the school auditorium on Friday, sharing personal experiences and presenting England as it really is amid the war in Europe. TRACTOR UPSETS Martin Becker of Lakota was injured when his tractor overturned three times.
A collage of newspaper jokes and captions: a wit describes Beecher’s kindness to a cold boy, shoppers exchanging lines, a Christmas ping pong table plug, a Napoleon pun, and classroom quips. Martin Senour paints from Elgin Iowa are promoted.
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