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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1942
Page
4
Civilians join salvage effort to reuse textiles for the war. Homemakers urged to buy only what is needed and to gather worn garments for repair. Salvage depots welcome usable items including wool, nylon, and silk containing pieces. Reprocessed Victory wool rivals virgin wool in quality and color.
Several people chose War Stamps and Bonds instead of sending Christmas cards this year. The writer praises the patriotic choice and suggests many will follow if the war lasts longer. Remembering friends at Christmas is hard, but the wartime pattern is being set.
Purebred Chester White stock hog about 300 pounds for sale priced at 35 dollars See or phone J M Gehring R3 Elgin 17p.
The article warns fowl cholera as a winter risk for Iowa poultry and contrasts it with fowl typhoid. It advises vitamin A sources for young calves, notes whole milk and legume hay as key supplies, and links dairy grain feeding to milk prices. It endorses legume silage for high milk production and recommends extra corn and wheat with silage.
In 1942 Town farms posted total grain hay and forage output of 29 827 000 tons, up 23 percent from 1941 and far surpassing any prior year. Corn yield reached 61.5 bushels per acre for 996 796 000 bushels from 9 784 000 acres, about 19 percent of U S total. Soybeans acreage nearly doubled amid adverse September frosts, with a per acre yield of 21 bushels and a state record production of 39 312 000 bushels, about two and a half times the prior record.
A fragment shows Sambo and Beastus in a wartime exchange about armed duty and a harsh line toward Hitler. A troubled woman reads a letter that says a soldier loves her but talks too much, ending with Od.
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