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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1924
Page
8
A scrambled crossword list presents horizontal and vertical clues with mixed letters and numbers. Entries reference names, times, tools, animals, and actions, indicating a themed puzzle with numerous interwoven definitions and a forthcoming solution.
Instructions explain placing letters in white panels to form horizontal and vertical words. Numbers reference definitions below the puzzle. Horizontal and vertical clues define words stopping at black squares. No letters go in black spaces. All words are dictionary terms, proper names excluded.
The U S Department of Agriculture and University of Wisconsin outline tobacco disease losses, origins in seed beds, and prevention methods. It highlights damping off bed rot mosaic wildfire black fire and Wisconsin leaf spot as key threats, with control through resistant varieties sanitation and proper growing conditions. Copies are free while supplies last.
Old verse explains mangels as cheap, plentiful chicken and cow feed. It urges feeding whole or chopped roots to hens for health and egg yield, aided by litter protein, skim milk, meat scraps, mash, and shell.
Tankage is not a substitute for corn but should be used to supplement it in hog feeding. It replaces a large part of the corn and insures satisfactory and economical gains which the farmer with a short crop of corn cannot afford to neglect. At the present price of grain, tankage is probably the cheapest feed considering results obtained.
A short checklist from O H Chesley emphasizes milking with clean hands, gentle handling of cows, avoiding ill smelling seeds before milking, cooling cream before mixing, and maintaining clean animals. It touts dairying as a profitable farming branch with proper care and attention.
Artificial lighting in poultry houses extends daylight, boosting winter egg production. Studies by New York State College of Agriculture show general pen lighting is as important as floor lighting, with findings on morning and evening light, perch placement, and reflector use to optimize feeding areas.
Good eggs are the best of food and essential for many pastry dainties. The article urges attention to flock characteristics, infertile egg production, sanitary management, careful handling and cooler marketing, and segregating off size or defective eggs to prevent theft and raise quality and income.
The Extension Service at Colorado Agricultural College notes ventilation as a major problem in poultry houses. Chickens roost at window sills when drafts or poor air circulation occur, and writers advise keeping the house not tightly closed as cooler weather arrives to allow fresh air circulation.
This fragment offers guidance on humus from manure not burning waste land for pasture, storing manure under a roof, incubator use with stable room temperature, selecting quality roosters, and handling infertile eggs by boiling and mixing with mash to feed chicks.
Thomas Scott McConnell, newly elected commander of the Indiana department of the American Legion, served in the Army after the 1917 declaration of war. He trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison and Fort Monroe, rose to first lieutenant in the coast artillery, served in France, then returned May 11, 1919. He later settled in Fowler, Indiana, was Benton Review Shop treasurer, married in December, and has two children. He previously chaired the Tenth district and was elected department commander.
Texan State College for Women President Lindsey Blayney lauds the American Legion as four-square to the home, school, church, and law. He warns against restless demands harming the ideals of the Constitution and urges tolerance as the Legion’s message in action.
Calvin A. Smith of Indiana claimed overseas service to impress a bride and justify honeymoon spending. In court he confessed to fabricating World War II hero lies and attempting to use counterfeit funds to cover honeymoon costs. Judge Wilmeth pressed him on misused wartime claims as he faced fraud allegations.
American Legion officials led by State Commander Nathan Coombs have launched a campaign to boost hospital facilities for California World War I veterans. The effort seeks government additions to care capacity and will cooperate with the National American Legion and rehabilitation programs under Watson B. Miller of Washington.
A movement for a new high school is under way at Iluwarten, with J J Witton and Cella setting a six foot hog price at $100 for the Tarnum Katley Circus, while Iowa fire losses reach $7,828,360.62 in 1923 as the state navigates prohibition, insurance costs, and livestock cooperatives amid a broad set of rural development efforts.
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