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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1928
Page
8
A guide advises choosing long vertical dress lines to balance hip proportions. It also covers whipping cream with a very cold bowl and dover beater, or ice bath, and aging cream to 30 percent butterfat for best results. A simple wash-day dinner menu features cold sliced corned beef and a vegetable curry with rice and curry sauce.
Sun protection and shade boards help control swarming by cooling hives and reducing heat stress. White painting, good yard airflow, and larger entrances aid ventilation. Swarming risk rises in hot weather and is higher in clover regions. local observers note residents Frank Shipton and Ern Holzer and family visiting C Harrington’s home amid summer travel.
The article surveys cooperative associations, farm insurance scale, and pasture crops like soybeans for sheep. It notes fly varieties found in houses, true house fly traits, and non biting behavior. It also covers hog house design, site drainage, and farrowing pen guardrails, plus several social notes from Caledonia and Waterloo visits.
Local social life is chronicled with visits among Frieden and Kruger families, farm bureau events in Pleasant Valley township, and multiple gatherings at Elgin, Wadena, and Clermont. Church notes report a strong Sunday service, new members, baptisms, and a Ladies’ Aid ice cream social from the Mlyria church.
The East Clermont Luther League will present a program at Marion Lutheran church next Sunday evening. President Helgen of Waldof College at Forest City will give an address at Marion church next Sunday evening. Everyone is invited to attend this program. T. W. Tysdal, Pastor, and Mr and Mrs Rudy Yunker and John Duracher Sr left last Thursday for Rock Valley and Remsen to visit relatives.
A numbered list of 15 practices for keeping healthy hens and high quality eggs, including housing, nesting, litter, roosts, yard times, broodiness control, culling males, egg collection, handling, cooling, washing avoidance, home use of small dirty eggs, and timely marketing. It notes a prospective price incentive of 12 cents per pound for roosters delivered on the 5th and 6th of May.
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