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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
4
Iowa farm notes report bumper corn storage and rising tractor ownership while urging shade and water for poultry in heat. It covers rose black spot, chinch bugs, creosote barriers, and wheat insurance options, plus practical pest control methods and iris and peony transplant timing.
Easterners labeled the desire of people to move to the Middle West after the War of 1812 as “Ohio fever.” The term reflected discouraging attitudes from eastern observers toward western migration and settlement.
A University of Vegetable Sarkaree expert describes outdoor storage pits as a low cost method to extend vegetable prices. Suitable crops include beets carrots cabbage turnips parsnips and winter apples. Proper pit dimensions lining insulation drainage ventilation and staging are explained along with careful preparation to prevent bleeding shriveling and rot. Pumpkins squash and sweet potatoes should be kept in a warm dry area near a furnace.
Dr H S Wilgus Jr of Colorado State College explains turkeys reach marketing size after 24 to 28 weeks through brood ing growing and finishing periods. Interfering with growth risks deformed breast bones and late maturity. As birds near finish, restrict range and provide four to five birds per foot of feeder space.
Pekin ducks are described as America's leading commercial breed for meat. Noted for size and rapid growth, they are also good sitters and layers. Marketable in eight weeks, they yield table-ready birds with long bodies and broad fronts.
A correspondent in Wallaces Farmer notes that a four-horse team plows four acres daily, disks twenty, harrows forty. A five-horse team plows five, disks twenty five, harrows fifty. A six-horse team adds one more acre plowed, five more acres disk, and ten more acres harrowed.
Brainard residents hosted visitors from Fayette Elgin and Hawkeye while many families welcomed relatives for weekend visits. Sunday and Thursday gatherings included picnics and supper guests at multiple homes. Church notes announce Sunday school at 10 30 a m and preaching at 8 p m with Rev R A Bellenap as pastor.
Sam Butikofer is confined to his bed again. Mrs. Walter Kohls attended a meeting of the NCCW in Spillville. Mr and Mrs Walter Bovis and sons visiting in Waukon. Georgia Mae Schori and Evelyn Bruce from Minneapolis visited with the Schori and Grether families. They had been in Fayette during Harold Swartley’s illness and burial. They returned to Iowa City Monday evening. Let The Echo do your printing.
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