Teach Youngsters About Hazards of Farm Machinery
Spotlight on safety urges parents to keep children off moving tractors and teach high respect for farm equipment. Iowa safety expert Norval Wardle cites sobering accidents among farm children and recommends supervised, controlled play, with driving training starting no earlier than age 12 and hands-on on level ground. National Farm Safety Week runs July 20 26 to promote family safety.
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Towa
Norval Wardle
Iowa State College
Iowa
Wardle
Renovate chicken houses and prep for next year
Iowa farmers are urged to renovate last summer to ensure a disease free laying house. Winter injury shows in willows from last November freeze. Farmers should spray cattle for horn flies with DDT or methoxychlor, dairy cows require methoxychlor. Peaches and apricots should be mature but not overripe. ground color and blush indicate ripeness. Pigs predicted to be 29 percent fewer this year. second-brood corn borer moths may appear before August 1. by-products prices fall depressing live animal prices. Americans set egg and turkey records in 1951. shift to control quackgrass and Canada thistle now.
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Iowa
Weeds and crop disease guidance from a midcentury agronomy note
The article warns free weed growth before frost for quackgrass and Canada thistle to build reserves. It prescribes shallow plowing and spring-tooth harrowing to remove roots, with burr disposal if many roots are uprooted. It also notes rising egg and poultry consumption since 1541 and describes tomato blight progression and copper spray control.
25 Years Ago Ostlie and Rogers Buy Decorah Holdings
Brief Past Dimensions: Ostlie and Rogers acquired the Decorah Syndicate holdings of 2,080 acres of Canadian wheat land near Brandon Manitoba. In Clermont, Wilma Miller and Guy Probert wed in a double ring ceremony conducted by Rev. Phillip Lauer. Local incidents include sheep losses from dogs, a boy struck by a car, burglaries at Postville stores, and council talks on new fire equipment.
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H. B. Ostlie
J. P. Rogers
Decorah Syndicate
Brandon
Manitoba
John F. Miller
Clermont
Wilma Miller
Guy R. Probert
Phillip Lauer
Elgin
Carl Carmichael
West Union
Wm. Larrabee, Jr
Larrabee Hill
Hub
Postville
Shara Shoe
E. P. Durne
Fire Department
Local notes from Clermont area about visits and celebrations
Mrs Qle Amundson rests at the Art Amundson home after hospitalization and is joined by numerous relatives and friends during the past week. A birthday party honored Hangs Sandvold with relatives and neighbors in attendance. Jackie Bakewell hosted a Little Miss theater party for her seventh birthday with cake and gifts. Nearby families from Milwaukee and West Allis visited Mrs Margaret Schinz, while Herb Martin and Ruth Dubbert visited Cedar Rapids.
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Qle Amundson
Art Amundson
Knudsen
Almer
Morris Amundson
Gordon Landargard
Bernard ‘Hanson
Joe Baker
Henry Olson
Henry Amundson
Sophie Loftsgard
T. T. Loftsgard
Ruth Westpfahl
Bernita Landsgard
Harold Landsgard
Clara Helgerson
Joe Olson
Elmer Larson
Harold Opsand
Ruth
Ed Burt
Eliza Martz
Hangs Sandvold
West Union
Avalon
Summer travels and visits across Iowa and Idaho
The report traces a family trip to Idaho visiting Herb’s son James in Garden Valley and relatives in Emmett, plus multiple gatherings in Iowa. James, a senior at Iowa State College, trains as a Smoke Chaser this summer for graduation next spring. Also noted are church visits, birthday celebrations, weekend guests, reunions, and a neighbor dog incident with a mountaineer’s dog tragically killed.
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Idaho
Herb
James
Garden Valley
Dale
Grimés
Emmett
William Kiingér
di Santa
Iowa State College
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Margery Bowers
Martin Nelson
Arlington
Miss Bowers
Sandyard
Los Angeles
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Royer
Episcopal Church of Our Saviour
Helen Dibble
Boyer
Dorothy Burger
Clavus Berentson
Harry Johnson
Quincy
Bob Smith
Waterloo
Ron‘ald Kelly
Barbara
Kansas City
Minnesota
Liloyd Meier
Arthur Wilken
Léland Carpenter
Strawberry Point
P. J. Meier
Guttenburg
J. A. Erickson
Norman Erickson
Northwest
Emma Schave
Waukon
Suzanne Kjosa
Clara Meyer
Arthur Johnson
Wm. Belschner
Des Moines
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Nel
Chicago
Ted Lottsgard
R. V. Brandt
Lucien*Appelman
Birthday Club
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Hir
Schlein & Eggers Chiropractors
Sai
Karen Biecha
Strauch
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Elgin Echo
Elgin, Iowa
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