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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1946
Page
4
Classified notices include a sale of a one 10x12 broader house with red wood siding and cedar shingles listed via Clifford Larson in Clermont and other farm and notice items about tax records, lease offers, and agricultural produce plus a theater ticket offer and a botanical digression about crops and island fruits.
A Murfreesboro feature collects reader questions on pronunciation and word usage. It covers status rhyme, solace pronunciation, lycanthropy, St Louis syllables, deficit as pronounced by Des Moines station, Bacall phrase critique, and decalcomania versus decal forms with expert answers and clarifications.
Iowa farmers are urged to maintain a poultry support price for large birds this year and continue dairy production payments through June. Advice covers dusting crops for insect control by aircraft, growing legumes for protein, timely feeding of chicks, and raspberry cultivation. Recommendations emphasize proper fertilizer selection, litter management, oats per acre thresholds, and careful corn ground discing to combat corn borers and beetle issues. Cattle health tips include rotenone dust for grub control and clean, warm brooders for chicks.
A New York Central survey shows 160,000 sleeping car passengers name air conditioning as rail travel's top improvement. It provides comfort by maintaining ideal winter and summer temperatures, adjusting 72 degrees and adapting to heat.
When sewing glass curtains, cut off selvage edges before hemming to prevent puckering after laundering. Selvage is more tightly woven and shrinks more in washing than the curtain body, causing distortion.
Shrub transplants should retain soil on roots and be watered well. Work soil around the roots and add mulch or soil as needed. Prune at least one third of the older portions of the shrub and tip back young shoots before transplanting.
Instructions describe making dishcloths by saving mesh bags from oranges and onions, boiling them 18 minutes in hot soapy water with a splash of bleach to shrink and remove coloring, then washing thoroughly and rinsing. The text emphasizes simple steps for repurposing bags into usable cloths.
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