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Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 29, 1945

Page

4

Ee Nolss Want Ad Rates and Local Notices

Ee Nolss outlines want ad rates: 25 words at 25 cents, 1 cent per word thereafter, plus 10 cents weekly handling for replies. Terms are cash with order. telephone payments allowed but due by month end. Monthly billing incurs 10 cents per line. Also promotes Genuine International Harvester parts and service with repair line 2711 Elgin. Also advertises Gypsy Rose Lee show at Avalon and available tickets for Sun day show and mid week shows in Elgin.

Want Gypsy Rose Lee Avalon the Echo Floyd Frieden Elgin H EB Booker Clermont Helmer Uncle Sam Torkelson Bros Dial

Elgin Echo Repair and Stamp Service Ad

Complete repair and reconditioning service for marking devices including stamps pads dies daters numberers and seal presses. Also new stamps pads bands dies and made to order for all stamping needs.

Elgin Echo

Flax Seeding Tips Urge Firm Seedbed and Light Cover

County Extension Director M C Wangsness urges farmers to prepare a solid seedbed for flax and avoid deep disking after corn. For small seeded varieties, sow 35 pounds per acre if seed is cleaned and treated. larger varieties need about 3 pecks per acre. If germination is low, crack, or broken seed, increase seeding rate.

M. C. Wangsness

Artificial Insemination Assn. meeting announced

Dairymen will meet at Fayette on Tuesday afternoon April 3 at 1 30 to discuss artificial breeding of cattle. The gathering responds to requests from county dairymen seeking a service to replace on farm bulls and allow small producers access to high producing stock at lower cost per cow. All interested dairymen are invited.

Fayette

Government urges fair meat rationing and aid drives

In week 173 of the war the government asks citizens to pay ration points in full and respect ceiling prices for meat. It calls for two Easter gifts for the front lines, extra support to the Red Cross, and to search closets for clothing, shoes, and bedding for the United National Clothing Collection Committee Drive starting April 1.

Red Cross Fund Eearch United National Clothing Collection Committee

No Need for Pessimism About Food Supply Says Marvin Jones

War Food Administrator Marvin Jones urges confidence in the nation's food outlook. He notes 1943 production rising 32 percent above prewar levels and 1944 up 5 percent to a record 37 percent above prewar output, despite wartime handicaps. He pledges sufficient food for civilians and troops while aiding allies and relief efforts.

Marvin Jones

Program to Provide Longer Wear for Shoes

WPB announces an intensified program for conservation of shoe leather and sole leather treatment to provide longer wear. The program, supported by shoe manufacturers, will extend to retailers and consumers to assure understanding and cooperation. Shoe retailers and salesmen, as well as the public, will be informed of the extra value of shoes with oil wax or equivalent treatments.

WPB

New Ruling on Seed Potatoes and Farm Crops

A new ruling requires seed potatoes sold for table use to be labeled tablestock and priced at table stock ceilings. Government urges Midwest poultry to boost chicken meat output to support military needs and civilian markets. Projections show lower red meat availability in 1945. Dwarf Essex rape offers pasture value for swine and sheep, not dairy cows due to milk flavor. Earlyana soybeans outperform Richland in some Iowa soils but lack standability. Sow udder condition signals farrowing around 24 hours after milk appears. Emphasizes seed treatment to prevent damping off and crop losses. Warba is the earliest potato, Irish Cobbler later and less suited for Iowa, Sebago blight resistant.

Midwest Army Iowa

Castings Up-Rated to Aid Farm Machinery Production

To insure delivery of essential farm equipment a limited volume of malleable iron castings will be up rated for AA-1. Farm equipment production excluding repair parts is currently about 20 percent behind schedule.

Fly control tips for farm barns and dairies

Iowans can cut fly-borne disease risk and improve milk production by destroying breeding places. Fly traps near barns help, but supplies must be kept on hand from breeding season start. Clean manure every 5 days, treat outdoor toilets, scatter rotting piles, bury clippings, and use fly poisons like formaldehyde mix in shadow containers with bread as landing fields.

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