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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1945
Page
4
Rates for want ads vary by word count and insertion. Up to 25 words cost 26 cents per insertion. Each additional word adds one cent. If replies go to this office, a 10 cent weekly handling charge applies. Cash with order, telephone orders accepted but payment due before month end. End-month billed lines incur 10 cents per line.
Town shoppers are told to take home bags of Balson's Baby Pig Meal for the pigs. Farmers are urged to try the low priced pig meal and the Mineral Protein Conditioner for sow and pig feeding. C M Kneeland Clermont Iowa notes the products. A Federal Land Bank Loan is offered from a farmer's view at low 1 percent interest, with Glen B E Yates as secretary treasurer of the National Farm Loan Association, West Union, Iowa.
Two inch jackshaft three feet long with two iron hangers and large iron pulley. Pulley is 24 inches diameter. Inch face and two inch bore. Sell complete for 10 dollars. R. P. Strauch, Elgin Echo.
A new Brake Check Program runs April 15 to June 1 to save passenger cars from the scrap heap and keep transport for war workers. Officers will check cars in accidents, moving violations, and faulty brake indicators. Farmers urged to buy War Bonds and build reserve funds for future farm needs.
The article urges farmers to fund soil improvement and price protection after the war. It stresses avoiding land speculation to keep prices stable and protect farmers’ future security. Placing savings in War Bonds is recommended to provide such postwar financial security.
Iowa agronomists urge cultivating corn ground ahead of planting with manure to boost returns and save labor. They advise tractor carburetor tuning for fuel savings and recommend fall pig breeding by Oct 1 to hit a national goal of 37 million. Summer poultry shelters improve health, growth, and labor efficiency at minimal cost.
An important rainy day task is gel ling the milk house and cooling tank for summer use. Keeping milk and cream clean aligns with the state dairy program this year. The milk house must be thoroughly cleaned and door and window screens repaired to reduce fly menace.
Concrete blocks furnish a durable, ventilated poultry house suited to any flock size. A 20 by 20 foot unit can serve 100 to 150 birds, offering rat-proof, long lasting walls and adaptable features such as roosts, nesting, dry-mash hoppers, movable windows, and easy cleaning. A straw loft, proper front curtains, running water, and partitions every 20 to 30 feet reduce drafts and improve year round comfort.
A scab and bright resistant potato variety is early yielding and cooking well, aligning with market needs. Domestic starch matches Holland and Germany in quality, plastics emerge from potato pulp, and German chemists create a Tice-like food from potatoes and whey. Seed potatoes in gas-tight chambers boost size and vitamin content. Potatoes also aid paper and alcohol production and provide feed.
A substantial rise in swine pox is reported with two virus types noted by the American Veterinary Medical Association. Swine pox weakens hogs. cowpox can cause deaths. Eliminate lice from animals and premises as lice spread the disease. Treat hogs with oil and sulphur solution and disinfect quarters.
The oldest Ohio structure links France and America and liberty. Settlers reaching the Muskingum river shore from New England in 1788 named the settlement for Queen Marie Antoinette, whose soldiers fought and died to aid liberty in the Revolutionary era.
A giant million volt X ray machine at Surgical Service Army Medical Center and Waller Reed General Hospital in Washington is cited as one of the secret weapons against cancer, tumors, and malignant diseases causing half of 1943 deaths. The device can emit therapeutic radiation worth about 90 million dollars in radium terms, or twelve times the nation’s entire radium supply.
The earliest reference to coal appears in Proverbs 26 21 in a verse about burning coals and fire and is dated around 1000 B C. Earlier Bible mentions may refer to charcoal or partially burned material rather than mineral coal. The term coal originally meant anything combustible and could indicate wood or bone rather than the mineral form.
The guide explains melting chocolate to avoid scorching. Use hot water bath methods in a small pan or a double boiler, never direct heat. Grating wastes chocolate and sticks to fingers. Break pieces and melt in a saucer when melting separately for recipes.
Clean Pasture Poultry raisers are urged to move their chicks to clean pasture as weather and growth allow. Early pasture reduces feed costs and material needs while providing chicks with rich vitamin A B and G forage.
The Federal Trade Commission moved to bar processors or sellers from labeling redfish or rosefish as ocean perch or red perch on restaurant menus and counter cards. Redfish, a saltwater fish, is usually marketed as fillets, often frozen, but it is not a perch, to reduce confusion with freshwater perch.
A chocolate mixture can take on a reddish color when baking soda is added. In sour milk chocolate cake the correct amount of soda for leavening yields a slight reddish tint. Excess soda produces an unpleasant taste.
Keep chocolate in a cool conl place to prevent melting and flavor loss. Surfaces may grey from warmth, but this does not indicate spoilage as the chocolate remains safe to eat.
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