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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1939
Page
4
Apple content high in water and feed guidance for hogs contrast with rising farm storage and corn carryover. Reports on sleeping sickness in horses, wild game refuges, and drought impact on Iowa crops highlight 1940 era farm conditions. Recommendations cover rat control, seed testing timing, and soy versus soybean meal feeds for hogs.
Fayette county farm women will learn about electrification at two schools on November 22. Sessions at Fayette UT chapel at 1 30 PM and West Union assembly room at the court house at 8 PM will be led by Dorothy Simmons of Iowa State College. All homes awaiting electrification may attend. Minnesota visits Iowa City for homecoming, the twelfth such meeting, with Iowa seeking its first football win over the Gophers since 1829.
Hereford steer calves averaging about 450 pounds arrived in Fayette county for 4H club distribution. The steers were purchased in Kansas City and delivered by truck on Monday. Thomas Dennler of Elgin was among the local club members obtaining a calf.
Mabel Phipps assistant state home demonstration agent will visit Fayette on November 17 from 10 36 to 3 30 to aid home project leaders and officers in planning goals for Achievement Day next spring. County meeting offers leaders and county committee members a chance to meet a state leader. 4-H enrollment urged for 1939 40 club year with many counties enrolling in fall. In Fayette last year 189 4 H club boys and 163 club girls belonged to 11 and 14 clubs respectively.
Henry Frederic Amiel declares that pure truth cannot be absorbed by crowds and must be transmitted through contagion. The aphorism emphasizes the social nature of truth and its spreading power.
A safety notice explains that night driving is riskier than daytime travel. It warns drivers cannot see beyond headlight beams and glare from oncoming cars affects vision. At 50 mph about 75 feet per second, stopping in time is uncertain. Drive carefully.
The Iowa crop report notes 504,238,000 bushels of corn produced by Nov 1, the second largest on record after 1932’s 505,507,000. 1939 acreage trails 1932 but yields per acre exceed by 6.5. some shelling loss due to dryness and minimal frost damage observed. Soybeans reach 9,003,000 bushels, about one percent above any prior Iowa crop, with 1938 at 5,733,000.
Fragmentary note recalls Mary Allerton, daughter of Isaac Allerton, and identifies her as the last survivor among those who traveled on the Mayflower, with death dated in a garbled year around 180.
Fifteen young men have registered with R. P. Strauch for NYA work this winter. Preliminary steps have been taken to promote a conservation project here, improving the old Turkey river bed just north of Elgin. They will be notified when NYA headquarters at Des Moines sends additional information.
M A Klingman of Wadena reports a solid season with total production reaching 5400 gallons as the year’s run for the local manufacturer.
The report notes production for this year is effectively sold out and is roughly 400 gallons short of the 1938 production target.
In marshy areas with abundant rushes cattails and aquatic plant stems muskrats construct houses above water level using available plant materials.
Mrs. Roberts tells doctors her husband suffers long battles with gay fever. A duck’s oily protective layer keeps feathers water resistant. Paint coats prevent moisture absorption and drying, a concept of weathering. A child jokes about Granny’s new hair bob and her appearance.
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