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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1939
Page
4
Free sample Udga promised for sufferers from ulcers. Ads promote HYBRID SEED CORN Iowa Nos. 931 939 and Minnesota 301 with prices from 3.50 to 5.50 per unit. Graded treated state inspected certified and delivered. Five bushels or more get 50 cents per bushel off. Grant Lauer Eldorado Iowa.
Tenants and sharecroppers operated 42 percent of farms in 1935 while the AAA promoted soil conservation for widespread farmer participation. World wheat supplies in 1939 reached a record 5,290 million bushels, about 120 million higher than last year. Many Iowa farm laborers are under 35, with a few over 65. Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act loans neared $33.4 million, with nearly 6,200 loans averaging $5,400. Smut on sorghums raises concern for first-time growers, though damaged heads can be fed safely. Iowa lamb finishes may require extra grain and legume hay due to poor pasture. About 75 percent of Iowa soils are acidic, prompting lime use via county Limestone Law for 2–3 dollar returns per dollar spent. Beef cattle fed sorvo or fodder need 25 percent more grain and limestone per head. Well-matured sorghum silage resembles corn silage in feeding. With a good apple crop and war-driven price rise, storage at 34–36°F in clean boxes is advised. Iowa’s red clover seed crop is larger than 1938 nationally, but the 10-year average is slightly exceeded for 343,000 bushels. Production is expected to drop due to lower acreage, yet yields may rise about 10 percent per acre.
A University of Maine dairy bulletin urges dairymen to cut production costs by optimizing feed expenses and roughage quality. It recommends balancing grain mixtures to available roughage, using farm grains when prices are low, adding high protein supplements such as soybean products, and considering culling low producers to lower overall costs.
Michigan State College poultry department suggests winter profit gains by maintaining drinking water at about 50 degrees Fahrenheit. A poultryman can choose a factory thermostatic heater or DIY a heater using lumber scraps a refrigerator pan a light socket and a 50 watt bulb. A two to three gallon water container heated by the bulb serves 100 birds under average winter conditions.
An adequate mineral mixture should be used with any swine ration. Hoards Dairyman cites four satisfactory blends: two parts pulverized limestone, two parts steamed bone meal, one part common salt. two parts steamed bone meal, two parts superphosphate, one part common salt. two parts wood ashes, one part air-slaked lime, one part common salt. two parts limestone dust, two parts wood ashes, one part common salt.
A Prairie Farmer writer notes the average farm family spends about $39 yearly on medical service, rising to $51 including drugs health and accident insurance. Improved roads ease access to offices, reducing need for house calls or neglect of care.
Elgin high school hosts National Youth Administration student aides Clara Baldwin and Gerald Boleyn. Iowa medical society promotes smallpox vaccination with non compulsory program and school vaccination on Nov. 3, cost 50 cents, fundless families eligible. Football results show Elgin loss to Calmar 47 22 and Plainfield exhibition upcoming.
First grade pupils wrote and illustrated booklets recounting Little Black Sambo and now work on booklets for The Three Little Pigs. Jack Hanson celebrated a birthday on Monday and treated each classmate.
Transfers filed with W J Rogers abstract office for week ending Sept 22 include J R Jensen and wife to Mabel C Knudson Qed $1 and property in Cler mont area. Myrtle Medberry to Albert and Mabel Dennler WD $1 and multiple parcels. Dan McGreevy to Ellen R McGreevy et al Qed $1 and NW 22 95 77. Five new Elgin water users connected: Olson T W Dean Donald Gilson Postoffice and Welch's poultry house. Echo ad notes sale bills services and office supplies with low prices.
A local source recalls long standing Polish German tensions rooted in partitions of Poland. He notes German schooling in the Corridor era and enduring Pole hatred, contrasts with Alsace Lorraine and Saar shifts, and argues European wars do not concern the United States. Straweberry Point Press Journal.
A local office supplier advertises a complete line of calendars and advertising novelties. It promotes traveling salesman price quotes and claims low operating costs to save customers money on holiday needs.
Dogs have accompanied man on the battlefield since the early days of June. Unleash the dogs of war meant that dogs attacked the enemy with ferocity. Large mastiff and dane type breeds were used in ancient combats.
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