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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1938
Page
4
Grant Lauer of El Dorado Iowa advertises 1939 planting guidance for corn suited to local conditions. Order directly from the ad and receive a free bride's book with every purchase for wedding invitations or announcements at the Elgin Echo office.
The note highlights unusually large hay supplies in Iowa with soybeans cut for hay feeding horses. It advises wrapping sapling trunks to protect against rabbits and mice. It reports 11,270 acres of terraces in erosion control projects and over 850 miles of terraces since 1934, plus grasshopper outlook and seed production expectations for 1939 affecting future legume and grass seed prices.
A quirky collection of humorous terms and jokes appears with playful definitions such as Skeleton a stack of bones with all the people scraped off and Strip Poker a game where losing more means showing more. The page also notes a doorbell mirror device.
Farm Topics explains coccidiosis in young chickens is costly for farmers. Emphasis on strict sanitation, clean housing, and green-feed diets to boost resistance. Milk-based feeds offer mixed results. disease spreads through contaminated feed, water, clothing, equipment, and pests including rats and insects.
Dr John R Mohler chief of the US department of agriculture says the United States is probably the safest country in the world to raise livestock. He notes that the supply of meat and milk is dependable, aided by scientific research that reduces dangers and enables moving animals to favorable locations during feed shortages.
A Hoard’s Dairyman writer suggests modifying common poultry house nests to reduce egg breakage and cannibalism. Elevate nests from the wall on legs with 1 by 4 boards as walks and add a hinged front wall for easy egg collection. Recommended nest dimensions are 14 inches square and 12 inches high.
A writer in Hoard's Dairyman suggests laying a corner stone for the farm dairy barn with inside records of the farm and community and outside the date and names of owner and contractors. The act signals pride in workmanship and country progress.
The article explains two swine classes lard type and bacon type and how feeding plans shift market hogs toward bacon or lard. It lists Duroc Jersey Poland China Chester White Berkshire Hampshire and Spotted Poland China as lard breeds and Tamworth Yorkshire as bacon breeds, noting other hogs also produce bacon.
A dense list of local visits and meals from Brainard includes numerous households in Elma Fayette Hawkeye Ced ar Rapids and West Union. Notable stops feature the Howard Boyer Nutting Patterson and Becker families with guests traveling to Rochester Minn for Leo Boyer’s operation and hospital care.
Family of Randalia and Oliver Paul joined Rev. A R Belknap for a Saturday at the Belknap home. A Sidney Nutting hosted picnic dinner Sunday with many Nutting family members and Frank Lyon as guests. Other notes include Farm Union and Ladies Aid meetings at local homes, Kjosa family visits, and Brainard Church services with choir practice led by Vern Boyer.
PAicings continues from page one with a morning prayer request. Fifth graders study the Middle Atlantic States while sixth graders explore British Lands in Africa. Miss Lindaman reads Bambi then Bobbsey Twins Windmill Cottage. Hallows Eve decorations appear in art. Halloween songs in music. Fire prevention week discussed. Perfect attendance lists noted for both grades.
Georgiana Falk Alma Grimes Loraine Larson Roy Martin Walter Martin Colleen Roberts Norene Torkelson and Elizabeth Walter of Hill City enter sixth grade while Shirley Boleyn moves to Clive as she starts third grade. A fire safety warning cites kerosene gasoline dangers with farm losses reaching 8 5 million dollars over five years. Ossian authorities warn bicycles on streets require lights to avoid trouble with Elgin youths.
Dutch postal authorities place recording machines for visitors to Holland. Charge a coin, speak into a mouthpiece, and a phonograph ready wraps the message to ship. Recipients at home play the recording, while senders just stamp and address. A man reflects on marriage and washing advertisements.
A compact ad style plea discusses window conditioning as an ancient form of insulation to save fuel and improve comfort with FHA funding and no down payment. It promotes concrete home repairs like crumbling steps and Mule-Hide Roof as low cost protection and lists quotes about safety and tone from a radio dialogue.
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