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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1928
Page
2
Agricultural tips cover dairy barn maintenance and pest control, including poultry tick protection with demountable roosts and anthracene or petroleum coatings. Advice on treating brood cows, hogs, and calves for disease, with emphasis on avoiding team-wide serums, and guidance on seasonal hay and crop quality for first-year hay crops and sweet clover.
Early threshing of grain reduces pests as Angoumois grain moths and other insects invade stored wheat and corn. Delays after harvest allow infestations to grow, with Maryland showing 89 to 90 percent damage on late-threshed wheat versus about 2 percent on promptly harvested grain. Most regions incur some infestation near ripening, but timely handling limits losses and permits treatment.
A collage of small ads lists for sale goods and farm animals in Postville Iowa and surrounding areas including grapes Holstein heifers organ and dictionary sales. Stray cattle and yearlings reported near Brainard Elgin and Postville. Also repairs for radios and optometry services available locally.
Johnnie Hellum and family returned from a ten day auto trip to Minnesota visiting relatives. Mrs Christianson of Waseca Wis visits her daughter. Relatives attended H H Groth funeral at Clermont. Several locals shopped in Elkader and hosted guests. Sorghum mill operations began, threshing finished with good grain quality. Hunting on farms forbidden by Brabham and Kohls Elgin notices. Mrs Clarence Trickel of Ames visits Elgin relatives.
Mrs. Henry Wolf and daughter called on Mrs. Hadley Johnson Friday afternoon. H. K. Johnson and children visited, Nebie Learn and daughter Nebie joined Charles Learn and family. Rose Johnson visited Clermont relatives and stayed with Millard Nelson clan. Bertha Kerkestue retired home after helping her sisters. Multiple gatherings occurred across West Union Cedar Rapids McGregor and Prairie du Chien with family and kin.
A French playwright notes American actresses are valued for beauty while Americans rate talent higher. He contrasts French emphasis on talent with American praise of looks and cites a claim about English having far more words than French, German, and Spanish combined.
Ant eggs, known as ant rice in parts of Africa, form one of the trinclipal foods of the region and are valued as a human food source.
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