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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1952
Page
4
Farmers plan breeding for January and February lambs to begin in September. Early lambs fetch premium prices, aided by cool weather. Use of DDT or methoxychlor around barns can improve control of pests, but avoid products if milk is handled or stock will be slaughtered within 30 days.
Purebred Duroc Jersey for sale. February and March farrowed, cholera immune. Arno H. Miller and Son, Monona. 11-2 miles south on gravel road. Also boars with new blood lines and P. B. gilts. Clarence Johnson, 1-2 mile east of Clermont. Phone 3F36.
Practical guidance on silage for calves, potato handling, hay utilization by dairy cows, nitrogen fertilization for corn, school lunch participation, asparagus harvesting, silo preparation with treasure, ram breeding with mutton-type bucks, and a method using oil and Venetian red to identify bred sheep with color transfer and a color change after 14 days.
The Iowa inheritance tax has surged from 1,020,718 in 1940 to 3,939,209 in 1952, with nine of the last 13 years posting new highs. Walter D. Cochrane, head of the inheritance division, cites higher land prices and more estates as driving factors, estimating taxes paid on about 3,000 estates in the recent year.
The Army Engineers put flood damage at 179 million dollars with losses by sector including agriculture and towns. Iowa losses totaled 43.4 million, under Missouri by about ten million, while state tax data show Iowans paid 339 dollars in federal taxes and 66 in state taxes on average. Allan Kline, Farm Bureau president, warns against a nationalized economy and urges a platform for America emphasizing self-reliance.
He spoke in Waterloo, Des Moines and Davenport urging other countries to copy U.S. approaches. He warned against expanding government controls and called for restraint in regulation.
The Sept 1 forecast places Iowa corn production at 660,538,006 bushels with an estimated yield of 62 bushels per acre from 10,799,000 acres. The forecast surpasses the 1948 record of 60.5 bushels, as crop development advances toward frost across major Iowa regions.
A local benefit show in Algona raised funds totaling five dollars for Sgt. Buggy, recently flown home from Sioux City after his young son died of polio and his daughter fell ill. Meanwhile at the BB W Cresap farm near Winterset, a bolt struck a cow, snapping a live wire and killing the animal instantly.
An amnesia patient wandered into Independence area hospital and claimed no memory of his identity or events. He recalled the name Lake City Minnesota, leading to the reunion with his brother. Meanwhile a Des Moines infant with polio was hospitalized after an illness.
A Grinnell mother, Mrs. Rowland Chase, is named among those felled by the disease. Both patients are reported in satisfactory condition. The article gives household tips on storage of late vegetables, pest control with DDT, and poultry lice remedies.
A string of quips about a cockroach in tea, fortune telling, traveling salesmen, a joking pig, an incongruous accordion, a psychiatrist chasing a couch on his head, and a man amused by a family album. The humor blends wordplay and absurd images characteristic of vintage humor prose.
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