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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
5
The Farm Crops Department at Iowa State College advises reseeding pastures in early spring to thicken stands. A mixture of timothy, red clover, and biennial sweet clover is recommended, with seed rates reduced to about one third for reseeding. Disking and top dressing with manure improve weed control and rapid forage growth.
Highway Commission engineers say dragging dirt roads every day during the spring thaw speeds opening of Iowa roads to normal conditions. Frequent draggings pack the surface to shed spring and early summer rains, preventing waterlogged subgrade and rutting, with every round trip paying off later in better maintained roads.
The notice urges readiness for the first spray with material and equipment in place. If the local druggist does not supply spray material, contact the County Agent who will ensure the right kind and proper amount is obtained. Subscribe for the Times.
Iowa State College reports clover acreage fell over the last decade due to high seed prices and poor stands, but main cause is lack of plant food in the soil. Add organic matter and limestone to correct acidity. inoculation helps alfalfa sweet clover and soybeans, while red clover often requires none. Nurse crops matter. oats outperform later oats, with spring wheat performing poorest.
The Palo Alto County Farm Bureau held four orchard spraying pruning and poultry demonstrations last week. Demonstrations showed sprayed apples yielded cleaner marketable fruit and profits per tree of 8 to 15 dollars versus unsprayed bad fruit. Poultry specialist Warren outlined chick mortality from hatching to market due to unsanitary conditions and poor equipment and offered control and housing guidance.
The text argues for limiting poultry holdings in parts of the state to avoid overcrowded conditions. It claims overcrowding reduces egg production and suggests that disposing of at least half the flock could yield more eggs, urging stricter shelter requirements to prevent overstocking.
Lost Island News reports a newborn son to Mr and Mrs Wm Ras ixtwaen plus numerous local visits, calls, illnesses and family events. Notables include Henry Hauge visiting Wednesday, Karl Holte in Estherville, Nes Matsen hosting supper, and multiple farm moves, medical plans, sickness, and entertaining gatherings around Es therville and Story City.
Rural notes report renewed winter weather lingering as locals record corn shelling, visits, and illness. Several residents travel between Estherville Wallingford and area farms while a new gravel road project promises improved links to the Spear corner and Conrad Russell’s vicinity. Community updates include births illnesses and local meetings with trustees noted in Wallingford on Saturday.
The report highlights Keokuk as the location of the greatest hydro electric plant on earth, while Burlington is noted for hosting the largest packet factory in the United States. Davenport is cited for the world’s largest broom factory.
American schoolchildren will give "one cent and upward" for America's Gift to France a monument to Frederick MacMonnies. The $350000 statue at Meaux will be funded by contributions during March 22 week with posters by Albert Sterner. Charles J. Sabin leads the fundraising at National Headquarters New York City.
The report lists the largest factories in Iowa by product and locale including Cedar Rapids corn, Red Oak calendar, Dubuque sash and door, Davenport macaroni, Burlington furniture, and Waterloo cream separators. It notes Iowa’s agricultural value with crops and livestock outpacing U S figures, and highlights breeding leadership in Percheron, Shire, and Clydesdale horses, plus extensive farm asset data and production statistics. A Boone New Jersey segment follows, detailing Rita Came Long Ways To Wed Lover Anna Klein and the subsequent rasied questions of marriage, travel, and legality, ending with her return to Hackensack after the case was dropped.
Classified notices list farms land sales poultry eggs and horses for sale household properties in Graettinger Iowa with names M Weinholzer Jewelry E M Thompson O H Raleigh Ole Petersen and others plus items like single comb brown Leghorn eggs and two cars for sale including Overland and Ford entries
L. P. C. Larsen states the business now operates from a new residence and will no longer be at the Woodman hall. The move formalizes the new location for offering Turkish baths and medicated baths.
The Larsen Sanitarium promotes Turkish and medicated steam baths as top in the northwest with hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, dietetics, and physical gymnastics. It claims cure of chronic diseases, specializes in rheumatism, spinal adjustments and massage, and offers corn removal with testimonials as advertising. Office listed in Woodman building.
Executive Committee of the Town Farm Bureau Federation reports changes after state and national leadership shifts. Co W Hunt becomes president, BE H Cunningham named secretary, replacing Jim Howard and Mr Coverdale as the State Organization’s secretary. Hunt praised as a seasoned farmer and advocate.
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