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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1923
Page
3
Fragment from a reflective column recalling September tales of hayseed in hair and political soot, with old party bravado, caricatured figures, and one-off jests about duster whiskers and carpet sacks. It also notes safety lessons, weather, balloonists, and a Philadelphia pugilist fending off a purse snatcher.
The Ames Agricultural Experiment Station will host Field Week September 10 to 16 featuring slogans Fit the sufl to the Yelgume and Sit the legume to the suff. The event shifts from a field day format to a broader farm traps and sails inspection, highlighting soil treatments to improve legume stands. Officials note varied soil responses with species like red clover and soybeans showing surprising gains, while some plots fail under ordinary sowing.
The article notes that planting winter wheat on freshly harvested soybean ground, after proper cultivation, improves soil for the wheat and may replace much of the corn acreage in Iowa. It advises plowing four to five inches deep in dry seasons, and highlights rotations with soybeans and clover. It also describes silo top water tanks as fire protection and water delivery, citing Iowa State College engineers who tested two 600 barrel tanks on hall and Whiting silos a decade ago.
Extension Service expert Larry Warner notes favorable conditions for liming as best time to apply lime and reports from 400 queries show an 80 percent profit from lime use. Data indicate clover yields near 2 tons per acre and alfalfa about 3 tons per acre on limed soils. Farmers are urged to trial lime to improve soil fertility and profits, with some stray editorial remark about seat changes in heat.
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