Marshall Putnam Farm Bureau Weekly News Letter Highlights
The Marshall Putnam Farm Bureau reports 40 carloads of stock shipped to Producers, valued near $80,000 with only $82 losses. New officers are Ghas Antrim President and Walter Schwanke Vice President. Calf Club plans 32 calves. oats threshing reduced. limestone and livestock plan discussed. Dowell to speak at La Prairie and Lacon. phosphate reduction aided by I A A. Members sign up for Calf Club and corn totals reach 10,088 bushels. brood sows thrive on whole oats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl, O. Johnson
Varna Shipping Association
Antrim
Walter Schwanke
Carl Johnson
N. J. Austin
George Copeland
Dowell
J. M.dowell
Putnam County
Marshall County
Harris Farms
la Prairie Township
Lacon
Os Oe
Myrtle
Ralph Helander
Wenona
Gale Aukland
Dayle Pratt
McNabb
Ruth Bumgarner
F. F. Stansell
Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau
Cottage Boy Harvests 97 Bu Per Acre Of Corn
Russell Horack, a Cottage resident and Tiskilwa high school agricultural student, achieved 97 bushels of corn per acre on a treated one acre plot of his 15 acre field. The experiment used 260 pounds of acid phosphate at a $3.50 cost, yielding earlier ripening tassels, heavier ears, and higher quality seed than the 14 untreated acres averaging 81 bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Horack
Frank Horack
Cottage
Russell
Tiskilwa High School
Schuyler Farmers Plan Public Meetings on Corn
Local farmers worry about next season as a heavy October freeze allegedly reduces corn quality and availability. Wm G Stremmel tested twelve ears from his Woodstock township farm. only two ears had all grains sprout, one ear had all grains germinate, while others showed weak or no germination indicating uneven seed viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stremmel
Woodstock Township
Signs on Ford Cars Padded with Witty Puns
A quirky collection of car slogans appears in a vintage column listing humorous taglines and quips such as The Ingersoll of Autos Sick Cylinders Puddle Jumpers and Four wheels all tired.
First Baby Costs Versus Car Accessories Debate
A local commentary contrasts the rising costs of a newborn with the ongoing spending on accessories for the family’s first car, highlighting budgeting tensions and practical prioritization.
Savanna Storehouse for Millions of War Material
The Savanna proving ground north of Savanna Illinois hosts a 13 172 acre site with a 1600 by 200 by 9 feet nitrate storage pit and 40 warehouses plus magazines as Maj George F Lemon commands 50 soldiers and 60 civilians. Started in 1917 its purpose is a proving ground a depot and a shell loading plant with potential wartime augmentation to 5 000 personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Savanna
Carroll County
Mississippi River
Uncle Sam
Savanna Proving Ground
Davida
Goliath
George F. Lemon
Clothing Torn From Man Worker At Sheffield Plant
Floyd Clay, an oiler at Clay Products Company in Sheffield, had clothing torn by a protruding set screw as he stepped near a shaft. His overalls and underwear ripped away, a leather belt was torn in two, but he escaped serious injury by grabbing a nearby two by four and bracing himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Clay
Clay Products Company
Sheffield
Clay
The Editors Christmas Party on the Continental Limited
A Christmas Eve tale from the Rocky Mountains follows passengers aboard the Continental Limited as a lumberman and Grandma Howard spark a parlor car singalong. A banker reads Christmas stories from a Pennsylvania paper, funds are raised, and a telegram signs the thanks as a warming, communal finale unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Limited
Rocky Mountains
Northwest
Grandma Howard
New England
Howard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Farmers’ Institute, Home and Farm Bureaus
Varna
la Prairie
Henry Siekerka
Granville
George Bornbush
Toluca
Kenneth Mills
Harold Mills
Acre
Schuyler Farmers
Charles Frederick Wadsworth
Western Newspaper Union
Pennsylvania
F. H. Jackson & Son
Rutland, Illinois
T. B
J. L. Kidd Magnolia
Henry, Illinois
Rock Island
Ottawa
Francis Keegan
John Ely C. A. Phillips
Lester Brown
Sandburg
Princeton
Bureau
Bureau-Princeton
Hampshire
Farrow
Janesville Gang
John Deere
Hayes
Columbus
Peoria
Edison Phonograph
A. B
E. H. Child
Miles Fox
D. W. Grant
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