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Newspaper
Iowa County Farmer
Location
Williamsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1951
Page
7
The note urges careful budgeting and meal planning to cut food expenses. It recommends making a shopping list, avoiding overbuying, and choosing cost effective dairy options. It emphasizes reading labels, comparing prices per unit, and choosing best buys to stretch a household budget.
A Missouri University specialist suggests a U shaped sewing center to improve efficiency for family seamstresses. Helen Barnard recommends this layout to reduce movement and streamline tasks in sewing projects.
A dairy barn style sewing center groups a cutting table adjustable ironing board and sewing machine to reduce trips around the house. Right handed users should work from right to left placing the cutting table at machine height and keeping fabrics units and pressed pieces within easy reach. Ensure ample lighting and consider built in storage to streamline steps and finish tasks without leaving the chair. Mention The Iowa County Farmer when you buy.
Concrete hardening can be sped up in cold weather by adding calcium chloride at two pounds per sack mixed with two quarts of water. Use caution not to exceed this amount as it weakens strength. Dry calcium chloride goes in mixing materials. Calcium chloride speeds hardening but does not lower freezing point. Concrete still needs insulation and heat during freezing temps. A thick straw layer under tarpaulins is common, and artificial heat may be required in extreme cold.
Walter Wright Iowa County Weed Inspector reports a strict rule on farm seed sales. All sales to neighbors and at auctions must comply with labeling including variety name weed content germination and purity. Penalty fines up to 250 dollars. Send samples to the Seed Testing Laboratory Des Moines for analysis at one dollar per sample.
A guide on boosting manure value by adding phosphate. It recommends spreading 40 pounds of 20 percent superphosphate per load before field application or two pounds per cow per day in the barn. Leaving manure indoors over winter minimizes nutrient loss. if piled outside, spread frequently or form flat-topped piles to reduce leaching.
Miss Alvérda James home economist presented the Household Storage lesson at Mrs Edwin Yoder's home on January 23. The talk covered closets and storage spaces classified into three divisions maintenance seasonal and dead items with guidance on easy access and neat arrangement. Eighteen ladies attended as Mrs Fern Bell chaired the business meeting and Mrs J J Birkey reported two Polio cases in the county.
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