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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1931
Page
6
Plattville township Farm Bureau held its annual picnic on the Bethlehem school lawn at Pacific Junction on July 26. A noon dinner followed by races for men and children, then a ball game between married and young men, ended with ice cream and cake as attendees left. reporter Miss Mary Bantrup notes a joyful day.
Iowa reports severe garden webworm damage across crops led by alfalfa but also affecting clover soybeans cow peas sugar beets peas sweet clover and young corn. Entomologists warn of 2 to 3 generations yearly with larvae feeding on leaves and webbing and advise spraying with lead or calcium arsenate or cutting affected fields when spraying is impractical.
Mills Dowatians report grasshopper damage across farms in Mills county. R Hopp of the Farm Bureau reports using poison bran mash to kill hoppers and notes many dead insects. R Wyde and June Fickel report cornfield and orchard damage, while Bert Hyzel cites hopper damage on Nishna river bottom.
County Agent G A Rosenfeld issues notices to fruit growers that a second spray may be needed to control the second brood of coddling moth in winter apple varieties. Apply two to three weeks after the last spray, or Aug 12 to 20, depending on worm presence and crop prospects. Weather favors minimal disease, mixing one pound lead arsenate with two to three pounds hydrated lime per fifty gallons.
Iowa State college Extension Service experts say high egg production hinges on good breeding stock, feeding, and management. A 300-hen flock eating 3 pounds mash and 3 pounds scratch daily costs about 10 cents per hen per month, with 12 to 16 eggs per hen monthly yielding 6 to 15 dollars in profit after costs. Culling non-producers and maintaining laying mash, plus 8 pounds scratch for 100 hens daily, aids sustained output given proper housing and quality stock.
Instructions advise pruning Franpberry and plnckberry after harvest to promote strong shoots next year. Cut canes to ground, burn, and remove terminal buds on 24 to 38 inch current year shoots to stimulate lateral growth. Mark promising cockerels early for breeding. avoid sending all to market. Dairy cattle provide most beef and veal. grasshoppers threat to alfalfa and corn. apply poison bran mash to protect young plants.
Early plowing increases soil moisture and a firm seedbed for alfalfa and wheat, while weeding and shallow cultivation preserve these gains. With wheat prices low, finish hogs on ground wheat rather than corn, as it fattenes hogs efficiently and often yields more gain per hundred weight than corn.
Mr and Mrs Dick Fisher of Hax tum Colo visit relatives in Pacific Junction. Prof W L Evans elected to succeed Bapt W R Paul as superintendent after Paul’s resignation. D A Purcell rural mail carrier and his brother Herbert Purcell and Thomas Thompson travel to the Black Hills and Yellowstone for two weeks. Herbert Lincoln to substitute. Dr R K Hoover of Artesia NM visiting. G H Johnson meat market owner and others taking a ten day trip to Lake Okoboji. Lidget of Glenwood manages locally during Purcell’s absence. W M Moore’s son in law attends operation in Omaha. recovery reported as good.
Mr and Mrs M K Moore and daughter Elaine were in Omaha Sunday evening. J R Dick Fisher and family from Malvern visit his parents Mr and Mrs John Fisher and other relatives this week.
Mr and Mrs Ferdinand Kruse and family visited relatives in Mingnia on Saturday. Rudelph Miller Tom Primmer and Herhy Delteler traveled to Free mont Nebraska Saturday on business. Mrs Ferdinand eitehter underwent a minor nose operation at the clinic In Cornell Butts on Saturday. Mrs Rowan Kurtz and guest Miss Laura McReynolds of Silver City spent Monday evening with Mr and Mrs Carl Rose. Mr and Mrs Ray Miller visited in Omaha Monday. Earl Robbite and GL P Henry visited in Silver City Monday evening. Herman evers was dinner guest Sunday of Mr and Mrs Carl Hose. Mr and Mrs John Kenney left Monday for a months vacation in Washington state. Albert Schoening Sr who has been in the hospital for three weeks was able to return home Sunday. Mr Schoening was hurt in an automobile accident when his arms were injured. Edison Shelt of Wilcox. Mores returned home Monday evening after a week in Minenin with Mr and Mrs Bart Robbitt.
Ralph Parker threshed wheat last week and stored it in the granary for better prices Jimi Hammers with his threshing outfit did the job Wilt Bhaw of Council Bluffs and sons Wayne Earl and Leslie assisted shelling and delivering corn on Sam Shaw's farm Mt Vernon school directors oversee renovation with paint and paper for September opening Charles Parks handles interior decorating
An inch or more of rain last Sunday boosts corn prospects after drought and heat. Mt. Vernon residents focus on the MIs County Fair, with many attending and helping. Farmers guard against theft after a northeastern Malvern case saw thirteen fat hens stolen. The International Brotherhood of Magicians closed a three day convention at Columbia Ohio with no hotel vanish tricks reported.
Des Moines reports quote M G Thornburg Iowa Secretary of Agriculture stating 27 cattle were tested and 8 reacted. Postmortems show a bull and one cow with generalized disease, four reactors with marked lesions, and two with lesions not yet visible.
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