Should Plant More Clover Message from Ames Experts
Iowa farmers have reduced clover acreage due to high seed price and poor stands but lack of soil plant food is the main failure. Adding organic matter and limestone improves soil, inoculation often unnecessary for red clover, and oats as a nurse crop aids stands. Experts urge sowing red sweet or alsike clover with early oats this spring to restore soil fertility.
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Iowa
Farm Crops Department
Iowa State College
Iowa Experiment Station
Ames
Want Ads Boost Local Trade in Leader Community
The Hopkinton Leader extols its want ad department as a vital service to farmers and residents. Classifieds connect breeders of poultry cattle and swine with buyers, and list used machinery, horses, household goods, and other valuable items, proving ads drive local economy.
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Want Ad
Want Ad Department
Leader
Hopkinton Leader
Road Dragging Urged Through Spring Thaw
Highway Commission engineers urge daily drag operations during the spring thaw to open Iowa dirt roads faster. Frequent drag cycles pack surfaces and shed water, preventing rutting and weak subgrades, ensuring firmer roads as frost leaves the ground and weather improves.
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Highway Commission
Iowa
Simple repairs revive old furniture say Iowa experts
Miss Marion L. Tucker from Iowa State College extension says households can renew scratched and discolored furniture by removing glued dust catchers, cleaning varnish, and applying stain. Sandpaper varnish remover and scrapers ease the process as a new circular on this work is issued for distribution.
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Marion L. Tucker
Extension Department
Iowa State College
Miss Tucker
Seed Potatoes From Iowa Expert Offer Selection Rules
Potato expert C L Fitch of Iowa State College extension lays out seed selection rules. Vitality, shape, and origin from a good crop indicate seed fit for a good harvest. Vigorous seed stays scab free, while scabby seed is never good seed.
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C. L. Fitch
Iowa State College
Mr. Fitch
Iowa
Why Bonds Are Below Par
Liberty bonds will rise if you hold them, the controller of the currency assures us. By the same token, if the people who first bought them had held them, instead of swapping them for automobiles, diamonds and fur coats, they very likely would be at a premium today.
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Chicago Tribune
Wrong Man Advised in Tribune Address Mixup
Benson warned Simms not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes but the warning was misdirected and should have gone to Woodrow Wilson.
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Chicago Tribune
Benson
Simms
Woodrow Wilson
Trade on the Rebound
Sioux City Journal notes a broad uptick in last week’s trade driven by seasonal demand in apparel and millinery. Manufacturing runs at full capacity amid labor shortages and transport strains, with coal supply uncertainty and a shift to domestic fuel use impacting industrial plans.
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Sioux City Journal
Wasteful paper use cited in 1916 19 political speeches
Independence Bulletin-Journal notes paper shortages hit publishers as Collier's Weekly reveals Cabinet, President Wilson, Hoover, Hines, and Gompers speeches costing about 500000 and using nearly 1 million pounds of print from July 1 1916 to September 16 1919.
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Independence Bulletin-Journal
Collier’s Weekly
Wilson
Herbert Hoover
D. Hines
Samuel Gompers
Post Office Department
McAdoo
Washington
Lawn preparation tips from Iowa expert on soils and drainage
P B Brown of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station advises starting lawn prep now. He stresses good drainage and moist subsoil, warns against light sandy soil, recommends loam rich in organic matter, avoiding soil from cuts or gullies, and suggests deep plowing six to eight inches, adding manure, seeding, and rolling after establishment.
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P. B. Brown
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
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