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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1933
Page
3
Jones County Farm Bureau outlines soybean seeding timing and inoculation, noting seed scarcity and rising prices. The column also covers club activities, music festival plans, athletic show success, local visits, and several community notices in Lenox Hopkinton and surrounding areas.
Local growers receive notices on applying cluster bud or pink spray just before blossoming to prevent scab on apples and brown rot on plums. Plums bloom earlier, so spray a week earlier. cherries and pears often do not require it. Scab caused heavy losses in 1992 and rain could worsen damage. thorough spraying across the tree is advised as crop insurance.
Farmers can determine legume soil bacteria by growing a legume and checking for nodules. If soils are acidic or have had poor legume crops, inoculation is advised. Soybeans especially should be inoculated on new soils. inoculation has boosted soybean hay and seed yields by 50 to 70 percent in Iowa State tests.
Four bushels per acre is the break even point for seed treatment costs of about four cents per acre, enabling farmers to afford chemical dusting when prices meet or exceed this level. Demonstration plots since 1926 across Iowa show an average yield gain of about 4 bushels per acre, with 1932 results at 4.9 bushels per acre.
Hopkinton reports Rev. David de Best and son David Jr travel to Rochester Minnesota to consult doctors about removing a long worn arm brace. Clio club hosts at Mrs B W Humphrey’s Tuesday. Elva Bethel of Postville visits Hopkinton. J W Dodds of Galena Ti visits Rev and Mrs Allen. Mrs Melvin Green taken to Town City for medical care. P T A South Fork township meets at Cap Arduser home with Prof Grimes speaking on home training and Cecelia Ellington readings. new president named Wal.
Miss Jean Nagel R N assumes full charge March 1 1933 at John McDonald Memorial Hospital Monticello succeeding Miss Jessie Joyce. Nagel brings training from Mercy Des Moines University of Iowa and University of Pennsylvania with operating room specialization and heads five nurses while two new staff join.
Cascade residents hosted relatives from New York to Dubuque over Easter. Mrs Murray returned from Mercy hospital Anamosa and is recovering. Iowa City visitors included Mrs Reuss and daughter Elizabeth. George Dolphin underwent a serious operation in Iowa City with daughter Monica present. Local dances and theatre events featured the Faber sisters and a fan dance at Dubuque senior high auditorium.
Scotch Grove report notes Center school pupils visited Miss Hazel Craig, now recovering, with attendees including June Henrichs Georgia Moats Marcella Otten Ruth Clark Pauline Otten Richard Eby and others. Mrs C P Abbott teaches there. Also local moves and Easter visits mentioned with Rickels Ralston Shaffer families and extended kin.
The Cascade Woman's club will present The World's All Right at the Cascade theater this Thursday and Friday. The show, set in a broadcasting studio, features eight scenes with music and laughs and a cast of 150 locals. The town reads of Bunco prizes and community visits as well.
Castle Grove Dr. Kremers delivered a Sunday forenoon sermon with text Futility of futilities all is futile. Monticello pupil John Hiller missed school last week due to illness. Klaud Dick of Wyoming, a county school superintendent candidate, visited nearby.
The text notes a Sunday evening visit to the John Van Buren home in Buffalo township by Mrs. H M Hosford and her sons Lyle and Clarence and Claude Mason. At the farm bureau meeting on Friday night April 28 the club boys will sell sandwiches doughnuts cake and pickles with cocoa or coffee at 16 cents a plate.
Immense production of quarter million baby chicks available from Hopkinton Iowa breeding plant. Buff Rocks Barred Rocks White Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds Jersey Giants and more blood tested and town accredited. Lux Feed promoted with low prices. A dealer in every town.
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