Teach Your Children Homemaking Can Be Fun
Homemaking can be taught to children during summer without school. Mary Pickett of Iowa State College suggests making daily chores engaging to build a right attitude and enjoyment in tasks like bed making and dishwashing. She advocates step by step learning, child involvement, and simple, practical projects such as sewing a skirt, planning weekly menus, and canning or freezing foods, with patient guidance and gradual responsibility.
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Mary Pickett
Iowa State College
Rescue near Burt saves child and dog from old refrigerator
Not all stories end tragically but at Luther Fairbanks farm near Burt a six year old girl and her dog were found trapped in an abandoned refrigerator. They were rescued before suffocation.
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Luther Fairbanks
Burt
Paddlefish Surge In Iowa Inland Streams Tide
Paddlefish or spoonbills, rare in Iowa, are reported in large numbers in the Cedar and Des Moines rivers reaching near Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa. The State Conservation Commission notes the season opens August 1 and warns against snagging during river concentrations.
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Cedar
Des Moines
Cedar River
Cedar Rapids
Ottumwa
Mississippi
Missouri
Towa
Mississippi Valley
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State Conservation Commission
Knowing How to Market Is a Must For Iowa Farmers
Iowa State College extension livestock economist Sam H. Thompson notes nine Iowa packing houses pay meat-type hog differentials, plus stockyards vary with competition. Farmers must grade hogs to know market grade, identify base prices and meat-type differentials, compute cash marketing costs and shrinkage, and have an economical unit to transport.
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Sam H. Thompson
Iowa State College Extension
Thompson
Iowa
Family habits and school habits summary
This piece advises adjusting family routines before a child starts school, including wake times meals and naps. It favors gradual changes, avoiding a rushed overhaul, to ease the transition and reduce stress on both child and family. It notes buses and full-day schedules may require earlier prep and highlights humane, individualized handling rather than strict rigidity.
Grassed Waterways Protect Iowa Fields From Erosion
Mid June rains across Iowa highlight need for grassed waterways to shield unprotected row crop fields from soil loss. Dale Seebach says waterways stop runoff and tie erosion to natural streams, urging conversion of eroded gullies now. ACP funds support permanent conservation. contact county ACP and Soil Conservation Service for guidance.
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Dale Seebach
Marion County Extension
Seebach
ACP
Soil Conservation Service District
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