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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1950
Page
11
Iowa State College entomologist Harold Gunderson urges a community driven fly control campaign built on leadership education and sanitation. A multi method plan reduces chemical costs, guards against resistance, and runs from May through summer using DDT early then lindane as heat rises.
Iowa wildlife suffers its heaviest highway losses in late March and early April. Low cover, wind and rain-worn vegetation no longer hides animals. roadside ditches offer shelter. Sparse spring food and grain on roads tempt game birds and other wildlife as mating increases travel and reduces caution, making highways dangerous.
A fire caused by faulty wiring on March 14 at the Liter Coal Company mine two miles southeast of Attica burned the air shaft and equipment. Firefighters and miners used gas masks and extinguishers to battle flames up the shaft, which began 65 feet underground. The shaft and two fans were destroyed, halting production for about two weeks while a new shaft, fans, and motors are installed. About eight firefighters and part of the 25 mine workers will handle reconstruction. the mine produced 150 tons daily.
The advisory urges drivers to slow down and honk when encountering wildlife on roads to reduce collisions and protect animals in field and forest areas. It emphasizes giving wildlife space and reducing speed to improve roadside safety.
Iowa State College leads a regional phosphorus study with Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and others cooperating. The project, funded by TVA with $6,000 for the current year and similar sums through 1954, will test phosphate fertilizers under local soil conditions. Iowa will host long term field, laboratory and greenhouse work with new researchers at the Agricultural Experiment Station and collaboration with farmers.
Mr and Mrs Robert McElhinney saw a strange scene as a jet propelled stork presented them with a new daughter on a highway drive to the hospital. They continued their journey after the unusual encounter.
Mrs A A Viersen died March 15 1950 at her home in Okmulgee Oklahoma at age 87. She was the eldest child of Mr and Mrs S C McAdoo of Pel la vicinity. She married A A Viersen of Pella February 21 1889. Survives include a daughter and two sons all of Okmulgee and three brothers W C C R D H of nearby areas.
Farmers in Marion County receive 1950 Census of Agriculture questionnaires by mail. The forms request per farm details covering 1949 calendar year, including crop sales receipts, livestock outputs, and farm expenditures. Enumerators will visit farms in April for the nationwide decennial census.
City Iowa residents Anna Souis of Runnells and Lillie Keller of Des Moines survive a local figure. The news item comes from Mrs. Harry Keller, formerly Lillian McAdoo, of 726 24th Street Des Moines Iowa.
Pigs start on hand keeping down trouble such as scouts and anemia. Rolled oats or hulled oats fed in a creep are popular as a start time food for pigs. Producers favor a mix of corn oats and protein, starting with oats and adding corn and grain as pigs reach a few weeks old. Hulled oats can cause fast eating and scours. use a blend of hulled and ground oats. Keep pigs warm and dry and feed sows after farrowing.
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