Titonka Topic subscription rates and terms
The Titonka Topic lists weekly publication details with rates: $2.00 per year in advance within Kossuth County and Titonka trade territory, $2.60 elsewhere in the county and territory, $3.00 per year for Canada and foreign countries, and $2.00 per year for armed service members. Subscriptions within the local trade area are continued yearly unless subscribers notify or the publisher discontinues.
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Kossuth
Titonics
Koosuth
Titonka
Canada
Bang's disease costs Iowa cattle and threatens human health
Iowa faces major losses from Bang's disease in cattle with 5 to 9 percent infected, about 400,660 cows affected. From 1930 to 1941 Iowa had 6.25 cases per 100,000, far above the national rate, risking milk-borne illness and proving costly to dairy herds with annual direct losses around 20 million dollars.
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Bang
Iowa
K. W. Stouder
Iowa State College
Towa
Brouder
Milk losses and animal disease impact on farms
Stouder reports herd tests under experiment station control show milk production loss of 100 dollars per cow yearly. A study finds abortion losses of 135 dollars per year for 16 good commercial cows and 486 dollars for a purebred herd. The disease also causes large swine losses and can transmit to humans through handling on farms or during slaughter.
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Jana
Stouder
Ways To Keep Eggs Clean On The Farm
Iowa State College extension poultry economist Ralph Baker outlines practical steps to increase clean eggs. Increase nests to one for every five or six hens, provide nesting litter, and gather eggs four times daily to cut dirt. Maintain dry litter and good ventilation, use dropping pits, and darken nests to reduce breakage and competition.
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Ralph Baker
Iowa State College Extension
Baker
Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
Recommendations to cull hens and stags in poultry flocks
Ralph Baker of Iowa State College Extension urges a 10 percent rise in culling hens and pullets, noting over crowded houses raise mortality and reduce egg output. He also advises selling cockerels before staggy development, with stag price ceilings at 14.4 cents per lb and potential pre stag sale pricing around 24 cents per lb.
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Ralph Baker
Towa State College Extension
A. L. Brown
Baker
Iowa
Iowa farm kernels and seed crops in 1943 and 1948 notes
The report notes hog support prices near the OPA level improving central Iowa hog producers profits. It lists two legume crops red and white clover as seed crop winners in 1943 over 1942, Iowa oats germination 10 to 98 percent, warns seed testing importance, and that 1948 sweet clover seed trap was the smallest in 21 years. It also cites grain loss mixed with corn stover bedding use and dairy benefits of cracked soybeans, plus Iowa corn yield about 8 bushels per acre higher than Illinois and 10 higher than Ohio/Indiana.
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Iowa
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa State Swine and Crop Tips Across 1943 44
Iowa State College swine specialists urge full feed for fall pigs to cover handicap, note limited sunshine and no pasture. Crop conditions show November 1 pasture at 70 percent of normal, land prices rising, soybean seed demand steady, and tests priced at 50 cents per sample. Also advised are wintering idle horses in stalk fields with legume hay, and poultry grit stock. a Washington duck rescue story concludes with a duck released after an injured wing.
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Iowa State College
R. H. Porter
Iowa State College Seed Laboratory
All Over Iowa Meets With Self Lawrence Brennan of Emmeta burg
Lawrence Brennan, chairman of Palo Alto county AAA committee, Palo Alto USDA war board, and the county salvage board, meets with state and local chairs on projects. A Center Chapel church supper invited volunteers who helped rebuild after a 1941 fire, cost about 4900 dollars plus donated labor. A 122 foot bridge was built in Alaska by Iowa men led by Edgar Bitters. Knoxville reports 1600 pounds of silk and nylon hose salvage shipped.
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Self Lawrence Brennan
Emmetaburg
Brennan
Palo Alto County Aaa
Palo Alto
Usda War Board
County Salvage Board
Usda War ‘Board
County Aaa
Wilson Burns
Center Chapel
Warren County
Alaska
Iowa
Edgar Bitters
Town Falls
Bitters Creek Bridge
Edgar
Whitehorse
Mr. Bitters
Government inspectors halt unsafe Reinbeck plant framing
Workers at a Reinbeck produce packing plant have been constructing frames and installing screens over more than 60 openings following government inspectors orders to correct safety violations.
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Reinbeck Produce
Old ages help harvest corn in Iowa farm aid tale
Forrest Wynn of Clarinda hires four elder men averaging 70 to pick corn on 14 acres to free stalk land for cattle. Helpers Frank Maxwell 83 Charles Wynn 71 Sam Kepner 68 Harry Stout 58 husked fifty bushels per hour. Also notes a gavel from a Delicious apple tree for Victor Felter of Indianola, Armistice Day 1941 tree origin, and requests from Mr and Mrs Smalley of San Diego to contact Clarinda or nearby service members for Christmas. Van Woodruff of Waverly husked two and a half acres using a wheelbarrow due to lack of wagon and team. Wartime bond appeal closes.
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Forrest Wynn
Clarinda
Wynn
Frank Maxwell
Charles Wynn
Sam Kepner
Harry Stout
Victor Felter
Indianola
D. Smalley
San Diego
Calif
van Woodruff
Waverly
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Keil
Titonka, Is
H. I. Torgersen
Titonka, Fa
Roy C. Ball
Calla
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W. W. L. Tindall
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Woden
Minton Smarel
OPA
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United States
C. ¥. Cannon
Swan Dahlquist
Odeholt
Herbert
Omak
Washington
Dahlquist
Harry Avery
Rock Island
Emmetsburg
Bob Dyson
Blackie
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Knoxville
Henry Heinz
Community Club
Willard
Auto-Lite
Frank D. Fisher
Charles Haskell
Garwin
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Haskell
Tyke Theatre
Thein Barat
Richard Arlen
Jean Parker
Sahara
Humphrey Bogart
Bruce Bennett
Henry Aldrich
Jimmy Lydon
Charles Smith
Baby
Ultra Life
Hamilton Hatchery
Reinder Krominga
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Comais
Titonka Implement Co
D-X
Mid- Continent Petroleum Corporation
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Titania Firestone
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