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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
2
The Titonka Topic announces broad circulation in Kossuth County and Titonka trade area with annual subscriptions 32.00 in advance, 2.50 outside county, 3.00 in Canada and foreign countries, and 2.00 for armed service members. Subscriptions sent as gifts continue unless canceled by the subscriber or at the publisher’s discretion.
Farmers may use fertilizer in 1944 regardless of prior use. They must apply through local dealers per FPO Revised, listing crop, acreage, fertilizer type, application rate, and total need. Store early purchases in a dry place to avoid caking. Agronomists prepare a leaflet with soil and crop specific recommendations via county extension directors.
Iowa farmers may use six times as much fertilizer in 1944 as in 1943 according to Iowa State College extension agronomists. Field tests across major crops support expansion to 388516 tons next year while last year’s usage reached 67500 tons, the largest in state history. Early applications are advised as War Food Administration plans call for 33 percent more nitrogen and at least 20 percent more superphosphate nationwide, with potash up but limited by lend-lease demand.
Extension engineer Harold Beaty states rural areas can extend electrical service to farms meeting criteria to boost wartime food output. A farmer with five animal units may qualify, and, with certification from the county War Board, can obtain 35 to 75 pounds of copper for farm wiring excluding the dwelling.
A Iowa State College dairy expert explains rapid milking increases milk flow by using the udder’s natural response. Massage and stimulation speed milk release, but the farmer must maintain a quick pace to recover all milk. Pre milking washing with warm chlorine aids efficiency. A separate note reports a crane found dead in Greenfield, likely from striking power lines.
The article describes home front labor shifts in Canada during wartime. It notes 5.1 million of 8.72 million in civilian work, and a government drive to reassign men to essential civilian jobs. It details selective service coordination, compulsory transfers for single men 19 to 40 and married men 19 to 25, and shows a farm family example with dad learning tractor operation and mother handling milking duties.
This wartime advisory explains drenching sheep with phenothiazine to control nodular worms. It covers dosage for lambs and adults, safety in overdosing, recommended two drenches in December and February or March, mixing method, and postdrenchment salt-phenothiazine mix to prevent reinfestation.
Iowa farmers may need to use Kansas and Nebraska alfalfa seed next spring due to a shortage of Ladak and Cossack varieties suited for winter hardiness and wilt resistance. Clean eggs fetch about ten cents more per dozen than dirty eggs while livestock feed should include leafy legume hay for calves and breeding ewes. January 1, 1844, projects higher livestock and poultry numbers with feed likely to be legume rich. delaying household purchases could free materials for war needs and improve postwar quality plus war bonds offer growth for ten years.
A Des Moines dairy dispatched three riders on horseback to Warren County summer pasture to guide 70 head of cows to the dairy barns near Fort Des Moines.
For two days in Prole the talk centered on where a truck load of coal heading down the highway ended up. Residents had faced coal shortages for some time and now wait for answers from officials at the Topi r Office.
The article notes increasing use of parachute drops by American troops, disrupting enemy lines while suffering casualties. It claims silken fineries and substitutes are moving from market to support safe landings for distant fighters, urging purchase of silk and nylon through War Bonds and Stamps overseen by the U.S. Treasury Department.
They disliked plucking the feathers from beautiful birds so they joined the head of each pheasant to a paper pack during dressing to ease the work.
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