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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1930
Page
4
An ad lists alfalfa eight percent red clover sweet clover and timothy at 3.50 per bushel with Mulhall and Sioux City Iowa cited. A quoted exchange mocks driving expertise and a policeman teases that ignorance would fill a hospital.
New Jersey agricultural experiment station advises there is no single best litter for brooder houses. Light, absorbent, cheap litter like shavings cut straw and cut hay works well. straw or hay must be cut to avoid matting. Clean the brooder house every five days to prevent disease spread from dirty litter.
At the Pennsylvania state college 926 pullets were raised to maturity at a cost of 1.26 dollars per bird after deducting returns from 924 cockerels. Leghorns dominated, valued around 20 cents each, with production costs covering feed coal labor and 6 percent interest. Depreciation on houses and equipment added to the total, yielding satisfactory brooding and mortality results. Pullets fetch about 1 to 1.50 dollars at eight to twelve weeks and 2 to 2.80 dollars when ready to lay.
Practical guidance on dry versus wet rations for turkeys, monitoring hens for tuberculosis, milk use for breeding stock, and avoiding meat byproducts if milk is abundant. Advises vitamin A from greens, cod liver oil, disinfectant mats at brooders, isolating sick birds, proper culling, egg selection, and pest control to maintain flock health.
A USDA warning urges housewives to securely lock all poisons including insecticides and polishes after a poisoning scare linked to arsenic in holiday fruit cakes. An inspector recovered eight of nine poisoned cakes from neighbors. one reached Canada but was not opened. Authorities say accidents continue annually and storehouse precautions can prevent illness and deaths.
Mulching boosts moisture retention and heat capture to aid root nourishment. Tests show dark mulch surfaces absorb sun better than light dust. Hawaii sugar cane growers use paper mulch to suppress weeds, while a California strawberry grower reports a 30 percent increase in fruit using mulch.
Readable snippets cover strawberry picking, sowing annual forage crops like oats and peas, clover seeding, queen exclusion in beekeeping, shearing sheep before heat, cleaning yards to prevent disease, lime and lime stone use, clay soil amendment, mustard control by killing plants and seeds, and cattle dip mixtures for fly or parasite control with repeat treatment guidance.
United States Department of Agriculture issued Farmers' Bulletin 1606 F on farm drainage. It explains wet soil harms yields, recommends open ditches or preferably underdrains, and covers outlet location depth spacing tile size and maintenance to drain fields efficiently. Copies available from USDA Washington DC.
Wisconsin soils expert J Chapman cites five benefits of commercial fertilizer for corn. Small starter applications jumpstart the crop, suppress weeds, hasten maturity, improve quality, and raise yields. Optimal rates of 100 to 200 pounds per acre prove profitable on Wisconsin farms. Seeds must avoid direct contact. place fertilizer two inches above seeds in a six inch long furrow.
Farmers are advised that grinding grain for dairy cattle and hard grains for other livestock is profitable. Two mills are described burr mills and hammer mills. Burr mills use circular plates to grind. hammer mills beat feed with rotating hammers. A gas engine or tractor provides economical power for operating feed grinders.
Farmers gain spare winter time to spread manure or straw across fields using a manure spreader. Keeping the spreader near the barn allows easy loading from forks or carriers, tilting horses or a tractor to haul loads out to fields, increasing fertility and potential yields.
Dwarf varieties such as Tearly Alaska and Little Marvel offer fast maturing crops with no trellis required. They resist collapse by becoming heavy and allow moisture conservation. a second crop follows stripping vines, yielding continuous harvests of large, high quality peas.
A fragment notes that the city manager form of government was adopted in 1929 in 202 cities. The passage also includes a joke about bringing home dinner and a remark about bachelors with sisters being well trained.
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