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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1928
Page
4
A digest of local visits and social calls in Algona and neighboring communities. Residents attended funerals, visited relatives in Waterloo, Titonka, and South Dakota, and hosted gatherings at homes. Church attendance rose while service times shifted, and farming families hosted farm bureau meetings and buyers touring homes.
Gladys and Ian Lloyd were callers at Algona on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Ted Hoover and their children visited Suid Drews home.
Mrs. Allie Foertsch longtime Woden resident dies at her home Sunday about three o clock from araemic poisoning. Her husband survives as the couple had no children. Funeral is planned at the Catholic church Wednesday morning. Other local items note visits, gatherings, and family events across Bancroft Algona and Rolfe including Mrs. Henry Hagerly's farm dinner party and a birthday observance for Mrs. Z Goodnow in Algona.
Visits to farms in Kossuth County reveal crowded poultry houses on many farms. The shortage stems from farm women wanting to raise large numbers of birds, with twice as many birds housed as advisable on most properties.
The text discusses poor building size and cleanliness for poultry houses with many tenants and reluctant owners. Overcrowding, poor ventilation, and mismanagement lead to respiratory diseases, weight loss, and lowered egg production. Preventive steps include better ventilation, proper straw lofts, and avoiding drafts. formalin is noted as a preventive measure.
A spray gun used to spray cattle before milking is applied to poultry. The mist is strong enough to force occupants from the house for 20 to 30 minutes. Birds should be moved if sick and the same procedure repeated for several days to prevent illness.
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