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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1945
Page
4
A local notice highlights Woden Produce Co at Woden with Tom Lackore manager promoting a wide poultry and egg business. The firm pledges top market prices, full weights and steady service including a complete line of feeds to support 1945 farming expansion.
Agriculture is the county’s leading industry and requires reliable implement supply and repair service. Algona Implement Co specializes in McCormick Deering and International Harvester lines, offering sales, service, and quick repairs with a good stock of parts. Visit their shop for the latest machinery improvements and exceptional service in Algona.
Iowa State College extension specialists report green soft corn can be preserved by ensiling the stalk and ears for high per acre feed value. When silo space is limited grain silage is used, and eat corn silage feeds cattle well though hogs may find it bulky and cob problematic.
Iowa State College specialists advise farmers to plan temporary or permanent silos for corn not maturing. A trench silo offers a flexible, economical option with adjustable width and length, while upright silos use snow fencing or cribbing and vary in diameter. Other methods include baled straw and corn bundled silos, with detailed instructions available from county extension offices.
Dairy and livestock notes advise flushing ewes by good pasture or grain to increase lambing percentage and synchronize lambing. Early mating benefits from clover alfalfa or fresh pasture before breeding, plus grain feeding for—ten days to two weeks pre-turn-in. Rams should be conditioned with oats before joining. Also notes on corn silage for hogs and cattle, and advantages of silage timing and storage.
Members are asked to craft handkerchiefs and wash cloths from used material. Handkerchiefs should be 16 to 18 inches square and wash cloths 13 to 14 inches. The next meeting is the fourth Friday afternoon in September the 28th with Sadie Denton and Mabel Petersen hosting. Members should plan to attend and bring items to the rehabilitation chairman.
The district court in Kossuth County Iowa has filed for an absolute divorce from Mabel Black on wilful desertion for over two years. Cecil Devane Black requests custody of three children Charlotte Montie and Lyle and other relief as just. Mabel Black is summoned to appear by October 20 1945 in Algona Iowa or a default judgment will be entered. E J Van Ness attorney represents the plaintiff.
Algona Ray mond Dacken eighty year old farmer, of a farm ten miles southwest of Livermore, sustained second and third degree burns over most of his body in a tractor fuel fire Saturday. His 12 year old son Billy saved him by dragging him to the ground and extinguishing the flames. Dacken was hospitalized in Algona in critical condition. recovery seemed doubtful.
Burt resident Eva Whitney died at home of Mrs. Lewis Larsen after months of care. Funeral services were at Burt Methodist Church with Rev. A. G. Heddle. burial in Bancroft Cemetery. Born near Malone, New York, she taught in Algona Bancroft and Burt, retiring after 50 years in teaching.
A Countryside column recalls a spectacular thunderstorm with hail and lightning, its sunset glow, and a near record windscape. It contrasts farm damage with recovery hopes, reflects on wartime losses, and muses on cottage cheese balls, salesmen, and a busy postwar rural life with schoolhouse cleanups and a bold schoolhouse mouse captured by clever trap.
Iowa State College expert E P Sylvester explains weed control requires multiple years of fallowing and smother crops. Prolonged practice weakens noxious weeds like horse nettle and quack grass with specific tools for each weed. Fallowing spans two to four years depending on the weed, followed by seeding a heavy smother crop such as sorghum or millet.
Pigs tested to process oats by feeding ground oats. Hepnothies predicts higher cattle slaughter in late 1948 than in the 1944 satmaé period.
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