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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1942
Page
6
Advice on lawn care covering fertilization timing for spring and fall, cutting height, watering after feeding, soil acidity correction with limestone, weed control, and reseeding strategies. Emphasizes dense turf as best weed prevention and notes crab grass behavior and cycles for effective management.
Plan a spring garden to boost home food supply and support uniformed defenders. Grow enough for home canning, buy defense savings bonds and stamps to fund arms. Use fertilizer per tree diameter and apply annually in spring or late fall after leaves fall.
Every Town farm community will be served by a local volunteer representative of the United States Employment Service throughout the crop season of 1942. State Director Wm. S. Barnes announces broadened facilities to extend into every local farm community to forestall labor shortages. Local representatives are being chosen across the state in cooperation with Triple A organizations and Agriculture War Board reps. About 1,400 communities will gain a local ES representative for 1942 production. Earl Summer of Emmet County recently received 12 per hundredweight for three 805 pound steers at the Sioux City market.
The article explains measuring terminal growth to assess tree health with eight inches yearly growth as a healthy target and four inches as starvation warning. It notes leaf yellowing, reduced vigor, and water needs rise with starvation and provides a method to apply fertilizer around the tree by digging evenly spaced holes two feet apart, eight inches deep, within an outer circle two thirds of the branch span.
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