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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1921
Page
5
Florence Busse of Iowa State College reports that rural children show greater malnutrition than urban peers despite farm milk and garden produce. Surveys show city 20 percent, large town 34 percent, rural 35 percent malnourished, averaging 30 percent statewide. She urges gardens to supply minerals and growth nutrients.
Iowa reports widespread ironweed and marsh cress in oat fields. L H Pammel of the state agricultural experiment station says artichoke like ironweed can be controlled by hog grazing in fall, plowing, then planting corn. Marsh cress also common.建议 plow after harvest, re-plow in fall, and plant corn in spring.
Dairymen in Iowa should note the surge in Argentina exports over ten years rising butter shipments from 6.21 million pounds to 14.5 million and cheese from 800 pounds to 19.6 million. The rise, still ongoing, has influenced the U.S. dairy situation and may grow in impact. Britain also sourced butter and cheese from Argentina, signaling shifting global trade.
Advice for feeding water and housing to hens to maintain production. Emphasizes balanced feed, constant fresh water, parasite control, culling poor layers, breaking broodiness, providing grit and oyster shell, charcoal for digestion, and keeping the coop clean to ward off disease.
The home economics department at Iowa State College urges replacing meat with salads in July and August. Leftover vegetables like peas string beans carrots beets and cabbage plus items such as eggs nuts cheese or fish can enrich vegetable salads. A cooked dressing using eggs mustard sugar paprika vinegar and water is suggested, finished with butter. Fruit salads may include whipped cream for extra richness.
Beating oil into salad dressing improves it. Fresh cold cut salads please. fruit salads especially. Diarrhea in small pigs linked to sow care before farrowing. exercise and protein rich ration help. Lead arsenate spray advised to prevent beetles on potatoes melons cucumbers. mix with bordeaux and black leaf 40. Pigs fatten faster on self feeding corn and tankage than hand feeding.
Iowa State College home economics department outlines preventive steps to curb ants. Keep dishes washed, seal food, and clean spills. Pantry shelves can be washed with gasoline, spices deter insects, and patent remedies may contain poisons unsafe for children. A poisonous paper sold at drug stores offers another option without harming children.
Director C F Curtis of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station bans advertisers from using the station name to promote feeding mineral mixtures for swine. He notes no commercial mix is officially endorsed and the station is still testing combinations. A two page circular No 70 from Ames explains current status and can be secured by writing.
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station reports a tomato disease reappearing this year across many state sections. It is non infectious, caused by soil or weather conditions, with extreme dryness or wetness triggering it and soil nitrogen sometimes contributing. Prevention relies on resistant varieties, and if already present, Bordeaux mixture offers a corrective option though variations exist.
The note discusses effects on associated weakening diseases and advises using one irrigation method to keep plants well watered. It emphasizes maintaining proper moisture to protect plant health and reduce stress from disease.
Iowa extension service will run culling demos across all counties in July to September.42 poultry husbandry specialists will hold two to four meetings daily in 35 counties with seven specialists visiting an additional 60 counties. Exhibits on good versus bad birds feeding methods and housing will travel to county fairs, with experts guiding farmers to choose and cull flock birds while covering housing feeding and disease control.
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station findings show manure as the most valuable fertilizer for livestock farms. Proper care preserves plant food and organic matter by keeping it covered, moist, and away from weather, with concrete floors for yard drainage as one successful method.
Market activity showed price fluctuations within Hatton limits as the week progressed with Worl lower and a low on the 28th amid a general selling movement. Gulf ports saw good exhort sales and Germany entered the cash wheat market, but overall sentiment lacked external support. Chicago cash No 2 red winter wheat closed at 1.28, No 2 hard at 1.14, No 3 mixed corn at 62 cents, No 3 yellow corn at 62 cents, and No 3 white oats at 0.
Hay receipts incline in western markets with low prices while eastern markets firm on drought and short pasturage. Southern demand slows as midwest and northern regions quote varied prices for No.1 Timothy, alfalfa, and prairie. Feed markets unsettled by seller stock positions, with cottonseed meat and bran values noted along with middlings and linseed meal. Dairy butter remains softer amid cooling, cheese prices steady, and live cattle and hog markets rally modestly with mixed changes across beef and lamb.
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