Fatten Hens Before Marketing For Best Profits
County Agent Balkema advises producers to fatten non laying hens before sale to boost profits and Food for Freedom effort. A one pound weight gain per hen improves income and meat quality. spotting non layers and finishing in 1 2 weeks with broody hens clipped tail first found, then moved to fattening pen. Poultry specialists publish new market poultry feeding bulletin. copies available at Balkema’s office.
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Balkema
Food For Freedom
Town State College Extension Service
Let's Give Them Good Teeth
A parent focused guide on building healthy teeth in children through balanced diet rich in milk vegetables fruits eggs and cod liver oil regular dental checkups and a daily tooth brushing routine. Emphasizes early care and cleanliness as essential for lasting dental health.
Births Reported in Clerk of Courts Office
Birth announcements list numerous children born December through November in 1941 across Estherville Ringsted Armstrong Aire and neighboring towns. Parents include Berge son Curry Eckhart Graver Hansen Horswell Hoy Jensen Kathman Kreuger Lind Linn Mahan Mixwell Norland Olson Ness Payne Sampson Sidles Smith Stoeber Twait Zelinsky Zerfoss.
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Thce Courts
Irwin C. Nichols
Ronald William Curry
Russell C. Curry
James Henry Eckhart
Bruce B. Eckhart
Swea City
Pamela Kathryn Graver
Myron P. Graves
Joseph William Kreuger
Wm. MM. Kreuger
Arnolds Park
Meryin Dean Lind
Alden M. T.nd
Estherville
Beverly Ann Linn
Alfred FE. Linn
Shirley Carol Maha
Roxanna Fay Sidles
Ross PD. Sidles
Kathleenan ‘Smith
Donald A. Smith
Dolliver
Stephen Lowell Stoeber
Oliver H. Stoeber
Fenton
Dale Raymond Twait
Oliver R. Twait
Wallingford
Ronald Dean Zelinsky
Wilbur C. Zelinsky
Dee
Roger Gene Zerfoss
M. Clifford Zerfoss
Dee, 11Th
Weser
Trail er Vagabond In Long Beach Hides War Camouflage
Long Beach column warns readers that camouflage techniques will be used in weeks to come to disguise oil fields and infrastructure in Signal Hill. It explains how painted tanks and decoys can fool bomber photography, notes shadows reveal targets, and touts a new camouflage method kept secret by military experts.
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Long Beach
California
America
Signal Hill
U.S. A
Plans for 1942 streamlined poultry feeder released
Plans for the 1942 streamlined model hen feeders, designed for free choice feeding by poultry husbandmen at Iowa State College, are now available at the office of County Agent M. A. Balkema. The plans provide complete construction details using readily available materials.
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Towa State College
M. A. Balkema
Adequate feeding equipment boosts eye production in poultry
Plans for feeder and other equipment for county poultry houses may be had free upon request. Extension poultry specialist Vernon of Town State College notes daily feed needs for 100 hens vary with protein content from 26 lb feed at 50 to 60 eggs to 80 lb for high production. He adds that 2 foot trough feeders supplying 128 ft of space per 100 hens should be provided, and many flocks lack this space.
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Wo M. Vernon
Extension Poultryanin O
Town State College
College Poulirvainen
Balkema
Japanese sightings atop school house signal planes
Mrs. W M Potter recalls seeing two Japanese atop a school house signaling planes during the Pearl Harbor raid. She returns to Iowa with news from Hawaii that her wardman was arrested, noting heightened alerts and wartime restrictions. Potter, former Bets Crawford, describes reactions in Honolulu and travel restrictions after the attack.
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W. M. Potter
Pearl Harbor
Iowa
Mire Borster
Hawaii
Weare
Hhonolulu
Tigr Desta
Theo
Petrney
Pacific
Tver
Potter
Betis Prawford
Des Moines
Chan Whiter
Deo Wy Prawford
Fsberville
Special Army Mail Rates Put Into Effect Across Oceans
The US Postal Service announces new special postage for army personnel abroad effective immediately. Air mail to outside the continental US charges six cents per half ounce, cheaper than Hawaii and the Philippines rates previously. Within US air mail remains six cents per ounce, and parcel post rates drop via sixth zone for west and east ports. Mail must show recipient rank and unit.
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Continental
United States
US Postal Department
Alaska
Hawaii
Philippines
U.S
San Francoiso
New York City
Minamet county farmers urged to prepare for viticultural emergency
Community farmers are urged to ready tools and repairs for the upcoming agricultural drive. Dealers pledge cooperation to boost food supply as Secretary Wickard says the effort will win the war and write the peace. The moral call emphasizes timely action by farm families to meet the looming challenge.
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America
Minamet County
Wickard
Uncle Sam
Hee
Ellen
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100A Child Welfare Research Station
Judith Ann Bergeson
Curtis T. Bergeson
Ringsted
By Warren Bayley
DE Soto
Coronado
Emmet County
Clarence Wate
Rebekah Lodge
Clara Frizzell
KGK
Ratherville,qwa
Estherville Implement Company
Lauritz Sunde
J. I. Case
Complete Tractor Service
South Sixth Street
Estherville, Iowa
U.S. Department of Agiculture
Otis Jorstad
McCormick Decking
Wallingford, Towa
Secretary of Agriculture
Northern Lbr. Co
John Deere
South Sixth St
Estherville, Towa
Aree
Allis-Chalmers
Nevill Brothers
Armstrong
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