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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1914
Page
2
Iowa canning industry has grown to supply one quarter of world canned corn. Since 1880 the state built a strong plant base with 1912 output around 78 million cans worth about four million dollars. Weather and other factors reduced 1914 production though sweet corn, tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkin and sauerkraut are also canned locally.
Alfalfa farming in Muscatine County shows modest scale with Sam T Sinnett managing 20 acres. Yields averaged four tons per acre, with the top 10 or 11 acres over five tons per acre and selling for 14 to 15 dollars per ton. Sinnett emphasizes thorough scientific practice, including heavy lime, barnyard manure, seed rate, and diverse inoculation methods, noting no clear advantage among inoculation types and planning refinements for future sowing.
A Iowa man boasted of selling 900 gallons of sorghum at 74 cents a gallon last fall and urged larger production. He argued cane could yield 100 gallons per acre plus 43 bushels of seed worth 1.15 per hundred pounds, about 100 dollars per acre net, and claimed corn following cane improves yields. He proposed sorghum mills in every township as a profitable venture.
In fall 1913 farmer B W Barnes near West Liberty harvested and sold $300 worth of winter apples from about four acres, with 13 acres devoted to summer and fall varieties. He sprayed once with lead arsenate and lime sulfur after petals fell, plans deeper spraying next season. Success In Iowa.
Two weeks in Colorado costs no more than old resort vacations with rooms from 7 dollars per week. Travel on Rock Island Limited trains daily to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo aboard modern steel cars with dining service. Rock Island travel experts help plan economical trips and arrange hotels camps and boards. Write Hul H Ray assistant general passenger agent Des Moines Room 401 Des Moines Building. Low fares June 1 to September 30.
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