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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1919
Page
1
A plant pathologist from the Iowa State Experiment Station at Ames urges seed treatment to protect five acres of cabbage. Use corrosive sublimate dissolved 1:1000 to soak seed twenty minutes, then dry and store separately to kill seedborne diseases. Clean soil and seed beds remain essential. infected fields reinfect healthy plants. Bees require careful spring care to ensure profitable yields.
Iowa boys and girls ranked high at the National Conference of Boys and Girls Club Leaders in Kansas City, February 28 to March 4. Reports note strong results in baby beef, pig, poultry, garden, canning, and corn clubs, with Iowa praised for early state cooperation with the U S Department of Agriculture.
Rape is a versatile forage suited to Iowa soils and climate, highly palatable to swine and sheep, and ranks with alfalfa and red clover as a prime pasture option. It grows quickly, provides ample digestible protein and minerals, and can be sown at various times to ensure July and August pasture when bluegrass dries. Experiments show pigs fed rape pasture gain well on grain and require less expensive meat meal.
The Agricultural Experiment Association offers a three-bushel sack of new Iowa oats for field trials. Only 35 lots left as of March 5. "Iowar" is a white oat line from the state station, taller and later maturing than Iowa 103, with better three-year trial yields. Requests must include $3 to J Buchanan, secretary, and oats ship promptly or money returned if late. A limited supply of Iowa 105 or Richland oats also available under the same terms.
A farmer with a 12 acre apple orchard in southern Iowa earned a net $218.09 per acre from last fall’s crop after spraying demonstrations by Iowa State College extension agents. He originally doubted apples but found overall per acre profits higher than corn, with prudent pruning and spraying extending to a wider farm plan.
Iowa extension horticulturist R. H. Herrick warns homeowners against bargain spray services for fruit trees. Demonstration orchards show an average of 59 cents per tree for four sprays on 19 year old trees, with costs potentially rising to 75 cents if the job is well done. Herrick urges hiring a competent sprayer to perform all four applications for best results.
Poultry clubs organized in thirty localities of Iowa with the state university extension service directing the work. Local school leaders head each club for the season, focusing on hatching and raising purebred chicks. Extension specialists will visit clubs to offer seasonal guidance, with possible winter egg production and marketing projects if successful.
Twelve week program by the engineering extension department starts March 21. Lectures demonstrations and six hour daily sessions emphasize shop work with supervision. Students learn by doing, with focus on disassembling assembling and repairing standard automobiles and practicing acetylene welding soldering and brazing.
Office over Iowa Savings Bank outlines Ames course eligibility. Applicants must have completed eighth grade and be at least seventeen. Fees include six dollars incidental, six dollars laboratory, seven dollars tuition for out of state students. Returned soldiers and sailors exempt from the incidental fee. For details contact the engineering extension department in Ames, Iowa.
Reports predicting a severe seventeen year locust epidemic in Iowa prove false per an entomologist at Iowa State College Ames. While other regions may face damage, Iowa is not in the high risk area. Farmers urged to improve yields with early soil prep and order spray materials now to have them on hand if needed.
Farm management experts at Iowa State College warn that the proposed income tax bill raises the normal rate to three times the old one, making farm records crucial. Farmers must inventory at year start and end, track sales and expenses to claim lawful deductions and aid farm business studies amid reconstruction period.
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