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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1920
Page
1
Iowa State College guidance states dairymen should arrange crops to provide succulent feed during hot months. Silage is cited as the best low cost option for maintaining milk yields and reducing labor, with sailing crops as an alternative if silage is unavailable.
Farm Crops Department of Lown State College advises reseeding pastures in early spring to thicken forage. Mixtures of timothy, red clover, and alsike clover are typical, with biennial sweet clover valued. Use about one third of new seed for regenerating stands, and apply manure top dressing to speed growth and weed suppression.
Six town creameries from Strawberry Point Manly Burt Trull Algona and Hermer qualify to use the state trademark signaling a standard in butter making. To earn the mark buildings and equipment must score 90 or more and at least 93 percent of the butter must meet the ideal factory standard. The program, led by AW Rudnick Iowa State College dairy extension expert, includes monthly grading and premium payments for high grade cream and improvement contests to raise quality toward the lowd butter standard.
Milk is hard to obtain in towns with populations under fifteen hundred, says Miss Florence Imlay, dairy agent for the home economics extension staff at Iowa State College. She notes urban areas can boost supply quickly with rising demand, but small towns face limited production and distribution challenges.
State entomologist BF.1 Ball notes nursery men report hesitation over planting Japanese barberry for ornament. He says the Japanese variety is not the barberry under attack and is preferable to the common type, though risk lies only in rice cultivation. Iowa shows little interest in this crop.
A.W. Turner of Town State College outlines practical tile laying advice. Do not lay cracked or small tiles. Use a 4 inch tile for more water capacity. Install tiles 3 to 4 feet deep to resist frost and cover a larger area. Minimize curves and short branches. Coordinate with upstream land and grade to prevent water from affecting neighboring plots.
Deputy inspector Henry Ness found brown tailed moths in nursery stock from France and confiscated and destroyed the shipment. Dr. E. D. Ball, state entomologist, warns it is a severe pest that damages trees and its caterpillar spines can sting people.
A report notes a famous item ending up on the Ihrer Cam pus detected in late European shipments due to lax inspection after the war. The item’s origin and exact nature are unclear in the fragment. Authorities warn of continued risks from reduced scrutiny in postwar trade.
Iowa leads the nation in farm trucks with about 2,277 vehicles used solely for agricultural work, according to advance figures from the U S Department of Agriculture. Pennsylvania trails with 2,760 and Nebraska with 2,739. The report notes many farm autos and route-haul trucks were excluded, and if included, counts would rise by about seventy five percent. Improve Bees With Good Queen says Si M. Paddock town state notary, emphasizing better queens to boost yields and returns for beekeepers who order early.
DOLLIVER residents share sparse social notes with visits by Mrs. Ben Redhead traveling to Pleasantville to see a sick sister. Mr and Mrs J F Merriott of Grover stop at A H Pickell’s home. Bert Clark of Armstrong visits Delliver and clerks at the Olaf Tweet sale. Frank Clark returns from Dakota with a 320 acre land purchase. Linn Weir makes his weekly Grover visit as roads prove too bad for a car last Saturday night.
A string of short items records visits and movements of local families. Clair Post, Estherville, and Dunnell are mentioned with relatives in Dolliver. The Olaf Tweet sale drew crowds, and horses and family ties are noted along with smallpox recovery, new babies, and moving to Clarinda. The piece closes with horse market figures showing improved draft prices.
Advertises several desirable residences for sale and additional acreage tracts. Provides contact by phone 7981 or via S. C. Packard on South Third Avenue.
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