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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1925
Page
8
County Correspondence recalls cool nights and early autumn hints with visits from Mrs. Ole Wicks Ruth and others to the Welsh home. Looming fairs and threshing winds downshift as families travel to Des Moines for the Iowa state fair. Local events include birthdays, school enrollments, funerals, and farm work. note the Measurable accidents for Harold Johnson Jr and Wayne Matthes.
Relatives learn of a boy’s birth to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bair of Altamont. Debates on moving to California, harvest plans, and community events fill a long column. Social visits abound with Silcox, Woods, Peterson, and Wallerstedt families among others. Agricultural notes cover hog feeding trials, tankage use, and mineral mixtures with references to 1928 test conclusions and economic gains per hundred pounds of gain.
Harmony Center J H Willey and family left for Des Moines to attend the state fair and visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Ray plan to move into town due to ill health. Estherville Township Club honored Mrs Sam Fritz with farewell party and silver salad fork. Joe Gee family hosted Olivia Minn visitors. Ruth Herbrandson hosted a bridal shower for Sara Martyr with blue decor and gifts. Ralph Lough returns to Ames for college. Hog feeding tests at Ames station advise hogs gain faster in corn with tankage and protein sources. notes on hogging-down experiments and feed efficiency.
F G Churchill of Iowa State University says best alfalfa seedings occur by September 1. If a good seedbed isn’t ready for fall sowing, wait for spring with a small grain nurse crop. Clipping alfalfa late in fall weakens plants and late fall pasturing harms the stand. New seedings may be clipped if weeds are controlled and stubble remains four inches high.
John M. Shaw of the Iowa State College dairy husbandry department warns that green pasture alone may not meet dairy cows' feed needs for high production. He advocates green corn as an easy supplement, noting cows can eat 38 pounds daily when it is the sole succulent feed, after gradual introduction.
Ames Abe remarks on talks of synthetic milk as cows lag behind. He suggests records show cows have sped up milk production, and expresses a preference to rely on cows rather than artificial methods.
A disjointed excerpt discusses watching machines milk dairy cows and notes that egg predation is not magical. It mentions needing the right supplies of seeds to obtain any yield from hens, but the fragment is incomplete and unclear.
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