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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1920
Page
7
Correspondents relay a flood of local items from Wellman and nearby areas. Updates include illnesses from grippe and pneumonia, recent marriages, sales, moving plans, and visits among families, with notices of funerals and hospital stays.
Brighton news reports King Johnson about 16 and Cyril Henry firing revolvers while hunting on Saturday. Johnson accidentally shot himself below the abdomen and was taken home then to Fairfield hospital for X rays with possible surgery. Separately, Mrs. Mike Mellinger died Sunday at her daughter Mrs. George Lechner’s home after months of frailty, aged over 75, survived by husband and daughter.
Ames February 25. EB V Collins professor of agricultural engineering at Iowa State College reports about 12 000 farm tractors in Iowa averaging one tractor per sixteen farms. He conducted a state wide study involving farm visits and reports from hundreds of owners. He finds 85 to 90 percent of tractors are paying investments though some dissatisfaction stems from operator inexperience or impatience.
Mr. Collins argues that tractors will not fully replace farm horses. He says current machinery makes it impractical to operate an average corn belt farm without horses. Even with a motor cultivator, horses would be needed for hauling bundles to the thresher and corn husking. Under average conditions two horses are required for every forty acres of corn.
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