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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1918
Page
2
Chicago market notes show receipts of about 60 000 with cattle and sheep higher and lower trends. Prices range for hogs and cattle across light mixed heavy and heavy grades, with week totals and daily shipments listed for reference.
The Washington county farming column shares profitable farm practices from the Farmers' union and public sale notes. It invites questions and uses local experience on seed corn testing, smut treatment, and alfalfa with nurse crops, reflecting county stock breeding and seed methods.
March 5 Limerman Brown horse sale at Washington and closing out sale near Haskins. March 7 N O Loughlin Washington closing out sale. March 18 Otha Maber South English stock sale. March 16 A Brook and Son bred low sale at Washington.
A report cites W J Barker noting grape cane borers in his vines with dust falling from older wood when branches are jarred. The Iowa Station warns burning prunings to control borers. The piece then lists numerous local farm relocations and residents moving within a seven mile radius of Crawfordsville.
A long list details moves and relocations of residents and families around Ainsworth, Washington, Wellman, Riverside, West Chester, and adjacent townships. Names include Genkinger Ebner Leeper McLaughlin Carron Wilson Chadman Maple Hunt Reneau McGuire Eckerman Crayne Rittenhouse Wallace Augustine Wood Montgomery Ginnis Stalder Humston Soukup Mathers Woodburn Mast Jones Logan Kleinschmidt Edgar Krotz Brown Cannon Verdi and others, with transfers to farms near Young America, Wayland, and Riverside.
Forecast for March 4 to 9 calls for fair skies and colder conditions Tuesday and Wednesday with near seasonal temperatures thereafter. A first class stock farm operation will be conducted by Mr. Brown who moves in today to breed pure bred stock. Harry Brent relocates near Columbus Junction from Crawfordsville area. I. M. Mink moves from his Crawfordsville northwest farm to a new residence near Conesville.
I quit farming and offer for sale at my residence one mile east of Washington near No 11 school starting at 10 o clock. Lot includes horses cattle hay oats corn seed corn straw and farm implements plus miscellaneous items. Terms as usual. Newton O Loughlin D F Macon Act KR E Doughtery Clerk Whittaker Lunch.
Captain Cameron of the American schooner Belnen and his family were aboard the German raider turned prison ship Igotz Mendi when it ran aground on the northern coast of Jutland. The Germans fed the prisoners well until a Japanese escapee prompted confinement for 28 days.
Thunderstorm clouds vary in height from 500 to 2 000 feet while very deep storms extend two to five miles deep. Cumulus clouds sit between 2 000 and 5 000 feet above the earth, affecting perceived distance and scale.
A Chicago engineer reports a patent method using high frequency current sprayed through soil via buried electrodes to boost corn and sugar beet yields. Seed coating with a metallic element concentrates current to roots, increasing germination, growth rate, stalk volume, and overall crop value with costs under $200 for installation and under 1 cent per acre for current.
The passage notes cold wet conditions can hinder electrical processes, predicting better results in drier seasons. It estimates apparatus life at twenty five years and offers help to farmers with nearby electricity planning installations in the coming spring. The method applies to any seed.
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