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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1948
Page
6
Advice warns never touch a person shocked by electric current until you can safely remove them from the wire or wire from them. Instructs to have someone call a doctor and the lightning company immediately.
Wisconsin FFA chapters and Kraft tested grass silage and found twelve advantages for dairy farmers. Benefits include up to 30 percent more protein in alfalfa, weather-safe harvesting, organized storage, weed seed destruction, easier erosion and insect pest control, preservation of weedy feeds, fall rest for pastures, and enhanced winter milk and butter color and vitamins versus corn silage or sun-cured hay.
Millions of fungi are in two tiny dishes held by Dr. J J Christiansen, professor of plant pathology at the University of Minnesota, as he explains disease control to W A Brown during a presentation honoring U S wheat champions in Minnesota.
Among rules to be followed when dipping sheep are fast the sheep several hours before dipping. Do not dip sheep immediately on arrival if they have become heated. Do not dip sheep in an arsenical bath if they have open wounds. Do not put the sheep in the bath head first. Prepare the bath strictly in accordance with package instructions and mix thoroughly.
Veterinarians at Iowa State College warn young cocklebur seedlings poison pigs. Drier pastures this year drive hogs to cocklebur as green feed. The remedy is to keep hogs out of infested fields until cocklebur is eliminated.
Nebraska lists its motto Equality Before the Law. The state flower is the goldenrod and the western meadowlark is the official bird.
Prairie Flower welcomes a new school term with staff assignments at Crawfordsville consolidated and Indian Creek rooms. Miss Leona Beer begins her second year, Miss Funston teaches room IH, and Mrs. Radda leads Indian Creek. News covers weddings, 4H entries, youth rally, and community visits as the term starts.
After lambs are sold or weaned, ewes should be moved to drier pastures and later to better pasture about two to three weeks before breeding. Provide legume hay or grain to flush the flock. This method increases the size and uniformity of the lamb crop.
The Haskins Ladies Aid Society met Sept. 2 at Mrs. E L Conrys country home with 14 members one visitor and 3 children present. Refreshments were served by the hostess and her daughter Shirley. The next meeting will be with Mrs Frances Coon unless notified. Local notes include travels of Ethel Booth M T Coon and family visits to Iowa City Columbus Junction and the State Fair. The Haskins school opened Aug 30 with seven pupils and teacher Phyllis Hinkle.
Vivian Booth and Mrs God Love attended a church meeting in Washington Monday at the Presbyterian church as part of the wellman area labor day program.
The article explains that the man in the moon never changes because the moon orbits Earth and the Earth rotates in sync. For millions of years, observers have seen the same illuminated face of the Moon.
Washington Iowa’s Evening Journal lists staff including R E Shannon managing editor and Dave R Elder business manager with editors Charles Morris and W J Shannon. It notes publication schedule and entry as second class matter. Subscriptions and postal affiliations are referenced with partial rate details and service notes.
Weekly livestock sales in multiple towns including Columbus Junction Kalona Sigourney and Keota Iowa with specific dates September 18 to September 30. Auctions feature farm real estate household goods Herefords and tri county Guernsey sale managed by Truman Erb and others.
On Highway 92 one mile south of Dublin on Rock Road the event begins at 11 00 with speaker R W Hyde.
Carelessness is blamed for about thirty percent of all fires that destroy homes, with matches and smoking cited as common causes.
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