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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1929
Page
17
Article advises enclosing chimneys rather than building them on outside walls. Central chimneys heat more evenly and reduce fire risk from expansion gaps. Proper liners may help, but many fail. brick remains best. multi-flue chimneys should be separated by full brick courses.
Heavy rains push back Butler County Alfalfa seeding demonstration to May 3 at the Queneve tract near the fairgrounds. Farm men will showcase lime spreaders, packers, discs, harrows, plows, trucks and tractors while Charles R. Hutcheson of Waterloo discusses alfalfa after field work.
Des Moines reports March contracts for new building and engineering work in Iowa totaled 2 055 500, down 16 percent from February and 49 percent from March 1928. Residential 58 700, public works 697 600, educational 248 400, commercial 512 200. Year to date contracts reach 11 311 600, down 18 percent from last year.
Washington April 27 more than 50 billion dollars have been spent for construction in the United States since World War I D A Garber general manager of the Associated General Contractors of America says the annual volume has doubled since 1919 with 1928 estimated at eight billion dollars. He cites rising living standards population growth and urban movement as the main causes along with modernization needs for residences offices hotels and industrial facilities. Highway and highway bridge work has tripled in ten years Garber reported at the convention opening attended by over 400 builders.
Rural recreation program details shared at Mt. Vernon township farm bureau meeting last night at the county home. Grand march opened the session. songs pantomimes and rounds followed with the pantomime School Days by Mr. and Mrs. Ansell Woore drawing praise. A minuet featured couples including Mr. and Mrs. G W Morris Mr. and Mrs Will Eyestone Mrs E B Sage and Bob Stson. Next Mt Vernon meeting scheduled for May 31.
The Courier's News notes field work behind schedule with wet soils and scarce horses. Farmers worry spring work will squander on damp ground, while some use extra horse power or tractors with improvised rims to gain traction. Some plan soybeans as catch crops if conditions improve. others focus on corn or oats as soil moisture and snow melt affect plowing progress.
Patrons of several large milk condensaries in Coffeyville Kansas bought a carload of grade and purebred Holstein and Guernsey cows. The carload, largely from Froelich area, was bought by Howard Jackson agricultural agent for the Missouri Pacific and C M Fardy for Paige Milk company Coffeyville. The shipment also included several cows from L C G Lenth herd of Elkader.
In Troy New York a white porcelain Sea-box refrigerator designed to freeze concrete and bricks conducts rapid cycles to test durability. Professor Thomas R Lawson leads Rensselaer Institute experiments to measure internal temperatures with thermocouples, studying moisture effects, waterproofing, and denser concrete to extend material life.
Buchanan county farm bureau hosts two day Colt breaking and big hitch demonstrations on April 30 and May 1 at Art Sweener and W. J. Campbell farms near Winthrop and Jesup. Roy Snyder and County Agent L A Walters lead cost breaking and halter work from 10 AM with a 1 PM big hitch show of up to nine horses in various tandem configurations.
Pullin uses a two by four frame to support a wool sack boosting capacity to about 250 pounds per sack. The system aids drying and increases total wool from 185 sheep, aided by motorized shears and a dirt-free shearing platform. Fleeces weighed and tagged, records kept, with several Cheviots sold statewide and one ram sent to Westchester, Pa.
Omepha Neb April 27 More than 4000 farmer owned elevators are now in business in the United States. The Cooperative grain system is described as the world’s largest. Iowa Illinois North Dakota Nebraska Kansas South Dakota Ohio Indiana Oklahoma lead in numbers. The first cooperative elevator dates to about 1880 with a peak in 1919 and towns with 700 farmers contribute large memberships.
East Waterloo township girls organize a new 4 H club and will hold summer meetings at 9 30 in the morning rather than in the afternoon.
Letters to the editor are welcomed by the Waterloo Evening Courier Farm Department. Readers may address questions and comments to the editor at Waterloo, Town, and use phone number 5100 for inquiries.
At Sunnyside school an organizing meeting named Dorothy Brinker president and Helen Laittle vice president with Louise Jensen secretary Josephine Moore reporter and Johanna Breckenfelder historian. A program committee includes Amelia Breckenfelder Olive Morrow and recreation researchers Alise Farker Elizabeth Sumpter. Mrs J Sumpter leads the new club the township's first.
Sumner Iowa April 27 it is considered probable that the Bremer county farm bureau picnic will be held here July 4 though no definite action has been taken by the board of directors of the county bureau Smith W Brookhart United States senator from Iowa is being considered as the speaker.
County Agent J L Uban starts corn club work in Black Hawk to organize farm boys into study plots of eight by sixty hills. Plots will test fertilizer treatments including full fertilizer, 20 percent superphosphate, phosphate and dime, lime, manure, and a no treatment check. Fertilizer materials cost about 1.40 and plots will be planted late October with data on tasseling barren stalks maturity and yield to be reported.
The article notes seed quality data per row and rent calculations for land. It mentions that the corn club will include additional county plots this year. In 1928 W. O. Tannreuther Pete Delagardelle and G. W. Morris conducted tests and under last year’s conditions the plot receiving superphosphate yielded the best return on investment.
A bid for a new unloading record occurred between Aplington and Austinville on Wednesday as five lime cars were emptied in 43 minutes. The Winols Central system carried the cars with 33 farmers aiding the operation. Key participants included R. B. Erkles of Aplington Jans Van Jo ne H. H. Caof Andy Johnson and Robert Stockdale of Austinville. Canty Gent Jom Mallins reports fifteen cars dumped in Butler this spring.
In Flagstaff California researcher Dr. D. T. MacDougall of the Desert Laboratory at Carnegie notes discovery in long lived tree cells called Alison cells. These cells live about 400 years, mature in 20 days, and may recover from injury. Some California trees are said to be 3,000 years old, with cells dividing 50 000 to 100 000 times yet showing no aging signs. Trees die from wind damage as roots fail to counterbalance vast growth.
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