City Gardeners Learn to Improve Poor Soil Now
The National Emergency Food Garden commission urges amateur city gardeners to prepare for next year by improving poor city soil. Techniques include adding coal ashes sand stable manure and green manure to soften clay, trenching this fall, and planting cover crops. Even with tiny urban plots productivity can rise with careful, intelligent care.
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Waterloo
National Emergency Food Garden Commission
In-gome
Nutritious School Lunches With Simple Food Combinations
Guidelines for school children and workers advocate balanced meals. Suggested options include meat sandwiches with fruit, meat loaf or bean loaf with bread, custard or jelly, crisp rolls filled with meat or fish, lettuce or celery sandwiches with custard, cottage cheese with peppers, hard boiled eggs, milk, and various fruits and baked goods.
Brief Farm Hints on Sows, Pests, and Machinery Care
Practical notes urge protecting a brood sow and litter from rain, and safeguarding farm machinery from sun and rain. Rodents ruin grain, costing 2 to 3 dollars yearly per rat, while plowing wards off wireworms. Pasture management should limit hog access to forage to speed consumption and maintain health.
Wine Plague to Be Fought Hard in Grundy County
Hog cholera losses in eastern Grundy County total about 20,000 this season. The Grundy County Animal Industry association formed to combat contagious livestock diseases with Charles Thomas as president and Dr A C Middleton as vice president. W A Lynn named secretary, with Dr J R Koen, Dr T M Baylor and others assisting. Directors will be named from each township to improve sanitary conditions on farms.
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Grundy County
T. M. Baylor
Iowa
Howard
Kalodens
R. EB. Christopher
Waterloo
Prompt Work May Route Hog Cholera
Strict quarantine rules to guard swine herds against hog cholera are outlined by Dr. T M Bayler United States veterinary inspector for northwestern Iowa He urges immediate reporting of suspected contagion isolation of the sick hog thorough cleaning and disinfection of the hog lot burning of carcasses and prohibition of visitors to infected premises to neighbors’ hog lots
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T. M. Bayler
United States Veterinary
Iowa
Iowa proposes statewide animal husbandry drive against swine disease
The animal husbandry department aims to form county level organizations to combat contagious animal diseases. In Grundy county cholera has killed about one thousand hogs, and officials say prompt action and quarantines could have prevented losses. Dr Baylor and assistants push northern district efforts while Benton and Grundy counties organize stock growers and townships. A cholera case was reported near La Porte City at the Williams farm.
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Benton
Grundy
Black Hawk
Baylor
Iowa
Bayler
Wm. Williams
la Porte City
Regulations on Quarantine and Disease Control
Dr Baylor reports a farmer refuses to cooperate with the department in stamping out cholera. Government inspectors do not treat sick animals but counsel and labor to stamp out contagion by the latest scientific methods. Quarantine conditions must be met before restrictions can be relaxed.
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Baylor
Car Shortage Prime Cause of Scarcity of Coal
Railroads report a car shortage drives coal scarcity amid high demand for freight transport to cantonments. Unloading stalled cars and labor shortages at locomotive and car plants hinder relief, with shippers urged to cooperate to prevent worsening conditions nationwide.
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Waterloo
Here s a Chance for Colored People in Newport Stevedore Regiments
Army recruiting officers in Newport report no volunteers or inquiries from colored men for the stevedore regiments to load and unload transports at southern ports. They urge patriotism and underscore the need to represent Waterloo among those serving at southern ports during the emergency.
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Newport
Uncle Sam
Waterloo
Tripoli Hosts Liberty Loan Meeting in Bremer County
An enthusiastic Liberty Loan meeting drew crowds at the Tripoli opera house Saturday under Bremer County Liberty Loan Committee auspices. Horton E. Sweet, of Waverly, spoke as subscriptions were described as generous, with a high demand for subscription cards after the event. Tripoli leads Bremer County in Liberty Bond sales and Red Cross donations. Congressman Burton E. Sweet planned talks across Waverly, Readlyn, Denver, Sumner, and other towns to boost Liberty Loan and Red Cross efforts.
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Liberty Loaneras
Tripoli Opera House
Bremer County
Liberty Loan Committee
Horton E. Sweet
Waverly
E. Ml. Martin
Tripollis
Red Cross
Burton E. Sweet
Koy Scouts
Lberty Loan
Readlyn
Denver
Sumner
Liberty Loan
Bromer County
California Syrup of Figs Advertises Gentle Laxative
An old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a safe gentle laxative for babies and children. It claims to cleanse the liver and bowels, improve mood and appetite, and warns to avoid counterfeit syrups. The copy stresses the product’s pleasant taste and directions on each bottle.
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California
California Fig Syrup Company
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Famous East
Ern
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East Fourth Street
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