Story of a Pig Club Girl and Practical Farming Tips
The piece relays Rachel Allen's pig club report detailing caring for a Duroc named Beauty Path finder, including feeding, washing, grooming, pasturing, weighing, and agent guidance. It links pig club success to disciplined stock care, reading bulletins, and fair learning, then mentions local poultry berry and pecan ventures with rising per acre incomes.
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Pig Club
Pig and Poultry Club
Rachel Allen
Peach Spray Rules Warn Georgia Growers
The government and state laboratory at Fort Valley Georgia issues a bulletin on spraying peach and other fruit trees to control the San Jose scale. Southern conditions require spraying after frosts not during dormancy to avoid twig injury. Georgia growers urged to use proper materials and apply twice if infestation is heavy.
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Fort Valley
Georgia
Georgia Peach Belt
San Jose
Farmers Pledge Hughes County Farmland to Peanut Production
About 5000 acres in Hughes County Oklahoma are pledged to peanut production for next season. T A Vanderpool farm demonstration agent says most pledges are in five and ten acre plots. The move follows farmers efforts to reduce cotton acreage and potential boll weevil losses.
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Holdenville
Okla
Hughes County
T. A. Vanderpool
Vanderpool
Poultry Berry and Pecan Profits in California and Texas
Cyrus Hogan argues that poultry can create a multi million dollar business in Petaluma California and Texans can profit from poultry berry and pecan ventures. He advises new poultry growers to study practical books and observe yards and to learn berry growing by hands on experience for steady income from year one onward.
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Cyrus Hogan
Petaluma
California
Stonewall Turkeys Paid Out Across Four Firms Total 8539.34
The Stonewall News reports $8,539.34 paid by four local firms for turkeys. Including earlier sales, not less than $9,000 has been spent on the birds in recent months. At that rate, nearby farmers may be free from boll weevils in time.
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Stonewall
Fall Garden Demonstration by Mrs Dan Hays
Mrs Dan Hays demonstrates a productive fall garden with butter beans eggplants Swiss chard parsley green onions carrots sweet peppers and a plentiful supply of turnips and greens inviting others to share better results.
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Dan Hays
Pruning Fruit Trees in Oklahoma State
D. C. Mooring explains pruning can be done any time during the dormant season. He notes fruit habit and age of wood determine methods and favors low headed trees for Oklahoma conditions, as the article continues on page three.
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D. C. Mooring
A. and
M. College
Oklahoma
County Aids Jack's Party With Possums In Oklahoma City
Forty more possums join the barbecu e preparations for Jack Walton's inauguration in Oklahoma City. Pontotoc County farmers may donate a car of sweet potatoes, said Fred F Brydia the legislator elect and barbecue manager. He expects large turnout with hundreds of Pontotoc citizens and forecasts about two hundred thousand state residents attending.
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Oklahoma City
Jack Walton
Fred F. Brydia
Brydia
Pontotoc County
Pontotoc
Cochran Appointed Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice
Charles B. Cochran was sworn in today as a new Oklahoma Supreme Court justice, appointed last night by Governor Robertson. He succeeds Justice C. H. Elting, who died at his Durant home. Cochran, a Durant native and former law partner of Charles McPherron, is a Democrat and has lived in Oklahoma eleven years.
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Oklahoma
Masonic lodge elects officers for coming year
At Ada the A F and A M lodge held its annual election Monday evening naming M O Matthews as Worshipful Master E C Peay senior warden W R Garrett junior warden F C Sims secretary and B M Bobbitt treasurer Appointive officers to be announced later A joint installation with the Eastern Star was planned with date to be announced soon.
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A. F
A. M. Lodge
Ada
M. O. Matthews
W. M
E. C. Peay
S. W
W. R. Garrett
J. W
F C. Sims
B. M. Bobbitt
Eastern Star
Rail valuation cut hits Pontotoc county schools hard
A large shares of Pontotoc county tax value will drop after a state rail valuation compromise with the Rock Island and Frisco railways. Rural schools may lose funds and shorten terms by months as the Frisco and Rock Island values fall from 1921 estimates. Officials warn further road deals could worsen school finances.
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Francis
Dist
Roff
Oakman
Ada
Pontotoc
Board of Equalization
Frisco Railroad
Rock Island
Frisco
Interurban Crash Kills Five Near Guthrie Oklahoma
Oklahoma City dispatch reports an interurban car struck a Ford sedan at a grade crossing, dragging the automobile 75 yards. Five occupants of the car, a Russian Gypsy party from Pawnee, were killed, including a mother, father, an uncle and two children. Several others were seriously injured and hospitalized. Police held the interurban crew on reckless driving charges with trial set for tomorrow.
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Oklahoma City
Guthrie
Okla
Jit
Sehovanio
Pawnee
California
St. Anthony’s Hospital
River Bottoms
Robinson Street
Hahn Undertaking Company
K. G. Ss
Street & Draper’s Ambulance
Removal of Railroad Priority Restrictions Foreshadowed
Inter state commerce commission hearings heard railroad officials from Missouri Pacific Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Louisville and Nashville and St Louis San Francisco request removal of priority restrictions affecting southwest terminals spanning Louisiana Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma. Shippers' appeal for lifting service orders was presented as possibly grantable.
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Washington
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri Pacific
Chicago
Rock Island and
Counterfeiting Rises with Bootleg Whiskey Trade
Washington reports show the bootleg liquor market swelling counterfeit activity. W H Moran chief of the secret service told the house appropriations commission counterfeit bills of fair workmanship flood the eastern half, aiding cross border whiskey purchases to smuggle into the country.
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Washington
W. H. Moran
Secret Service
House Appropriations Commission
Court Adjourned Here Bolen Resents Action by Chief Justice
Ada District Judge J W Bolen recused from sitting in the Robertson case at Eufaula saying he adjourned the term sine die without notice and denouncing Chief Justice Harrison for unauthorized orders. He cited sovereignty of voters and suspected Ku Klux Klan influence shaping the jury amid a long feud with Governor Robertson.
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J. B. A. Robertson
Bank of Commerce
Okmulgee
L. E. Franklin
Thomas A. Edwards
Cordell
Robertson
Franklin
Edwards
J. W. Bolen
Harrison
Bolen
Ada
Oklahoma City
Associates
W. Bolen
Seventh Judicial District
James Hepburn
Okmulgee County
Governor Robertson
Pontotoc County
Heer
District Court
Pontotoc County District Court
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Ku Klux Klan
Klu Klux Klan
Crisis in federal prohibition enforcement reaches crisis stage
Washington December 6 The crisis in federal prohibition enforcement is at hand according to Commissioner Haynes who told the House Appropriations Committee that nine million dollars is needed for the next fiscal year and that a similar amount for five or six years could reduce later.
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Dallas
Fort Worth
Gulf Coast
Washington
Haynes
House Appropriation Committee
Sheriff Rhyne Shot in Duncan. Condition Improves
Stephens County reports Sheriff E. R. Rhyne wounded by three gunshots on a Duncan business street. Suspect Bob Calmes, a barber, surrendered and remains jailed as doctors monitor the sheriff’s improving condition. Calmes says the sheriff had "wrecked my home."
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Byron Norrell
Robertson Gase
County
Jack
Cochran
Masonic Lodge
State Board of Equalization
State Board
Eufaula
Melton
Stephens County
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