Teacher Explains Kill Method for Bean Weevil
Florida agricultural expert Charles L. Fluke details how to combat the bean weevil harming crops. He prescribes carbon bisulfid treatment in a sealed vessel to kill adults and larvae, notes eggs survive and require a second treatment two weeks later, and advises cold storage to slow development.
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Charles L. Fluke
Economic Etomology Department
College of Agriculture of Florida
Mr. Fluke
Fluke
Farmers Adopt Advertising for Spring Gardens in Custer City
Farmers across Custer County embrace advertising as a sales method, with newspapers carrying multiple public sale ads. The piece argues planning, deep soil breaking, and manure plus acid phosphate boost yields, urging winter preparation for a better spring garden and noting the shift from signs to town advertising.
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Custer City
Uster County
Diversification Key Note to Success in Farming
A Florida Experiment Station expert advocates diversified farming with livestock and multiple crops to cushion bad years. He cites hogs cattle eggs and poultry as revenue and stresses storing feed in corn cribs potato houses hay mows and silos with silage as economical for year round nutrition and drought resilience.
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J. M. Scott
Florida Experiment Station
Drouths
Ship Builders Bread Record
American ship builders broke the world pre war record of launching during the last fiscal year according to figures in the annual report of the commission of navigation made public today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ship Builders Bread
Washington
Commission of Navigation
The Goal of Union Ambition by J O McMinn
The article argues farmers must unite to create a national marketing plan to raise profits and equality of opportunity. It urges a united front among cotton farmers, patient strategic planning, and cooperative action to avoid fragmentation and bankruptcy.
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J. O. McMinn
Farmers urged to write for farm legislation gains
A rural American tone urges farmers to contact Senators and Congressmen about farm bills. It highlights the Capper Volstead Act, Nolan tax on large landholdings, Truth in Fabrics, Kenyon Anderson nitrates, and rural credit measures including the McFadden Bill. It stresses organized farm bureaus and bipartisan support, and ends with a punchline about cows and heaven.
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Congress
Washington
State Farm Bureaus
House
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Senate
Nolan
Germany
Kahn-Wadsworth
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Chile
Federal Reserve Banks
McFadden
National Department of Agriculture
Legislature Inside Oklahoma Powers and Perennial Deficits
The piece argues Oklahoma's legislature never adjourns in any meaningful way as the governor certifies deficiencies and appropriations. It highlights recurring deficits, mismanaged building projects, and the danger of executive control over money despite legislative checks, urging repeal of deficiency certification.
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Oklahoma
St. Patrick’s Day
State Department
Commons
Job’s Troubles and the Ford on a Frosty Morning
A concise quip notes that Job faced small troubles yet avoided attempting to start a Ford in icy cold. The line uses humor to contrast steadfastness with a common winter mishap.
Oklahoma A and M wins big at state and rival fairs
Oklahoma A and M college at Stillwater earned prizes totaling $1,045 from nine exhibits across Oklahoma City Muskogee and Dallas fairs. Percheon and beef cattle led $1,545 at Dallas, with college stock achieving multiple championships including Roan Model and Dukes Choice. Oklahoma state fairs yielded nine firsts against Texas rivals.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Stillwater
Muskogee
Dallas
State Department of Agriculture
The
Agricultural College
Oklahoma A. & M
Muskogee Fair
Stillwater Institution
Dukes
Beau Franklin
Felford
Colorado
Missouri
Kansas
Illinois
Oklahoma
Texas
Farmers burn 1920 corn crop for fuel in Oklahoma
In Ponca City Oklahoma farmers report burning the 1920 corn crop for fuel due to low prices. Some fields hold kafir and other grains left unharvested as cattle markets slump and coal remains costly. The Louisiana Sugar Planters Association outlines aims and membership rules.
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Ponca City
Okla
Southwest
Louisiana Sugar Planters’ Association
Crondelet Street
New Orleans
I.a
Repinelc Dykers
Audubon Park
Louisiana
Association
Fires Wreck Okmulgee Homes Total Loss Near 6500
Twenty nine fires in Okmulgee in November caused an estimated loss of 6560 with property totaling 43810. Buildings loss 2915 and contents 3645. Insurance coverage on property reached 45750 and 4000 on contents.
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Byte Associated Press
Okmulgee
Okla
Board of City Commissioners
Oklahoma Climbs to Fourth in Southern Cotton Yields
Oklahoma farmers expect 1.8 million bales from the 1920 cotton crop, ranking fourth behind Texas Georgia and South Carolina. The report notes heavy eastern yields averaging 300 pounds lint per acre and later ginning in the west and southwest, with much crop presently abandoned or not yet picked. A price rise could save a large portion of the crop.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Federal Bureau of Crop Estimates
State Board of Agriculture
Texas
Georgia
South Carolina
Nole
Sequoyvah
Food prices fall further across 51 cities
The Department of Labor Bureau of Statistics reports a 2.5 percent overall drop in food prices since October with declines in all 51 monitored cities. Memphis records the largest decrease at five percent.
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Washington
Department of Labor Bureau of Statistics
Memphis
Bridge Over Sandy Near Ada Completed
A concrete bridge over Sandy one mile west of Ada on the Ada Center road is finished and filling work is under way. The structure will soon be ready for service.
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Sandy
Ada
Ada Center Road
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AY County
Leonce M. Soniat
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Andrew N. Gay
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J. B. Levert
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James D. Hill
John Dymond
Wm. Carter Stubbs
M. Billeaud Jr
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