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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1924
Page
9
A plan emerges to run a trans continental motor bus route from New York to Los Angeles with a 26 day schedule. The story centers on romantic rivalries and a arranged match involving Lizzy Elise and Joe Dallet as events unfold amid social intrigue.
Farmers should plow to a firm seed bed and sow sweet clover from late February to early March depending on region and weather. Broadcasting on winter barley aids cover, but avoid wheat. seed coat hardiness may require 12 to 15 pounds per acre. On sandy lands create windbreaks with knee high stubble or plant cane or sudan first to protect the seedbed.
Notes from Gibbons report describe Denton farm near Durant using 200 lb acre acid phosphate with a $6.00 per acre profit. A mix of 100 lb nitrate of soda and 200 lb acid phosphate yields $14.40 per acre net from 300 lb fertilizer. A 80 acre tractor farmed cotton field demonstration is nearing completion.
A single man cultivates eighty acres nine times using a tractor two-row cultivator. Total expense per acre, including labor and materials, runs about $15.00, well below the average cotton acre cost in southern Oklahoma.
District Agent Dan Diehl and County Agent John Gray report Dr. Walters, superintendent of the Granite state reformatory, has 5000 bushels of Kanota oats for seed at 1.00 per bushel f o b Granite. The Kanota crop yielded 55 bushels per acre versus 35 on the Same farm and Texas Red.
San Jose scale has damaged San Jose State trees and fruit trees. Prof. Sanborn at the A and M College recommends a two percent emulsion spray using red engine oil water fish oil soap heated and emulsified. Mix six gallons of solution with 194 gallons of water and apply between now and leaf emergence. Heavy oils with parasine bases preferred.
Col Ike T notes that in 1906 Texas had 254 counties and vast cattle herds with 73 percent under quarantine. By 1906 2.3 million head remained quarantined after 100 counties released, while Fort Worth receipts reached 837000 head with 670000 quarantined. In 1924 Fort Worth cattle receipts rose to 1,068,000 head with 13 percent quarantined.
A famous scientist argued that insect predation among species keeps numbers in check, preventing total insect overpopulation that would threaten vertebrates including humans. Entomologists study this natural warfare to manage pest populations.
The article reports that introduced insect and fungal parasites are curbing damage from pests like the alfalfa weevil and gypsy moth in various states. It notes established parasites in Colorado Nevada and New England, and ongoing searches in Japan for Japan ese beetle parasites. European corn borer parasites prove hardy with winters, spreading across the corn belt. An insect parasite lab operates in Hyeres France to find and study more parasites.
In McAlester near Anderson two miners D F McAlpine and William Rollison died underground from black damp. Rescue work found Rollison at 100 feet and McAlpine 300 feet from the air, both men long time residents of the McAlester coal district.
Oklahoma state board of agriculture launches a Greater Poultry Production campaign to raise uniform better poultry and eggs. John A. Whitehurst outlines mass meetings, publicity and lectures with Chambers of commerce and agricultural groups to show farmers the profits of poultry. He notes Oklahoma now produces less than a third of its egg consumption and aims to raise output to exceed demand with uniform flocks and better storage and packing by merchants.
Buck Cole, a 17 year old right guard for the Methodist Orphanage eleven in Raleigh, has played two years and is praised as a tower of strength. His right leg was amputated below the knee after an accident at age seven, yet he plays without an artificial limb and uses the shortened leg as a spring to jump and move faster.
The Ada Greenhouse contest in city public schools and Teachers College trained pupils to visit the Greenhouse and write up to 500 words. About 50 entries were judged by Prof Molley and committee. Thelma Crowder won 7-B Hayes School $7.50. Shirley Jones 5 Irving School $5. Mozelle Mc Guyre Irving School $2.50. prizes funded by W. E. Pitt.
A new transnational cable linking England and Germany was inaugurated recently, marking a milestone in cross channel communications. The project strengthens bilateral ties and signals expanded regional telecom capacity.
Reports describe Chilean horses as influenced by Arab stock and noted for their bold, spirited temperament.
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