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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1924
Page
3
Byron Norrell advocates traditional fig preserving using lime water and sugar syrup to maintain fruit quality while warning against modern methods. He discusses phosphate and nitrate costs, cooperative marketing for farm products, and Oklahoma cotton growers as a successful model. He also shares ideas for tomato butter and fruit conserve recipes using raisins and spices.
Dill pickles from firm cucumbers prepared in half gallon jars with layers of dill and peppers. Relish mixes green and red peppers with onions, vinegar and spices. pepper hash and mango pepper hash describe layered peppers and onions cured in vinegar and sugar. Various chutney like sauces and chow chow prepared with tomatoes cabbage apples peppers and spices. all jars sealed and processed for shelf storage.
Neal of Portland Park reports tomato stems losing blossoms to an unknown insect while he and H Neal inspect Mrs Norrell's garden. They seek expert identification and advice on a suitable poison to help local growers. Neal also notes selling 180 dollars worth of strawberries from a 140 feet square patch this season.
On a field near Ada H H Moss tests cotton fertilization using nitrate of soda and acid phosphate. The first 12 rows received 200 pounds per acre of nitrate and performed better than the unfertilized six rows. The next 12 rows used an equal mix at 200 pounds per acre and showed further improvement. Additional strips were treated with 400 pounds of each and mixed.
R L Champvertas reports in the Poultry Tribune about Mrs Katherine Darling of the Narrows Gardner Massachusetts owning a hen aged seventeen that still lays and behaves unusually. The bird named The Old Hen hatched her own brood yearly and steals nests to lay again each season.
Mrs Duvall notes canning is the season’s focus with steam pressure cookers common in many areas. Even without these devices a large amount of produce is preserved yearly, including calves canned frequently for winter use.
Only four or five attended the meeting of the bee keepers on Saturday. Due to the lack of interest it was decided not to invite the state meeting to come here this year.
A lab notes a single honey sample claimed genuine from Hill’s own bees. The speaker praises the specimen as unmatched and contemplates following Hill to his farm near Ada to verify and collect more honey.
Four pens of hens averaged nearly 22 eggs in May. Two hens laid 31 each, four laid 30, and five others 29 in 31 days. Eggs sold for 84.45 cents per hen, leaving 17.66 cents profit after feed. Feed cost per dozen 9.37 cents. selling price 15.8 cents per dozen. Seven of 40 pens produced eggs for under eight cents a dozen.
West likely family cookbook style describes Peach Butter Pear Butter Plum Butter and Apple Conserve with detailed measures and cooking steps. Recipes combine ripe fruit sugar vinegar spices and slow cooking to create sandwich spreads sauces and sauces for pork and poultry.
A collection of simple kitchen dishes including Scalloped Cabbage Graham Muffins Potato Soup Tamaia Pie Plain Rice Pudding with steps and ingredients. Recipes note variations such as whole wheat flour and serving suggestions.
The state department of agriculture reports July 1 crop conditions. Grain sorghums acreage down 12 percent to 1.34 million with 73 percent normal condition. estimated yield 15.7 bu/acre and 21.03 million bu production. Peanuts area at 14 thousand acres. 83 percent normal yield 680 lb/acre, production 9.528 million lb. Sorghum cane for syrup 16 thousand acres. 73 percent normal, production 1.168 million gal. Potatoes area 43 thousand acres. yield 76 bu/acre, production 3.268 million bu. Sweet potatoes area 27 thousand acres. 81 percent condition, production 2.406 million bu. Hay conditions mixed. tame hay acreage 955 thousand acres with 84 percent normal condition, up 2 percent from last year.
At the Harris luncheon the Kiwanis clubs reviewed plans to transform Byrd’s Mill into a regional resort for Ada residents. Committees will pursue a dam for a free swim pool and facilities for dressing rooms, tables, and benches as weekend gatherings grow. Attendance surged as Ki Yi’s and Ki Wa’s energized the group. T. Blackburn and A. W. Parker were chosen to attend the district meeting in Lawton in September.
Oklahoma City hog market opened with gains as marketing of raw material eased. Chicago oversupply weighed but most initial losses were recovered. local prices quoted at 7.50 to packers and 7.60 to city bidders, receipts around 800 head including ten direct loads.
The report notes 89 percent overall production of 500000 tons versus 510000 last year. Apples 80 percent on July 1 with 1342000 bushels. pears 80 percent with 225000 bushels. small berries 85 percent on July 1. Melons 75 percent, soybeans 86 percent with 10 percent larger acreage, cow peas same acreage, pecans 82 percent, home gardens 76 percent.
In Stillwater Oklahoma A and M entomologist C E Sanborn warns that without controlling the current grasshopper infestation the pest will worsen next year. Extension entomologist E E Seholl notes best control in July using bran mash formula with bran, arsenic and molasses to treat six acres per application.
The county election board redraws voting precincts at Pickett Rocky Chapel Canyon Springs and adds a strip to Sunshine. Registration closes soon and affected voters must register. Precinct boundaries are described but details are unavailable from the board or registrar. A list of outside Ada registrars includes many named individuals and towns.
Byron Norrell, editor, rebukes a Homer writer who claimed John Morper and a young woman wed last week. Morper says the marriage report is untrue and several other statements in the letter are false, warning that such misstatements could cause trouble.
A fragment notes a measurement of two and a half feet equating to a military pace, indicating a conversion or standard used in marching references.
Thomas Ranks as one of the youngest state legionnaires at 22 and serves as science teacher at Ada high school. Enlisted at 15, he fought in France including Chateau Thierry and Argonne, earned a Masters at East Central College, then returned to teaching and plans Chicago summer study. He is praised by the school board for exceptional teaching and leadership.
Opal Kinney Rexroat and U S Rexroat filed for receivership of oil leases in the Healdton field partly owned by J Sylvester Mullen Ardmore millionaire now serving 18 months in Leavenworth. Defendants include Erret Dunlap and Cotton Belt Petroleum Co. Leases damaged by alleged negligent management risk $150000 in losses dating to 1920.
C P Hammond died at 73 in Oklahoma City at his son A E Hammond's home. He was first state fire marshal and served as sheriff of Comanche County from 1902 to 1907. Hammond had lived in Oklahoma since 1893 and was fire marshal under Governors Cruce and Williams. Interment will be in Oklahoma.
A tornado struck west of McPherson Kansas last night carving a 4 to 7 mile wide path through McPherson County destroying scores of houses and barns and silos. Many persons were injured or majtred as towns suffered heavy damage.
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