Potato beetle and cabbage bug control tips
In Griffin Georgia RB Redding explains how the potato beetle arrived in the United States and offers practical control methods. He advocates dusting with a lime and green pigment mix or flour, spraying with a lime solution, and persistent removal of beetles and eggs. For the cabbage bug he recommends handpicking and using mustard as a trap crop with kerosene sprays as a last resort.
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RB J Redding
L. Bell Mills
Mill Pond
Cotton Seed Notice Promotes Various Hybrid Varieties
A farm notice urges buyers to avoid exaggerated claims and choose proven cotton seeds. It lists Early Triumph Broadwell’s Double Jointed Uncle Sam and other hybrids with prices per bushel and discount lots, urging orders to RD. Tatum at Fair View Farm, Amate Ga.
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Elf
Broadwell
Hastings
Uncle Sam
Clevelard Triumph
Fatum
RD. Tatum
Fair View Farm
Amate Ga
Best Breed of Swine Question Answers by Georgia Ag Chief
A Colorado style query asks which hog breed is superior between Duroc Jersey and Poland China. The reply notes both are large lard hogs and choice hinges on taste. the Duroc Jersey is slightly favored for color and earlier maturity, while a bacon breed Tamworth is suggested for future needs.
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L. C. Facetille
Ga—Pilease
Poland
China
Agricultural Department of Atlanta Constitution
Dyspeptic Mare With Worms Here’s a Home Remedy
A reader asks how to treat a weak dyspeptic mare with possible worms. Advice suggests worming first with spirits of turpentine in raw linseed oil on an empty stomach for 3–4 days, then purging with linseed oil, paracea cape peras and saltpeter powders, plus a bran mash with powder. Also notes “washy” horses need better food and water and to avoid overwork.
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Sweeney
Otto Gresham
Mountain Creek
H.C. G. Marton
Ala
Walter Anawer
Norma
Fos
Alsty
Land
Abbeville
Magnesia
Ringgold
Anewer
Iltia
Farm Q and A on cows, mules, and cotton planting
The Constitution readers request advice on livestock illnesses, pest control, and fertilizer. Answers cover salamander pest methods, lumpy jaw treatment, broken wind mule care, guano rates for corn and cotton, rust on gray land, and methods to deter cutworms with Paris green and bran.
The Base Hit That Never Came Down
In an American Magazine article, Fullerton recalls a freak play from a St Paul vs Milwaukee game in the Western League. A line drive struck the fence, impaled on a wire nail, allowing Isbell to circle the bases for a game winning inside the park run as Milwaukee led in the ninth.
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Iugh
Fullerton
St Paul
Milwaukee
Tsbell
St. Paul
Label
Isbell
Clarke County approves bond for courthouse and jail
Athens April 21 Judge Brand validated the $200,000 Clarke County bond for buying a site and erecting a new courthouse jail and jailer's house. Nearby notes report tick eradication progress with Hart County quarantine lifted and plans for systematic statewide efforts to clear a quarantine strip from mid Georgia to markets in the north.
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Clarke Hondas
Athens
Brand
Clarke County
Vick
Hart County
Franklin
Mid- Georgia
Caroling
Tennessee
Banquet and meeting details at Columbus and Woodrow Wilson rally
A fragmentary Columbus dispatch notes a Tuesday banquet hosted by the Daughters of the Confederacy with welcome addresses by local officials. It also mentions a Columbus school plan for a two story brick and stone building costing 12500 dollars devoted to industrial education, plus a Wilson candidacy meeting at the courthouse with speakers McAdoo Arnold and Alexander.
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Judge Gee
New Columbus Schest
Columbus
Wiley
Woodrow Wilson
Wiliam G. McAdoo
New York
Reuben Arnold
Atlanta
Hooper Alexander
Decatur
Charles Jewett Ewitt
M. F. Hood
Guardianship and rights cited against male control
A historical critique denounces male authority over women, accusing husbands of depriving women of education and property, denying independence, and enforcing a restrictive moral code. The piece argues for autonomy and recognition of a woman’s conscience and divine right to act.
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Sooners
Hess
Jehovah
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