Inroads of Russian napweed spark Tulare campaign
The Tulare county horticultural office fights cen taurea repens spread first tied to alfalfa seed from Russia. The weed has a deep taproot and rapid jointed-root growth. Extermination uses holes filled with carbon bisulphide, eradicating two patches so far. A Modoc county sheepmen mass meeting will occur at Alturas on June 16 for a wool grading and sheep mating demonstration.
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Tulare
Horticultural Office
Russia
Modoc County
Alturas
Vigorous contest over sale of canal holdings and water rights
More than 510 ranchers who receive water from the San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation company protest a proposed sale of its holdings and water rights to the San Joaquin River Water Storage District for 4,400,100. They argue values are excessive and the transfer would be detrimental to lands served by Miller and Lux interests and that no ground justifies approval by the railroad commission.
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San Joaquin
Miller & Lux
Railroad Commission
Kern County Ranch Project Teems With Plows At Poso
Six huge tractors draw daily across 15000 acres of Kern County Land Co. Poso ranch northeast of McFarland preparing twenty three sections for Indian corn. Heavy winter rains enabled the work. Water from Kern River via Calaway canal supplies the large acreage for a crop renting system at 25 percent to the land company. Thirty five tenants, many seasoned Kern county ranchers, have rented the holdings.
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Kern County Land Company
Poso Ranch
McFarland
Kern River
Calaway
Land Company
Kern County
Resumption of juice grape price schedule by California Growers
A meeting of eleven directors and thirty two advisory chairmen led to restoring an opening price schedule for juice grapes. Last year prices were not announced, causing confusion and dissatisfaction among juice grape growers. The exchange with 1,100 members handles about 50,000 tons and influences roughly 5,000 growers in marketing. California shipped 64,000 rail carloads of grapes, about 50,000 of which were juice grapes, representing 60 percent of the state’s deciduous fruit shipments.
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California Grape Growers’ Exchange
California
Onions Break Local Yield Record in McFarland District
The McFarland district reports record onion production this year with high quality and a strong yield per acre. Carl Melcher shipped a carload of Crystal Wax and expects seven to eight more carloads of Spanish sweets. He planted about nine acres, transplanted in December, with minimal irrigation and unusual early maturity. The crop avoided aphid damage that affected other local crops.
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McFarland
Carl Melcher
Hanford Board of Trade Adopts Local Block System
Effie Warnack secretary leads Hanford board of trade under a committee drawn from local clubs in a campaign to stamp out a puncture deemed a menace to state property values. The plan calls for an individual block system as part of a broader extermination effort.
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Hanford
Effie Warnack
Growers Agree 20 Cent Acre Assessment for Inspection
Imperial cantaloupe growers approve a 20 cent per acre assessment to fund a mandatory inspection during shipping season. At the meeting 33,000 acres were represented and 25,000 acres were signed up.
Farm Bureau Membership Sees Favorable Report
The Orange County farm bureau membership committee reports dues up from five to ten dollars this year. Nine hundred farm members are signed up and it is expected to surpass one thousand by year end 1927.
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Orange County Farm Bureau
Hog Auction Totals Set at Hanford Sale
At last week’s auction by the California Farm Bureau Marketing association in Hanford four carloads of hogs sold for seven thousand seven hundred thirty seven dollars for thirty seven consignors. Top fat hog price was 10.10 and feeders 13.25. Four butcher cows and nine veal calves were also sold.
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California Farm Bureau Marketing Association
Hanford
Celery Planting Underway in El Monte District
Celery planting is under way in the El Monte district. Seed is planted directly in the field in rows with small drills, one pound of seed per acre being used and the seed just covered with soil. This region is reportedly the only district in the United States where celery is grown extensively without transplanting.
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el Monte
United States
Barley Hay Yields Hit High in Tulare County Ranches
Tulare county ranchers report barley hay yields of two tons per acre in wet periods, with grain fields on rocky and hilly soils averaging one to one and a half tons per acre. Overall, farmers are pleased with the season’s production.
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Tulare County
Santa Maria Valley Vegetable Industry Reaches 6 Million
After a careful check of shipments from the Santa Maria district, the office of the Santa Barbara horticultural commissioner estimates that the vegetable industry of Santa Maria valley has developed to a $6,000,000 a year business. Half of this sum, it is estimated, will go to the growers, who last year received $2,600,000 in return for the vegetables they produced.
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Santa Maria District
Santa Barbara
Marysville Grower Produces Noted Strawberries in Suburbs
Jimmie Kurodo, a Japanese gardener in Marysville suburbs, grows eight to the basket berries praised for quality and size. He names Abe Ruef his advance publicity man after gifting several berry baskets to take home. Kurodo nets about $500 from his half acre yearly using fertilizer.
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Jimmie Kurodo
Marysville
Kurodo
Abe Ruef
San Francisco
Bay Section
Ruef
Artesian Wells Wristed by County Farm Bureau Watch
Orange county farm bureau officials monitor artesian wells this season after a campaign to conserve water. Several coastal well owners were served notices to stop wasteful flows. Engineers warn that lowering water pressure in lower plains lowers wells in the county’s upper areas.
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Orange County Farm Bureau
District Attorney’s Office
Experimental sewage fertilizer tested near Garden Grove
Garden Grove area growers watch an experiment using chemically treated sewage on H. Clay Kellogg's ranch north of Garden Grove. The state board of health issued a permit to transport five tons of the fertilizer from Pasadena. Proponents say the product suits alkali-bleached lands and is very inexpensive.
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Garden Grove
H. Clay Kellogg
State Board of Health
Pasadena
Valencia car shipments exceed last year at Olive station
Mrs. E. B. Mc Coy, Santa Fe station agent at Olive, reports shipments of nearly 100 Valencia cars, raising total Olive shipments to over 260 this season. Last year 164 carloads were sent east. Average daily shipments are about ten cars, higher than 1926 figures of seven to eight.
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E. B. McCoy
Santa Fe
Olive
Orchard Cultivation Tips for Small Fruit Varieties
To grow a productive home fruit garden choose well drained rich soil with high fertility. Select proven varieties like Dunlay strawberries King and Cuthbert raspberries Cumberland currants Perfection gooseberries Downing and Thompson seedless grapes. Set healthy plants in long rows with specified spacings and prune at planting to encourage strong growth.
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King
Cuthbert
Latham
Cumberland
Wilder
Downing
Moore
Worden
Concord
Certified Trees Boosted by Fruit Growers Demand
Massachusetts Agricultural Review notes growing demand for true to name stock. Nurseries increasingly seek certification, with 13 companies certifying 166,810 trees in 1922 and 2,580 sealed in 1921. Rejections rose from 267 to 9,250 as misnamed trees declined and certification protected growers.
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Shaw
French
Massachusetts Agricultural Review
Tests Show Grapes Can Be Stored Successfully
Researchers at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture found well ripened grapes free from pests stored at 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit remain marketable for months. Red varieties lasted longest with Brighton 153 days and Delaware 141. Other good keepers included Barry Diamond Herbert Caco Agawam and Vergennes.
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College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Brighton
Delaware
Barry
Diamond
Herbert
Vergennes
Dairying terms and tests for farm milk quality
Clemson professor M R Tolstrup explains common dairy terms and tests. Babcock test measures butter fat in products. sediment test finds impurities. moisture test sets butter moisture with federal limit 16 percent. salt and acidity tests assess salt and sweetness. over run notes fat to finished butter difference. standardization brings products to desired composition for ice cream and market uses.
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M. R. Tolstrup
Clemson College
South Carolina
Babcock
Cork Lined Tank Cuts Milk House Ice Losses
Dairy engineers from New Jersey State College outline a cork filled cooling tank for milk, detailing a three-box design with inner concrete shell, cork insulation, and outer concrete shell. The method promises about half the ice usage, aided by tar painted cork and a tight felted lid with possible reinforcing rods for extra strength.
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E. R. Gross
New Jersey
Ground Grain for Cows Feeding dairy cows requires ground grain for efficiency
Grain for cows should be ground to improve digestion and milk production. Whether shelled corn ground or corn and cob ground, the key is fine grinding to prevent undigested grain and energy wasted.
Dairy Squibs on Feed and Profit from Cows
A dairy discusses how a cow's feed needs align with body weight and milk yield. It notes that a sow's feed affects profits most, and that a high quality cow can yield about 142.45 dollars per year above feed costs.
Oklahoma dairy wife finds renewed health with vegetable compound
In a sunlit Oklahoma pasture a tired dairy wife, Mrs. Cora Short, reports improved health after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She sheds fatigue and timidity, now sleeps better and works without trouble, noting weight gain from 115 to 135 pounds after seven bottles. Other women in hard serving roles are advised to try the remedy.
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Oklahoma
Lydia AB. Pinkham
Cora Short
Oklahoma City
Okla
Mrs. Short
Lydia H. Pinkham
Maps as Dress Patterns Delight Paris Couturiers
Paris fashion notes say old maps charm designers as they craft geographical patterns for dresses. Sixteenth and seventeenth century charts inspire silk and satin robes with mariners compasses, wind symbols, seas, islands, and map-scale borders. The first firm to adopt this motif built a library of early travel books and reports strong trade interest.
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Paris
Christian Science Monitor
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Ad at 372 Pearl St N
An advertisement promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a remedy for acid stomach heartburn and nausea. It lists 372 Pearl St North as the contact address for the product.
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Wright
Orchard on Roof Tops in Adelaide Office Block
Owners of London’s largest office building in Adelaide plan an orchard of 70 fruit trees on the roof. The roof already features an 18 hole putting course inspired by New York ideas for golf links and gardens atop skyscrapers.
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New York
Adelaide House
London
Not Too Easy. Boyle and Doyle Exchange Jokes on Payments
In a sharp quip, Boyle asks about the hardest job. Doyle replies that collecting easy payments is the toughest task. The exchange echoes a playful finance joke about chasing minimal yet stubborn sums.
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Boyle
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Oregon
Chamber of Commerce
Bend
Ore
Free Bulletin, Commerce Co
Crocker Bldg
Calif
Scholls
G. G. Green, Inc
Woodbury, N. J
Mitchell
Hall & Rachel
New York City
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