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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1916
Page
10
The article urges plans for sowing crimson clover in corn fields to improve soil this year. It notes sowing time from mid July to spring plow, benefits of organic matter and nitrogen, and soil protection during winter rains. Recommends 20 lb per acre, or mix with 15 lb clover plus three quarters seed buckwheat, with inoculation options via soil from a field or government supply.
These crops add organic matter and nitrogen like crimson clover. They can be sown in corn late cultivation for green growth then plowed under, or sowed as hay on idle land. Mr Bratton field tested five acres last fall and saw soil improvement. They provide protein rich feed comparable to clover hay.
The article advises balancing nitrogen in corn and other crops with leguminous plants like cowpeas and crimson clover, suggests planting rye after plowing under legumes, and recommends lime and a 16 percent phosphoric acid fertilizer. It notes no license is needed to sell canned fruits or vegetables in West Virginia and mentions a June 26–27 county agents conference in Lewisburg led by W R Worthington of Mercer.
County agent used a set of charts titled Fertile Soil Means a Prosperous People in late meetings to claim advantages for the community, highlighting soil fertility as a path to prosperity.
A public conference in New York opens over eight hour day and time and a half for overtime. Brotherhood leaders seek higher pay while railroad executives answer questions aimed at judging the impact on wages.
An advertisement claims stomach trouble causes gall stones cancer ulcers and other fatal conditions. It asserts thousands of sufferers recovered fully using Mayr's Wonderful Remedy sold by White Pharmacy and druggists nationwide.
Memorial sermon by Rev. Mr. Simpson for the Knights of Pythias will be held Sunday morning at 11 in the M B E church. Special music is planned. Guests include Mrs. J S White of Bedford and Mrs. W S Engleby of Roanoke. Local social notes list various visitors and travels among residents and guests.
In Lewiston Minnesota sixty residents donated patches of skin to save fourteen year old Ursa McDougall after a severe burn from a paraffin and turpentine spill. Doctors performed 150 grafts over a year as neighbors left fields to help. Ursa celebrated a birth day party as the town praised its communal effort. Prison reform in England began with John Howard’s 1773 investigation and sheriff appointment in Bedford.
The Tazewell district conference will meet at North Tazewell next Thursday at 9 a m with Rev D P Hurley presiding elder. Delegates and preachers are urged to attend. first delegates arrive Wednesday evening and services will be announced at the church. The first sermon is scheduled for Wednesday night. no prayer meeting at Main Street church.
At 11 o’clock today Mrs. Mary O Keeffe will give an address at the Methodist church. Everyone is invited to attend.
J Bane Peery returns from Washington and Lee Lexington and will move soon to Marion to join the Peery Grocery Co. Jps McGuire comes home from Randolph-Macon Academy Bedford City. Louise Keister visits relatives in Kentucky. Robert Hopkins returns from Richmond due to illness. K D R Harman spent several days in West Virginia early last week.
The mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople was founded by Justinian in 531 and dedicated six years later. Since the Ottoman conquest in 1453 it has served as an imperial mosque.
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