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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
7
The article explains the Bordeaux mixture as a primary spray to control fungal plant diseases, detailing its copper and lime components, dilution strengths like 4:4:50 and 2:3:50, stock solutions, and careful mixing steps. It covers preparation, dissolution, and procedures for large orchards, including lime quality and hydration substitutions.
Professor W H Chandler of Missouri College of Agriculture explains black rot as the grape industry’s main foe. He prescribes Bordeaux mixture spraying at key growth stages and cautions that neglect or wet seasons can still ruin fruit, while annual spraying and clean vineyard practices reduce losses.
The Missouri University Poultry Department recommends using water glass sodium silicate to preserve eggs from spring lows to fall highs. Cost about 30 cents per quart, one part water glass to nine parts water. Use fresh clean infertile eggs, packed large-end up in a stone vessel, and top with solution. Six months or more storage possible with minimal cost.
Readable guidance on poultry feeding contrasts ready made commercial rations with home mixing. It warns weed seeds and damaged grains often found in mixes, notes that home mixing can cut costs, and highlights that chick feed typically should be bought ready prepared for best results.
University of Missouri expert Kempster offers remedies for birds that eat eggs. Causes include soft or broken eggs and dark nests. solutions include dark nesting, feeding animal protein, and reducing visible eggs. Also notes on pasture management and fattening chickens briefly.
Entomologist Leonard Haseman warns Missouri fruit growers to prevent San Jose Scale by buying inspected nursery stock, inspecting upon receipt, and destroying or treating infested trees. For young orchards, immediate eradication is urged. older groves require thorough pruning and systematic washing, sprayings, and power spraying for tall trees. The article also covers silo promotion, pasture upkeep, and notes a public sale of county real estate in Missouri.
A dairy cow on pasture alone will decline in flesh or milk if fed nothing else. Providing a small amount of feed keeps her in good condition and allows extra flesh to be stored for the calf arrival in the fall, ensuring she returns to high productivity.
Farmers at the Missouri Experiment Station report cutting back two to three year old wood, or dehorning, to revive trees after severe winter damage. Severe dehorning reduces fruit buds but increases vigor. timing depends on frost impact and growth start. Maintaining soil humus and balanced feeding supports overall orchard health.
In Missouri the circuit court of Butler County orders a public sale of a described tract in the east half of the north half of section twenty one township thirty, range thirty two, located in Butler County. The sale proceeds will settle claims against Joseph B Moshey Paina Whe Sarah E I Mosiew Robert Mosler Lara Black and others named defendants under the sheriff’s levy.
A Louisiana Missouri woman chronicling twelve years of illness and eleven doctors credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with rapid relief from dragging pains monthly cramps and bilious spells She urges other suffering women to consider the remedy and notes its plant based composition and confidential female led responses from the Pinkham laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts
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