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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1921
Page
6
Largest initial wheat receipts in years at warehouses amid Canada reports and weak export buying pull prices slightly lower. Spokane stock yards saw seven carloads of cattle with no sales. hog and swine demand dwindled by week’s end. Prices for livestock, produce, and grains listed across Davenport Pullman Walla Walla and Lewiston regions with seasonal notes and farm goods.
Advice on Botulinus poisoning from Bacillus Botulinus with instructions on safe home canning. Emphasizes using fresh clean produce, sterilized jars, proper heating times, and discarding spoiled jars to prevent illness. Also notes signs of spoilage and cautions against tasting questionable canned foods.
Five state judges and one Canadian official were announced for the Spokane Interstate Fair September 5 to 10. Judges cover horses, beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits, dogs, and the horse show, with experts from Spokane Calgary Yakima Oregon Missouri Michigan Colorado and North Dakota among them.
Pend Oreille county farmers pool orders for a carload of government picric acid to be delivered immediately. Through County Agent E. E. Hupp, 24 000 pounds are assembled with a 1000 pound cap per person limit. Savings come from government material at six cents per pound versus higher local prices. Washington has eighty four tons allotted to be distributed by the Extension Service of the State College of Washington via county agents.
State Normal School Cheney hosts a tennis championship with entrants from Colville to Walla Walla and Cheney to Idaho. Girls singles names include Ruth M Adams Cheney Ruth G Adams Walla Walla Delores Douglass Loomis Mildred Millgard Colfax Margaret McPheron Chelan Agnes Nordlund Spokane Agnes Schelling Spokane Mabel Hannaford Stites Idaho Thelma Tramm Reardan Mara Wallace Spokane Mae Moon Reardan Edith Lowry Sandpoint Idaho Harriet Webster
Spokane and Grace Cunningham lead a long list of players from Che lan Spangle Cheney and other towns in Boys and Mixed Doubles events with names such as Fred Lehman Ray Hubbard Webster Mitchell Thelma Tramm and Mara Wallace. The Prosser experiment farm plans wintering 200 head of steers and urges corn silage to support farmers nearby. A poem titled WHY I LEFT THE FARM accompanies regional notices.
Rainfall in the Walla Walla district for May measured .19 inch, the lowest since 1885 when the weather bureau began. The prior low was .21 inch in May 1888. Normal May rainfall is 1.83 inches.
Jefferson county berry growers organize and request affiliation with the Growers' association in Kitsap and King counties to join broader regional cooperation.
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