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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1906
Page
5
Merryman Bros. market reports high hide prices while residents travel for family, work, or illness. Lena topics include barn raising by Lou Dunlap, H C Yount visiting Mellott, Guy Hart arriving from the Dakotas, and Reverend Layton moving toward a new call. Post office at Rob Roy closes. trustee reports and civic events populate the week.
The list includes Mrs. C. H. Elmers Miss Effie Gillis Mrs. G. E. Lape Mr Frank Martin Miss Edith Montgomery Marie Reib Mr. Lloyd Smith Mr. John Shaffer Mr. C. H. Tailor Mrs. Wu Wright and F. W. Boyd P. M. as referenced in the notice.
The Cain township meeting in Hillsboro on January 18 elected H C Wyand as chairman and B W A Tinsley as secretary. Virgil Frazier and James Lowe were named precinct committeemen, Stephen Davis as delegate with Wyand as alternate, and a motion to split Cain’s vote for chairman passed.
The last twenty years show sugar beet expansion possible on irrigated lands. Water control makes production certain, with yields predictably high, averaging around 15 tons per acre in practice and 18.9 to 20.4 tons at Utah Logan and Colorado Fort Collins stations. Sugar content remains strong, justifying higher costs of irrigation. Dr. H. W. Wiley notes favorable results.
Cultivated mushroom spawn is sold as dried manure bricks from seedsmen and planted in beds with two inch pieces. Beds require moisture control, straw cover, and a topsoil layer. mushrooms appear in six to seven weeks and are edible until gills darken. New Zealand dried milk is produced cheaply and exported to Europe as a powder to reconstitute with water.
An Indiana grower urges high pump pressure and wide wagon tires for fog orchard spraying. Arizona station finds sorghum rations inferior to alfalfa, with best yields from alfalfa and sorghum together. German feeders report 60 to 100 pounds beet pulp or about 50 pounds wet brewers grains daily per animal with other feed. A station notes corn stored in crib may lose at least 15 percent by next June. Equids stay healthy if their down shows on their heads.
One and a half story eight room home with two lots and a stable available for rent. Contact Mrs. C N Harter for details.
Real estate transfers in Fountain County are listed from records by O. B. Douglass abstracter. Entries include Wm J Deverter to John H Kiger for lot 60 Silverwood valued at 200000 and several other lot transfers across Attica Hillsboro Covington and Covington areas with prices ranging from 1 to 2500 dollars and up to 200000 dollars for prime property.
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