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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 16, 1912
Page
3
Practical guide to building and laying out irrigation ditches and flumes for orchards and fields. Discusses open ditches versus pressurized systems, ditch fall, furrow spacing, and practical costs. Details application timing, tillage integration, and workload per acre.
The circular warns that over irrigation is common and soil may become waterlogged. It advises good drainage to prevent salt buildup, timely cultivation after each irrigation and after rain, and keeping fields free of trash. It notes other systems exist but the presented methods are practical and economical.
Fungous diseases affect fruit crops through two infection modes. Key issues include black spot canker on apple bark, brown rot on plum cherry and prune, and apple scab on rainy districts. Control combines fall spraying with Bordeaux mixture, pruning for airflow, removing old fruit, lime sulfur sprays, thinning, careful handling, and cooling fruit before packing.
An advertisement promotes Newbro's Herpicide as a remedy to destroy dandruff germs and restore hair shine. It claims scalp cleansing and hair health, noting the product is sold in one dollar bottles and available at barber shops and hairdressing parlors. The Herpicide Co. offers samples and booklet by mail for 10 cents.
The guide lists treatments to destroy old leaves, prune trees, and spray with lime sulfur at specific intervals. It notes pear blight is now rare due to government controls but calls for vigilance and quarantine, detailing symptoms and the need to cut out infected areas and disinfect tools, plus a reminder to obtain the Spray Calendar of 1912 and Circular No 9 on Sprays.
A preacher asks Susannah to affirm marriage vows, she replies with a thick dialect protest about her husband, joking that if he worsens she will discipline him herself, implying stubborn resilience in the exchange.
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