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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1915
Page
2
Colorado station notes larvae of sawfly defoliate cherry pear and plum trees. The pear slug skeletonizes leaves and can cause complete defoliation by midsummer if not controlled. Recommendations include contact or arsenical sprays to destroy the pest.
Advice on building silos while corn grows and maintaining dairy cows. Emphasizes thorough daily care, understanding feed and yield to judge profitability, and avoiding careless work as a common farm failure.
The piece describes damage from sap-feeding larval pests on leaves causing defoliation and weakened trees. It recommends arsenate of lead or paris green sprays, lime dust, white hellebore, or black leaf 40, with specific dilution guidelines and mentions using a cream separator when selling dairy from four or more cows.
The article advises removing drone combs and replacing with worker combs or foundation frames. It recommends requeenning all colonies each season using queens from southern breeders or brood from strong colonies to rear new queens. It notes honey flow timing. avoid placing supers until brood nests are ready and tops are capped with new caps.
Recommendations vary by season and soil. Fall plowing tends to be deeper than spring. heavy soils require deeper tillage to bring subsoil and bury veg matter, while light soils need shallower, well compacted measurements. Begin new land gradually with depth increases of about half an inch per year.
A correspondent describes a quick lice treatment for cattle. Apply a mixture of one gallon raw linseed oil, half a gallon kerosene, two pounds flowers of sulfur and five pounds lard with a curry comb. Reapply in a week or ten days. two applications should boost weight gain and reduce feed consumption.
Rape and oats seed together make excellent forage for hog pasture. Plow and condition ground as for corn, sow three pounds rape per acre broadcast or two pounds in drill rows thirty inches apart. Sow about a fourth of an acre early in spring. Ready for pasture in about two months. An acre of rape can pasture twenty hogs for three months with limited grain.
The article advises not removing chicks from the incubator too early to allow hardening. It recommends keeping incubator temperatures around 95 degrees, with outdoor brooders run slightly higher at 95 to 100 degrees to avoid chilling. It notes hover heat helps chicks avoid excess heat, but a cooler brooder harms recovery, while excessive heat weakens chicks but is less fatal than cold.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports vaccination of about one thousand hogs in Greene County 0 with seventy one hog cholera outbreaks affecting 782 animals. Of vaccinated hogs still healthy only a fraction of one per cent died and 84.3 per cent were saved.
Government begins survey and construction of a national railroad system in Alaska. The Alaska Northern road will connect tidewater at Resurrection Bay to Fairbanks, with a 38 mile branch into the Matanuska valley for coal production. Planned for naval use, the line aims to be ready for commercial operation within four years.
Emperor Yorshihito will be crowned November 10 in Tokyo. The cabinet fixed the date and the diet has appropriated 2,000,000 for the ceremony after a postponement due to the dowager empress's death.
May 24 Berlin reports schools distributing home circulars as wartime food commandments. The list urges saving every bit of food, eating rye bread, reducing butter use, eating more vegetables, and sending sweets to soldiers at the front to aid the new fatherland.
Washington May 24. Commissioner general of immigration Anthony Caminetti issues new rules for the care of women and girl immigrants on arrival at stations. The aim is to curb white slave agents detected in New York and other cities as immigration officials cooperate with charitable organizations.
Petrograd dispatch quotes M Sazohof f minister of foreign affairs saying Russia wants two goals from the United States permanent maintenance of cordial relations and a vast purchase of manufactured goods After the war Germany dominated Russia’s trade and will lose customers as Rugala shifts away American manufacturers should send agents to study Russian requirements to meet the expected civil demand once the war ends.
Cracow, a key fortress at the head of the Vistula, is partially besieged as Russian forces operate in Galicia. The city sits on a plain with Carpathian foothills enabling access from Silesia and Moravia, commanding important eastward routes. Cracow hosts a fortified complex of 14 forts surrounding the Kosciuszko Hill and controls gateways to Austria via Jabbunka and Wang valleys.
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