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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
4
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Reading notes from the town include Francesville planning to form a baseball club. Frequent updates mention local visitors, road notices, and a county viewers report on the E. B. Stamp ditch to be decided July 7, 1903, with various town entries and deaths not present.
A discussion of foreign plants entering the state via imported seeds describes the spread of weeds. A May report from Zanesfield, Logan County, Ohio, identifies a new mustard family plant, Erysimum repandum L., traced to the eastern Mediterranean and noted for its pungent taste and yellow four petaled flowers.
A report notes spreading mustard in Ohio as a permanent weed. It grew 12 to 18 inches high with slender branches, narrow toothed leaves, and three to four inch pods with abundant seed. Likely introduced via crimson clover seed in 1998 and possibly tied to ballast seed. warns against spreading weed in future seed.
Reports from Chicago Inter Ocean warn of a hidden poison in certain cornfields that kills cattle within ten hours after grazing stalks. Four carriage loads of hides from afflicted cattle were shipped from Davie last week as investigators note green discoloration on gloves after husking. Farmers without barn flour or haymow may rely on clover meal as an alternative feed.
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