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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1924
Page
4
The article notes raspberries ranking behind strawberries in value, with black varieties leading acreage in Illinois and red and purple following. It cites a 1919 Illinois output of 1,884,837 quarts, down from 1900, and attributes declines to economic conditions, cultivation methods, and disease, while local markets and seasonal picking support production.
Selecting strawberry varieties for planting avoids types prone to spot and rot while preserving yield and quality. Use well drained soil and clean packing sheds, destroy rotten berries, prevent field decay, and ensure certified plants truly bear certification. Daily picking helps uniform grade and water content.
Experiments across the United States show tree fruits require less fertilizer than field crops. Observers note peaches thrive where soils are sandy gravely or stony and fail to support strong farming must yield.
Sprays and pruning tips for grapes peaches and plums urge Bordeaux mixture after set every three weeks remove dead weak branches burn wood to prevent bark beetle risk prepare land for cover crops rye and vetch on poor ground crimson clover on rich land guide tree care for profitable woodland returns notes bees provide most pollination and advise growers test money value before investing in trees
A Marine detachment recalls a Philippine voyage aboard the Grant during a typhoon near Nagasaki. The ship flooded, crew clung to peril, and an officer vowed to stay with them until morning, securing the forward door with a plank as chaos raged.
In the British Empire exhibition a fiery fountain by Manchester College of Technology draws attention. Water issues from rock to a glass flower, lighting as it changes color from white to red to green, while the colorless stream remains clear. Iridescence appears on the mossy pool below amid extensive experiments.
Edgell Rickword's life of Arthur Rimbaud notes that Keats and Shelley died young, while Rimbaud ceased writing after nineteen and later wandered as a vagabond, quarry overseer in Cyprus, and Abyssinian merchant, leaving Hugo's claim that he was Shakespeare enfant.
Veteran baker Carl L Weber of Marshall Michigan asserts he is the oldest baker in the United States at age ninety. He learned baking at ten in Germany and came to Marshall in 1866. For 56 consecutive years he has worked in the same shop with long daily hours and no vacation in six years.
Canada will invest about 15 million dollars this year in protecting forests and managing forest reserves. Royal Canadian Air Forces will detect fires in high value timber areas, with pine patrols in the Rocky Mountains and wireless links between ground fire ranges and aircraft to improve communication.
Tobe Sagg mentions Lafe Dopp, recently married a widow with seven children, as Jig Fiddlin notes Dopp was a Free Thinker who did not believe in hell. The men discuss his apparent shift in belief as he begins to change his mind.
To work five hundred men are rebuilding access roads and cleaning old shafts in the El Triumfo group, located in Lower California, long idle for fifteen years. Aiming to sink new shafts, the effort marks a major restart of mining activity in the area.
A talking Pygmy Elephant from West Africa describes a daily diet of forty bananas and five cans of condensed milk. He notes his height of thirty nine inches, weight around four hundred pounds, and slow growth to full size. Keeper affection and visitors are secondary to his meals.
A fragment describes eggs boiled in water for breakfast with two children named Hazel and Dorothy debating why the eggs are cold and if theirs are the same. The tone hints at a simple domestic scene and a question about cooking accuracy.
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