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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1924
Page
8
Personal property offered at 10:30 a m includes Jersey cattle two fresh cows four cows and more livestock plus a Duroc sow with pigs shoats calves and sheep. Hay straw grain farming implements harness buggy and tools available with day of sale terms.
Center Floyd Elisha Zeiner was badly burned when the car of Forest Clark, in which he rode, caught fire and burned up. Miss Effie McKamey had ton sils removed at Putnam County hospital by Dr. Clyde Grey of Cloverdale. she is convalescing rapidly. G. T. Reeves is improving but still uses crutches after an auto accident. Revival meetings at Wesley Chapel draw large crowds. Elmer McKamey visited his mother in Jennings County. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Ader visited Millard Greenlee. Mrs. Geo. Raines visited her aunt Miss Lyde Robarts of Coatesville. Wilbur Lobdell spent weekend with home folks. Mrs. Edna Shoemaker visited Ethel Ruark. Miss Edith Chamness of Fillmore visited Pauline and Leota Zeiner.
Clinton Falls community notes detail the Boswell Reunion at Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Goddards on August 3 with attendees including Clarence Bennett John Porter Edna Woodard Cayuga Robert Whitted and Delmar Crawfordsville. School opened in September with Eston Cooper as teacher and visits among residents continued through the week.
An old advertisement touts Doan's Pills as a stimulant diuretic to ease back and kidney pain. It cites O W Jackson of Blacksmith in Green Castle who reports lasting relief after using the product for years. It claims 60c availability from all dealers and notes Foster Milburn Co as the manufacturers.
New Jersey plant pathologist William H. Martin notes yellows and little peach are longstanding diseases. He explains symptoms including early ripening and mottled fruit, plus drooping leaves and branching shoots. The New Jersey State Horticultural Society urges eradication efforts and grower cooperation.
Experiments in western New York show ground spraying from under trees yields nearly complete aphid control on apple orchards. A station outfit with long hose allows spraying from beneath each tree, covering undersides of branches at a pressure of 200 pounds. Bulletin 487 details the method and equipment, available free from the New York Experiment Station.
The article argues there are more orchards in sod than under tillage in America. It notes sod is cheap while replanting and care are costly, implying many fruit growers are careless or lazy and fail to invest properly in proper farming practices.
After fruit is picked and packed it must be carefully handled on its way to market. Good roads and wagons or trucks with good springs have lengthened the life of small fruits. Precooling and icing of refrigerator cars for long distance transport would be useless without protection from dust and sun during field transportation.
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