Corn variety tests and farm reports across Kentucky
Taylor county farmers cooperate with the College of Agriculture extension division to test corn varieties. Breathitt county growers crop soybeans and sweet clover. Orchard demonstrations by Livingston county farmers show improvements. Poultry and junior agricultural clubs support trips to Lexington. Morgan horse show and remounts for the Army noted. Pest control methods for pigeons and ham skippers outlined. Wilt-resistant tomato varieties discussed for wilt-prone areas. Weather and flood conditions affecting planting across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
College of Autlechtite Extension Division
J. L. Miller
Livingston County
Collegef Agriculture Extension Division
L. €. Pace
Sulphur Dusted Clothes Shield Against Chigger Attacks
Bureau of Entomology studies offer two main chigger defenses. Wear heavy boots and thick stockings when hiking to woods with mites. Apply sulphur repellents on skin and clothing. A soap bath after outdoors helps kill larvae. Sulphur ointment and related preparations ease symptoms. A test distinguishes remade milk and cream from natural products to protect consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chigcera
Amy
Bureau of Entomology
United States Department of Agriculture
Chigmera
Morgan horse gains popularity in Southwest region
In brief. the Morgan horse breeds shows rising appeal in the Southwest, highlighting its activity, hardiness and vigor as a key factor for growing popularity.
Wilt resistant tomatoes move into new communities
Efforts to introduce wilt resistant tomatoes in the South amid Fusarium wilt progress. The U S Department of Agriculture cooperates with state offices and county agents to improve varieties and introduce the wilt resistant lines—Marvel Norton Columbia Arlington Nordyke—to boys and girls clubs and communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
State Agricultural Cosh
Marvel
Norton
Columbia
Artington
Nordyke
Castor Oil and Dental Bills and Wedding Banter Gone Dry
A collage of humor snippets and dialogue excerpts from the Charleston News and Courier and Legion Weekly. Cartoonish quips about a dentist and a patient, a cryptic wedding vow, a dimwitted bridegroom, and a busliye of train delays intersperse with sharp one liners from the Chicago Tribune.
Mail Movement Growth Ties to Postal Service Shift
Receipts of fifty leading post offices nearly double 1915 levels with a tenth rise over last year and a slight gain over two years ago. Stamp sales mirror parcel post and letter campaigns. A noir bridge encounter ends with two trains and a mule diverging paths at midnight.
Trip to England awaits boy live stock judges
The Maryland team of agricultural club boys who won a grand prize trip to Europe in the live-stock judging contest at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta Georgia last October will sail from New York for England on June 14 aboard the Carmania arriving in Liverpool about June 22. The team members are Warren Rice 17 of Sylmar Joseph Glacken 15 of Rising Sun and Geo Worrilow 16 of North trained by W C Snarr of the cooperative extension service. They will be accompanied by A Cobb editor of the Southern Ruralist and by cooperative extension representatives. After Cambridge they will visit English and Scottish livestock herds returning to New York about July 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Agricultural Club
Europe
Atlanta
Georgia
New York
England
Liverpool
Warren Rice
Sylmar
Joseph Glacken
Rising Sun
Geo. Worrilow
North
W. C. Snarr
Cooperative Extension Service
United States Department of Agriculture
University of Maryland
A. Cobb
Southern Ruralist
Royal Agricultural Society of England
Cambridge
Scotland
Encouragement as Professor Urges Near Approach in Lab
A chemistry professor warns that failure could cause a catastrophic explosion, urging students to come closer to follow his instructions. The peril underscores the risky nature of the ongoing experiment and the need for strict safety.
Death of Mela horse joins long service to town grocer
Middleport reports the death of horse Mela aged 18 and its mate, Ed aged 51, who formed the longtime horse pair used by a local grocery firm for twenty five years. The pair were driven separately in morning and afternoon, known only to their owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Polly
H. A. Stacy
Bradyville
Tenn
Sta
Rutherford County
Bell's Wireless Speech Demonstrated in 1880 Claim
In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, asserted his pioneer status and reportedly transmitted a speech without wires over about 200 yards. He achieved this by producing a beam of grit varying in intensity to carry the sound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BELL
Alekander Graham Bell
Entablinherdt
Telegram Notes of an Army Graft Incident
A wartime telegram relay details a dispute over a party wire and the use of a military communications line. Notes reference John Henry, Jack Johnson, and a sequence of messages, with mentions of Camp Lewis Wah. and Proving Grounds in Ohio and unfinished wire arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Johnson
Johnsonville
John Henry
P . Carr
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Farm Department
Breathitt County
N.V. Trumper
Plymouth Hock
McCerary County
College of Agriculture
W. B. Woodward
Lewis County
Lexington
H. C Bate
Port Worth
Tex
Red Oak
Morgan
General Gates
United States Morgan Horse Farm
Middlebury
Kannas
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Texas
Clinois
Iowa
New England
Vermont
U. S. Department of Agriculture
The
Biological Survey
United States Department of Agrculture
Vicksburg
A. M. Mallory
Cleveland
Miss
Thomas B. Ogden
Weather Bureau
United States Department of Articulture
Mississippi Valley
Texan
Minnesota
Rockies
Fletcher
Castor
Legion Weekly
Subbua
Plapper
Chicago Tribune
Hartford Republican
HartFord Printing CompAny
Hartford
Kentucky
London
Bureau of Public Roads
Camp Lewis
Wash
Erie
Ohio
Thedford’s
Mr. Stacy
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