Precautionary Measures on Fruit Trees Warned Nationwide
Officials warn defer budding and pruning across states Delaware to West Virginia as a pest threatens fruit trees. Do not prune or graft this spring. delay planting and any pruning until next year as the issue damages grooves and depresses yields.
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Taited
Delaware
Georgia
Lews
Kentucky
Maryland
New Jersey
York
North Carolina
Olite
South Carolina
Tenner
Vermont
Virginia
Insect Control Advice for Orchard Trees
The text advises spraying with pyrethrum powder or kerosene solution and using carbolic weld or Nestle acid. It also suggests applying whitewash to young fruit trees when insects are ready to lay eggs. The tone is instructional and practical for orchard care.
Use Judgment in Spraying for Best Fruit Results
The article stresses careful judgment in spraying to ensure effective pest control. Proper solution strength and following clear directions prevent largely avoidable complaints and losses. When done faithfully, spraying acts as preventive, yielding larger, tastier fruit and higher market value.
Orchard Spraying Seen as Cheap Insurance for Crops
The article argues that spraying, though costly in effort, is a small investment relative to the crop value and greatly boosts returns, describing orchard spraying as an inexpensive form of insurance against loss and damage.
Study of Spraying in Orchard Work
The passage emphasizes that spraying is often neglected in orchard tasks. It urges fruit growers to study the reasons and methods of spraying and to gain intimate knowledge of spraying materials and machinery.
Road Drainage Guidance for Efficient Water Removal
A United States Department of Agriculture note emphasizes empty large ditches with sufficient fall to carry water away quickly. Install crow drains or owl Verte to cross roads, add end walls to protect slopes, and consider longitudinal underdrainage when roadbeds are springy to ensure durable road maintenance.
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United States Department of Agricultur
Dixie Highway Improvement Plans Across Illinois and Georgia
The article outlines 04.5 miles of Dixie Highway improvement from Will to Vermilion counties at 47000 dollars using concrete and bituminous macadam. It also notes a Georgia segment from Atlanta to Macon through Clayton, Henry, Spaulding, Pike and Monroe counties spanning 72 miles, continuing the Dixie Line into Tennessee and Kentucky projects to expand this central north south route.
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Will
Kankakee
Iroquois
Vermilion County
Georgia
Atlanta
Mace
Clayton
Henry
Spaulding
Pike
Monroe
Hunt State
Tennessee
Kentucky
Patching and Gravel Roads Boost Local Wealth and Civility
The piece argues patching wet roads then adding gravel yields a surface as good as new. It stresses gravel quality, avoiding excess clay, and claims good roads civilize, educate, raise land values, and attract good people. It warns a nation is judged by its roads and urges foresight in road improvement.
Farm Tractor Aims to Ease Labor On the Farm
The article describes a tractor and gas engine working together to automate hard farm tasks. It suggests the device will relieve labor and operate on the job indefinitely, signaling a breakthrough in agricultural efficiency.
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Tey
Locations for hog raising and market considerations
The article explains choosing rolling or level farms for hog raising on well drained land with forage crops. It stresses learning from experienced breeders in the community, building a local reputation, and coordinating with rail markets. It notes demand for hogs weighing 200 to 800 pounds and profitable marketing at 100 to 800 pounds with good roads aiding transport.
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United States Department of Agricltura
Ayall
Live Stock Notes on Dairy and Farm Animal Care
Practical tips on cattle vaccination for blackleg Serum treatment protection emphasized. Observations urge watching for fat lazy animals and pigs to troughs with sows not interfering. Notes stress room, water, and pasture quality as foundations of successful dairy farming and brood sow welfare.
Wild Pigeons Once Plentiful Now Absent From Roosts
Article notes the passenger pigeons' extinction and their drastic decline from once vast roosts. It cites settlers' hunting, possible epidemics, and a 1875 report of vast dead flocks seen off the Atlantic coast, described by a New York Sun writer.
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Lnte
New York Sun
Atlantic
Europe
Woman outtalks men by using less vocal force
A San Francisco Chronicle note reports women can talk longer than men because they use less force in speaking. Professor measurements show baritone and bass require more energy, while contraltos and lower tones demand far greater air and effort, explaining why higher voices loquaciously emit with less strain.
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San Francisco Chronicle
War Death Toll in U S Army Rises to 107 444
The War Department reports total U S Army deaths 107 444 from April 1 1917 to February 14 1919. Expeditionary forces account for 72 051 with 20 829 from disease and 48 768 from battle injuries. Domestic troops total 34 498 with 82 737 from disease and 1 756 from other causes.
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United States
War Department
Substitutes for Other Drugs But None for Opium
Opium stands as a premier remedy in materia medica with immediate effects for many painful maladies. Yet misuse leads to misery and premature death, while experts note that other medicines have substitutes but opium remains unmatched.
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Materia Medica
Tubercular Soldiers Flown to Public Health Plans
Dr W G Stimpson of the United States public health service told the Senate buildings committee that 94 000 tubercular soldiers have served since the war began and 24 000 have been discharged for tuberculosis. He noted tubercular patients typically stay in hospitals a third of the time and outlined tentative plans to add 2000 beds to existing hospitals.
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Senate Buildings Committee
W. G. Stimpson
United States Public Health Service
Public Health Service
Alcohol and Automobiles Says Barleycorn Will Count
A motorcar builder and philosopher predicts alcohol controls will rise by July and by 1920 the public cannot fill a thimble. He claims fewer auto accidents will occur due to rum’s role in disasters and fewer speeding arrests will follow. Alcohol will shift roadhouse nuisance, freeing touring, and billions spent on booze will fuel car purchases and antifreeze use.
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John Barleycorn
Somehow or Other Life Burden and Hope in Prayer
A reflective verse explores life as a shared burden from youth to age. It speaks of sorrow intruding on homes, fragile friendships, and poverty, yet finds solace in small joys, resilient hearts, and prayer guiding the path toward brighter days.
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Easne
Alloy of Gold and Aluminum Yields Purple Color
An alloy of gold and aluminum in about seventy to seventy five parts gold and twenty five to thirty parts aluminum forms a brilliant purple metal. The compound is beautiful but too brittle for use in jewelry, unlike its soft constituent metals.
Florida Lakes and Sinkholes Shape Central Geography
The central regions of Florida contain about 30 000 lakes with many shallow depths formed by sinkholes and hollows in limestone. This karst landscape features numerous water bodies influencing local drainage and land use.
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Florida
Without the Wind and Air All Life Would Perish
The essay explains wind as a movement of air and notes wind’s necessity for life and vegetation. It contrasts harmful extremes with the calm, praises wind’s refreshing, life-sustaining and exhilarating effects, urging readers to enjoy and face the wind.
Year’s Trapping Nets Pair $10,000 Sole Residents of Middleton Island
Nine years have passed since Joseph Tbach and his wife became the island’s sole inhabitants off Cordova Alaska. They arrived with 100 fox skins worth about $10,000 from one year’s toil on the land visited only by supply schooner crews. They raise 160 foxes, feeding each with fish daily, seal meat, and vegetables. In summer they pan sands for gold dust to supplement income.
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Joseph Tbach
Middleton Island
Cordova
Alaska
Origin of Alma Mater and Its Catholic Roots
The term Alma Mater is of Roman Catholic origin from medieval times. It traces to the University of Bonn in Germany where a statue of the Mother of Christ, the Mother or beloved mother, stands over the learning portal as an emblem of the school.
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University of Bonn
Gemany
Mother of Christ
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