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Newspaper
Indiana County Agent
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1914
Page
3
Mr Moore of Danville Purdue outlines hog cholera causes prevention diagnosis and treatment. He notes fertilizer methods for wheat with nitrate and rock phosphate plus lime as a soil builder and mentions sowing rates 150 to 300 pounds per acre depending on soil.
A Danville meeting discusses hog cholera in Hendricks County. Dr Bennett explains history and government funding to fight the disease, urges vaccination with caution, and stresses sanitation and removing hogs from streams or neighbor fields. Twenty five percent of Hendricks hogs died in 1911.
A. S Wirty urges farmers in Hendricks County to stack an unusual amount of bound grain to ease rail and market congestion. Stacking will slow threshing demands, allow early plowing of stubble, and improve seed bed, with Kansas Agricultural College showing early plowing boosts yield.
Fragmentary OCR text references a Mrs Green and a girl called at a place to get work as a cook. The readable parts mention names and locations but lack a coherent event or outcome.
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