County farmers offered drought loans under state act
Indiana county committee names B C Ake J A Simpson and G Steele to grant drought relief loans with headq uarters in the county farm agent’s office. Loans cover seed fertilizer feed and work stock costs with mortgages on 1931 crops or live stock. Rehabilitation aid for farm families available and small loans for work clothes and machinery repairs. Credits limited to needy farmers with no other credit base.
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B. C. Ake
First National Bank of
Glen Campbell
J. A. Simpson
Indiana County Agricultural Ass’n
G. Steele
Pomona Grange
Indiana County Committee
Court House
Indiana County
Ice Proves Poor Substitute for Watering Trees
An experimental watering method using 100-pound ice blocks was tested by Raymond Carlson in the Welser Forest District during a Pennsylvania drought. Trees transplanted from woods to a Lehighton front yard died despite frequent ice replenishment. The article notes the irrigation attempt failed while highlighting ongoing farm challenges in resource conservation.
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Harrisburg
Raymond Carlson
Welser
Pennsylvania
Forester Carlson
Bureau of Extension
Department of Forests and Waters
Lehighton
Carbon County
Garden and Fiant Early Crops Timely Guide
County Agent Carter outlines spring garden prep with manure, lime, and complete fertilizer. Use fine seedbeds and nonacid soil, lay out in 12 to 15 inch lettuce and carrot rows, sow shallowly, firm soil, and plant cabbage 18 inches apart in two foot rows in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Fertilizer talk at Armstrong County meeting
J. B. R. Dickey from Pennsylvania State College spoke to about sixty members of the Armstrong County Co-operative Buying Association at Shelocta U P Church on Tuesday evening April 14. He discussed fertilizer value and application, potential returns, and described ongoing College experiments and their agricultural relevance in Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armstrong County Co-operative Buying Association
J. B. R. Dickey
Pennsylvania State College
Shelocta U. P
Dickey
Pennsylvania
Co operative plans summer tour for farmers to study buyers
The group held three meetings in February March and the last on fertilizer and field crops. Members will tour Pittsburgh markets in summer to hear speakers and gain practical information on modern agriculture and 4-H Club work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Break Up Old Sods To Help Orchards
Orchard bands in sod should be broken up each 3 to 4 years to free plant food for trees. After early spring sod breakup, keep ground under cultivation until June and sow a cover crop of legumes, preferably clover or alfalfa. Apply fertilizers about a month before blossoming, with ten pounds of nitrate of soda or ammonia per mature tree.
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Jerseys
Guernseys
Holsteins
Ayrshires
Carter
Swine Farm Management Demo Planned in Indiana County
Swine Work L. C. Madison of Pennsylvania State College visited Indiana County on April 15 to kick off a swine farm management demonstration at Mr Cunningham’s Brushvalley farm. The project aims to show modern, practical methods can make swine breeding profitable, with emphasis on clean housing, pasture use, brood sow care, and uptime during farrowing. The Cunningham operation features twelve registered Duroc brood sows and several grade sows from Harrisburg's Farm Products Show.
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L. C. Madison
Pennsylvania State College
Indiana County
Mr. Mack
Brushvalley
Mr. Cunningham
Livermore
W. H. Wood
Shelocta
Cunningham
Harrisburg
Meal Planning Club Highlights and 4-H calf club planned
The Meal Planning Club promotes nutritious eggs noting their rich vitamins A B D and B complex. Blairsville hosts a 4-H Calf Club meeting with ten members signed up and financial help planned for calf purchases. Arcadia Meal Planning Club serves a breakfast including orange oats milk scrambled eggs toast and cocoa after a talk on food values.
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Awayes
Arcadia
Churenhill
Rosy Aphids Warning Signals County Breakout
Extension entomologist H. Hodgkiss of Pennsylvania State College warns of a rosy aphid outbreak in south eastern Pennsylvania extending to Schuylkill, Chester, and Delaware counties. He advises controlling with one pint nicotine in the delayed dormant spray and suggests applying nicotine in the pre pink spray if the delayed dormant spray is missed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Schuykill County
Chester
Delaware
H. ,. Hodgkiss
Pennsylvania State College
Indiana Co-operative Dairy Meeting Reconsiders Acts
F. E B. Manning from Pennsylvania State College met with the Indiana Co operative Dairy Company executive committee and members on Thursday April 16 to discuss switching from the 1919 Act to the 1929 Act. Wilgus Pig Club leader Mr. Madison addressed twenty members on swine management and selecting quality breeding stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Co-operative Dairy Company
F. E B. Manning
Pennsylvania State College
Wilgus Pig Club
Madison
OURRYS RUN Sunday preaching and society notices
Preaching will be next Sabbath at 11 I0 oclock with Sunday school at 10 and BH at 7 00 The Ladies Missionary Society held an all day meeting at Mrs Frances Kline s home last Tuesday and helped celebrate her birthday A picnic dinner was served and a regular missionary meeting was held in the afternoon Those present include Misses Jennie and Margaret Peeler Mrs Perry McCreight Mrs Harry McCurdy Mrs J Walker Mrs H M Carson and family Mrs Parcell and daughter Betty Mrs Alice Als house Mrs Elmer Kline and daughter Jane Mrs Albert Wiggins Miss Ollie Lowry Mrs John Wiggins and Roy Mrs Wm Rankin Mrs Odd Rankin and son Harold and Mrs M D McClelland Also notes of illness visits new births and social calls across the community.
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Ladies ‘Missionary Society
Frances Kline
Jennie
Margaret Péeler
Perry McCreight
Harry McCurdy
J. Walker
H. M. Carson
Wallace Rising
J. H. Devlin
Pearl
McCurdy
John Shearer
Iselin
Carson
Annie Morock
Bell
Homer Fairman
Robert McHenry
Sagamore
Rittenhouse
Roy Fulmer
J. C. Walker
H. B. Boyer
Kittanning
Kenneth Graden
Vandergrift
Aiey
W. A. Ross
Mechanicsburg
J. W. Cunningham
S. S. District No. 11
West
Lebanon
Lamar
Darril
Salisburg
W. R. Thomas
Miller Akey
Headline of a class quiz turns playful exchange
A teacher asks what to call a man who keeps talking as others lose interest. A boy answers a teacher. A wife questions why money talks and why some is not left. A lamb dies from sleep loss after being given to a girl by a friend. A boy asks for more pills for his air gun.
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Mary
Famous Japanese cherry trees described among extraordinary trees
A survey details notable cherry trees in Japan. Geba-sakura near Fuji has branches close to the ground, a 26 foot around trunk, reddish leaves and white flowers. Ishido kaba-sakura shares a root with four trunks totaling four feet in circumference. Daigo temple’s rosary-hanging cherry has seven trunks from one root, main trunk dead. A stone-splitting cherry grows from cracks in granite at Morloka law courts, among legally protected trees.
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Japan
Daigo Temple
Law Courts
Morloka
Sound and senses in a falling tree
The Washington Star discusses how sound has two meanings. In psychology sound is a sensation, while in physics it is air vibrations. A falling tree would yield no psychological sound unless a listener is present, yet would generate physical sound.
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Henderson
Washington Star
Bankers advised to curb risky farm ventures in Kansas
President D. Farrell of Kansas State Agricultural College notes bankers can deter unsafe farm schemes. He cites refusing financing for inferior dairy cattle and premature creamery plants, and warns against pyramid feeding schemes. Such actions save communities from loss and farmers from overexpansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Farrell
Kansas State Agricultural College
American Bankers Association Journal
Kansas
Creamery Promotera
State Agricultural College
Bank‘ars Association
Key Banker Spurs Tennessee County Cash Crops Rise
A Tennessee county gains $400000 extra annual income from new cash crops started since 1926 through a county agent and a "key banker" linked with the state bankers' association. Funds funded seed potatoes tobacco seed purebred eggs and cooperative dairy sales. a 1928 dairy factory move and 1929 results show milk sales at 45000, tobacco 150000, and 55 carloads of potatoes and cabbage.
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Tennessee
Tennessee College of Agriculture
State Bankers’ Association
American Bankers Association
Green Mountain
National Cheese Company
Banks Favor Diversification Emphasis in Cotton Belt
At an Alabama bankers gathering the agricultural committee urged banks to extend credit on a twenty five percent cotton acreage reduction. They stressed growing other crops to counter over production and plan county outlook meetings to foster a balanced sericultural program in the state.
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Alabama Bankers’ Agricultural Committee
Alabama
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Farm Bureau
Farmers’ Relief
Dairymen’s Co-operative Sales Co
Purchase Line
R. L. Boucher
Clymer
D. C
Stark
Dairy Council
Boucher
Brenneman
Indiana Motor Company
North Eighth Street
Blairsville
John Flenniken
Homer Williams
Indiana
Ourrys Run
Sylvia Fink
Rachel
Alice
Tommy
Paris
Troutman’s
Maritime Milling Co., Inc
Buffalo, N. Y
Indiana, Pa
the Savings & Trust Co
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