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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1921
Page
11
United States Department of Agriculture specialists outline winter pruning and dormant bud removal to curb mildew. A bulle tin details spray schedules using lime sulfur and sulfur or copper sprays, covering early season, calyx, and follow up treatments through August to protect apples and other fruits.
The text notes strawberry planting should be done early in spring with some fall plantings. It warns that plants set too shallow or too deep will poor growth, while a middle depth with adequate moisture yields sufficient growth for a full crop the next year.
Sulphate of strychnine mixed with sugar sirup and anise oil forms attractant bait for field mice. One ounce of strychnine in one quart water with equal parts sirup and anise makes a solution to soak a half bushel of wheat or corn for 24 hours. Bait is kept safe by coverage under boards or in cans. fall and spring use advised. Whitewash blue with Bluestone solution recommended for nurseries, applied late fall to trunks and ground, with possible winter reapplication.
After harvest, all old raspberry canes should be cut and burned. A new tool lets growers cut from a standing position to avoid spines and backache. The handcrafted knife is bolted to a four foot stick with holes in the shank, allowing use without bending. The curved hook helps pull tangled canes without touching them. H. J. Spooner Michigan Farmer outlines the design.
The United States Department of Agriculture bureau of entomology reports new methods to combat the plum curculio. The beetle damages young fruit and maturing peaches by laying eggs under the skin, with grubs feeding inside the fruit. Adults may live nearly a year, feeding on peach leaves and hibernating after harvest.
Orchardists today favor growing alfalfa in orchards to introduce organic matter and nitrogen. They view it as superior to long favored clean cultivation and adherent practice.
Fruit proves highly profitable on lands too rocky or steep for ordinary farming. Thousands of acres exist in nearly every state and many should be converted to orchards, economist Dow notes, urging expansion of fruit cultivation.
A statement lauds a Treasury Department adopted system now in hundreds of progressive banks nationwide. It claims no bank using it has suffered a successful attack or loss of a dollar, assuring depositors the vaults are as invulnerable as science permits.
The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company files on April 9 1921 with the Interstate Commerce Commission an application for a public convenience and necessity certificate to extend the Jacksonville Branch within Indiana County Pennsylvania from Young Township to Blacklick Township about two and a quarter miles to land of Pittsburgh Gas Coal Company. It seeks authority to construct operate and retain excess earnings under the Interstate Commerce Act. The filing includes board approval March 11 1921 and details of officers and notary verification in Rochester New York and Ridgway Pennsylvania.
A 1921 public notice cites a court petition to discharge a mortgage encumbrance on property in Indiana County and records a decree for release. It also lists charter applications for Farmers and Miners Bank of Richmond, and a Black Mountain Improvement Company, plus administrator and executor notices in Indiana PA.
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