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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1916
Page
5
Maine's irregular coast leaves ten to twelve lighthouse stations cut off from ordinary schooling. A traveling teacher visits these stations for weeks, delivering work outlines to mothers and guiding through correspondence and tests. Each return visit acts as a lighthouse in itself.
The text notes a four feet six inch statue base, an eye span of two feet six inches, and a torch holding right arm forty two feet long. It mentions a public sale of Trolstein and Guernsey cattle and farm implements at the M. Miller farm in Center Township next Tuesday for farmers seeking stock improvement.
Dick Thompson announces a seasonal sales push at his clothing store noting that more clothing is sold this time of year and that the business has grown yearly. The store offers a vast collection of the latest suits and overcoats to meet men’s clothing needs.
Specialty notice highlights menswear including Stein-Bloch and Master Craft suits and overcoats priced at 20 and 25 dollars. Indiana availability emphasized as exclusive.
A sequence of public sales lists farm stock, machinery and farm implements across multiple farms in Indiana County and adjacent townships. Auctions include horses, cattle, hogs, milch cows, sheep, and various gear with dates in November 1916 and one real estate sale by Wilgus Land Company on November 18 at 2:30 p.m. in Wilgus, PA. Names include Darwin Cassatt, Morrison M. Fisher, J. C. Agey, John Adamson, Howard Ressler, S. M. Miller, B. J. Miller, John Malcolm, and the Wilgus Land Company.
Owing to weather the livery stock sale of Tony Tatay at Wellwood is postponed to next Friday at 12 30 PM. Items include nine work and driving horses three milch cows two broad sows fat sow 14 pies chickens road wagons spring wagon sleds sleighs hack surrey harness plows potatoes luckwheat and other articles. Sale positive as I am going out of business Tony Ratay auctioneer Cameron I C.
Twenty six counties exceed the state average of 18.8 bushels per acre for Pennsylvania wheat, totaling 25,070,500 bushels. Berks and Philadelphia show the lowest averages at about 24 bushels per acre, with Berks reporting a large banner crop. Lebanon County follows with an average near 23.0 bushels per acre as other counties report yields from 30 to 40 bushels per acre.
The report lists county averages in bushels per acre with Northampton at 23.0, Lancaster 22.9, Chester 22.7, Delaware 22.5, Montgomery 22.4, Schuylkill 22.0, Luzerne 21.8, Lehigh 21.7, Susquehanna 21.6, Bucks 21.4, Erie 20.8, Allegheny 20.4, Carbon 20.2, Pike 20.0, Somerset 19.9, Monroe 19.8, Sullivan 19.5, Westmoreland 19.4, Clinton 19.4, York 19.0, Northumberland 18.9, Cumberland 18.8, Union 18.8. Fulton had the lowest at 14.0, while Juniata and Venango averaged 15.5.
Poultryman W. Theo Wittman of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture advocates wet mashes for egg production and growing table poultry. He notes wet mashes fell out, but argues they remain superior to dry mixes when properly prepared and timely fed, highlighting simple, palatable, clean formulations and daily feeding.
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