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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
3
A departmental circular outlines how competitive exhibits stimulate community engagement in gardening. It notes fair judging, clear class distinctions, and attractive displays as keys to success, with small exhibits favored to maximize participation and camaraderie among neighbors.
Officials at the United States department and New Jersey region outline methods to combat soil infested with larvae and grubs. Plans include sodium cyanide in water treatments, net sweeps, vegetation clearance, weed control, and introduction of parasites from Japan to curb the beetle.
A fragment urges careful disposal of old farm machinery to preserve usable braces gear wheels hoses and mats for future use. It suggests taking machines apart before rust sets in and storing salvageable parts in a shed or workshop for later work or repairs.
The piece extols placing fruit and vegetable tables for contentment and innate comfort while avoiding a diet heavy in tin can flavors. It urges practical home choices that favor fresh produce over processed canned foods.
Market station staff gather weather led market hints and news for public benefit. The worker, skilled in production or marketing, compiles market reports and press articles from early activity to final distribution.
The article argues Timothy hay is crown in the United States but low in protein, making it inferior to clover or alfalfa for feeding dairy cattle. It notes limited palatability, potential digestive issues for livestock, and overall poor fertility effects, offering little justification for its use.
Young trees face damage from hogs. Use logs and pest control to keep hogs away, preventing injuries. A good horse roller helps protect the trunks by keeping hogs from rubbing the bark. Maintain clean, vermin free area to reduce damage.
Orchard area notes emphasize Air drainage is crucial and an air packet means failure almost without exception.
When seeding clovers with oats the nurse crop should be sown thinly. Use about two bushels of small berry oats or two and a half bushels of large berry oats per acre. This guidance aims to regulate emergence and provide protection.
Advice urges children to respect birds and avoid hunting with weapons. Suggests using a kodak for photography instead of guns or slingshots to foster humane behavior toward wildlife.
Lettuce and Swiss chard are noted as two garden vegetables that double as nutritious greens for chickens, offering good feed options alongside their culinary uses.
A United States Department of Agriculture bulletin notes thinning increases tree growth and value, urging light, moisture, and selective cutting. It warns arsenate of lead and Paris green control cabbage worms and outlines spray mixes, timings, and safety, with costs and market factors shaping woodland profit.
Prof J G Leach of Colorado Agricultural College argues crop rotation yields the best disease control and returns on infection prone crops. Seed treatment and seed selection help, but rotation costs little and improves soil fertility while reducing yearly disease tolls.
A promotional ad claims Freezone easily lifts all corns and calluses from feet. It promises painless removal with a few drops from a tiny bottle bought at drug stores. The copy stresses instant relief and complete removal without pain.
A quip about clock makers facing strikes and trials. The craftsman replies he is not worried about his hands needing an eight hour day.
An old Bayer aspirin advertisement touts genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin and warns to buy only unbroken Bayer packages. It lists headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain with single and larger tin packages. The section ends with a Mrs Benham benefit joke about a doctor warning of appendicitis if money is not stopped.
A quoted exchange questions if a watercolor could be rendered in oil with an amused reply about the color sea blue. The fragment hints at a discussion of painting mediums and color descriptions.
Wyandotte Michigan woman Mary Sende describes long illness with monthly pains, digestive upset, and bowel inactivity. After failing medical treatment she credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for recovery and hopes others may benefit.
After four or five years rhubarb stalks thin out and become small. Dig up the roots and divide into two or three eye pieces for one hill to start a new patch. Or dig up all but a corner, fill the hole with manure, cover with earth, and expect strong growth the same season.
A old method explains ages from teeth: a yearling has two broad front lower teeth, two years old have four broad teeth, and three years old have six broad teeth.
Information from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture shows about 20 percent of farmers in the state, roughly 48,657, have silos. A year ago the estimate was 32,900. The piece notes silos are a valuable asset when properly used.
Standard apple trees should be allowed at least 30 feet of space each way plums 20 feet currants gooseberries and grapes from ten to 12 feet red raspberries should be allowed to grow only in hedgerow not over six inches wide and rows ten to 12 feet apart strawberries set in rows four feet apart and two feet apart in row.
The Department of Agriculture advises farmers to return to clover to restore soil long kept busy producing wheat during wartime. The guidance emphasizes soil health and sustainable farming practices for postwar recovery.
The forcing process yields early asparagus, not widely used in the United States but highly important in Europe for advancing harvests and extending the growing season.
Soy beans are cut and handled similarly to other hay crops. Some difficulty in cutting, raking and curing is encountered when feeding in cultivated crops.
A farmer argues that proper spraying at the right time is essential for a clean autumn harvest and that good crop insurance depends on it. The piece emphasizes timely insect and disease control as a key factor in fruit quality and insurance outcomes.
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