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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1913
Page
5
Farmers urged to cultivate a home vegetable garden to save money, improve health, and beautify cities. Women and men share duties with seedings, crop planning, and timely plantings. readers encouraged to use Farmers Bulletin No. 255 and No. 154 for guidance.
In Farmers' Bulletin No 528 of the Department of Agriculture the officials urge poultry raisers to keep nests clean provide one nest for every four hens gather eggs twice daily store them in a cool dry room and market eggs at least twice weekly. They advise selling or confining male birds after the hatching season and note pullets should be marked for breeding. A suggested disease prevention method involves fumigating houses with sulfur to kill germs and vermin.
Deputy Horticultural Inspector Schenk urges growers to spray for red spider in affected orchards using black leaf 40 at 1 pints per 100 gallons water plus 5 to 6 pounds fish oil soap dissolved in hot water. The pest harms leaves, forms fine webs, and damages fruit and ornamentals. prior lime sulfur spraying helps reduce trouble.
The 1913 spraying calendar warns against summer treatments such as oil spray or sulfur lime during dormancy in pear orchards. It emphasizes timing and restraint to protect buds and fruit set.
Bulletin summaries note DaVise’s concise guide on the coddling moth with spray methods and arsenate use. Pullman Experiment Station Nos. 77 and 113 provide orchard-focused studies. Proper calyx spraying can nearly eliminate wormy fruit. two sprays for each brood are recommended, with extra spraying possible if neighbors are infested.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent outlines key traits for breeding swine aimed at pork production. Favor lard hogs with broad shoulders and deep hind quarters, smooth fat coverage, fine hair and skin, and hard bone. Yorkshire bacon type noted for rapid growth, large litters, disease resistance, and global demand.
A fragment discusses livestock breeding with emphasis on pronounceable sex terms, body proportions for sow comfort, and twelve forward teats to ensure milk production. It stresses that no teats be blind and notes the boar is also involved in the discussion.
The text emphasizes powerful head and neck, deep shoulders, and strong bone as signs of masculine vigor. It warns that weak structures lead to breakdown under weight. Both boars and sows should be long and broad with a quiet facial expression except for the aggressive male look. Constitution, not fancy points, governs breeding choice.
Public notice of a sheriff sale of the SW 1/4 Section 26 Township 7 North Range 29 EWM in Benton County Washington. The sale to satisfy a foreclosure judgment for The Edinburg Lombard Investment Co against James F Irvin et al at Prosser Court House on May 24 1913 at 10 am. Cash only to highest bidder. Sheriff W B MaHan. Deputy Hucy Forsyth. 4:25-5:23
Washington Benton County summons to Geo Batters Ellen Batters W R Lamb Julia Lamb W R Amon J G Glen and Jane Doe Glen to answer within sixty days after April 18 1913. Action aims to foreclose mortgage on Lots 1 and 2 Block 2 Town of Benton now Richland Washington. Plaintiff attorney C L Holcoms Kennewick Washington.
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