Corn seed handling urged by top Lebanon grower
Tsaze S. Long of Lebanon county, famed for the largest U S corn crop from 804 acres, advises seed corn be stored in a moderately warm place to avoid freezing. His 1910 yield was 10,700 bushels shelled.
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
3
Tsaze S. Long of Lebanon county, famed for the largest U S corn crop from 804 acres, advises seed corn be stored in a moderately warm place to avoid freezing. His 1910 yield was 10,700 bushels shelled.
A London Chronicle correspondent reports a soap shortage on Scotland's west coast hotels with cake soap scarce while liquid and powder forms dominate. He notes Americans, unobserved, stealing hotel soap, calling it an international quarrel of manners and contrasting habits with other nations.
A stranger named Brown confronts a newsboy in a Canadian city over directions to a famed park. After a heated exchange he buys a city guide and, via a garbled route, learns to reach the park by riding the end of one streetcar line then changing to the first next car. The item sits among a collection of jokes and quips from various papers.
A mixed excerpt explains the term second foot as cubic feet per second used in stream flow measurements and includes a conversion to gallons per day. The passage also recounts an 18th century anecdote about James Seymour the artist and a sharp Duke of Somerset joke. A clipped tale about political reform and a Liberal hostess ends with correction by Henry Broadhurst.
The notice lists upcoming sales with bills printed at this office or advertised in the RECORD. Listings include December 20 sale at Eph rata with cows and stock by Geo. 8. Demmy, frames in Lititz by DD. Granl, and other farm stock, household goods, and farming implements at multiple township locations through February and March, named executors and sellers.
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