Mushrooms and orchard advice from Pennsylvania experts
Readable portions outline safe mushroom identification rules and dangers from poisonings, plus guidance on planting fruit trees this fall. It notes pink gilled edible mushrooms with a ring on the stem, and stresses open land gathering. It also covers berry patch pruning, nursery stock costs, and timing for apples pears peaches plums and cherries.
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Pennsylvania
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Tomato Blight Experiments Rise in Lancaster County
F L Holdridge of the bureau of plant industry and the State Department of Agriculture notes experiments in Lancaster County on cultivating tomatoes to eradicate blight. The work parallels tobacco leaf research at the federal station on the Hirishman farm, Ephrata, and is widely known in the region and nationwide.
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Bureau of Plant Industry
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Lancaster
Lebanon
Berks Counties
8. S. Lehman
West Lampeter Township
Pugh
Hirishman Farm
Ephrata
Lancaster County
F. L. Holdridge
State Department of Agriculture
Potatoes rot and a county blast rocks Lititz
The text notes high American mortality from accidents and disease, urges careful potato storage after blight, and reports a 2.15 am dynamite blast near Lititz at Kennedy Refractories causing shattered windows. It lists local fairs and Farmers' Days at Ephrata, York, and Slagerstown in October.
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Lititz
Kennedy Refractories Company
East Petersburg State Road
York
Slagerstown
Ephratamont
Western woman visits county kin in Reinhelds Station
Mrs Amelia Showalter of Roseland Nebraska visits relatives of her former husband George Showalter around Reinhelds Station. It is her first visit to the county.
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Amelia Showalter
Roseland
Nebraska
George Showalter
Reinhelds Station
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