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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1927
Page
6
Agricultural notes cover rabbit breeds and meat usage, dairy cow calcium needs, feed sources, and sanitation. Also includes poultry disease control, bull selection impact on dairy herds, pig worm prevention, egg shell color effects, and home recipes for potato, cheese straws, custards, and cabbage salad with whipped cream dressing.
The four month spring campaign against the European corn borer ended July 2 with an estimated 95 percent destruction of the pest in New York Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and Indiana. More than two million acres were involved and farmers cooperated under a $10 million act. Final results depend on fall records. compensation to farmers could total 4 to 5 million dollars.
Tip Berry Canes and blackberries should be trellised when they reach 28 to 86 inches. Codling moth control uses arsenate of lead with lime sulfur spray. Pigs need shade and clean water. provide a temporary structure if needed. Loosen crusted soybean soil with a spike-tooth harrow. Maintain milk flow with extra green feed or grain in fall. Prepare strawberry beds for 1928 by late summer and fall cultivation.
Jack rabbits cause multi million dollar crop losses in several states with wheat alfalfa sugar beets and beans among affected crops. Bounties have failed to curb numbers while market demand for rabbit skins and meat could partly offset costs. The piece notes rabbits as game animals and mentions skins sold for felt and carcasses used for hog feed.
Two eight room frame houses for sale near Forks church on the State highway from Easton to Wind Gap. One sits on one acre with garage and fruit trees. the other on five acres with barn and ample fruit. Desirable homes in an ideal location. Apply Mrs Samuel M.eens 28 Spr LL Gace a
Pennsylvania farmers transacted 35,177,010 through co operative buying and selling corporations in 1926, a 13.8 percent rise from 1925. Milk marketing led the growth with sales of 28,545,432, up 14 percent. fruit and vegetables fell 8.1 percent. Nine leading organizations accounted for 5.1 percent of total business.
In 1926 wool sales fell to 73 832 dollars from 79 183 in 1925, down 6.7 percent while co operative eggs rose to 96 000 dollars from 39 910 in 1925, up 6.8 percent. Livestock sales totaled 134 412 dollars, with most activity in dairy cattle, and farm supplies sold by co operative purchasing associations reached 5 311 299 dollars, up 146.6 percent from 4 553 744 in 1925. Thirty four local associations sold 1 480 910 dollars of farm supplies in 1926, up 0.5 percent. Pennsylvania membership in co operative associations closed 1926 at 44 510 farmers, up from 41 990 in 1925, with inter state and local associations contributing gains.
The passage outlines a northeastern Georgia to Tennessee landscape. It notes the Cumberland plateau separated by a valley, the Blue Ridge connection via cross ranges, and rugged remnants of a loft plateau leading to the Black mountains. It mentions head streams of the Tennessee rising on the enclosed plateau and crossing the Unaka range forming a boundary between Tennessee and North Carolina.
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