Pickling Cucumbers Care Tips for Thrifty Harvests
Growers often see stunted vines yellowing and dying midseason due to carelessness. Pickling cucumbers should be 2 to 4 inches long, with 2 to 2.5 inch fruit most popular for home use and profit. Harvest every other day, avoid allowing any to mature, and cut beans with a knife, leaving a stem. Protect vines from heavy trampling and lifting. prune only as needed. Vines face blight and mildew which wilt leaves and kill plants quickly.
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Denmland
When to Dig Potatoes for Best Prices and Yield
A guidance note from C. A. LeClair in the Country Gentleman explains delaying potato digging can raise yields by over fifty percent as vines stop growing. Early harvests may fetch higher prices, but practical profit favors leaving crops in the ground until late fall if storage is planned.
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Ivery
Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station
C. A. LeClair
Short of 210 Enlisted. call for more to join colors
Only 210 have joined the colors, and the demand for additional enlistments grows urgent as the military needs more volunteers to fill quotas and bolster national defense.
State Pushes Market Office to Cut Middlemen in Food
A special committee of the State Council on Food Production and Distribution recommends a state office of markets to streamline sales and cut middlemen. The plan favors stronger local marketing and farmer postings to sell surplus with county agents aiding in market access and preventing overproduction locally.
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State Council of
Ense
Committee
Military councils seek funds for war effort
Many county councils of defense lack funds and have not applied for money needed for rent postage and printing. The article urges prompt vigorous action to remove this obstruction and meet state accountant approval for war preparedness.
Good Old Days Prices Compared In Historic Recollection
A 20 and 30 year ago column mocks low prices for flour two dollars per hundred, wheat forty to fifty cents a bushel, corn eight to ten cents, eggs four cents a dozen, butter six cents a pound. It argues modern goods and services like good roads phones and hot water heating beat those days, noting hogs at fifteen cents a pound on the hoof and eggs around forty cents.
State Food Director warns on fruit canning substitutes
Food Director G. Christie warns housewives to avoid inferior preserves sealing bands that fail to keep hermetic seals causing fermentation and food losses. Prosecutions will follow after dealers are found. a special committee led by Mrs. Hence Orme will identify and expose offenders.
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G. 7. Christie
Buidge
Hence Orme
Denton Crowl Delivers Sam Jones Lectures To Mass Audiences
Denton Crowl, known as the second Sam Jones, continues the late preacher's Chautauqua tradition. Crowl has kept alive the Sam Jones lectures since Jones's death, praised as the best attraction on Chautauqua programs by eighty committees in Michigan and Illinois. His renditions, under the Sam Jones banner, adapt topics to current events while preserving the distinctive style.
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AM Jones
Denton
Crowl
Sam Jones
Mr. Jones
Chautaucgia
Michigan
Illinois
Sam
Big Berry Crop Hauls Record Harvest In Township
The area yields its largest blackberry crop in years as canning spikes. Berry arrivals from the eastern part of the township flood Barkley's store, which averages over a hundred gallons daily for two weeks, with berries fetching 30 cents per gallon.
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Barkley’s
Governor declares special enrollment week for boys reserve
Governor Goodrich proclaims August 6 to 12 as a special enrollment period for the United States Boys' Working Reserve. Indiana boys aged 16 to 20 are urged to enroll and support the voluntary non militaristic organization as it acts as substitutes for manpower withdrawn for army service.
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Goodrich
United States Boys’ Working Reserve
Indiana
Proposal for a woman corps in every voting precinct
Miss Mary Boone of Whiteland Indiana urged the state council to form a women’s corps in each voting precinct to maintain contact with soldiers leaving home. The war committee is studying the suggestion.
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Indiana
Mary Boone
Whiteland
Ind
State Council
Werk
Gardners Report Record Tomato and Corn Harvest This Season
The season brings a splendid tomato crop and new corn at market. Garden eatables across the list show quality and production above average, with gardeners noting good quality and plentiful supplies.
Summer Complaint Relief With Chamberlains Remedy
Summer illness disrupts families. Mrs. F. F. Scott of Scotteville New York reports rapid relief from a severe summer complaint after a single dose of Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. The Odon Drugs Co sells the medicine locally.
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F. F. Scott
Scotteville
N. Y
Chamberlain
Odon Orus Co
John S. Talbot General Trail Manager Terre Haute Ind
John S. Talbot is identified as General Trail Manager for Terre Haute Indiana in this clipped biographical notice.
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John S. Talbot
Terre Haute
Ind
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