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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1905
Page
6
A discussion notes that shoppers prize color and packaging over flavor and nutrition. It cites examples from potatoes eggs butter and meat showing regional color preferences and marketing tricks that influence demand, including dyed eggs and colored butter, and mentions a bluebird of misfortune with Hodgins.
A ploughing contest at Minnesota Agricultural College was made a permanent part of field day sports. A freshman won first prize a sular plow while a senior took third. Contestants laid out a twenty foot hand and were judged on furrow straightness width depth weed turnover and land evenness.
United States Department of Agriculture researchers aim to create a citrus hybrid combining north Adapted hardiness with southern orange flavor. By crossing a north bearing edible citrus with a southern bitter variety, they hope for a variety that fruits farther north, potentially expanding orange groves to Virginia Kentucky Illinois Missouri Kansas and cities like Norfolk Richmond Louisville St Louis and Cincinnati.
The Japanese trifoliate orange grows to Massachusetts and is used ornamentally with small bitter fruit. Three trees at the Department of Agriculture bloom in spring as a botanist notes gum from the stigma. He clips the filaments and applies sweet orange pollen to the bitter orange stigma to improve fruit over ten seasons.
An English visitor in New York asks an Irish guide for a business address. The Irishman, named Pat, introduces himself in mock pomp as Patrick Timothy Fisnal of Hoboken, claiming dubious titles and a string of faux nights across recent evenings.
The senator's work titled The Russian Advance remains available for purchase. Notes indicate Kentucky crops may yield an unusually large quantity of Cuban tobacco this year.
In Kensington Maryland a government employee installs a gasoline engine driven water pump to supply a private system that serves several nearby families. Plans call for daytime water pumping and nighttime electric generation, with ideas for cooperative telephones sewers and utilities spreading to other suburban settlements.
A light exchange turns a bakery chat into a quip about doughnut holes. The joke playfuly notes that bigger holes would improve the treat, eliciting amusement.
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