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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1917
Page
3
The article explains combatting cutworms and cucumber flea beetles. It gives at home remedies using bran Paris green molasses and citrus juice, plus a larger field mix by Prof. J. G. Sanders and recommends Bordeaux mixture with arsenate of lead to protect potato, tomato, and cucumber crops from beetles and leaf damage.
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station recommends a dry mash for laying birds and growing stock on range. The mix includes 100 pounds wheat bran, corn meal, ground oats, and meat scrap fed in hoppers before the birds. Supplement with cracked corn at morning and night. reduce meat scrap if family garbage is available. Allow birds maximal range.
Reports say young cocklebur plants are eaten by stock, but Indiana Experiment Station tests found no poison. Feeding trials with calves pigs rabbits and guinea pigs caused no adverse effects as burs were removed from the plants.
The article advises farmers and households to candied suspicious eggs found in nests and discard bad ones. It recommends using questionable eggs at home to ensure only fresh product is sent to market, avoiding tainted lots reaching consumers.
This week advises sowing beets carrots rutabagas turnips with lettuce and celery. Fight pests with light arsenate of lead solution and Bordeaux mixtures on potatoes, while pulling weeds and fertilizing to support vines and overall growth.
The USDA suggests drying or toasting bread fragments, crushing them, and serving with milk or cream and sugar for a breakfast option. This inexpensive method mirrors some commercial breakfast foods and helps stretch family meals.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an incurable catarrh case. Hall's Catarrh Medicine, in use for 35 years, is said to act through the blood to heal mucous surfaces and expel poison. Promotes health improvement after short use and invites testimonials from buyers. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, sell through druggists.
Trustee R D McCarter states he will be in Odon at the EK Laughlin building on West Main Street on Wednesday and Saturday each week and at his residence on other days to attend to Madison township business.
Mr and Mrs Winegar of Jasonville visiting Mrs Winegars father A G Boyd then went to Kurtz on Monday to visit relatives.
Ernest Winklepleck and family of Elnora and Frank Cox and family of Indianapolis were the guests of Miss Myrtle Winklepleck Friday evening.
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