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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1919
Page
5
United States Department of Agriculture notes sheep as valuable weed destroyers that can move between fields on permit. They can be turned into cornfields after laying by, trim lower blades, and eat only occasional ears, offering net benefits over damage. Woven wire fences help confine them to areas, and sheep also clean roadways and waste places.
Rev Ernest Roberts reports Sunday School schedules at Qodon 9 30 Junior Endeavor 2 00 Intermediate Endeavor 7 00 Mud Pike 9 30 Pleasant Hill 9 30 Christian Endeavor and devotion al meeting 7 00 The Pleasant Hill youth are urged to attend the Sunday eve service A special feature is the Christian Endeavor topic distribution to aid preparation Sickness among Odon constituents has lessened attendance but remains above town average indicating improvement W L Browdell urges action over words urging members to pull off their coats and go to it.
The report notes 32 in attendance at a church session with 2.25 offerings and 9 Bible students who gave 0.81. Morning attendance 23, evening 8, service at 10:40 with The Lord's Supper and sermons on Christ's Last Message and Christ's Ambassadors. Activities include teachers meeting Tuesday, Endeavor Thursday, and Bible Students at the parsonage.
EPSOM Henry Walden drove to the county seat Thursday. F M Bales and Walden Faton made a business trip to Washington Thursday. Seth Bales arrived home Thursday after months in France. C I Wilson made a business trip to Elnora Wednesday. D I ifyers drove to Washington Friday. Mason Webber motored to the county seat Saturday. Mrs F N Keller and son Den drove to Odon Saturday. The High School gave a play here Saturday night and it was largely attended.
Advertisement claims catarrhal deafness stems from Eustachian tube inflammation and cannot be cured by local remedies. It asserts a constitutional treatment via Hall's Catarrh Medicine that acts through the blood, offering a hundred dollar reward for any cure it cannot achieve. Circulars are free. price listed as 75 cents.
Trustee states weekly office hours in Odon at EK Laughlin building on West Main Street and remaining days at home for Madison township business.
The mule offers practical benefits for careless handlers and hot climates. It tolerates heat, slows under heavy work, and is safer for inexperienced drivers. It requires less grain, eats roughage easily, resists digestive issues, and retains value better with age and use.
Winter care for beef steers calls for a dry lot with a windbreak or open shed access. In some regions open sheds may not be essential, but saving feed and manure and protecting pastures from wet conditions make sheds profitable. Breeding animals may need greater protection than an open shed provides.
The article advises feeding hogs and sows a suitable balanced ration to improve comfort and profitability. It stresses providing alfalfa hay from a rack during winter, enabling hogs to take feed as sheep would.
The bureau of entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture with New Orleans and Louisiana authorities completed the year long control of the fluted scale by releasing thousands of Australian ladybird insects. Over 300 colonies were released over 40 square miles, with distribution extended to outlying infestations in Louisiana Mississippi and Texas.
Guidance for planting orchards urges using high quality trees from reliable nurserymen and lists spacing and trees per acre for apples peaches pecans plums cherries and grapes. It provides fixed acreage calculations such as apples 30 by 30 feet 49 trees per acre and peaches 18 by 18 feet 134 trees per acre.
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