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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1946
Page
6
W J Dryden advises fall action to forestall the 1946 peach borer. Effective PDB treatment around each tree base raises productive life. Infestations show as gum and sawdust near ground line, with injury extending about a foot above or below soil. Apply ground ring of powdered crystalline paradichlorobenzene and mound with earth. use specified amounts by tree age.
Originating in the Island of Jersey the Jersey breed of dairy cattle was imported into the United States about 1850. Jerseys are evenly distributed across the U S and possess ideal dairy qualities. They are alert clean-cut angular refined with large calves. Milk test is favorable and butterfat cost is low. Average butterfat content is 5.35 percent highest of all breeds.
Tests at New Jersey station and other states show nitrogen fertilizers for grassland and pasture soils are best applied in late summer or early fall, while phosphoric acid and potash mixtures used for alfalfa and Ladino clover can be more efficiently applied in the fall than in spring.
During the early 20th century the flax industry faced flax sickness caused by wilt. The wilt fungus infected soil after flax cropping and preyed on later crops. The remedy was introducing wilt resistant flax varieties to curb losses and restore profitability.
The USDA cautions that corn fields planted with hybrid seed from a single strain produce offspring that are related first cousins. Seed from such fields is inbred and should not be saved. Inbreeding reduces vigor and grain yield, so farmers should plant freshly crossed seed from tested hybrid strains each year.
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