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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1926
Page
2
North Carolina experts advise growers to spray peaches after petal fall to combat the curculio, a beetle pest. Treatments include arsenate of lead in water with lime, or lime dusts, with a second application at calyx shed and a third about four weeks before variety ripens.
Extension specialist A Freeman Mason of New Jersey State College explains an orchard spray program to control apple curculio. Use one and a half pounds of lead arsenate per fifty gallons, one week after petal fall, plus twelve and a half pounds of dry-mix sulphur lime and three quarters pint of 40 percent nicotine sulphate if pests persist.
The article emphasizes thinning small branches to balance growth, and thinning to improve future yields. It stresses careful pruning of red raspberries with trellising, and starting protection and spraying in the orchard to guard against pests like scales scab aphids and mites. It highlights sulphur spray as common for old orchards and recommends multiple summer sprays to avert pests such as codling moth and plum curculio.
The Football Association Cup final in England drew at least 2,589,756 spectators, a record for the competition. Bolton Wanderers won, with total spectator payments reaching £204,719, an increase of £18,500 over the prior best season.
A. J. Morris vice president of American Merchant Lines reports 82,000 cases of frozen eggs from China were unloaded from the liner American Farmer in 20 hours at New York. The eggs in tin were refrigerated and the ship arrived June 22 at the New York port.
Furs from Alaska and the United States govern ment hold a large percentage of the world’s fur seals in the Pribilof Islands off Alaska’s coast. The herd numbers about 700000, with last year’s output valued at roughly 3 million dollars and total appraisal at 98.8 million dollars since 1867.
Grasse France the perfume center of Europe with 29 distilleries will run short of 600000 pounds of petals this year due to adverse weather destroying a fifth of the Rivera flower crop. Manufacturers say the shortage will push up the cost of French perfumes by at least 25 percent.
Dr D Fourmenthal on US commission for the French government reports that 40 percent of beauty shop patrons are men seeking to erase wrinkles around the eyes.
Police stopped the dyeing of dogs after a complaint from the International Humane Society. Sources say weakened dye solutions used on cloth harmed the animals and the practice was halted.
English women teachers protest after schoolmasters vote that no male teacher should take orders from a woman principal. The national union calls the action sex warfare and vows to carry the dispute to a final resolution.
A Chicago man deemed unfit by an examining board during the Civil War died at ninety two, according to the Dearborn Independent. The obituary notes harsh judgments given and reflects on frugality and aging with literary quotes.
A reader from St Paul describes fear and isolation before trying Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound after seeing a promotional booklet. She credits the remedy with improved health and regained confidence, noting her husband’s praise of her better condition.
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