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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
10
London dispatch reports the Belgian trawler Delta B sunk by a German submarine off the Scilly Islands. All crew members have reached St Mary’s for safety.
A farmer Silas Helms recounts sowing rye instead of wheat on thin soil. He explains rye tolerates poor ground, responds to fertilizer, and can yield 36 bushels per acre with complete three-nutrient fertilizer. His farm improved dramatically, with higher profits than unfertilized wheat.
In Wayne County Indiana 1914 Joseph Herts farm yielded 16.7 to 27.4 bushels per acre with the same seed under similar growing conditions. At 16 cents a bushel, per acre returns ranged from 12.52 to 20.55 dollars and profits from 1.62 to 6.30 dollars. County Agent A D Cobb planned and supervised the experiment to show how yields and profits can rise across counties. Seven plots were studied.
Berlin dispatch reports Prince August William of Todenzol lern, fourth son of Emperor William, badly injured in an automobile accident on the western front. The winter has largely passed. he began today to rejoin the army staff to which he is attached. Further details are awaited.
An Indiana wheat grower urges sowing wheat in standing corn using a five hole grain drill with fertilizer, applying about 200 pounds per acre fertilizer to corn and 250 pounds to wheat. He notes moisture conservation through mulch, continued cultivation, and spreading manure to support a 70 bushel corn crop and a bumper, high quality wheat yield.
A Cornell College of Agriculture study reports a net gain of 65 dollars per acre in a six year plan where timothy grows three years and is followed by corn, date and wheat each for one year. Top dressing timothy with high grade fertilizer yielded a 1.67 dollar return per dollar invested, while the following crops benefited from no manure or fertilizer. The findings counter the belief that timothy robs soil, showing higher yields and profits and better subsequent crop performance.
Asap ér remains under treatment and faces a prolonged recovery from the accident with limited progress expected in the near term. Medical teams report ongoing healing and rehabilitation will extend over weeks to months before a full recovery is possible.
A fragment from a local page invites readers to telephone a lost ad with the Whig newspaper. It notes finding a watch or item described as a paragol and asks the finder to contact the paper to publish a notice. It conveys the sense of a brief lost item notice.
Frank K. Robinson files a foreclosure complaint in Adams Circuit Court Illinois Dated term A D 1915 under cause No 3454. The case appears as state of Illinois County of Adams versus Tune.
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