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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1954
Page
5
Everbearing strawberries suit home gardens offering tasty fruit and food-cost savings. A 40 by 15 foot bed with 500 plants can yield about 100 quarts first year. commercial growers may exceed 6,000 quarts per acre with sawdust mulch, hill beds, fixed spacing, and runner removal. Continuous care includes weed control, mulch upkeep, blossom removal until July, irrigation, and potential for a profitable sideline raising own plants.
CABBAGE, lettuce, cauliflower, onions, tomatoes, peppers, egg plant and celery are easy to transplant because they have fibrous roots. Do right by them in the process of transplanting and they are not apt to wilt. Lift cabbage seedlings with soil on roots and transplant early in the season into beds or seed flats. Set four inches apart, later 18 to 24 inches in row. Water beforehand and firm soil to avoid air pockets.
Dr. Kalison extension veterinarian at VPI urges livestock owners to focus on prevention through strong breeding stock, sound management, sanitation, and proper nutrition. Early diagnosis by a trained veterinarian, not telephone speculation, cuts losses and improves profits, with Virginia farmers reportedly losing about 25 million dollars annually to livestock diseases.
John M. Amos of Virginia Tech notes malathion, a close relative of parathion, offers many same insecticidal properties with less risk to humans and warm blooded animals. It targets scales, aphids, lacebugs, mealybugs, leaf miners and leaf chewing insects on ornamentals vegetables and fruits. Sold under various trade names, follow package directions and use caution as odor offends some and it is costly.
West Virginia 4-H members aged 13 to 22 can win cash and trips in National Junior Vegetable Growers contests. The program includes Production and Marketing, Demonstration, Judging Grading and Identification, Soil Fertility Essay, regional contests at Jackson's Mill Roane County 4-H camp Moundsville Romney and Lewisburg, state finals at Jackson's Mill, and a Cincinnati convention December 5 to 9 with over 10 000 dollars in national cash awards.
A local farm notes a strawberry shortage due to cultivation effort and limited production, predicting continued small crops but steady demand. It cites rhubarb expansion, details weed control plans, and mentions price points and fragile berries with minimal out-of-state competition.
A West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station team reports a new condition in poultry termed enlarged joint disease. Symptoms include pale combs, weakness, and huddling, with variable external lesions and common spleen enlargement. Infections show milky to cheese-like intraosseous material, not always joint damage, and relate to pleuro-pneumonia like organisms.
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