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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1919
Page
2
Barnes, a visiting traveler, gets drawn into a fatal confrontation near Green Fancy. Local figures including Dr. Bacon and Sheriff Jones uncover a suspected robbery plot tied to the Gray Money affair, with Germans and Americans seen around the tavern and the estate.
Home gardeners can prevent disease spread by strict cleanliness and burning diseased plants. For potato scab use seed free of scab or treat with formaldehyde or corrosive sublimate. both are highly poisonous. Beans, melons, cucumbers, and tomatoes require careful watering, soil management, and Bordeaux spray as preventive measures. infected vines should be burned.
Agricultural note urges prevention over cure for the striped cucumber beetle the most destructive cucurbit pest. It details beetle and larva damage on cucumbers melons squash and beans and notes winter beetles from trash and ditch banks spread infection. No specific remedy exists. spraying helps only in moderate numbers and cannot reach underground larvae. Preventive measures are essential.
Wealthy New Yorker Thomas K Barnes on a walking trip is given a lift by a mysterious attractive girl to Green Fancy a house of mystery. At Flatt s tavern he meets a troupe led by Lyndon Rushberoft and Miss Thackeray. Two mounted men depart in odd circumstances one returns dying the other killed the case remains unexplained.
In a tense gathering, residents recount a gunshot from the road near Green Fauney. Two men fled toward Spanish Falls as a coroner and sheriff investigate while Barnes and Jones weigh foul play. The event leaves the group awed and wary.
Barnes confronts a sharp question after a farm boy recounts a ghastly story and an Irishman arrives on the scene.
Farms must grow abundant feed crops this year to feed livestock next winter. Without sufficient crops the animals will be costly and the food supply may run short.
A Farm Journal note describes the cabbage butterfly and the green cabbage worms it hatches. It advises hand picking for small plantings and dusting with pyrethrum or hellebore as remedies. Hydrated lime and dusting with dust are mentioned as options, with a lead arsenate spray at four pounds per fifty gallons as a strong treatment.
The article advises providing greens and shade for hens in yards. If hens are confined to bare spaces they need ample greens and occasional scratch. It recommends a morning feed of scratch plus greens, a dry mesh with meat and bone, and a fuller grain feed before roosting.
Instructions explain carrying fowls by under the arm with head toward the back. The helper should grasp the legs with the hand and press the bird to the body. This method keeps the hen upright, prevents wing flapping, and ensures comfort during transport of any distance.
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