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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
8
The article details insect damage across crops and livestock, estimating total annual losses from pests at about 700 million dollars. It highlights corn, wheat, and cotton as major sufferers, with specific pests like the corn rootworm, Hessian fly, chinch bug, bollworm, and grain plant louse driving sizable reductions and control costs.
The report details cotton and fruit pest damage, citing a total loss exceeding 40 million dollars from three major cotton pests, plus heavy costs for insect control in vegetables, orchards, and citrus. Woolly aphis, borers, leafworms, scale and codling moths are named among key threats. Forests face devastation from borers in planted woods.
The report lists principal pests including flies ticks and beetles attacking horses sheep crops and stored products. It estimates annual insect losses at about 175 million dollars to agriculture and 100 million to stored goods with total impacts far higher due to household tobacco and prevention costs.
Department of Agriculture officials received a seedless native persimmon specimen from John H. Drury near Washington. Officials note seedless persimmons are rare and not common in the United States though scattered trees exist in the South. The Drury fruit proved seedless when cut, smaller than the average native persimmon but with more meat.
A narrator critiques American housewives for wasteful meat buying. She contrasts German efficiency with domestic ignorance, lauds cheaper cuts and proper cooking like stews and pot roasts, and warns against wasted meat and poor kitchen practices. A neighbor seeks cheaper options amid rising bills.
The Department of Agriculture may graft seedless persimmon buds onto other stock at the right season to breed seedless varieties. The text also mentions rationing plain foods to extend to every school nationwide for future generations.
Massachusetts Board of Health reports on common foods revealing fillers and preservatives in daily staples. Pepper contains nutshell fragments. mustard mixes wheat flour and turmeric. lime juice and other products use additives. An unverified claim warns of formaldehyde masking spoiled eggs in baked goods.
A memorial will be maintained in Pasadena California for Helen Peabody founder of the Western College for Women at Oxford Ohio. Miss Peabody died recently and her will provides for her Pasadena residence to be kept as a lasting tribute in that city.
A daring fire engine driver masterfully halves the danger of a sharp cross street turn. With the engine tilting and the curve banked by sloping pavement toward a sewer opening, he guides the two inner wheels low and the outer wheels high, shouting to his horses by name as spectators gasp.
A.-M. de Groze agreed to a swords engagement with M. Carillot but sent his second after warning he would not fight. The second performed brilliantly and seemed to triumph, even drawing some of Carillot's blood, a witty courtesy that spared the waiting opponent.
President Roosevelt may publish a private circulation book of Irish poems translated from Gaelic. He learned Gaelic from James Jeffrey Roche, highlighting his linguistic engagement.
The narrator recalls an architecture class exchange where an instructor asks how to craft a Maltese cross and the Chief of the Naval Board’s son cryptically answers step on her tail, implying a sly misdirection or joke.
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