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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1912
Page
2
Farmers increasingly grow celery and store excess with earth mounding and trench pits. Methods include banking around plants, covering with stable manure, straw or fodder, and using a 24 inch by 3 foot trench packed with fully grown plants. A roof of boards or straw protects the trench as temperatures fall, keeping celery through winter for small growers.
Popular Mechanics describes a tool for closing sacks with a wire tie. The device uses a hooped wire end, two hooks, and a sliding handle to twist the wire ends together, leaving loops that untwist easily when the bag is opened.
Agricultural tips discuss circular silos versus old tubs, water-tight joints, and concrete silos. Guidance covers saving seeds, crop timing for lima beans spinach parsnips and asparagus, manure handling and frame gardens for winter produce. It notes silage care, weed control and using plant stalks for paper.
A simple pivot cord hanger allows easy handling of a half-bushel fruit basket. A stout manila cord is attached to a hook at both ends, passed around the basket handle, and hooked over a limb. The design secures the basket yet releases instantly when needed.
Scientists report a simple preventive for borers and rodents. A thick mix of white lead and raw linseed oil applied to tree trunks is said to deter mice rabbits and borers, a method attributed to Professor Allwood of the Virginia State Experiment Station.
A guide notes cherry slugs that damage cherry pear and sometimes apple leaves can be killed by spraying with arsenate of lead at 2 percent for 600 gallons of water. Paris green may be used at about five ounces per 600 gallons with a touch of lime to prevent foliage burn.
The article advises that apples pears hardy grapes black berries currants gooseberries and pot grown strawberries may be set out with perfect success in the fall during the last weeks of October and the first weeks of November depending on climate.
Professor Wilson at Harper Adams Agricultural College reports a new method for calf scour and septicaemia. By administering lactic acid bacilli in skimmed milk from birth and continuing with dam’s milk plus bacilli to day nine, calf mortality dropped to zero. The method may apply to white scours and signals a broader principle in animal medicine.
A Farm and Home writer explains adding a handle to milk stools to prevent dirty hands and teats. The illustration shows a simple method to craft a stool with a grip, aiding safe handling and cleaner milking.
Advice argues for a shotgun can per milking to deliver good cream. It stresses cooling cream at all times and avoiding warm rooms. If the separator stays in barn, use a clean partition to keep a sanitary area and prevent bacterial harboring.
The text offers practical dairy farming advice including milking hygiene hand washing, avoiding sun exposure of milk, feeding calves with scalded pails, and delaying calf skim milk feeding until eight to nine months. It notes cows absorbing impurities with milk and stresses watching small eaters as potential small producers.
Walter N Thompson M D lists specialties in eye and throat diseases with painless electricity for tonsil removal and hay fever. Attorneys John T and Will H Hays, John T Chaney offer prompt legal service with offices in Sullivan State Bank building and Citizens Trust Building respectively. They handle all courts and probate matters and offer mortgage financing locally.
A compiled notice lists multiple professionals including C C A Prior notary at Hunt's Drug Store West Side W Laurent Shelburn Jas Brown J Schroeder Brown Schroeder Abstracters Sullivan County title specialists. Walter F Wood Charles D Hunt Gilbert W Gambill Hunt Gambill office locations and services. Lee F Bays to practice in all courts with implied general legal services.
Dr O T Howard a veterinary surgeon graduates from Indiana Veterinary College and opens an office at Parks and Knotts livery barn in Sullivan Indiana.
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