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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1933
Page
6
A compact fragmentary scan mentions past elections and fraternal orders, drought concerns delaying corn planting, a stock sale with prices, and local figures such as Jorge Febrey and James B. Albert. It references Antietam Street, St James fruit ard, and Gleatspring officials with a police salary note, all from a bygone year.
In Bridgeport on May 17, a school attendance list for April names students including Joseph Filsinger Charles Garrett Jack Itmeyer Gerald Imeyer Paul Price Max Showe Geo Stouffer Donald Delauter Lawson Delauter Victor Robinson Guy Robinson June Barkdoll Peggy Couchman Dorothy Dodd Evelyn Stneyer Jean Lehman Thelma Line Betty Price Julia Price Hope Showe Bertha Smith Rachel Smith Henrietta White Marietta White Reta Robinson and absentees Edward Moser Elmer Price Grayson Smith Edward Stouffer Betty Durbin Ruth Durbin A surprise birthday party was held for Mrs Wilmer Price with guests and refreshments.
Street or Route makers note dry mix lime-sulphur cannot be used on peach trees. Brown rot must be controlled by spraying with dry mix lime-sulphur. Our Agricultural Editor provides a simple home-made formula and a 1933 peach spraying schedule. Readers may request this free by mailing questions to The Daily Mail Agricultural Editor, Van Gorder Service, Inc., Washington, D. C. State.
The article discusses farm topics from soil and crops to fruit brown rot control in peaches plums and cherries. It explains the life cycle of the brown rot fungus how it overwinters in mummied fruit and decayed fruit and how preventive sprays are essential since once the fungus penetrates the fruit there is little control.
The article outlines spraying schedules to curb brown rot caused by fungi and the plum curculio. It recommends post bloom arsenate and lime sulfur applications, timing around shuck fall, and repeated sprays before harvest. Emphasizes early and regular treatments to protect peach plum and cherry crops and reduce losses.
Local quotable items list country lard and cured hams at ten cents, beans and potatoes priced by the bushel and pound, live chickens and turkeys noted. Baltimore market reports show cattle values for stem good to choice at 5.60 to 5.75, hogs 4.90 to 5.60, calves up to 5.50, sheep and lambs 7.50 to 8.50, bulls and cows varied in the 3 to 6 dollar range.
Sammy West of the St. Louis Browns was found to have a fractured malar bone after a shell struck his face in the eighth inning as Dale Alexander of the Boston Red Sox pitched. He will be idle for a few days as doctors treat the injury.
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