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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1914
Page
19
An overview of the balance between insects and vegetation, and how human activity upsets it. The article outlines natural and artificial pest controls for Satsuma oranges, highlights the white fly as the worst threat, and gives practical spraying guidelines and cost comparisons.
The section details pest damage from three to three and a half generations yearly, harming sap, fruit development, and allowing sooty mold and light loss on leaves. It recommends timely spray insecticides like Yothers formulas and Schnarr’s, with timing after adults die and during winter for white fly, plus spring and summer applications. The Satsuma industry on the Gulf Coast totals two million trees with projected profits of six to eight million dollars in three years, urging care to keep costs under one percent of capital and to protect groves from pests.
Mrs. Luella Biggs of Carthage Texas reports a persistent white blistering scalp problem described as dandruff like. After trying salves the head rawened, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment nightly for about four applications and the scalp was fully cured. The notice promotes Cuticura for face hands and scalp.
BR W Marquard declares no binding contract with any team but the Brooklyn Federals in an affidavit read to President Gilmore. The document accompanies his agreement to play for the Wards and counters charges of a Nationals contract.
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