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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1915
Page
7
The Item reports widespread rains aiding vegetables and fall plowing across the region. Citrus and pecan orchards show strong growth, oats are planted for winter grazing, and hogs and cattle show healthy signs. Nurseries seek help. farmers prepare fall and winter gardens with corn, sweet potatoes, peppers, beans, carrots, and other produce in demand.
The report describes rainy Help for gardens in Fowl River Alabama with crops like peanuts Irish potatoes and cantaloupe. It notes persimmons ripening and oranges turning yellow while cantaloupe club buys seed for fall crops and members prepare ground for radishes onions cabbage and turnips.
In a wartime column a Paris correspondent extols women’s sacrifices and highlights Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a tonic for women’s health issues. The ad promotes relief from backache headaches nervousness and hot flashes, selling trial boxes by mail from Buffalo New York for 50 cents or a dollar for a large box.
Several showers have fallen but a good steady downpour is needed for fall plowing. Irish potatoes are poor and need sixty days. sweet potatoes are in good shape. Fall gardens start slowly but germination improves with showers. Citrus and pecan trees are strong heading into dormancy. Satsumas and pomellas may be scarce but quality improves. Budding and grafting is nearly finished after six to eight weeks.
The past week has been changeable with crews cutting hay and pulling corn when weather allows. Farmers rush to remove corn, hay, potatoes and other crops to plant large forage for winter grazing. Sweet potatoes are yielding better than expected.
Recent showers aided crops, especially late sweet potatoes that needed rain. Fall beans and other fall crops lagged due to dry weather, but two fairly good rains last week improve conditions for growth.
Robertsdale farmers report soaking rains boosting beans and peas, ongoing fall plowing, and ground ready for planting. Hay and corn largely stored, pecan and citrus crops prepared for rapid handling, and persimmons appearing in stores as harvest advances.
In Malcolm Washington County farmers work the fields to sow fall oats while late crops suffer from drought. Peas harvest is timely as gardens wind down and corn yields are reported bumper across the county.
In St Stephens the cotton crops show caterpillar impact late and rain is absent while turnips struggle. Farmers build barns and cattle are being dipped. In Deer Park a Saturday shower brought some moisture but garden crops suffer from dryness. Hay yields are strong though overall farm products steady with pears and cut flowers shipped recently. Work on a Dwight area road continues as hay crops stay good.
Weather has been favorable for ginning and harvesting causing widespread attention among Butler county farmers. The season is expected to yield 60 to 70 percent of normal. about 2 750 bales have been ginned so far with no secondary crop expected due to weevil damage. Farmers are selling cotton as it is ginned while feed crops in the county are abundant.
In Conecuh County Belleville fields report corn yields lower than hoped with young corn especially light. Drought has dried up potato crops and sugar cane harvests are expected to be far below forecasts.
Farmers report short cotton bolls due to boll weevil punctures leaving bolls with one to three locks. Old cotton has been harvested and cows are turned into many fields while fine pea vine hay is being saved.
Farmers in Salitpa gather corn, peanuts, and peas while cotton picking continues. Revised weather notes show showers aiding late crops though dry spells ruin some corn. Cotton prices rising give hope as fodder pulling hay mowing and ginning proceed amid near half to full crop levels.
Reports show early corn yields strong while late corn suffers from drought. Cotton yields are light though linting is fair, with boll weevil damage noted. Potatoes sugar cane and peanuts thrive. oats being sown. gardens planted. rains in parts revive vegetation. Cattle hogs and poultry thrive though pastures and peas lag due to dry season. Fruits and vegetables abundant in some areas. pecan crop promising. ongoing cotton harvesting and drying weather impact.
In Escambia County Brewton notes show farms quiet with livestock exhibits planned for October 1924. Satsuma orange trees five years old hold about 180 oranges. A light rain on the 14th offered relief but extended dry ground will halt planting until rain returns.
Farmers report cotton picking nearly done while dry weather hurts potatoes and corn. Sugar cane is good and peanuts are short. Potatoes vary by area. A large number of cows were dipped at the local dipping vat.
A Thursday night rain refreshed the county, boosting growing crops. Cotton yields are not very flattering, but farmers hope better prices will offset the shortfall as harvest nears.
Ocean Springs reports large pecan and orange crops with heavy persimmon yield and a strong Citrus Exchange effort unlikely to move fruit this season. Corn near harvest, hay and syrup making continue as peanuts show promise and light showers pass through.
A recent rain aided late planted crops including rice sugar cane and sweet potatoes. Farmers expect good yields as cotton picking continues with many bales ginned sold and prices strong in Agricola George County.
Interest rises as attendance climbs nightly at the St Stephen's Road Methodist revival started last Sunday led by Rev. B C Glenn with Rev. J W Frazer assisting. Dr Frazer preaches the evening sermons and will address children Wednesday night at the Children's Night service.
San Francisco reports initial steps to form a national rural credit association at the Panama Pacific Exposition meeting. Myron T. Herrick of Ohio advocates cooperative farming finance, stressing self help, private enterprise, and broad co op aims beyond merely lower interest rates.
Col E J Watson of South Carolina leader of the National Drainage Congress and the Southern Cotton Congress addressed the conference urging a modification of the anti-trust laws to permit cooperative associations to combine.
Attendance for the Barton Academy teachers institute rose to a high Tuesday level, with Mrs. Jessica McGuire of the U.S. Department of Agriculture delivering the featured talk on canning and domestic science. Departmental sessions and remarks by local educators followed, stressing tutor duties and instructional methods.
Reports from the Mobile public schools institute favor the teachers and show the attendance as the largest on record. The program for the week is being followed with addresses by leading men in the professions. A cooker is used in home science work and the manual trains section features exhibitions by teachers and pupils from the previous session.
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