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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1922
Page
5
Indiana hog raisers faced a severe hog cholera outbreak last year with heavy losses. Purdue veterinarians urged early vaccination to prevent outbreaks, noting serum shortages and the need for timely immunization for young pigs and mature herds.
Mrs. E B McMillan has recently painted her house using Capital City Paint supplied by Paxton's Drug Store.
The Grant County Agricultural Association and Home Economics Clubs announce a contest to send two Grant county girls, aged 16 to 25, to the Indiana State Fair School of Home Economics at the State Fair Grounds August 29 to September 9, 1922. Entries require health, residency, and demonstrations of canning, vegetables, apron pattern, and family ties to home economics or farming groups. Awards announced July 29 at the Grant County Association rooms. questions to the association in Marion, Indiana.
The Treasury Department notes not spending heavily on shows this year, with an average of 68 million dollars per month in 1922 versus 79 million dollars per month last year. Weather rains are keeping people at home.
Railroads report hauling 30 200 cars of autos in April, the highest for any single month. Since then demand has stayed strong and the auto trade anticipates a very busy summer season.
Purdue University poultrymen say penning up broody hens as soon as they want to set returns many to laying after a few days of broodiness. The longer they are left, the longer to resume laying.
Indications point to breaking last year's wool pooling by Grant county growers. Needler says Monday morning deliveries equal last year’s total and were pooled at North Marion elevator for shipment to Columbus Ohio. Farmers received up to 80 cents a pound with funds advanced by a wool committee.
Purdue University farm mechanics department has obtained a large collection of blueprints for houses, barns, hog houses, poultry houses, sheep sheds, implement sheds, cattle houses, granaries, cribs, and garages. Plans are available at the cost of making the blueprints, with hundreds of farmers statewide taking advantage of the service over the past two years.
The article explains that cabbage quality hinges on soil richness and rapid growth to form solid heads. Fertility loss or drought yields loose or inferior heads with wasted plant strength. It notes Chinese cabbage as a different species from common cabbage and its relatives.
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