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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1921
Page
5
United States Department of Agriculture specialists say appearance drives fruit value as shipments are graded and packed for market. Grading is growing, optional grades for commodities studied, and proper handling can extend apple marketing to seven or eight months, diverting low quality to by products.
Blackberries need rich humus soil and ample plant food. If humus burns off or crowns disease, abandon the patch after two or three harvests and replant elsewhere. Apply at least 20 tons of stable manure per acre annually. more is fine. When using commercial nitrogen, avoid late-season application to prevent excessive cane growth at the expense of fruit. delay manure application until after bearing.
The article warns that the first summer is critical for young fruit trees whose roots were damaged at planting. Drought during summer worsens soil moisture deficits, causing dryness and mortality. Mortality may appear by end of summer or after winter, often misattributed to winter kill.
Dwarf apples work for rapid fruit, but cost more per acre and need many trees. Yields per tree are lower yet overall acre yield stays fairly similar. If dwarfs are planted too low roots shoot, removing dwarfish status. Best use is as fillers to bear before standard trees mature. Pruning removes excess roots and awarts as standard trees crowd them.
Two companies of state militia prepared to suppress potential disorder as cotton mills reopen after a strike over wage cuts. Minor disturbances had occurred last week and officials urged Governor Morrison to send troops as a precaution.
Jary Hoover announced Perseptin gargle available today for sale to guard against tonsillitis and sore throat. Hoover expressed optimism that Riga would not face a deadlock with Soviet authorities and expected a satisfactory famine relief conclusion.
Washington Aus 15 Conditions set at Riga by the American Relief administration for famine relief in Russia remain intact. The plan affirms American control and distribution of aid and resources as central to relief efforts.
In Baltimore on June 16 Louis Saro, 79, lay in bed when Edward L. Baro, 36, shot himself through the brain with a pistol. Report says the brother Louis was driven by grief from the recent death of another brother.
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