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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1922
Page
2
Prices for Wealthies Maiden Blush Wolf Rivers Alexanders Gravenstein Bartlett pears ranged from 31 to 50 shillings per box with growers nets from 3.76 to 9.12 dollars. Small English crops on later varieties push expected returns for well colored Yorks shipped from this region.
A fragment shows a mother on the phone scolding a grocer for fresh butter and eggs with a threat to spank, then a ten year old girl expressing a wish to live in the country to escape others’ possessions she cannot have.
American apples fetch high prices in British markets, with H A Smith noting costs may ease as supplies grow. Glasgow prices in shillings and corresponding New York nets are listed for Wealthies Maidens Blush Wolf Rivers Alexanders Gravensteins and Bartlett pears with inland freight to be deducted.
Mrs. Darbara Korblick blames Representative Volstead of Minnesota in her divorce petition filed in Edwardsville Illinois. She says before prohibition he drank, and after it law changed her husband turned their home into a distillery making him ill tempered cruel and abusive. She recounts she removed a Volstead picture from the parlor.
A seed conference led by the state agriculture commissioner and county agent met at the farm bureau office in Winchester on Thursday. Officials from the state department, including L. T. Berry G. T. French and G. B. Parrott, discussed the seed law aiming to promote high quality seed and weed-free content to protect markets from low quality seed. J. R. Dushane, county agent, notes a July bulletin detailing high versus low grade seed advantages.
State Agricultural college foresters at Ithaca warn that stumping with saltpeter or similar fills speeds decay only superficially. They say digging chopping burning or blowing out remains the quicker cure for decayed stumps rather than relying on slow natural processes.
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