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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1923
Page
7
Tests by the United States Department of Agriculture and a state hydraulics lab show rounding culvert inlets increases water flow. Bell or elliptical endings reduce eddies and cross currents, boosting capacity by about 12 percent in full-flow pipes with minimal added cost.
Ohio State University researcher L. H. Parks reports on 106 tests with 62 farmers showing spraying increased yields. Average net cash gain was $30.28 per acre, with gains ranging up to 107 percent and 97 bushels per acre, tied to thorough leaf coverage and multiple applications.
The bureau of entomology at the U.S. Department of Agriculture funds European parasite importation to combat gypsy and brown-tail moths. Parasites from Japan are also shipped to the United States to propagate against gypsy moths and the Japanese beetle. The latest parasite shipment arrived in December 1922.
The article stresses strict attention to seed potato selection and treatment to prevent diseases such as black leg common scab dry rot and black scurf. It urges using disease free seed from clean sources and notes a bushel of clean seed on clean land is more valuable than uncertain origin seed.
Clevenger near Red Bud, Ernest Luttrell and his wife visit his brother in law and sister William and Licklider. Dickson of Bristol Virginia stays with Daniel and his wife Stouffer. Thomas Dick of Stephens City returns home after visiting his uncle and aunt Harry Knight.
Bethel notes report a successful August 23 Sunday school convention at Old Bethel. Rev H W Lindamood plans revival services starting August 30 at 8 PM at Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church.
Ralph Bowers of Halltown West Virginia and Bertha Louise Feltner formerly of Burnt Factory were married last Thursday evening at the Braddock Street Church parsonage in Winchester by Rev Boyd V Switzer in the presence of close relatives. They are visiting Grimes with the bride’s sister Mrs Ellis Randall. Postmaster D L Affleck and wife with Elwood spent Sunday with William Newlin near Pleasant Valley. Hunter Benner and Keckley of Winchester were in Grimes on Wednesday.
A historical clipping notes the idea that trade should be a moral thrill. It contrasts giving the other party a good bargain with securing a better one for oneself, framing commerce as an ethical pursuit.
A designer of Kruger sovereigns engraved his initials under the bust of Kruger, provoking questions about authorship and meaning. The coins were largely pulled from circulation amid the discovery. Alternating snippets advise gum removal with ice and ammonia, and note a walking motor truck device and a pedestrian with speed.
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