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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1927
Page
3
The Willing Workers Society of the Baptist Church will hold its regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs L E Jaekell on North Cameron Street tomorrow night at 8 o clock. The charity penny boxes will be collected and officers for the new year will be elected.
Roy C. Potts of the USDA outlined a national standardization program for eggs and poultry at the National Poultry Butter and Egg association meeting in Louisville. He urged nationwide grading from producer to consumer to stabilize markets, reduce middleman risks, and increase consumer demand for higher quality products. California and New York already passed retail grading laws, with other states considering similar measures.
The text urges allowing pumpkins and squashes to ripen and harden before storage in a dry warm room. It also notes paving payoffs for feed lots and recommends paving essential areas if full paving isn’t possible.
The Cumberland Valley Athletics League plans a comeback this season with Frederick, Hagerstown, and Winchester rejoining. Four teams Martinsburg Hagerstown Waynesboro and Frederick will play basketball, and Martinsburg Hagerstown Waynesboro Frederick will compete in the track meet in Martinsburg on May 26.
W. J. Morse of the United States Department of Agriculture spoke at Urbana on State Soy Bean Day about expanding domestic production as imports remain high. He noted last year’s imports of 81 million pounds of soy oil, 43 million pounds of soy cake, and 4 million pounds of soy beans, and highlighted soybeans as a growing forage and seed opportunity in the United States while China relies on soy as a cash crop.
Sugar beet tops make good silage and alfalfa and corn silage are profitable. Each grower of legumes runs a personal Muscle Shoals nitrogen system. Manure fertilizer value from unpaved feed lots is significant and should not be ignored. Burned crop residues prevent insect sheltering and future losses. Dry popcorn can regain moisture with a few water drops before processing. Fall soil prep enables early spring seeding, and high quality hay preserves a major natural food source for cattle through winter.
Plan to eliminate stinking smut in wheat fields by copper carbonate treatment of all wheat from suspected fields. Avoid seed from unreliable sources and treat seed when in doubt about infection. In severely infected winter wheat, plant corn or oats for a year.
A reflective aphorism states that kindness to others returns to the giver many times over, emphasizing a universal law. The author suggests generosity toward people will come back amplified, sometimes abundantly, as a steadfast principle guided by fate.
Family expresses gratitude for kindness shown during illness and death of Wm M Bowen. Appreciation extends to friends neighbors for tributes and support to the bereaved children.
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