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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1922
Page
3
Pear blight is described as the most destructive pear disease, failing to respond to spraying. Best control is winter pruning to remove dead and diseased twigs, burning trimmings, and disinfecting cuts with corrosive sublimate solution. Avoid excessive nitrogen and overcultivation to limit soft shoot growth that fosters the disease.
Le Roy Cudy, associate horticulturist at the university farm, says fruit marketing hinges on appearance. Buyers pay more for well presented produce like Ben Davis apples, which look attractive though some regard them lower quality, yet they outsell finer sorts.
The red raspberry is propagated from shoots that grow from old underground stems. Dig up these shoots this fall or early spring and plant in the new patch. Lift shoots with a spade to avoid root damage.
The piece warns that cure all washes fail to kill borers in young trees. Bark discoloration signals borer damage and gouging them out with a knife is advised. Growers who deed their fruits are receiving payment now for clean, worm free apples.
Earth is about the best material for covering grapes raspberries and even roses over winter. Mutch strawberry beds. Mutch the strawberry beds with clean straw or hay put on from four to six inches deep.
A 1931 Public Health report by Dean’s statistics shows the U S suicide rate by self harm rose to 15.7 per 100 000 from 12.4 in 1920. San Diego led with 48.7, San Francisco second, Spokane third, Los Angeles fourth, while two cities recorded zero. Massillon and Newport also noted zero.
An irregular or suppressed condition remedy advertisement urges women to write for relief and particulars. The National Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin is listed for free information and address is provided.
An older health advisory warns that high meat intake strains the kidneys and raises uric acid. It suggests a daily drink of a lithia-salt solution from grape juice or lemon water to flush and balance urine, claiming it aids kidney function and prevents irritation.
A Se curity Cement and Lime Company banquet at the Y M C A drew over seventy guests from the Hagerstown plant. Officers announced one million barrels of Security cement sold in 1922, a new sales record, as the evening featured orchestral music and an elaborate menu.
Dr Edwin Alderman of Chagrin, California, heads a 100-member national committee meeting January 16 in Washington to discuss U.S. policy on international affairs and arms reduction. Elinor Root to chair. Virginians Henry W. Anderson and Henry Louis Smith among members from William and Mary and Union—no party politics involved.
The page lists wholesale prices for Wheat Ducks Butter and other commodities with numerous OCR errors. Notable entries include young chickens, creamery butter, country butter, flour, middlings, cotton seed, hogs, and corn prices. Markets are noted as corrected with regional pricing and assorted items.
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