Time Is Left For Growing Winter Crop In Virginia
Virginia gardeners are advised by the Virginia Tech Horticultural Department to plan a fall and winter garden by July. Plant a broad mix of green leafy root and fruit vegetables, including cabbage celery kale lettuce mustard spinach Swiss chard turnips beets carrots kohlrabi radish beans corn cucumbers squash tomatoes. Prepare soil, use good seed, apply complete fertilizer, and thin seedlings for best stands. Mulch and firm soil to improve moisture contact and reduce crusting. Water deeply, avoid shallow watering, and control weeds early. Derris or similar insecticides help with pests, Bordeaux mixture with tomatoes and related crops may control diseases.
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Virginia Gardners
Virginia Tech Horticultural Tment
Virginia
Mortgage Still Besets Farmers
CHICAGO July 19 Uncle Sam appropriated more money to aid farmers than ever before 11944488 638 yet farmers cannot expect to repay mortgages in 1940 with AAA payments. 1940 benefit funds total 772 600 000 up from 766 500 000 in 1939 though only 6 100 000 more for soil conservation and parity payments. Farm leaders say most funds will be consumed by first time program compliance. Edward A O Neal of the American Farm Bureau predicts high compliance rates among cotton corn and wheat sectors. Hope lies in loan features and government disposal funds estimated at 205 700 000 with 79 000 000 available in 1939 for surpluses.
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Chicago
Uncle Sam
Joe Farmer
AAA
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Department of Agriculture
Investigation Of Great Smoky Mountains Park Management
The Senate approved a resolution by Senator McKellar to probe Superintendent J. Ross Eakin’s management of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Senator Vandenberg supported the inquiry after an amendment to include a survey of how Eakin voted in the 1936 election.
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Washington
Senate
McKellar
D-Tenn
J. Ross Eakin
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Unry
Admiral Yarnell Set to Retire After Orient Command
Shangahi July 19. Admiral Harry E Yarnell commander in chief of the US Asiatic Fleet has arrived aboard his flagship Augusta from Tsingtao. He will turn over command July 25 to Rear Admiral Thomas Charles Hart who arrives from the United States. Yarnell led American naval forces in the Orient throughout the Japanese Chinese war.
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Shanghai
Harry E. Yarnell
United States
Asiatic Fleet
Augusta
Tsingtao
Yarnell
Thomas Charles Hart
Orient
Purchases Being Locked Into City Purchases
Baltimore July 19 Walter N Kirkman director of the Bureau of Budget and Procurement announced an official ruling that all purchases through his bureau must be for state use only in response to claims that city and state employees were making personal purchases at wholesale rates William A Thompson secretary of the Maryland Radio Service Association had warned city retailers were losing about 1 million dollars annually due to unofficial wholesale purchases
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Baltimore
Walter N. Kirkman
Bureau of Budget and Procurement
Kirkman
William A. Thompson
Maryland Radio Service Association
Woman And Her Guests Flee Fire
Fire destroyed the $6,000 home of Mrs. Lizzie Lightner in Queen Anne's County Maryland. Mrs. Lightner and two guests escaped after passersby awakened them. Howard Ely summoned firefighters from Queenstown Centreville Cordova Easton Ridgely and Denton to battle the two story frame house fire believed to have started from an oil stove on the back porch.
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Queen Anne's
Lizzie Lightner
Unlucky Pedestrian Struck as Car Crashes Into Beauty Shop
Omaha resident John Benas aged 50 fled an out of control automobile which rammed a beauty shop entrance chasing him. The car followed and struck the doorway injuring Benas.
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Omaha
John Benas
Benas
Virginia Trappers Face Weak Protections for Fur Animals
A Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries official notes no bag limits on mink muskrat possum and skunk with seasons only and no reporting by trappers. The Federal Bureau of Biological Survey ranks Virginia tenth in fur animal trapping with 376 200 pelts purchased in 1938 though no trapper reports are required.
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Virginia
State Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Federal Bureau of Biological Survey
United States
U. S
State Game Commission
Typical Counties Are In Indiana
Washington reports that St. Joseph and Marshall counties Indiana were identified by the census bureau as typical American counties. They will be canvassed next month to determine the best method for asking 1940 census questions. In Greenup Kentucky John Holley escaped serious injury after a crash. head wounds required 75 stitches by Dr. H H Holbrook, the assailant?
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Washington
St. Joseph
Marshall Counties
Indiana
Census Bureau
Greenup
John Holley
Holley
H. H. Holbrook
Rush
Average Monthly Rainfall for 1913 38
Present and past rainfall shows 24 hours ending a.m.31 inches July to date 3.83 inches year to date 29.37 inches. Average monthly rainfall for 26 years 1913 38 lists Jan 2.53 Feb 1.98 Mar 2.94 Apr 3.20 May 3.64 Jun 3.58 Jul 3.34 Aug 3.68 Sept 2.36 Oct 3.13 Nov 2.32 Dec 2.40. Average annual rainfall past 26 years 35.09 inches. Statistics courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Coordinating Efforts Started In Poland Britain Talks War Plans
Major general Sir Edmund Ironside began coordinating Polish and British military strength with Marshal Smigly Rydz and War Minister Kasprzycki. He will also discuss political military aspects with Col. Joseph Beck. Polish press flags potential decisive influence and notes Poland could field up to 2,000,000 men aged 18 to 35 with another 2,000,000 in reserve.
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Warsaw
Edmund Ironside
Edward Smigly-Rydz
Tadeusz Kasprzycki
Ironside
Joseph Beck
Europe
England
Germany
Czas
Britain
France
Free City of
Danzig
Pomorze
Funeral Rites Held For J W Largent in Winchester
Funeral services were held at Kurtz chapel for John William Largent found dead in Charles Town West Virginia with doctors citing a heart attack. Rev J S Shade led the service at Mount Hebron Cemetery burial followed by pallbearers Frank Johnson Ira Snapp Ollie Deahl Fred Stephenson Charles Groves and Frank Plank. Survived by widow Maude Belford four daughters Gainer Baker William Homer James Tobin Violet Largent four grandchildren and one sister Aunt Cora Poland, Romney, 70.
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Kurtz
John William Largent
Charles Town
W. Va
J. S. Shade
Pentecostal
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Frank Johnson
Ira Snapp
Ollie Deahl
Fred Stephenson
Charles Groves
Frank Plank
Maude Belford
Cold Stream
Gainer Baker
Stephens City
William Homer
Winchester
James Tobin
Violet Largent
Billy
Evelyn Homer
Gentry
Marshall Baker
Cora Poland
Romney
Music Lover's Term Suspended In Clarke
Chester Dinges twenty of Clarke County Virginia found guilty of petty larceny for stealing a victrola and records from Walter Diamond's mountain home. Trial Justice Loring C Kackley sentenced him to 30 days and six dollars and fifty cents costs but suspended the jail term. Clinton Dinges sixteen brother of the defendant faced a separate charge that was continued as he is a minor. Diamond, long known in town for peddling and forecasting, died last fall.
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Berryville
Chester Dinges
Loring C. Kackley
Walter Diamond
Dinges
Clinton Dinges
Improving State Crops Big Problem
BLACKSBURG Virginia Crop Improvement Association describes a goal for every county to produce all certified seed needed within its area. S. F. Grubbs notes progress but warns many sections still lack certified seed and use little of it. The article outlines seed purity disease resistance and regional programs in Culpeper Northern Neck and burley tobacco and watermelons certification efforts in Virginia.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
Virginia Crop Improvement Association
S. F. Grubbs
V. P. I. Agronomist
Virginia Association
Union
Extension Agronomists
Virginia Corn Growers Association
Grubbs
Culpeper County
Neck
Kentucky College of Agriculture
Norfolk Truck Experiment Station
Hawkesbury
Australia
Sweet Potato
Longest Railroad Bridge Spanning Great Salt Lake
The Lu cin cut-off trestle over the Great Salt Lake links Ogden and Lucin. For 12 miles the track runs on a trestle and the remaining 15 miles sit on a solid foundation built upon salt beds.
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Great Salt Lake
Ogden
Lucin
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