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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1915
Page
5
The article notes clubroot as a disease risk for cauliflower crops and explains that soils with lime content offer some protection. Lime applications are suggested to head off the disease, and it advises keeping cauliflower out of ground where clubroot has appeared for several years. If plants are disease free and moved to a fresh, lime-rich soil, damage is unlikely.
News notes from Ridgeway West Virginia dated June 21 report local business trips and visits. Riley Bitmer travels to Step hens City Virginia on business while Mrs H R Smithey visits Winchester. A Ridgeway couple welcomes a daughter and J M Butler opens a new sawmill. A fishing party gathers along Openion with numerous local youths and a supper by the ladies. C B Ridgeway plans a barn at Inwood and Mrs E S Mason visits Martinsburg.
Dr. J. B. Smith of New Jersey and B. H. Walden of New Haven report on beetle control in potatoes using Paris green mixed with lime and flour or sand, and lead arsenate as a preferred alternative. Recommended spray rates include one pound Paris green per 100 gallons with two pounds lime, and three pounds lead arsenate per 50 gallons of water. Applications should start once larvae hatch, with treatments scaled to pest abundance.
A diner vents fury at a disappointing multi course meal calling each course poor. He asks for better fish and is told to wait as the waiter prepares the bill, turning the tense moment into a humorous ending.
A straightforward plan describes building a bag filling aid with three posts and hooks. The apex stands about six feet high, allowing a bag to rest on the ground when filled. The light pine posts can be moved easily, enabling one person to perform a task that would otherwise require two.
A Winchester resident recalls a severe kidney illness diagnosed as Brights disease six years ago. After bed rest and treatment with Doans Kidney Pills she recovered and remains well. She urges others with kidney trouble to try Doans, noting doctors confirm her lasting improvement.
Mrs. Sarah Silman visits son B A Silman. Ely Vaught and children with Dove children spend afternoon with Mrs J W Aymel. Butler and Misa Alma Butler shop in Front Royal. Harry Hudson visits Stevens City. Tyson Martin visits Riverton. Children’s day attendees from here include Sallie Kirby Virgie Armel Lillian Alma Pearl Butler Hugh Reed George Hughes. Mrs Atkins and son Garland return from White Post. Ida Butler from Bayard visits. recovery uncertain. Bennie Spilman visits Vernie Creamer in Boyce.
The article stresses thinning lettuce rows to eight inches and transplanting as needed. It praises cauliflower as a worthwhile crop, recommending Seafoam for late harvests and noting its better drought tolerance. It warns soils must be rich with good drainage, humus, and proper tillage to yield well, and laments farmers neglect Swiss chard despite its large leaf production.
DETROIT June 21 Henry Ford says he perfected a motor tractor to cut the cost of living. He claims the implement will reduce tillage costs by at least a third, keep young men on farms, boost food production, provide work for 26 000 men and trigger a boom.
Operations begin as tractors are marketed with a price cap of two hundred dollars or lower. The listing emphasizes affordability for buyers and hints at a timed sale window.
A columnist contrasts Western and Eastern perceptions with a humorous critique of how Chinese readers view Western norms. It argues that our printed order and social manners appear barbarous to non Western observers, highlighting mutual misunderstandings between cultures.
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