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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1922
Page
7
The article reviews curculio pests attacking walnut and hickory, including butternut and black walnut varieties. It notes control methods such as burning fallen nuts and spraying with arsenate of lead, with effectiveness varying by tree situation and timing.
On the Scottsbluff reclamation project in Mitchell Nebraska a farmer used 500 chickens moved on 80 acres to combat grasshoppers. The populated pasture produced about 20 percent the hopper count compared with the rest of the field, proving more effective than poison and profitable after domestic use weasels and coyotes losses. This year the farmer expands to 1 000 chickens as pest insurance.
An advertisement promises relief from rheumatism and lumbago through ironized yeast. It claims iron and vitamins fuel body tissues and blood, warns of poisons from iron, and touts a unique yeast ironized product sold for $1 per package of 60 tablets by Ironized Yeast Co. of Atlanta, Ga.
Growers worry less about early fruiting as long as trees maintain normal growth. Peach and plum trees may bear at ages two or three, sometimes one year old under modern pruning. Heavily thinning is helpful but not essential. removing fruit is often unwarranted given ongoing strong growth observations.
In Chicago leaders from the Brotherhoods of Machinists and Car men arrived from the east to join preliminary talks ahead of a policy committee meeting on Monday to decide on separate agreements.Meanwhile a mail train derailed near Katening Point west of Altoona injuring two postal clerks and a passenger. Daniel Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad met western executives to discuss settlement, with few details shared.
Peters the London banker devised a machine to write the Lord's Prayer in a space of one three hundred fifty thousandth of an inch. Epigrams and prayers in one hundred thousandth of an inch have been sold in London. The quote on happiness contrasts wealth with true felicity.
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