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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
4
A poem critique from Walt Mason lampoons a flashy young Bulger figure returning home. The speaker notes Bulger’s East success, flashy style, and book fame while villagers react with scorn and jealousy. Women gossip and elders call him a chump as Bulger seeks admiration.
Dec 25 1912 is a legal holiday so Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Union Bank of Winchester will be closed. Paper maturing on Dec 25 can be paid Dec 26 1912 and cashiers HH Fuller and LEP CRIM sign notices for the respective banks.
Mrs. Robert Hayslette dies at her Martinsburg home and funeral held in Gerardstown. Mrs. Zephy Morgan visits Dr. Morgan in Gerardstown. Mrs. Vennie Cain visits Mrs. Ben Abrell. Bennie Busey moves to a farm in Jefferson County. Mire. Zephy Morgan and Dr. Morgan are noted. Musical entertainment planned at Mt Pleasant U B Church with a Christmas tree event. Major Robert W. Hunter travels to Washington for several days.
The article stresses rotted manure and thorough composting for soil health. It advises fall plowing with properly aged manure, warns against half rotted straw, and favors using poultry-house fertilizer in the garden while field manure supports crops. It notes weed seeds in externally hauled manure and praises poultry manure for weed-free value.
A Farm Progress report argues that sheep manure is the best fertilizer, keeping soil fertile where flocks are kept over years. It states sheep are a valuable farm asset for maintaining field earning power and soil health.
A correspondent states elaborate soil testing is unnecessary before applying sheep manure to fields. It quickly and cheaply repairs worn land, turning overgrown pasture into fertile soil. Sheep once ground overrun by sprouts, briers, and sassafras can be transformed into wool, mutton, and soil build-up faster than any other animal.
Local residents attend family visits as Armie Locke returns home from Fairmount. Mrs. Lizzie Willingham improves from illness, and Rev. Butsler selects a meeting ongoing for weeks. Mrs. Moore recovers from pneumonia. Mrs. Henry Carper visits near Charlestown then returns home. A buggy overturn injures Miss Mamie Childs. she is hospitalized in Charlestown. Trio Triplett, Thomas Hardesty recover from recent sickness.
The article advises removing late pears that won’t improve in texture and suggests pruning old raspberry and blackberry canes and burning them. It warns thinning berry canes to three or four shoots, cultivating, and adding manure. Parsnips for table use gain sweetness if covered where they grow and left to freeze, then covered with well composted manure to protect soil and boost next summer. Belgian endive is noted as a market salad plant with white blanched roots but some find it too bitter.
John D. Good of Browntown Virginia died in Brown town near Rock Enon Springs. A Confederate veteran, he served under Stonewall Jackson and held the rank of lieutenant. He was about 60 years old and survived by two sisters and his last wife with several children.
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