The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-24

most up-to-Qate plant OF its kind IL
existence.
Fruit Crops Ripening Fast
The date of the summer meeting of
the Indiana Horticultural Society az
Vincennes has been changed to Aug. l,
2, and 3, from Aug 9 and 10, as pre-
viously announced. This change be-
came necessary on account of tho rap.
/ id advancement of the peach crop II
! was discovered that the date first
set would interfere with the harvest
of this crop in Kentucky, southern
! Illinois and Indiana
| The fruit-growing interests in this
! section of Indiana are advancing rap
idly and the peach and apple orchards
| of Knox county arc carrying the fin
(, est crop in their history. This meet
ing will consist of a two days tour
! through the heart of this fruit and
melon section when it is at its best.
Automobiles for this tour will be furn-
ished free by the local organizations
Ample accommodations will be pro-
vided for all visitors.
y Russia's Harvest Prospects
| Ex-Governor Goodrich of Indiana
has returned from Russia, where he
has been making a crop survey in the
. famine areas. He is now in Wash
lngton where he has informed Secre-
tary Hoover that the coming harvest
will be excellent, which is good news
for the Russians, also for the Amer
, can relief expedition.
/ Harvest prospects in soviet Russia,
; Governor Goodrich found, probably
: would enable the reduction of the pro
: gram of American relief work there
| Decision as to the future scope of
r American relief operations in Russia,
r it was understood, would be reached
{ at meeting Of Secretary Hoover with
5 the directors of the American Relief
: Association in New York the latte
part of this week when Col Haskell
j and Walter l.. Brown will have ar
rived from Russia
g Protecting the Farmer
S An Illinois editor takes a sly dig
at the tariff makers in the senate, as
n follows:
e THE senate has increased the tar
e iff on reindeer meat to four cents n
f pound. Who will say now that the
/ farmer isn't being protected No
/ longer will the herds of reindeer that
n roam the plains of the Middle Yves,
e have to complete with pauper Esqui-
/ mo labor. Let the eagle scream. The
4 reindeer industry of the corn belt is
t saved
= A Good Fly Spray
l. The troubles flies cause in the dairy
barn are well known and every farmer
is interested in keeping his cows as
g free from flies as is humanity possible
q Fly sprays may be bought in drug
/ stores or man may buy certain in
l. gradients and do his own mixing. A
d spray commonly used by Iowa dairy-
men and recommended by the dairy
If section at Iowa State College, is made
# by mixing four and one-half quarts of
n coal tar dip, four and one-half quarts
of fish oil, three quarts of coal oil
Il three quarts of whale oil and one and
e one-half quarts of oil of tar Dissolve
p three pounds of laundry soap, add the
r spray mixture and dilute the whole to
e thirty gallons with lukewarm soft
water.
This spray is not very expensive
L. and will keep the flies off without
q damaging the hides of the cows.
a Thirty gallons of this mixture will
e, spray forty cows daily for ten days
e Swiss Chard for Poultry
g. Chard is good plant for the poul
c. try yard. The bulletin of the New
b. York State College of Agriculture says
IS of this vegetable:
d "Chard is simply a beet with more
d leaves and less root than other beets
IL If you like beet greens you will like
rs chard. 1t is a cut and come again
TX crop, the outer larger leaves only being
er gathered each time and the youns
inner leaves left to develop. The cul
i'd ture is the same as that of other
ii beets, but more space, eight inches
" at least, should be allowed between
~ plants"
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