Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1908 — Linton to Have a Park. [ARTICLE]

Linton to Have a Park.

Linton. Ind.. Sept. 11.—At the last meeting of the city council steps were taken toward purchasing a site for a park. A committee was appointed to figure with Dudley Hixon, on a twentyacre piece of ground in the city. Corn Crop Cut in Half. Carlisle, Ind.. Sept. "11.—The drought in this j>art of the county continues. A great deal of the corn will not average a half crop. The farmers can not plow until it rains. —... The Vine Blight. Several inquiries from New England were recently received at the department of agriculture asking for remedies to prevent or cure the blight that destroys cucumber, melon and squash vines and referring to the well known disease very prevalent in America of late years and which causes apparently vigorous vines to suddenly wither and die within a few days from the beginning of the attack. According to Dr. B. T. Galloway of the bureau of plant Industry, the blight is prevalent all along the Pacific coast. The germs of the blight are carried by an Insect. He recommends that the vines should make a steady rather than a rapid growth and should be planted on ground containing a large amount of organic matter, adding also nitrogen in the form of nitrate of soda. Spraying the plants with pads green and bordeaux mixture such as is used for potatoes kills the insect which carries the blight and prevents its puncturing the leaves and admitting the fungus of the disease. As a means of prevention it is recommended that the crops be grown on fresh ground each year