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lnfe8ToleTp th kumberfand The Army Worm and Its Control How to Dispose pi fest \VKIch Swoops Dowa^ onAJIGipea the army worm that has been doing so much damage-to com, wheat and green crops to-various-sections of the country, is the caterpillar form or a moth that flies only at night, according to Frank B. Wade, depnty gist for -the Indiana state conservation commission. In a bulletin lssueany the commission, Mr. Wade describes the family history of the pest ana tens the most approved methods of fighting it. \*c "To begin with," said Mr. Wade, "the moth is abont one and one-nair inches across the spread wings and is brownish gray in color. The caterpillar when folk grown., is about pne-and one-halt Inches long, |s smooth, ana is usually greenish inVeneraf eoWwith one broad stripe of dark gray or biaca down the middle of the back and with a narrower stripe of the same color on either side. The broad stripe usually has a fine light broken stripe running down its center* The head is greenish-brown, speckled with black. "It is this caterpillar form that does the damage by eating every green thing AvIfMn reach. So numerous do they sometimes become mat an*.* actually hear them eat in concert.' When they have- cleaned up on W W supply in one. field they move en masse to an adjoining field, and thus comes about the familiar name of army worm. full grown caterpillar ceases to feed and goes into the pupaor resting state after from three to four weeks of feeding. Here it_ remotas beneath the surface of the soil, as a rule, for about two weeks The^pupae look something like date seeds. The moth on emerging from the pupal case dries Its wings and flies away to mate. The eggs are eri teld MM UJ in tte folded part of grass blades, and they hatch in from eight to ten days, thus starting the tiny caterpillars once more. -,y i*L* for "To control these pests ore should be alert to detect the ^taUacM* the area invaded is usually relatively small at first and may beT^ straw scattered and burned, thus destroying the caterplliars, Anoflurmejod of control I to spray the infested area heavily with ^^*^l"g2 60 gallons of water) or with lead arsenate (two pounds to 50 gallons). Such sprayed material should, of coarse, not be used as feed. "Poisoned bait will alsa.do good service. Make up a bran mash with^50 pounds of wheat bran and one pound of parls green or vo^ot lead arsenate and moisten it with cheap molasses or sirup and add the juice of half ITzen lenfons or oranges. By scattering this bait broadcast throughout the infested area in Ismail pieces, a large number of worms may be killed. without^doing nX^ 7j Ircmrat In many towns and cities there are ordinances restricting the keeping of fowls under certain conditions, namely, that: the neighbors shall not be nn: noyed by the crowing of the male birds and that the poultry house must lie lo cated a specified distance from any dwelling :Uttffe^such condlffoos. arty* the U/itted fitirtes^departnwnt of-agrK culture, a permit should be easy to ob tain fend the conditions set forth com piled with. The male bird in the flock Is not neceteary for the production of eggs and usually the house can be so lo cated and kept clean that It will not :rfi)tnor the nelshbors. Indian Talk Was Too Much for Fritz When He Tried to Tap the Yankee Wires i Sphere was one code Fritz never got n to in France. That was the Sioux. A soldier Just back from France tells of It: C"4 good many German spies got oyer into the allied lines," said the Yank, who was In charge of a com municating battery. "And there was some tapping of lines and listening Iji by German agents who^ understood English perfectly. iWe got around that jn a clever way. We put Sioux Indians on the telephones to send and receive orders. I "Ump, glum, hoosha, moo, chunk,* an Indian would repeat over the tele phone, meaning 'bring up a battery of Wf "Og, gog, pom, began, cachoo, mk- jnk.'f would come the answer, which jteigjit mean, 'they're starting, will he Cnefe in five minutes.' "i don't knovf $oy-mufco of a tech* hlcil war vocafculary Urol* SloMC ladk Jrat{FritzIe never got wise to the lin- How Light Changes Shape 3 1 of Pupil of Eye of Both 5 I Animal and the Human afothlng Js^i^e%fep%Vfr fijiatt'ie ^pfearance-Wa-^ica^aiya. ffapU %djnarily appears as a long, narrow -Otai or a vertical black line, yet its natural shape Is circular. It Is a matter irif fte effect of light In a bright light nr: pupils become very small circles, *hlie those of a cat turn into ovals or narrow silts. The general effect is the same in either ^caeeaamely, to dl 3IBliflsh the quantity of lfght passing tnta the eye. Curiously enough, In the Jtrfer animals of the cat tribe, such pi flgers, the pupil sometimes behaves ^jKfctly like a human pupil, and when 'LJkrbj htly Illuminated contracts Into a ^jil|ute circle instead of becoming 3Bn|ar. In the case of domestic cats, 'Nftia older the animal the more fre ^ufntly does the pupil of the eye as M&M a circular form, .-?...=r.^...j?'. 111. II I Jjk thTworms from moving on to new feeding grounds. trenches should he clowed entirely around the Infested area. The trench should be at SS^lSSRSm-JLm have a vertical side toward the new ground It should I verSoles at intervals for the worms to fall into and it shoud be as IsTas possible by dragging a log through It to pulverize the It should be tended at all times when the worms are on the move, as they should be burned when they begin to get numerous in the trench A gasoline Jr?h or straw covered with coal oil may be used for this purpose, ^to wet weather the trench will not stop the worms, and then a line of heavy roMofilaid an Inch or two wide on a smooth hard surface should be uled? Drag a plank heavily loaded with stones over the ground to prepare ^army worm'appears about the same time each year, but in small noticeable damage. It is only when, because of ^Sn^hicliare'n oat understood,ethe army worm becomes a mthbroughlProbably Tnace. som of its natural enemies terLrt*Hin^aml were^ot on hand in their usual numbers to dispose fJFtL worms flte spring.. At any rate they are with us, and if not properly ganmed S bW fafr to do more damage In the localities where they appear khan the seventeen-year, locust." a entomo A J-.- i*r Ai _v 80lL Famous White Sox Second Baseman in His Old Form Both at Bat and Afield Age is no handicap to Eddie Collins, famous second baseman of the Chicago White Sox.. At least the Tairytown lad has betrayed no sign of. decay thus far In the season's campaign, and la the series at the J?olo grounds has Hashed all his old form at the hat and afield. Collins and Schalk are the backbone of the Sox, the mainspring by which the play of the crub afield Is directed, Colllhs Cjertalnl^ is aa fast as he has been through the last few seasons, and although he has not Invaded the .300 circle in batting he is sure to arrive up there in the early future. Furthermore, Collins has more b~ do with Infusing a spirit of co-operative combativeness Into the Sox than any other individual In the outfit, with the exception of Kid Gleason, the manager, whoIs a fighter down fd ifee ground and one at the best a|l aou In the. pastime. ^POPULAR SCIENCE The normal lrumber of teeth is 32. The number of bones In the body Is 240. The weight of your blood is 25 pounds. A skeleton weighs about 1* pounds. The human brain Is twice as large as that of any animal. Tobacco leaves treated with the X-ray are thereby cleared of the destructive beetle. Children's Minds Should Be Stored With Pictures They Can Describe in Own Words Memorizing is a worthy mental exer .oiseibufc one eaa -hardly help protest-^ Ing^gaiBSt the^ractlce, BW happily^ less caSimon than In years within, memory, of..compelling young children to commit to memory tasks actually painful either from their Impossible length or from their uninteresting and unintelligible matter. tflie good prac ticed a pleasurable habit of learning by heart a suitable quantity of suitable matter has suffered from -a natural ire action but'we are now returning to better things, and we are convinced that there are few efforts more pleas ant to children than the consciousness of having committed to memory a suitable task, that is, of having formed a clear and complete picture of some interesting subject. Do not let the. time pass for storing your scholars' minds with an abun dance of distinct pictures, which they can represent to their own minds and describe in their own morels,A Toacher. Reader Finds Comfort in Old Books Written Without War in the Author's Mind If during the war it almost seemed to some people that nothing written be fore 1814 had kept its old value, they may, on the contrary, soon find them selves blinking suspiciously at books written since then. Mathematicians distinguished carefully between "sys tematic" error,' which is cumulative, and the casual errors which are as likely to lie in one direction as the other and In the long run tend to off set each other. To the reader who Is beginning to recover a deranged criti cal faculty the trouble with most of which aas been written sfoce 1914 is that it contains a systematic error due to the perturbations set up by the great war. The comfort of old books, on the contrary, lies in the fact that they were not written with the great war lurking in some corners of the au thor's mind. Whatever their errors and prejudices, they are not bent all one way by a single force, and even their prejudices neutralize each other. Mot Chopped Apple Fritter*. Take one cupful of flour, haff a cup-t ful of sugar, three apples, 6m egg.t one teaspoonful of baking powder, one cupful of milk and a pinch of salt.. Mix as usual, stirring in the *feopped apples at the last. Drop by spoonfuls In hot fat and serve rolled In l^u^ar or with a hot sauce as dessert. .Greeri apples are much better flavored if they are used unpeeled. Pineapple Je^y With Cream Cheese. 7. Hkefcare tae-jelly as usual and mold la small cups. Unmold on lettuce and serve with the cream cheese rlced over the top. Garnish with salad dressing and-serve cold. THE TOMAHAWK, WHITE EARTH, MINN. Boo3 Mother's Cook The life that la Btaarin* in th intrest, the welfare anfl the happiness of oth ers Is one that la continually expanding In beauty and in power and. therefore, in happiness. Good Thina* for the Family. As the new apples are now In sea son, serve them in other ways than as apple pie and sauce. Sliced green apples with one-third as many siloed onions cooked in a little sweet fat with water added as the moisture is evaporated jsaake* a most, appetizing dish to serve as a vegetable. Add sugar to soften the acid of Ihe apple and salt anrf pepper if desired. feftl Parsley Potatoes. Cook small-sized uniform, new po tatoes un1ll well done, turn Into a vegetable dish with enough butter to cover, sprinkle with minced parsley and srvra once. Oatmeal Cookies. Take one cupful of shortening, one cupful of sugar, two eupfuls of flour and two eupfuls of rolled oats well browned and put through the meat grinder one cupful of chopped raisins, half a cupful of broken nut meats, two* eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved In half a cupful of sweet milk, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon and salt and a half tea spoonful of grated nutmeg. Mix well and drop- fcy small teaspoonfuls on a baking sheet. Raisin Muffins. Add to one-half cupful of raising one-half cupful of oatmeal, one fourth cupful of lard, one teaspoon ful of salt and a half cupful of boil ing water. When cool add half a cup of -cold water and two teaspoon fuls of baling' powder sifted with flour to make a drop batter do not beat Drop into hot, greased nruflro pans and bake in a hot oven. Sponge Cake Trifle. Cut a slice of sponge cake and moisten with cherry Juice and a few halves of cherries, put another slice on top and add jnore Juice and cher ries. Serve sprinkled with shredded almonds. Grape juice with a spoonful or two of lemon jnlcg added to tiin cream and sweetened to taste. th*n froaen, makes a beautiful frozen dish and one which tastes as good as It looks. JpesT Whick Causes Suffering and Annoyaaco Mosquitoes are man's Inveterate tor mentors and foes. At the seaside, on the undrained prairies of the West and Northwest, In the faf North, by wood land pool and mountain meadow these bloodthirsty brigands in countless, myriads waylay the individual on busi ness or pleasure bent. "Swamps, ponds and marshes, how ever, are not- the only places which breed mosquitoes. A little rain water in an old tin can or undrained roof gutter, if neglected, win supply mos quitoes for a town or city neighbor hood, spreading discomfort, causing insomnia and tempting to profanity. If mosquitoes were merely a bother some plague, there would be ample Justification for unrelenting warfare against them, hut when It is consid ered that seyeral species scattered over the United States disseminate ma laria, rendering many regions of great fertility almost, uninhabitable, and that one kind of mosquito found In the South will convey yellow fever, no ar gument for figlvtlng them is necessary. Dancing, Saturday Night Prograra.fbr Haitians in Their Little Villages Dancing t the music of a dram, sax ophone and flute Is the chief source of amusement for Haitians in their little villages on Saturday night, according to an article by William Almon Wolff in Collier's Weekly. Beginning at sun down every Saturday night, he writes, one will come to a wine shop, If one follows the sound of the drum. The drummer sits outtside. His unceasing drumming marks the rhythm of the music what melody there is, is borne by a flute, and almost always there Is a saxophone. Ihe music Is the same at every dance. It is in common time a single cadence is repeated, over and over again. Dancing in Haiti resembles the satur nalia among the Australian aborigines, Mr. Wolff writes. The dancers are frank and unashamed, and one gets little or no feeling of a personal note between the two one sees dancing rather they are staging a spectacle. Glimpse er an Empire Abolished !by the J^ace.Treatyf~: trm Bedouins eating In their camp near Bagdad, one of the greatest cities In all the old Turkish empire. The Bedouins are wandering clans who seldom stay more than one year in the same locality. Their half Gypsy life will not be much changed by British er allied rule in Mesopotamia. Wesopotarnias farm land* now produce food enough for less than a million people. With modern Irrigation methods in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys the region could feed twenty million people. ""4" MOSQUITOES PITH AMD POINT To find work, go to work and look for It Before taking certain steps consult a dancing master. A wise barber asks the young man if he wishes a haircut A small boy's Idea of a board of health Is six meals a day. However, the early boom doesn't always catch the nomina tion. Never place your clock at the head of the stairs It might run down. Tobacco Far North. Tobacco growing at 55 degrees north latitude would seem an impossi bility in America, but in the Odense district of Denmark, which lies be tween 55 and 56 degrees, the cultiva tion of tobacco has been taken up by many farmers sine* the war. Lowly Angle Worm an Aid in Fertilizing the Soil, an Authority Declares Tfcat the despised angle worm, which for ages has been the choice food of the robin, the terror of "Little Miss Maffets" and the joy of fishermen, has all- this time been working for the benefit of mankind without any par ticular credit Is an interesting fact brought to light. I: According to Prof. Frank Smith of the University of Illinois, who Is an authority in this country on angle! worms, most of the "real grounds for complaint against the angle worm is due to an Introduced species which is common In the northern tier of states. There are few infected areas, some of, which have their origin traced hack to accidental Importation by the trans plantation of trees from northern Illi nois. These1 worms are of large size and lave the habit of pulling leaves and small twigs into the mouths o their burrows, and together with the earth brought up by them, they form the little mounds which make the sur face of a lawn quite rough,,and hence they make mowing more difficult. Professor Smith states that apart from the roughness of the surface of a lawnr the results of their work is doubtless" beneficial". An earth worm makes its burrow from one to three feet in depth, these burrows providing means for conveying surface water tq deeper layers, and also for aerating these layers. In this work they have been jmportant: agents in making the soil fertile through the years. They may talk, of love in a cottagre, And "bowers of trellised vine Of nature bewltchlngly simple, And milkmaids half divine They may talk of the pleasure of sleeping In th shade of a spreading tree. And walk In the fields of morning-. By the side of a footstep free I But give me a sly flirtation By the light of a chandelier With music to play in the pauses. And nobody very near Or a seat on a silken sofa, "With a glass of pure old wine, And mamma too blind to discover The small white hand In mine. Tour lore in a cottage is hungry,. Tour vine Is a nest of flies Your rtdlkmaid shocks the graces. And Impliclty talks of ptesl Tou lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morn ing: Is shod like a mountaineer. True love is at home on a carpet, And mightily Hkcs his ease And true love has an eye for a dinner. And starves beneath shady trees. Hie win* 1 the fan of a lady, His foot's an invisible thing, And Ms arrow is tipped with a Jewel And snot from a silver string. M. P1. Loganberry Juice May Soon Become Popular Among the "Soft" Drinks in Demand --^Soft-drinksVWKsoftK in, slang-awifn- ing-."easy. to $et"-may attain new Im portance. Soli: drinks 'ma'de" from fruit juices dppbtiess wlU attractmay, new devotees, who will find that bev erages made from pure fruit juices are decidedly, heajthfuj, cooling, refresh ing and invigorating, says the United States department of agriculture. Because of its pleasant flavor, the juice of the Logan blackberry, com monly known as the loganberry, is very popular as a beverage. The berry is also used in making jams, Jellies and soda-fountain sirups. Methods of extracting and treating the juice are constantly -being bettered.. This in dustry, already a large one, is growing rapidly. Xoganberry juice Is naturally so sour that it Is necessary both to dilute and to sweeten it to obtain a drinkable" article. The berry has a characteristic flavor. It somewhat ^resembles.that of' the raspberry, both red and black, but is more acid-than either. Adding enough sugar to reduce suftV cientl the tartness of the Juice makes a product too sirupy to drink, unless It is diluted at the same time.* The: sirup prepared for soda-fountain use is not diluted until sold over the counter. Some of the sweetened but undiluted juices have been labeled by manufac turers asr "concentrated." This de^ scrlption Is unwarranted, as the juices have not been concentrated or evapof rated, but simply sweetened. They should be properly labeled as.logan berry sirups.j I Locusts as Food Date Back to the Days of John the Baptist, and Others It was not necessary for a learned entomologist in the Johns Hopkins fac ulty to prove the edibility of locusts by eating a few of them and surviving the experiment. For unnumbered centu ries these insects have been an occa sional, but considerable, part Of the diet of millions of people In several parts of the world, and If ever those people hear of the Johns Hopkins man's exploit they will smile superiorly and wonder at the belatedness of his au dacity. The history of John the Bap tist Is not the only recorded instance In Which empirical persons have anti cipated the scientist. Of course, locusts are edible ,so are hundreds of other Insectsthousands of them, probablyand It might'not be at all injudicious at this time, when so much of the world's population Is going hungry, if more attention were bestowed on what is, after all, the largest of new food sources. Still, the locusts in this country are not in uracil danger as a result of the professor's revelation, even though he does sajr that they taste like shrimp. %^mmmt WllUs. Swallows Feed Almost Entirely Upon Insects If you want to free the neighborhood of mosquitoes, encourage swallows to make themselves at home, says a re port of the American Forestry asso ciation. These birds feed almost en tirely upow obnoxious insects and they will do much toward protecting or chards and other trees from bisect pests. Ho better Investment can be made, therefore, than some houses set out for martins or other swallows. Of the bine swallows the purple martin is the largest, the male being entirely blue above and below, while the female fs blue above with a gray breast Swal lows are highly migratory, most of them spending the winter In South America, SMILE3 JUSTTO Oh, Fudge. "What's all that noise all that hub bub in the shops?" 'fWe manufacture tennis.goods." Welt "And that fellow Is making a rack, et." 'M'- 7 Had Only to Act^Natural. YouthI don't want to fake that character. Fll make a fool of myself. Lady Stage Manager Well, you said you wanted an easy part. The Difference. "What's the difference between base ball and trigonometry?" "Give ft up."/ "A woman will pretend to be inter ested when you're trying to explain baseball to her." A Desirable Entertainment "A successful man must study the faults of oth- ers." "Well, I don't know that it will make a man suc cessful, but it ought to be a de lightful tudy." The Popular FadL "Everybody seems to be affectedj with tt.** "Whatr "The strike fever." "What's happened nowT* "The wife and children have struck for more spending money." Sensitive. Mrs. NewgiltWhat is your objec tion to buying that lovely French bulk dog? Her HusbandI won't stand for dog that turns up his nose at me. Bird Census. According to the conclusions reached by the government investigators who took the federal bird census several years ago, breeding birds prefer to set up housekeeping and nose their fami lies in the thickly Inhabited centers of population. Another Instance of flodfc lag to the citiesl -^Th Def ec five