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This " ' ?:": ■"■'■■ -: v -" j - WUtHMlmiPP'Tiffll—■■! c,. nr .. ■■fill J uudSQO S W*&ism W^i HnrQQ wlllJ liUuHUll |]npno I Guaranteed to rrn I as hS RBprsssntsd innflUnßQF^l Auction s»'»s EVERY WEDNESDAY Beginning Feb. 18. limnor.^nnn ..Vr a~^a^«^"M^ HSff«asjis^sts^ HORSESIOOO Private Sales Daily. DON T FAIL TO BE ON HAND early, sale opens at k||. m . sharp. : ' p c i n i .1,, „,„ I^^aa^mlLim __^ ■'-'•.' .■ M*Foi fii kelnterul*an Street Cars From Either St* Paul or MinneapolU. Private Sales Dailyi Bugs That Ravage Farms of Minnesota ' A bulletin of exceeding importance lo the farmers, fruit growers and stock growers of the state has just been is- Bued by the agricultural experiment fetation, division of entomology. The pubject of the bulletin is "insects nota bly injurious in 1902." As the ravages of these pests cost the agricultural element of our population millions of dollars annually, it can readily be seen that the subject is worthy of the deep est study. The Worst of All of Them. By reason of his multiplicity and de- Btructiveness the Hessian fly has easily earned the bad eminence of being first on the list. The fly was alarmingly abundant over the southern, south western and the entire western part of Minnesota, It destroyed about 40,000, --000 bushels of wheat in 1902. As preventive measures against the appearance of the Hessian fly, the bul letin recommends: 1. Burn the stubble when possible. This is particularly desirable when, from any reason, shallow plowing is unavoid able. If the stubble is left long it will burn easier. Some farmers are willing to go to -the trouble of spreading straw from threshing over the stubble, thus in suring the burping and at the same time getting rid of some "flax seeds" which may have lodged on the surface of the Btraw pile at the time of threshing. 2. Fall plowing of the stubble in such a way that the straw is completely turned Under. 3. All screenings and litter about the threshing machine should be cleaned up fend either fed immediately or burned, leaving no litter from the threshing on THE HESSIAN FLY. the field. There is no absolute need of burning the straw pile. The flies emerg ing from "flax seeds" in the center of the pile will never reach the surface. 4. Since the fly lays its eggs as a rule near the locality where it emerges from the "flax seed" it is best not to plant wheat on the same ground two years in succession where rotation is possible. Va rieties of wheat that produce a stout stalk are the least affected by this pest. Chinch Bug Is Second. In point of destructiveness, the fa miliar chinch bug comes next, and played its destructive part in many counties. A line starting at Mora and running southwest to Benson andthen south to the lowa boundary would seem to mark the northern and west ern limits affected by the chinch bug. The country over which the chinch bug "■•--. 'liw v CHINCH BUG. does more damage than any other of its kind, in some years destroying as high as one hundred million dollars* worth of the farmers' products. Discussing the ways and means of abating the pest, the bulletin says: "We do not know of any practicable means of killing the chinch bugs in the grain at present. In this connec tion we will say that the Bending out of diseased chinch bugs has been aban doned, it having been found that the results were, not sufficiently practical. The insects, however, may be trapped and killed without much labor after they leave the grain and start to at fack the corn. Plow a furrow around your corn in such a way that the steep er side is towards the corn; drag a small log back and forth in this fur row until it becomes very dusty; it must be kept dusty. With a post augur bore holes ten or twelve inches deep or even less along the bottom of this burrow at intervals of about a rod. If the furrow is well made the bugs cannot cross it and finally collect in the post holes, where they may be killed by kerosene or hot wa ter. In wet weather a dust furrow is impossible. At such times the bugs may be stopped by means of a tar line. "Tar can be purchased of the gas companies for $4.50 per barrel, barrel included; for $3.75 without container. Pour tar to the width of two or three inches next your cornfield or upon the Bide of the field attacked by the bugs. While this tar line remains sticks bugs will not cross it. The first tar applied will sink into the ground probably and the line will have to be renewed oc casionally; that is, it will have to be kept sticky. Bore post holes at the side of the tar line away from the corn and the bugs traveling along the line to find a means of crossing wlil fall into these holes, where they may be killed. Even if the bugs have reach ed the outer rows of corn they may be stopped by the dust furrow or tar line between these outer rows and the reamining corn. The bugs on the out er rows may be killed with kerosene emulsion, one part emulsion to ten parts of water. Pure kerosene may also be used if one does not care to save the corn. It is certainly desirable to kill these bugs on the outer rows, thus lessening the bug crop the following year." A Cloud of Grasshoppers. Of the tribe of grasshoppers, the number is legion, . but ; fortunately the state has been comparatively free from visitations of this plague for some years past. Perham, Otter Tail county, thought it, had 'em last year, but investigation by the entomologist of the station proved it to be a local < case. Prompt plowfng of the land, thus burying i. the infantile hoppers, averted what i did «? threaten to be a serious , visitation. The most seri ous condition prevailed in the Hill riv er district, near Lindsay P. O. There was a good start for ; a hopper plague in that vicinity, but heroic measures by the entomologist and the farmers of the vicinity headed it off. ...-,.,-, Where the grasshopper abounds there is found his enemy in myriad form and number. Wet weather is the en emy most feared by the hopper, for none can escape it. But there are tho red r mite, beetles, robber flies, flesh flies and bee flies, as well as the hair 3nake, which make a specialty of de vouring the unprotected hopper. Also poultry, prairie chickens, hawks, black birds,: crows, meadow-larks 3, orioles, gulls, terns, frogs, snakes and skunks terrorize him by day and night. I As protective and remedial measures the entomologist ■ recommends - fall plowing of stubble or early plowing of the same in the spring before May 10 is the" safest, best and simplest meth od known to prevent young hoppers from issuing- from the egg cases. Co operation in this, as well as in ••' the treatment of all insect pests, is abso lutely - essential. glf one farmer - plows and his neighbor does not, the work of "the first is thrown away.. ."-_ ' • Young hoppers, while very small, be fore they are large enough to avoid the plow, may be r plowed under. "-It. is ad . visable . In :: this ': case -to begin at . the edge of the field and plow towards the center. : ; _'< : ..,-_■ ;.*.:. .-.-... I When infested pastures cannot be sacrificed to the plow the hopper dozer can be well used. Vegetable gardens lying within an affected area may, if the locusts are not very numer ous, be saved by spraying something distasteful to the insects, like a well snaken mixture of kerosene and wa ter or kerosene emulsion, upon plant 3 THE ST. PAUL GLO3K, SUN-DAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1903. not injured by such an application, or by poisoning with Paris green vege tables whose parts reached by . the poison are not used as food. Wheat land in which grasshoppers are numerous should be carefully ex amined in the fall for grasshopper eggs which are found near the surface or the soil, not more than an inch from ■'■'■■'■■'■■■■■ //* I I \\ ' .OTT^ .-^: .■ ■■. .-.:.■.■. .:^Jf\74.... .... *k .. .: ' »V ' ; ;:;-- • v j^ :■ ' '" . --■: ... . Ss^ . , ' ■:-; ■■"■ ■ ■&■■ ■. ■.■ ■ ' ■ .■■. ■■■i-MHPt -■-■.■■■■ « • ■■ ■ :• Bf //''' . ' .-: / % .-.-.- ... - m fv4 ■■^^ :,; : Fig. 1. Lesser Migratory or White Mountain Locust (M. atlanis). Semewhat enlarged. Fig. 2. Young (pupa) of same; slight ly enlarged. Fig. 3. Red-legged Locust (M. femur ruDrum); enlarged. Fig. 4. Same, enlarged, wings spread, showing parastic mites. the top. Any doubt which the farmer 1 has may be removed by sending the ! objects suspected to be eggs to the entomologist at the experiment station, Seventeen-year locusts never come to Minnesota. Other Pests. The foregoing are the most notorious of the insects which make the life of the farmer full of racking foreboding by day and weird dreams by night, but there are others equally as de structive in their way, but which for tunately do not assume the multiplie-. ity of the others. The horn fly is one, resembling the horse fly, but smalleiv which attacks cattle; the ill known stable fly, the blow fly, the green bot~-. tie fly and the flesh fly. A new strawberry pest has recently taken up his residence in our midst, bringing with him the formidable name of harpalus pennsylvanicus, with the accent on the last syllable. Among his intimate friends he is known as ft beetle and was until last year held in high esteem by entomologists by rea son of his habit of eating noxious larvae, but it seems the expansion idea has lodged in his active little brain ana for the first time in Minnesota he last year took to eating strawberries. Un less his ways are mended it is feared that he will scon be demanding sugar and cream with his berries. There are various way of combating this pest in the strawberry patch. They work entirely at night and during the season of their abundance it is barely possible that the lantern trap may be effective, though I have not had any experience with the same. It is worth trying. The lantern trap consists, of 9. pan two-thirds full of water upon which water a generous layer of kero sene has been poured. This pan is put upon a post in the strawberry patch about two feet above ttie ground, say, and above the pan is suspended a lar» tern; or the lantern rests upon a brick placed in the pan. The beetles at tracted by the light fall into the kero sene and are killed. Several such traps put about the strawberry patch might materially reduce the number of beetles. Bran mixed with water, sweetened with molasses and poisoned with paris green if distributed under boards and other protected situations in the strawberry patch Is also said to be fairly effective. It would, of course, be fatal to any fowl which had found its way int£|3fche " strawberry patciu.^?..•:--/r*.'.'if. '-" Ws^'^~ *********"?** Some berry. raise*if|sja.ve put cheap meat ? su<& as : lightspf^om sheep, : or;' calves,; in b"a§3ils,- the|bii|i fi g..h.eing sunk in the ground UP their top. They are examined every^»jD;emng aiui»»ttl.e , betegg^Hleh 1 fall in^t3|e"pan3. collect- - ed arid Jc^ed. . This^mWcc at Fig. 5. - Carolina LqeuMrtE>: Carolina); pale form. -.-r :;>'--fJ-> '" * Twv-slripcd fcfbjst-fM:- bivit tatus); reduced. rr.; *WtM? ' • . -Fig. 7. Reeky :Wniirifa3fr--.-I*H»ist (M» spretus 1;- slightly enlaf • • - T w. Fig. H. O*een-striped JuGQttst 4C. vicld- ifasciata); reduced. . 'a";'.,.'.' 1.. ■ . •■^ Fig-. !*. Corjtl-v.-in.ged XociisWttl».. tuber culatus); reduced. .«->--;-'-- — - ! one ttfn'e fetich a serious:*P«*St- in Penn u sylvania that children w*fe employed to go 'through the j^awtSetTy patches . <'M*a.*-;J^te^t^> bej^^rorfj. under * the mulchings and elsewfeeifer^'Fifteeri or ■ HAftPALUS PENJi^LVANICUS. $20 or even three times those sums spent In this way, if it-will save $200 or $30Q- or $.460 on the strawberry crop is money well ex pended. Another sug gestion is to place boards throughout the strawberry field and look under them every morning, catchingand kill ing the beetles found there. If there is anything like rag weed growing about the strawberry patch it should be de stroyed. The remainder of the bulletin is de voted to our familiar and detested ac quaintances known as the grrub, the mosquito, the roach, the cockroach, the croton bug, the moth, etc. Left Valuable Grip. A man went into the Aldine hotel at JJiaeteenth and Chestnut streets. Phila delphia, two weeks ago. He carried two ■large grips. He informed the clerk that one orf the grips contained $1,000,000 and requested that it be locked up in the safe. The man, his other grip and his load of grape were assigned to a room. ■TJie next morning, with one grip, he took a coupe and drove away. He never came back. Proprietor Mitchell, after tw,o days, opened the grip to the safe. He found a wad of stock cer tificates and bonds of railroad corpora tions, the lot being worth $1,000,0u0 at the market prices. A comparison of the stock certificates showed they were made out in the same name as that on the ho tel -register and Mr. Mitchell wrote to one of the companies, stating the facts ■01. the owner's appearance and disap pearance and requesting that a search be pjade lor the owner. As a result he yesterday received a check from the owiier of the securities, who is now in New York, and a request that the $1,000,* --4)00 valise be forwarded to him. Although the reckless owner of the (■-wealth registered from London, he had arrived from San Francisco and had en joyed such good company on the way here that his trip had been apparently greatly shortened and he was uncertain whether he was in Philadelphia or Chi cago. As he has by this time received his valuables, he is undoubtedly satisfied that he did not stop in Chicago and is, or ought to be. grateful that he landed In Philadelphia with his effects. Mr. Mitchell declined to divulge the name of his guest. "He was a nobleman of the third class," he said. On what a nobleman of the third class Is, Mr. Mitchell was vague.—Buffalo Ex press. MMi:SM^,-jyc^:oM:E^^^M I Mr. Dooley on Gambling BY F. P. DUNNE. Copyright, 1903, by Robert Howard Russell. "What's a gamblin' system?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "A gamblin' system," said Mr. ]J>oo ley, "like alyenation iv afflctions is wan way iv rnakin' a livelihood among th' British arrystocracy. A young jook in New York has the best wan I iver heerd iv. He's been tellin' about it. 'On Janueary twinty-eighth,' he says, 'I held a meetin' iv me syndicate. Un fbrchnitely sivral iv th' mos' enthusy astic an' incurable was absent, it bein' a busy day in th' insane coort, but at nightfall I was able to speed with tin thousan' dollars in th' sweatband iv me coronet to th' altar where th' God dess iv Fortune, riprisintin' a syndi cate iv binivolent Jews, presides,' he says, 'over th' exercises iv her votaries,' he says. 'In other wurruds, I wint to play th' foolish wheel,' he says. 'I will read fr'm me di'ry: Thursday: Played on'y th' twinty-siven on' th' three, f'r I'm thirty years ol' today, an' three fr'm thirty laves twinty-siven. Th' system wurruks splindidly. I dhropped on'y two thousan', whereas th' man on wan side iv me, that was playin' a dhream his wife had los twinty-flve hundherd, an' th' man on th' other side iv me who was asleep los three thou sand an' Masonic imblim. A good day. Fridah: Today I play th' four, th' siv ■ffl'-Hn' th' thirteen, twice four bein' siven an' thirteen th' reg'lar Fridah number.. Almost won twinty thousan'. Lost six thousan'. Saturdah: Play th' color system. lam . djetarmined to win. Th' bank is ivi djntly afraid iv me, f'r th' crooper has •ju~s' tol' rhe in a voice croopy with emotion that he will accipt on'y money f'r ciiips. It is too aisy. I play th' r-red. Th' crooper is white with fear. F*lcsßT hear him move his foot narvous- th' table like a man wurruk in a sewin' machine. Th' wheel stops .suddenly. It is black. How sthrange! Sundah:' It is my day. Th' betther th' day th' betther I'll do thini. But they ar're frightened. They rayfuse to tur'-rn f'r a pair iv cuff buttons an' a solid gun-metal cigareet case. I lave fn'room an' as I go out, th' crooper to cqncale his fear whistles: "Ar-re they army more at home like you!" I will Ltake me system to America an' have it fi-nanced. Me system,' he says, 'needs nourishment,' he says. "It's a surprise to me, Hinnissy, that th' men r-runnin' gamblin' houses ain't broke. Maybe they ar-re broke. Maybe they're broke an' jus' kep up th' .^ame because it's a thradition in th' fam'ly an' they're proud an' they doH't want th' ol' folks at home to hear they've quit an' they need occypation to amuse thim, like Rockyfeller. But it's a shame to take their money fr'm thim in this undherhanded way. Th' jook iv Rosen will niver have no luck with that kind iv money. I warn him now. A curse will hang over th' ill-gotten gains wrenched fr*m th' poor, ign'rant gambler be means iv a lead pencil an' a prim'ry arith-metic. He may die rich, but his conscience will afflict him to th! end an' his name will be spoken with scorn be future gin'rations to come. Th' lawr ought to shtep in an' Intherfere.. Manny a garnbler'who has snint th' bes' years Iv his life dalin' two at a time an' haulm' in sleepers, is in fear iv his life that th' jook iv Rosen will daysctnd on him, slug him with his system an' take th' bread an' u'ltther out iv th' mouth iv his childher an' th' di'monda out iv th' ears iv his wife. Wan iv our naytional indus thries is threatened. If this sign iv When Attending Horse Auctions at Midway = 6AH. ON _ - „ LEO LEVY, Proprietor and Manager. -ffijffSftr WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN mS^'l ;'^^ AND MANUFACTURERS OF JE|9k Harnlss harness |H BLASSICETS $40°00 vB fB I?*W^^ iE^C* Less than Man iflß ffljy ' fcV" ufacturer'sCost 1950-52 UniversityAv. t _Minn. Transfer, St. Paul, Minn, telephone selby 45-3 Harness Retailed at Whplasala Prices. arrystockracy can come over here an* roon our gamblers, what's to prevint him fr'm robbin' Russell Sage or de privin' Hetty Green iv th' discomforts iv life? "I niver was in a gamblin' house but wanst. Hogan took me there. Be sides bein' a pote, he's a great fl-nan cier. He believes in Marconi's tilly graft. 'Come up,' he says, 'an' help me woo th' Goddess iv Chance,' he says. 'I have a system,' he says. 'I haven't seen th' lady f'r years,' I says, 'but I'll go along an' see ye home whin she turns loose th' dog on ye,' I says. 'Where does she live now?' I says. 'Over Dorsey's saloon,' he says. An' I wint with him. Th' Goddess Iv Chance certainly lives will, Hinnissy. They was a naygur at th' dure an' th' room was full iv light fr'm ehahdyleers an' they#svas onyx cuspidors upon fh' fiure. Business seemed to be good, but I cudden't see th' Goddess anywhere. 'Where is th' Goddess iv Chance?' I ast Hogan. 'Here,' says he, settin' down in front iv th' wheel an' pushin' over his pay envelope. 'She's a burly lady,' says I, f'r th' Goddess had a black mustache an' wore a sthraw hat with a hole knocked in it. 'Woo her very gently,' says I. Not lookin* f'r army chances I wint over to th' side boord an' dealt mesilf two dollars' worth iv turkey. I was imptyin' th' pickle dish whin th' owner iv the par lor took me be th' ar-rm an' led me away to a quite corner. He was a nice man, an' him an' me soon had our feet In each other's laps. " 'Ye have a fine business here,' says I. 'It's better thin it was a few minyits ago,' says he. 'But it's a dull life.' 'I don't see what r-right ye have to complain,' I says. 'Ye have a gran' oalatchial place,' I says. 'Ye ought to be happy with these Brussels carpets, glass ehandyleers an' jooled spittoons,' I says. 'What d'ye want?'l says. 'That's what iverybody thinks,' says he. 'Peo ple invy us who knows nawthin' about th' hardships iv th' life. In th' first place, I detest cards. I niver gamble,' he says. 'Befure I left me home in Injianny me father who was a Method ist minister in Terry Hut placed his hand on me head and said: "Ikey, ye ar-re~go4ii' out into th' wurruld. Prom ise me niver to touch a card." I prom ised an' I've kept me vow. I wisht he hadn't ast. It's thrue I have made some money, but th' life is a dog's life afther all. I have established a fine business, although th' hours is long an' they'se a great dale iv wear an' tear fr'm th' polls an' we're obliged to have th' windows shut to keep in th' noise iv th' chips an' th' suckers an' th' smell,' he says. 'I have a re liable staff. That salesman behind th* faro box is an excellent clerk. 1 pay him eight dollars a night an' he arns it. The wheelwright who is jus' now handin' ye'er frind with th' specs a stack iv bone in exchange f'r a pitcher iv Salmon P, Chase is cap'ble an' trust worthy. Th' bright-lookin' fellow at th' chuok-a-luck table I took out of a broker's office, an' made a man iv him. He was a con-firmed gambler, but today he is thurly reliable. All this, iv coorse. is satisfactory to a busi ness man. But what I complain iv Is th' occypation is to teejous. It's th' same thing night afther night. There's, no excitement. Th' same dull routine in th' same overheated air, th' same chin chat with the young dhrunk an' affictionate childher iv th' rich. I don't gamble. Does J. Pierpont Mor- 1 0 gan buy his own bonds? It's th' same thing. I wisht I did. In ivry oth«r business In life th' ilimint iv chance, enthers in. But not in mine. Th* banker, th' dhrygoods merchant, th* lawyer, th' money lender, takes risks. His days are enlivened be excitement. But there ar-re no risks in this busi ness. "It's wan dull, monotonous grind, th' same ol' percintage, th' same dhreary gatherin' in iv th' mazuma, till me heart sickens within me an* I'm almost timpted to thry some risky pursoot like pawnbrokin'. Wanst in a while th' dead waste iv monotony ter enlivened be an incident. Wan iv me ap'ratlves sprained his wrist las' week takin' th' money fr'm an expert ac'-l ft countant who had a system that no wan cud bate. Sometimes a man comes in here without a system at all. They was wan such las' week. We cud on'y take half what he got an' I had to go out an' wait f'r him in a muddy alley to get th' r-rest. But these cases ar-re rare. I on'y mintion thim to show ye how excited we be come with th' smallest pleasures. It's a dhreary. dhreary life. Jawn, go over to th' hotel an' see what ails th' jooK Iv Rosen. He's late. "I took th' poor man be th' hand, Hinnissy, an' says I: 'But, me poor frind,.is there no way to enliven ye'er pursoot?' I says. 'Is there no way Iv increasin' th' chances again' ye?' I says. 'None,' says he, 'while there ar-re so manny people with pear shaped heads,' he says. An' a tear was in his eye as he felt f r me watch. I looked acrost at Hogan. Th' God dess iv Chance was settin' back in hl3 chair twirlin' her mustache. Hog^n was standin' up an' his face wore a bright green flush fr'm th' passion iv play. He felt in his vest pocket an* projooced a collar button an' a pinch iv smokin' tobacco. " 'How ig the system ?' says I. 'Th' system is all right,' says he. 'An' how ar-re ye?" says I. 'It's a fine, star light night,' says he. 'Lave us walk home,' he says." "Don't ye suppose they'se army sys tem iv gittin' "their money?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "They'se on'y wan," said Mr. Doo ley. "What's that?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "It's called th' polis system," said Mr. Dooley. The Coldest Spots. Pa, I know where the coldest place* are! exclaimed Mary eagerly on her re turn from school. •Where?" asked the father of his six year-old daughter. "Greenland, Iceland and Zero," answer ed Mary triumphantly.—H. c. Wood In February Lippincott's. DISCOMFORT AFTER MEALS. Feeling oppressed with a sensation of stufnniness, and finding the food both to distend and painfully hang like a heavy weight at the nit of the stomach are symptoms of indigestion. With these tha sufferers will often have Constipation In ward Piles, Fullness of the Blood in the Head. Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea. Heartburn. Headache, Disgust of Food, Gaseous Eructations, Sinking or Flutter nig of the Heart, Chocking or Suffocating Sensations when in a lying posture. Dla~ zinoss on rising suddenly, Dots or "Webs, before the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain 4* the Head. Deficiency of Perspiration, Yell lowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side. Chest, Limbs, and Sudden Flushes of Heat. A few doses or VL Dad way's ? R Pills will free the system of all the above nan*. Ed disorders. Purely vegetable, am Price 25 cents per box. Sold by all drug* gists, or sent by mall on receipt of price. RADWAY A CO., 55 Elm it., NY Be sure you get "Badway I*."