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SACKING OF FRUIT ORCHARDS
The
Cheesecloth Coverings Recommended
as Protection Against "Seven
teen-Year Locust."
Ttie sacking of the orchards will
begin in many sections of the United
States about the third week in May
—not ns tlie Hans did It. in the fruit
lands of France, but a protective stick
ing, literally, with cheesecloth, against
another ruthless horde, to wit, the
"seventeen-year locust." This pest
will occur over 21 slates, coming out
perhaps the last week in May.
Injury Inflicted by It consists In split
ting the tender branches of trees for
depositing eggs. The greatest dam
age Is to very young fruit trees. Ex
pert advice has usually been to defer
the planting of young fruit trees until
another season; but the United States
department of agriculture realizes
that to defer planting, particularly
where trees have been bought and the
ground prepared, would entail a con
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aldcrable loss. Therefore the advice
offered is, defer planting until 1920 If i
feasible. Otherwise put out the trees
and protect them with cheesecloth cov
erings. Such protection can he made
practically absolute. The coverings
need not he put on until the Insects
have emerged from the ground, when
It can be determined whether or not
they are sufficiently numerous to make
covering of the trees necessary. Once
put on, the coverings should be al
lowed to remain until the Insects are
gone. The protection can be made
pructically absolute. The cheesecloth
should be gathered and tied In below
the brandies and extend upward to
cover practically all the foliage, being
gathered In and tied at the top In
such manner as to leave a small clus
ter of leaves free. This method can
be applied, if necessary, to trees of
last year's planting. In areas likely
to he heavily infested pruning should
be postponed until the Insects have
disappeared, when pains should be
taken to remove Injured wood and to
reshape the tree where necessary.
ARSENATE OF LEAD HARMFUL
Bprays Should Be Applied With Cau
tion, aa Foliage of 8tone Frulta
la Tender.
(Prepared by the United State« Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The foliage of stone fruits, as
rherry, plum and peach, is on the
whole quite tender, and the arsenical
•prays should be employed with cau
tion. Arsenute of lead is least likely
[o do harm, though more than two
applications especially to peach, may
cause shotholing and dropping of
leaves, and burning of fruit.
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SETTING OUT BERRY PLANTS
Thoae Which Grew the Preceding Year
Are Generally Used Except In
Autumn 8eaton.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
In setting out raspberries, blackber
ries, dewberries, and strawberries,
young plants which grew the preced
ing season are generally used, except
when they are planted in the autumn.
In that case plants of the current sea
son's growth are used.
CURCULI0S MAY BE REDUCED
Insect« May Be Removed by Jarring
Tree« In Spring and Collecting
From Sheet«.
(Prepared by tbe United states Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Certain Insects, notably the plum
■nd quince curculios, may be much re
duced in number by regularly Jarring
the trees in the early spring, collect
ing the insects ns they fall on sheets
or speclu! cloth-covered frames.
SPRAYING OFTEN NEGLECTED
Of All Orchard Work, It Is Most Likely
8llghted—Fruit Grower Should
Study Subject.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Of ail orchard work, spraying Is
most likely to be slighted or negleet
It Is important, therefore, that
every fruit grower make a study of
the whys and wherefores of spruylug
and have on intimate knowledge of
■praying materials and machinery.
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SCOUTS
SCOUTS IN INDIA GROWING
A letter from the director of the
hoy scouts of Mysore In India to na
tionni headquarters of the Boy Scouts
of America says in part as follows:
"Our strength has Increased to about
forty troops with a membership of
over nine hundred. I have had fine
scoutmaster's training classes at My
sore City and at Bangalore, with a
model troop of scouts for demonstra
tion purposes.
"Scout work for Indian hoys Is de
veloping rapidly all over the country.
In Calcutta we have the Roy Scouts of
Bengal, which Is doing good work
both under Indian and European lead
ership. The great native state of Ba
roda and the British Central provinces
want to start boy scout work, and tbe
government of the native state of
Trnrnncore Is now considering tbe in
troduction of scouting among its boys
on the plan of our Mysore organiza
tion.
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"We have, however, a long way to
go, as there are over thirty million
hoys of scout age in India and we have
difficulties here that are unheard of
in America—for instance, at least a
hundred languages,
religious divisions and the ever-pres
ent caste question
inendous challenges to the spirit of the
fourth scout law."
very deep-seated
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SCOUTS SAVE DROWNING BOY.
Ernest II. Collins, .Tr., of Denver, 7
escaped drowning in City
years old,
Park lake due to the presence of mind
of two Denver boy scouts who effected
his rescue after two gardeners at the
park had failed to drag the boy from
the cold water.
The quick work which tho two
scouts. Robert Pious, 16, and Leroy
Hoyt, 17, displayed In the rescue Is a
If i single example of tlie value of the boy
ly
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scout training.
The Collins hoy had been skating
and went upon too thin ice. Pleus and
Hoyt happened to be passing In a
motor car. Seeing tlie Collins hoy's
predicament, the scouts rushed to his
aid. They cut their slice strings, and
making a rope of their coats, they
made a life line for the hoy. He took
hold of it and was pulled to safety.
The boys then wrapped him In a
blanket.
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BOY SCOUTS AFTER THE DIRT.
Topeka boy scouts are to become
Junior health officers of the city, in co
operation with the city health depart
ment.
The following pledge will be signed
by all scouts who become members of
the Topeka health service:
"In assuming tlie duties In the To
peka health service, I agree to hold
myself responsible for the distribution
of all notices and literature In my dis
trict requested by the commissioner
of health.
"I further agree to gntlier any in
formation that may be desired and to
report on the health and sanitary sit
uation In my district when asked to
do so.
"I agree to assist the Topeka health
department in every way I can, with
the understanding that I will not be
called upon to perform any duty that
will Interfere with my school work or
endanger my health."
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MANCHURIA'S SCOUT GREETINGS.
The second detachment of the Boy
Scouts of Manchuria, located at Har
bin, has sent this letter to national
headquarters In tills country:
"Dear Brothers:
tachment of the Boy Scouts of Man
churia sends to you from far Russia
warm greetings and cordial congratula
tion at the birthday of the great
teacher of truth, peace and good will
towards men.
a triumph of Justice nnd happiness
for all the unfortunates of the world.
"Do not allow your fatherland to
hnve any more tears in its light eyes.
Let the standard of the white rider
rise higher in the world."
This is signed by Commander of De
tachment Kossiakoff.
The second de
Let the new year be
SCOUTS TO PLANT WALNUTS.
Letters supporting Chief Scout Ex
ecutive James E. West's decision that
boy scouts should help the government
this spring by planting black walnut
trees have come to national headquar
ters from George D. Pratt, New Y'ork
state conservation commissioner, and
from Dr. William T. Hornaday, direc
tor of tlie New York Zoological so
ciety.
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BOY SCOUT DOINGS.
The New Orleans Bed Cross has
been working on tlie reclamation of
soldiers' garments. Boy scouts assist
ed by adjusting tlie buttons on the
military blouses.
Among "good turns" reported by a
Freeland (Pa.) troop of boy scouts are:
Assisted tbe doctors and nurses In the
Spanish Influenza epidemic: donated
ten baskets of provisions to tbe wid
ows and orphans; assisted in picking
11 bushels of berries for I. O. O. F.
orphanage at Suubury, Pa.
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Calamity Wayne Pauline II Completes
Year Test, Producing Eleven Ton*
of Milk.
by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
(Prepared
A new queen reigns In the herd of
Holsteins oji the government experi
ment farm at Beltsvllle, Md. She Is
as unassuming and peace loving as
any of her subjects, although she bears
the name Calamity Wayne Pauline II,
and has just completed n test In which
she produced In a year more thnn 11
tons of milk. In 365 days she pro
duced 22,547.8 pounds of milk which
nveraged 3.805 per cent butter fat, the
total fat being 855.4 pounds.
Tills animal was selected by dairy
specialists elf the United States de
partment of agriculture from a Michi
gan herd in July, 1917.
brought to the Beltsvllle farm, where
she produced a heifer calf, and was
started on her test December 7, 1917,
at the nge of eight years. The test
was run through the coldest winter
that section had experienced In 40
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years, and a summer that was extreme
ly hot. Tlie test for advanced regis
try was conducted under the rules of
the Holsteln-Frieslan association.
During the year the nnlmnl was
handled by two different herdsmen.
A son of Calamity Wayne Pauline II
has been placed at one of the govern
ment substations, and one of her half
sisters is making a fine record at the
Michigan Agricultural college. Calam
ity's 305-day record was 19,256.6
pounds of milk, averaging 3.7 per cent
butter fat, making a total of 718.13
pounds of fat.
All the dairy cattle on the Beltsvllle
farm are used for experimental pur
poses, and will be given at least two
advanced registry tests to determine
their capacity for production.
SUPERVISE PURITY OF MILK
List of Equipment Necessary to Fur
nish Laboratory Is Sent Out by
Dairy Division,
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
A letter has been sent by the dairy
division of the United States depart
ment of agriculture to 1,500 health of
ficers in cities having over 5,000 popu
lation urging the city governments to
supply the health officers with proper
laboratory equipment so they can ade
quately guard the city milk supply. A
health department without a labora
tory equipment is as helpless as a sol
dier without arras, says the letter. A
city government has no right to hold
its health department responsible for
the health of the community unless it
has provided the department with the
equipment necessary to wage the fight
against disease.
The work of supervising the safety,
cleanliness apd purity of its city milk
supply is one of the most Important
duties of the modern health depart
ment. Baetefin, dirt, added wuter and
preservatives in milk cannot be deter
mined without chemical and bacterio
logical apparatus. The letter gives a
list of the eqtilproent necessary to fur
nish a laboratory for milk analysis.
DAIRY COW MOST PROFITABLE
Animal Never Fail* to Return Profit
for Feed and Care—Keep
Hek* Comfortable.
The dairy cfow is the most profitable
animnl on thö farm if rightly managed,
as, under ordinary conditions, she
never fails t® return a profit for her
care and feed, if she Is given the right
kind of food and Just the right quan
tity. If she is underfed, her product
will be correspondingly
she is overfed, she will be unhealthy.
Feed the cow Just right, keep her
quiet and conifortuble, nnd she will he
equal in value to the goose thut laid
golden eggs.
small, and If
COOKING GRAINS FOR COWS
Act Does Not Ordinarily Add Much to
Palatability—May Decrease
Digestibility.
While some unpalatable feeds may
he consumed by dairy cows in larger
quantities if they are cooked, the cook
ing dues not ordinarily udd much to
the pulutublllty of the grains und muy
even decreuse their digestibility.
SAYS HE IS NOT A CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENCY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
FAVORS LEA6UE OF NATIONS
Says Our Task in Europe Is Greater
Now Than Before the Armistice—
Experiences While
"Over There."
Tells of
York.—Herbert Hoover, for
New
mer director general of allied relief,
came home Saturday after five years'
service abroad during which he dis
tributed more than 600 steamship car
3,219,068 tons of foodstuffs
goes, or
valued at $770,795,000 to starving Eu
rope.
"1 hope never to go back to Eu
rope again," he declared in a state
ment soon after he landed.
August, 1914, I have devoted my en
tire time and energy to war work and
with tlie exception of nine months I
have spent the entire five years away
from my family. I have no plans
other than to go home. I am not a
partizan and am not in politics in any
form. I am positively not a candi
date."
The last statement was elicited by
a questsion as to whether he ap
proved mention of his name as a
presidential possibility.
Crowning Achievement.
"The turning point'' in tlie relief of
Europe, Mr. Hoover said, when asked
as to what lie considered the crown
ing achievement of liis work abroad,
"came when he was appointed man
datory of tho railroads and was able
to ship food where it was most need
ed.'" Up to that time, he said, the
situation looked hopeless.
The task of America in Europe now
is greater than before the armistice,
he declared, adding that it was chief
ly economic and had to do witli the
restoration of trade and commerce.
'If we are going to market our nor
mal exports next year," he explained,
"we shall have to extend ample cred
its. Practically all Europe lives on
its imports. Bulgaria, Serbia, Czecho
slovakia and Hungary, among other
countries, will be able to produce
enough for their own needs, hut Po
land, Finland, all the neutrals and all
the bigger states like France, Eng
land and Germany must buy abroad.
The food situation is entirely a mat
ter of credits the governments of Eu
rope today are in a position to trans
port and distribute American foods if
they are enabled to purchase them on
long time payments."
Favors $2.26 Wheat.
Mr. Hoover declared he favored the
league of nations idea and that there
could be no stability abroad until
"peace is actually established." He
said the crest had been reached in
Digit prices for food,
the government price
bushel for wheat as a world price
level.
One great need of Europe and Asia
Minor at present, he said, was milk
for the 4,009,000 emaciated and under
nourished children. Herds of animals
had been depleted by the war and no
one could tell how long it would take
to restore them.
Since
He approved
of $2.26 a
Bolshevism Over.
In referring to bolshevism the for
food administrator declared that
"It is gaining
mer
its menace was over,
ground nowhere," he said, "not even
in Russia."
Mr. Hoover went to California this
week and after a brief stay there will
return to New York to prepare his
report to congress on the expenditure
of the $100,000,000 appropriated for
relief in Europe,
that the $90,000,000 of this amount
either had been or would he returned
by the European beneficiaries.
Mr. Hoover said
WASHINGTON PIONEERS DIE.
Yakima.—W. A. Cox, pioneer resi
dent here Saturday, after a long ill
ness.
Walla Walla.—F. A. (Andy) Beard,
well-known pioneer, Sunday, of paral
ysis after several months illness.
Spokane.—William H. Hagen, man
ager of the Spokane office of the Ha
zelwood company for the last 14 years.
Gives Life for Children.
Oakland, Cal—After dragging two
small boys to safety when they were
surrounded by a grass fire in the
school yard, C. H. Greenman, 55, prin
cipal of the Lockwood school here, was
suffocated to death Tuesday. Green
man was a pioneer California educa
tor and the organizer of tho first
school band In the west.
Daughter Visits Former Kaiser.
Ameronge.—The former crown prin
cess of Germany, with her two sons,
arrived here Saturday and was receiv
ed by the former emperor gnd em
press.
Steel Strike. Ordered.
Chicago.—An order directing steel
wrkers In the Chicago district to sus
pend work at 6 a. m., September 22,
issued Wednesday.
was
TWO MEN DIE IN AUTO
ACCIDENT; 3 INJURED
Member of President Wilson's Party
and Portland Citizen Killed in
Uuset on Columbia Highway.
An automobile con
Portland, Ore.
mining members of tlie party accom
panying President Wilson on a scenic
trip over the Columbia highway near
here shortly after noon Monday over
turned, killing two men and injuring
three.
serious nature to occur during the
president's tour of the country in be
half of the league of nations.
The dead.
Ben K. Allen, member of the presi
dential party and Washington corre
spondent for the Cleveland, Ohio Plain
Dealer.
James R. Patterson, Portland, own
er and driver of the automobile.
Allen and Patterson were killed out
right when the heavy automobile be
ing turned aside to escape another au
tomobile in its path, overturned, pin
ning them underneath. The oar right
ed itself after turning over.
It was tite first accident of
OIL TANKS IN RAGING FIRE.
Fifty People Hurt, Damage Estimated
at Five to Ten Millions, Near
New York City.
New York.—With more than 50 pet*
sons injured and with damage done
estimated at from $5,000,000 to $10,
000,000, weary firemen Sunday night
still were fighting a threat of further
explosions of oil tanks at the fire
which partially wiped out the Stone
& Fleming Oil company's plant in
Long Island City.
Five tanks of crude oil were burn
ing Sunday. The firemen were work
ing in short shifts. So exhausted had
they become that when relieved for
rest they lay in the streets and went
fast asleep.
The 20 acres of fire-swept territory
looked like a scene in war devastated
France or Belgium. Tanks were crum
pled up; steel girders lay in a tan
gled mass; few walls were left stand
ing, and burning oil continued to flow
along the surface of Newton creek.
It is thought the fire will continue
for three or four days.
NOW MEXICAN BANDITS'
KIDNAP MORE YANKEES
Two American Mining Men Taken
From Train Ten Miles From
City of Chihuahua.
Chihuahua City.— Dr. J. M. Smith
and E. Monson, supposed to be Amer
ican mining men, were captured by a
band of 10 armed Mexicans nine miles
They were
from this city Sept. 13.
taken from a mining company train,
which was robbed of the payroll of
the Buena Tierra mines.
It is believed that Dr. Smith will
be held for ransom and that Monson
will he liberated. The men were
taken from the early morning train
that carries mining men of the Santa
Eulalia district from this city to
their work. Col. Sebastian Allende
dispatched four troops of Mexican
federal cavalry in pursuit of the rob
bers.
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Pays Ransom to Bandits.
El Faso, Tex.—Six thousand dol
lars, gold, was paid Mexicans later for
the release of Dr. J. W. Smith, an
American, and E. Monson, believed to
be a subject of Sweden.
SHORTHORN COW BRINGS $4500.
Oregon Man Buys Former Champion
of California.
Medford, Ore.—All western states
cattle auction records are believed to
have been broken here at Shorthorn
auction sales held under the auspices
of the Jackson County Live Stock as
sociation, when I^aurel Frantic 33rd, a
seven-year-old cow, twice champion of
California, owned by the Gibson es
tate of Woodland, Cal., was purchased
by E. E. Beeson of Talent, Ore., for
$4500.
The auction sales were preceded by
a barbecue and picnic, which was at
tended by several thousand Jackson
county live stock breeders and farm
ers.
Japan May Not Ratify.
New York.—Japan will refuse to
ratify the peace theaty if the Shan
tung clause is excluded, in the opin
ion of Baron Shimpei Goto, member
of the Japanese national commission
for the discussion of foreign policies
and former foreign minister.
30,000 Serbian Children Die.
Washington, D. C.—Of the 35,000
Serbian children sent with tho Serbian
army in the 1915 retreat only 5000 sur
vived, according to figures verified by
American Red Cross workers. Most
of these returned to their homes to
find themselves orphans.
Frank Close Buried Alive.
Tacoma.—Frank Close, age 45, was
buried alive in a gravel slide In a sand
pit and perished. Several tons of
gravel burled the man. Rescuers aban
doned hope of finding him alive.
Many at Gompers Funeral.
New York.—Men and women front
all walks of life attendod tho funeral
Sunday of Solomon Gompers, father
of Samuel Gompers, president of tlie
American Föderation of Labor.
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GREAT THRONGS GREETED THE
PRESIDENTIAL PARTY LAST
SATURDAY.
FEATURED BY PUBLI6 DINNER
Made Address to More Than 6300
People—Was Frequently Applaud
ed—Greater Part Was Repe
tition of Former Speeches.
Seattle. -Seattle downtown section
was crowded to its capacity when
President Wilson's train arrived from
Tacoma Saturday afternoon, and all
along the line of a two-mile automo
bile ride through the city there was
a roar of cheering. The police had
strung ropes to keep the spectators
on the sidewalks, but the crowds
broke through and shrieking mobs
followed the president's car every
where.
Not all of those who wanted to see
him could find a place in the streets
through which lie passed and side
streets which afforded even a scanty
view of the presidential party were
jammed for a block away. Amid the
din groups of women stationed here
and there sang patriotic songs and
Mr. Wilson's car passed along through
a storm of confetti released from the
tops of office buildings.
At a public dinner which he at
tended before going to the arena Mr.
Wilson said lie had been impressed
by the uniformity of opinion among
tlie people from ocean to ocean.
At tlie arena, which seats 6300,
there were a few empty seats when
the president began speaking, hut
many were standing. When Mr. Wil
son entered tlie crow d rose and cheer
ed for more than a minute and when
he was introduced by Mayor Fitzger
ald there was a longer demonstra
tion.
On the stage were Secretary Dan
iels of the navy and Admiral Rodman,
commander of the Pacific lleet.
"We Want Wilson."
Applause repeatedly interrupted the
speech, while outside the hall a
crowd against which the police had
closed the doors, kept up such a roar
of cheering that his words were
sometimes drowned out. Pounding
on Ute walls and doors, the crowd,
vainly trying to get in, at last set
tled down to shouting in unison, "We
want Wilson." The president digress
ed to remark that the "applause i?
welcome hut inopportune."
The greater part of the president's
address was a repetition of points he
had covered in previous speeches dur
ing his western tour.
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BRUCE TO MANAGE DAVIS-DALY.
Has Resigned Position With Butte A
Superior Company.
Butte, Mont.—James L. Bruce, gen
eral manager of the Butte and Supe
rior Mining company and one of the
best known mine operators in the
west and rated as one of the eminent
ly practical mining men of the coun
try, will assume the general manager
ship of the Davis-Daly Copper com
pany, according to an official an
nouncement received recently from
the board of directors in Boston.
Mr. Bruce, it was reported, has re
signed his post with the Butte and
Superior, to take effect January 1, and
up to that time will direct the man
agement of the Butte & Superior in
addition to his duties at the Davis
Daly.
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BREVITIES.
The government has so much "coin
of the realm" that it actually bulges
out the walls of the vaults contain
ing it. The treasury has asked con
gress to appropriate $1,500,000 to
make the vaults secure and provide
additional ones.
Erection of a new main capitol
building to accommodate both houses
of the legislature, the governor, seo
retary of Btate, treasurer and auditor,
was decided upon by the state cap
itol commission Wednesday. Expen
diture of approximately $1,000,000 on
the building is proposed under the
first contract, leaving finishing work
to be done later.
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Lack of moisture In southeastern
Nebraska in August caused a reduc
tion of 2,428,000 bushels in the state's
prospective 1919 corn crop, it was
estimated September to in the Sep
tember crop report. Production of
172,402,000 bushels was forecast com
pared with last month's estimate of
The average
inclusive, was
by
to
174.830.000 bushels,
yield for 1914-1918,
190.383.000 bushels.
Dow & ForByth have succeeded
Dow & Fraley, Bremerton grocer«.
Arthur Halo has succeeded Mon
tague Bros., Roosevelt genoral mer
chants.
The Veldekninp Bakery at Aber
deen has erected a new and larger
building.
W. C. Whitfield nas succeeded
Whitfield & Blxby, Burton general
merchants.
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tlie
Out of the clutches of the "profi
teers" and into the claws of tho pol
iticians. it's a choice of the devil and
the deep blue sea.