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Show INJUttluuS TO FRui i..ccS i Destructive Scale Insect Pest Attack San Jose Most Injurious. All Kinds of Plants Scale Insects plants, Including cially Injurious more common ON CANKER EUROPEAN all kinds of grasses, but are espeto fruit trees. The ECONOMICAL FORMS OF IRRIGATING DRY ORCHARDS Serious in Old Disease Reported Country and Becoming Widely Distributed In America. Injurious species in Arid Regions Discovered Agricultural WealthMenof Western Who Were Compelled to by Poor Make Lands Productive. ThU disease is reported as serious orchards of Europe, find Is becoming widely distributed In America. Tho fungus seems to be dependent 'Vi Sivy v upon wounds for entrance to the host tissue. It attacks the inner bark and the rich sap, and to some extent the youn wood. The fungus Is perennial In the host. As the new growth develops around the wound It Is attacked and klllej by the fungus; thus a sories of ridges may be developed. Two kinds of summer spores are tm Hm produced, the first small and unicelsickle-shapeand the second lular, Orchard Destroyed by Scale. having three or more cel'.K. The latIt appears as a grayish scurf. ed limbs ter are probably largely responsible for the spread of the disease during made up of millions of Insects. The the hummer. In the spring compact young Individual scale Is about halt the size of a pin head, round and bla-k- . On the fruit the scale makes conspicuous red spots. Its dangerous nature Is known to every orchardlst who has It to contend with. It has killed thousands of trees, especially peach, and Is now sapping (he vitality of many thousands more. j Scale Insects are subject to attacks of a number of natural enemies. Included under parasitic and predaceoua Insects, fungous diseases aud birds. These natural enemies are usually sufficient to hold the species somewhat In check, with the exception of th Sun Jose scale, which has become a most Important pest. Many artificial remedies have been tried for exterminating Fcale Insects, the most successful being pruys of crude petroleum or kerosene, either undiluted or mixed with water, varl ous konp sprays and limo salt and sulphur wash. All scale Insects may be treated by the 4aire method after Europe App!e Canker, It has been determined by experience clua'era of red lemon-shapeperl which process Is must effective in any theci'i may be found neur the edge particular locality In the eastern states excellent suc of th-- j tanker. Thctju tuny be seen with the naked eyo. They contain cess has attended the, use of lime, salt numerous two ceiled bpore Lome lu and sulphur wash, which has also been 63CJ. very effective on the wetern coast. All cankered limbs should be de Different results have been obtained by different experimenters, but ex stroyed. Wounds should be thorough-lcoated with Bordeaux or paint tensive experiments indicate that kero Spraying will serve to uninfect thJ sene and crude petroleum are very re smaller wound produced by liisects liable and exceedingly effective Insecticide against all scale insects. sud bail storms. It Is generally recommended that trees bbou'.d be sprayed In winter or GRAPE CUTTER IS EXCELLENT during a dormant period with these substances In undiluted condition or Fastens to Thumb and Enables Person mixed with water. In some localities to Remove Bunches Without trees have been Injured by using the Bruiting the Fruit. pray lu undiluted f"i in even In w in ter. On the other hand many Every once In awhile ome Ingenious ments have been mude which show .'Ittle device will be invented which that these substances In solutions of prompts us to wonder why we did not strengths varying from 15 to 20 per chink of It ourselves. Such U Ihe cent, may be safely used 'uiton the for gathering grapes and trees In full foliage. Conservative au jther fruit and berries, devlm-- by a thortties on the subject of the value of California roan. This cutter-thimblkerosene and petroleum recommend of a blade curved to fit over that these substances be tided only In th top of the thumb and with an at- a mechanical mixture of water of dlftachment that holds It firmly In place, ferent strengths up to about 25 per equipped with this a man can reach cent. In general It Is recommended that spraying with kerosene should be done days, when only on bright suni-bln- .kui Til M d Basin Method of Irrigating. essential features very much like the check method of irrigating a field of alfalfa. Orchards are pr pared for irrigation by the basin method by forming ridgea of the loose earth midway between the rows ol trees In both directions. These ridgea are' made with ordinary walking plows by throwing up two furrows or else by a rldger. When the top soil Is light and free from weeds only the rldger is required, but In more compact soils and on soils covered with weeds the surface should first be disked. , This method Is well ad apted to the warmer portions of California, Texas. Arizona, and Now Mexico, where the winter Irrigation of orchards Is becoming fixed practise. Water Is then abundant and large quantities can be applied when the land is thus formed into .vnalJ In all (By SAMUEL, FORTIER.) The agricultural wealth of that vast region lying west of the Missouri river was first made known by men who were poor In worldly goods, but rich In those physical and mental endowments which go to make up the best type of citizenship. Their poverty, unfortunately compelled them to make use of the cheapest methods In rendering the arid lands productive'. Water was led from the nearest stream In a plow furrow and the Irrigator In wet feet tried to spread it over the field The small and by use of a shovel. cheap equipment, consisting of a walking plow and shovel, has given place to a large number of implements, and the simple, laborious manner of applying water has been broadened out Into more than a half dozen standard methods, yet In studying the latest Improvements It is evident that many of them are mere makeshifts and that much remains to be done before the water of western streams Is efficiently and economically appllled to arid lands. One of the popular forms of Irrigating orchard trees In the arid regions Is called the basin method, which Is compartments. Begin With Few Birds. beginner in ttu poultry business will find It more profitable to begin A with a few good birds. 'He can then Increase his fowls as he learns more ulxiut the care and management of fowls. POINTS ABOUT CUTTER BAR Cutter AO Bah jl f i exrl 'e e i sometimes gfts out pitman, causing the machine to run hard. This may also result fn breaking the sickle near the sickle-heaat A as shown In the drawing Hy the proper adjustment upon the Hue H, where the cutter bnr hlngen, this bar may be brtught Into evaporation Is comparatively rapid line with the pitman, and It should Whale on soap In the proportion of never be worked when out of true. two or two and one half pounds to th writes A. P. Johnson In Farm, Stock gallon of water is also a very effective and Home. The proper lineup is remedy for scale Insects. shown In the drawing. If the guard 1 become lnt up or down the sickle cannot work smoothly urwn the wearing jurfhee of the guards, and the sections do not lie down rpnn the ledger plates. The guards, which are made ol soft Iron, should be hamtrereit hack Into position. To do this best, use an orditf tbe orchard Is made a pasture for nary hammer and raise the bar to bogs or fheep the trees will be In- road potltion, tapping lightly upon the point of the gutrd. jured sooner or later. Somt times th-- t ledger .plates become 42 be shncM rows Strawberry and need replaclnB and often worn, 24 set and tbe Inches apart plants abov lh alK1e bind It the clips Inchen apart In the rows. more cr less. This pressute may he 11 new trees a few anting remj.ved by a leather wssfcer or bushyear It Is not much of a task to re- ing. place (be old ofis that die. Tl does not pay to plan' crops III the peach orchard. Home people do TYPE BREEDING Cutter for Grapes. nit and snip off a bunch of grapes or o'her fruit as easily as be could pluck t fliwer. the blade biting through the With tin hand twinkltfie ,i,.tr.a In U P1"" l he can do work that would otherwise take two, or be can wear a cutter on It's, remember arh haf.d and do two men's work. I Apple. pickers should Another advantage of Ula device bjjthat the least puncture fo the skin tbat the fruit Is not bruised by drop- - f " Ppl results sooner or later In ping Into a bag, as Is the case when It a rotten spot. Remember that row a which run is cut by a long handled shears. One nan on a aepladrier fan strip an arbor north and south allow the sun's rays t In a time lthout lowing a grape, to reach both sides of lb plant a rept those that fall from being over-rfp- dlotlnt advantage. of There are tu l0.o acre Kansas, plan'ed trees In wftff.' at one time it was thought Average Pick of Apples. could not be grown. tree How many barrels of apples can a Tb-- j on an apple may not nan pick in a day? Much depends at onctbrut Into rot hut It will develop upon whether the trees are well mak-- a brown spot which aif! gurea In.i.letl, l,ls:h or low beade, or whethlmMns the value of ih fruit. er the fruit Is plentiful or scattering. andTli.. tl rirranti tfurlmntll You will find some men will pick' .... ,. . . , !tttiffl fruit as other men twice a , ,,0i,le,om to From five to twenty barrels of fruit whpfc them is raed by the weaihef and not an considered Is average by fePgus growth. per day 'Jay's work. In very dry weather frnit buds are formed quPe esrly. and In rase of a someWater for Plants. wet fall. Immature Moft If the season Is a dry one some of times chsn;e Into leaf buds. the lint s tn the garden will have to small fruits form !b?lr fruit buds In be Bi're4 If yo want flowers from the spring. It Is i rsr'Irsble fo grow srawber them. This is eftperlally Irue of the between Jsh'.ia. Ue enough water to pen- j r1s tn the center of the sp-etiate a!l tb soil In which their roota the row of trees In an orfhsrd, fui'i that It is kejt woW. video" the otchard Is fio thawed. It Waerir g today and neglected for a wU te wise. ni to plsnf week Vi come Isn't the projer thing Riore than tbrea row of s ras berries M I Th.s CLtterbar of Hue with tho I ! tr-ur- , fruit-Lid- s . - t prw-gro- hier. J OF HORSES' Anlmala in Few Cwneratlnna tome So Much Alike That Carloads Wow Id Aver a About Same. mr t F. PATXK 'etorrt i Accent-'i- rl years' residence la hiring Iriy eastern Colorado I have seen many horse ranches, and bave usually found several types of stallions running oti the same range or In the same pas14 ture. Examine the bar to see that It is not ben:. OMcn a slight bend In the bar Is ren onrible for broken t ickles and th-rheavy diaft without being tbo.i,-h-t of. The blacksmith can s:rilKhten li for you. but tne writer's has not experience with such bei n w holly sstisfactory. I'nless the work has been carefully done the tem per will be drawn from ixtttlons of the bar, end it will soon again get out of alignment. On the whole the cheaper way Is to order a new bar. Thl divider should be set adjusied that it will not catch on the ground wb'-turning the coiners or when backing to clear tbe bar of some obstruction; and the mainspring stiff enough so that it will bir the fool to lift the bar, but not stir enough to make it jump when running a ' sh-r- e. t t EXPERIENCE n "Usually there is no real pleasure In going away" sighed Miss Wiggins. "The clothes problem is so great It off- friend. "I took all my heavy things this year," replied Miss Wiggins. "They had been having cold daya, but as soon as I arrived the temperature rose to summer heat and I melted. There was no use telegraphing home, for there wasn't a thing left here that was worth looking at. I had to Invest In ready-mad- e dresses at winter resort prices. I drew ahead on my allowance so far that I've got to economize all summer." "You have those things now to taka with you this summer," said her friend .consolingly. "That must ba a relief." 'They'll be by the end of tho season," complained Miss Wiggins. "Iiesldes, I don't know what sort of a place I am going to. Jean said It is a bungalow, but that dousn't tell me anything. "Two summers ago I was Invited up to Mrs. Dwyer'a to camp in tbe north woods," went on Miss Wiggins. "That was the way she put it In her note. She said It was a most informal place, where they did as they pleased. So I took a lot of old clothes, and a walk ing skirt and was content until I saw the others. The camp was the swell ist kind of a bungalow and everybody wore evening' dress at dinner, while I appeared every day In a shirt waist. iiut 1 stuck It out." "Wnere were von lnt summer? Didn't you like It .there?" Mb Wiggins laughed. "My ill luck followed me there." she said. "I knew Alike always hud everything aa perfect as it could possibly be, so I took particular pains with everything I bad. I was to be a week with her and I arrived with a suitcase In which were a shirt waist and a white wool skirt. These I put right on and I wasn't a bit careful about keeping them clean, ex peeling my trunk to arrive to help me out. There was a dance the second evet.tng, but my trunk hadn't come, so I bad to wear the same skirt and waist. The day after there was a pic uic, at the end of which my costume was too soiled to consider. I sent the skht to the cleaner and the waist to a laundry while I sat around In a kl mono In my room or wore my traveling dress, which was Insufferably warm. "That trunk never came until I reached Anita's, where It wasn't need ed. Anita was crazy over fishing, and I ruined two walking skirts, but did not put on a single summer gown or evening dress till I got to New York. "How was it in New York?" "Worse," raid Miss Wiggins, dol fully, it rained every slngW minute ;ind that lovely hat of m.ne was al most ruined." 'Not the one with the pansles on?" "The same," said .Visa Wiggin "Then when I got up Into the White mountains I hadn't a thing worth loosing at except a few summer dresses. liy that time It was colder than Greenland and 1 came home weeks earlier than I had planned In or der to get warm and to be where I didn't care what ,1 bad on. My whole 4tnnmer, like all my Jaunts at any sea son. was spoiled by constant thinking about clothes. "What are you going to do this rear?" asked he' friend. "Something to System In Strawberries. Bet a good solid stake, at the end of every tow of strawberries, giving In plain letters the name of tbe kind In the row. Itut do net have the stakes so high that they will be knocked over lesperate?" "I'm taking! two trunks." said Miss by the whiffle tree when you are culti"In one I an carrying all Wiggins. vating. my heavy clothes. Including my furs, for I'm found 1 will not sit with a red uniform that one could cut fcrt out nose and blue Hps an w where to please of a trail herd and tbey would be anybody. In there, too, t've put ray practically like any other 60 in rough and ready things to use when I the herd. Those cattle were bred to with the picnic and fishing crowds. a type ro long that buyers could In the other are my thinnest and pretknow wh&t they were getting. tiest summer clothes and evening It should b the same with horse tresses, with ail tbe necessary extras. bted at o'd e- -f abashed horse ranches. In my aultcatne I am taking a fan, a If bred to a type for a gfew generauuffler, a fancy shirt, a good waist, a tions Ihe horses would be so much ine piece dress, two shirt walsta. a alike that carloads would average 'oldlng umbrella, cold cream for sun-bar- n about the same and matched teams and two boxes of medicine for would be common. olds." "You are prepared for tbe worst?" "I am going to bave tbe best time Scours In Calves. Scoura la a disease caused by Indi- I ever hsd." averred Miss Wiggins. "1 comes from 'ntend to te ready to go In lor any gestion and generally ort of spoil or to go out In any kind feeding too much dry feed without I'm .not going to borrow 1'ut the calf on a grain ra- of weather. change. tion and feed a bran mash every day o munch as a p!n from my hostess. for a week. Turnips and other roots nd I'm going to make a tremendous are also good In rases of this kind. 'mpresiOon on everybody, because I I For cattle a small dose of castor oil hall be prepared for anything. alioul two ounces, combined with aa thai! bsve no dreadful memories then ounce of laudanum given in a little if dancing in a waiklrg skirt or fib and I shall bo ii g In an organdie, linseed gruel la a good remedy. ti One ranchman of my acquaintance filark Fercheron, Cuarh and stallion Clydesdale stallions. The were all good of their kind, but they were used Indiscriminately. The result was that after eight years of auch breeding It was Impossible fo find a team of perfectly matched horsea among a herd of 251 horsen. Had tnatrbed stallions of either' of You ought to have a perfect sum Ducks Free From Disease, the breeds been used, many matched .ner." ssid bar friend thicks never have cholera, roup Of teams could have been found, and the shall come home a new woman," Tbey lay more eggs which Jeclsred Miss Wiggins profits could have been materlaily in- tapes. 'J don't care And hen'a thsn better hatch eggs. creased. we bave a cold or a warm, a whether a can to be made attain of ranee cattle tisve they weigh." Hre"der or a dry season. I bave risen But rainy found that they en el tbeir young of five pounds In ten weeks. to all these thing. Never stipeilor results steers with greater ease and profit to secure the most prof! .! am I going to beve my visits again ! bre one f.hiu'd a better bred of to tf they hate been the I' apoiled by clothes!" type. TVi the XII. tattle were cr.ee so i kept. has r rf i Cowboy Would Have Reversed Pro ceedings as Recorded In the Scriptures. . d 'M HIS WELCOME FOR PRODIGAL sets the pleasure." "You ought not to complain," said her friend. "You always have pretty things." "It Isn't that," said Miss Wiggins. "It la that I always have the wrong things. It has happened so many times that I am clean discouraged. You see, I went south a couple of years I had taken ago and almost froze a lot of thin things with me and all the while I was there the temperature never went above 50. I had to, stay In the house with my coat on while I waited for the clothes I bad telegraphed for. "It was sattsiactory when you went south this year, I'm sure," said tbe fn tho J LEARNING BY attack this country are San Jose scale, oyster shell, bark louse, scurfy scale, purple scale, white scale, red scale, mealy bugs, etc. The San Jose scale Is per haps the commonest variety. This Insect attacks all frulls. Ou badly Infest APPLE j Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the famous Denver Juvenile court said tn the course of a recent address in charity: "Too many of us are Inclined to think that, one misstep made, the boy la gone for good. Too many of us are like the cowboy. "An Itinerant preacher preached to cowboy audience on the 'Prodigal Son.' He described the foollBh prodigal's extravagance and dissipation; be described his penury and his with the swine In the sty; he described his return, hla father's loving welcome, the rejoicing, and tbe preparation of the fatted calf. ."The preacher In his discourse no ticed a cowboy staring at nlru very hard. He thought he had made a convert; and addressing the cowboy personally, he said from tha'pulpit: " 'My dear friend, what would you husk-eatin- have done If you had had a prodigal son returning home like that?' "'Me!' said the cowboy.liromptly and fiercely, 'I'd have- - ahot the boy and raised the calf.' " Detroit Frea Press. HAVE TO WAIT. "You ought to take. some quinine for that cold." "1 m sorry, old man, nut there are ninety eight cures Ahead pf yours." - Try This, This Summer. Tbe very next time you're hot, tired or thirsty, step up to a soda fountain and get a glass of Coca:Cola. It will cool you off, relieve your bodily and mental fatigue and quench .your thirst At soda fountains or delightfully. carbonated In bottles Gc everywhere. Delicious, refreshing and wholesome. Send to the Co., Atlanta, Ga., for their free booklet "Tbe Truth Tells what About is and why It Is so" delicious, reAnd freshing and thirst quenching. Baseeend Ic stamp for the ball Record Book for 1910 contains the famous poem "Casey At The Bat," records, schedules for both leaguea and other valuable baseball information compiled by authorities. Coca-Col- Coca-Cola.- a Coca-Col- " Coca-Col- a a Tit for Tat. Being of a literary turn and having plenty of leisure, both Mr. and Mrs. Uluppins contributed' special articles occasionally to two different newspapers In the town where tbey resided. One day ,Mr. Gliipplns picked up a manuscript his wite had just finished, and proceeded to look it over. "That's very good. Bertha," he said, after completing his Inspection, "but I see you use the phrase, fact.' I wouldn't do that." ' "Why not?" she asked. "Well, If a thing Is well known, why mention It?" Ills wife said nothing In rejoinder at tbe time, but a few days later, while reading one of bla articles- In print, be found something to criticize. "Horace," she sald,"l am surprised to see you using tbe phrase, " "What's the matter with that?" "Why. If a 'thing la what la tbe use of calling attention to 'well-know- - 'self-evident- .' self-eviden- t, urHorace looked at her sharply over bis glasses, but made no verbal response. Youth's Companion. Real Knocker Say, baseball Story., Second Senior Knocker Hero Inning Instead of Novelty. here's- an original - How'a that? wjna game In eighth ninth. Yale Keoord. Why He Believes Her. Evangdlne llachel never can tell anything without exaggerating It. Joha Tbat'a why I believe her when she tella her age. Give yourself opportunity get out of tbe old road, where the slink wsg one go rushing by, and take tbe pats acroaa tho field of new thought For Breakfast Post Toasties with cream or milk The smile that follows will last all d ly "The Memory Llnjers" SoM fcy Grocers. Pi. prrrn'M IOc am4 15c CRREAL CO , Battle Creek, Mk-l- i. U4 |