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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH More War Time Horrors to Be Razed Control of Rats Up to Community Is Efficient Destroyer Husker-Shredd- er Corn-BorWhere Food and Shelter Are Solves Problem in Clean-U- p Plan. Lacking Rodents Are Chased Away. (Prepared by tha United Btatea Department er of Agriculture.) iTrepured by th United states Department of Agrlcultuie.) headway In rat Definite control requires not the mere killing off of rats as they are encountered In markets, poultry yards, homes, or wherever they abound, hut more especially the removal of those conditions that are responsible for the rats, according to the biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. Shut Off Food Supply. Rats require food and shelter, and where these are lacking they cannot persist. Modern building construction and sanitation, as practiced in our more progressive cities, deprive rats of suitable living and breeding places, and shut off their usual food supply. Government Hotels, built In the Another Washington hang over from the hectic days of 1018, the clauses In local building stucco Union Station plaza to house temporary var workers, Is soon to be razed. The buildings are of frame and ordinances and more strict regulaconstruction and have been called an eye sore for years. tions in local sanitary codes, Including the proper collection and disposal of garbage and the prevention of trash and waste accumulations on private premises, will do more to bring about permanent reductiou In the number of ruts thau any other measure. t, lint proofing of new buildings is entirely practicable and should be required lu all cases. It would not ho practicable, however, to require rat proofing of many of the older buildings. As long as this Is true and as long as rats are able to obtain a food supply, it will he necessary to destroy them. Rut no real progress in rat control Is possible when the destruction of these pests t left to the Infrom surdividual, for reinfestation rounding infested premises is continuous. Arrangements for thoroughly treuting larger areas are essential to successful results. Work Together. A number of cities working in cooperation with and under the leadership of the biological survey are now carrying on systematic and scientific rat control with excellent results. This bureau will be glad to assist in Four little negro pupils of a Chicago public school pooled resources and got a watermelon from a peddler. planning and in some cases In carThen the photographer came along. How much they like watermelon Is nobodys business, but actions speak louder rying out projects. The problem of rat control than words. is one of the community, even of the county, the state, and the nation. It is recognized as an Important world NEANDERTHAL MAN problem, for not only do rats destroy millions of dollars worth of valuable foods and property, but they carry disease wherever they go. g Watermelon Time Comes to the North C r has long been recognized as a useful machine In the corn belt, Its effectiveness as a destroyer of corn borers lu corn fodder has given it a new significance. Shredding solves one of the most difficult problems in a corn borer cleanup program, according to entomologists of the United States Department of Agriculture, by affording an ett! clent and practical means of disposing of the cornstalks that might otherwise carry the borers through the winter. Shredding tests, they say. Indicate that kills of from 98 to 100 per cent of the borers may b obtained, and that any that escape death In the machine probably perish during the process of storing or feeding the shredded material. The maximum kill Is obtained when stalks are cut in f Inch or less. lengths of Other advantages attributed to ,he r are cited by the farm management specialist of the department in Farmers Bulletin 1581)-F- , on Eastern The Ilusker-Shredde- r Corn Belt Farms, Just Issued. This bulletin Is based largely on Information secured in a study of the experiences of farmers in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois Premier Diike Assumes His Titles filth-born- e Profitable to Discard Misshapen Potato Seed Many potato growers are While the finding It profitable to throw out the long, slender, or badly misshapen tubers from their seed. These tubers carry the virus of the spindle tuber disease. The yield from them Is practically nothing. When buying seed, avoid any lot of seed which carries a large number of these run-ou- t potatoes. Remember when buying seed potatoes, you are not buying a bushel of potatoes but rather you sre making an Investment In a crop. It nmy be a profitable one or It may be unprofitable. Good seed Is worth more money, for It yields higher return on the Investment husker-shredde- Exclusive structural and operative supe- one-hal- husker-shredde- who use husker-shredder- s in harvest- ing their corn crop. A copy of the bulletin may he obtained by writing to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Bud Grafting on Trees Really Simple Process riorities have definitely . established Champion as the better spark plug. That is why Champion outsells all others throughout the world. CHAMPION SPARK PLUGS TOLEDO, OHIO Renovated Statue of Queen on Exhibition There is now to be seen at the Cairo museum in that city the statue of an ancient queen which was recovered In Bud grafting or "budding, as It Is pieces from a quarry where It had been often called, 13 the process of transhurled. The lady was Queen Hatsche-pu- t planting an eye or hud from one tree and her effigy bad been removed or shrub to another, and Is really a and thrown Into a quarry at the insimple process when ouce the operstance of Thotbmes III upon the ator "knows how. queens death In 1480 B. O. The excaThere are a few essential points vations near the temple however, that are frequently overat Luxor, have occupied the expelooked, and one of the principal ones dition for years. In 1927 it was conIs of these to have the bark of the firmed that all the queens statues in stock so that it slides freely. Almost evt ry man or boy from the country the temple had been ordered destroyed. can remember in his earlier days the After the mutilation or destruction the remaking of a whistle from small wood pieces were thrown by Thothmes nearon abandoned into tainers qunrry of the willow and how necessary it was for the bark to peel to make It by. Finally, 85 years ago, when the properly. Now this Is Just the condition temple was first cleared, all the debris for the bark to be in for successful hud from It was piled together. The expegrafting and when the stock to be dition has been employing as many as 700 Egyptian laborers at a time in the grafted upon Is in this condition sue task of retrieving the fragments of cess Is almost sure to follow. August the burled statues and about 100,000 Is the season In many sections for budgrafting of peaches, cherries, plums tons of rubbish have been removed. and other fruits and also roses and Fragments of several of these statues other ornamentals. One of the secrets have been recovered nnd are being asof budding and grafting is to perform sembled, but the work Is exceedingly the operation quickly, before the sap tedious. of the plant gets a chance to oxidize, Hii by Deed of Gift and as it is an old adage that pracA man who bad not been very good tice makes perfect" the professional grafter or htidder nearly always scores during his earthly life died, and went more success than the amateur in this below. As soon ns he got to the line. nether regions, he began to give orders for chnnging the positions of the furnaces, nnd started bossing the Imps Way to Clean Brooder around. One of them reported to Saby Using Heavy Paper tan how the newcomer was acting. A good way to keep the floor of a Here," snid Satan to him, you net brooder clean Is to cover the floor as though you owned this place. with heavy paper. Over this scatter Certainly, said the man; my wife litter or cut straw. When the paper gave it to me while I was on earth. becomes soiled. It is removed, litter and all, and burned or burled. It Is much easier to replace both the paper Getting the Definition and litter than to scrub the floors Weve always wished wed never when soiled. Then, too, the brooders said anything about godets, not knoware always dry. whereas If they must ing what they were, but now we learn be scrubbed often, they are liable to that they are sometimes used In the be dump sometimes, and then look out hem of the jacket of a tailored suit, for roup. Dampness will bring on so we suppose Its perfectly proper t roup In young chicks, and Is somemention them in mixed company, and times so fatal and does its work of we havent been so relieved since we destruction so quickly, that one has no finally learned that pull-on- s are gloves. chance to use a remedy. If one enn he Ohio State Journal. found. It is much more fatal to young chicks than to matured fowls. Whatever you hear, dont forget that there are always some facts you do not hear. Cultivate Everbearing l, Tit-Bit- Authentic Information Given in Seed Catalogues Vegetable growers, whether home gnrden or commercial, "should consid er carefuMy the source, quality, and variety of seed to be planted. If you have locajdd a good source, endeavor to get sped of Identical parentage for use this year. Send for catalogs of several seedsmen, but do not shop around too mneh. Extravagant, vngue The Neanderthal the earth about man, who roamed 50,000 years ago, has been reproduced in lifelike figures setting like that In which he lived, at the Field Museum of Natural The picture History in Chicago. shows the head of the family. The wishers services assumed duke of Norfolk, Englands premier duke, being greeted by well as he left the church of St Philip Ilcnrl, Arundel, after attending on his twenty-firs- t birthday. Becoming of age, the youthful peer his estates and titles. statements regarding varieties should be disregarded, hut much authentic Information may be obtained from reliable seed catalogs. Everbearing strawberries need lots and hoeing. It Is not necessary to keep the weeds out. but the ground should be worked frequently whether there are nny weeds or not, ns the everbearers do not like to be left standing In a hard sol! even if there are no weeds. So k'ep the ground stirred so that there is a mulch of loose soil around them at all times if you want them to do their best for you. Everbearing strawberries make n fine nddition to the menu on our table in the fall of the year, helping to make that much needed variety and change which some sage has said is spice of life." Agricultural Squibs In a VVVVVVVVVV Largest Old Glory on the Capitol VW VVVV-- of cultivating 4' will prolong the life of harness Oil many years. DAWES' SECRETARY Watch costs and markets and profits will take care of themselves. Early and late vegetables ore usualmore profitable than mid-seaso- ly crops. According to agricultural college figures. farm buildings should he repainted every three and half years. Every crop grower and shippei should he certain he knows when and how to harvest and how to grade and pnnlsinn for Immediate regrowth. the economic effects reach out far beyond the lumber business. Industries move away, wages ae reduced, hank deposits .decrease, farmers lose their muikcts. railroad revenues shrink, schools deteriorate, good roads are fewer, tax burdens pile up. and abandoned farms abound. Legume hays are rich in lime and In bran, and the oil meals are phosphorous. Feeding then) helps to rh-l- i reduce mineral shortage. Control Cutworms There are several species of cut eer,il common names The damage is sin liar for I'M species is much alike. tnd their life worms under Dawes, years has been chosen to be secretary to his uncle, Gen. Charles G. Dawe, United States ambassador to the Court of St. James in London. Young Dawes home is at Columbus, Ohio. twenty-thre- e ftiLtfmuff'i"- w-- largest Amerlcni? flag In the world ns It was displayed across the front of the United States Cn'pitol where flag exercises were conducted by the United States Flag association. The ting is ICO feet long and 90 feet wide. It was sent to Washington from 'Detroit. View of the There should he enough rattle on farm to consume the alfalfa. If It has to he haled and shipped the ex ion.-nnd will. Is too great to pay for the shipping nnii baling. I e zest! Cutting Forests Economy In storing nnd handling grain will aid In reducing the overhead mid Increase the income from the grain crop. Henry vlfekes up Where forests are cut down with no pack. old, a year out of college, ... Strawberries All Year j j Cutworms are among the most troublesome inserts with which the gardener ai d rite farmer have to deni Their principal damage is dime in the spring when they cut off young plant at or near the surface of the ground futwnrtiis are not difficult to control The most effective itr.rl the most pra lira method is to poison them wlti poisoned bran mash. yOU i |