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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Los Angeles Harbor Now in Second Place Tiny Insects, Are Hard to Control Once They Get (jood Foothold. Cucumber ' growers ; have recently complained of curling of the leaves accompanied by whitish spots of varying size. This damage is caused ny thrips, minute suckling insects, says the Cornell university experiment station. and growers should take care to controltbem before they gain a foot! hold. ' Mistaken for Fungus. Thrips are frequently mistaken for fungus growths because the insects are so small. They are usually found on the under sides of leaves. Leaves so damaged curl a if Injured by aphids, hut the injury differs in possessing characteristic white spots. i A satisfactory remedy for thrips if applied as soon as the injury is def tected is: pint of nicotine sulphate containing 40 per cent free nicotine; three pounds of laundry soap dissolved in water, and enough water to make fifty gallons of the mixture. This mixture should be applied with a pump which has considerable pressure. Care should be taken to spray the under sides of the leaves for only when reached by the spray are the Insects ' ; One-hal- With a record of $1,425, 844.19 net profit earned for the city during the past year, Los Angeles harbor is now second in American shipping, and was one of the exhibits most interesting to delegates of the National Foreign Trade convention. Above Is an aerial view of Los Angeles inner harbor. Oil Stove in Tent Is Fatal to Banker Main From Air Paris. A nature colony on an Island in the Seine, near Vll-- $ lennes, has had Its first tragedy. A banker and bis wife found X the tents too cool without clothes and installed an oil X stove, the fumes from which overcame them as they slept. The banker died in his sleep fX and his wife is now being treated in a hospital. killed. Dusts Prove Satisfactory. Dusts containing 3 per cent of free nicoflne have proved satisfactory when , Photographic Survey Being Made of East Coast Aerial Routes. Washington. To make the most comprehensive geographical and photographic study ever undertaken of the east coast, aerial between North and South America, a National Geographic society survey party is flying over the old Spanish Main in one of the largest flying boats in America., From dozens of buses akthg.. the way the party will make inland flights to cover areas contiguous to the route, and to gather geographic and meteoro logical data that will be valuable aids to navigation in the future when the air will hum with the aerial traffic be tween the two continents. Probably the two most important detailed sur veys will be of the Orinoco and Ama 7,00 deltas, vast regions of islands and plains, traversed by a net work of sluggish streams. These large areas ore difficult of access by tire ordinary means of travel, and have never been adequately studied from the air. The survey party includes Fred erick Simpich, editorial staff writer; Jacob Gayer, staff photographer, and CapL Albert W. Stevens, internationally known aerial photographer, in addition to two pilots and two ' mechanicians. Great Airway. With the rapid, development of air traffic to South America, the route over the old Spanish Main is looked upon by the National Geographic; society as one of the future great airways of the world. The direct flying time for powerful planes between Washington and Buenos Aires is seven days, but so thoroughly will the expedition comb the territory with its camera lenses and trained observers that six weeks will be spent on the 7 flight. Is which The , being made journey, it) the Argentina, largest type' flying boat ever built in' America and belonging to the 'New York,1 Rio & Buenos Aires lines, will be., over or near water for practically the entire way. The first leg was along the Atlantic const to Miami, From there a short hop was made to Havana. The route then continues over islands of the West Indies with .landings probably at Santiago "de, Cuba, San Pedro de.Macoris (Dominican republic), San ' Juan, St. Thomas, St. John's (Antigua), Port Castries (St. Lucia), and, Port.' ofSpain, Trinidad. j, After stops at the three capitals of the Gutanas Georgetown, Paramaribo and Cayenne the plane will fly : i 77. .. to Para,' Brazil. the there From flight will be continued with stops aCSao Luis, Camocin, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife (Pernambuco), Maceio, Aracaju, Bahia, Sao .Jorge dos Ilheos, Victoria, Campos, Rio de Janeiro, .Santos, Sau Paulo, Florianopo-lis- , Porto Alegre. Rio Grande do Sul, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. t. To Photograph Highest Peak. V After arriving in Buenos Aires, the photographers of the party will change to a smaller plane of the same com , low-lyin- ! ' f . British and Krupps in Steel Trade Agreement Berlin. An agreement has just been renewed between Krupps of Germany and the Stainless Steel syndicate of Sheffield to eliminate competition in stainless steel and goods made from it. It is understood that Krupps have agreed not to send stainless steel or articles made from it into Britain and the Sheflield syndicate has simi. lady agreed not to 'send them, into , Germany. The syndicate is not a manufacturer, but holds, the patents for making stainless steel, and it is on behalf of its' licensees tiiat the agreement has been reached Firth-Brearle- y , , , ; v . ; Prevent Seed Formation by Mowing and Spraying. Italian Aviator M&kes New Endurance Record Commander Umberto famous Italian air ace, carried off the1 world endurance record for planes not refueling in the air on a closed circuit recently, beating the previous record of 65 hours 26 minutes held by the German flyer Johann Uistlcz. ' Despite his victory, Commander Maddalena ut midnight was still flying in order, if possible, to exceed distance records also. The Italian flyer took off egriy on Friday morning in a Marchetti Savoia 64. The closed circuit covers a triangular route, and the plane must land where it started for the record to be recognized. Commander Maddalena, who aided In the rescue of General Nobile in the Arctic in 1928, is accompanied by Capt. Cecconi. He is planning a flight to New York by way of the Azores. Rome. Mad-dalen- a, - . Japanese Girls Knew Art of Makeup Centuries Ago New Orleans. Centuries before the European or American woman found lipstick and rouge necessary aids to beauty, the Japanese girl knew the Mrs. Katsuji art of facial make-uDebuchi, wife of the Japanese ambassador to the United States, visiting in New Orleans, said. The powder was really a paste, however, and Liquid rouge is still used, she said. p, Odd Architecture for Chicago Fair . Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom frm perennial weed pests, according to Charles F. Rogers, former assistant botanist and deputy state ientomologist at the Colorado Agricultural college, who Is the author of a bulletin on Canada Thistle and Russian Knapweed and Their Control. Copies of this publication may be obtained by those interested by writing to the Colorado Experiment station at the college. Canada thistle and Russian knapweed, two of the worst weeds known to agriculture, are found associated with ail crops and almost every kind of soil, and in every agricultural region the bulletin states. of Colorado, The best way to keep any perennial weed out of a locality' is to use ; Poison Bran Controls Cutworms in Gardens (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Seedling tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce and melons are frequently cut off near the ground by cutworms, especially in the spring and early summer, says the United States Department of Agriculture. A cutworm is the young or moth. caterpillar of a its moth The eggs upon plants or lays other objects and in some cases directly upon the ground and the eggs hatch into cutworms. The commoner cutworms are stout, soft bodied, smooth or nearly smooth, and cylindrical, varying in color from gray to brown or nearly black and sometimes spotted or marked with stripes. Cutworms ordinarily work at night, but often feed on dark, cloudy days. Many kinds of cutworms gq through the winter in the soil and begin work again early in the spring. Not only vegetable crops are attacked, but also a wide variety of ornamental plants and field crops may be severely damaged. Cutworms may be gotten rid of readily by using a poisoned bran bait made up of one peck (or five bounds) of dry brain, pound, white arsenic or paris green, one pint sirup or molasses and three or four quarts of water. night-flyin- g i ,, ; Pigs treated with serum and virus before weaning time are as likely to be immune to cholera as those treated aCa more mature age, according to Dr. Charles Murray, Iowa state college. Some of the advantages treating of pigs are: 1. . . 7 to early . , Pigs are over effects of vaccina- tion when weaned. 2. Are less sbject to infections and diseases than after they are weaned and getting adjusted to grain feed. 3. Small pigs are easier .to handle. 4. Quantity of serum Is less than that for larger pigs. Out of approximately 4,000 pigs hours to varying from twenty-fou- r of been weeks have there age eight only 23 dead animals in the last five years. Many of these pigs have been injected with virus to test the acquired by baby pigs. Most of those that died were in the year 1926, when virus was produced under great stress of demand in the epidemic, ? . " clean seed, to clean ail farm machinery before it leaves the place where It has been used, and to prevent flowering and seed production. Proper control measures for perennial weeds should consist of the prevention of seed formation by' mowing and spraying, the burning of mowed weeds, separate, clean cultivation of infestations, clean fallow at Intervals, crop rotation and smother crops." Sweet Potato Diseases Prevented or Checked A combination of several practices for disease prevention is necessary in controlling sweet potato diseases, any one of which, if omitted, will fail In securing the desired results. For the best control of wilt the seed should have been hand selected in the field last fall. The use of certified seed is equally good. Treat all the seed before bedding. Treated seed should be placed in new hot beds. Old beds are hot beds of diseases. New sand and new or sterilized lumber should be used for hot beds. When the plants are pulled and ready for transplanting they should be set in fields that have not been in sweet potatoes for five to seven years.' Unless all these steps are followed, one or several of the common diseases may be present. Aphids Big Limiting Factors in Production Aphids in the garden are limiting factors in the production of good vege- tables. They are on the radishes, turnips, spinach, and other plants. The adults are about inch long and vary in color from green to red to black to mottled. The color depends on which' plant they are feeding Ordinarily the aphids are called plant lice. Do not wait till the plauts are damaged . beyond repair to look for the bug that is doing the injury. Treat plants infested With aphids with nicotine dust containing about 7 per cent nicotine sulphate or 3 per cent free nicotine. The dust should he applied thoroughly with a good dusting th machine. ;; . ; v t ( . : one-fourt- h Fighting Quack Grass1 Most Wearisome Task " Cara-vella- Treat Baby Pigs With Serum Before Weaning , Port-au-Princ- e, Amar-raca- - FREEDOM FROM PERENNIAL WEED PESTS MOST DIFFICULT TASK . pany capable of high altitude work, and will fly westward to the Andes: where they will make aerial photographs of Aconcagua, highest mountain in the western hemisphere. This peak reaches an altitude of 23,080 feet. Since the days of Dr. Alexander Graham Bed's experiments with man lifting kites and the early flights of the Wright brothers, the National Geographic' society has lent its assistance and encouragement to the de velopment of aerial navigation, it is believed that the geographical and meteorological fruits of the present survey will assist in more closely associating the two Americas by placing air trrvel and transportation between the two continents on a scientifically safe basis. The Argentina has k wing spread of 100 feet. It weighs 10,449 pounds empty and 17,600 pounds with a ca pacify load. It is capable of carrying 22 passengers and of a speed of 127 , miles per hour. applied on warm days when little wind is blowing. Such dust must be applied with a duster and not merely shaken over the plants in order to be effective. The plants must be- enveloped In a dust cloud. The Cornell experiment station has" received word also of considerable damage in other states. o, s, Architecture for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago Is going .to be decidedly different from any that has ever been used. For example, this photograph of the model of one of the domes of the Travel and Transport building shows how cables on the outside will do away, with the necessity of having pillars and posts on the inside. The men inspecting tbe model are Manager L. R. Lohr, Assistant Director, of Wprks C. W. Farrier and Secretary Daniel H. Burnham. Fighting quack grass is about as mean a' job as any that exists on American farms. Experience has proved that it is almost impossible to eradicate the grass completely, once it gets a start and extends its rootstocks In the fields, and that ordinary cultivation is just about as bad as leaving the weed alone. 7 The Ideal weather for killing quack grass Is hot days and cool nights, with just enough moisture In the soil to keep the grass growing. In midsummer, say in July, when the grass becomes sod bound and tbe plants are in bloom, tbe roots accordingly are weak. : Agricultural Hints .. .... -- 5 ; i. w,,MnMHHHMVV,V,H A farm without trees is like a dog without fleas; there is something lacking. e J , I . Cost per hour, with both tractors and horses, depends to a large extent upon the total hours work performed in a year. , ; ,, ' Planting soy beans too deep, delays their coming up and may permit a crust to form on the soil. One inch in a good seed bed is deep enough. To get rid of; mustard not only must all tbe mustard plants be killed and prevented from producing seed but the seeds in the soil must be de- stroyed also. |