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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH HESSIAN FLY IS moisture-conservin- MOST INJURIOUS Insect Is Found Throughout lmost the Entire Winter Wheat Region. PETROGRAD AND REPORT BOLSHEVIK FROM party MOSCOW POWER IS WANING. Has Become Prevalent In Moscow, Peasants In the Grain Sections Refusing to Supply Food for Cities. A- EGGS HATCH INTO MAGGOTS The American refugees reached Stockholm Sat after their departutirday twelve days In Bolshevik re from theAmericans werecapital. impressed the Finland conditions. llV the orderly left Russia, Americans When the 1.25 a pound at sold flour say, obtainable at .any Was seldom scarce, sold at $3 also Sugar, etnfkliolin. from Moscow by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The Hessian fly, found throughout almost the entire winter-whea- t region, is a minute, mosquitolike fly which lays its eggs upon the leaves of wheat. These eggs hatch into little maggots (Prepared ", Vil price. which crawl down into the leaf sheaths. There they live upon the plants sap, which they obtain by gnawing into the soft portions of the stem. Usually two, but sometimes three or more, generations of the Insect occur during a year. One main generation of flies appears in the fail, the large proportion of the before maggots becoming the severe weather of winter arrives, , ith the ent a ted i ire to ent ith the ler to me ge. of nd y an ThTrefugees say that starvation In Moscow imd become so prevalent commissfood the in August late that remove regulatall to ion was forced them and permitted ions on citizens with pounds sixty the city enter to This step, it was asof food each. of the absoladmission an was serted, food commission, the of, failure ute which had no bread and was forced through the pressure of the rebelling citizens to let the people take the food supply into their own hands. Wheat and other grains were not available, as the peasants in the grain sections still under soviet control re fused to feed the cities. Potatoes and selling at 25 other vegetables were are the chief cents a pound. They food supply of Moscow grad. The workmen of Moscow Petro-gra- (4) Take care that the sowing of wheat In the fail is delayed vntil the e Information regarding date. this date can be obtained by Applying to your county agricultural agent, your state experiment station, or to the nearest entomological field station of the United States department of agriculture. (5) Practice a good rotation of crops wherever possible. of tue (G) Secure the entire community in following the methods mentioned. This is absolutely essential in order that satisfactory results may be obtained. full-grow- n )Ig 'a I evij mt )Vl ce, n oti ro, 1 ch IB ch ul h. of ys ne io STRIKES d TRANSPORT. e Members of Crew American Vessel Lose Lives. Thirty-fiv- e members Washington. of the crew of the American army transport Mount Vernon, formerly the Thirty-fiv- is, nd ir- - no ie- - North ty SU- - ha In- - by se. on :at German Lloyd Liner Kronprin-zessi- n Cecilie, were killed by. the explosion of a torpedo which struck the vessel when she was 200 miles from the French coast, homeward bound. The Included Senator passengers Lewis of Illinois, who was among those safely landed after the transport returned to a French port under her own steam. rb el rv- - Slightly Injured to Be Listed. Washington. Under the new policy ry. of ts- - ionary forces adopted by the war department, the names : of the men ey irs of en ha iU9 ny reporting casualties of the expedit- wounded will be States by courier The Hessian Fly Adult Femaje, Much Enlarged. when they change into brown seedlike These forms known as flaxseeds. may, be found within the leaf sheaths in young wheat plants, usually at or beneath the surface of the soil. These overwintering flaxseeds produce the spring generation of flies. These, Inturn, lay eggs from which hatch mag-- as ng se on, ien tVe ur dy. ds. trl- - off It aid the ird all th- - itlf irs, th- - I A - W!rlain' - -- Nothing makes a quarrelsome man as the refusal of his wife to talk back. so mad ng House? The Branch House is the place in the packing organization where what the packing plant does for you is put - The Maize where you can use it. Both are the natural result of growth and development in the living thing they belong to. Swift & Company Branch Houses are located in distributing centers all over the country.. They are fitted out with refrigerating equipment to keep meat cool, sweet and fresh. Each one is in personal charge of a man who believes in what Swift & Company is doing for people and wants to help do it. They are directed by men who have spent years learning how to get better meat cheaper to the places where it is needed. Meat is shipped to the branch houses direct from the packing plants in Swift & Companys refrigerator cars, in such quantities that it can be disposed of while fresh and sweet. Your meat dealer comes here to buy your meat for you unless some-- . one else can treat him better then Adult, Greatly Enlarged. Atlantic coastal plain region of the South, but may be alternated with cotton, on which the billbugs cannot live. Land infested with these insects should always be plowed in the late summer or early fall, for thus the winter quarters of the bugs are broken up. The Immediate destruction of all g sedges, rushes, chufa, or large grasses In land Intended to be planted to corn Is especially necessary, as these plants are the natural food of the billbugs, and the insects cannot be eliminated unless this Is done. Billbug swamp-inhabitin- ashes or fine road dust will usually be successful In removing the slugs from the leaves. EASY WAY TO THROW HORSE Steady Pull on Rope Arranged Around Neck of Animal Will Lay Him ' Down Quite Gently. con-cte- Q Age-Heral- ri and the crop is said to be straw fallen. After the Hessian fly has once thoroughly infested the crop of wheat there is no known means of saving it, and the only known means of preventing damage from the fly is to keep it out of the wheat. For this reason the young wheat should be examined thoroughly in order that the presence of the brown flaxseeds" may be detected late in winter or very early in the spring, und if these are found to be present in large numbers it will pay to plow down the wheat at once and prepare to plant corn, oats, or some other crop in its place. In this way the fertilizing value of the green crop will be retained Id the soil and it will still be possible to secure a crop of grain or vegetables from the field during the current year. Preventive Remedies. The remedies for the Hessian fly are entirely preventive and are as follows: ' (1) Immediately after harvest, or as soon thereafter as practicable, plow the wheat stubble down deeply, at least five Inches deep if possible, in order to destroy the maggots and flaxseeds which may remain in it. This Is for the protection of future crops. (2) Pay great attention to the preparation of the seed bed for the wheat packing the soil thoroughly In order by plowing early and working and sent to the United twice a week and jMy the names of the dead and miss-ta- g will be cabled by General Pers- WAYS OF ERADICATING SLUGS hing when the system is fully In Larvae May Be Combatted by Using Arsenate of Lead, Hellebore or Haywood and Pals in Prison. Tobacco Decoction. Leavenworth, Kans. William D. Haywood, secretary of the Industrial (By C. P. GILLETTE, Colorado Agricuorkers of the World, and ninety-'v- o ltural College, Fort Collins, Colo.) members of the organization, d The slimy looking larvae of slugs" at Chicago on charges.; of that eat the surface off the leaves the espionage act, were received of cherry and pear trees are easily t le federal If there is no fruit on the killed. penitentiary Saturday. trees, the best way is to spray the One Out of Six trees with arsenate of lead In the proBought Bonds. Washington. One out of every six portion of one pound of powder, or th,r!?ns bought Liberty bonds of the two pounds of the paste, to each 50 . ll! oan- The exact number of eub- -. gallons of water. A fine spray Is best so as to cover f Vsf was 18,308,325, or 17.7 per and should be applied he 103,000,000 estimated pop the upper surface of the leaves, where uiafi most of the feeding Is done. f county. Delaware bed the In case there Is fruit on the trees highest percentage. you may use white hellebore, one ounce to three gallons of water. This Believes Peace Is Near. Talaat Pasha, the will kill the slugs and do no harm to gran( vizler In an Interview people who eat the fruity Bnhv The same results may be secured lsed in the Vienna Neue Frele ,resse, said by spraying with a strong tobacco dePeace one . Would come before winter, th coction, such as Black Leaf 40, y. In exhausted Itself. Talaat Is part in 800 parts of water. 'v In A thorough dusting with slaked lime, Vienna. vio-ati- Isnt What is a Branch L,reak off v ss. by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The billbugs, or elephant bugs, as they are variously are beetles termed, which live normally In sedges, rushes, or the large wild grasses found growing in moist, low ground. Corn planted in river and creek bottoms or other low places, especially in the southern portions of the country, is liable to The grubs, or injury by billbugs. young, of these beetles live inside the stents or roots of plants, and their injuries to corn usually are caused by their eating out the central portion of the stalk, thereby stunting and seriously injuring the corn plants. The adult beetles also injure the corn, for they puncture the growing point or bud of the plant. Some kinds of billbugs are eliminated easily by rotation of crops. Corn should not be followeiLi't.corn in the Test of Temper. It rather hard to be an optimist and a commuter at the same time? It takes patience and perseverance," I commuted said the suburbanite. nearly ten years before I got so I could maintain my .equanimity when other passengers read the headlines In my newspaper and then fell to arguing about what they had read. Birmingham . hard-shelle- d factories cannot obtain food from advised the commission, which- has them to shoulder rifles and take the grain away from the peasants. This advice has seldom been heeded, as a majority of the workmen regard the peasants as brothers. Wholesale charges by the Bolshevik newspapers that the bouregoise are wholly responsible for the food short; age no longer quiet the hungry laborers, whose faith in the Bolshevik waning appreciably. The promises of Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreign minister, to quell the Czecho-Slovarising and tap the supply of wheat '.no longer are generally credited. the jrafnaroa ally amfie. grain sections." Much of the grain has already been harvested, but the Bolsheviki have neither the organization nor the transportation facilities to obtain bread for the starving cities, which scarcely can be expected to drag through a breadless winter without turning against a government whose policy has lost the wheat districts. TORPEDO Trimmer In Corsets. Steam power was very low on the drifter, so the captain went below and picked out one of the grimy seamen. ERADICATE BILLBUGS Wliats wrong? It isn't the coal? BY PLOWING IN FALL What was your rating when you joined the navy? A trimmer. Yes, sir, came the reply. They Serious Injury Done to Com asked me my trade and when I said I was a trimmer they shoved me in the Planted in Low Ground. stokehold before I had time to explain. Im not a coal trimmer; my specialty Young Insects Live Inside Stems or Is corsets. Roots of Plants and Do Much Harm by Eating Out Central A girl who never had a proposal is Portion of the Stalk. apt to pronounce marriage a' failure. have been a standard household remedy. They are the pure, original imported Haarused, and lem Oil your are perfectly harmless. The healing, soothing oil soaks into the cells and lining of the kidneys and through the bladder, driving out the poisonous germs. New life, fresh strength and health will come as you continue the treatment. When completely restored to your usual vigor, continue taking a capsule or two each day; they will keep you in condition and prevent a return of the disease. Do not delay a minute. Delays are especially dangerous in kidney and bladder trouble. All druggists sell GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. They will refund the money if not as represented. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules are imin Holported direct from the laboratories land. They are prepared in correct quantity and convenient form, are easy toto take and are positively .guaranteed give prompt relief. In three sizes, sealed packages. Ask for the original imported GOLD MEDAL. Accept no substitutes. Adv. snout-beetle- s, k leq Tor centuries GOLD MEDAL Haarlem standard household remedy for kidney, liver, bladder and stomach trouble, and all diseases connected with the urinary organs. The kidneys and bladder are the most important organs of the body. They are the tillers, the purifiers of your blood. If the poisons which enter your system through the blood and stomach are not entirely thrown out by the kidneys and bladder, you are doomed. Weariness, sleeplessness, nervousness, despondency, backache, etomach trouble, headache, pain in loins and lower abdomen, gall stones, gravel, difficulty when urinating, cloudy and bloody urine, rheumatism, sciatica and lumbago, all warn you to look after your kidneys and bladder. All these indicate some weakness of the kidneys or other organs or that the enemy microbes which are always present in your system have attacked your Weak spots. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules are what you need. They are not a patent medicine, nor a new discovery, For 200 years they Oil has been a (Prepared - he SAFE, GENTLE REMEDY CLEANSES YOUR KIDNEYS the fly. and Petro and g fly-fre- Knovn Means of Preventing Damage From Pest Is to Keep It Out Brown Flaxseeds May Be' Detected in Winter. Only CE to eliminate lumps and clods, thus producing a finely pulverized, compact, bed for the and seed. (3) Destroy all volunteer wheat by plowing or disking, as such wheat serves to carry the flies over from fall to spring, even though most ' of the fields of wheat have been treated properly and contain no flies. One field in which volunteer wheat Is allowed to remain may breed enough Hessian flies to infest a whole neighborhood where the grain Is otherwise free from The most simple and easy way to throw a horse safely is to make a collar with a rope, knotting It to that It cannot draw up and choke the animal, pass the ends back letting them drop to Just above the hind hoofs, then up again through the collar. A steady pull now, one side drawing a little tighter than the other, will lay him down as gently as If of his own accord. we can. So you need the branch house in order, to live well; and the branch house and the packing plant need each other, in order to be useful to you. Swift & Company, U. S. A, Should Grow Alfalfa. Every dairyman should grow all the alfalfa possible. If you cannot grow -- alfalfa, grow red clover. , Raise Prize Cabbages. The wheel hoe or cultivator is Indispensable In raising prize cabbage. - i |