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Show 5 J 1 I LEHI FREE PRESS. LEH1. UTAH i 1 n i Farm I r ri pq7 ra ! L FARM WOODLOT NEEDS CULLING j Pan-Americ- Solidarity Against Axis an I Ji f tj, f r r i, 'i ri trf 1 -- ftr S""wl Si j' .1 Ji v. tRclcawd by Wcncra Newspaper Union.) 1 1 gv pARKER ANDERSON Minnesota (EtitBS.aa Forester. University Farm.) ... Foiling the Termites y.. veil in the future, loafer and robber axe. trees should get the Trees culled out this winter will more than pay for the trouble and lumlabor in fuel, fence posts and will gain from ber logs. V.'oodlots the this practice, he says, because and faster can trees grow remaining straighter. It is a good idea to have an eye reout for trees that will give cash turns in the future. Productive trees V,. have the best in soil fertLarge ility, water and sunlight. trees' that "overtop" and steal sunlight from promising young growth are among those recommended by Anderson for culling. too extensive cutting To avoid here are some suggestions: Leave enough trees to cover the should thin out dense trees so the straightest and healthiest ones will have growing room. Keep your eyes on the tops tree tops should be fairly close but with some room forest floor, but thickets of young 1 Tw. Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 RepubU-ca- n candidate for the presidency, shown with reporters as he walked down the White House roadway, following; a conference with President Roosevelt. Willkie gave the reporters no indication as to what the conference was about. Production Chief - j j j uLLirjijrij.uu.jii..j., - wi-y"- Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, center, and U. S. ambassador to Brazil, Jefferson Caffery, are shown talking to Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's foreign minister, who was also administrator of the conference held in Rio de Janeiro. The photo was made just before the third conference of foreign ministers in the interest of lining up all the American republics in a solid 100 per cent Western hemisphere front against the Axis, with a complete rupture of diplomatic relations. Leaders described Aranha as a "tower of strength." Pan-Americ- Commandos Examine Captured Field Piece for growth. si Raise More Food, Farm Youth Urged Farm boys and girls are being encouraged to increase supplies of foods needed by this country through , w3ifi- ri. if :' pigs, calves, and chickto word received U. S. department of agri- projects on according from the culture. Both the Farm Credit and Farm are preSecurity administrations pared to make loans to members of clubs and other rural youth groups as well as to unaffiliated youngsters with responsible spon- sorsto make more such work sible than in the past. FSA will make loans to children its borrowers where funds are otherwise unavailable, and FCA will make loans through local production credit associations. The State Extension services in with state agricultural colleges, will help to launch many of the projects, it is announced. and other rural raised various foods as part of their work in the past. Last year, for instance, members grew 237,000 home gardens, 177,000 raised poultry, 150,000 raised pigs, and 74,000 had dairy cattle. The aim now is to increase J the number of farm boys and girls growing foods deemed most vital to clubs Many youth groups have 4-- O Nelson, named by the President to head a war production board, superseding the supply, allocations and priorities board. Nelson has "final" authority over all Donald matters of production. In 'Merry England' America. Their contributions of milk, eggs, pork, and vegetables will not only add to needed supplies in the country but will make possible in many instances an improved diet for thems- Hawaii Gets Set for 'Return Engagement' Vfcb elves and families, it is pointed out. rftt fid ' fj- .. !$ Mk fill i'AlrSS- - II Is Poultry Danger Pink lungs reveal carbon monoxide poisoning in baby turkeys and chicks. to George According P. McCarthy, poultry husbandman of Texas A. and M. college, a grower may actually gas his turkey poults or baby chicks with a sooty brooder stove and bad ventilation. Deaths from this cause might be attributed to other reasons. by the high percentage of loss among delivered in good hatcheries to showed no external symptoms of carbon monoxide poison-jneven when it was suspected. tests, however, were conclusive and physical examinations confirmed the positive cases by revealing the abnormally pink lungs which result from this type poul-tryme- n g. Mrs. Winston Churchill is shown obviously enjoying a dance with a munitions worker at a recreation center in the North of England. This center was opened for the use of workers who have come from the south of England and Scotland. Commands Dutch poisoning. McCarthy recommends that turkey growers provide good n ven-tilatio- their brooder houses without exposing the young birds to the hazard of drafts. Before Placing baby chicks in brooder nouses it is important to clean coal, wood and oil burning brooder stoves in order to remove all soot which might clog the burn-er- s and help form the dangerous gas. in Warns Draft Boards Against Hysteria r infested timbers. Large numbers of dead winged insects, or frass and insects thrown out where the insects emerge arefalso evidences of their presence. 6vt cents to T--t-v For lurthet intormtlion. tend of Documents. Wishing ton. Superintendent D. C. Mskmg tor Firmer!" Bulletin No. 1472. ' "31 INSECTS AFFECTING LAWNS The insects which generally affect lawns are ants, grubs and earthworms though in the Southeast mole crickets are sometimes troublesome. Grubs and crickets may be successfully controlled by the use It should be of arsenate of lead. used in the proportion of five pounds bushel of moist Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, speaks at of the arsenate to a national press conference in Washington. He said he expects the na- sand or soil and the whole spread tion's manpower in the next several months to come from men in the evenly over 1,000 square feet of After the lead arsenate has 21 to 37 age group, and warned local draft boards not to indiscriminately lawn. thus been applied, the lawn should at war. we are because men service immediate for classify be watered. .-- Farm Machinery irom April through September. Sales snow an increase equ'Pment 2rni of per cent over a year ago, accounted for entirely in the domestic aret, since exports of farm equipment were the same. - manent remedy against attack by subterranean termites, and the only relief from their presence. These insects must maintain contact with the ground to obtain the moisture necessary for their existence. When contact with their moisture supply In the earth is cut off, the subterranean insects in the damaged wood, no matter how numerous, soon die." In order to prevent subterranean termites from reaching the woodwork of buildings, it is necessary to construct the foundations entirely of stone, brick, concrete, or concrete and steel, including the pillars in the basement or cellar. Likewise, the walls, partitions, and flooring in the ground floor or basement should be of concrete. If it is desired, a wooden floor may be laid over this concrete. In buildings where stone, brick, concrete, and similar building materials can not be used, timber may be employed provided it has been creosote. impregnated with coal-ta- r No untreated wood which may be infested with termites, should come in contact with the ground. FAULTY CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION In buying property on which buildings are already built, it must be remembered that even concrete foundations do not necessarily insure termite protection. Usually the base of the concrete floor is a loose combination of coarse gravel or jfr cinders and cement grout. Over this is laid a layer of solid concrete about two or three inches thick, in which untreated wooden sleepers are laid while it is still moist. These sleepers nearly or quite reach the coarse, open conglomerate which is in contact with the earth and to U. S. troops and native workmen work on underground installations them is nailed the flooring. For sure of dugouts. This is a first aid dugout equipped to perform surgery in protection there should be a layer of solid concrete at least one Inch thick an advanced position. between the grout and the wood. It is important to make sure, before you buy property, that such construction has been used. SOME EVIDENCES OF INFESTATION The emergence of iarge numbers of flying termites is an indication of infestation, the point of emerA'' "Tl gence indicating the location of the t Despite actual or threatened shortages of raw materials, last year was a year of record output ' tarm equipment, the department of commerce. says The monthly out-Pof farm equipment continued steadily at the rate of $65,000,000 so-call- tar:'-- Denver baby turkeys condition from i1 - ' - Carbon Monoxide Investigators or mis Lieut. Gen. Heinter Poorten, commander of the armed forces of Netherlands East Indies, which have made things so hot for the invading Nipponese. si of buildings is the only effective per- British troops examine a German field gun, captured during their occupation of the island of Maaloy, Norway. The British commandos were landed on the Norwegian islands of Vaagsa and Maaloy, after coast defenses had been silenced. Fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty tons of enemy shipping were destroyed, with munition dumps, oil tanks and storehouses. 4-- H branch of the pathological laboratory of the U.S.D.A. into the Near-Preside- nt tV pos- of A of neglect, tardy AFTER years n t lact Kav Kaon nsirl "white ants," are destructive insects to a great American a man who mostly native which are distribut- served his country as United States ed throughout the country. They senator, minister to France, secreare, however, most numerous and tary of war and secretary of the destructive in the southern, south- treasury, a statesman who just western and Pacific coast regions, missed being President! From Atwhere both the subterranean and lanta, Ga., recently came word that the restoration of the burial place nonsubterranean kinds are found. of William Harris Crawford had WHERE THEY NEST Some species of termites nest hV been completed. Crawford was a native of Amthe earth and in dead and decaying wood. These are the more common herst county. Va., where he was and injurious species which attack born February 24, 1772. His partimbers and trees only through the ents moved to Georgia and there ground. The nests of some less the father died in 1788, leaving his son to become the princommon formii are excavated in cipal support of the family by teachwood and trees. The principal food of termites is ing school. Meanwhile he was studying law cellulose which they obtain from and in 1798 he was admitted to the either dead or living vegetation. politics was PREVENTING AND REMEDYING abar. From theandlawin to1803 Crawford logical step DAMAGE TO WOODWORK was. elected to the state legislature If buildings are to be erected on where he served until 1807. Elected woodland that has been recently! to the. United States senate in 1809, cleared, all decaying stumps and he made an even more brilliant logs should be removed and burned.' record as a legislator there and If there is reason to believe, be- from March, 1812, to 1813 he was cause of the presence of decaying pro tem of the upper president wood, that the termites are numer house. ous in the earth, the oil should be At the end of Crawford's term in deeply plowed or disked, and treat- the senate, President Madison ofed with chemicals to kill the insects fered him the post of secretary of Effective poisons for this purpose war but he declined. However, he are (1) a 10 per cent solution of did an as minaccept appointment sodium arsenate; (2) 1 part coal ister to France and in Paris he retar creosote and 3 parts kerosene ceived a warm reception. When oil 200 gallons per 1,000 square Napoleon was overthrown in 1813, feet; (this mixture, if it is to be Crawford returned to the United sprayed on, must be strained through States where Madison again offered burlap before being used); (3) 50 per him the of secretary of war. cent disulphide emulsion (1 quart This time post he accepted and held the to 50 gallons of water, applied at until 1816 when he became the rate of 3 pints per square foot). position of the treasury. secretary This emulsion is already on the that period in our history During market; (4) orthodichlorobenzene, Presidents were nominated by con-100 gallons per 1,000 square feet. PROPER CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS It must be kept in mind that it is not the age of a building which renders it liable to attack it is the manner of its construction. A recent government bulletin states unequivocally that: "Complete insulation from the ground of all untreated woodwork Termites, i The farm woodlot needs "culling" as at this time of the year just as does the flock of laying woodlot is to produce hers If the ens, LEAVESThomV i - afer' and 'Robber' Trees Should 'Get the Ax.' J For ' Topics i i Visits Hiite House gressional caucus and as Madison's term drew to a close his secretary of the treasury was the favorite to succeed him. However, when the vote was finally taken, James Monroe received 65 votes to Crawford's 54. The new President asked his rival to continue as secretary of the treasury and Crawford consented. He served until 1825. When it came time to select a presidential nominee in 1824, Crawford's name was again prominently mentioned. In fact, he was the congressional caucus nominee, although there were only 66 out of 216 members of his party present when the vote was taken. By this time the caucus method of choosing a President had fallen into disrepute and three other candidates entered the contest. They were John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. When the electoral votes were counted it was found that Jackson had received 91 votes, Adams 84, Crawford 41 and Clay 37. Since none of the candidates had a majority of all the votes cast, the election was thrown into the house of representatives, which was to ballot on the three high men. There Henry Clay threw his strength to Adams and the New Englander was elected President. After Adams was inaugurated, he asked Crawford to continue as secretary of the treasury, but the Georgian pleading ill health he had suffered a stroke of paralysis in 1824 declined the honor and returned to his home in Georgia. However, by 1827 his health was good enough so that he was able to take on the duties of a circuit judge and he continued in this office until he died at Elberton, Ga., on September 15, 1834. His death was a fitting conclusion to his active life for he literally "died in the harness." He was away from home on the circuit, fulfilling his judicial duties, when the end came. Few men have ever filled the post of secretary of treasury more capably than Crawford. As a member of the senate he had done much to bring about the reincorporation of the Bank of the United States and because of this Madison first offered This him the treasury portfolio. proved to be a wise choice, for Crawford, taking over the tangled financial affairs of the nation at the close of the War of 1812, handled the situation with extraordinary skill and was able to turn the treasury over to his successor with its finances on a sound basil. - |