Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1916 — Page 2

Insects and Some Remedies

Insect pests attacking plants In the garden or house are of two general classes, those which chew the foliage, flowers or fruits, and those which liYe by sudking the plant Juices. It Is Important that the remedy he made to fit the two distinct conditions produced, v The three usual methods of combating Insect pests are first, preventive; second, by poisoning the food they eat, and third, destruction by direct contact spray. Some of the best insecticides are as follow*: Tobacco—Either In the form of to bacco dust, tobacco stems of nicotine extract. Tobacco dust can be purchased at a cost of 3 or 4 cents a pound in bulk. Tobacco dust is used for dusting around on the ground at the base of the plants and sometimes for dusting directly on leaves of plants. It is an effective preventive measure against infestation by the tiny plant lice, cucumber beetles, squash bugs, rose beetles and fbf similar forms of Insects. It can be used freely as it is not Injurious to the foliage of plants. Tobacco stems scattered around the base of plants act as a good mulch as well as an effective insect preventive. Nicotine extract Is, as the term implies, a tobacco Juice, and can be made by soaking a package of ordinary chewing tobacco in a bucket of water and used as a . spray against plant lice and several species. Nicotine extract also comes In a number of commercial forms, some of which contain kerosene or other insecticidal oils which serve to make protective emulsion.

These proprietary forms can be obtained from any reliable seed store. Directions for use are given on the containers. Arsenate of lead is the name given to one of the best arsenical poisons used in combating leaf-eating Insects. It comes in the form of a thick creamy paste to be diluted with water as directed on the package and sprayed with a small pump over the foliage. Bordeaux Mixture is the standard remedy for protection against blights and fungus diseases. It may be used either alone, or where the plants are afTected by insect pests arsenate of lead can be added with perfect safety. It can be obtained with directions for use at any reliable seed store. Concentrated Lime and Sulphur Solution is a proprietary remedy used as a winter spray and is most effective against scale insects infesting fruit and shade trees. It is not a Base remedy to be used in the kitchen or vegetable garden. - Hellebore is used for dusting over the foliage of currant bushes, gooseberries and other small fruits early in the season against infestation by current worms and similar pests. Kerosene Emulsion is one of the safest and most effective insecticides for sucking insects such as aphids, plant lice, cabbage worms and squash bugs. This is easily made by dissolving a, half pound of soap in a quart of boiling water, to which should be added two gallons of kerosene and one gallon of water. Churn thoroughly until the mixture becomes creamy. This is the stock solution and should be diluted with from ten to fifteen parts of water before applying to plants. Use this as a spray. pntaow P«m Mash—Tn make polaon bran mash take twenty-five pounds of bran or coarse flour, a half pound of Paris green, mix thoroughly and then add a half pint of molasses and t enough water to make the mash thick * ehough to spread. Spread on the ground In small quantities where cut worms are troublesome. . if only a small amount is required use a quart of bran, one tablespoonful of molasses and a teaspoonful of Paris green. Ready for Fungus. In fighting fungus diseases it is necessary to apply what Is known as a fungicide, or a preparation which will cover completely all of the spores on the affected part of the tree or shrub, thus preventing any further germination. In this way the disease is held in check, that is to say, provided application is made frequently enough during the spring and early summer months. Spraying with a fungicide is really a prevention rather than a cure. Its application should be begun before the disease has gone too far; that is to say, In a good many cases it should be applied before the disease is apparent If you have fungus disease on your fruit or vegetables this year you should spray sufficiently early the following spring to avoid a repetition of this trouble. A good rule to go by is to spray your fruit trees and vegetables which are susceptible to fungus diseases earfy every spring, at two-week intervals until the summer is well advanced. Following this rule yannot do any harm and it is a good means of Insuring against these diseases, which may spring up later If not attended to la advance. r -

* ' If the interior of the poultry house la damp and foul, scatter some tar deftee or airelaksd lime abouL They ere good absorbers a«d deodqggenb

TO RESTORE CABIN

Frontier Home of Simon Kenton at Covington May Be Placed in Park Covington, Ky.—Patriotic orders here are interested In the restoration ' of the cabin of Simon Kenton, one ol Kentucky’s most celebrated pioneers. The cabin which is in Ninth street, is a rambling shack that seems entirely out of place among the excellent buildings'which are its neighbors, and proponents of the "city beautiful plan” are for removing the cabin, without reference to its historical associations. Daughters of the American Revolution are engineering a movement whereby the cabin will be ! removed to one of the parts of the city and restored to its original picturesque ruggedness. The cabin was built by the famous pioneer and Indian fighter in 1872, and has been occupied until 10 years ago. It is about 20 by 30 feet in dimensions, and has the half story, or loft, to which in early days those who slept above climbed by means of a short ladder. The logs of the cabin are oak and cedar and have withstood the ravages of time remarkably well. The building has been added to by its various tenants until it now represents the handiwork of half a dozen carpenters, but the plan is to restore the building to'its original lines when it Is removed to the park. Kenton was born in Virginia* He left his home there at the age of 16, because he thought he had killed a rival for the hand of a young woman. He crossed the Alleghanies and roamed for a time changing his name to "Simon Butler.” He heard of the Wonderful "Cain Land” called by the Indians “Kaintuckee,” and decided to visit it. He met and became a friend of Daniel Boone, and once rescued Boone from the Indians. Kenton in later years was very poor until the State of Kentucky granted him a pension. LIVED ON $16.50 A YEAR Indiana Man Built a Hut of Mud and Sticks as a Home In Arkansas. Hope, Ark.—When John Q. Cushman, 63, a hermit who for six years had lived in a mud hut, five miles north of Hope, failed to go to a neighbor’s spring for water, the investigated and found him dying nearthe hut. He never regained consciousness and died late in the afternoon. Cushman came here from Indiana. He bought a small piece of land in the woods and with sticks and mud built a hut eight feet square. It has no window and no floor. A scaffold in one corner covered with leaves, was his bed, and a home made stool and a small cook stove was his only oth er equipment. He prepared and ate his food from the skillet. He ate only a ypnah made of. beans and corn meal mixed with lard. Cushman once told a neighbor his expenses for food and clothes were limited to $16.50 a year. He had S2OOO in a local bank .and Is said to have more money in Indiana banks. ALLIGATORS HATCHED BY HEN Mother Sobn Worried to Death by Her Unnatural Brood. Tarboro, N. C.—What might sound a fish story or a fairy yarn comes from Beaufort County. C. J. Overton* decided on an experiment, so he placed some alligator eggs, which he had discovered while hunting along South Creek, under a hen. It was Mr. Overton’s idea to see if the hen would hatch the ’gator eggs. He patiently waited and one morning a few days agp. while he was In the vicinity of the setting hen, he heard her cackling vociferously. He investigated and found three young ’gators tenaciously clinging to their foßter mother. The hen was gyrating, while her peculiar offspring were sticking to her like grim death. Mr. Overton liberated the hen and she flew into the top of a tree, where she remained until she decided it was dangerous to venture below In a live state, so she dropped to the earth, dead. The young 'gators also died. HATCHING 08TRICH EGGS Spdkane, Wash—According to Supt. of Parltß John W. Duncan, the male ostrich in Manito Park Zpo is sharing with his mate the labor of hatching seven ostrich eggs, on which the hen ostrich began to sit a few days ago. The male ostrich sits on the eggs in the daytime, and the hen ostrich takes up the work at night. Besides her duties in mothering the eggs for one shift in every twenty four hours, the hen ostrich still adds to the size of the sitting by laying another egg occasionally. The keepers at the! zoo built the nest under a shed to give the ostriches protection from the weather. The* hen ostrich, however, disliked the arrangement and . with the assistance of her mate, rolled the eggs outside into the sun, where the hatching is now being conducted. •The hatching process continues fortytwo days. Six eggs from the same hen laid earlier, are being incubated In the city laboratory In an electrical Incubator. :

Mrs. Joseph Cummins of Beraardston, Mass., has a thoughtful hen which has laid an egg with a "C,” which is taken to stand for Cummins, Conrad Dubosiki, a 21 year old Russian giant, who is working on the farm of J. Polokof in Lebanon, Conn., is 1 feet 2 inches talL

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, INP.

Doctoring Sick Chickens

Generally speaking doctoring sick chickens is a mere waste of time as fai as getting them well goes, though every poultry keeper does more or less of it for experimental purposes, and to enable him to keep his flock in order. The best medicine for an ailing chicken, and usually the cheapest, is a sharp hatchet and a speedy burial. The best of chickens do not live to be very old, so a premature death is not to be deplored if only a hen now and then gets sick. On a farm folks are too busy to be tinkering around with sick chickens. In doctoring the chickens the main object is to see what are the symptoms. In some places the first sick fowl is the sign of a general clearing up of the premises and the feeding to the sick and the well birds of some good poultry powder or tonic. Such diseases as gapes in little chickens are worthy the attention of the poultry keeper. A twisted horse hair or any one of a dozen remedies and devices may be used- with good success and valuable lives saved, but this really comes under the bead of a surgical operation. Often fine chickens are the victims of accidents and these are well worth saving when taken in time. Then, too, as long as a chicken will eat it would seem a hopeful subject, for medicines can be skillfully-combined with tidbits, and there is not the trouble of forcing them down as when the chicken is without appetite. Every drooping chicken should be examined at once, for often a string wound about the neck or some trifling thing will cause a fowl to appear side, and if past remedy it should be killed at once, but if it seems at all hopeful it should be quarantined. Then the premises should get a thorough going over for lice, dampness, filth or lark of fresh air so as to keep the disease from spreading. At the same time a good tonic will not come amiss with extra care in the feeding, and a clean run if possible. Very often the outbreak of disease is the best thing that can happen on a farm, as it calls attention to evils long neglected and paves the way to reform. On one farm when roup took nearly every chicken there was a general reforma tion, and conditions that never should have existed were banished and the fowls put on a paying basis.

Hints to Poultry Raisers. Warmth, dryness, fresh air, dry grain feed, pure water and cleanliness are indispensible in dealing with young chicks. Unless these condi t ions are to be maintained one .had better sell eggs than hatch them. Wheat and slipped oats are excellent feedings of whole wheat bran aid growth of feathers as well as the body. When supplying green food remember that the fresh, crisp quality is particularly attractive to fowls. Seeds sprouted In a warm pface, sprouted oats and crisp cabbage are greatly relished. Chaff makes good litter for young chicks to scratch in. Finely crushed shell should be accessible to the small birds. Chicks are very sensitive across their backs. If you do not use the hen method take this into consideration when supplying artificial heat. When the chicks are allowed on ground be sure that the runs are clean. Soil previously run with poul- • try should have been ploughed or cropped in the interval. A warm hover should be access! ble to orphaned chicks. Sunlight is an important ally in the rearing of young chicks. Watch the young flock. Those that respond readily to wise care, whose growth is unchecked, should form the basis of next year’s breeding pen. For lice, treat locally by dusting the birds with sulphur, then disinfect their quarters. . For gapes, disinfect the runs with carbolic acid and treat affected birds by inserting a feather moistened with kerosene into the throat. SHOULD THE LABEL BE REMOVED? The wire-fastened label on fruit trees should not be discarded at planting time, unless one be prepared to make a written record of trees planted, stating number of and position in the field. It should, however, be shifted from stem or trunk to a branch and so attached that there will be enough loop or opening to permit of expansion or efllargement of branch for two growing seasons, after which time the wire will have sufficiently rusted and weakened that it will no longer endanger the branch by strangulation. Failure to attend tD this little matter is the cause annually of the death of thousands and tens of thousands of nursery trees. The best system of all is that o 2 using, instead of depending upon these little markers w£ich are quickly defaced, permanent metallic labels hung loosely from a branch by a soft easily twisted galvanized wire.-

Keep the hand hoes sharp. A coarse file is’ excellent for this purpose. Barbers supply conversation at cut »tes. ,

SOLDIER GHOST

Crowds Gather to View Luminous Spectre That Balutes With Transparent Arm New Orleans, La. —Under the trees in Carrollton Avenue, between Maple and Burthe streets, a ghastly, shimmering half tangible shape stood one night this week. The shadows around lent a weird, eerie atmosphere to the place. At times the shape moved slightly, from its position, and then moved back into the shadows again where it was only half discemable. jA half luminous, half transparent apparition dressed as a soldier, booted and hatted with a spectre rifle slung across its shoulders, it seemed a half real, yet half unnatural something that no mortal dare encounter. A man came down the street jauntily whistling. He was between Maple and Burthe streets. Suddenly from its place beside a tree the ghost glided menacingly onto the banquette. It halted—stood silent. No sound did it utter; there was no rustle of cloth as one long arm went up in seeming salute to the barrel of the spectre rifle. It was just something that stood there The man saw. He could not be mistaken. And before the spectre’s arm had finisHed the half circle of its slow salute, the man was there no longer. The tap-tap of his fleeing feet quickly died away in the distance. Then the news spread. A ghost was haunting Carrollton avenue. Thomas Cleary tn front of whose house the spectre had taken up Its stand, was notified by phone. Cleary came to his front porch and looked streetward. For a while he stared into the darkness. Then slowly, very slowly, seemingly growing out of the dark that lent a background to the sombre thing, the shape reappeared. It looked as it had been described — the likeness of a soldier on guard, yet only half discernible and illusive, even as a shadow might seem if viewed with a dim light behind it. * In the unaccountable way that news travels, others heard of the apparition. Crowds of people who didn’t generally pass that way at that time of night thronged the street cars going past. Crowds viewed the apparition in the shadow. The jitneys did a big ghost seeing business. Nevertheless hundreds can give voice to the apparitions authenticity. Further investigation will be made and the findings submitted to the professor of physics at Tulane University. According to the tale told by one street car motorman, he saw the dim shape standing there at dusk, but thought possibly it was bnly a figment of his imagination as his car sped swiftly past. It was not until nightfall that anything that might be construed as tangible was observed, and from then on it was viewed by hundreds. FLIGHT OF TIME RETARDED . ✓ ■ Pigeons Enjoy Rides on Hands of Big Tower Clock. Seattle, Wash. —Joyriding by pigeons on the minute hands of the four big clock? in the tower of the Kings station has occasioned considerable annoyance to the station masters of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific for several weeks and they say it must stop. Almost every night between 7 and 9 o'clock, the pigeons alight on the minute hands of the clock while they are on their upward journey from the half hour point .to the hour, thereby retarding the movement of the machinery. After the minute hands pass the hour point the birds desert their perch and wait until the half hour station is reached again and then go aboard. FEELS WELL RECOMPENSED Man Falls Into Creek and Comes Up With Six Pound Turtle. Connersville, Ind. —David Disselwein fell from his log wagon when one wheel fell into hole in a bridge over Garrison Creek and he plunged eight feet downward into shallow water. He came up smiling, unhurt, and with a six-pound soft shelled turtle clutched in his hands. He felt the turtle writhe as his hands encountered it, deep in the sand, he said, and immediately reasoned that fate had recompensed him for the momentary embarrassment of his fall. «NO WOMEN IN HEAVEN" Cleveland, O. —"Feminine personality does not exist in heaven,” is the belief of Mrs. D. D. Butcher, teacher of individual science, which aims at the perfection of true mating, Mrs. Butcher says: "Woman goes to heaven after death but becomes a part of man. “The theory involved in Individual science is that the sun as male, is the true mate of the earth, as female. The earth Is the producer. “Without the sun there would be no progency. "On earth men and women must become perfect before perfection of spiritual body can be obtained. Woman was created in Adam and In the reflection of hiin. Man and woman unite in forming the spiritual body. They retain their Identity, but remain as one.” Mrs. Butcher doesn't believe woman subordinate to men. She says each has a seperate duty to perfonp. She selectß as lfer girls and young women.

; A muffler which can be fastened in* . side an overcoat collar and put on or off with tie latter garment has been patented by a Minnesota man. t " “ . -v. ik "

Commencing Monday, April 3, and lasting one week, till Saturday night, April 8. The greatest week’s bargains in groceries ever held in the city. 25 lb. sack of H. & E. cane, granulated sugar, cheaper than it can be bought in car lots, one sack to a customer SL»S 1 lb. -i;an of Arbuckles ee (steel cut) . -23 c 1 lb. of our 50c Jap tea for 35c; 3 ,lbs for 5 lbs of fancy California evaporated peaches for 25c 4 1-lb. pkgs evaporated applss for 2tC 4 lbs of prunes for 12 bars of Daylight soap for • • 4 2-lb cans of sweet com for p® 4 2-lb cans baked beans in tomato sauce * • • -2j> c 4 2-lb cans of red beans for 4 2-lb cans of wax beans for ..' 4 2-lb cans of green string beans for 2oc 4 3-lb cans of sauerkraut for , •„ 4 3-lb cans of hominy for .....25c All of the above canned goods taken from our regular 10c and every can guaranteed. One car of northern sand-grown Minnesota early seed potatoes:* Early Ohios, per bushel ...... -|l-20 Early Rose, per bushel • • Early Red Triumph, or Six Weeks, per bushel * A - 0J Open Evenings Till 8 O’clock. Phone 54 JOHN EGER

‘Blue Ribbon Flour' Sale Day Only $1.35 per 50 Pound Sack At any grocery in town or the null— Satisfaction guaranteed or money back Bran per hundred - $1.25 Middlings “ $1.30 at the mill only Iroquois Roller Mills Phone 456

Get a new tissue gingham dress for 19c per yard at Rowles & Parker’s, Sale Day. A trunk which Napoleon Bonaparte carried with him on his campaigns and which was damaged by fire when the Russians burned Moscow, was sold Saturday in New York city for $3lO at the concluding sale of the Jumel collection of Napoleonic relics. A big lot of ladies’ washable white waists for Sale Day at SI.OO each at Rowles & Parker’s. Archie Roosevelt, largely through his own personal effort, has enrolled nearly 300 Harvard men for attendance at the Plattsburg military camp this summer and won’t be satisfied until he has doubled these figures. Roosevelt, who expects to finish his Harvard courses in three years, recently issued a plea asking for more volunteers, with the result that 100 new men signed for the camp.

For Men Market Day Only ■9 , On Market Day, April 5, we are going to sell a 35c celebrated Durham Duplex Razor With two 5c cakes of shaving soap, making a total of 45c for this day only at 25c * A clothes line reel free with each dollar purchase of any Nyal Remedy. A. F. LONG \*T - -

DODGE BROTHERS 23 Miles Per Gallon Gas. 100. Miles Per Quart Oil. $785 F. 0. B. Detroit. Carload Just Received. CHEVROLET BABY GRAND Product Of Experience 24 Miles Per Gallon Gas. 500 Miles Per Gallon Oil. $750 F. O. B. Flint. Chevrolet “$490” “Masterpiece of Veteran Builder.” 22.5 Miles Per Gallon Gas. 500 Miles Per Gallon Oil. Chevrolet “490” was given a more gruelling test on gasoline, carrying a heavy load, against a very high wind. — CALL AT RENSSELAER GARAGE AND SEE THEM. M. I. ADAMS & SON

W. F. Smith & Co. Have $200,000 Job in Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith, who have been spending a few days here, will soon cleave* Laporte and go to Winona, Minn., where they will reside during the time W. F. Smith & Co. are building a $200,000 stone road job there. Mr. Smith estimates that it will take them a year and a half to complete the job. Their son, Millard, who is attending school at Laporte, will remain there until the end of the school year. Mr. Smith was here to bid on the Callahan stone road job, which was let by the commissioners. Clarence Smith and wife will also-go to Winona with his pareßts. F. W. Tobias is having a fine porch erected on his Front street residence, and when it is completed the house will be much of the bungalow type and greatly improved in appearance.