Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1916 — Page 2

KANKAKEE INTER-STATE FAIR Sept. 2,4,5, 6, 7,8,1916 World’s Greatest Outdoor Entertolnaeat FIVE DAYS AND EVENINGS And Spacial Ante Badag Day MAGNIFICENT HORSE SHOW 100 Trained Show Hpraea IDO Pure Bred Peroheroaa 100 Tiny Shetland Poniea $45,000 Premiums, Races and Attraction! BRILLIANT FREE CIRCUS 25 World-Renowned Acta 2 Splendid Performance* Daily Absolutely Free to All Five Glorious Days and Wonderful Evenings MARVELOUS HARNESS RACES America’* Speediest Horace Exciting Running Raoea Each Day Rich With Entertaining Features SPEEDIEST AUTO RACES Special Day Saturday, Sept. 2 6 Reoord-Brcahing Eventa Patterson's Perfect Productions on Midway MAMMOTH FARM DISPLAY Blue Ribbon Farm Product* Beauttftil Textile Display Educational Machinery Exhibit* The Fair of a Thousand and One Interests . TREMENDOUS CROWDS "5 Vaat Throng* of 50,000 Daily / 15,000 th Spacious Grand Stand T Great Republican Political Rally on Wednesday 5 Days September 2. 4,5, 6,7, 8 sEreh|i / SPECIAL AUTO RACES SEPTEMKR X Vbiters Order Grand Stand Seats ErkiblUn Write for Pimtaa Lbt UEN. SMALL, Secretary, KANKAKEE, ILL.

Democrats Secure Over $10,000,000 Extra.

Here in Indiana the democratic spellbinders would like to talk about anything else than that which the republican speakers will present to the voters. The republicans have a notion that the matter of reckless expenditures of public money are subjects that the voters of Indiana will want to hear discussed this year, and the republican speakers are laying plans to enlighten them on the record that the democratic party in Indiana has made during the past eight years. For months past the democratic politicians have been bragging loud and long because of the fact that during the past eight years they have paid approximately $1,500,000 on Indina’s public debt. The republicans during the preceding eight years, had paid about three times as much as that on the debt, but the democratic boasters never refer to that record. Here is a question that will be ask-

AUTO POLO AT INDIANA STATE FAIR

Polo played by men who use automobiles, instead of ponies or roller skates, will be one of the conspicuous outdoor features of the Indiana State fair the week of Sept. 4. Auto polo abounds in thrills for the spectators from start to finish. A large light ball is used, with the same kind of driving mallets as are seen in the pony games. The light cars skim over the field at full speed, head-on collisions and sideswipes being frequent, And the wonder of the game la that any of the players escape with their lives. Hankinson’s teams will play the games at the Indiana fair. They are E>rld famous, having appeared at eighteen of America’s largest expositions d state fairs, and they haVe toured Japan, China, the Philippines and other untrles of the Orient and far East.

INDIANA STATE FAIR RACES WEEK OF SEPT. 4.

I The harness races at the Indiana Mate fair will have the usual large E- of starters and the sport will uperlor quality in which many trotting and pacing stables ‘wiU be represented by their best tai •nt The program follows: . Monday, Sept. 4—2:25 pace, 2:10 trot; 2:0? pace; 2:25 trot, 2:09 paoe; purse In each race, 1800. Tuesday, Sept. 5—2:28 trot, 2:17 poMt Western Horseman pantag stake

Gillam Township Home Coming.

The annual Gillam Township Home Coming will be held, at Independence on Sunday, August the 27th. We will have but one day this year and we are planning to have an old-fashioned basket meeting. Let everybody interested bring well filled baskets of good things to eat, and come early and let us have a good time as we always do have when we get together. Dan Guild will pre ich in the forenoon at 10:30, and an afternoon program will be provided. This will probably be the last Home Coming we will have, ..nd please do not fail to be there. Sincerely yours, COMMITTTEE.

ed the democratic spellbinders more than once during the coming campaign: “Why was but $1,500,000 paid on the debt when the democrats gatW ered from the taxpayers of the state during the past seven years $10,344,459.81 more than was collected during the last two republican administrations?” -

for thrse-ye&r-olds, pane $8,000; 2:12 pace; purses SI,OOO each. Wednesday, Sept. 6—2120 trot, Western Horseman trotting stake for three-year-olds, purse, $8,000; 2:08 trot, 2:06 pace; purse, SI,OOO each. Thursday, Sept 7—2:18 trot 2:20 pace, 2:12 tret 2:20 paoe; purse tn each race, SI,OOO. Friday, Sept. 8—2:15 trot free-for-all paoe, 2:84 trot 2iU paoe; purse so each rate, StOOK

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

ISN’T HE THE HANDSOME MAN!

—Carter in New York Sun. "Great Scott, Woodrow I I’ve Been Up In the Air Almost Four Years I"

THE SITUATION

—Lanning in Providence Bulletin.

—Lanning In Providence Bulletin.

FIGHTING THE HESSIAN FLY

The Life of the Hessian Fly (From the U. S. Department of Agriculture.)

The life history of the Hessian fly Is shown above. The life of the adult is but a few days, probably but a week or less, and the great mass of the flies will appear at about the same time. If tfie wheat is sown after the flies appear by the time the wheat is up they -will be gone and the plants escape the attacks of the fly. : Experiment stations urge you to sow wheat late in order to escape the Hessian fly. Experience has taught you that the best yields are secured from plants that enter the winter with strong, healthy growth. Solve this dilemma by seeding late and hastening tire fall growth by the use of 200 to 400 pounds of fertilizer containing 2 per .cent to 3 per cent of available ammonia. Acid phosphate alohe will not give the necessary, quick, strong, healthy-growth. If the fly does not happen to be present this year, the good effects upon both the wheat and the grass seeded with the wheat, win repay many times the cost of the added ammonia. You cannot afford to be without this fly insurance.

Plant On or After These Fly-Free Dates (From the U. S. Department of Agriculture.)

BEATING THE HESSIAN FLY

At this time, when the fight on the Hessian Fly is becoming so widespread, and every implement of warfare is being used, any word or method of control Is eagerly sought. To the “pestered” wheat growers nothing is more acceptable than news of the success of other practical farmers, and because of this thy experience of Mr. P. I. Simons of Calhoun county, Michigan, is worthy of note. It is not a one year’s test, but observations from three crops that the conclusion is based upon. As Mr. Simons tells it: “The wheat field was severely attacked by the Hessian fly, and the average yield that year was 3 to 5 bushels per acre. Right across the fence from my wheat field was another on the same kind of ground that had been prepared in practically the same way. “The difference was that I used 200 pounds of fertilizer per acre. The application was made with a fertilizer attachment to the grain drill at the time of sowing. At four different places across the field strips were untreated and the entire field was seeded to clover.L “Up to June 10th the fly had not attacked my fertilized wheat, but had attacked the unfertilized wheat in the same field to'such an extent that the drill rows where no fertilizer was used appeared as wagon roads across the field. At this time the field across the fence from mine had practically been destroyed, yielding only 3 bushels per acre. My wheat threshed out 21 bushels per acre. The fertilizer that year meant an increase of at least 15 bushels per acre to me. “Now, when it came to the seeding where no fertilizer was applied I failed to get a clover stand, while on the fertilized portion of the field I had the best clover In the neighborhood.” It should not be taken that fertilizer will kill the fly. It isn’t an insecticide, but it fulfills its mission when the Increased health and vigor of the • plants results, and thus the fly turns to the weaker, sicklier plants to carry on the destruction. Sowing late will help avoid the fall brood, but no recourse other than having good strong healthy plants can be turned to so that the spring brood will not have the chance of profittaking. ■

HALF THE BATTLE BEFORE PLANTING.

With wheat as with many other crops, the proper treatment of the seedbed and the supplying of plantfood to carry along the crop with a good start and a steady growth, may be considered half the battle. As wheat Is not cultivated after seeding, whatever cultivation is necessary must be done before the seed is put Into ttM ground..

Read Farmers’ Bulletin 640 (U. S. Department of Agriculture) which says: “The application broadcast of some quick-acting fertilizer containing a large percentage of phosphate, made as soon as general infestation is apparent will cause the plants to tiller more freely and give them sufficient vigor to withstand the winter, and thus Increase the number of healthy stems the following spring. . .' . While it may seem “far fetched” to bring foreward as a preventive measure the enrichments of the soil, a fertile soil will produce plants that will withstand with little injury attacks that will prove disastrous to plants growing on an Impoverished or thin soil. This is because a fertile soil will enable an infested plant to tiller freely, and these tillers will have sufficient vitality to withstand the winter and send up head-producing stems In the spring.” If drought prevails, the seeding date should be longer delayed. Write your own experiment station for additional information.

STAMP OUT THE FLY

“Three things are necessary in waging a successful warfare against the Hessian fly, viz.thorough preparation of the soli, so as to form the best possible conditions for germination; heavy fertilization, If the soil is not already in good condition so as to Insure a quick and rapid growth; and late sowing so as to compel the flies to go elsewhere to deposit their eggs.” This extract from bulletin 194 of the Indiana experiment station contains in a nutshell the main conditions to be handled in the control of the pest. The Illinois circular 146 also makes a good point when It declares: “A vigorous wheat plant Is much better able to react against an attack of the fly, especially by stoollng freely or throwing out an abundance of new shoots from tl>e root. Whatever tends, consequently, to give vigor to the plant reduces proportionally the percentage of loss.” This leads to the conclusion that a fertiliser containing at least two per cent ammonia may be the salvation of the crop, and the experience of many users bears this out. With such crop Insurance so cheap compared with results obtained, the enhanced chances for a successful clover catch always greater by its use, fertilizer will play a very Important part in this fight on the Hessian fly.

DOUBLE YOUR PROFIT* FROM WHEAT.

Millers pay more per bushel for high quality wheat than they do for that which only grades number four or five, according to a Chicago Board of Trade Member. Ohio Experiment Station Bulletin 243 shows that high quality wheat and large yields go together, thus giving the farmer double profits. The experlments reported In Bulletin 243 show a yield of 8.45 bushels of wheat per acre with 51 per cent plump and 49 per cent,shriveled kernels, where no fertilizer was used, against a yield of as high as 34.1 S bushels per acre of which 94 per cent of the kernels were plump and but 6 per cent shriveled when the wheat was fertilized.

WHEAT YIELDS, AND BEEF PRODUCTION.

“Those 50 to 55 bushels to wheat yields don’t ‘Just grow’ any more than does a load of prime finished baby beeves. The cattle are never allowed to lose their calf fat, and are fed liberally of a balanced ration from the day they are born until they go into th& car for market,” says Clyde A. Waugh, in Farm and Fireside. “Record wheat crops must have plenty of a balanced plantfood ration to give them a quick start in the fall, to enable them to resist disease and insect attacks, to make enough growth in the fall to cover the ground before winter sets in, to start out early in the spring and to make a straight standing, early maturing, bumper crop of first quality.” _j