Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1919 — Page 3

BIG POTATO YIELD SM ' "J Western Canada Man Raised 600 Bushels on Two Acres. Thinks He Did Pretty Well, but There Were Even Larger Crepe in the Neighborhood—Live Stock Men Prosper. As a by-product the yield of potatoes on the farm of Ben Pawson of Coaldale, Alberta, was somewhat of a paying proposition. Coaldale is in the Medicine Hat district of Alberta. Medicine Hat is a place, pictured in the mind of many Americans, where the weather man holds high carnival, and when he wants to put a little life or spirit into the people just moves the mercury down a few notches. The rascal has thus given Medicine Hat a rather unenviable place on the map. But it isn’t half as bad as it is pictured. Anyway, Ben Pawson likes it. Last year he grew six hundred bushels of potatoes on two acres of land that had no special preparation, and only the usual precipitation, or rain, as the less cultured would call it. When he couldn’t work at his hay or grain, because of the damp mornings, he gave them some attention. And then evenings between supper and chores and bedtime he gave them some work. Anyway his yield was six hundred bushels, and he sold the whole lot for $285. Ben is satisfied. Still there were larger yields than this in the neighborhood. If one might speak of hogs in the same breath in which you speak of potatoes, there is nothing in the ethics of literature that would create a debarment. Taking advantage of this license it will not be out of place to state that large potato yields are*not the only feature of Interest in this new and interesting country. Amongst others hogs are having a good deal of attention. Not long ago, hogs reached the $23.00 mark on the Calgary market. It doesn’t cost much to raise a hog and very little to bring him to a weight of 200 pounds. Don’t cost much ! Certainly not. But what about the man who recently paid $350 for a Duroc Jersey Boar? That was all right. That man knew what he was doing. He was doing what a great many other farmers in Western Canada are doing today. He is acting on the old “saw,” that “it costs ry> more to raise a good critter than a poor one.” That is the reason that Western Canada is looming large in the live stock world. The best is none too good- The same may be raid of horses, cattle, yes, and sheep, too. The very best sires and dams of the best breeds are purchased. And while bfg prices are paid, it is felt that the demand for pure-bred stock at home and abroad will bring returns which will warrant any reasonable price that may be asked. —Advertiser meat

The Keys to the City.

Mother and daughter were watching the Shriuers’ parade. Directly behind them were two men. “Well,” said one, “the mayor certainly did give these fellows the key to the city. They certainly are having a good time.” Presently there was a tug at mother’s sleeve. “Mother, mother,” said the child, “where do they keep the keys to the city, and what do they unlock? I never saw any doors or any gates.”—lndianapolis News.

If You Need a Medicine You Should Have the Best Have you ever stopped to reason why it is that so many products that are extensively advertised, all at once drop out of sight and are soon forgotten? The reason is plain—the article did not fulfill the promises of the manufacturer. This applies more particularly to a medicine. A medicinal preparation that has real curative value almost sells itself, as like an endless chain system the remedy is recommended by those who have been benefited, to those who are in need of it. A prominent druggist says “Take for example Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a preparation I have sold for many years and never hesitate to recommend, for in almost every case it shows excellent results, as many of my customers testify. No other kidney remedy has so large a sate.” , According to sworn statements and .verified testimony of thousands who have used the preparation, the success of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is due to the fact, so many people claim, that it fulfills almost every wish in overcoming kidney, liver and bladder ailments; corrects urinary troubles and neutralizes the uric acid which causes rheumatism. You may receive a sample bottle of Swamp-Root by Parcels Post. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and enclose ten cents; also mention this paper. Large and medium size bottles for sate at all drug stores. —Adv.

That Was the Rub.

“Did you show that account to Ardvp again today.?” “Yes, sir.” “Did you tell him it had been on the slate long enough and I’l like to rub it out?” “Yes, str." “What did he say?” ,“He said it looked as if you-were trying ,to rub it in.”

What man has done woman thinks she can do better. y Strong and Healthy? If t hey Tire, Smart, Itch, or Burn, if Sore, Irritated, IUuK Ll tj Inflamed or Granulated, me Marine often. Safe for Infant or Adult. At all Druggists. Write for Free Eye Book. ■Bta«Ey«BaMdyCMVMy.Cklcafs ( U.S.l.

Annual $500,000,000 Banquet of Enemy Aliens

-w $500,000,000 banquet to jfl alien enemies has been A given annually by the ■ American public. These aliens were not invited Jrjk VF"" here, have performed no service, and yet* have /MVrn been fed on the fat of the yv. land, adding to the high cost ot living. They have tremendous appetites, consuming trees or entire forests, garden crops and fields of grain and cotton. These undesirable citizens that have made America their adopted home are Insects and plant diseases which have been Introduced from foreign countries, writes Charles Lathrop Pack, president American Forestry association, in American Forestry. There’s a pest for every plant. Some plants have more than a thousand Insects and fungus diseases which attack some portibn of them, causing death or injury. However, most of the pests which attack our plants are native to America and have natural enemies which keep them in check. “And all those fleas have little fleas, upon their backs to bite ’em. And. those again have lesser fleas, and so “ad infinitum.” Thus native insects have a host of voracious enemies, including birds, animals, and other Insects, which preserve the “balance of nature.” The ravages of native pests seldom become devastating except occasionally in small areas and for a short time when conditions become exceedingly favorable for their rapid propagation. Hitherto, America has maintained an open door to plant immigrants and, year after yehr, destructive insects and plant diseases have come to this country on these plants from abroad. Some of these pests have found the land of freedom entirely to their liking. Sometimes the climate here has been exceptionally favorable for their rapid development, at other times they have found new food plants. In such cases they have propagated rapidly because the balance of nature was no longer maintained. In most cases the fight against imported plant pests has been begun too late. The uncontrolled ravages of the late blight and rot of potatoes in 1916 was responsible for the shortage In the potato crop which sent prices soaring. Powdery scale and scurf are two other potato diseases which have been brought in from abroad. More recently, the potato wart disease, established in Pennsylvania from European Importations, has given cause for alarm. The Hessian fly. Introduced from Europe in revolutionary times, causes an average annual loss to the wheat crop of fifty million dollars, and in some years the loss from this one insect has ' exceeded one million dollars. The loss of fruit due to the codling moth, together with the money spent in controlling this insect, costs the United States about sixteen million dollars a year. Another imported fruit insect, the San Jose scale, entails a loss of at least ten million dollars annually. The tale of the gypsy moth, in ribald rhyme, illustrates what happens when an Insect reaches the United States, from another country. To paraphrase:

Not Going to Withdraw It.

A man who bad a very bad impediment in his speech once got into an argument with an acquaintance to whom he had taken a great dislike. The dispute became hotter and hotter untn the unfortunate stammerer completely lost his. temper. -You’re a f-f-f-f-fool I” he shouted furiously. “Sir,” replied the acquaintance coldly, “you must retract that at once." “Never !” retorted the stammerer. *Tm only too glad to g-g-g«et It out I*

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There was a rrian who freed two moths, And those two moths were mothers, That year there were a million more, The next a million others. They had tremendous appetites, And wrought great devastation. Until the state with wrath arose, And fought like Carrie Nation. A fight was begun which has lasted for years and today it has cost more than fifteen million dollars in cash for applying control measures, besides many times this amount of property damage. The chestnut blight Is a bark disease which was brought to this country from the Orient on Japanese chestnut nursery stock. It was first found on western Long Island in 1904. In ten years it spread over half of th.e chestnut area of the United States and at the present time it has practically exterminated the chestnut trees within a 100-mile radius of New York and is rapidly accomplishing the complete ruin of our magnificent chestnut forests of the South. The loss is many million dollars and its ultimate end will be the extinction of one of the most useful and most profitable American forest trees, as no remedy has been found. Only recently It was found that a similar disease attacking the poplars had been Imported from, the nurseries of France and had spread over a wide area of the United States. Other dangerous pests Introduced from abroad are the Oriental peach moth, the Japanese beetle, the European earwig, the Leopard moth, the alfalfa weevil, the European eelworm. The European corn borer is a pest which appareptly was brought to the United States in a cargo of hemp unloaded at a rope factory near Boston. It is exceedingly destructive to corn, feeding by boring in the stalk. In its operation it works upward, eating out a chamber from the pith. The developing ears are also sometimes hollowed out. As high as 90 per cent of

Full Glory of Cherry Blossoms.

Blooming of the cherry trees In Japan occurred earlier this year Than u'sual, owing to the exceptionally warm weather of the early months. The blossoms were out in great profusion on Sunday, Mach 30. The hlgan sakura trees in Uyeno park were In full bloom; the yoshino sakura-, of common variety, came out in full florescence on April 3, the anniversary of the first emperor of Japan. Everybody in Japan enjoyed the arborescence of springtime.

the stalks in a corn field may be infested. Over two hundred borers have been found in the stalks growing in one hill of corn. Control is made more difficult by the fact that the borer feeds on a number of other plants, including the stalks of weeds and flowers, and may live over winter in grass roots. It is so menacing that the present agricultural department appropriation bill contains an item of $250,00C for fighting it. The bureau of entomology. United States department of agriculture, has published descriptions of over 3,000 distinct insect pests which are Ukelj to be introduced into this country and cause serious loss. About half of these are European Insects which feed upon forest and shade trees and the rest Infest various cultivated crops Among the Important Insects which 11 Is hoped to exclude from the American continent are the Mediterranean fruit fly, considered by entomologists to take first prize as a destructive fruit pest, and the pink boll worm of cotton, from Mexico, which is capable of making the best efforts of cotton boll weevil appear puny in comparison. The life stories of some of these pests, as unfolded by years of study on the part of patient scientists, are so amazing as to be classed with fairy stories by those who are little acquainted with the wonders of nature, White pine blister rust is an Instance. This parasitic fungus is native to the old world, attacking the stone pine and other native five-leaved pines of Europe. White pines Imported from Germany, France and Holland, brought this disease to the United States, principally in 1908 and 1909. Curiously, the safety of our white pines depends entirely on whether we can control the spread of the disease on currant and gooseberry bushes. The fungus cannot go directly from one pine tree to another but first must spend part of its life on currant or gooseberry leaves and in- this stage it has the power of spreading rapidly and widely to other currant and gooseberry bushes. The fungus then develops another stage by which it is enabled to pass back to the pines. If we destroy the currant and gooseberry bushes we prevent the disease from infecting our white pines. Hence, the salvation of these magnificent trees depends to a large degree on whether people are willing to forego the luxury of currant Jelly and gooseberry jam. The system of inspecting the importations of foreign ’ nursery stock has proved ineffectual because the eyesight of the most competent inspector Is not capable of discovering every insect or plant disease on every plant. Many of them, especially fungi, are hidden under the bark and are entirely invisible. It must be remembered that of many of these pests we have no conception. based on experience in its native land, as to its destructive powers under American conditions. The question “what shall we do about it?” has been answered correctly by the federal embargo, which prohibits further importation of plants from abroad except such as are specifically sanctioned by the United States department of agriculture.

Volcanoes in Britain.

The two great centers of earthquake activity in the British isles are Comrte, in Perthshire, and Mersea island, in the mouth of the Blackwater, on the Essex coast. In both these localities earthquakes are frequent, and earthquakes are usually a sign of volcanic activity. Highly unpleasant as it would be, geologists would be no more surprised at the resurrection of one of the British volcanoes than they have been at the rebirth of Mount burz. x

NO NEED FOR THEM TO PART

Young Man Willing to Sacrifice Himself to Soften Blow to Poor Father-in-Law. The young man had asked him for the hand of his daughter, and a pang wrung the fatherly heart of Mr. Jones as he looked at the youth, and thought of the bitterness of parting with his well-beloved child. “I suppose, Oliver,” he said at last, “it is ohly natural and right that when the" young birds have become old enough to fly, they should leave their parental nest and go with their chosen mates to build nests of their own, and yet it pains me when I think of one of my fledglings getting ready to fly away.” “This seems to be a good-sized nest,” suggested the young man. anxious to soften the blow; ‘perhaps you’d rather have me and Gertie stay here.”

Choice of Girls.

First Guest —Won’t you join me tn requesting young Squalls to recite? Second Guest —But I don’t like recitations. First Guest —Neither do I. But if the young beggar doesn’t recite he’ll sing.—Stray Stories.

“BAYER CROSS" ON GENUINE ASPIRIN “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” to be 'genuine must be marked with the safety “Bayer Cross.” Always buy an unbroken Bayer package which contains proper directions to safely relieve Headache, Toothache, Earache. Neuralgia, Colds and pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few cents at drug stores —larger packages also. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of .. Monoacetlcacidester of Salicylicacid.—Adv.

Yielding to Superstition.

Wife (to husband) —There were two bats that I liked —one for sl3 and the other for $lB. Husband —Which one did you finally decide upon? Wife—The $lB one. I’m a little superstitious about the number 13. — Stray stories.

“CAN I BE CURED?” SAYS THE SUFFERER How often have you heard that sad cry from the victims of disease. Perhaps the disorder has gone too far for help, but oftener it is just in its first 'stages and the pains and aches are only nature’s first cries for help. Do not despair. Find out the cause apd give nature all the help you can and she will repay you with health. Look after the kidneys. The kidneys are the most overworked organs of the human body, and when they fail in their work of filtering and throwing off the poison that constantly accumulates in the system, everything goes wrong. GOLD MED AT, Haarlem Oil Capsules will give almost immediate relief from kidney and bladder troubles and their kindred ailments. They will free your body from pain in short order. But be Bure to get GOLD MEDAL. Look for the name on every box. In three skes, sealed packages. Money refunded if they do not help you. —Adv.

On Sale.

“Why do anarchists carry a red flag?” “I suppose because the red flag is the signal of an auction. There never was an anarchist who wasn’t willing to sell out any minute.”

Cuticura Comforts Baby's Bkln When red, rough and Itching with hot baths of Cuticura Soap and touches «f Cuticura Ointment. Also make use now and then of that exquisitely scented dusting powder, Cuticura Talcum, one of the Indispensable Cuticura Toilet Trio. —‘Adv. The old porch hammock is making last year’s mistletoe look like an amateur these nights. Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. —Goethe.

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