Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 October 1914 — Page 2

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WHITE GRUBS IN 1915

Among the Most Serious Pests to Farm Crops. Conservative Estimate of Damage to Corn, Timothy and Potatoes Placed at Over $7,000,000 in Three Infested States. Bv F DAVIS The common white grubä or grub worms, as they ar often called, have for years been recognized as among most serious pests to farm crops. notably corn and timothy, while il aw berries. iotaioes and nursery plantings have all be.n frequently and seriously affected Probably the most "rious outbreak of white grubs occured in 1912. following an abundance Of beetles in IÜ1. In the worst infested districts it was not unusual to find from 40 to 60 grubs in a single hill of corn Indeed, in a corn field in Iowa, devoted to timothy in 1911. the writer fo'jnd 77 grubs in an area 2l feet square and five inches deep. This really represented less than a single hill rrf corn, for the hills in this field Mf 31 feet apart. From a personal . of the infested territory made in lf12 in three states. ?.s well as from of farmers and others, we have a very conservative estimate of the damagS to corn, timothy and potatoes In these states aggravating not less than $7.000,000. Available records show that May beetles were numerous in 1014, hence we may be reasonably White Grub Working in Potato. certain that in 1916 the grubs will iga n he d?structive and exceedingly mdant. unless their numbers are I ;? nally reduced by natural eneD es, by artificial means, or by adtefM climatic conditions. White grubs aud May beetles are preyed upon by numerous birds, mammals and insects, all of whicn are ful la reducing their numbers. The most important of these enemies nr the birds, especially crows and crow blackbirds. Domestic fowls may properly be classed as natural ene1 I of unite grubs. All farm poultry are fond of these insects, and where possible should be given the run of infested fields at plowing time. Tue keys are especially valuable in this capacity. Among the mammals which t ed on the grubs tiie skr.nk la most valuable. aaxl. indeed, some farmers attribute the increase in these insects to the decrease in number's of skunks Men are being killed off by trappers. An infested field may be cleared of grubs by pasturing it with hogs, which are fond of the insects and will root to a depth of a foot or more in search of them. Where is is impracticable to pasture hogs in ar infested field much good can be accomplished by fall plowing The plowing should be done late, but should not be delayed until the ground becomes chilly and frosty, for then the Krul)s will have gone OOWB beyond the' reach of the plow. Since the beetles usually deposit their eggs in fields of grass, timothy ind small grains, the crops planted ll these fields the year following a A Corn Field Ruined by White Grubs. season Of beetle abundance should be tawee hieh are least ueceptiele to i srub injury, such as buckwheat, clover. alfalfa and peas. Care should always SS T( ised in the selection of a crop ! follow sod or old timothy ground. Where hogs can be pastured on the land the fall or spring previous to planting, the grubs will be practically eliminated Mainta.ning Regu arity. refill J stock in the hands of prof 'Mensis Im ve tl ! bein lallig about the same time ry year. It w prftri to la about many eges and about ho tnnny eggs are estimated to be fertile and so tnan to hatch, end about m n.an will lie These I fople seldom u ish it ,r far Th - regularity Is maintained by the con stsnt infusion of vie m i uev blood. Dogs Drive Sheep Raiting Out. A Hurve mud' b the l'n:t ii States department f .ir. uhure Indicates Ih t if Ihere ser . proper control f fie number of sheep on the .'if ouhl t..- douhhd without din placing other stock The sheep would im a niche of their own lkgs hae ii ven many farmers out of the hoep bunnesa

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OIL MEAL IS A GOOD FEED Product of Linseed-Oil Mills Can Be Used in Cattle Feeding With Excedent Results.

(By 8. C. PLUMB.) Oil meal can bo used in cattle feeding with excellent results. It is a product of the linseed-oil mills, befog the residue of ground flaxseed, from whicn the oil has been mostly removed. This is at first taken from comprc3 sors in the mill in the shape of cakes about two by one feet and three fourths of an inch or so thickOne, may buy the oil cake or get it in broken pieces, of which the mills sell several nizes as, for example, nut or pea size, or else ground fine. Where purchased in cake or broken in small ieces adulteration ig not usually pos sible. When sold as meal it is sometimes adulterated witji cheaper feeding stuff. The oil cake or meal is very pleasant to taste, is exceedingly rich in protein and is highly relished by all animals on the farm. This is a very common feed and any elevator man or grain dealer should be able to supply it in large or email quantities. oil meal is not usually fed excepting MM a port of the grain ration, and it meets with much favor with those who have used it. Unquestionably two or four pounds a day fed to steers, with corn and oats, would give good results, for oil meal supplies much valuable l-mtein, and not only that but this food puts a finish and quality to skin and hair that almost nothing else will. The writer has found many successful steer raisers using it on a liberal scale, and when the cost is not too great profit is sure to follow its use with good feeders. Where the cost is not much outside . cent a pound its use is to be advocated. HANDY BAG-FILLING DEVICE By Means of Arrangement Illustrated v One Man Can Perform Work of Man and a Boy. A handy device for filling bags can be made by following the plan given herewith: Set up three posts as shown in pic- : ture. The apex should be about six feet from the ground. Screw into each part a stout hook at the height that will let the bag rest lightly on the ground, when filled. If they are too high, the bag will tear out. Ty Device for Filling Bags. means of this arrangement, one man can do the work of one man and a boy. it can easily be moved from one place to another, as the posts can be made of 2 by 4-inch pine material, light enough for a man to carry easily. pEQ pQR FATTENING SWINE Largest Daily Gains in Nebraska Experiment Were Made on Corn and Cut Alfalfa Hay. In Xebraska last winter an experiment in feeding alfalfa as a substitute for corn in feeding pigj showed that the largest daily gains w ere ma le on three-fourths corn and one .ourth shorts, but a gain practically equivalent was made at a lower cost where either cut or ground alfalfa was substituted for shorts in the ration. The cheapest pains were made on corn and cut alfalfa Bran does not prove equal to either shorts or alfalfa when fed as onequarter of the ration to pigs. A ration three-fourths corn and onofourth alfalfa produces greater gains than w hen one-half is fed. Where alfalfa is raise on the farm. and when there is no particular need t0 hasten growth in pigs a ration onehalf alfalfa hay and one-half corn may fire cheaper gains than when a heavier corn ration is fed. Högl which have been raised largely on alfalfa pasture will learn to eat hay in winter without cutting with a machine and to depend largely upon it where only a limited grain ration is fed. but a ration wholly alfMfa does not seem to give economical result. This ejHriment shows that cut or ground alfalfa can be substituted for shorts at the same price in fattening pigs. Secret in Laying Tile. The tri at secret In making underdraining a permanent improvement is In .securing uniform form in laying Che tile, and maintaining a good outlet. As a rule, the safest plan Is to look the ground over carefully and then plan out the die hes to the best advantage. Make the Hens Scratch. Hens tn conMneuient must certainly be made to scratch. A failure to en force this rule will prove disastrous to the health of your birds as welt as i the

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JARED AND IP.l!ü Cy CHARLES FRAZER BA! LEY. Old .Tap-Mi Hliss sat out in the back yard of the place he called home, the tears streaming down his wrinkled face. It's killing me," he sobbed desolately. "I don't care for myself, but little Martin oh! how can those people who have wrested from me all 1 had in the world treat the poor child as they do"""' Tenderly the old man passed his hand over a small tin pail that hung suspended from a triangular conjunction of three iron rods, forming a tripod. Beneath there were the ashes of a fire. Jared had rigged up the contrivance so that his little favorite might play ' camping out." Mrs. Henry Porter had soon put an angry termination "to that nonsense " Little Martin had been chided by his stepmother for wasting his time while he should have been carrying in fuel from the woodpile. Then she had ordered him up to his room under the roof rafters She had locked him in, and there accompanied the act by the threat that he would have a diet of bread and water until he learned to obey orders. Xo orders, in fact, had little Martin disobeyed. It was the nagging disposition 3f Mrs. Porter to find fault with everything when she was out of humor. Just now she had been particularly crossed by her husband. He was usually meek and afraid of her brawling, unwomanly ways, but a chance had come up to go with some fellow lodge members on a junket to another town. This time, instead of asking her permission to go. which would have been refused, he waited till they were comfortably aboard of the train and sent a verbal message as to his action. Always Mrs. Porter cowed down her husband, always she took a high hand in scolding and sometimes punishing little Martin. Henry Porter had at least a vestige left of fatherly feeling for the little fellow, but gradually he "There's a Way Out of This." had accepted the iron rule of his second wife as settled law and no longer dared to rebel. Henry Porter felt mean over it all, but he had put himself and the boy as well completely in the power of the household tyro. It had come about through a small estate left by Martin's dead mother. Her husband had promised to conserve the estate for the benefit of the lad. There w as a shrewd lawyer in the service of Mrs. Porter, however. By some legal hocus pocus she managed it so that the little property came into the possession of her husband. Then there were some dubious transfers and the title no a reposed securely in her name. After that she domineered over all hands. Each day she treated Martin more and more cruelly, while her craven better half accepted the situation, not daring to say a word Old Jared Bliss as the father of the first Mrs. Porter aud therefore grandfather of Martin. He had come to visit his bereaved son-in-law From the first his tender heart went out to the forlorn half orphan. He had no other relative in the world, he had a thousand dollars in bank. Speciously the avaricious second Mrs Porter worked it so that this sum came into her hands. In return for the acquisition it was agreed that Mr. Bliss should have a permanent home with them. At the present time, how ever, all sense of gratitude or justice had departed from the mind of the scheming Mrs Porter. She grudgingly doled out to her pensioner the sparsest of meals. She made him feel that he was a burden and unwelcome Of all this Jared Dliss was thinking as h sat watching the dying embers of the play camp fire Then he would glance up at the narrow attic window, catch sight of a pale, tear stained face beyond It and sigh dolorously "There's a way out of this." suddenly spoke old Jared Tve waited patiently and hoped, but it's t.o earthly use. That woman gets worse and worse I could stand it. but poor little Martin' and ihe tears choked him and he walked away from the spot. It was an hour later when he re turned There was a new look of de termination on his oil !: i d face There was a certain. tlCltemeoL and eagerness in his eye as he skirmished about Uis place. He tried front, side

and back doors In turn cautiously. He round them locked Then he went around and faced the attic window In the gathering dusk with the mysterious hail: s-st: " 'I see you," called down a thin, piping voice." "What is it. grandpa?" "Mrs. Porter?" "She's gone to a neighbors who called for her. I heard her say she was going to sit Up all night, if she had to, so as to be on hand to give father a piece of her mind when he got back." "U-um ! ' mused Jared. gazing thoughtfully about him. Then he spoke aloud: "There's a ladder here?" Yes, grandpa, nodded Martin. Tm going to raise it just as the runaways do in the story books. Then we'll loosen a window and get into the home and make up a bundle )f our clothes and run away. 'Oh, grandpa!" fluttered Martin in an ecstasy of glorious anticipation. 'Good riddance! sniffed Mrs. Porter, when that night later she guessed what had come about. "It's terrible lonesome." said Henry a week later, and began to upbraid his wife for her evil work, took to drink, lost his position, and the downward path began for those two. The refugees led an ideal life for a month, wandering from town to town, living mostly in the woods like the birds about them. Then the ready money of the old man gave out. Martin broke his ankle in jumping among some rocks. They had got down to actual beggary when the old man arrived at a serious decision. '"I am too old and you too young to learn true gypsy ways. Martin," he told the lad. "I hoped never to go back to my ungrateful relatives again, but we can t starve." "Oh, grandpa! not to Mrs. Porters?" "Xo. You see. there is a brother of mine. William. We quarreled and haven't spoken for years. Surely, though, he must by this time have forgotten his old animosity toward me. Yes, we will try brother William." It was a long tramp and Martin with

I his home-made crutch made slow prog ress. O le evening they lined the grounds of a grand eld country place that Jared had not seen for many years. "What a lovely home!" cried little Martin. "It belongs to my brother William. " explained old Jared and he was anxious faced and tremulous as he stood at the front door after he rang the bell. '"Why, sir. ' exclaimed the servant who answered the summons, staring in seeming gladness at the visitor, "you have come at last!" "1 want to see your master, Peter." said Jared "Sir why aren't you here?'' flustered the puzzled servant. "Oh. sir, is it possible you hadn't heard that Mr. William is dead? And we have been trying to rind you for a long time, for he left everything to you." "And to dear Martin," whispered old Jared fervently to himself, wind ing his arm about the dear little companion he so loved. (Copyright. 1914. by W. G. Chapman ) ORIGIN OF AMERICAN INDIANS Theory That They Came From Asia Is the One That Is Most Generally Entertained. There has been a revival of interest lately in the origin of American Indians, and the way in which the western continent was peopled. Our great-grandfathers were satisfled to lay the achievements to those mysterious "lost tribes" of Israel: but the scientific spirit of today demands more plausible theories. These are many and varied, but the old belief that the ancestors of the Indians crossed the straits and narrow seas from northern Asia to Alaska remains the most probable of all. The Eskimos of America are almost identical with some tribes of eastern Siberia. The straight, uncompromising black hair of the Indian is found elsewhere only in Asia, and his broad skull is likewise an Asiatic trademark. As for means of getting across, the voyage is often made over Bering straits today, and in the mild climate before the last glacial period the trip would have been easier still. Only tho other day two sampans, or native boats, arrived on the coast of California whose occupants claimed to have made the passage from Japan. Without doubt there was a certain European alloy in the Indian blood, even betöre the days of Columbus. The blond Eskimos found in the far north bear witness to this. Norse rovers who reached the New England coast in the tenth century must have fused In some measure with the natives. How Norman Kings Raised Money. The Norman kinns had a way of their own of leaking money from their warlike preparations. William Rufus. in the sixth year of his reign, caused twenty thousand foot to be lifted in England to rendezvous in Normandy; but when they were come to the sea coast in order to be transported he sent then all home again, after exacting t. n shillings from each of them for their diet Years afterwards Richard I. according to the old chronicle. "Ordained that there should be jousts and tournaments throughout England, for the better exercise of men In martial affairs; yet so that all persons should pay for their licenses t b.'.ir .i part in these exercises after the following rates: Every earl N marks, every baron ten marks, and such as had no land, two marks."

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Shooting a Lion at a Distance of Four Feet Is an Exciting Experience. 1 1 To prove that lion hunting isn't at all a "pink tea." witness Stewart Edward White's experience as told in Outing: 'Suddenly I heard a tearing scramble in the bush. Forty yards down I could see game trail coming up. and about the same distance back another. The bank in front was precipitous. I hurried fcr that strategic point. If the bluff held the donga bottom I could shoot him from above; if he came out either trail I'd get a gooj chance. "instead of that a big-maned lion scrambled up the wall of the ravine right at my face, and stopped for an instant four paces away. Just step off four paces. "He looked like a lion angry about something. It was somewhat startling for I was not expecting him; but I had to get busy before he did. The first shot from the .40." did not knock him off his feet, but at that range it literally blew him sidewise as though the gust of a tornado should catch a man off balance. Working the lever RA fast as I could throw it. I put in another they proved to be three inches apart . This blew him backwards again, literally over the edge of the barranca. He roared , and growled and leaped. The third shot broke his foreleg. Another raked him from stem to stern. He rolled on his side and died roaring. Fine little scrap with lots of excitement. "Found Memba Sasa next me with five more Winchester cartridges spread out fanwise in one hand and the Springfield cocked and ready in the other. That fellow is all right." FISH THAT SURVIVE FREEZING Swiss Scientist Has Made a Discovery That May Be of Much Commercial Importance. The ordinary cold storage of fish is put out of date by Mr. R. Pictet, the brilliant Swiss scientist, noted for his experiments with cold. He has just succeeded in freezing live fish and reviving them several weeks or months later, an achievement which recalls Kdmond About's fanciful tale of "The Man With the Hroken Kar." He recently placed 28 fish in a box containing water rich in oxygen, and in which several pieces of ice were floating. He then very slowly reduced the temperature of the contents. At the end of about two months the resultant cake of ice was gradually thawed and the fish were all found to be alive. According to the report of the experiment given in L'Illustration (Paris, it is essential that the water be very gradually frozen and that it shall have contained pieces of ice for from fifteen to eighteen hours before the whole mass is frozen. The process of thawing must also be very slow. It is stated that Alaskan salmon and Siberian sturgeon may thus be brought alive to Paris. Methods of making the process commercially successful are now being sought. Modern Single-Truck Cars. A few years ago the single-truck car seemed doomed to die a natural death except in cities w hich were too small to use the large double-truck cars which were becoming more and more popular. No one would have ventured to foretell that the time would come when a large city company would actually discard doubletruck cars in excellent operating condition for any kind of single-truck design. Yet this is precisely what the Third avenue railway system, New York, has done during the current year in ordering a total of 50 singletruck cars. The one thing worth pointing out at this time is that the operator of a modern single-truck car has nothing to apologize for so long as that type makes ample service an economic possibility. The public must be educated to the fact that it would be as absurd for it to expect a metropolitan car in low-traffic service as to demand big-city standards in theaters .aid public buildings. Electric Railwav Journal. Forty-Six Years a Deputy. French political life bears the reputation of being so full of vicissitudes that it is somewhat surprising to find among the deputies returned at the genera election one with a longer tdOord of parliamentary service than any member of the house of commons. This distinction belongs to M de Mackau, who is eighty-two years of age. and has sat for the department of Orne since 1S0, first in the corps legislatif of the second empire, and subsequently in every chamber of deputies elected under the third republic. None of the present members of the house of commons was elected before 1S68. Army Really Is Prussian. The adoption of Mr. Filson Youngs suggestion to speak of the Hermans as Prussians rather than Ctermans would really be a step toward accuracy. Strictly speaking, there is no C.-rman army. The force commonly so termed Is composed of the units of Prussia. Ravaria, Wurttemburg. Saxony etc., all of which wear the distinctive uniforms of their states, and have a kind of independence. The officers, too, take the oath of allegiance, not to the kaiser, but to their respective sovereign princes With the navy it Is different That is 1m perial, and the officers take their oatl direct to the kaiser.

A NURSE TAKES DOCTOR'S ADVICE And is Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Euphemia, Ohio. ' 4 Because of total Ignorance of how to care for myseif when verging into womanhood, and from taking cold when going- to school, I suffered from a displacement, and each month I had severe pains an J nausea which always meant a lay -of? from work for two to four days from the time I was 16 years okL 4 ' I went to Kansas to live with my sis ter and while there a doctor t J 1 me of the Pir.kham remedies but I did n-t use them then as my faith in patent medicines was limited. After my sister (1 I came home to Ohio to live and that has been my home for the last 18 year-. "The Change of Life cam.1 when I was 47 years old and about this time I saw my physical condition plainly described in one of your advertisements. The n I bepran using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I cannot tell you or any one the relief it gave m in the first three months. It put me right where I need not lay off every month and during the last 18 years I have not paid out two dollars to a doctor, and have been blest with excellent health for a wowoman of my age and I can thank Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for it "Since the Change of Life is over I have been a maternity nurse and being wholly self-supporting I cannot over estimate the value of good health. I have now earned a comfortable little home just by sewing and nursing. I have recommended the Compound to many with good results, as it excellent to take before and after childbirth." Miss Evelyn Adelia Stewart, Euphemia, Ohio. If yon waut special advice write to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. confidential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confldeoee

PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM a JMM prtarmtloA of merit, lit-lp to rrmtinulf rtaud-uff . For R eitonnz Color nd I Beauty to Gray or Fadrd Hair bOc, and fl 00 at lrutnrist New Conundrum. Here is a conundrum which your greatgrandfathers asked each othwhen they were little boys: "How many legs has a dog if you call his tail a leg :" Five!"' shouted the little greatgranddad Of Mr. A. "Wrong," corrected the diminutiv greatgranddad- of Mr. B. 'Hecaus calling his tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." I am reminded of thin venerable brain twister of youth by the follou ing lines in the Clayton anti-business bill: "The District of Columbia shall be deemed a state within the meaning of this law." So I shall modernize t hat ancient query by propounding the following "How many states in the United States if you call the District of Columbia ft state0- Girard. in Philadelphia Ledger. Nothing More to Be Said. A traveling man tlls of his sojourn at a "hotel" in a western town. When, on the evening of his arrival, he entered the dining room and Ml shown to a table by a waiter, the latter asked, when he had brought the customary glass of watT "WW you have some pork and beans?" ''No, I don't care for them,M said the traveler. 1 never eat pork an'! beans." "Then sir." said the waiter, as h-' moved away, "dinner is over, sir." The shapely girl isn't ashamed to k people know how well she can nil a pair of silk hose. FOUND OUT. A Trained Nurse Discovered Its Effect. No one is in better position to know the value of food and drink than a trained nurse. Speaking of coffee, a nurse in Pawrites: "I used to drink strong coffee myself, and suffered greatly from headaches and indigestfon. "While on a visit to my brothers I had a good chance to try Postum. I they drank it altogether in place of coffee. After using Postum two weeks I found I was much benefited and finally my headaches disappeared and also the indigestion. "Naturally I have since used PoatnsM among my patients, and have noticed a marked benefit where coff.-e has been left off and Postum used "I observe a curious fact about Postum when used by mother It greatly helps the flow of milk in cases where coffee is inclined tc dry It up. and where tea causes nervousness. "I And trouble in getting ervantf to make Postum properly But MM SSI It Is prepared according to directions on packano and SSJffTii hot with cream, it is certainly a delicious b verage." Name Riven by Poa'um Co.. itattle Creek. Mich Read "TSS Koad to Wellville." in pks Postum comes in two forms Regular Postum- munt bo .wef! boiled. 15c and MM packages Instant Postum Is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly In a cup of hot water and. with cream and sugar, made a delicious beyerage Instantly. 30c and 50c t.ns. The cost per eup of both kinds is about the same "Tfcere's a Reason" for Postum sold by 11 roc re.

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