Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 197, 31 May 1919 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

RICHMOND, INDIANA. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 113

What I Am Going To Do This Sammer I think I shall go to Winchester this . summmer. It is not a rcry largo town, although it Is beautiful. It has play grounds for children to play in. It has better school N grounds than Warner school has. I think Warner should have a bigger ground. They very pretty buildings. We can play on the hills. Then I will go to my aunt's Helen Murphy. CB, Warner School. This summer I am going to the country and work for my cousin. I shall plow, harrow, idrag, roll, plow corn and tend to the crops. I will tend to the stock. Later in the summer after the crops are ripe, I will go to work gathering the crops. Raymond Froze. 6A, Warner School. Goody! goody! goody! school was out Friday. Then about a week after that I am going to the country. The reason 1 like to go there Is that grandpa lets me do what I want to do. If I would want to milk the cow he would let me. Many times I've gone with grandpa to milk and he would milk in my month. When the time comes to hatch little chickens he always gives me a hen and a setting of eggs and I raise little chickens. When he plows I ride on the horse and guide it. Another thing I would like to do is to go to Cincinnati. 1 would go to the too and eo the animals. But before you get to the zoo you have to go on tit Incline, You get on a car at the bottom and it starts to go up. There is a little platform that catches on behind the car so if it would start backward it would ' catch it Then after you get up there you go and get on a boat and go around and take a view of the place. Floyd Gardner. 6A, Baiter School. j

This summer I am going to play grocery in our big barn, and I suppose yon would like to know what

1 am going to have In It. 1 am going to have? empty tin cans and a pair of scales, some sand for sugar and flour and I am going to set a big basket in the window and have it to put things in Just like a real

grocery.

Grocery isn't all I am going to

play. I am going to play soldier in a big lot near where I live and 1

have got it all planned out where

1 am going to have my trench.

There are high weeds where I am going to have it and you could lie down in side Of these weeds

and no one could see you. I am

going to run errands for my father

and mother. Paul L. Wrede. 6R, Baxter School.

THE DAIRY FIRM OF AUNT AND APHIS-A Garden Wonder

New wonders of nature continually are opening to the home gardener who watches carefully the evolution of the creatures in his food plot. Even the insects that attack his plants have power to amaze. And no insects are more interesting that the tiny plant lice or aphlds, which grow In a large number of forms and suck the juices from various kinds of plants. The most remarkable thing about some of the aphlds is their partnership with other insects. Many

forms of the aphlds are fostered and protected from the beginning to the end of their little lives by the industrious ants. The partnership seems to have reached a most perfect form in the case of the corn root-aphis and the cornfield ant, and It is usually found that where

nel along weed roots and place the helpless aphlds on the roots. Soon the aphlds begin to give off "honeldew," made from the juices of the plants on which the aphlds are resting. The ants dearly love honeydew," and they tenderly watch over and care for their "cows." The aphids are wholly dependent throughout their life on the ants. The first two or three generations of aphids live entirely on the roots of weeds, but as soon as the pewly-planted corn sprouts the ants transfer the aphids to the more succulent corn roots. After two or three successive generations, many of the aphids may be winged, and some escape from the ground through the ant tunnels and fly away to a new field.' If they chance to alight near an ant hill

eggs and the young ants deeper into the soil, the ant goes at least eight inches under the soil and and eight inches is deeper than the ordinary plow, furrow. The particular aphis that attacks corn is called the corn root-aphis because of its preference for that plant. In gardens it is very common on asters and related plants. There are many other varieties of aphids, however, and for many of them ants have a tender feeling. For instance, there are the aphids that attack orange trees in California. The ants surround these aphids, attack other insects that attempt to reach tme, and induce the aphlds to - excrete boneydew by stroking their bodies with their antennae, or feelers. Unfortunately for the orange aphids, . however,

The corn root-aphids in fields is controlled by rotating with crops upon which the aphids cannot live by plowing and disking, thus breaking up the ant and aphis colonies, and by the use of certain pungent substances, mixed with a chemical fertilizer and distributed by means

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corn , planter. These substances tend to drive away the ants and prevent them from placing aphids on the corn roots. Aphids In Gardens. To home gardeners whose plants are attacked by aphids, such as the melon aphis, spinach aphis, potato aphis, and the turnip and cabbage aphids, which live above ground, the specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture recommend spraying with 40

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Baby Chicks

Wo have some baby chicks that we hatched in an incubator. We

tried to give them to an old set

ting hen, but she would not have tbem. So we had to put them in

a brooder, They like to eat boiled egg and bread crumbs. They were

hatched on Easter Sunday. Marjorie Darland.

A Bird And A Child O little bird just learning to fly, I've seen you flutter your wings and try To follow your pretty mother. I love to watch you there in the tree, For my heart has whispered it all to me, That I'm your little brother. The heavenly Father bends o'er your nest, Nor whiapers to one another; And Ho leans cloce over my crib to hear

The prayers that I whinprr for his ear. We are all his children dour, Bo, of course I'm your Utile brother, Selected by . Paulino Rear. Whitewater School.

there are aphlds there are ants. The partnership of ant and aphis the cornfield ant and tho corn root aphis operates in nearly every section where corn is grown east of the Rocky mountains, especially in some of the Corn Belt States. The workings of the partnership have been compared to a subterranean dairy, with the aphis as the ant's "cow," the ant directing the enterprise, the aphis doing the work, and tho ant getting the profits. Tho ant Is not directly harmful to the corn, but the aphis is. Without the ant, however, the firm would have to go out of business, and that is why tho United States Department of Agriculture tell farmers who want to get rid of the corn root aphis to get rid of the ant. The same advice applies in the case of certain other forms of root-aphldB. This is how a subterranean dairy works : In tho fall the ants carry the eggs of the aphlds to their nests and care for them as they do for their own young. In the spring, when tho egg3 hatch, the ants tun-

they are seized immediately by the watchful ants, carried into their burrows, placed on roots, and honey-dew production startes again. When cold weather is approaching and the ant carries the aphlds'

they afe Attacked by winged para'

sites which sting and lay eggs in

them, and these parasites are so

small and active that, the ants can

not successfully defend their charges.

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per cent nicotine sulphate at the rate of one teaspoonful of the sul phate to one gallon of water, in which has been dissolved a oneInch cube of laundry soap, Killing the ants, of course, by destroying their colonies, will help in the control of tho corn rootaphids in gardens and this is about the only way it can be controlled, since, living underground, it can not be reached by sprays, Tho simplest attack on the ants it to scald their hills with boiling water. Another method Is to pour a llttlo carbon dlsulphld into the entrance to the ant hill and immediately cover the entrance with earth in order

to keep the poisonous fumes in th

burrow. Spraying with nicotine sulphate.

however, is the standard remedy '

for most garden aphids, and should

not be postponed or neglected when they are found to be present, as they increase very rapidly and unions checked soon kill the plants.

Bunny Sets A Trap Once upon a time there was a

rabbit who lived with his grandmother. Every morning he used to

go hunting, but no matter how early ho wont out some one had always passed by leaving a trail in

the grass. Now the little rabbit wanted to know who this was. One morning he set out earlier than ever, but the trail was already there. Then the rabbit went homo

and thouKht and thought.

With his bowstring he made a

stronfl noooe, and when night came he put it in the placo where he had soon tho footprints. That night he ulrpt soundly, but he awoke very onrly and ran to look at his trap. Something had happened! lie had caught the great

fiery sun. Oh, how frightened he wan! He ran home as fast as he could. "Grandmother, grandmother," he cried, "I have caught something, but it Bcares me. How shall

i I ever get my bowstring again?"

Then ho took a sharp knife and went back to the traps. When the groat sun saw him he said, "Come here and untie me at Once. You have done wrong. You have done wrong." This, however, scared the little rabbit more than ever, so that ho did not dare to go near the trap. He kept running by first on one side then on tho other. At last ho drew a long breath and bending his head down ho rushed forward and cut out tho bowstring with his knife. Instantly tho great sun flashed up Into tho sky, and as he

passed over he bent his head over the little rabbit. His great heat scorched the hair between the rabbit's shoulders. More frightened than ever the rabbit ran home like the wind. "O, grandmother," he cried, "the heat has left nothing of me. It has frizzled me all up." "Oh, my poor grandchild," said his grandmother, looking at him very carefully. "I fear it is true." So she tied up his burnt head and back in a soft cloth and put hlra to bed. It was a long tlmo bofore he was well again and ever since then, tho mbbit has had between his shoulders a yellow singed spot, ' Selected by Stella Ebert. 4A, Flnley School

LIMERICK. There once was a lady from Niger, Who smiled as she rode on the tiger. They returned front the ride, With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger. Selected by Helen Moody. Warner School.

CAREFUL MARY. Such sweet red lips I stooped to kiss, . My little neighbor Mary, J "Not on the mouf," Said four years old, . ' "Tldn't sanitary." t

Beleotod by Margaret Saurer. 4A, Warner SchooL "... . , .

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