Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 235, 16 July 1919 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1919.

GARDEN STUFF, GROWN AT HOME, SOON TO APPEAR Tomatoes Have Been of Hothouse Variety Sweet Corn on Market.

By WILLIAM R. SANBORN Within a week or ten days we may all enjoy home grown tomatoes which have been cooled with showers and with dew. So far we have been regaled principally with the hothouse

varieties Instead of those having the ruddy and Inviting color which Indicates the really edible tomato of the

old school.

Before the days of hothouses and

Intensive gardening, we were content to await the natural course of events in tomato culture, as in all other garden-grown edibles, but now it is always summer somewhere, if not in the open, then under glass. The hothouse tomato crops are on the wane and by the time the field and garden grown fruit is on the market in liberal supply, will have entirely disappeared. These were warmly welcomed, but at 25 cents per pound their passing will not be greatly mourned. Many a Richmond homemaker will recall the putting up of numberless cans of tomatoes and quarts of catsup for which the tomatoes cost 25 and 50 cents per bushel. If you are a gardener because you love to plant and to water and to see things grow, ramble around on the south side of town for a day among

the little truck patches and home gardens, not forgetting a certain fifteen acre garden and hothouse area at the foot of the big hill at the Richmond end of the liberty pike. Here one may study scientific gardening and intensive cultivation, and mayhap learn something worth while. And it is a lesson which many of us would be better off for learning, because It might lead us to plant and enjoy two, and often three crops, instead of one, during the long season from early spring to late fall. Gardening for Profit. Those of us who have a choice, well kept little garden plot, in the care of which we find healthful outdoor exercise and enjoyment, will be inclined to look upon a large garden acreage as a purely commercial venture, as Indeed it ii. Truck growers and city market gardeners are not carried to the skies, or elsewhere, on flowery beds of ease, although their homes are usually beautified with foliage and flowers, often in profusion. Such gardens are not cultivated like the family garden because of the need for exercise In the open, nor to supply fresh

berries and crisp vegetables to the home table. They are cultivated for profit and. Incidentally, to the common good. Should home owners on city lots ever become enthusiastic even over the ordinary cold frame, to say nothing of family hothouses, we shall enjoy fresh vegetables in greater variety and profusion, much earlier In the year. It is true, however, that many families use the cold frame, but In the main these are very greatly in the minority. The people of Richmond may be considered fortunate In the number of truck gardeners and specialists in vegetable and berry culture supplying this market. There is a difference between the regular market gardening and specializing, the former producing the plants which the rest of us buy, as well as furnishing practically every

thing edible that grows in an Indiana garden. One specialist grows only breakfast melons as a sale crop; we could cite another instance where the specialty is turnips, and again where "dry" onions are the money crop. Old residents tell us that the little valley at the southern edpe of town and which is divided by the Liberty pike, has been a market garden area for fifty years or more. The senior Backmeyer. three of whose sons have followed in his footsteps, supplied vegetables to the grandfathers of the present generation, and William H. Backmeyer, and thf brothers in the same industry, vere born in that little

valley, still so densely covered with j good things to eat, and daily coming j into market. Then there is the old

Conrad Zwisskr garden, just outside of town on the Boston pike, now managed by Mr. Zwissler's widow and her sons. William B. Sleeth, also a Liberty pike farmer, is noted for his garden truck. There are also numerous growers who market their output principally at the city market, and who do little wholesaling to the grocery and market trade. Overhead Irrigation. The writer visited two market gardens this morning where the overhead

system of irrigation has been successfully installed. At the Zwissler place on the Boston pike, a large steel tank, such as is seen on tank cars, furnishes the pressure from an elevated platform, while at the William H. Backmeyer gardens on the Liberty Tike, the water flows from a hilltop reservoir into which it is pumped from the adjoining stream. An electrically operated pump, with a 75 gallon per minute capacity, keeps the reservoir supplied. There are fifteen acres or more under cultivation here, all completely outfitted with this ppraying system of steel pipes, each line of which can be operated inde-

"G

OW testing associations In I

Wisconsin state last year proved that In the average

herd of eighteen cows at least three of them were being milked, cared for and fed the entire year for the fun of it. Even In the best associations this ratio la true. How much worse would the situation be among the one million eight hundred thousand cows which are not and never have been under test. All the poor cows are not in a few herds by any means. For Instance, in the Waukesha County association the herd having the lowest producing cow which produced $4.71 net profit also had a cow producing $90.G1 profit and Waukesha thinks it is the hub of the cow universe," says Frank

Baackes. V. P. Am. Steel & Wire Co.

"The time Is at hand when it will be a crime In law as It Is a crime In fact,

to rob the soil, and the next big step forward would be the .compulsory test

ing plan whereby no man will be al

lowed to waste his feed and time by

feeding cows which will not produce

quid pro quo. The most progressive farm bureaus now have cow testing associations. The tester carries a complete outfit with him and tests a different herd every day. There ought to be twenty-six herds In each association one a day. Besides testing the milk of each cow, he makes a test of the skim milk and the cream. A great

.majority of farmers have never seen

a Babcock tester in nction. "Why allow a 'three-tub cow to take the room, labor and feed that could be used by a 'twenty-tub cow? When dairying is conducted on business principles the whole family is Interested. The boy gets the father to give him a heifer calf and becomes a business man on the spot. "The reason why a milk price cannot be determined upon Is that the Ignorant man wants the public to pay him for his shiftlessness and failures. Dairying is a business like any other business and a good dairy will alwaj pay a profit."

Tomato Insects

ception here at which the commanders of the NC-3 and NC-4 were present.

pendently of all other lines. Plants in the numerous hothouses, however, are sprayed with hose. During the recent dry spell, potatoes, like all garden crops, suffered for lack of moisture, and early potatoes were cut short, accordingly. This was true to a limited degree even in irrigated gardens, Mr. Backmeyer stated. There has also been complaint this year of potatoes running to top rather than to tubers, and the spring crop is also short on this account. Late potatoes are

looking well, however, since the recent rains, and it is thought will mature bountifully, where properly cared for. Late cabbage has been hurt by dry weather as well, but is now recuperating, and so far as we have been able to note tomatoes are doing fairly well in all well tended gardens and the Richmond housewife will be able to do a little tomato canning shortly, and to have them fresh Ironi the garden within a few days, as they

are already beginning to show color. Sweet corn is in the tassel and will find it3 way to our tables for less money in due time, while field corn, v,hlch is a very fair substitute and largely eaten, also gives excellent promise, regardless of late planting. The tomatoes now on the market are hothouse home grown, as tomatoes do not stand long shipment in very hot weather and there have been complaints of rot in transit and handling recently. If you have noted the city home and outlying gardens you have observed that this promises to be a cantaloupe or nutmeg melon year in

this section. We have never seen finer promise for breakfast melons at this season, especially in the market garden and truck patch areas. The melons are growing fast and

are indeed in many instances larger than those now on show at fancy prices. It is hoped that the inflow of home grown varities will materially reduce the cost. The hothouse season is nearing its close and if you have never seen a hothouse where the cucumber is trellised and climbs close up to the glass, you have missed something, and the same is true as to hothouse tomato culture.

17,000,000 SHEEP DROWNED IN FLOODS

(By Associated Press) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Monday, July 14. Government reports show 17,000,000 sheep and 100,000 cattle have been drowned in floods in the southern part of Buenos Aires province. The railways and telegraphic communications have been interrupted and several sections in that region have been completely isolated for more than a week from this cause. The floods were due to a month of the heaviest rainfall ever recorded here. Over on the Chilean side of Argen

tina there have been further heavy snow falls along the trans-Andine railway, causing new damage to the line. At one point the debris on the tracks has accumulated to a depth of 150 feet. The snowfall in this region has been nearly continuous for a month and in some places is more than 25 feet deep. A small party of Americans arrived here overland from the Pacific seaport of Antofagasta, Chile, last night. They reported almost unendurable hardships during their week's journey.

F. W. Welerf Garden Supervisor Tomato plants are attacked by a

great many garden pests, all of which however, may be fairly easily con

trolled. Probably the worst enemy or

this crop is the plant lice, small pink and green insects, which gather on the

under side of the leaves, and througn sucking the Juice from the plant, cause weakening and wilting. If they are allowed to continue undisturbed, the plant will die. The lice are controlled by spraying with 40 per cent nicotine sulphate at the rate of one teaspoonful to a gallon of soapy water. Care must be taken to cover the plant thoroughly, particularly the under sides of the leaves, since the lice must be hit by the nicotine in order to kill them. Both the Colorado potato beetle and the old fashioned potato bug or blister beetle, chew holes in the foliage of the plants.and may even attack the fruit. These two insects are easily kept under control by keeping the plants

covered with arsenate of lead, apply-! Ing either as a spray, six level tablespoonfuls of powdered arsente of lead to a gallon of water, or mixed dry! with about six or eight times its bulk of hydrated lime, and dusted on the plants. The tomato fruit worm, or com ear worm, sometimes attacks the fruit but is also controlled by the arsenate of lead. The big green tomato worm chews the foliage, but can be taken care of by hand picking while those that escape this measure will be poisoned by .the arsenate of lead. Tomatoes are also injured by several diseases which include early blight and tomato leaf spot. If the tomato plants are kept covered with a film of bordeaux . mixture little trouble will be experienced from fungus diseases such as the two mentioned above. All these sprays may bo

applied as one, adding the teaspoonful of nicotine sulphate and the six tablespoonfuls of powdered arsenate of lead to each gallon of the bordeaux mixture spray. Watch for insects on your tomato plants if you wish to get the largest crop possible.

XENIA Refuse from the Hagar Board and Paper Mills at Cedarvllle has polluted the streams of the Little Miami river and hundreds of fish are lying gasping and dead along the banks.

DAYTON Harold Smith, 13 years old, whose deserted clothing found in an Island Park bathhouse Sunday led police to believe the boy was drowned, appeared in headquarters to claim the garments. He said that he did not remember his locker number and was forced to walk home in his bathing suit

Chester, Ind.

Indiana News Brevities

DECATUR Grocers have no potatoes on sale and the city is suffering from a "spuds" famine. NOBLES VI LLE Marys from everywhere are invited to attend the annual meeting of the Mary association of the United States to be held in No blesville, August 14. TERRE HAUTE The annual convention of District No. 11 United Mine Workers of America, closed after adopting more amendments to the constitution and reaching an agreement concerning several strikes.

KENDALLVILLE Late freezing weather is responsible for the loss of some of the best apple trees in orchards here. Stringent efforts are being taken to save this year's crop.

Frank Williams and family spent Friday evening with Michael Kendall and family.. .. .Wallace Kendall spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Crawford in Richmond,. .Will Ryan is very poorly at his home, west of here Elbert Kemp and family were Sunday guests of Mr. and

Mrs. Maberry Study at their home

weset of Richmond.

Mr. and Mrs. John Rothermel attended Sunday school at New Garden

last Sunday morning. .. .Miss Blanche

Carfman is spending a few days this week with her grandparents who have been seriously sick at their home in Centerville Mrs. Mary Hoffman is

somewhat Improved.. .Mrs. John Car

man, who has been sick, remains about the same Miss Marie Boge

of Richmond, is spending this week with Miss Adelaide Kemp Misses Pouline Forbes and Marjorie Meeke

were Sunday guests of Miss Wilma

Buroker Word was received Mon day by relatives and friends of Her

man Shaffer and Maurice Hinshaw

who went to Akron, Ohio last Friday

saying that they were working at the Goodyear Tire company Dr. Roy

Morrow and family are visiting Wil

liam Morrow and family Mr. and Mrs. Slomaugher of Richmond visited

Lewis Tice and family here last week

..Loren Buroker and Clarence Brown

spent Sunday with Nelson Hunt.. .

Rev. L. F. Ulmer will fill his regular

appointment here next Sunday night

There will be prayer meeting at

the M. E. church here Wendesday

night.

Mail And Cable Service

Resumed With Germany (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 16. Resump

tion of mail service between the Unit

ed States and Germany, effective immediately, was provided In an order signed late Tuesday by Postmaster General Burleson.

NEW YORK, July 16. The Western Union Telegraph company announced Tuesday that business cable messages now can be accepted for Germany, but must be written In English or French.

SEYMOUR Benjamin S. Schneck, of this city, widely known manufacturer, is dead at a sanitorium in Marion, Ohio.

Ohio News Flashes

j CLEVELAND An attempt by five bandits to hold up the American Commercial Exchange bank was frustrated by the screams of Rose Yafanaro, a 17-year-old clerk, who commanded at the point of three revolvers to open the safe, screamed and ran from the bank to summon aid. The bandits fled to their car and escaped, getting nothing, although there was $15,000 In cash in the safe.

SANTA MALTA DOCKS

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 16. The transport Santa Malta arrived here Monday from Bordeaux with 1,694 troops. Tney include detachments of the 237th military police company, headquarters company of the 121st engineers, 459th and 690th motor transport companies, 312th repair unit and casuals.

LAST UNITS SAIL SOON

Cork is the outer bark of an evergreen oak.

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 16 The last contingent of American troops intended for early convoy home, exclusive of

men in the army of occupation and the serivce of supply, will be aboard ships between August 15 and 20, Major General David C. Shanks announced yesterday.

PIQUA John Allen Underwood, sales manager of the Piqua Stove com

pany, convicted of using the mails to defraud the Y. M. C. A. in securing an appointment as overseas secretary and evading the draft, was sentenced to two years in the Atlanta penitentiary and fined $500 by Judge Howard Hollister in federal court.

ANDERSON Chesterfield has opened to one of the largest gatherings of the National Spiritualists' association ever brought together. Spiritualists from New York, Texas, Michigan, California and Massachusetts have arrived.

SHELBYVILLE George R. Tolen, prosecuting attorney for Shelby county, has announced that the trial of George Kessler, of Indianapolis, charged with the murder of Miss Minnie Mae Wilkins, will be tried here in October on a change of venue from Marion county.

ALLIANCE Overcome by heat, while pitching hay on his farm in Butler township, Hillis Linton, 73 years old, fell dead.

MASSILLON August Theis, captain of the Massillon fire department was killed and Jack Miler, fireman, was seriously injured when the steeple of the First Presbyterian church collapsed during a fire.

CINCINNATI Walter T. Askew, testifying in his divorce suit against Amanda Askew, said that she hit him with a bowl of gravy and ten times with a chair. He was granted a divorce.

CINCINNATI J. Herman Dierkes, former insurance man and until recently active in Democratic politics, was sentenced to five years in the Atlanta penitentiary on a charge of making seditious remarks.

NEW ALBANY The third congressional district association ,of county

officials and attorneys has been organized here with W. R. Atkins, of this city, president; Thaddeus Van Cleave, of Salem, vice president; R. C. Brown, of Salem, secretary. TERRE HAUTE William H. Roberts, Jr., 35, was arrested here charged with involuntary manslaughter in causing the death of Mrs. Rose Bar

ker, 40, who died as a result of injuries received when Roberts ran her down in his automobile. FORT WAYNE Delegates representing 53 charitable organizations of the Lutheran church in North America are here to attend the annual charities conference.

IF THIN AND NERVOUS, TRY PHOSPHATE

Nothing Mite Plain Blro-Phophate to Put on - Firm, Healthy Flean and to Increase Strength, Visor and Siene Force.

GREENCASTLE Maurice A. Sharp, 24, an officer in the air service, and who had made numerous flights in Indiana, is dead of appendicitis.

Trade union organization is reported to have been greatly advanced among French women during the period of the war.

The Japanese marine and fire Insurance business is showing great activ

ity. At the end of 1918 there were twenty-six insurance companies in op

eration.

When one stops to consider the host of thin people who are searching- continually for some method by which they may increase their flesh to normal proportions by the filling; out of uglv hollows, the rounding off of protrudingansrles with the attendant

bloom of health and attractiveness, it is no wonder that many and varied

suggestions along- this line appear

from time to time in public print.

While excessive thinness might be

attributed to various and subtle causes in different Individuals -it is a well

known fact that the lack of sufficient phosphorous In the human system is

very largely responsible for this con

dition. Kxperiments on humans and

animals bv many scientists have dem

onstrated beyond question of doubt that a body deficient In phosphorus becomes nervous, sickly and thin. A noted

author and professor in his book, i

"Chemistry and Food Nutrition, published in 191S, says: that the amount of phosphorus required for the normal nutrition of man is seriously underestimated in many of our standard text books." It seems to be well established that this deficiency In phosphorous may now be met by the use of an organic phosphate known throughout English speaking countries as Bitro-Phosphate. Through the assimilation of this phosphate by the nerve tissue the phosphoric content when absorbed in the amount normally required by nature soon produces a welcome change in our body and mind. Nerve tension disappears, vigor and strength replace weakness and lack of energy, and the whole body soon loses its ugly hollows and abrupt angles, becoming enveloped in a glow of perfect health and beauty and will and strength to be up and doing. It is sold by Conkey Drug Co. in Richmond and all good druggists. CAUTION: While Bitro-Phosphate is unsurpassed for the relief of nervousness, general debility. etc.. those taking it who do not desire to put on flesh should use extra care in avoiding fat-producing foods. Adv.

IN FIFTEEN DAYS GAINS 1 5 POUNDS TAKING TANLAG Thompson Was so Run-down He Couldn't Walk Without Help Feers Fine Now. "I commenced taking Tanlae just fifteen days ago, and have gained exactly fifteen pounds so far. which gives me an actual gain of one pound a day," said Peter Thompson, who for the past six years has been connected

with the Kansas City park board, and

lives at 409 Chestnut street. Kansas

City, Mo., a few days ago. "When I began taking Tanlac," he continued, "I was so weak and run down that I couldn't walk a step unless I had somebody to lean on, but I can get out and cover a good many blocks now, and am getting ready to go back to work. Some time ago I had a bad spell of typhoid pneumonia, and it came very near finishing me up. I pulled through, however, but I had never been able to regain any strength and my appetite was so poor that I couldn't eat enough to keep me alive hardly. My head ached all the time, and I would often have dizzy spells. I also suffered from nervousness and never got a good night's sleep. My stomach was in mighty bad condition, too, and everything I ate disagreed with me and I would have the worst sort of attacks of indigestion. I was certainly in bad shape, and I had began to think that I would never find a medicine that would get me started up hill again. "I had been reading the different statements about Tanlac, and one day I saw where a lady whom I knew very well, had been greatly helped by taking this Tanlac, 60 I made up my mind right then and there to give it a trial

myself. I commenced to get better right away, and it is just simply remarkable the way I have gained in weight and strength. Why, I can go anywhere I want to, now, and I can Just feel myself getting stronger every day. My appetite has come back, and I eat three hearty meals every day. and what I eat agrees with me alright. I never have indigestion or any kind of stomach trouble any more, and my nerves are so steady that I sleep like a log every night. The headaches have left me, too, and so have thoso dizzy spells, and infact, I just feel fine all the time. Tanlac has Just simply fixed me up all right, and that is why I talk so much about it. and am always recommending it to other people." Tanlac is sold in Richmond by Clem Thistlethwaite ; in Greensfork by C. D. Cornlne; in Cambridge City by Mr. Dean House; in Pershing by Sourbeer & Rodenberg; in Centerville by Centerville Pharmacy. Adv.

CLEVELAND Ensign Herbert N. Rodd of Cleveland, wireless operator of the NC-4, was. presented with a silver cup by his city at a public re-

HERE'S FASCINATING TOGGERY FOR VACATION DAYS

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"Pike's Peak or Bust," was the half-comic, half -tragic legend carried by the prairie schooners crossing the great plains back in '49. Pike's Peak, then, meant gold. If you didn't find it, you "went bust." Pike's Peak is there today more than 14,000 feet altitude and other equally impressive peaks of the Rockies Longs and Grays, Buckskin and Ouray, Spanish and Culebra. And great ranges of mountains, too Saguache, Sangre de Cristo, San Juan, Uncompahgre, Wasatch, Uintah, Oquirrh noted in song and story. But now you go there in luxurious trains, on rails of steel. You go for the gold of renewed health, the silver of vacation rest. " There is no possibility of failure, no going broke. Everywhere you find S multitude of t ilderness outing joys, just around the corner from resort hotel. And, if you search for it, the fabled pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Summer Excursion Fares Ask the local ticket agent to help plan your trip or apply to aeareat Consolidated Ticket Office or address nearest Travel Bureau, United States R. R. Administration, 646 Transportation Bldg., Chicairo; 143 liberty St., New York City 602 Healey Building, Atlanta Georgia.

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