Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-02-23

know the best way To do the home
work. Unless We de learn more about
housekeeping the husbands will soon be
putting US all into roaininE houses ami
restaurants This is the age of ma
ehinery. In the workshop. but not Ia
the home. There are many Kitchens OF
today that are no better equipped than
the kitchens of George Washin8ton's
day. We are all working toward one end.
the care Of the home. and tho man and
the Woman and the children should b.
united In their aim. and paans for this
end. Some Of the hest work done In
the culinary Department of the Coz
i-G~. she had seen done by young men.
young men of the Senior year. Just
about To graduate. ..gt
Senator Crowley Was called tn the
platform and gave the coiisge people
on the proxram a little adves!lssns
tut-.
TUESDAY MORNING aESaioN.
The morning seasion was Opedad
with good music. Prof. PADDOCK late
Ing to masrstaiiae. Prof. Gillette sooe
his place and talked on bugs-tneece
p-s,s: The psoses!oe said euf h!mee&
p~sis last year, bui ttAt Sas ssot ae4
that when ,hsse hSeSk SseV srarce ~
year they wss~ QSAls plensiful ~
next. 8o whiie the rule xas not lnvAfs
liable Il b-hoovsd thesn %. rive some q.
isntion 10 the subject though he ~
no inteatioo 10 undGly alarm bis aeAf.
ess- The penfessoe sas the walls dec.
GRATED with iliustratio0a Of q ane lot
of ha,4n and moths. and . lot Of twtgD
and leaves from local and foreign
d~lds. He talked On cut worms of var.
ious kinds and advised fall blowing -
the very best remedy. Turn them un.
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young plants with . tube made Of
cardboard ar tin set In the gvound
around the plant Or leave your weed
Ing little late and let the cut worm
feed On we~da In Part instead of Who'll.
" on your crop. or set out some
bunch~r of green stun saturated with
Paris gr~ea and this will attract the
~orn,n ana poison th-m. The cueum-
b~r beetle wss q bad pest. Screen
your pirnt with ptec~s oe cheese cloth
held down with ciods. Or make box
screens for them. Potsons have not
proved very effective. Road dust II
about ms effective ns poisos,. 4 spr.y
hest. Hut the melon lot1se II the worst
pest Of our cantaioubeA The dead
vines should bc dcsttoSrd tn destroy
the insects and their cR9n. They pro-,
ducc three broods In the growing ses :
ron. all females. and last brood. half
mnicr. late In tho season. thai winter
In the vines. Being 20 prolific u be-
comes very importnp, To destroy their
hiding place. Spraying with small
compressed air pump II the next re-
source. The beet web worm was de-
rcribcd. with Its habits. Fail pinwinR
was the best rxtcrminntor. II they do
appear on your bcct plants the nrcrn-
ate Of lead spray b the bese rem m-tiy.
In answer to q question he ratd turn
Ing under of cantnioure vines would
Kct rid Of melon lice. and utilize tn.
vincs.
Mrs. Ida TiiSon talked on poultry.
She said cnntNioupcs were Rood In
their way but were not good for reg
uinr diet and should b. balanced up
by eggs Rnd poultry meat. Hhe then
entered Into n rapid discussion of Inn
portant points In the cnrc ,snd Feeding
of fowls. Mrs. Tliron very evidently
knows her theme nnd niso knows how
to get II told. II would bc hard to do
Justice to her tnik on fowls and egg
production and those intcrestcd In the
poultry business missed Il In not be-
Ing present. The discussion was most
animated and participated In by Mrs
David Best. Mrs. Burr. Mr.. johnson.
Mr.. BlInn. Mr.. kountz and others Of
our well known local chicken rniscrs.
The chicken symposium Of the fore
noon session was ably wound up by
chicken raising is like the Methodist
brothers religion. mostly In his wife's
name.
Paul said that when Il became known
he was on the Institute program some
OF the boys questioned his right to
pose as n farmer. To establish his
nmliation with the honorable vocation
he had brought along an ancient sickle
that his great grandfather brought
with him from Massachusetts to the
Western Reserve In Ohio in 1S0i-102
years ago-which had descended from
father to son and which Paul himself
had used to trim his lawn In Rocky
Ford. thus establishing his own ar
nnity with husbandry. Paul also pre-
sented the chairman with poultry
association medal he claimed to have
won over Judge Voorhees, Mt n poul-
try show held in Pueblo many years
ago. and offered this as his credential