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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02
sono of the Plumber.


Heighho for the chilling winds that
blow!
Heigho for the frosty nights!
Heigho for the weather two below"
and the wind that nips and bites!
Heigho for the days I'll shortly know,
whenthe plumber gets his rights !.
Then here's to the plumber,
Come drink drop,
And here's to the tools
leave at the shop,
And here's to the pipes
That burst for ME,
And the time when the plumber
Will happy be!
Heigho for the hurry calls I'll get.
Heigho for the task that's mine!
Heigho for the bath room soaking wet
plight that count divine!
Heigho for the tools that | will forget.
Heighho for the busy sign!
Then here's to the plumber,
The plumber bold,
Here's to his solder,
And here's to his gold;
And here's to the pipes
That will narst some day.
Heigho for the plumber,
That all must pay!
Detroit Free Press.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02
THE BANKING AND CURRENCY
PROBLEM.

Victor Morawetz, the distinguished
lawyer and authority on corporation
law, has written a book which the
Messrs Harper, acting for the North
American Review Publishing Com
pany. have published on The Banking
and Currency Problem in the United
States. Until last fall Mr.. Morawetz
was chairman Of the board of direc-
tors of the Atctison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad. He has obtained dis
tinguished name in his special field
and in his book he advances the argu-
ments in favor of the system he has
worked out for the prevention by per-
manent safeguards of money strin-
gencies and panics. His idea is that
the trouble with banks in hard times
is that they have unduly strained all
their resources an6 have not kept suf
ficient reserve. He would enlarge
them or put them l. different shape.
for he holds that the deposits by banks
in other banks, and bank notes, and
call loans, and bonds or other secur-
tiles are not, properl. speaking, bank
reserves at ALL
Mr.. Morawetz argues that bank re-
serves may be increased by the use OF
bank notes in place of coin SO that if
the people will accept such notes there
will be no difficulty. He would have
cooperation between the banks and
the treasury. including the establish
ment of note-redemption fund, to be
elastic with reference to he uncov-
cred notes outstanding. This the
author believes would give stability
to financial institutions generally.
Some suggestions with respe to gov
ernment oversight of banks are rec
commended by Mr. Morawetz which
have been already put in force in many
of the states and notably in New York
under the recent body Of banking laws
Mr.. Morawetz writes with fullness
| of information and with thorough
grasp of the facts involved in the sub
! iect. and his book will doubtless ex
ert wide influence in favor of TT
ter arrangement than that now IN
vogue. He is against the bank deposit
guaranty plan, and his reasons are
cogent and sound. The style of the
book is simple I'D clear and every
thing is made plain to the common un
derstanding. The work should be II
the hands of evcryo~> who aspi-es t.
keep abreast of the best thought of TIT
day on the banking and currency prob
lem.
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DR.. Evans, health commissioner of
Chicago, said in an address the other
day that men drunk from liquor and
men drunk from over eating are most
susceptible to pneumonia, and die Of
It." Practicing physicians everywhere
will corroborate this statement THE
majority of cases of pneumonia are of
patients who CON- ted the disease
after a drunken debauch or who were
drunk from ovrrfeeding," DR.. Evans
continued People drunk from over
feeding. think are almost as immoral
as those who stupefy themselves with
liquors. The effects of pneumonia in
such patients are much the same"
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LincoIn's Rare Tolerance.

Century Magazine: The sympathy
and tolerance which made his writing
and speeches SO persuasive assisted
his leadership not only in convincing
his listeners and in endearing him,
the leader to individuals and the
masses, but helped him as states
man to take large and humane views
and to adopt measures in keeping
with such views. To that sympathy
and that federation reunited country
is under constant obligation, not mere
ly for the result of successfully con-
Quoted war-successful in the true in.
terests of both antagonists-but for
the continuing possibility of good
feeling between the sections.
To think that in the preparatory
political struggle and during the four
years of the hideous conflict Abraham
Lincoln, though his spirit was strained
almost beyond human endurance by
the harassments of his position;
though misunderstood and foully cal
umniated by public antagonists and
thwarted and plotted against by some
of his own apparent supporters, ut
tered not one word of violence or
rancor-not a phrase which, ster the
cessation of hostilities, might return
to embitter the defeated combatants
or be resented by their descendants!
The extraordinary forbearance of
the Presidents has often been spoken
of as an amiable trait of the man: but
do we fully realize the value to the
nation of this trait and the worth of
its example in public leadership? AT.
| ter SO tremendous conflict the
world abroad wonders at the quick
/ ness of the return to sympathetic re-
1 lations-to closer relations than ever
between the sections so lately at
war. But we of the country know
that the obstacles to true union after
the war were not so much the events
of the war-though some of them
naturally enough left trail of bitter
resentment-as events succeeding the
conflict of years, in that period of ex
perimental reconstruction when things
were done in the name of the domin
ant powers which the south has found
it hard to forget and the north ardent
ly wishes could be blotted from all re
membrance.
/ Lincolns attitude toward the south
when fully comprehended. helped t.
obliterate the acid stains of the recon
struction period. In other words, we
are today truly united country no
only because Lincoln conducted the
war to successful issue. but because
of his wise and tolerant Ind sym
pathetic leadership during that war.
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The True Lincoln.

Davenport Democrat: The Sioux
City Journal, the Gazette and the Re
publican of Cedar Rapids, and num-
erous other newspapers in lowe and
outside this state. have called upon
their readers to send in all the inter
esting anecdotes, stories, and other
things they can think = about Abra-
ham Lincoln. This is going to start
the avalanc e. Thousands OF stories,
Lincoln would not recognize Ii alive.
will be offered And such accounts
never lose anything by repetition. The
best that anyone can do for himself,
or Lincoln, is to read the letters.
speeches. and addresses of the great
man that are known to be genuine.
There is valuable mass of them that
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A Rapidly Spreading Reform.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Galesburg,
H., is discussing the commission plan
of government. There are many cities
doing the same thing. In fact, the city
that is not considering the plan or
rapidly approaching the consideration
stage is the exception. There have
been few reform movements that have
spread SO rapidly as has the idea. But
there are reasons for the rapid spread
of the reform. The plan appeals to
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the average citizen, and there has beer
a crying need for reform in methods
of city government.
Anti.toxin for Iowa phvsic;,n,

Cedar Falls Record: Iowa physi
clans are to have access to the Fleyner
anti-toxin for the treatment of Gaze.
bro-spinal meningitis. The serum ,.s
been sent to DR.. Henry Albert, o,
Iowa City. bacteriologist to the stat.
board of health, by DR.. Simon FleA.
ner, of the Rockefeller Institute Of
Medical Research, and under pranct
conditions and on receipt of tele
gram or letter DR.. Albert will send a
supply to applicants. AS this is the
first public announcement that Iowa
had been thus favored, when cases Of
the disease have developed in various
parts of the state, physicians and the
public will be nightly gratified.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02

Total gross earnings of all railroads
In the United States reporting for the
three weeks of January are $4,000, 4S4
a gain of SO per cent over the cor
responding period of last year, but SO
per cent under January, 1907, when
traffic on the railroads was heavy. The
roads in the southwest continue to
make the best showing, several re
porting a large increase over a year
ago.
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"cheer Up

"Cheer Up"
II an auto runs you down,
Cheer up!
Though it breaks your legs and crown
Cheer up!
With your limbs each in a sling.
Lift joyous voice and sing.
You don't own the dad blamed thing,
Cheer up.
II your regulations bad,
Cheer up!
II a term in jail you've had,
Cheer up!
Though your past gives you regret
You have served no term, you bet,
In the legislature yet
Cheer up!
If your bills are piling high,
Cheer up!
Though from creditors you fly,
Cheer up!
Why should you be full of woe?
You're far better off. you know,
| Than the poor old cuss you owe
Cheer up.
George Fitch in Peoria Herald-Tral
| script.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02

are known to be authentic. From
these we get the conception of the
man as he was. We learn his love of
truth, his hatred of wrong, his ster-
ling honesty, and the true greatness of
this exceptional man. The truth
about Lincoln Is strong emo gh; but
we are in danger of having a flood of
fiction.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02
and there is nothing left to cut out the
next time he has pain.

A Philadelphia doctor is going to
give dinner to 1875 men from each
OF whom he has removed an appendix.
The Peoria Herald-T Transcript notes
with regret that several others upon
whom he has operated will be un-
avoidably absent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02

A medical expert in Massachu-
sets court defined cocktail as "an
emolient for a dry or irritated throat,
which may be applied With feather,
but usually is not If the thing de-
fined is no better than tie definition
the prohibitory law should be strictly
enforced.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02

President-elect Taft is to be given
banquet of alligator steaks at New
Orleans. An unimpaired digestion is
one of the prime qualifications of
President-to-be nowadays.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02

The trouble with the constitution of
Oklahoma is that it is too blamed
original. The new state is willing to
concede as much-in its lucid inter-
walls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02

In his address when elected senator
Mr.. Root said: ''If the legislators are
unworthy men, choose better ones,
but do not pull down the legislative
temple because some unworthy man
be lurking in the shadow of one of
the columns" The declaration is a
classic one and embodies good advice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02

Some of the blizzard dispatches
from small interior points suggest to
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat that one
of these day. we shall be startled by
something like this: "Smithton.
March - The sun rose here at
6:1S,' followed by "Joneston, March
- Sun rose here, toe"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02
keokuk, Iowa February 2, 1909.

Anxious Reader: Be patient, C. Q.
ID. will have run its course in the
newspapers in another week or two.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02

begins all marital relations while
many of them end in court.
It is BEGINNING TO be suspected by
the Galveston News that while Mr..
Taft is welded to Ohio, the south is
his affinity.
Beach Hargig. the Kentucky desper-
ado. has shot himself in the foot.
The Omaha Bee tells him he should
learn to aim higher.
The si.nplified Spelling board, in
it's taird roynd WIN the dictionary
paralyzed a whole raft OF words. The
dead letters would stock new GENE
terry.
The head of Lincoln will probably
sppear on the new silver half dollar
A bust of Cleveland will be On the
ten dollar gold certificate and that OF
Grant on the fifty dollar one.
According TO the Enterprise faith
ful member OF one Of the Brighton
churches is such a martyr tnat she
goes there to meeting every Sundas
when she would much rather neal
one Of the other pastors preach.
The Herald Transcript tells Oh
Peoria man who is oppressed by a nor
rible fear. He has had his appendix
tonsils and part Of his liver removed
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

It has been remarked that counting
begins all marital relations while
many of them end in court.
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fraternity which lives upon public
credulity.
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equal to 10 per cent of the votes cast
for mayor the proposed ordinance
must be submitted to vote of the peo-
pie at the next general election.
The Washington times., 1909-03-28
LOAN COMPANIES.

awE DO JUST as WE ADvzzr1sn.,
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Washington, Baltimore 9
Annapolis Electric
Railway.

Electric palace cars from White House station
FIFTEENTH AND II SITS. NORTHEAST
For Balttmore-Every half nOur from goo
a. m 70 7.20 p m, and 800. $3.50, 1920 ana
1-48 D. m Except on the odd hours Local
cars at 6-55- S:l9 n;10 a IN, and 1:1o t:IO
5:1e. 10 D. m.
Cars on the EVEN hours make no stona
between Washington and Baltimore
For Anna polis-Every hour from $40 q -,
TO I:2o p. m. and $50 and II :4s o. M
Eares One way Round Trip
To Baltimore.......--..Z Z5c 81 *
TO Annapolis an u. s.
Naval Acadengy...--. $50 H2S
Baggage checked
All II ST cars run direct TO White HousA
Station
Ticket ONCE at 18th and y. 7 ave "
and at White House Station 18th ana II 80 -
~ e Telephone NJ 1905 and Line. 516
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RY-

NOTE Published only as Information and
not guaranteed.
400 p NC. & o. Limited Daily Fast vaa
thule train. Pullman sleepers 10 IexinptoD
Louisville. Cincinnati Indianapolis Cbica03
and St. Louis. Parlor car for Virginia H.
Springs. week days Pullman car T.o1Tfs
Vile to Memphis and New Orleans Dfni1s,
cars a Ia carte Eervice-
L:lO p. M.-F. F. Y. LIMITED Oau,,
Solid vestibule train Pullman sleepe-S 70
Cincinnati. Lexington. and I.oulsvilla
Compartment sleeping car to Virginia FTor
Springs week G@ys. Dining cars a Ia CO.
service. Pullman sleepers Cincinnati n
Chicago and St Louis. and Louisville 10
Memphis Nashville. anG New Orleans
Chesapeake and Ohio offices 5lg Pe1ns,,,
vania ave. 1893 T ST and New Union S4s
ton Telephone Main 1856 or 22Os for tick
cab. rnh25-rf
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RAILROADS.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO r. R.


LEAVE NEW UNION STATION.
49,, ROYAL BLUE LINE.
ENery Other Hour the Odd Hour"
10 PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK.
s9E-N TERMINAL. 23D ST. NEW YORK.
= 80 a m--DIner. Pullman Par1,yr
Is;VO a m.-Observation ParlOr 5-bour Train
49, - a m--Diner and Pullman ParlOr Car
- - - d. in--DIner and Pullman Parlor Car.
5.1 .5V1 = m-Diner and Pullman Parlor car
''O' y n r. Royal Limited" All Pullmans-
& .&t.S D. m-Coaches 20 PHILADELPHIA.
,So 3.O0 p m--Diner End Pullman ParIor
.rSgg .yg = n1.-Soaches 10 Philadelphia
Ia y I--Sleepers TO New York
@z-92 a Jn.-Sleepers TO PbfIe,yaI,,i,s, ~ N-s-
York. ''''- -
:, ATLANTIc At CITY. 7:oo. 900 tu.oo a. m.
HOO. 900 p m.
TO BALTIMORE
EVERY HOUR on THE HOTrR
week Days a. N. TO II D. M
80 l5.Vy 1850. 'I.9o. go IS 90 $50 900
~. fl9:yo. 'll:0o a. N. 100 noon. f12.0s
100. 4I:l5. f2;00. 300. 1870 $50. r 900
40. 800. f5:03 $50 f6:00 $50 II 90 Is o0
900. 1000. '10.S5 -1t.O0 s1e.l5 n r.
WESTWARD.
CHICAGO. %1-22. $50 D. m.
~ 1lNSINNATI. ; :, I. ST LOUIS. AND LOUIS
PdITSBURG. "s:1c a m. '1:22. .s:I0 p N.
1890 night
CCdLEvELAND. -9:IO p. m.
COLUMBUS. $50 D m
WINCHESTER. 1910 a m. f4.05. 800 .. m
FREDERICK, 1920 1910, t9:15 a. m 4 80
T4:05. f5:4S D.
HAGERSTOwN. 1910 a m. $500 D. m
ANNAPOLIS. 40 1900 a m. T12-O5 noon
fS:2o 49, $3.50. and $3.50 p. m.
-Dally. TExcept Sunday. tSunday only
TELEPHONES al all Of the Following
Ticket Ii. ohiees; l4l3 G ST Tel Main 1891: sls
Station Ticket ofice. Main 1880: Information
Bureau Main 1880 rnh1-rf
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SEABOARD AIR LINE
Ticket Office IA2I Penn AVeuT,a

Notice-FoiioWing schedule not guaranteed
sos A. NJ. DeiIy-"Florida Fast Mail .
Through coaches and Pullman sleepers "a
Savannah and Jacksonville. Through sleep-
eTs Washington to Hamlet ana Hamlet 10
Atlanta. Dining cars
$40 p. NJ Daily except Sunday-''Seaboari
Florida Limited solid electric lighted PuIl-
man with sleepers 20 Jacksonville St An
gUstine. Palm Beach. Mama. Knights Kew
Dining cars.
rs p NJ OalV-'-Year Round Limited -,
Coaches and FvIman 70 Savannah, Jackson
Vile. Tampa. atlanta. Birmingham Mem
phis- Dining CSlS.
r H sTANSELA. District Passenger Agent
IA
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RAILROADS.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

y B-Following schedule figures published
only as information and are not guaranteed
For Atlanta, Birmingham. Mobile New
Orleans Asheville Chattanooga Memphis
-0O a. m and i4:45 D. daily.
For Roanoke. Knoxville, Chattanooga
Memphis New Orleans. 1910 p. m.
For Columbia, Charleston. Augusta Aiken.
Savannah, Jacksonville. and Fioriia points.
G;I0 p. m. daily.
L. S. BROWN. General Agent.
Se6-eNulo-fF
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Loaned SaIaried People

and others, without security; easy payments
Offices in % principles cities: save yourself
money ty getting my terms hrst- y. H
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DIR. FISK ELGN

Expert treatment Of private diseases, acute
and chronic; both sexes: all consultations con
adentiaI: medicine furnished. prices rnoder-
ate; nourA. 81. B s. 1898 Pa. ave. Phone III ISIS
ta7-tf
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EORD See the New Model I
- II - Price $3.50.

a 4-cyllnder. 20 h. p. touring car. easily
controlled. comfortable, powerful and speedy:
surely well worth investigation Phone for a
demonstration CHAS. L &ILLL & BRO.
Lo5 1ith 81. Phone ~. 4i7o. dey0rtf
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FOR SALE-FARMS.

FARM of 10 acres, good Groom house barr
poultry plant, near station, miles from citv
only s.. 800: easy terms; get big cata-
loGuc OF farms ana suburban homes
NATIONAL FARM AGENCY.
ll07 y. y. Ave. = W.
mh2G-3L
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EXCURSIONS.
NORFOLK 6 WASHINGTON
" STEAMBOAT co.

Every day in the year from foot 9TH st
for Fort Monroe. Norfolk Newport News md
points south Via steel palace steamers New
port News. Norfolk and Washington"
Lv. Washington.6.45 PM Lv. Portsmouth 5 pnn
Lv. Alexandria. 700 pm lLv NOrfolK..g & nm
Ar. TT. Monroe 90 amlLv. TT Monroe z D. m
Ar. Norfolk. 500 am Ar Alexandria 8 :3Oam
Ar. Portsmouth $3.50 AM Ar. Washington.7 am
II Through connections made at Norfolk
with steamers Old Dominion Steamship Co
for New York. and Merchants I'D Miners
steamships for Boston.
"a General Ticket Office los I4th ST, Col
oTado Building. Phone Main L520.)
lth ST. Wharf tPhone Main 376o)
JNO. CALLAHAN. I'd V. Pres. & Gen Mgr.
~. CALLAHAN. Genl Pass. Agt.
fe28-t
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WE HAVE . large list OF Jlicants for
suburban places 20 rent and buy. Let Us get
ygu a tenant at once.
MYERS & LIGHTFOOT. 14o7 y Y. Ave. NV.
mh27-St
IMPROVED city prOperty-WhSt have Won
In country or suburbs within mile OF car
line Address BOX 257 Times Office NH 2T-7ts
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FOR EXCHANGE

NEW TEN-ROOM colonial house. ho,-vater
heat thoroughly modern, in finest part Of
northwest section; viii exchange for lots.
Answer quick BOX 2Og. Times Office
mh26-5t
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-24
Spoiled the Performance.

The play was all about a horse-a
famous horse, the autobiography Of
which Is even yet among the best
Sellers" and over the sufferings of
which thousands Of readers have shed
tears of sympathy. The four-legged
actor that had been cast for the part
of the horse was doing it's best, pre-
sumably, to look pathetic.
With dropping head it stood on the
stage, from time to time switching
its poor locked tail. One Of the two
legged actors was delivering an i'm
passioned and really touching speech,
when the audience suddenly burst into
a fit of prolonged and uncomfortable
laughter.
The Grafton came to sudden stop.
The actor glanced at the horse, then
turned and fled in dismay behind the
scenes.
BLACK Beauty" was yawning-
Youths Companion.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-24
"He Broke Away"

robe, she started down the hall, when
she heard some one fumbling at the
door, and a moment later heard a
sharp click as the lock was thrown
back by the use of a burglars Jimmy.
The burglar was more frightened
than the woman when she defantly
confronted him and demanded what
he was doing there.
II represent a-a-a-" he began,
when he was cut short by Mrs.
Jahkne, who was not to be deceived.
you are a common burglar" she
cried, as she started for him. Get
out of here at once"
When the intruder failed to follow
these instructions promptly enough to
suit Mrs. Jahnke, she decided to add
| physical force to moral suasion. Be-
fore he could realize what was hap
| pening to him, the burglar was seized
by the collar of his coat and the seat
of his trousers and rushed to the door
AS she pushed him into the hall
Mrs. Jahnke delivered a series of
blows about the face and head that
took all Of the fight out of him. He
broke away, but in doing so left a
handful of hair, the only souvenir of
| his visit. The last seen of him he
was doing a Marathon race in record
| time
When Mrs. Jahnke had recovered
her breath and completed her toilet,
she consented to tell of her expert
ence.
II wasn't frightened Bit" she said.
1T just made me mad to think that
he would dare come right in here in
the daytime, and l thought l would
| teach him better"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1909-07-24

The corn root-worms are undoubted-
ly the most serious insect pests with
which the Iowa corn grower has to
contend. The presence of root-worms
in a field is usually indicated by q
whitening of the young plants, the
failure to produce well developed
ears, or a general retarding Of the
growth without any visible cause. A
search among the roots of such stalks
may bring to notice the tiny root
worms.
The root-worms themselves are
small, slender white grubs, about half
an inch long when they are full
grown. Infested stalks of corn may be
pulled out easily and will break off at
the place where the root-worms are
at work, leaving the greater
part of the roots In the
soil. Frequently stalks infested
by the root-worm are blown to the
ground by the wind, the root system
having been so cut off that the stalks
cannot stand the strain. Bowman and
Crossley have shown how a continu-
Gus cropping Of corn on the same
ground will very soon increase the
number of root-worms to an alarming