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Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24
GYPSY MOTH WARNING
Agricultural Experiment Station Give S
 Directions for Destroying Pest.

AgrIcuitural Experiment Station Give S
 Directions for Destroying Pest.
 The gypsy meth warning issued by the Connecticut agricultural experiment. station from New Haven reads as follows:
 The caterplllars deyour the foliage of fruit, shade and forest trees, including ! conlferous trees, often killing them. Other kinds of vegetables are often attacked
 It has done incalculable damage in Massachusetts during the last 20 years. A small colony was discovered in Ston- lngton Ill 1906, which by careful work has been nearly exterminated. In De. cember, 1909, a large infection was found in the village of Walhngford and vigorous action is now being taken against it.
 Eggs hatch about May 1 and the cater pillars feed upon the trees until July. When young they descend upon threads and may be carried to new places by trains, carriages, autos or any passing vehicle. When nearly mature the caterpillars feed at night, hide under rubbish during the day and crawl about in going from treo to tree. Chrysalids may be found under fence rails and in holes in trees. The eggs are laid on trees, usually on trunks or under tEc side of the large branches.
 Destroy eggs by soaking egg masses III creOsOte oil.
 Band trees with burlap and crush caterpillars found under bands in June.
 Spray the foliage with arsenate of lead Give pounds in 50 gallons of water)
 It IS violation of the law to trans port living specimens.
 Persons finding insects or egg masses resembling the gypsy moth are asked to kill the specimens by dipping them into alcohol or gasoline and send them for Identification to w. E. Britton, state entomologist.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24
OLD APPLE TREES MADE NEW
George A. Drew Tells How He Made
 An Orchard Bear EighteenfoId

An Orchard Bear Eighteenfold
 At the recent meeting of the Pomo- logical Society ill Hartford, many speci- mems of fine apples from this and other states were shown, but the display which came from the town of Green wlch was pretty impressive. These ap- ples were shown by George A. Drew and he gave what was one of the most valuable addresses of the session as to his own experience.
 MT. Drew took an old orchard, we'll infested by the San Jose scale, and in four years raised it's production from 40 barrels to TOO barrels of apples. It's worth thinking about. MT. Drew saw that there were three things for him to do, spray, prune and fertilize, and those things he did pretty thoroughly, the result being that he really made new trees out of old ones. It was evident that the orchard was mature one, for he spoke of cutting off limbs six and eight inches through In this connec- tiOn he took pains to say that he en- deavOred to change the trees from high to low ones. The old idea was to pro- duCe 6 tree whose limbs were high enough to drive a team under. MT. Drew wants tree whose limbs. nearly hit the ground, ill order that they may be more easily sprayed, and also that the fruit may be handled to better advan- tage. He did not, so he said. attempt to do such a drastic job of pruning all in one year. but took three or four to do it and the trees apparently liked it. But an important thing was the spraying, the destruction of the modern plaques of l Egypt that are bound within few years to destroy all fruit trees that are not sprayed. He used a solution three times in the season and that seemed sufficient to put an end to the San Jose scale and a large and varied assortment of other noXious insects.
 The thing was to fertilize the orchards and here he did what probably few farm CTS would do, that being to use chemi- calls solely. He did not buy the sort of fertilizers that are sold in bags, but bought the chemicals and mixed by his own formulas. This, however, was an unimportant matter, for stable manure, according to MT. Drew, would be equally satisfactory. He has been about four years at this work and the result of it all is that he can put, if he cares to, apples in the New York market, less than twenty-eight miles away from him, that are just as good ill looks and better in flavor than those shipped to that city from the Pacific coast. It does not take much of financier to figure out that MT. Drew stands good chance to make money. What he has done can bo done Tn any other town ill Connecticut. but the spraying and pruning and fertilizing must also be done. The time is forever past in this state when the farmer can sit down and depend on Divine Provi- denee to look out for his orchard.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24

Of rats. Converse, who is admitted to be the most successful gentleman farmer east of the Mississippi. has been at his wits end because of their depredations in his henneries, which are about the finest in New England.
 The rats have invaded these and helped themselves to numberless young chicks of fancy breed and have carried off hun dreds of eggs and hidden them under the ice house, it is said, to keep in cold storage until prices 20 up. Generally they have made themselves almost as ob- noXious as the food trust.
 Converse, like Hamelin's mayor, issued a call for some one to rid him of the pests. Up stepped Foreman Crawford, saying he could do the job. He began operations last Thursday, and did pretty well, for he killed 216 rats Tn half an hour. His methods are not quite as pic turesque as those of the Pied Piper, but they are pretty nearly as effective. He covered his hands with bite proof" gloves, had the floors of the henneries taken up, and calmly delved down into the rats nests and pulled up the fright ened rodents one at time, breaking their necks and Ginging them aside. and then reaching down for more.
 Those that escaped from the nests he killed with club. He expects to exter- minate every rat on the place in a week. Converse is now equipping his place with rat-proof buildings.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24
NEWS ABOUT THE STATE
Personals and Other Items Of Interest Clipped from Exchanges

Clipped from Exchanges.
 Following the spread of the epidemic of scarlet fever throughout the city of Bridgeport, the board of health has closed the Waterville school. There a1e now 125 cases of acarlet fever in the city.
 Charles Hopkins Clark, editor of the Hartford Courant, has been elected by the successors of original trustees, Q fellow of Yale university, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Rev. Dr. Richards, pastor of the Brick Pres byteriau church of New York.
 State humane agents propose to en- force the state law regarding blanket ing horses that are left standing on the street. All the agents throughout the state have been notified to make it their business to have this law complied with.
 The Old Newgate Coon club of East Granby has been incorporated. It is organized for social and recreation pur- poses.
 The Consolidated Railroad is to make improvements on it's Air line involving the expenditure of $1,O00,O00. This is to include new bridge over the Connecticut between Middletown and Portland.
 With one arm disabled and in a sling William Brennan, of Naugatuck rescued two boys from drowning last week.
 Mrs. Julia Mallory died in New Haven last week, aged 101.
 George B. Preston, one of the oldest Masons in Hartford and charter mem Der of Hartford Lodge, No. 8S, A. F. and A. M, died at his home, No. 1,20S Broad street, last Thursday afternoon, following a long illness with kidney trouble.
 An Angora cat saved the life of Charles Halmquist of Portland last Thursday morning by jumping on his bed and awakening him so that he escaped from his burning home. The house, which was frame structure, was burned to the ground.
 The nineteenth annnal meeting of the Connecticut Association of Classical and High School Teachers will be held at the Hartford high school, Hartford, Satur- day, February 26.
 While hanging out clothes from a Sncon6- -storv window in har home at 4SO Chapel street, New Haven, Friday, Mrs. Mary Abitable, 55, lost her balance and fell to the ground, dying almost instantly.
 The Electric Steel Company, which owns valuable patents on tools and appliances used by railroads. has pur- chased q tract of land fronting on the railroad in New Milford and will soon begin manufacturing. J. P. Hopson. former superintendent of the Berkshire division, is president of the company.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24

I am now looking for parties wishing to sell farms and village property-from the cheapest to the high priced farm or home. Want to list them with the best agency in New York City. No charge for advertising. Please hand in your names and description of property that we may advertise them in the March book.
 Call on or address
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24
F arm w ante d !

l have party wanting to lease a farm 1 to years that will carry 9 cows and ? teams, with barns in condition acceptable to the Borden Milk Go. This party will buy the stock and tools.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24
PULPIT AND PEW
Happenings of Interest in Sharon's s
 Religious Circles
nervous state
Methodist Church.

Next Sunday morning, Miss Mahon, field secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church on Poughkeepsie Dis trlct, will represent the interests and claims of her work in the Methodist church of Sharon. A free-will offering will be asked for.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24
KNOWS HOW TO KILL RATS

IreenWICh Man UestroYs z Of the
 Rodents in Half an Hour.
 AS destroyer of rats Arthur Craw- ford, foreman at Conyer's Manor, Greenwich. the estate of 1900 acres of E. c. Converse, steel magnate, has the Pied Piper of Hamelin beaten "17 up and 1 to play" as Converse himself, who is president of The Fairfield County Golf club, would term it.
 Like HameIin town itself, Conyer's s Manor has been suffering from plague
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
Results at Butte

Butte. Aug. 2.--Long shots divided
honOrs with the favOrites at the Butte
Jockey club track today. Ormonde
cunningham and Smiley Metzner two
u 10 / shots, cashed. COppertoWn
took the feature race Of the day from
good field. Results:
First race, five furlOngs, selling
Ormonde Cunningham, 1O4, Taylor. y
70 /, won; Camera. 1O2. kederis, IS to
I, second; Herives, 100, Prior, to >,
third. Time-1:01 Is. Garter Light
G. NJ. Stokes, Ban Lady, Fanfare. Mary
Dees and Martha Jefferson also ran.
Second race. five furlOngs, selling
Tube Rose, lO2, Gaugel, 8 to .. won;
Tramator, 100. Fischer, 6 to 1. second;
Titus II, 100, Jahnsen to l, third. Time
100 %. Burleigh, The Slicker, Lii
liam Ray, Bitter Sir. Firm Foot and
Hama also ran.
Third race, futurity course selling
Lady Adelaide, lO6, Smith, to !, won;
No Quarter, los. Taylor. 3 TO ]. sec
Ond; Zoe Young. 103, Vandusen. to ?,
third. Time-1:11 Cool. Tillinghast
E. NJ Fry Platoon, May Pink and Wis
terra also ran.
Fourth race. six and a half furlongs.
purse-COppertow 90, Kederis. to D.
won; BalrOnia. 80, Callahan TO ?, sec
ond; Fernando, 102, Battiste, to 2.
third. Time-1:19. LewistOWn, Jack
Paine and Novgorod also ran.
Fifth race mile, selling-Rather
Royal. III. Gaugel 10 .. won; Albion
H. 100, Selden, 3 10 / second; Treasure
Seeker III, W. Mcintyre. TO J. third.
Time-1:42 Is. Salpearl, J. c. Glenn
Sixth race, six furIongs, selling
Smiley Metzner, 101, Taylor. - TO /.
won; Sixteen 1872, lines, TO / second
Patterson, 105. VOsper. to 3. third.
Time-1:15 2-5. Patriotic, Alive b.. Sen
Stanhope. Bardonia and Orilene also
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At Empire City

Empire City Race Track, n. Y, Aug.
2.-On a muddy track and favored bv
light weight. Danger Mark won the
FrivOlity selling stakes here today ia
a rOmp by six lengths
First race selling. five and a half
furlOngs Hesitate. II 10 3. won. Hand
Running, 70 2, second, Naughty Lad.
TO /, third. Time-l.0g As.
Second race, mile-SIaT Actor 90
? won. Bishop. 2 10 9, second. Time
l:43. Only TWO starters.
Third race, six furlong s-Rosseau. ~
70 8, won; Al Muller, 5 TO 3. second;
Sixty. Z 10 l. third. Time-l-15 is.
Fourth race. five and "a half furI0ngs
Danger Mark. 10 10. won. Crash 3
to 1. second Amalfi. 9 10 1, third. Time
-1.0I 40
Fifth race, mile and twenty yards
Alice George. Z to J. won. Ar0udack,
3 TO /, second; May Amelia1. II 10 ],
third. Time-1.46
Sixth race mile and a half-Duil Gre
9 TO 8. won The Peer. IL 10 8, second
Faultless. 10 10 ]. third. Tunes 4-5.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
SINCLAIR AND M'G0VERN
MAY MEET LABOR DAY

It begins to look as if Peanuts Sim
clair Will have perhaps the hardest nut
of his career TO crack on Labor day,
when he meets Gene McGOVern OF Mil
waukee at ogden. The two feather
weights with their managers meet with
Promoter Roy ShumWay at Ogden today
to sign articles following terms ar
range dby telephone yesterday.
McGovern, after a lot of good work
around Milwaukee, went to the coast
and kept up his winning streak. His
claim 10 a conner began when he stayed
ten rOhnds with Ad WOlgast in a no
decision bout at Los Angeles, and
while the newspapers gave the light
weight champion the decision. MCCOY
ern made him step, and was coming at
Nhe enu.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
PLANS ASSOCIATION FOR
ORGANIZED PRIZE. FIGHTS

San Francisco. Aug. 2.-OrganiZa ton
of an association that will exercise the
same influence and control over glove
contests that the leagues do over base
ball, is the scheme of A. B. Moffitt,
an Oakland fight promoter, who yes
terday began drafting letters to other
California promoters calling for a
meeting 10 be held soon in this city for
the purpose of forming such an assOcia-
ton.
Moffitt says he is working on a plan
of organization and bylaws, which he
will be ready to submit to the pro-
moters If the meeting is arranged. Il
believe" he asserted. that by OTgani-
cation we can clear away all the
troubles of the fight game and put ii
on as solid a basis as baseball, track
athletics or any of the sports"
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The time was 1852 flat. and unless
the little Australian flyer lowers il
himself, it looks good for nine years
more. The night was ideal for fast
time, not a suspicion of a breeze being
noticed on the track.
The second record fell 10 Clarke in
the twO-mile handicap lap. This time
he lowered his own record OF 3.4O TO
S:3S 10. While the bunch out ahead
tore it off at a killing pace from the
start, and Downing, Pye and later
Lawson helped place Clarke in a win
ming position, ii was great pull by
Mcfarland that made the record pos
sible. When Pye had done his bit and
Mcfarland was left alone with the
two scratch men on there was nearly
a half lap still separating the back
bunch and the limit men.
Never before did Mcfarland hump
his great back more or put kicks into
his long legs. but ne closed the gap.
Lawson took Clarke to the front ana
it was clear sailing 10 the tape, Win
Walker hanging on for a good second
and Lawson third.
Whiskers delighted many by annex
ing the four first laps Of the race.
In the er-WilcOX mOtOr-paced
match, the record holder from the coast
showed himself the better man by win
ming in straight heats, coming from De-
hind in the first heat and fighting his
way to the front, after seefnln st5
shaken from the pace IN the atIemp- 10
get by.
In the second heat Duer had the pole
| and he Tapped Wilcox three times
Whittler's superior pace-making made
Duers fast time possible. 1t looks as
| if Duer has found himself on the eight
| lap saucer and that the local Ians are
! beginning TO recognize the billy that
won him worlds record time on
| three-lap track. With Downing having
to dispose of Agraz next Friday night,
| the mOtOr-paced title appears 10 lie
| between him and Duer and battle
4 royal is sure to follow.
Runner Is Seen.
Another added feature Of the pro-
gram was an exhibition two miles by
William Stanley, the crack Danish in
door runner. Running on the cement
running board of the saucer, Stanley
made the two miles in 1898 Is, which
| breaks the Utah a. A. L. indoor record
of 11:l3 10, made by Neil Judd. Stanley
| is billed to run against one or NOR
bicycle riders. with the handicaps ad-
| justed to make them all go.
| The five-mile amateur western cham
piOnship was won by COlvin In an m
| teresting grind, in which twenty Simon
| Pures fought for the laps and for the
| finish without a spill tanOther record
| COlVin was pressed at the tape by
Cupid Huey, who since he has a mes
senger service Of his own is showing
more speed. a lew rams Thought the
winner had cut Young too close, but
/ there was not much cause for hOller.
Ernie Pye won his pursuit race
| against Red Brodbeck in handy style
| hauling down the late addition 10 the
professional ranks in a little over two
| miles.
Clarke won the half-mile open with
| credit due his team mate. Mcfarland
\ for the pace Lawson. riding without
| Pye, was a close second.
Major Taylor will make his debut be-
/ fore the salt Lake fans next Friday
when he goes after the quarter-mile
| mOtor-paced record After the exhibit
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
DILLON COMES AS MUCH
NEEDED BACKST0P

= Eddie Dillon. a veteran minor
league backstop, Manager Nike Dono-
van of Salt Lake believes he has the
missing link for the Salt Lake team.
Dillon caught for ogden the first OF
the season, but was shifted TO third
sack when Lumley got back into the
game He is an old head behind the
bat and hits well, combination that
Salt Lake has needed for some time.
Dillon was secured from Ogden yester-
day, and will play with Salt Lake foe
the remainder of Ihe season. Manager
Donovan is looking for games for his
team during the week, and would like
to take on the strong TOOele team this
week
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arrangements by Which the GIT was
made. 1t is estimated that the stall
lions full value as a breeder repre-
sents $4,000 a year.
VOladay is d splendid specimen Of
hOrseflesh. Experts who have eX9m-
ined him say that he hasn't a blemish,
and that there isn't more nearly per
feet horse in this part of the country
He was born and bred in Kentucky,
but has spent a considerable part of
his life in California. where some Of
his colts are the pride Of the state.
on the EmeryVille, Cal, track, Vol
aday made some enyiable records as a
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
C0RBETT'S UNKNOWN SAID
TO BE IOWA GIANT

Bakersfield. Cal, July 1.-The iden-
tity of James J. Corbett's unknown,
whom the former champion expects TO
win the championship from Jack John
son for the white race, was revealed
today TO a local newspaper man in a
message from Albany, Mo. Miles Nc
Leod, young giant, 27 years old, and
weighing 25O pounds. is COrbett's pro-
tege. The message, which II is declared
is from a strictly reliable source, states
that Mcleod has signed a contract with
Corbett 10 enter the ring, and he is
now secretly receiving boxing instruc-
tiCns from the former champion. Miles
Mcleod comes from a family of giants,
having two brothers his equal in size.
He IS a college man and an athlete.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
SAY IT'S A JOKE.

Albany. Mo, Aug. Miles Mcleod
is a giant farmer whose parents reside
near here. He is six feet and six inches
in height anG powerfully built. Recent
ly he left here for Chicago, and il was
rumOTed he intended 10 go into train
ing with the purpose of challenging
Johnson. His parents are opposed 10
their son taking up pugilism. Friends
say he has never had a prize fight
They regard the announcement of his
pugilIstie aspirations as a Joke.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03

Cresceus held the former two-heat
record for stations ana Bob Doug
las, who twice finished second 10 Har-
Vester today, held the 5-year-old stall
lion record OF 2:063
Geers also drove The Able 10 vic
tory in the Chamber OF Commerce So
GOO stake, winning three straight heats
after being beaten at the wire by Eve
Ism W il the first heat. In the 2;Ol
trot, which developed the new cham
pion, The Harvester won the two heats
practically as he pleased. Al no time
was he extended.
The big field had a bad time get
ting away in the first heat OF he
Chamber of Commerce stakes. Scoring
in the sixth attempt. Lady or Honor
got her feet tangled in her hobbies
and fell TO her knees. Then Colonel
Forrest, who had bee. acting badly,
cast a shoe, They were at the post
nearly an hour before getting away 10
a good start. The leaders we're vel
punched all the way.
Summary.
2:24 class pacing. purse $1,000. three
in fiVe.-Clover Patch won. Jerry. Dl-
rectly second. Nellie Temple thifd.
Best time-2;093.
Chamber Of Comm arce stake, 10000,
for 2:13 class pacing. three IN i've
The Able won, Evelyn w. second,
Branham Baughman third. Best time
2.67 trotting. purse $1,000, two in
three-The Harvester won, Bob Doug
las second. Spanish Queen third. Best
Horseman ana Spirit OF the Times
futurity for 2-year-Olds, trotung,
purse $4,000. two in three.-Necia Won,
Azoff second. Miss Stokes third. Best
tIme-2:133.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
CUBS BEAT GIANTS.

New York. Aug. Chicago took the
first game of an important series from
New York today by a score OF TO 4.
The Giants, by hitting overall freely
in the first inning. furnished Mathew
son with a fOur-run lead. but this ad-
vantage New Yorks star boXman
could not hold. Score; r. II. E.
Chicago 49,. .. 10 I
New York ..................
Batteries-Overall. Kroh and King
Mathewson and Myers. Empires
KLEIN and Kane
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
RALLY CAgIE roo LATE.

Detroit, Aug. Boston took the sec
Ond game of the series from Detroit
today by a score Of TO 3. The home
two runs. but Karger. who relieved
Wood with one out checked the cham
piOns. Collins lost his effectiveness in
the seventh and retired IN favor Of
Wood. Score. r. H Z.
Boston .... ..........4 10 o
Detroit 800 .s..ssss.....
Batteries Collins, Wood. Karger and
Carrigan; Summers, Willets and Stan
age.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
wOMEN,s TENNIS TITLE.

Newport, r. l., Aug. BY defeating
Mrs. A. 5. Burden and Mrs. William
q. LOew, in straight sets in the final
match at the Casino today, Mrs. LOril-
lard Spencer, jr, and Miss Anna Sands
won the women's lawn tennis doubles
tournament. TOday's match was PLAYED
in a pouring rain, the scores being "a.
a
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
GETS ANOTHER HEARING.

Lexington, Ky, Aug. 2-The Ken-
lucky state racing commission an
nOunced today that il would re-hear
the case of II. G. Bedwell of Denver,
who, with his stable, was ruled off
Kentucky tracks for the alleged "dOp-
ing" of the horse named Nadzu at
LatOnia on July last The date for
the e-heaPing has not been set.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
MAY REACH HOME.

Albuquerque. n. M. Aug. a
Joe Cans. accompanied by his
wife and a physician, passed
through Albuquerque tonight ap-
parently in a dying condition.
The once famous fighter is
making an effort 10 reach his
home in Baltimore. Md. alive. BY
the use of oxygen the doctor eX-
poets 10 bring his patient
; through.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
UTAH LIGHT WINS.

In a fast game OF ball played yester-
day at Fort Douglas. the Utah Light &
Railway team showed the United States
Shelter aggregation how by the score
of 10 .. Two home runs won the
game. The battery for the winning
team was Smith and Rouse.