The daily sentinel., 1913-12-12
ABOUT HOME FOLKS
and
ABOUT HOME DOINGS


hourse may make the difference, or
some little formality has been skip
red-we have lots to learn yet about
this worst of all pests.
A few years ago we were told that
three pounds of poison to the humid
red gallons of water were sufficient
and that We were killing our trees
with the poison. The result was that
we were eaten up by the worms for
a few years until we went back to
the formulas of four to six pounds
to the hundred gallons. A few years
ago the zinc mixture was going to
revolutionize the cost of spraying but
those who used it had bad results
and many burned their trees, and
this has been the case for years. l
do not wish to knock" any legiti-
mate industry or valuable spray ma
terial. but no one should use a new
article until he has fully experiment.
ed with it and by no means should
the entire crop be endangered. Even
If some one else has successfully used
an article it will be time for chang
ing; the good results may be due to
other causes.
When We were at the mercy of
foreign made goods we frequently
were "stung" without knowing what
allied us; we were left without sup
ply of the material. but when it is
made at home we are always supplied
and at the same price. Then we are
helping to keep up a home industry
and building up our home people,
with whom we can take up any real
or fancied grievance and remedy 1t.
Cur spray manufacturers are just as
anxious to please as we are to be
pleased. 1t is very certain that IL
we are to kill the worms we must
have in any spray enough poison
and that poison will cost just the
same amount whether in the form of
powder or mixed with lead and zinc.
If we wish to save money it is very
poor place to save by trying to cut
down the quality o. our sprays.
Another point "a favor cf using
home material or at least giving 1t
more than an equal trial is that the
Chemical Company has added cl-
der factory to the plant at consid-
cradle cost and is paying each year
several thousand dollars for the Gull
fruit which would te almost total
loss otherwise. IL Ia industry brings
money into the valley instead of TAX
ing it out.
I do not know of any movement
looking to the withdrawal of any
great amount of patronage from our
local arsenical or sulphur sprays but
it has been a very common occurr-
ence in past years, followed by good
many mistakes and this is more in
the nature of a warning, based opon
rast experience. 1t will require the
most active work next year to Sc
cure clean crops and the best way
will be to test any new spray mater
ial instead of adopting it as whole
IL any change is thought to be nee
essary, which l do not for one admit.
My remarks last week relative tic
a bank guaranty law were predicted
on the fact that next fall we shall
have to vote upon such a law and
the voters ought to begin now and
study the necessity or availability
OF such law. There are arguments
on both sides, else we should have
had the law long ago. The last leg
islature passed a banking code but
left out the guaranty feature, put
ting it into a separate bill in order
that the entire code might not have
tc be referred or initiated. The guar
anty bill failed of passage in the
senate, but its followers will get
it ready for the ballot in 1914. 1t
was an optional measure, allowing
the banks to choose which method
they would adopt but it provided that
all banks must come under a guar
anty of some kind Kansas has a
splendid law which has been tested
the past month ana found most ex-
cellent-the state provides the guar
anty fund by levy of small tax
on every bank and the instant bank
fails all depositors are paid in full.