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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10

yielding block of any fertilizer was
but an increase of less than two BUSH
els over the check blocks. Fields in
other locations have given valuable
results, but the one fact that seems
to stand forth in taking the entire
number Of tests as a whole is that
phosphorus is likely to be lacking in
Kansas potato fields. With the evil
dence now in, the best recommends
ton for potato growers is a rotation
which shall include the manuring of
the soil one year before the potatoes
are to occupy the field.
The fight against insects has been
a hard one. In 1911 the bugs were
so numerous when the potatoes came
through the ground that hundreds
could be counted in the fields during
the blind plowing" The voracious
beetles attacked the potatoes as soon
as they appeared, and they were in
such numbers that many times after
spraying many dead beetles would be
found about the badly devoured stem.
Spraying did not serve to control the
insects at this early stage, as there
was not sufficient poison tissue to
feed the myriads of insects, and hand
picking was very profitable invest
ment for the potato grower. After the
potatoes attained little size, ARISEN.
ate of lead applied as strong as 4
pounds to so gallons of water de-
stroyed practically all of the insects.
Being much more adhesive than Paris
green, arsenate of lead is much supe.
rior in seasons of normal rainfall, al
though in 1911 and 1912 Paris green
was fully as efficacious. In 1911 and
1912 there was little need OF sprays
for early blight, but in other seasons
the blight has been well controlled
by using Bordeaux mixture in com.
Ibination with the arsenate of lead
sprays.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
GARDEN CITIES FOR WORKERS
No Factory Plan Can Be Adequate
That Does Not Provide for
Homes for Employees.

Perhaps the ideal Of garden cities
is approachable in this country. The
subject at least affords much material
for study.
: OF recent date is such study of
two Cincinnati suburbs by Graham
Romeyn Taylor, who discusses it in
the Survey. A number of factories
moved from the center of the city to
Norwood and Oakley under favorable
circumstances. But their employees
failed to move with them. Less than
40 per cent. live in the two suburbs
or near by. Only handful may walk
to and from their work. Why? Be-
cause, as Mr.. Taylor believes, there
was no semblance of adequate town
planning to embrace the factory work
ers. While the factory managers
made sufficient provision for the dis
tant future of industry, "a far-sighted
view of community development is en-
tirely lacking The abode of industry
was thus assured when land was
cheap. Similar assurance for homes
for the workers away from the con-
gested Cincinnati was nobody's con-
Germ"
So Mr.. Taylor concludes that "one
neighborhood recreation center such
as Chicago now has to the number of
nearly twenty, might, with intelligent
leadership, solve the problem" More
over, 1.-THE removal of the factory to
the rim of the big city is not an ade-
quate solution of our civic-industrial
problem If it leaves the workers home
in congestion, or even If 1t transports
it to a region where the whole fabric
of community life is left to remain
undeveloped."
Mistakes undoubtedly will be made
in the development of the garden city
idea, but they may well lead to final
success in the movement.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
BROKE HORSE OF BAD HABIT
Bag Of Sand, Something Like "Punch.
Ing Bag" Did the Business
Quite Simply.

Noah Spears, Bay Shore farmer,
has discovered way to break horse
of kicking, according to Milford let
ter to the Wilmington (Del.) News.
Spears tells the following story: II
filled a stout gunny sack with sand and
suspended it from the ceiling in the
rear of the stall by rope in such a
position behind the horse that its
heels could have good play upon it.
This large pendulum, needing only
strong power to start it, would swing
with clocklike precision as soon as
the horse began to play it's acrobatio
stunts u1on It. At the first kick the
bag swung away, only to return with
more force, giving the animal much
more than it had sent This unexpect-
ed return on the part of the bag caused
the horse to kick harder, but each time
the bag returned harder and paid the
animal with interest. Finally the
horse, realizing that further kicking
would be fruitless, stopped kicking.
The bag was allowed to hang in the
same position for an entire week, but
no more use for it was SEEN"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
Mercy of Aviators.

Robert G. Fowler, an aviator, says
that while he was flying across the
Isthmus of Panama he found it would
be easy for an aeroplanist to blow up
the Gatun dam.
There is absolutely no protection"
he said. 81 think the government has
overlooked this.
. ANY good aviator, flying first-class
machine, could carry enough nitro
glycerin or other high explosive, to
blow such "a hole in the dam that 1t
would leave the whole canal useless. 1
could have done /. myself, and would
not fear to attempt it at any time"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
BANISHED
Coffee Finally Had to Go.

The way some persons cling to cot.
fee, even after they know it is doing
them harm, is a puzzler. But it is an
easy matter to give it up FOR good,
when Postum is properly made and
used instead. A girl writes:
Mother had been suffering with
nervous headaches for seven weary
years, but kept on drinking coffee.
"One day ! asked her why she did
not give up coffee, as cousin of mine
had done who had taken to Postum.
But Mother was such a slave to coffee
she thought it would be terrible to
give 1t up.
Finally, one day, she made the
change to Postum, and quickly her
headaches disappeared. One morning
while she was drinking Postum SO
freely and with such relish, asked
for a taste.
THAT started me on Postum and
now drink it more freely than l did
coffee, which never comes into our
house now"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Write for booklet, THE
Road to Wellville."
Postum comes in two forms.
Regular Postum Unjust be boiled.)
Instant Postum doesn't require boil
ing, but is prepared instantly by stir
ring level teaspoonful in an ordinary
cup of hot water, which makes it right
for most persons
A big cup requires more and some
people who like strong things put in a
heaping spoonful and temper it with a
large supply of cream.
Experiment until you know the
amount that pleases your palate and
have 1t served that way in U. /, future
There's a Reason" foE Postum
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
WHAT FERTILIZERS FOR THE POTATO FIELDS?
[By Albert Dickens, K. S. A. CT

Experiments with fertilizers for po-
tatoes have given a large amount of
data from which the conclusion is cas-
lily drawn that each potato field is
problem in itself. Barnyard manure
has been a detriment when applied
Immediately before planting, but one
year previous to planting as high as
twenty tons per acre have given good
results. On the college farm on good
soil in 1911 MANFRED land produced
rs bushels and the unmanured land
so bushels. In 1912 the land MANFRED
nured 100 bushels. At Lawrence in
1911 a MANFRED field produced "a
bushels and no manure 81 bushels,
while this MANFRED field in 1912 pro.
duced 225 bushels, no manure, IT'S
bushels. At Alma, in 1912, manure-20
loads per acre-produced 1853 bushels
and no manure 17S bushels. The ex-
PLANTATION seems to lie in the fact that
nitrogen, the first element liberated
from the barnyam manure stimulates
q ucdNy SlON III VI up DIT luS tApSuSS
of the tuber. In every case, manure
applied one year previously has given
an increased yield. With the COM
mercial fertilizers, the results have
been much more valuable. In one
field in 1911 the average of the check
blocks was 50 bushels. Two hundred
pounds of potassium sulfate at a cost
Of $50 produced So bushels; 200
pounds potassium sulfate costing $50
plus 400 pounds acid phosphate cost.
ing $3.50 produced II bushels per
acre. The 500 pounds of special com
plete packing house fertilizer of the
analysis of per cent nitrogen, per
cent phosphoric acid and 10 per cent
potash at a cost of 1855 produced
6S bushels.
In 1912, thinking that some of the
fertilizer might still be available dug
to the very considerable deficiency If
moisture during 1911, the same blocks
were planted in the same way, adding
the same amount of fertilizer as was
added in 1911. In 1912 the rainfall
was below normal, but the ground was
in very fair condition in the spring,
and given every chance in the way of
cultivation and protection from in.
sects, and the average of the check
blocks was 162 bushels. The highest
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
School Gardens and oocIetIes.

School gardens continue to receive
a constantly increasing share of pub
lie attention. From very many parts
of the country reports reach us bear
ing witness to this widespread inter
est. There can be no question but
that the movement should be encour-
aged by all who are in any way con-
cerned in practical horticulture. If
the younger generation has implanted
in 1t an intelligent interest in garden
routine work, together with an intel
ligent acquaintance with growing
plants, there will not be the need of
so much missionary work in garden
art in the future as there has been in
the past.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10

the first Of August, they are counted
as dead. The loss of these trees is
largely due to the fact that they are
attempting to grow under unfavorable
conditions, and the roots are not able
TO supply the tops with the necessary
moisture. The best remedy for this
condition is good cultivation.
There are very few soils in the state
that do not possess sufficient fertil-
ity for successful tree growth. Trees
utilize but small per cent of the
mineral elements. Wood is composed
very largely of carbon This, the
plant secures directly from the air
through its leaves. Its principal de-
mand upon the soil is for moisture
Pouring water on the surface of the
ground, however, during dry seasons,
does not fully provide for the require
ments Of best growth.
The ground must be kept mellow by
cultivation, spading or hoeing This
must be done while conditions are
favorable, and not after the ground
has become dried and baked, either
through surface evaporation, or be-
cause of the growth of weeds Now
is the appointed time. Do not de-
lay cultivation until the corn is laid
by, or until the alfalfa is cut and
stacked. 1t will then be too late to
save your trees.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
Between Devil and Deep Sea.

Simeon Ford, New York's we'll
known humorist, said whimsically the
other day, apropos of the death of j.
Pierpont Morgan: I'VE learn from Mr..
Morgan's life that wealth does not
bring happiness. We know already
that poverty doesn't bring it, either.
What ON earth then is a man to do?"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10

must gather food and nourishment to
support its top. To Offset this loss
of roots, it is common practice to
cut back the tops of the broad-leaved
species in about the same proportion
as the roots. Cutting back has two
fold benefit; it reduces the demand
upon the roots, and also retards the
tree from coming into leaf, giving the
root system an opportunity to develop
before the leaves require a large
amount of moisture. Evergreen trees,
on the other hand, should not be cut
back except in few instances. In 9TH
er words, they are planted with their
full amount of foliage, and the drain
uSCn the roots is as great az before
the tree was transplanted. Under
these circumstances, it is clearly seen
that the most favorable conditions
possible should be provided for the
newly planted tree.
The conditions most favorable for
tree growth is loose, well-aerated,
moist soil. To secure these conditions,
cultivation is very necessary from the
time the trees are set out, until they
reach such size that they shade the
ground, thus protecting themselves.
The kind of cultivation required is
the same as that required by any 9TH
er growing crop. The surface of the
ground should be kept loose and mel
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING
HERE, THERE and EVERYWHERE
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts of the World Condensed
into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Washington.

Commenting on the recent Mulhall
lobby revelations President Wilson
said: THE lobby is out of business
so far as national legislation is con-
cerned. 1t has ceased to embarrass
the administrations When the pres
ent investigation ends, lobbying as a
profession will be classed with the
dodo and other things extinct"
President Wilson has approved the
plan negotiated by Attorney General
McReynolds and the railroad attorneys
for the dissolution OF the Union Pa
ciflc merger under the Sherman Anti
Trust law.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
Kill pandeIlons or Be Fined.

Failure to root out dandelions will
be misdemeanor punishable by a
fine, in Omaha. Neb., If an ordinance
favored by Mayor Dahlman, passes the
city council. The mayor declares dan
delion a public nuisance and says he,
will go the limit to secure their ex-
termination.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
Advice to the Innocent

We have letter from young wom-
an who asks:
Can ! succeed as chorus girl and
remain innocent? My friends tell me
that l am very beautiful"
We are unable to give expert advice
concerning the possibility of succeed
ing as a chorus girl and remaining in
nocent, but we feel safe in saying that
If the young lady is provided with a
suitable supply of innocence in her
present environment it would be pity
not to keep it right there.-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CARE AND
CULTIVATION OF NEWLY SET TREES
Loose WeIaeraed Moist Soil the Most Favorable for Tree
Standardization is Necessary from the
Time They Are Set Out Until They
Shade the Ground.
IBy c. A. Scott, state Forester K. s. A. CT

low, SO as to prevent the subsoil from
becoming dried out by surface evap-
grafton, or through the growth Of
weeds that rob the trees of the soil
moisture.
Thousands of newly planted trees
that burst into leaf and show every
indication of growing after they have
been transplanted, finally begin to
show signs of failure later in the
season, and by the middle of July OF
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10

Charles Mathis, engineer OF q coal
mine near Duquoin, ILL.,, saved 400 men
from burning to death in the mine
For half an hour while the flames
ragged in the coal chutes a few feet
! away, Mathis stood at his post work
ing the hoist until all the men were
out of the shaft A moment after
the last man was brought out the
cable of the hoist parted. Mathis
may die from his burns.
Eleven men have been indicted by
the federal grand jury at Enid, Ok,
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government by influencing the
Usage Indian council members to &C
cept bids on oil land leases not ac-
ceptable to the department of the
interior.
The body of Eugene Oneal, fire.
man on an oil lease near Morris, Ok,
was found seventy-fve feet from
where the boiler he was firing had ex-
ploded oneals head had been sew
cred from the body.
A general strike of cooks and wait
ers in the high class hotels and cafes
Of st. Louis opened with a race riot
between striking white walters and
strikebreaking negroes. Three men
were slashed with razors.
State Senator Smith of West Vir-
ginia has been convicted of bribery
in connection with accepting $4,000
to vote for Col. William Seymour Ed
wards as a candidate for the United
States senate.
An act passed at the recent session
of the Texas legislature, which be-
came effective July /, makes it I'M
lawful for any person to get drunk
at any place except in his own home.
A Champaign, ILL.,, patrolman who
was put on the police force as spot
ter of bootleggers,' is charged with
conducting a blind pig"
A narrow wooden walk leading over
fifteen feet of water to the municipal
bathhouse in the Merrimac river at
Lawrence, Mass, gave way under the
stamping feet of crowd of impatient
boys and at least eleven of the youths
were drowned. The boys ranged in
age from 8 to Is years.
The last day of June was the hot
test ever experienced in Chicago, the
thermometer on the street register
ing 102 degrees. Forty-six daths were
recorded as directly due to the in
tense heat. Reports from other points
in the middle west brought the total
for the day to 92
George Townsend, president of the
Wyandotte Construction Company,
which built the Kansas City-St. JOS
eph interurban electric line, is reported
missing from the Baltimore hotel in
Kansas City. His family and friends
are mucn concerned over the dlSap-
pearance.
Seven gray-haired women who, fifty
years ago acted as volunteer nurses
for the Union and Confederate vet
Grams alike during the great battle at
Gettysburg, met again at the big re-
union and recalled scenes and Incl
dents of the trying days of half a
century ago.
The four daughters or John Schwin,
a farmer living near Elkhart, Ind,
were drowned in the st. Joe river.
The girls ranged in age from Z to 10
years.
Miss Ora Bullard, who went to Den
yer from Ashland, Kan, recently, and
became a student nurse at the county
hospital there, committed suicide be-
cause she had smallpox.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10

Experiments or demonstrations are
the most efficient means CT getting
farmers to grow better varieties of
crops or adopt better methods of con-
Quoting their farm operations. The
farmer is more ready and better able
to adopt new methods from the field
than from books or bulletins and dis
cussions.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10

"HE PROPER cultivation Of a
newly planted tree is matter
4 that is too often entirely over
looked, and in many cases, entirely
ignored.
1t should be borne in mind that a
newly set tree begins growth under
a serious handicap, fully rs per cent
OF more of its roots were cut off when
it was dug from the nursery, thus
with but 25 per cent of its roots it
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
Foreign Affairs.

The committee appointed by the
Canadian Association of tuberculosis
to investigate the cases inoculated by
DR.. Friedrich Friedman with his
serum reports that the results of the
treatment have been disappointing
and that nothing has been found to
Justify any confidence in the remedy.
Henri Rochefort, tor many years a
leader in French political life, is dead
at AK Les Bains from a complica-
ton of maladies at the age of SO.
The Bulgarians have opened attack
on the Servian troops along the whole
line in Macedonia, according to dis
patches from the Servian headquar-
tiers.
An aviator named Wight was killed
by fall near Brighton, Eng His
machine suddenly burst into flames
and dropped to the ground. Wight
was pinned beneath it.
Forty women residents of Durango,
Mexico, most of them of the better
class, have committed suicide since
the citys occupation by the rebels af-
ter long siege. The women were
made desperate by the treatment OF
the victorious rebels.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
Personal.

Jack Johnson, tie negro pugilist,
accompanied by his white wife, has
sailed from Montreal for France. The
Canadian authorities were powerless
to stop him.
Justice James w. Gerard OF the
New York State Supreme Court has
been selected by President Wilson to
be ambassador to Germany.
Ray Diamond, the Glendale, Ore,
bank robber, has been arrested at
Marchfield in that state. The $S,29O
stolen from the bank was recovered.
Frank P, Walsh, the well known
Kansas City lawyer, has been named
by President Wilson as a member OF
the commission on industrial rela-
tions.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10

The body of a man found floating
in the East River at New York has
been identified as that of William P.
formerly of ST. Louis, who was
United States consul to Birmingham,
England, in the administration of
President Harrison.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-30

ST. 900 CASH buys handsome Forest Hill resi-
dence: finest location; ten large rooms.
centre hall; large living room; two tiled
baths; hardwood trim: parQuet floors
throughout; marbeloid kitchen; beautiful
decorations and fixtures. Get details ask
FEST g. FEST (Abe Feist Manager, 1873
Broad st.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-30
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

ASHLAND STREET PAVING. DECKER
SON STREET PAVING, FIRST AVE
NUE. PAVING.
Notice is hereby given that the commits
sioners heretofore appointed by the Mayor
Of the city of Newark, to make an esti-
mate and assessment upon all the owners
OF all the land and real estate In the city
focss improvement in the said city In pro-
potion as nearly as may be to the ao-
> vantage each was deemed 70 nave ACQUIRED,
Al have made an estimate and assessment OF
b benefits conferred upon all the owners OF
i all the lands and real estate In the city
OF Newark peculiarly oenenttea py each Oh
NJ the following improvements In said city,
" namely
The paving of
M ASHLAND STREET,
from Fourteenth avenue to south Orange
avenue; approved August IT, l9lz.
- Dickinson STREET,
from Norfolk street to First street; APP
proved February 49, 1912.
The paying. OF
: rom Third street to Bloomfield avenue; ap-
proved August 49, 1912
4. Said assessment comprises all lots, tracts
to be assessed as aforesaid. lying on both
y ASHLAND STREET,
from Fourteenth avenue to South Orange
tavenue; both sides of
IA D1CKERSON STREET,
from Norfolk street to First street; on both
FIRST AVENUE,
from Third street to Bloomfield avenue.
md have filed their reports of said
assessments for benefits in the office of the
dIerk OF the Circuit Court of the County OF
Essex. and that the Judge Of said court
y Ms fixed Saturday, the fourth day of Oc-
I. {ober, 1913, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,
zsm the circuit Court room at the Court
{ouse in the City of Newark. as the time
nd place Of hearing any objections that
LAY be made to the said assessments.
a. Dated September 20. 1918.
M HERBERT BOGGS,
esp 2s-bt City Attorney.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-30
ARLINGTON

FOR honfe or investment. inspect this
property before buying elsewhere: IL
rooms, new two-famiiy house, with ali
modern improvements: separate steam heat.
separate entrances; double porches, with
sun parlor; dining-rooms with beam cell
ings and panel sioe rails IN chestnut; hano-
concrete walk; shades and screens: gas
and electricity; on lot 30x100: situated In g
desirable and most convenient location OF
between Columbia and Laurel avs; three
minutes to the station and trolley; only
anoe easy terms; price IS 600. JAMES T.
McAVINEY, II North Fourth St, Harr1-
son, or 4s8 Chestnut st., Arlington
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-30
BLOOMFIELD.
LOTS $l35

2bx1Oo feet, s1s5 to Ass. positively none
higher; terms, $40 down, So monthly; We do
not send salesmen; this saves you 10 per
cent. property is high, dry. level and clear
a few minutes walk from trolley: in Bloom
field; five-cent fare from any part OF New
ark; water and gas few feet away; Will
which Is certain to be soon; money for
building easily procured; free title guar
antee; property will not be sold to an
ably never get an opportunity as good as
this to make a start owning your own
home; do not put 1t off, prices are going up
all the time; write at once for full Informal
tion. VIM. B. McLAIN REALTY CO.. At
West Bath ST.. New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-30

VICINITY OF Delavan and Summer avs,
high-class home of rooms living room.
library, dining ROOM conservatory and
kitchen on first floor; 4 bedrooms on second
floor; room and attic on third floor; pres
emit owner going to Europe. will sacrifice
for 81. 800: NJ much cash required. GEORGE
F. HEWSo ordway building, 2o7 Market
street