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Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
SPRAYING POTATOES
FOR BEST RESULTS
Treatment Should Begin When
Plants are Ten Inches High
and Repeated Often.
CBy W. NJ. Kelley

AS n general rule better results will
be obtained II the spraying Is begun
when the potato plants are from eight
to ten inches high and the treatment
repeated at intervals of from ten to
fourteen days in order to keep the
plants we'll covered with the bordeaux
throughout the season.
When the blight is in evidence II
may be necessary to spray oftener
Usually from four to six applications
will produce the best results.
The bordeaux should contain six
pounds of copper sulphate to each so
gallons. When bugs are plentiful and
two pounds of paris green or two
quarts of arsenate of soda stock solu.
ton to the quantity of the bordeaux
mixture required to spray an acre.
The application should be thorough.
especially at times when the bugs are
numerous or when the weather is ia.
vorable to blight AS general rule
frequent light applications will pro
duce better results than heavier ap-
plications at long intervals.
Those who depend upon three ap-
plications will obtain better results
during most seasons If they delay the
first spraying until there is danger OF
the vines being injured by bugs or
flea beetles and then make thor
ough application of the bordeaux and
the poison.
The following spraying should also
be thorough and applied at such times
as to keep the foliage protected dur
ing the whole OF the growing season.
My experience teaches me that II
we obtain satisfactory results, we
must not wait for the blight TO ap.
pear before we begin spraying and
that 1t does not pay to apply poison
alone for bugs. When we are fighting
bugs 1t will cost but little additional
to use bordeaux and the poison to-
gether.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
SUNFL0WER SEED
FOR THE POULTRY
Considered to Be Equal to Flax
seed to Mix With Other
Grains for Hens

Sunfiower seed is largely fed by
poultrymen and is considered to be
equal to fiaXseed to mix with other
grains as a winter food for laying
hens. 1t is especially valuable to feed
during the season of melting.
In Russia the sunflower is grown for
human food, the seed being ground.
the oil pressed out and the cake, when
fresh, is mixed with rye -four and
made into bread. which is said to be
both nutritious and palatable. Sun
flower cake is equal to cottonseed
meal for cows and nearly equal 70
flaxseed meal for horses and hogs.
ANY good soil that will grow corn
will grow the sunfower. 1t is a hardy
plant, vigorous, rapid grower, and a
desirable plant to grow about the
home because of its bright. cheerful.
yellow blossoms. The plant when in
bloom will supply the honey bees
with food for several weeks. says a
writer in the Baltimore American.
The Russian is the best variety. Four
quarts of seed will plant an acre The
seed should be planted the latter part
of April. Plant in four-foot rows, drop
two to three seeds 20 inches apart in
the row, give clean culture, An acre
of good land will give yield of 20
to 35 bushels of seed. The stalks when
dry make excellent kindling. Select
deep. rich, mellow, well-drained land.
The single-headed Russian variety
will give a larger yield OF seed than
the American sunfiower.
Single heads of the Russian sun
flower have been grown to measure
IA inches across the face and to have
yielded over 200 fully developed
seeds TO the head One-quarter acre
of land would produce enough seed
for several hundred laying hens. Good
new crop seed may be had for 10
cents a poun6
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01

| 1t begins to feed upon the foliage or
the young apples. Upon reaching the
nearest apples about three-fourths of
the worms enter them at the blossom
end. The rest of the worms enter the
fruit through the side. The worms
| often hollow out the seeds, their work
being Indicated by the well-known ex-
creta thrown out at the calyx, show
ing the worminess of the apple.
In about a month It eats its way out
through the side OF the apple and
seeks a place in which to form a CO.
coon.
The way TO kill the apple-worm is to
spray with arsenate OF lead, Paris
green, and Bordeaux mixture.
Woodpeckers and Nuthatches de-
stroy millions of the apple-worms by
digging them out from under the bark
OF the trees in winter. BY thoroughly
scraping the bark with sharp hoe
so as to destroy the larva is a great
aid in keeping this insect under con-
troll.
In spraying IL Is very important to
spray at just the right time. The first
spraying should be made before the
buds open. the second spraying should
be with Bordeaux mixture insecticide.
to catch the early leaf-feeding insects,
applied after the leaf buds have open
ed, but before the trees have bloomed
Never spray while tree is in bios
som.
The most important spraying is the
next one, which should be given just
after the petals fall or as soon as
most OF the blossoms have been pol
linated and have set. This must be
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
RAISING LETTUCE
IN EARLY SPRING
One of the Hardest of Garden
Plants-Method of One
Practical Gardener.

There are few green vegetables on
the farm table relished SO much as
the first lettuce in spring.
Lettuce is one OF the hardest of all
Me garden plants, and the seed may
~ sown even before all the frost is
out Of the ground. In fact, the crisp.
est and best-havored lettuce is grown
10 a cool and moist atmosphere, and
lhe sooner in the spring ii can be pro-
duced the better 1t will be in every
way.
a practical gardener of many years
experience has bed of the very finest
'e'tuce from two weeks to a month
ahead Of all her other neighbors. This
Is the way she does it:
Ihe location for the bed always on
'he south side of the grape arbor, in
very high. dry, sheltered place.
ABOUT the middle of winter this bed
" heavily MANFRED with the finest,
well cecomposed stable manure that
san De procured. with liberal pro-
poruon Of poultry droppings.
Inc manure is not simply scattered
~ me soil, but piled on four to six
'IVnes deep. Very early in March
wen the soil can be spaded the bed is
Jug up and prepared for planting. and
,he first mild spell in spring the
seed is sown.
around the lettuce bed is placed a
l'e wooden frame. and over the frame
pTead old mating and old carpets
Severe.
ne covering does not prevent the
s'0uhd or young plants from freez.
Ms but it prevents sudden freezing
1au 'hawing, and hold the temperature
u a mild degree.
VA "arm days the covering is re-
moved, and the lettuce is ready to use
a .lh before the lettuce in the other
gardens is up.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
RESINOL CURED
AWFUL PIMPLES
Whole Face Covered, Now Clear.

Brooklyn. N. Y, Oct. 8, 1912. Il was
troubled with two or three pimples
coming out on my chin. In a week or
30 my whole face was covered with
them. Friends advised me to use diff
ferent lotions and salves. | tried them,
but they did me little good, IL any. |
finally washed the pimples with Res
mol Soap and applied Resinol Oint-
ment before going to bed In the morn
Ing | found the swelling gone down,
and the inflammation gone from the
pimples. | tried this treatment for
about week, and found that most OF
the pimples had disappeared / kept
the treatment up for about a month,
and then my face was clear of all
pimples, | have used Resinol Soap
since and find that the pimples do not
come back" (Signed) Walter A.
Stenstrum, "a Willoughby Ave.
If you are suffering from itching,
burning skin troubles, pimples, black
heads, dandruff, stubborn sores or
piles, It will cost you nothing to try
Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap.
Just send to Dept. 26-K, Resinol, Bal
timore, Md, for free sample of each.
Every druggist sells Resinol.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01

To give 1t other things to eat at this
time would upset the whole plan OF ma
ture, and retard. instead OF promote,
the chicks growth.
Tho first food OF the little chick
should be oatmeal-the steelcut, II
you can get it. and that is not to
be had, the ordinary rolled oats will
do if well crumbled in the hands
This should be given about every two
hours for a day or two, gradually
frightening the time between feeds
until they get IL three times a day.
Put a shallow dish of clean water
where they can get it, If they want
TO walk through it, turn a teacup bot
tom side up in the middle of the
dish.
For the first two or three days they
will want to sleep and rest much OF
the time, and will nearly live in the
brooder. After that they will be ready
to begin active operations. They will
now want to be let loose in the run
for most of the day, if it can be set
where it is warm, Leave the brood
er where they can go into it when
they get chilly.
After the third day begin to give
them a prepared chick feed with their
oatmeal, Increase the chick feed and
decrease the oatmeal by degrees, I'M
I'll when they are ten days old they
get the feed alone.
You can buy the prepared chick
feed that is better and fully as cheap
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
ouarrels With wife; Fires Home

Rich Hill.-Dell Mesler, farmer
As years of age, living near Pleasant
Gap, quarreled with his wife and fail
ing to effect a reconciliation, re-
turned to his home and set fire to his
house, barn, corn crib and all other
buildings on the farm. All buildings
were destroyed. He left note saying
his wife's relatives had planned to
get his money and then get rid of
him. and he was burning everything
SO as to spoil their plans. Mesler has
disappeared
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Major DELAYS Fair Board.

Jefferson City.-Gov. Major will not
appoint the five members of the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition commission
for some time yet He says it is not
necessary to appoint them at this
time. The bill passed by the legis-
lPture appropriating 100000 for the
preparation of Missouri exhibit at
San Francisco and the pay of COM
missioners provides for five commits.
sioners, not more than three to be
Democrats.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
NEWSsf MISSOURI
Students Walk 70 nanon

Columbia.-The junior prom. the
biggest social event of the student
year, was held at Rothwell gymna-
stun. Over 100 couples attended.
Miss Lura Griggsby of Boulder, Colo,
was queen of the ball Her escort
was George Taaffe of Carthage, Tiger
basket ball star, The junior prom
committee, composed of students
from all departments of the Univer-
sity of Missouri, this year ruled that
no flowers and no cabs should be the
rule, in order that the dance would
he within the reach OF all students.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
A Soluble Antiseptic Powder

as remedy for mucous membrane af.
fections, such as sore throat, nasal or
pelvic catarrh, inflammation or ulcera-
ton, caused by female ills? Women
who have been cured say sit is worth
It's weight Ia gold" Dissolve in water
and apply locally. For ten years the
Lydia f. Pinkham Medicine Co. has
recommended Paxtine in their private
correspondence with women.
For all hygienlc and toilet uses II has
no equal. Only soc large box at Drug
gists or sent postpaid on receipt OF
price. The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston,
Mass.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Major Signs Pension Bill.

Jefferson City.-Although express
ing doubts as to it's constitutionality,
Gov. Major signed the bill for pen
sioning INDECENT Confederate soldiers,
not inmates of the Confederate home
at Higginsville. This measure car.
ries an appropriation of 100000 to
pay the SO month pension provid-
ed for 1913 and 1914. The legislature
enacted this law to relieve INDECENT
Confederates, about 100 in number,
who could not he cared for at the
home at Higginsville, because Of the
lack of room.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
To Entertain State Editors.

Wariensburg.-T Warrensburg
Commercial club at meeting APP
pointed a committee of entertain.
ment, TO cooperate with the Pertle
Springs management in entertaining
the Missouri State Press association
at its meeting at the springs, June
% and 20 next. The members OF
the committee are: w. J. Mayes, may
or; Wallace Crossley, editor of the
Star-Journal; c. M. Jaque, editor OF
the Standard-Herald; Randolph Col
Inns, II. F. Berkeley and i. N. John
son.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Craig to Investigate Credits.

Jefferson Clty,-Gov. Major named
State Senator A. Craig of Nodaway
county delegate to represent Missouri,
as a member of the investigating
committee which will go to Europe
this summer TO study the rural credl:
system in vogue in many countries
there.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
AudraIn County Vets to Try Again.

Mexico.-Sam ]. Browne, who APP
piled for writ of mandamus in the
st. Louis court of appeals to compel
the Audrain county judges to call a
local option election in the county
outside of Mexico, declared the action
OF the court in refusing the writ had
no effect on the vets, who would cir
culate another petition.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Champ Clark Appornts Son.

Northumberland Clark, son of
Speaker Clark, has been appointed
parliamentary clerk of the house to
succeed Charles r. Crisp of Georgia,
who now is a representative. Clark
is % years old, a graduate of the
University of Missouri and the young.
est man who has ever served as clerk
at the speakers table.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Wade Arrsne.s for State Funds.

Jefferson City-Festus ]. Wade Of
the Mercantile Trust company of st.
Louis was here and made final ar
rangeinents for taking over $3.50 900
OF the slate funds, This company was
made depository for 52-SOth of the
states surplus funds, at public bid
ding for the same a week ago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Or John HeaIv props nead

Sullivan.-Dr. John Healy, a phar.
macist, dropped dead on the street
from heart failure. He was formerly
a resident Of St Louis. His body
was taken there for burial
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Dog Bites Senator Buford's Child.

Jefferson City.-Senator Carter NJ.
Buford of Ellington, Reynolds coun-
ty, came to Jefferson City, bringing
the head of pup which bit his little
daughter to have State Bacteriologist
Stone inform him whether the animal
had been afflicted with rabies.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
Ezg,4''g
%s1S
codline-Moth.

done within few days after the bios.
SONS fall, never later than five days.
This is the spraying which forms a
thin film or poison over the calyx
cavity Of the apple, SO that the young
worms first meal will be his last
Copyright. 1918. by C. NJ. shultx.)
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01

The codling-moth will get your ap
,les If you don't look out. This Is
he greatest enemy of the apple, and
must be fought constantly to prevent
is ravages.
Late in April or early in May the
cocoon opens and the caterpillar
energies. transformed into pupa. The
Dupa Is In a semi-dormant state in
which the insect has almost no power
,f motion, but wonderful changes are
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
SPECIAL TO WOMEN

Do you realize the fact that thousands
of women are now using
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-05-01
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNLNNSC[IDOL
LESSON
LESSON FOR MAY q
JOSEPH INTERPRETERS DREAMS.
(By E. o. SELLERS, Director of Even
ing Department. The MOODY Bible In.
stitutc Of Chicago)

LESSON TEXT-Gen. 4o:9-23.
GOLDEN TEXT-"The breath OF the
Almighty giveth them understgnding.'
Job. 1878, r. V.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-14
THE FoRWARD-LOOKING MEN

The forward-looking men are those
Around whose heads the music flows
OF marching winds and swinging
stars;
Their heavy tread the green earth
jars,
Their eyes are on the hills, they seek
The glory Of the golden peak;
They are the men of vision. who
Wake with the lark and walk the
dew,
And leading upward to the light
Go forward to the dreams of right.
The forward-looking men have
strcwn
The prairies with their bones; have
hewn
The roadways through the forests
where
Great cities stand today, that fare
The thunder of their thousand mills
Against the echo of the hills,
And in it tell the tale again
OF how the forward-looking men
Lead on and built and help us see
Beyond the mists of destiny.
The forward-looking men stand out
In the broad light to stay the doubt.
Fire the fresh blood of youth with
fire
OF limluess and grand desire;
They are the lifters of the load;
They are the finders of the road;
They are the members who make
sweet
The rugged way beneath mems feet
Columbus was of such-all these
Balboa. and the grave Cortez.
The forward-looking men have eyes
over the dust that hides the skies
Theirs is the vision that can pierce
The unknown future, take the fierce
Iron blows Of fate, and still toll on
Firm in their faith that there shal
dawn
4 greater hope, a finer fate
Than men have dared to penetrate
or that men know until they try
! The dreams, the deeds. for whicl
men die
Baltimore Sun.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-14
An Ideal Wife.

In reply to the query, What
constitutes the ideal woman for
a wife," which he sent broad
cast among the young men of
Hanford, California, the Rev.
w. G. Loomis, pastor of the
First Methodist church of that
city, received more than a score
of descriptions, but he considers
the following the best of all:
"The ideal woman for wife
should have these qualifica-
tions: The voice of Melba, the
talent of Paderewski, the figure
of Venus, the grace OF a sylph,
the vivacity of a coryphee, eyes
like the soft glow of a moon
light eve, an alabasterlike COM
pleXiOn, the virtues of nun,
the charm of Cleopatra, the
meekness of Moses, the pa
tience of Job, the forebearnce
of Lazarus, the zeal of a Trojan,
the constancy of Caesars wife,
the capabilities of a charwoman,
the purse of Hetty Green and
hair of her own"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-14
Yacht Club Declines Challenge
of Upton.

New York, March 13.-The
Sir Thomas Upton challenge
for another race for the Amer
ica's cup, the premier trophy of
the yachting world, was declin-
ed by the New York Yacht Club
last night. This action was
taken, the club announced, be-
cause the challenge did not
comply with conditions of the
deed which governs all contests
for the cup.
Te declination of the present
challenge does not necessarily
mean that no cup race is i'm
prospect, as the club expects a
challenge for the cup from a
British gentleman other than
Sir Thomas Upton, it was said
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-14
A LAND OF ROMANCE

Spain is your country for ro-
nance. All the romance of the
east washed up there on the
red shores. Today the Berbers
in the African mountains and
the naughty bronzed men of
Morocco yet strain eyes across
the blue strait yet hang above
each household hearth. be-
sides the polished guns and the
crooked swords, the key of an
ancestral garden where, white
CordOva steams in the plain, or
of crumbling palace where
tawny Granada hangs on the
green hillside below the SHOWS.
All the romantics of the west
have turned to look across the
Pyrenees; have marched and
countermarched with Charlie
magne past Pampeluna, down
the wide basin of the milky
Ebro as far as Saragossa, and
back through the broad noun
tain pass of RoncevauX; or
tramped the pilgrimage into
Galicia, to the shrine of Santi-
ago. The starry way of Saint
James lies right across the sky;
and the road below it runs in
past Saint Giles, glittering
among the marshes, past the
Abbey Of Monissac, fallen from
It's high estate, past Puenta la
Reina, where the queen long
dead built the pilgrims a bridge,
westward and ever westward to
Compostella. You cannot miss
the way.
1t is land of magic, and
who shall say that it is not
black magic? Old-fashioned
travellers still urge that you
must go either between spring
and summer, when the yellow
charlock and the poppy spread
tatters Of the Spanish flag
broadcast over every plain. the
tall magenta foXglove stands
shoulder high on the heathery
banks Of the north, and the
laurier rose-the wild oleandel
-hushes the mountain water
courses of the south. Then you
will find in Andalusia a conven.
tional picturesqueness fit fol
The Keepsake and The Token
and in Asturias a little Switzer
land fit for Turner and Ruskin
But in burnt midsummer anC
bitter autumn and brown win.
ter the Spanish landscape is in
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-14
HOW TO GET FULL VALUE
OF FERTILIZERS USED

1t is well known that the
plants take in their food
through their roots in solution
or dissolved in the soil water.
Any practical farmer also
knows that given just the right
amount of moisture-neither
too little nor too much-al-
most all soils will produce well.
A soil well filled with decaying
organic matter will hold much
more moisture than one de-
ficient in organic matter. In
holding the water it holds the
plant foods dissolved in the wa
ter, and, consequently it not
only holds more water to dis
solve plant foods to feed the
plants, but prevents the leach
ing and wasting of plant foods.
Soils filled with decaying or
ganic matter, therefore, main
tain better moisture conditions
for the dissolving of the plant
foods in commercial fertilizers.
This is why commercial fertil-
izers may be economically used
in larger quantities or give bet
ter results on good soils than on
poor soils. Good soils are good
because they contain large
quantities of decaying organic
matter and this enables them to
hold the water necessary to dis
solve the plant foods if com
mercial fertilizer be applied; if
the soil is deficient in organic
matter it soon becomes def
cient in water in dry weather,
and in wet weather the plant
foods are dissolved and quickly
leached from the soil. Right
moisture conditions are essen
tial to the best results from
commercial fertilizers and right
moisture conditions are depen-
dent on the supply of decaying
organic matter in the SOIL
TAFT Butler in The Progressive
Farmer.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-14
Sense in Short Sentences.

Why should a true and sin
cere appreciation be termed
hattery, and degraded to the
level of insincere praise?
Too much of the teaching of
today is book learning, and too
little of it is education.
Most people speculate because
they | eliave that there are big
ger t,o-s than themselves who
will draw the blands.
When woman wants to get
rid of housekeeping she pre-
tends to have nervous prestra-
tion.
The smarter a man is about
some things the less he knows
about others.
Chance may lead to the
buried treasure, but it takes a
lot of hard digging to get it out.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-14
LIVING BEYOND MEANS.
A Reckless Habit Showing Evil
Results to individuals and
Governments.

NONSl hitShto'
The optimistic, rather reck-
less, habit of living beyond the
means in hand is showing evil
results not only in the case of
numerous individuals these
days, bpt also in the case of
governments as we'll. Through
out Christendom governments
of all grades are steadily heap
ing up debts. Only today we
note that our sister state on the
north has deficit to be met
only by bonds. Many cities are
today loaded to the limit with
debt. The great powers of Eu-
rope are all so tremendously in
debt that the annual interest
charge is an enormous sum.
AS public debt increases it
means, in effect, the continuous
increase of a bond-holding class
in the community, who can sit
back and draw tribute from a
continually decreasing proper
tion of the people. Warning
voices are now being raised here
and there against the steady in
crease of this great discount
upon the future, this piling up
of interest-bearing debt with
out real effort to pay much of
the principal off.
Such things can go on for a
long time, but a limit is reached
sooner or later, and then the
forcible readiustment gives So
ciety a fearful wrench. So
many eXpedients now exist for
utilizing credit that the whole
civilized world, individually and
collectively, seems about to go
daft on the business of presum-
ing on future resources to get
present wants fulfilled. 1t man
ifests a kind of impatience of
restraint that does not promise
we'll for the future. Somebody
is going to suffer some day.
And all the while it is ques-
tion whether, in the long run,
we actually gain by the impa-
tient process of forever mort
gaging the future with inter
est at so much per cent alwayS)
inthe interest of the present
Spartanburg Herald.