Evening journal., 1914-07-29
HOUSTON A help
!. TO THE newly WEDS
Sends Out Many Pamphlets
Pertaining to New Home
Building
HESSIAN FLY
DAMAGES WHEAT

f1ESSlAN FLY
DAMAGES WHEAT
WASHINGTON, July 29.-First aid
TO the newlyweds is the new role Of
Secretary Of Agriculture Houston,
bringing JOY today TO June brides.
The newlyweds who are struggling
with household problems in general and
the kitchen in particular have found a
friend in Secretary Houston as the
henchman of Uncle Sam
Various pamphlets for free distribu-
tion touching on many subject pertain
ing TO home building are available to-
day for the new--and old-voyagers
into the seas of matrimOny. There are
valuable suggestions for the bride, as
well as hints for hubby's use of the old
back yard.
Here are some Of the titles of the
new bulletins being issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture tones of eX-
pert and authoritative knowledge.
Meat, Composition and Cooking" :"
Economical Use of Meat in the
Home;" Eggs, and Their Use as
Food" Beans, Peas and Legumes as
Food" "Bread and Bread -making;"
Care Of Milk and its Use in the
Homo;" Cereal as Breakfast Food; 50
"Sugar as Food" "Cheese and its
Economical Use in the Diet;" Potatoes
and Other Root Crops as Food"
Then there are a host of bulletins
that make for home beauty and pros
perity, such as: 'Weeds and How to
Kill Them;" "Beautfying Home
Al =.
Medicines" and money making tips,
as Mushroom Culture and "Squab
Raising"
The woman who owns or lives ON a
farm is remembered in the following
bulletins: Canning Peaches on the
Farm;" Poultry Management" But
ter Making on the Farm" and "Cheese
Making on the Farm Hints on the
care Of ducks, geese. turkeys and chick
ems are given in other bulletins.
All of the bulletins are labeled "re-
liable" and usually give copious notes
and information on the subject treated.
Write TO the department and give the
correct title of the bulletins desired il
interested in the subjects enumerated
above
Unless stock raisers have unlimited
means il is usually more profitable to
market dairy calves than to attempt to
raise them, according to statistics com
piled by the Department of Agriculture
even though they might make gooC
steers.
"Whilc many deplore the heavy
slaughter Of calves, and legislation
against it has been urged, the consum-
er's demand for veal must be met" the
department declares. Farmers who for.
merly bought nearly finished cattle rs
| feeders have been compelled to pay
higher prices for such cattle or to take
| thinner animals" is another interesting
comment of the department on the beef
supply situation. Formerly, il is stated
steers from four TO six years old were
fed in large numbers, but because of the
great change in the cattle business il
recent years, this method has becom
too expensive. Feeding is now con
Quoted upon farms more cxtensivel.
than ever before, instead of in larg
numbers in commercial feed yards nea
granaries or mills, as a means of mar
Seting farm products by converting
them into beef, while the manure pro
duct is utilized as a by-product I
maintain fertility.
A nationwide campaign against tn
Hessian fly, the pest Of wheat growers
has been inaugurated by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. General co.opera
ton in fighting the pest is the aim q
the movement. There is every indica
tion, according TO the department. tina
the ny will he unusually troublesom
this fall. Every wheat grower in tn
country who suspects that his wheat ma
been infested by the fly is being urge
by the department to send immedat
notification and a campaign will then /
begun TO eradicate the pest. The d'
partment is also cooperating with cei
tain state experiment stations again'
the pest and infested straw will be e.
amined by the local authorities
Probably no other insect causes mo-
damage to the wheat crop i'm the Unite
States than the Hessian fly," the depar
ment declares, although there are ce
tain years when the chinch bug exceed
the fly devastations. During the se'
son when the fly is abundant hundre,
of thousands of acres of wheat may
totally destroyed or so badly iniur,
as to reduce the yield so to IS per cen
The monetary loss runs far up into mi
lions" Late sowing of seed and burnir
of stubble when not seeded to grass
clover are the only known measures c
fective in controlling the Hessian fly f.
winter-wheat growing sections, lat
seeding being injurious rather than
precaution in the spring wheat se'
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