The daily sentinel., 1914-07-29

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clusion and no fruit grower should
be caught mapping at the last end of
the season. II necessary another ap-
plieation should be made some time
in August, entirely guided by their
knowledge of the activities of the
worms and moths. There is now a
large number of worms changing to
moths and these will lay eggs and
hatch another brood of worms. II
the apples are not well covered with
spray there will be plenty OF damage
in August-in fact the worst trouble
of the whole season.
Many will say that they have no
worms and this can be best known
by the use of the bands. On the 25th
l killed 81 worms under the bands
OF $50 trees and if they had not
been killed one cannot easily COM
pute the number of wormy apples to
follow. The crop of insects is on the
wane and the apples are usually clean
let us be vigilant and keep them
clean.
Prof. c. p Gillette was over from
Fort Collins the past week and gave
the blight situation a careful exam
nation as found in the Wallace pear
orchard. 1t is now pretty well un-
der control and there was very little
he could suggest beyond what had
been done-a careful cutting and
burning with rigid disinfection. II
is now known that coal oil is of lit
tie avail and the best thing is cor
rosiye sublimate which is had in
tubes and can be diluted
Correspondence has been opened
with the department in Washington
and 1t is pretty sure that Prof.
waite, the expert, will visit the val
ley within the next month. Unless
the blight is very radically treated
when 1t appears as this year there is
no possibility of safely planting a
pear orchard. As a rule it does the
damage in a single season and does
not appear again for some time but
that one season a vast amount OF
damage can be accomplished. 1t has
ruined the industry in many locali-
ties.
In an address a few days ago in
the eastern part of the state Cover
nor Ammons advised his young hear
ers to stay with the farm. No one
knows by hard experience the value
of that advice better than Elias NJ.
Ammons. His is kindly heart and
he wishes to do the right thing by
all the people, but his gubernatorial
lot has not been cast in pleasant
places; left with an Inheritance of
trouble by his predecessor and with
a still larger addition of his own;
without the safe and sane guidance
of his political associates, his Off
cial life has been somewhat stormy.
If any man goes back to his cattle
and his farm interests with more
readiness than Governor Ammons his
name will never be known.
Right now we need strong and
active railroad commission to deal
with the situation in this state and
guarantee to the western slope her
rights. If we shall prosper as city
we must have fair and equitable
freight rates and because we have
the long haul for the local roads it
seems strange that we must put up
fight for what ought to be grant
ed without 1t. 1t would seem as II
our prosperity was the prosperity of
the roads. If there is anything do
ing on the part of the railroad COM
mission of this state we have not
heard of it.
This week | received in my Off
cial capacity a copy OF the year book
of the United Brewers association
of the United States-probably a lit
tie effort in the way of campaign
| literature for that interest. On
reading its pages it is found to be
very valuable to the worker for the
statewide proposition this fall as 1t
gives the very best argument for the
saloon possible. 1t contains the re-
port of the annual convention and a
large number of papers covering ev-
cry phase of the business.
Summing up the present situation
on the result of the past year the
president says that they can con-
gratulate themselves on having held
| their own and just a little bit better
but advises his brethren that "eter-
nal vigilance is the price of-safety."
We are assuredly holding our own
sober second thought of the Ameri-
can people is coming to our side.
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dress says that sit must be great
disappointment to the opponents of
the saloon to find that local prohi-
bition and the enforcement of laws
restricting the hours of the business
have simply resulted in the large in
crease in the family trade. The OBJ
iect we are seeking to attain is not
10 get people to drink more beer but
to get more people to drink beer" 1t
has probably never appeared to most
people that the saloon men cared
much which result or both was at
tanned so they sold the beer.
Another statement which is In
teresting and educational is credited
to e. E. Shumway president of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel company, of
Denver, made to the special strike
investigation committee. He says
that ''it would be difficult to oper-