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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

II wheat is high next year it will
not be the only farm conmoditv that
will be high and profitable to pro-
duce. Already horses are growing in
demand, the supposed reason boi1g
that Europe will come here to bur-
horses. 1t is reported that some have
already been purchased and shipped
to Canada Corn, cattle, horses and
hogs may be CORRESPONDENCE as high
as wheat next year.
Weed out all the culls and surplus
roosters which cannot be sold to good
advantage and send them off to mar
ket together with all the old fowls
il any are on hand. for they are never.
very profitable stock to keep after
the second year. Early matched pull
let's are far superior to -year-old
hens.
After the fruit harvest in the
orchard, go over the trees and
grounds and pick up and destroy all
worthless, rotten and wormy fruit. =.
Don't wait until the busy time next
spring TO clean up your garden, but
start In The fall after the crops are
out Of the way to get everything
in readiness for early spring work.
The Canada experimental farms
made experiments to ascertain the
best methods of storing apples In
winter. Specimens wrapped in paper
kept better than those not wrapped,
and there were few rotten apples,
and they lost least by evaporation.
The man who buys a barrel of
apples now helps the farmer and
helps himself. He gets his winter
fruit at low price and the farmer
gets some real money for a valuable
product which otherwise would prob
ably rot on the ground.
Every farmer should have some
hobby or special side line to his gen
eral farming. No man can develop
the best there is in himself unless he
makes something in particular spe-
cial study. What he gains in expeT1
skill and mental interest in his special
line will be an aid to him in many
ways in his general lines of opera
ton.
Do not feed kitchen slop. or sour
swill barrel Stops. They are sources
Of various infections and intoXica-
tons As a rule, affected cases can
not be cured Prevent by cutting out
such slops. No man can easily or
accurately regulate sour slops so that
they are always safe.
Rhododendrons should be protectet
by a leaf mulch, with evergreen
boughs overhead. or the foliage may
be screened from the sun by using
boards instead of evergreen boughs.
Pillow or trench the vegetable gar
cen Gf the soil is heavy and leave
it rough for the frost action. Let
the chickens in when you do. They
will find a choice lot Of grubs and in
sects in the newly turned sod.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

Can you tell me what would cause
the top or q Scotch pine about twenty
years old to turn brown? There are
some holes in the trunk. which were
made by pecking birds. T. 4.
Caldwell.
Sapsuckers. d kind OF Noodpecker.
are the cause OF the round holes in
the bark of Scotch pine. Ii these are
close together and extend clear
around the trunk, they probably are
the cause of the dying above them
The only cure I know is to keep out
the sapsuckers. Probably grating
wax or lead paint would help the
places TO heal. Ii the top is dead it
may be removed down to the healthy
green wood, and gradually a new
leader will take the place OF the one
c1tf ont
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

so many others have) the hot mash
Almost all my feeding is done with a
hopper, although grain Is scattered in
a cut-hay litter to induce scratching.
Until you have tried il, you won't
know what a comfort the method OF
hopper-feeding really is. II you are
delayed getting home from business,
and the weather is SO bad that those
at home viii be Inconvenience by
having to go to the chicken house, it
is very pleasant to feel that the live
stock" can attend to itself and eat
Just what il chooses
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

VIII you kindly inform me what
can be done to make apples bear the
off, year? D. OBJ.
Bellevi1le
Nothing can De done which will in
sure you an equal number of apples
each year. but, If you will thin the
fruit, the trees will bear more apples
the off, year. The bearing of ex-
tremely heavy crops one year takes
all the strength to mature the fruit,
leaving nothing to form fruit buds
for the following year. The usual
practice, when thinning IS to remove
al the fruit on every other spur,
and when the crop is particularly
heavy, even more thinning can he
done. Thinning paysl Its immediate
returns are bigger and better fruit
the same year as thinning. There
viii also be more fruit the alternate
season, but a full crop can hardly be
expected the alternate year
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

VIII English ivy, Boston ivy or
euonymus radicaus grow down and
cover stone wall If planted at the
tGp3 WIN clenatis or honeysuckIe do
we'll in this situation? I have several
stone walls that I would like to cover
Summit. e. G. 4.
The best way to cover these walls
would be to plant the vines at tho
bottom and let them grow up; but
Ii this is impossible, the English ivy
would undoubtedly produce long
enough shoots to cover a wall a
coupe OF feet high if the plants We're
SIT close together. Honeysuckle would
undoubtedly cover a low wall but it
81 hard to make anything grow down
/. very excellent method of treating
such walls would be TO plant matri-
rnory vine as near the top of the wall
es possible. and allow its long
rr3llioWy growths to droop over it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28
The Slug CaterpilIar.

What is the enclosed chrysalis. 1
found it on a maple tree.
Newark. I, NJ. &.
The slug caterpillar. The caterpil-
lars are elliptical or oval and re-
semble slugs in shape, and also in
the gliding motion when they move.
The body adheres closely to what
ever it happens to be walking upon.
slug fashion. There are several diff
ferent kinds of these slug-catelpil-
lars. but all are brightly colored. The
most striking one is called the sad
dleback caterpillar. 1t has large
green patch on its back like a saddle
cloth, and an oval, purpllsh brown
spot that resembles the saddle.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

On what vegetables can use nj
uate of soda With good effect, and
how shall 1 apply it? \. \. u.
lT'vington.
Nitrate Of soda contains no other
fertilizing element than nitrogen,
which produces . heavy Leaf growth,
SO that the only vegetables on which
nitrate of soda can be used with good
effect are such reproducing ones
IS spinach, lettuce and celery. The
plants which are grown for their
roots OF seed-pods should not be
given a large amount of nitrogen;
Tor, if the nitrate of soda be given
ia excess. the leaf growth will be 50
great as to cause the plants to fail
10 set fruits, or If they do set fruits
they will not amount TO much. In
case tile land needs some fertilizer,
and stable manure IS not available,
nitrate of soda can be used to sup
Ily the nitrogen.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

cessful. | had no colds in the flock
and quite as good results in egg-lay-
ing On the outside, over the space
in which was originally set the sash,
tackled poultry netting. Inside
tackled on the top, is the cloth cur
tain, which is lowered each night and
secured by hooks at the bottom. On
fair mornings it can be easily rolled
up.
The rest Of the house is very o.
binary plain roosts. home made nest
boxes, dropping- board, etc.
As TO feeding, have abandoned Gas
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

One year ago moved a crab-apple
tree. a few leaves appeared that
summer, but this year none have
come out. 1t appears to be dead. Is
there any chance of saving the tree?
Nutley. P. r. G..
No. The tree is evidently dead
and, anyway, if it is not absolutely
dead. you will have a better tree ten
years from now by planting q new
young tree than by trying to revive
the old one.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

am sending a twig cut from a
plum tree; it is covered with bugs.
Please give me a remedy.
Forest Hill. p. T. Mel.
The plum twig was infested with
aphids, and there was also one speci-
men of the leucanium scale which
commonly infests peaches and plums.
Spray with kerosene emulsion or
whale-oil soap, one pound to six or
seven gallons of water The leuca-
MUM may also be killed by the same
spray, applied when the young are
Matched. You will have to examine
the tree closely TO find them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

period for me just then, and as a
makeshift piece of burlap from the
barn was tackled over sash until il
could be fixed" Well, it never was
fixed True, sheet of heavy muslin
was substituted for the burlap later
on, but when ] had put on the burlap
and taken out the glass (nost of it
broken, it suddenly flashed on me
that my makeshift carried out inst
the idea of the progressive poultry
men.
| resolved 10 give the open front a
trial that winter. II was very sue
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

1 am sending YOU piece of wood OK
syringa- Please tell me with what it
Is affected and how to remedy the
trouble. NJ. ". G.
Newark.
The twig is covered with oyster
shell bark louise, or scale. When the
wood is dormant the scale may be
killed by spraying with lme-sulphur
wash or one of the soluble oils. Dur
ing the growing season they may be
killed by spraying in your locality
about June l, when the young are
Matched, with whaleoil soap-one
pound to six or seven gallons of water
or diluted kerosene emulsion.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

1 should like to know which is the
more profitable, ducks or geese.
Dover. W. z. r.
IT is a question Of market. Geese
need a large amount Of land to Craze
over, the same as cattle, but need
little in the way of buildings for pro-
lection, as they are extremely hardy.
When raising ducks the secret of hav-
ing them lay fertile eggs the year
round lies in an abundant supply Of
water, which has current enough to
prevent its freezing.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28
securing Rush Dun- scythes.

I enclose a sample OF something
growing on a hillside in my orchard.
What Is it and how can I subdue it?
Caldwell. r. a. T.
The piece of plant which you sent us
~ an Equisetun, probably the COM
S1on one e. Hyemal. We do not Won
der that you could not cut it with the
scythe. for the plant is fun Of silica.
There is SO much in it that, in colo
NAL days, our ancestors used the plant
for securing pots and pans. The on'y
way by which you can get rid of it is
20 dig it up. OF course, if you cut it
orr with hoe as fast as it comes up,
tnat would have a tendency to keep
Vt down. Draining the land will prob
ably help q great deal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

Please tell me what is the matter
with the apple twig ! enclose. 1t is
from a young tree All the trees are
similarly infested. A. A. II.
Springfield.
The apple twig which you sent is
INFESTED with scurgy scale Spray
the trees with whaleoil soap, one
pound to six or seven gallons OF wa
ter. or with kerosene emulsion the
second or third week in May. Just as
the young are Matched
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28
!, ASK "THE QUESTION BOX"
What You Want Know About Gardening Poultry and COun.
try Problems Answered by Experts.

This service
sideo
a.. nsD.r and 10 sign
osendu and aYss
den Question Box
Newark n. j.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28
sour, Wormy Soil.

My garden is an old, WORKOUT piece
OF ground fun of angleworms might
walkers). The roots raised there
taste earthly, which I think is caused
Dy so many worms in the soil. Ought
they to be eliminated, and if so, how?
There are also plenty of small snaiis
that ate off the pea vines and are
now eating the celery. What can I
Dr. to rid the garden of them?
NJ. G.. s.
Nutley.
Your land needs drainage. II you
can put in a few drain tiles they will
correct the trouble. If the garden is
small, and in a place where you can
5sos very we'll use drain thing. the
next best thing would be to work
considerable ashes or sand into the
soil. SO that It will be more porous.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28
THE COUNTRY CALENDAR

Practical Hints About Things 10 Do al This Season in Garden
and Greenhouse, the Orchard and the Poultry Yard
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

After the fruit harvest in the
orchard, go over the trees and
grounds and pick up and destroy all
worthless, rotten and wormy fruit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28

Do not feed kitchen slops or sour
swill barrel Stops. They are sources
Of various infections and intoxica-
tons. Az a rule, affected cases can
not be cured. Prevent by cutting out
such slops. No man can easily or
accurately regulate sour Stops so that
they are always safe.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
RepubIIcans. OId and New


SOUTH OMAHA, Neb., July 5.-To the
Editor OF The Bee: As one old time re-
publican who was present at the get to-
gether" republican banquet, June %.
want to say that l do not approve of some
things Senator Kenyon said In his speech
1t is time the talk by pretended republic
ans about ex-senator Foraker Senator
Penrose and Joseph q. Cannon be stopped.
They are not and never were bosses.
The real bosses OF this day are such
fellows as La Toilette. Cummins, Roose-
Welt. with Kenyon. Norris and Rristow as
smaller bosses. The primary system has
done more to bring forth such fellows
as the ones have named than any other
one thing and tho primary system has
tended 20 disrupt the republican party as
predicted would be the case when the
agitation was first started for this rich
mans system" None but rich men can
afford 70 run for office for they are
compelled to make two campaigns and a
man of moderate circumstances cannot
afford to make two campaigns in order
to win.
The banquet made men who were there
feel like they were at an old time re-
publican convention where enthusiasm
was contagious and many said they wish
the old time convention system was In
vogue again today as Il would tend 20
rouse old-time enthusiasm.
II III becomes some OF these western up
starts 70 denounce men who have made the
republican party and the party that has
made them. II Kenyon wants TO heal up
the sores OF the past, he had better
| quit ripping them open by denouncing
men OF the republican party who are
simply republicans without any pro.
gressive' fOOlishness about it,. The mer
who have stood by the party through
thick and thin are just as loyal citizens
OF this republic as are those who have
come 20 surface by way OF the rich man''
system OF primary nominations and they
are better republicans. f. A. AGNEW.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
Initiative and Referendum.

The coming Nebraska election this year finds
the initiative and referendum for the first time
operating in this state. The period has now
elapsed during which petitions may be filed to
place measures on the ballot for direct legisla-
tion, so we may safely take survey and make
complete inventory.
The official ballot at the November election
will contain seven statewide propositions
which the voters will be called upon to pass,
three Of them constitutional amendments sub
mitted by the legislature. one constitutional
amendment proposed by initiative, two measures
enacted by the legislature upon which refer
endum has been demanded, and one measure
which IL is difficult to designate properly, being
an alternative proposition adopted by the legis-
lature contingent upon a referendum vote. The
list is as follows:
Unconstitutional Amendments Submitted by the
Legislatures
!. Raising the salary Of the governor and other
state executives
2 Eliminating the rule Of uniformity in taxation.
Z. Permitting three-fourths jury verdict in civil
Unconstitutional Amendment Proposed by limitations:
T. Giving votes TO
nI-Laws on Which Referendum was Invoked
g. workmen's compensation for industrial ac-
g. Appropriation to construct armory at Ne
braska City
Iv-Alternatve Referendum Ordered Oy the Lesis-
lature:
T. Consolidation Of state university and agricul-
tural college suburban site at lincoln or
continued separation by retention Of down
town campus
1t must be admitted that for start this is
q sparing use Of the initiative and referendum.
oommendable to our self-represson, as a num-
Der of other proposals which we're to have been
launched either we're withdrawn or did not
materialize. The game. however, is young yet.
and the experience OF other initiative and refer
endum states has been that It is a habit which
Grows
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
Statistical Notes

There are 14756,67 females in Austria.
India in 1918 sent 10 the United States
i62 students
China last year sent 594 students to the
United States.
Canadian sturgeon catch for 1918 was
1.C14.500 pounds.
Gibraltar in 1913 imported nine Ameri-
can automobiles.
In 1918 nearly 800 steam vessels entered
the port Of Salonika.
Australia yearly imports 100000 gallons
Of whisky from ireland.
serva this year will spend slO.SsOOOo on
its military establishment
New South Wales mineral output for
1919 was valued at s5s,SeO.7 72s.
Irish agricultural exports in 1913
amounted in value to S1F, ,274,5OO.
Britain in 1913 imported 27,sss154 pounds
OF linen yarn, valued at S5,lI2,51S.
Bavaria last year exported to the
United states goods valued at S2, SIS, ,s51.
Belfast Ireland, in 1918, sent to the
United states linen goods valued at s1S,-
1884
Londonderry, Ireland, last year shipped
1885 worth Of whisky to the United
States,
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
HER LIFE FOR YOU.

Baltimore Sun.
She he's lived her life for you, given you
all her best
Toiled with you and dreamt with you
and sung you to your rest.
Done without and sacrificed
And waited time by time
She has lived her life for you,
Tender and sublime.
Maybe in her hair and heart gray is
creeping on
She has lived her life for you since her
loves first dawn.
Saved and skimped to make ends
meet,
Planned and dreamed away
She has lived her life for you;
What have you to pay?
What have you TO give her now have
you thought of that?
Have you dreamed and planned II out as
alone you sat?
Measured with an honest will
Heaping measures full
OF the things that make life
Glad and beautiful?
She has lived her life for you, down
through all the years,
Patient, faithful. trusting. true in the
smiles and tears
Yielded, suffered, bled-
She has lived her life for you
Since the day you wed.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
How About Williams9


AS premier of the present administration,
Secretary Bryan disclaims responsibility for
the indiscretion OF George Fred Williams
American minister to Athens. He refuses to
put the State department under the onus OF the
rash Albanian utterance But how can either
Secretary Bryan or President Wilson arbitrarily
disclam responsibility for the minister himself?
II is not surprising that they desire TO shirk the
burden Of Williams undiplomatc interference
in a matter that concerned neither him nor his
government. But there is only one way to
throw off responsibility for the man behind the
utterance. Instance Lord Sackville-West and
his elimination for writing foolish letter.
1t is not surprising to those familiar with
the political record OF George Fred Williams
that he should be mixed up in his present diff
Guilty. Mr.. Bryan, as a political and personal
friend of williams for many years. undoubtedly
procured his appointment, although he must
have known his lack OF qualification for the
position.
Admittedly, the United States needs greater
prestige in the realm OF diplomacy, but Il Is not
TO be had so long as diplomatic posts are
handed out as pie-counter provender.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
State Banks Still Out.

While preparations for inaugurating the
federal reserve bank system going on, 1t is
with reluctant acceptance the part of the
authorities in charge of a situation that leaves
the state banks, with few exceptions, remaining
out Practically all the national banks have
qualified as reserve bank members, but COM
paratvely few OF the state institutions have
taken steps to come in. The point is made by
banking experts that without them the system
will lack completeness, because the preponder-
ance OF banking power in this country is with
the state banks Recent compilations show re-
sources OF state banks OF about fourteen billions
as against resources OF national banks of about
eleven billions Already the talk in Washington
foreshadows amendment of the law to make 1t
more attractive to state banks by permitting
them also to hold reserves and by exempting
them from capitalization requirements But as
there Is no likelihood that the proposed changes
viii be considered at the present session OF con-
gress. the beginning will have to be with the
national banks alone, and with the state banks
occupying the role Of ''watchful waiting"
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
Twice Told Tales
wouIdn't spoil sport.

II. @. Wells tells story Of a deaf old fisherman
who was out rowing in his boat one day when a
motor boat him sprang a leak and almost im-
unediately sank To the great indignation OF the un-
fortunate occupants OF the motor boat the old man
took not slightest notice OF their plight but rowed
calmly along putting serenely at his clay pipe They
shouted but he too deaf to hear. Finally. they
managed TO swim TO his boat and scramble on board
He seemed surprise to them. and was still
more taken aback when OF them yelled indg-
nantly at him: "Confound you! Why didn't you lend
us a handG Didn't you were sinkingT'
'LOr bless yer" he gasped in reply. Il saw ye
right enough. but I thought you o. them
newfangled submarines!"-Pearson's Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
Change In Cattle Raising Methods.

In the '70s the sportsn.en Joined forces with the
Indians and with repeating these two classes OF
savages exterminated the buffalo. This slaughter
cleared the plains for the stockmen and in a few
years these free public lands occupied by
5ocOO0oO cattle. These vast herds gave the packers
their opportunity 10 absorb the meat trade of tho
country, and they set the price to be paid for the
live cattle well the price demanded from the
consumer or late years the best of these public
lands have been bought and fenced in by the farmers
that the OF free land to the cattle
has yearly become smaller and It's average fer
ty also less Hence cattle that sold the hoof at
S4 six years ago. brought $50 in 1918 We scarcely
look for reduction in price the result of mpor-
tatons. though advance may for time thereby
be checked. When the cattleman is compelled 20
his grazing land the price of beef will naturally
advance until it equals exceeds that of the '7Os,
but we cannot expect to return to the careless
sanitary methods of the old days. and is expensive
to be sanitary