The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1914-02-19

There Is one crop the apple grow
ers OF the valley will have in great
abundance the coming season-that
OF the eodling moth. There has been
a very small per cent of the crop
winter killed. Even II the pests got
caught out late and one went to roost
on the end of a limb he is alive at
the present time and will be ready
tor business early in the season.
found fifty-seven live worms un-
der the loose bark and the bands of
a single White Winter Pearmain tree
the past week and I did not suppose
there were that many wormy apples
on the tree last fall. may have
urged the growers to get busy and
XIII as many OF these worms as pos
sible, but will repeat the advice.
We shall have all we can do the NEXT
season TO secure a fairly clean crop
OF apples.
The congressional bill appropriat-
Ing money for various experiments
carries several thousand dollars with
which to discover how to make hens
lay. ! have thought out one way
which is in line with the policy OF
Intensive work. Most poultry rails
ers Keep too many hens II they will
XII and eat half of all they have in
the fall and feed the other half lust
as much as they would the whole
flock they will have eggs earlier in
the winter. Feeding poultry Just
enough to keep them warm VIII not
produce eggs. A dozen hens will be
better than two dozen.
The railroad engineers and fire
men OF this part Of the country are
feeling good these days. They have
secured the electric headlights for
their engines at last, after n hard
fight lasting over many years and
sessions Of the legislature. II has
cost the companies q good deal of
money but 1t has been a good thing
Tor the men and the travelling public.
The bill passed year ago gave the
companies twelve months in which to
comply with its provisions.
There is a good deal of discussion
going on at the present time in ed
ucational circles relative to the aban-
donment Of the home study program
for pupils in our public schools, and
u is especially prominent in the
large cities like New York. A let
ter from there says that they seem
to have millions for buildings, but
pittances for the teaching end. Chill
dren are compelled TO do almost all
their studying ct home at nights and
this IS the case in Grand Junction.
The trouble seems to come from
the Introduction OF n large number
Of studies such as music, manual
training, physical culture etc. etc.
Then most of the lower grades are
dismissed at 1870 in the afternoon
which shortens the school time. In
some places a teacher has two divi-
sions to grade and hears one re-
cite while the other studies or tries
to do so but few children can con-
centrate sufficiently to do much good.
a teacher should have Just half the
work to do with each class or grade.
Very few children are fit to do
good work in the evening after a
hearty supper; If they could get TO
the school room one hour earlier in
the morning-say at eight o'clock.
and give a solid hour to study the
very best and most active time of the
day for the mind. and then recite as
now required there would be an i'm
provement. We are trying to cover
too much ground in very few hours
and 1t is beautiful example of the
examining process. There must be
some way out of the trouble and IL
must be solved, either by the use of
more money or of less education or
branches Of education.
The leaders of the different polit-
ical parties are Just now getting to-
gether or filling newspaper columns
with their ideas of future success or
failure. The rank and file of the
peonle were never go free from party
affiliation than right now. In many
states the headless ballot is in use
and it is men whom the people are
voting for and they are not going to
vote for any official whose sole eff
fort is made to help himself or his
party. This is especially true in
Colorado which has been cursed with
too much politics for twenty years.
Colorado secured lot of ques-
tionable advertising at the expense
of Senator Helen Ring Robinson, who
toured the east on her own lecture
platform. It is doubtful If her work
helped along the cause of woman suf-
frage the least bit. If II were not
for the fact that we have in legisla-
tive circles such women as Mrs. Fran
ces S Lee and Mrs. Agnes l.. Riddle
we might feel that woman suffrage
is a farce. so far as office holding is
concerned. Without regard TO party
these ladies were respected and hon
ored and their labors were always
for their constituents and not for
their own personal benefit.
Mrs. Riddle has been mentioned
for state office and she is compe-
tent to fill any one of them. She is
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