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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08
HORTICULTURE
BLIGHT OF POTATOES

which the soil is capable. In ,Wiscon-
sin i'm 1906, the damage done by this
fungus was estimated at s6,000,000,
and the conditions in Wisconsin are
not greatly unlike those of this state
That the various diseases of the
leaves and the serious rotting of the
tubers due to Late Blight can be con-
trolled 10 a great extent by spraying,
is beyond all question. The standard
spray, and the only one giving uniform
success. is homemade Bordeaux mix
ture. IL may safely be said that fol-
lowing the introduction of this prac-
tice, more than twenty years ago, uni
form success with its use has been OBJ
tanned. In Vermont, summary of
spraying experiments begun in 1891
and continued almost without inter-
ruption until 1911, showed an average
increase of 05 bushels per acre Of the
SPRAYED rows over the unsprayed. In
not single year did the unsprayed
rows equal the sprayed rows, the
smallest difference being Is percent in
favor of the sprayed In New York,
we have another series of experiments
of similar nature. \ ten year average
from the experiment station fields at
Geneva, n. Y. (clay 1oam SOLD, shows
a gain of 90 bushels per acre from
three sprayings, and a gain of 81 y
bushels per acre from five to seven
sprayings These results, covering, as
they do, long periods of time, show
that the results from spraying are
consistent and that, in many cases,
the gain is enormous.
Nor are figures to prove the case for
Michigan lacking, although the eX-
periments have not been continued
year after year. These experiments
fall into two groups: experiments done
at the Experiment Station or under
the direct supervision Of the Expert
ment Station; and those done by farm
ers following advice. only the for
mer results will be reported, although
nearly every community has had
spraying done by progressive farmers,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08
Poultry Notes

Skim milk fed to poultry will give
better returns than when fed TO pigs,
as will sour milk not more than three
days old.
Effort should be made To get chicks
to eat freely of cut clover or alfalfa,
as well as other green feed like chop
ped dandelions and sprouts of sprout-
ed oats. First, last and all the time.
feed wheat bran; and after third week
give the chicks sprouted oats. Before
that. feed ground oats, nothing is bet
ter to produce muscle and bone than a
framework for it's body. Green feeds
and bran also help mature bones and
muscles, and clover provides a larger
amount Of mineral matter than grain.
IL an egg floats it is too far gone to
use. If the large end rises in water
1t is getting rather aged. fresh egg
has but little air cell.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08
THE VALUE OF TALK

Talk has the reputation OF being the
cheapest thing there is. As supply
and demand have something il not all
TO do with values, doubtless the sup
ply Of talk is what gives It bargain
counter value.
Things that are cheap lack enduring
quality.
If talk We're confined To the things
done more than To the thing said, II
would have a greater value
Some one asked Edison if he expert
enced much Inconvenience on account
of his deafness. He replied that ne
thanked God for it every day. since it
protected him from the distracting ef-
feet of other peoples talk. He could
thus live his own life, think his own
thoughts, do his own work i'm his
world of silence.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08
Preserving Eggs For Future Use

AS this is the season of the year for
eggs, and as the season for Matching
is about over. ii is a good time to put
away eggs for use during the late fan
and early winter.
Good fresh eggs If carefully put
away at this season of the year in
suitable preservative, will come out in
fine shape in the fall.
In the first place the eggs should
be gathered every day and kept in a
cool place until put away. They
should be perfectly clean. After the
Matching is done, it is really advisable
to take the male away from the flock
of hens. For this reason alone the
eggs will keep much better, as the
contents of the egg will be perfectly
dormant and not start the germ with
the least bit Of warmth, as is the case
when they are fertilized.
This is not only an advantage where
the eggs are to be preserved but for
all marketable eggs. Do not try to
run in any stale eggs, as il is only
running the risk of spelling not only
those, but the whole container full
There are several methods that will
keep eggs in pretty good shape, The
water-glass method is perhaps the
best preservative we have.
1t is prepared as follows: To each
four gallons of good pure water use
one quart of the pure water-glass. To
get the very best results, the water
should be boiled and then allowed to
cool before mixing in the water-glass
4 Nlae.
receptables to hold eggs, as they do
not absorb the ingredients like wood
For those who do not live where they
can get the water-glass solution, a
lime water preservative may be made
that will do very good work, parti-
cularly where they are not TO he mar
keted, for lime water makes the shells
tender so that they do not market in
so good a shape. The lime water
solution is made as follows: Thirty
gallons Of water, 10 pounds of salt,
one-half bushel of finely slaked lime.
After mixing thoroughly, allow the
mixture to stand two or three days
before dipping the clear liquid off
carefully so as not TO get any of the
settings. The liquid is then ready to
receive the eggs. After all are in il
should cover the top ones at least two
inches. Where one has a cellar, that
makes good place to keep these eggs
until used, as they should be kept as
cool as possible.
Nothing yet discovered will keep
eggs so they will come out looking
like fresh ones, but they answer a
mighty good purpose when fresh eggs
can not be had.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08
POULTRY
CONSULTING DEPARTMENT
Conducted by NJ. w. HICKS
Both Young and Old Fowls Relish
Scraps From the Family Table

Brown eggs and white eggs do not
hatch we'll together, either under hens
or in incubators. Shells, sires and
vigor are different.
Feast one day and famine the next
are money losers.
a small family should leave few
table scraps, but a large family will
cause more. The fowls, old and
young, appreciate these, If free from
bones and not sour.
Eggs can safely be used for hatch
ing purposes a week or 10 days after
the cock has been introduced To hens.
1t is safe thus to use eggs only four
to six days after his absence.
Hens and chickens like alfalfa. 1t
must, as usual, be clipped several
times the first year. To prevent ii be-
ing dug up, cover with a lattice,
through which it is picked by the
fowls.
Alternate males in the breeding
pens, using one bird three or four
days, then removing him and using
another for the same length of time.
This practice insures better fertility.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08

The characteristic signs of potato
blight are the circular, or nearly so,
dead. brittle spots on the leaves. These
spots vary in size from one-fourth to
one half inch or more. Each spot
shows a series of concentric rings,
target-board markings. These rings
no doubt mark the successive advances
OF the fungus and the killing of the
tissues, which ensues. Several spots
may run together and the edges OF the
leaves frequently show more spots
than the centers. With an early
attack, very often the dead spots drop
out, due TO brittleness and TO the pull
ing away of the growing parts. This
gives the leaf shot hole" appear
ence.
The fungus causing Early Blight
does not cause a rot of the tubers, nor
does il attack the stems directly. The
effect on the leaves in noticeable, how
ever, because of its stunning effect on
the stems, and because of the effect of
the yield. A severe attack on the
leaves brings about an early death OF
the tops and the corresponding effect
on the tubers is to produce little
potatoes" since the food materials
stored in the tuber and the growth of
the tuber itself, are dependent upon
the yigor and length of life of the
tops,
The loss caused by this fungus
enemy has never been reckoned for
Michigan, but 1t is safe 10 say that
the yield of potatoes would be 25 per
cent larger than it is now on unspray-
ed fields, were this wasting disease
controlled. 1t must be seen, however
that this type of loss, in most years is
quite different from that caused by
Late Blight, since the latter takes its
toll on the actual yield, while Early
Blight keeps the yield from ever be-
coming maximum one. In years
when Late Blight and insects are not
factors this fungus is largely respon-
sible for yield of 100 bushels per
acre in place of the 200 or 300 of
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08
FARMS REPLACING FORESTS

Within the next 25 years IL Is esti-
mated that most Of the remaining
merchantable timber I'm Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota will be log
ged off. This means that I'm many
counties there will be a change from
numbering TO farming and that the
problem of clearing economically the
logged off land will assume even
greater Importance. At the present
time there are nearly twelve million
acres of such land in Michigan, about
the same land in Minnesota and some
thing less than eleven million in Wis
consin. The greater part of these
millions of acres is not only utterly
useless now, but on account Of the
danger of fire, an actual menace.
Hitherto the development of these
lands for agriculture purposes has
been seriously retarded by the high
cost of clearing. A recent investiga-
ton conducted by the United States
Department of Agriculture, the results
of which have been published i'm
Bulletin No. 81, Cost and Methods of
Clearing Land i'm the Lake States"
revealing the fact that this cost runs
from $40 To $50 per acre. Little cut
over land desirable for farming pur-
poses can be had for less than SIS or
S25 an acre, and the total cost of
cleared land varies, therefore. from
$35 to $115. The average, the in
vestigators found, was sos AN acre.
This, when the expense Of other
necessary improvements taken into
consideration, is more than equally
good farm land i'm other sections can
be bought for. In view of these the
proper disposition of other logged-off
areas become an important problem.
In the first place, as a protection
TO the settler the investigators recon-
mendthat in every tract sold by land
companies, there should be at least ten
acres cleared and ready for the pillow.
This will enable the farmer TO raise
hay and other crops while putting the
logged-off lands into condition for the
most economical removal of the
stumps, for clearing can he done
much more cheaply after the ground
has been in pasture forseveral years.
Second growth, the investigator as
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08

Reaping our reward without getting
tangled in the reaper is sometimes a
hard job.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08
Credit Belongs to the
Man Who SWeatS

1t is not the critic who counts; not
the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles or where the
doer OF deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs TO the man
who is actually in the arena, whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly; who
errs and comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without en-
ror and shortening. - Theodore
Roosevelt.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08

which shows exactly the same bene-
fetal effects.
OF the data at hand, the following
figures are important:
In 1905, on the College Farm, a
field sprayed with Bordeaux mixture
showed a gain of 1875 bushels over
the unsprayed check.
In 1911, on the College Farm, a
field was sprayed with Bordeaux mix
ture four times, while part was left
unsprayed, ass a check. The unspray-
ed portion yielded so bushels per acre
and the sprayed portion 119 bushels
per acre.
An interesting thing about the
potato spraying is that the more
thoroughly il is done, and the more
frequently the spraying, the better the
disease control. and the greater the
gain Along with the increased yield
from disease control, comes the re-
markable fact that the Bordeaux mix
ture eXerts "A stimulating effect upon
the foliage. To what this effect Is due
is not at all clear, but the fact remains
that tops sprayed often with strong
Bordeaux mixture are greener and pro-
duce material for larger crops than
the unsprayed. even in years when
diseases are not serious. From this il
will be seen that there is very good
reason for the recommendation to spray
every year, and it makes it very mani
fest that the spraying directed against
these diseases is more than protec-
ton, since it is beneficial crop prac-
tice. 1t may well be called form of
crop insurance, where the premiums
are all dividends.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08

serts. must be regarded as a source of
expense rather than income. In
few places IL may be possible 10 dis
pose of IL to charcoal or wood-extract
companies. pulp mills or mining COM
panies, but in general 1t does not pay
to haul the wood more than four or
five miles so that the second growth
has no value except as firewood for
the settlers personal use.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-08
InNiOlable

When l hear men discoursing idle
things,
Who beauty and corruption would
unite
As who would say-"Now call we
darkness bright
My wondering soul more passionately
clings
To every image-every strain, that
sings
OF beauty-still, an still the worlds
delight!
Pricing the more that bloom which
knows no blight,
To which no touch of time deface-
ment brings
From rocky Chios, from sweet Avon's
side,
From Athens, Sicily, our earth to
bless
From each dear land where JOY
hath dwelt with Truth,
1t comes adown Times inexhaustible
tide
In myriad form. the ancient Love
Illness,
Wearing its glory of immortal
youth!
Florence Earl Coates, i'm London
Athenaeum.
Roaming our reward without getting
Arizona republican., 1914-11-08
The Rise of Non Partisa

a gratifying result of the late election. espe-
Cialy In this county, the evidence disclosed of
the breaking down of party lines and the uprising
non partisanism That was made manifest in
the vote received by several of the progressive
county candidates. notably Col L. W Coggns for
the state senate and Miss Sara NJ Whitfield for the
office of county school superintendent. The former
given 4466 and the latter $751; against
Ills for Roosevelt in this county in 1912.
OF course, since 1872 women have been admitted
to the suffrage but that would not account for the
difference between 4466 and IT'S. And there
is also TO be taken into consideration the great pop
ularity of Colonel Roosevelt, who attracted from
other parties, voters who would have supported no
other man not of their parties.
II is not to be supposed that all the voters, not
prcgressves, who supported the progressive cand-
dates last Tuesday, did merely for the purpose
of breaking away from party ties They did
vote for them because they progressives, but
because they those qualifications office
which appeal citizens who are not blinded by
party prejudice
We believe that the ice has been broken, and
that we shall in the future men and women
chosen for offices because they are better fitted for
them than those who are candidates against them
Arizona republican., 1914-11-08

Whether the bill providing for the abolition of
the death penalty has beer adopted by the people
yet in doubt but the indications that it has
Ieen defeated by narrow margin. The vote it
light In this county 1000 fewer votes
that proposition than the prohibition amend
ment, and both fell short thousands of votes
Of the votes for candidates for of the offices
statewide fight conducted by the admin
tration in favor the anti-capita punishment bill
and it was aided by the Social Service League There
was no organized opposition the bill in any county
precinct, and suppose that nowhere in Arizona
any work done at the polls against the BILL
while there many workers for the bill and
about many of the polling places there insruc-
ton tickets in favor of the bill.
1t is suspected, too, that many votes cast
in favor of the bill that were intended to be
against it. The question the man
woman became, Shall we have capital punishment"
instead Shall the death penalty be aboished?'
We have heard voter say Il voted for capital
punishment. Here carelessncss of expression
that indicated that he had voted Yes what APP
peared to him the proposition, Shall there be
capital punishment not?"
But it may be asked whether antagonists of CAPT
tai punishment might not have become similarly
fused and led into voting against their conviction.
Perhaps But they were less likely to be con-
fused, for the reason. have pointed out, that
state campaign for the abolition of capital punish
ment had been carried on and literature in support
of it had been distributed, along with elaborate in
structions to the voters Therefore those opposed
capital punishment likely to know what
they doing than would those opposed to it who
confronted with the proposition for the first
time when they the title of it the ballot
among seventeen others, all except being
less confusing.
Arizona republican., 1914-11-08
The Fair

Phoenix stands with open welcome Wis
itors TO the fair, better prepared to receive them
ard entertain them than before. They have
already begun to come, and we have doubt that
when they go away it will with friendlier feel
ing for Phoenix. They Will certainly go with a bet
ter impression of the fair than they carried
away with them before
Ever since the territorial fair instituted,
and since the admission of Arizona
hood. when the territorial was promoted to be
a state fair each annual event. by far, surpassed
predecessor in excellence. Greater than
have been the preparations this year The exhibits
complete and more numerous in all lines.
The speed department offers a program which
has been unequaled any racing circuit in the
country during the The kings and queens
of the turf will be here, those who have qualified
in what may call the elimination trials of the
past season, for the great events in Phoenix.
The fair management having acquitted itself,
it is up the people of Phoenix to complete
the work of entertainment of the throngs here and
the way, and make exhibit of their hospitality
that will measure up to the finest exhibit the
fair grounds
Arizona republican., 1914-11-08
LITTLE JAMES
Concerning What People Tell to Can
dIdates and What They Do to Them
When Their Backs Are TurnedD

Mister Kershaw, which is a Naber
of ourn, was Candidate fer offices
at tn Leckshun. an he role NV Paw
at he had it Nailed Down an mad tn
Worl' by tn Tale pulln' Down Hill.
They can't git it Away from Ne"
SEE Mister kershaw I Poied tn
County an Seen cvry man an Woman
an | got their Word fer it at they're
fer me. Though I'm Republican an
Sinner, I'm goin to git pretty neer
all TIL Democrat Votes in tn county.
an if tn Pergressifs lives up to their
Principles of always votin' only fer
Troo Merit, | ort 20 git tn Pergres-
sif vote Solid
I've Herd seq My Paw, lat what
tn Averidge voter tells a Candidate
to his Face he's goin to do an what
he does when he gifts into a 'Leckshun
Rooth alone with his ballot an
Stub Pensil am his Conshense is ,
Mighty Diffrunt things
L know" SEE Mister Kershaw, "'at
ushly theys some members of tn
Electrit which can't be Depended on
to, but these here Foxes at I've seen
is most of 'em of Good Reppytashun
fer Verassity an some of ems mem
bers Of tn Church. Half of 'em was
Wimmen, an NVimmen amt been in
PollytiX long enuff sos at they can
Look you in tn Eye an Lie to you
SOS you won't motifs it till it's too
Late. | have every Reeson to B'leeve
at I'll git evry Vote ats been plejed
to me. All tn Voters has Plejed their
sells to Sport me, but I'm Nacherly
a Coshus Man, SOS 'at I've knocked
off 20 per cent That's why I'm
countin' on only out of evry 10
votes"
TIL Next mornin' after tn Leck
shun Mister Kershaw come to our
house an seq: I'm a day older'n
was Yesterday an about 40 Yeers
Wiser. My faith in tn Langwidge of
my F'eller sitizens, both men an VIM
men, has been Shattered an Broke.
Mary Copy County's Il regler Sod
dunn an Gomorry fer Tyres to live
into. 1t wuddent S'prize me none
if they was a Like Vissitashun here
which Destroid them Sink of Inikwity.
/ didn't git votes out of 10 which
was Promised me. I'm out of Pol
lytix. Wun can't Retane his Self
Respex an soshiate with tn kind
of Foxes at he's got to asst fer their
Sufferidges Hensefourth, I'm goin'
to live a eileen an Morle Life.
Your feelin's this mornin,' seq My
Paw. 'is a very Common wun. /
s'pose 'at this mornin' they's more'n
10000 Amerrycans ats Victims Of
Misplaced Confidents. But you don't
Look at it from tn rite Pint of Vue.
TIL Voters didn't eZZackly Lie to you.
They meant to Vote fer you when
they sed so, but they didn't know
then at they had a Chanst to vote
fer a Yalier Dog on their own tickets.
They's very few Amerrycan voters
| which can resist TIL Apeel Of tn Yal-
| Ter Dog You depended too much on
yer own Merritt and what Foxes tole
YOU LITTLE JAMES.
Arizona republican., 1914-11-08
GREAT PARADE
Of ALL-SThTES
FRIDAY NIGHT
Society Prepar-
Jig Plans Which Will
Make 1t Event Of Fair
Week, Surprising Demon
stration Last Year

The great feature of the State Fair
aside from the displays within the
fair grounds will be the All States
parade on Friday night of next week
Several Well-attended meetings of the
All States Society have been held
recently at which comprehensive plans
have been formed for an imposing
and beautiful parade A silver cup
will be offered for the best and most
comprehensive display. This cup is
now on exhibition in Donofrio's win
doWs
The judges and reviewing stand
will be on Washington street in
front of the court house plaza. 1t
will be occupied by the judges
the reception committee and
Chairman Moeur of the board of su-
pervisors who with such members of
the Arizona delegation congress as
may be here will review the parade
The full details of the order of the
parade and the line of march will be
announced shortly. Grand Marshal
Dwight B. Heard has appointed as
his aids, Colonel Charles H. Harris,
Major E. p Grinstead, Captain
Stacey, Frank De Souza, Chief George
Brisbois of the police department, p.
J. Sullivan of the fire department, a.
y. Leyhe, L. F. Van Kirk and W.
ID. O'Neil
The military division of the parade
will be composed of companies of the
national guard, cadets of the Uni
versity and the Tempe normal school
and the Uniform Rank of the Knights
of Pythias
A special feature of the parade
this year will be a veterans division
consisting OF the G. A. r, the Con-
federate Veterans and the Spanish
War Veterans. The G. A r. will be
under the command Of Post Com
mander w Z. Smith and the Spanish
War Veterans will be in charge of
Captain George B. Wilcox or Major
Lamson. The veterans division will
be headed by fife and drum corps.
There will be five complete bands in
the parade including a ladies' band
under the leadership of Mrs. Will
liams.
One of the most interesting features
Of the parade will be the industrial
division representing various mer-
chants and manufacturers as well as
special industries of the state. w.
d O'Neill will have charge of this
division. Another feature will be
display of the Phoenix fire depart
ment with its new and up-to- date
apparatus
Few displays on occasions of this