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The Delta independent., 1915-05-14
Codlino M 9th.

The time is near when il will be
necessary for the fruit growers to
again put forth their annual fight
against the codling moth. The over
winter larvae which can be found
under the rough bark and in the
crotches of the trees have most of
them come through the winter unin-
jured. Often large per cent of them
are killed. but not SO this season.
All machinery should be in readi-
so when the proper time comes for
making the first application, which is
the most important one that can be
made, the spray can be applied when
the blossoms are in just the proper
condition. This time is just after the
blossoms have fallen and before the
calyx of the little fruit has closed.
The idea with this application should
be to get some of the poison into the
calyx end of each apple. We have
found that over 60 per cent of the lit
tie. worms enter the fruit through
the blossom end. Thus 1t is possible.
with thorough work, to kill TO per
cent with this one application.
The later applications will be to
form a coating of the poison over the
entire surface of the fruit for pro-
lection against the remaining 40 per
cent of worms that enter through the
side. The number of applications
will depend upon the degree of in
festation. In some parts of the state.
a second application following about
three weeks after the first will be
sufficient. but in most others, IL is
usually advisable to make an appli-
cation about the last of July or first
of August to protect against the sec
ond brood of worms. In still other
sections where orchards are very bad
ly infested as many as five applica-
tions may be advisable.-Geo NJ. List.
Colorado Agricultural College. Fort
Collins, Colo.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14
averaged sixty-five bushels with only

averaged sixty-five bushels with only
three-fourths of stand.
This was the Callahan vsriety and a
native corn but not especially taken
care of or graded. 1t is a white corn
with large ears, hard grain, maturing
early and is much better than Swad-
ley. This season have sown my own
seed and have graded it. l expect to
equal my Iowa brother in acre bushels
this season. Oh, we say our land is
too valuable to raise corn. Tell me
Mr.. Farmer, can you make your ranch
pay raising crops from year to year,
selling them at market prices? No,
you cannot. But you can make it pay
by raising corn, barley, alfalfa and
stock. Hogs and cows are the coming
feature with us and that very soon.
But first build the silo, hog barn
and arrange the alfalfa pasture. Plant
the corn about May 10th or a few
days earlier will do. All of this can
be done in a small way at first to in
sure satisfaction.
Practical experience will no doubt
help to start the foundation right.
Good breeding is very essential in all
cases. For feeding purposes let the
corn stand until it is pretty ripe.
When filling the silo, water is run in
with the corn. For dairying the corn
should be cut when it begins to dent
or in the dent proper. Silage in either
state is excellent feed for hogs, sheep,
cattle and limited amount for horses
is good. 1t will fatten when fed with
alfalfa or is equal to oil meal when
heavy feeding of grain is in progress.
1t acts as a laxative when dry feed
OF any kind is fed, lessons the ex-
pense and increases the gain consider
ably. l consider my silo the best
asset on my farm. Others who have
silos l believe will verify this state
ment 1t will be only a short time
until every good farmer who ventures
into the stock business will erect a
silo or two. Until we do this there
will be a backward movement to our
farm life. Only a short time ago
remember in Iowa. Wisconsin and III
inois of seeing large fields of grain
and corn all going to market at a
small profit Today silos and good
stock adorn the farms. The owners
are prospering from year to year.
We are just as intelligent, we have
the alfalfa, we can raise the corn and
grain, We have the water at the head
gate. and above all we have the eli
realize ito. G. O'Farrell.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14
The silo Path to Prosperity.

have been experimenting for six
years and can say with some accu-
racy that corn and the silo have prov
en- without doubt to be the salvation
of the Colorado farmer. 1t is true
that some folks are very skeptical
and slow to take up this line, but all
those who wish to make this one of
the best stock countries in the west
are sure to follow, especially If they
wish to make their land produce as it
should. Stock is the only way to
profit, as l can see. bp building up
the soil, by feeding the bulk of what
we raise to cattle, hogs sheep or
horses, whatever the farm is fitted
to handle. Surely it has been proven
SO time and again. Those east and
making great strides in stockraising.
They are prosperous. yet we are better
fitted than they.
Alfalfa. corn. barley. in fact any
thing that makes excellent stock feed
can be raised here with surety of
an average crop with any country. 1t
is a mistaken idea that our nights are
too cool. our seasons too short and
SO on. Cut out this talk, for all kinds
OF grain are are adapted to our soil
and climate. Is our land too valuable
to raise corn and grain in connection
with stock? viii it pay? hear these
remarks every day. All can say is
try It in a small way first. Learn the
lesson yourself as have learned mine.
fodder or silage differs considerably
in different localities. This is due
to poor soil and care so to speak un-
der normal conditions. With produc-
tive soil we are able to produce from
fifteen to twenty tons the acre here
in Weld county at cost not to ex-
ceed 50 ton from planting to silo.
Compare this with any other crop in
cluding all expense and there will be
no answer.
I hear men say beets are more
profitable and that alfalfa makes good
silage cannot figure this out in
comparison with corn. Land that will
produce three and one-half tons OF al
falfa will yield at least twenty tons of
corn forage. Soil that will raise
eighteen TO twenty tons OF beets will
produce twenty-five or more tons OF
corn silage. Everybody knows the
cost OF raising beets and alfalfa-or
should at lesst-but the corn crop is
new in most localities. My expert
ence has been limited also in Colo
RADIO. but came from Iowa and do
profess to know how to raise good
corn. Last season I filled my 140-ton
silo from seven acres. We lost all
the leaves Of this crop by hail on the
18th Of August After the corn rip
ened we husked out five acres that
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

An English cattleman who had a
ranch up in Estes park boasted that
he could see a joke as quick as any
person who ever lived. Some of his
punchers put him to test. Did you
ever hear of that one they tell about
a museum back in Philadelphia where
one when he was twelve years of age
and the other when he was forty?"
he was asked. NO" replied the boss
What was II ?"
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14
Advice to Farmers.

Spring work" is on, and every
farmer is anxious to get his crops in
early. Farm work is often seriously
handicapped because of the farm horse
being disabled from over-work, collie,
sore necks, blistered shoulders, etc.
All of these things can be avoided.
A horse idle for three weeks in the
midst of spring work with sore shoul-
ders is a loss and a serious incon-
venience
The shoes should be removed as
soon as field work begins There is
no earthly reason for shoes on horse
with sound feet, while he is working
in the field. A horse that is used for
driving to town may be kept shod.
Heavy feeding on Concentrates"
must not be started abruptly with the
spring work. Indigestion and collie
will be sure to result from this mis-
take. At first be careful about water
ing the horse when he comes in warm
from the field. At noon time or after
the days work is done the horse
should first be given water and next,
hay. and lastly, the grain. Until the
horse becomes accustomed TO drink
ing water when he is warm, this rule
of water. hay and grain will need to
be modified.-Geo. II. Glover, Colo
rado Agricultural College. Fort Col
Inns, Colo.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14
LIVE STOCK PRICES
At SOUTH OMAHA
Cattle Market Slow and Values
Steady TO Shade Off.
EOGS STEADY TO SC HIGHER.
Fresh Decline In Lamb vaIues-Prices
Off 1o@ @15c-Receipts Fairly Lib
eraI-Mexican Lambs Bring 5000,
the Top Price For the Day.

erai-MeSican Lambs Bring 5000,
the Top Price For the Day.
Union Stock Yards, South Omaha,
Nay "a pretty good run of cattle
arrived yesterday, some $500 head
The fat cattle market was a little
slow yesterday. but prices were not SO
very much different from Monday The
desirable light and handy weight
steers were quotably steady with Mon
day and the heavier grades shade
lower. There was no very great
change in the market for cows and
heifers. as compared with Monday,
and for the most part prices were in
just about the same notches. Veal
calves were in active request and full
ly steady. Business in stockers and
feeders was not very lively and. while
good to choice stock of all weights
found ready sale at fully steady fig
ures, the trend of values was easier
for the medium and common stun.
Cattle quotations: Good to choice
yearlings. IS o0GS.4o; good to choice
heavy beeves. s7.s0Gs.1o; fair to good
beeves. s7.60@7.so; common to fair
beeves, s7.00M 760; good to choice
heifers. s7O0G7.75; good to choice
cows. s6.sod7.4O; fair TO good cows,
IS 1865; Gamers and cutters. s3.75
a $50: veal calves. s7.25d975: bulls
stays. etc. S5.e0G SIS: good to choice
feeders. s75odS.O1; fair to good feed
ers. s7OOd740; common to fair feed
ers. S6.OOd700: stock heifers, IS 75G
725. stock cows. s5.5OG6-75; stock
calves. s6.5odS 500; stock bulls, $500
600,
Some IL o0C hogs showed up yester-
day shippers bought freely at prices
that were strong. and in the majority
OF the cases as much as a nickel high
er Bulk of their purchases was made
around s7.25d7 30. and the top reach ed
s735 Packers were slow in getting
started. but in the end paid fully
steady to a shade higher prices. the
most OF the sales being made at s7.eo
G7.22Is. Bulk of all the sales was
made at s7.20d 7.3o with tops at s7.35.
Sheep and lamb receipts totaled g.
500 head Nothing much moved dur
ing the early part of the forenoon
but when sellers finally began to cut
loose 1t was at prices around 1O@1ao
lower Bulk OF the lambs sold al
SO TO- Some shorn lambs brought
$500. Some Mexican lambs went a'
5000
Quotations on sheep and lambs: :
Lambs. light. sss5G1o2o; lambs
heavy. ss.eo0ss5: lambs, shorn
ss.oo0s4o: yearlings. light. $1,000
SIS: yearlinEs. heavy, 3s.756S.o0:
20 oh as oSMe 7S
wethers. fair to good. ss,oo@s.25;
ewes. good to choice, E.75GS-bo
ewes fair to good. s7.256775.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14
WHY BUY At HOMEf

Because my interests are here.
Because the community that is good
enough for me to live in is good
enough for me to buy in
Because believe in transacting
business with my friends.
Because ! want to see the goods l
am buying.
Because / want to get what buy
when / pay for it.
Because my home merchant will
take care OF me when run short of
cash.
Because some part OF every dollar
Irspend at home stays at home and
helps work for the welfare of the
town and the county.
Because the home merchant buy
always giving value received.
Because the merchant ! buy from
pays his share Of the county and town
taxes
Because the merchant ! buy from
helps support our poor and needy. our
schools and churches, our lodges and
homes.
Because II i'll luck, misfortune or be-
reavement comes the merchant I buy
from is here with his kindly express
sion of greeting. his words OF cheer.
and, is needed, his pocketbook.
Let us make Delta good place in
which to work and live. It's easy and
certain If everyone will do his share.
The dollar sent away seldom re-
turns, while the money spent at home
is apt to leave scrapling at your
door.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14
Keeping Cream Cool.

Now that warm weather is ap-
preaching. every possible means must
be taken to get cream on the market
In good condition. The warm days
that have already passed have had a
marked effect in lowering the quality
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

The Fort Lupton editor wrote.
What is more beautiful than the up
turned face of child?" The COM
positor was in a hurry and it appear
ed in print as follows: What is more
beautiful than the face of an upturned
child?"
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

Typewriters, all makes, for sale or
rent. Stearns Bros. Co.
Protect your nome against fire by
lnsuring with Stepuan Upert.
FOR SALE-Three cuttings alfalfa
hay. delivered. H. E. Tyler
worthy of your patronage.
FOR SALE-First class alfalfa hay,
baled, SIP per ton, SOC bale. Inquire
of Joe McGraw. If
Typewriters of all makes for sale
or rent. Call US up and learn particu-
lars. Stearns Bros. Co.
For Sale-A large-sized infants
bath tub. Also good singing canary
brass cage. 24s Meeker. tt
FOR SALE-Extra fine White Rus
sian seed oats, s1.75 per hundred. A l.
Cook, Ash mesa, three and one-fourth
miles southeast of Delta Phone 57-J13
WANTED-A job of work on farm
by young man. Ready to begin on
May 1st. Apply $50 Meeker street. IA
WANTED-A limited amount of
warrants of the North Delta Irriga-
tion district at 35 cents on the dollar.
Millard Fairlamb. 1916
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

Why not? We will do your family
washing cheaper than you can do It
at home.-Delta Steam Laundry.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

LOST-Auto chain near the intersec-
tion of Austin and state bridge roads
on Thursday night. Reward. Return
to Independent.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

The Bull Tractor is the thing for
plowing, tree pulling, grading, etc.
See w. r. Gale.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

WANTED-Turkeys quick. The New
Perkins Restaurant. 1917
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

l will have my new restaurant open
for business by June l. c. P. Shores.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

FOR SALE-Good used piano,
terms, McMurray and Briney.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

FOR SALE-First class alfalfa hay,
baled, s12 per ton, SOC bale Inquire
of Joe McGraw. If
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14


terms, McMurray and Briney.
FOR SALE-At a bargain on five
and seven years time at six per cent,
160 acre ranch on Redlands mesa;
fairly well improved with water right
Small payment down. Might consider
part in trade. E. C. Baker. Hotchkiss
Colo, r. F. d. No. 2.
HAY FOR SALE-In the stack or
delivered; first, second and third cut
ting. Walter Smith. Both phones
First, second and third cutting Of
alfalfa for sale. Mckee.
FURNITURE FOR SALE-Dining
table, book case, refrigerator, rockers
springs, mattress, etc. Nice furniture
nearly new. Inquire of Turner &
Huntley. II
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

Advertisers in these columns are
worthy of your patronage.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

WANTED-A job of work on farm
by young man. Ready to begin OF
May 1st. Apply 953 Meeker street. l.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

Typewriters of all makes for sale
or rent. Call us up and learn particu
lars. Stearns Bros. Co.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

For Sale-A large-sized infants
bath tub. Also good singing canary
n brass cage. 24S Meeker. Il
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

FOR SALE-Three cuttings alfalfa
hay, delivered. H. E. Tyler.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

Typewriters, all makes, for sale or
rent. Stearns Bros. Co.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14
BUSINESS LOCALS

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The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

Protect your nome against fire by
insuring with Stepuan & Upert.
The Delta independent., 1915-05-14

First, second and third cutting Of
alfalfa for sale. Mckee.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-24
only FIVE STATES WITHOUT
STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT

Washington, D. c., Aug. Z4-
Now that Florida has adopted the
modern scientific system of high
wav construction, with state
Iiqbwav Department and a State
ona;naer at the head of it, only nve
c,otas remain out of the forty-
oiebt that have not adopted the
svstem They are Indiana, Mississ-
;nni Texas, South Carolina and
ooreia The Department OF Agri-
er,ture expresses the opinion that
Georgia where the question is now
nm before the State legislature WIN
aeon fall in line and in Mississippi
lively campaign is being organlzeu
nth a view to forcing the adoption
~ the reform. The department de-
snairs under present conditions OF
making any headway in Indiana
whore a change to the new system
= onnosed by contractors anc farm
srs the latter being loath to give
nm their time-honored privilege OF
working the roads"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-24
TWO KINDS OF GUNS
USED IN TRENCHES
(By Associated Press. }

Dunkirk, Aug. 23-The trench
warfare In France has made two dis
tinct and apparently contradictory
demands upon manufacturers of ar
tillery-Dne for weapons Of extraor-
dinary range, and the other for
guns which will drop shell at a
shorter range than ever heretofore
used.
The German gunmakers, who are
developing long-range guns capable
Of carrying a projectile from Calais
to Dover, are at the same time show
ing remarkable ingenuity in max
ing quaint little mortars which will
toss missiles containing high explos-
i've about as far as fair bOOtball
player can kick goal.
The "minnenwerfer" was the first
o. the short range weapons to meet
the British troops in France, and
IL was regarded as very excellent
weapon of its class. But the newer
| German inventions of similar char
acter are hundred times more ef-
| fective in deadliness and power.
The so-called "Rum-jar" is per
haps the most feared of the new
| German trench mortars. 1t Is sc
named by the British soldiers from
! the resemblance of its missile to the
gallon stone jars in which the army
rations of men are carried. The pro
| jectile is slightly more than twice
the size of the army rum-jar, how
ever. 1t is generally first sighted
when approaching the top of IT.
flight. In descent 1t turns over ant
over, its size and slowness OF fligh
enabling the soldier to follow 1
easily even from some distance. |
is exploded either by a time or de
layed percussion fuse, and Is con
structed of thin steel case fille'
with tri-nitro-toluol. The damag
it causes is due entirely to its de
netting quality-it does not rely Of
metal or bullets for its effect. Tn
explosion seems to be more instant
eneous than that of any other pro
jectile, and there is therefore con
centrated fury to the noise of 1t
bursting that distinguishes 1t froI
ali other projectiles.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-24
FORTUNE TELLERS SUSPECTED
OF KILLING NEGRO

Dothan, Ala. Aug. 24-Two Tor
time tellers who are suspected OF
killing Jeff Davis, a negro, anu
his body in Chipola river
we're sought in Dothan yesterday
afternoon by Sheriff H. A. BoWies
and Lawyer r. II. Buford, OF JACK
son county, Florida, who called a.
Sheriff Mays Office for assistance.
According to the account of the
affair heard here, thefortune tellers
engaged the negro Davis, whose
home is said to be at Columbus ua''
IN drive them to Dothan in ms We
bicIe. The body of the negro was
afterwards found in Chipola river
with a sand bag tied to his rect
Nothing has since been heard OF the
fortune tellers Finding no trace OF
them here, the officers returned to
Florida
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-24
MIRAGES ON THE BATTLE FIELD
nv Associated Press.)

Capetown, Africa, Aug. 2l.-Mi-
RACES caused great annoyance to the
troops of General Botha's force our
ing their recent strenuous campaish
in German Southwest Africa. An
officer describes the manner in Which
these mirages appeared in a ie.'er
from the field:
"The fatigue became awful. l De
gan to get lightheaded. The SKY
seemed to become a straight wall IN
front of us, and the effect Oh Tue
moonlight through the dust niau.
me imagine l saw great palaces an
churches. with the stars as little
windows.
sThen 1 would pull mysef
gether and look at the men mum
in front, and they would turn in'o
funny old giantesses dancing III 'ne
moonlight. learned after"ai us
that everyone suffered from .hess
hallucinations. There was no cnech
now; we galloped on and on mhe
after mile, over stones. droopinE
branches, just leaving 1t 10 'n'
horses. Those splendid horses ih
were far saner- than we were
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-24
(By Associated Press.)

Paris, Aug. 21-Since the new
law of April of this year authorizing
military marriages by proxy came
into force, over 700 such marriages
have been performed.
The law provided that two months
must elapse between the application
for authorization and the perform
ance of the ceremony One result OF
this dtlay is that in several cases
the bridegroom has been killed on
the battlefield by the time the proxy
marriage took place.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-24

machinery-to supply
its own large needs. and can with
out any harm to German industry
introduce its product In the latter
empire. Germany on the other
hand makes quantities of other
kinds of machinery and a thousand
things that are not produced In
Hungary, which can be introduced
at lower tariff into that country
without competing dangerously with
Hungarian industry.
The argument that an understand
ing and agreement must be reached
during rather than after the war Is
advanced by many, who believe that
after hostilities have ceased the na-
tions will be too busy with their
renovation and upbuilding and too
jealous of each other industrially
ever to be able to arrive at an UNDER
standing.
Prominent Hungarians In the
League, notably Mr.. Lanczy, men,
her Of the Hungarian House OF
Magnates, hold the opposite view
however, and insist that the pres
ent time is inopportune, and that
efforts to bring about a tariff reform
now are premature. This branch
Ia steadfastly opposed by those who
maintain that all the three coun-
tries at the present time need every
advantage that can be derived from
lower tariffs.
Austria, because of its half-indus-
| trial, half-agrarian nature, has al
ways stood midway between Ger
many and Hungary. with a general
slight leaning for the former. Such
industries as hhe has are in the
main In good condition and unlikely
to be injured by lowering of tariff
walls that would permit of Ger
man Industrial invasion.
| The benefits in the past from the
customs union that has existed since
1884, even though through 1t in
tividuals went down, are sufficiently
marked to induce Austrians to favor
on the whole a still closer relation
of this sort. Hungary Is and al
ways has been poor alphabetically,
so that she has hanged on the side
of the opposition.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-24
BRITISH MUST SAVE
MORE AND SPEND LESS
(By Associated Press.

London, Aug. 24-"Saving means
spending less than we get" is the
maxim around which the Parlia-
mentary War Savings Committee
las built up a textbook Of economy
which 1t will distribute broadcast
throughout Great Britain with the
aim of teaching Enghshmen lhow
to help meet the cost of the war.
The instruction given is practical
and elementary. The people must
buy less from abroad and sell more.
They should travel by train, omni-
bus, and tram car as little as posi-
ble," thus setting free for state SER
vice the labor of those who work
thesemeans of transport, and saving
coal and gasoline. Everything they
can grow or raise for themselves "in
the form a vegetables, wheat, chick
ems, rabbits, beef, mutton. etc, is a
gain to the country" There must
be "a revolution in national habits. y