The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-02-09
THE WHY OF SPRAYING

In the economy OF nature il is Gods
law that nothing shall 20 to waste.
wherever there is abundant plant life
nature provides that il shall serve as
food Tor animals, When there is a
superabundance Of animal life, nature
provides that other animals shall feed
upon them Even our love of beauty
Is utilized by nature. The woman who
loves her house plants inhales the oxy-
gen thrown of by the plants and the
blood courses more rapidly in her veins
and IN return the poisonous cArbonic
acid thrown of by the lungs and skin
OF the woman are absorbed by the
plants and they put on brighter color
ing Thus even the air becomes a me
dium for interchange Of food between
the animals and plants Of the earth, the
poisonous gases and waste matters
thrown Of in the process Of growth by
one group becoming food for the other
AS we view the panorama OF nature
each breathing thing and budding flow
er speaks a message of infinite economy
and eternal life, There is only chang
ing form.
Adaptability OF Nature
In the great Sahara desert Of Africa
there are long stretches of burning
sand with here and there springs sur
rounded by a patch Of grass The dis
tanee between these green places is too
great for horse or man to travel. In
this desert God placed the camel, an
animal with the singular capacity of
storing water In its body and a hump
on It's back, the fats Of which sustain
the animal when it is a long time be
tween meals
The Plains OF Oklahoma, Kansas and
exas was once called the great Amer.
lean desert. This country produced an
abundance OF grass which however for
the most part OF the year was hard
and dry In this country God placed
the buffalo, This animal has an extru
storage capacity for these hard, dp
grasses and could gather a DAYS food
go to a place protected from the wind
and after this food had become soft.
ened BY the warmth and liquids OF IL,
own body, chew It's cub and take n.
meals III leisure
The camel in Africa and the buffalo
IN America are two illustrations thai
we all understand. They are big enough
that any one can see them, This adap-
liability of animal to food supply ex.
tends down to the smallest insect and
the rule holds good that where ther,
is abundant food there will be abundant
life TO consume Il
Necessity For Spraying
The camel and the buffnlo are men.
toned 10 make plain this statement
\ The fact that country has numerou.
insects that feed upon a certain cror
is no proof Of that crops adaptability
for that country, but il proves lust Ia
the contrary that the success OF that
crop is such that Il has made con.
stant food supply for insects.
That section Of Oklahoma south and
east from Oklahoma City has never lost
an apple crop from frost. Many othe,
parts Of the state are equally fortunate
These regular crops OF fruit have pro.
vided such good conditions for the in.
crease Of codlng moth that these in.
sects are now getting a big per cent oI
the fruit There are about 100000 bear,
Ing fruit trees in a strip Of countr,
twenty-five miles wide and seventy-hv,
miles long lying directly east of Okla
homa City. When these trees first com
menced to bear there were very few
insects but the rotten apple that fel
to the ground ten years ago has beef
producing right in the orchard a eroI