The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-11
Agricultural College Urges that
Volunteer Wheat be PIoWed
Under Before Spring.
ONLY WAY TO CONTROL PEST
Late Sowing Alone Will Not Protect
Wheat Fields Declares State En-
tomoloqist q. A. Dean.

Is badly infested with Hessian fly, and
If this volunteer wheat is not plowed
under before the first of next April,
it will prove source of great danger
to the many fields of wheat which
are now practically free from the fly,
warns George A. Dean, entomologist
in the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege and experiment station.
Many wheat growers seem to be-
Iieve that the most important method
for the control of the Hessian fly
is late sowing" says Professor Dean.
This is simply one of the important
steps in the control of the fly, but it
should not be over emphasized. The
most important thing, and the one that
the experiment station has always en-
phaSiZed is the destruction of all vol
unteer wheat. The entomologists of
the Kansas experiment station have
always emphasized four things: the
thorough preparation of the seed bed,
destruction of all volunteer wheat, late
sowing, and cooperation.
Late sowing alone will protect
most of the wheat in the fall from be-
coming infested by the fall brood of
the fly, but it should be remembered
that there is also main spring brood
of the fly, and if any volunteer wheat
is growing in the main field of wheat
and in the old stubble fields left to
plant to some other crop the next
spring. the spring brood of flies emery
ing from this volunteer wheat about
the first of April is very apt to infest
the main crop, and thus wheat abso-
1utely free from fly may become dan
gerously infested next spring by this
spring brood.
Rock Roads for Labette.-A chain Of
rock roads to connect the principal
towns of Labette county is planned by
the good roads associations of Par
sons, Oswego, Chetopa, Mound Valley
and AItamont. Meetings held for per-
fecting plans to raise the money for
the immediate construction Of the
highways were held at Oswego and
Parsons. Permanent good roads as
sociations were formed. 1t is pur-
posed to build thirty-two miles Of road,
costing approximately $500 mile.
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train crew the other morning aroused
Aulne, eight miles north of Peabody,
by blasts from the engine whistle
when they saw the Methodist curch
in flames Residents hurried to the
fire, but were unable to save the build
ing.
Roundhouse at Pratt Burns.-The
Santa Fe roundhouse burned at Pratt
the other night. A high wind pre-
vailed and the firemen were power
less.
Mine Operator Dead.-John n.
Hodges, widely known as a coal OPP
orator. died at Pittsburg recently, Sc
years old. Mr.. Hodges was pioneer
mine owner Of the Kansas field He
was active in politics many years.
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Atchison Physician Dies.-Dr. w.
H. Bogie. 81, for many years physi-
clan at Atchison, is dead. For several
years he was division surgeon for the
Missouri Pacific road.
X x x
Urges Farm co-operation.-Farm
of Kansas should launch movement
for self-help, cooperative marketing
and for more and better live stock.
J. C. Moh1er, secretary CT agriculture,
pointed out in an address at the Fort
Hays normal school recently.
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Broken Leg Caused Death.-Ben
Welch, 81 years old, died in a hospital
at Wellington recently from a broken
leg. WEIGH was blown from his barn
while carrying sheet iron to the roof.
Dies From Burns.-Mrs. Clara DON
aldson, a wealthy widow at Caldwell,
is dead in Wichita hospital from
burns received when she tried to put
out a bonfire she had started on her
property. She used her apron as an
extinguisher and the flames Ieaped to
1t and then to her clothing.
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May Control Its Water.-Residents
will make another attempt to take
over the privately owned water system
at Lawrence at a referendum election
to be held March z, 1916. This action
was decided upon by the city commits
sioners the other day.
x x x
Wagon Killed a ChiId-The 2-year-
old son of Thomas Brink, near Ford,
rode in a huckster's wagon with his
two sisters. The men helped the chill
dren to the ground and told them to
run back home The boy got under
the wagon and the rear wheel passed
over his head.
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Veteran Conductor Dies. William
H. Irwin, a veteran railroad conduc-
tor, is dead In Pittsburg at the age
of "a years. Irwin ran the first Pitts
burg & Gulf train to Pfttsburg from
Kansas City and return.
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Sold SaIina U. C. T. Hall-The
United Commercial Travellers Con-
vention hall at SaIina was sold re-
Gently at sheriff's sale, the Putnam
Investment company bidding it in at
$23, 500, about half its supposed value.
J. E. Putnam, head of the company, is
mayor of Salina and an effort viii
be made to have the city buy it.
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