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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
CARE OF HOUSE PLANTS
BY LIMA ROSE.

If you know the needs of the diff
ferent plants, you can mix the proper
soil yourself for potting your house
plants. Take some old bluegrass
sod and pile it up until it rots, and
you will have an ideal form of de-
cayed vegetable matter for the prin-
cipal constituent of all kinds of soil
for potted plants. There are three
kinds of potting soil, as follows:
For geraniums and the ordinary va
rieties of blooming plants-Three
parts loan from the rotted sod, one
part well-rotted manure and one part
sand, if the soil is heavy
For ferns, begonias and such foliage
plants-Two parts loan, one part leaf
mold or peat, and one-half part sand,
II soil is heavy.
For palms or roses-Two parts clay
loan and one part well-rotted manure,
and sand to suit the texture condi-
ton
Use the finger test to learn if the
plants need water; when it cakes
readily there is too much water; so
do not give the plants a little each
day, but only water when needed
Never use a nozzle on the end of
hose in watering, as it causes the
stream to pack the soil and injure the
foliage.
To prevent your window plants from
blooming only on the street side, turn
them occasionally, and you will have
the blooms in the room as we'll Do
not give foliage plants as much light
as for Towering plants; keep the
ferns in a shady corner; north win
dow is good place.
Use as dry material only well-rotted
manure. To prepare liquid manure to
be applied only after the ordinary wa
tering has been done, take an ordi-
nary barrel containing one-half busheI
of fresh cow dung, and if extra
strength be required add a couple of
quarts of fresh hen manure, and COW
er with water.
After it has been fermented thor
oughly, the coarse material will all
settle to the bottom, and you may fill
the barrel with water, and the solution
is ready to be applied to your plants.
An application every two weeks is
generally all that is required for most
plants.
For this process sand is generally
used, or very light soil, as most favor
able for the formation of new roots.
The geranium is perhaps the easiest
to begin with, and a good healthy top
should be selected where wood has
formed. Take a sharp knife and cut
below the joint.
Foliage plants are very easily propa-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21

soap to use. After this is done sprin-
kle about one quart of fresh air
Slaked lime or wood ashes around
the base of the tree and fill in with
fresh earth. Sifted coal and wood
ashes may be used instead of lime;
both are good. The worming should
be done in the fall and again in the
spring. The ashes or slaked lime
should be applied in the fall, in the
spring and at the end Of summer may
be spread around the tree. Ashes and
lime form an excellent dressing for
fruit trees. 1t is a good plan to spread
half bushel of sifted coal ashes
around each fruit tree during the win
ter. The ashes will prevent the moth
from laying it's eggs in the soft bark
of the tree. AS there is considerable
wood burned with the coal, the ashes
have considerable potash and act as a
direct fertilizer and also as a mulch.
Professor Smith of the New Jersey
experiment station recommends a
thick mixture of cement and milk ap-
piled with brush to the collar after
the tree has been wormed in April.
It should be put on when the bark is
dry, two inches below the ground and
16 inches above the surface of ground.
We have used this mixture and found
it satisfactory.
Mr.. Harrison in his book, "How to
Grow and Market Fruit" says: "To
prevent bOrers from entering any kind
of trees, apply to the trunks, about
the middle of June, the whale oil soap
solution No. IS or lime-sulphur solu-
ton No. Is. Painting the lower IS
inches of trunks with pure white lead
and raw 1inseed oil will help, too APP
pie borers, however, sometimes enter
three or four feet from the ground,
but these worms never get very big.
Salt and ashes or tobacco dust, in q
layer q couple of inches deep about
the base of the tree, will kill the
worms that drop off and try to reach
the trunk"
The old rough bark should be
scraped off the trunk and larger limbs
and then washed with a mixture of
soft soap and wood ashes. Use a stiff
brush. Another method recommended,
after the old bark is removed, is to
give thick coat of lime wash to the
larger limbs. The ground should be
cleared of grass and weeds and either
plowed or forked up. Plow shallow
near the trees. The singletrees and
pillow traces should be wrapped with
soaking TO DrayeDt in iIIrinp the trees
Fall is the best time for this work,
when the ground is mellow and the
weather mild.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
HOW TO GROW PRIMROSES
BY BESSIE l.. PUTNAM.

The best way to propagate prim-
roses is from seeds, which should be
sOwn in May or June, or as soon as
the soil becomes thoroughly warm.
The seeds are quite small, but are
easily started by sowing in a box or
a bed. The soil must be sifted fine
and of moldy consistency which will
not bake or become hard. Press the
surface of the soil smooth and level
SOW the seed evenly and thinly, and
cover lightly. 1t is a mistake to SOW
deeply
The ground must be kept moist and
covered, that is, protected from the
rain, wind and hot sun, until the
plants appear 1t requires from three
weeks to a month to bring plants to
the surface, then they must be care
fully busted with little tobacco and
sulphur mixed, to keep down the
fungus and insects.
The primrose requires moist, but
not wet soil, and if the soil is al
lowed to dry out before the plants ap-
pear, propagation will be greatly re-
tarded or entirely stopped.
Used in borders or in pots, the lit
tie primrose is always a beautiful,
cheerful plant.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
ORDER FRUIT TREES
FOR COMING SPRING
Buyer Should Give Due Consider
alton to Reputation of Nurs-
erynan-Order Early. l..

by r. A. M'GINTY, Colorado Agriculture
al College,
In ordering fruit trees to be planted
the coming spring, the buyer should
give due consideration to the follow
ing points:
Order trees from a reputable nurs-
eryman, paying good price for
them, instead of securing them from
some agent who has nc reputation to
maintain The latter individual may
sell his trees at reduced prices, but the
chances are the buyer will not get
what he orders.
Send in the order early, so that the
nurseryman will have time to pack
and ship the trees before the spring
rush. This is necessary in order that
the buyer may receive his trees in
time to set them out early.
In selecting varieties it should be
remembered that three Or four we'll
tried sorts of each fruit are better
than large number of varieties, es-
pecially if the fruit is to be marketed.
If wanted for home use, large num-
Der may be chosen. New and untried
varieties are usually to be avoided.
AS a rule it is best to buy one-year-
old trees. Older trees are very often
stunted and misshapen on account of
close planting IN the nursery row,
while yearling trees usually consist OF
a straight switch with live buds down
to the ground. Such trees may be
headed as high or as low as desired
which is not always possible with the
older trees
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
GARDEN NOTES

Plant hardy bulbs in the open
ground as long as the ground can be
worked.
Gala lilies requires an abundance
of water at this season.
Make the rows in your garden
straight. Crooked rows show that
the gardener is careless and while
the straight rows may not guarantee
success they show careful attention
and are slightly.
Roses, violets, deutzias, dicentras,
daises for winter and spring forcing
should be potted and stored in the
cellar or cold pit. In taking them
into the heat during the winter do not
commence forcing too rapidly. The
same applies to forcing hardy bulbs.
Avoid taking plants into the con-
servatory too soon after they have
been rooted Gradually accustom
them to the confined air of the room
by keeping them indoors during cold
nights and cool weather, exposing
them fully to the air, shaded from the
direct rays of the sun, during fine
weather.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21

dulged in the matter, her support is
unavoidably more expensive from year
TO year. 1t was acute realization OF
this that had prompted Millicent to
adventure citywards, armed with her
diploma from the Tingleville CONNER
cial college, proving her to be fully
trained stenographer.
Millicent had found no positions
open, however. Nobody seemed in
need of a stenographer without past
experience or even a typist. Some
business men, she found, wanted a
girl in their Offices, but they expressed
themselves as being more personally
l. terested in Millicent's good looks
than in her Tingleville certificate. So
Millie wisely looked elsewhere. Wise
ly maybe. but fruitlessly. Then one
evening in her bare hall room this
second week she came across the two
line lad" of the National Film Manu-
featuring company, which, it seemed,
was lukewarmly interested in secur-
ing a girl for filing" 4 princely
stipend of six dollars per week was
the practical inducement offered
Six dollars lo0med gigantic to our
Millicent Just then and, although the
thought of being only an office girl
was humiliating, it was considerably
better than nothing. She determined
to be first of the hundred-odd appli-
cants at the studio on the morrow.
and so, indeed, she was.
On the way out next morning Miss
Mile occupied herself with perusal
OF the newspaper and therein read a
duction which the National Film Man
ufacturing company was about to re-
lease. The names of fascinating Au-
frey Arlington. darling of the movie
fans, and of Ned Tolman. her hand
some male support" occurred fire.
quently. The release was to be in no
less than five reels. three of which
the press notice stated were already
done and desperate efforts were be-
ing made to finish taking che other two
for theater presentation by Christ
mas eve. a mammoth. elaborate pro-
duction no expense spared
ETC.. etc. ad lib.
Not knowing much about the
movies, Millicent wasn't much i'm
pressed, however At the moment
her mind was fervently occupied with
melancholy "reminiscences of a Ned
whom she herself had known-Ned
Harkins. who had pledged eternal fdeI,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
MAKE A COLD PIT

In dry spot in the garden eXca-
vate for depth of two feet or more
of a size suitable 70 be covered with
glass sash.
Many plants such as roses, violets,
iberis can be kept in gold frame and
brought into the light and heat of a
window garden or conservatory from
time to time to keep up a succession
of blooms during the winter and
spring.
Ordinary hotbed sash, which are
three feet wide and six feet long, are
used for covering cold pits. Board
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
Dauohter's Idea.

Mrs. Brown was in the habit of in
PRODUCING her big daughter as, This
is Jane; she is only fifteen-you'd new
er think it would your"
At last the girl protested. Its
mean of you to tell everybody how
young | am. | could have a lot bet
ter time if you didn't"
Perhaps you could. But | don't
propose to have people saying, after
you've been out in society a couple OF
seasons, Don't tell me Jane Brown is
only twenty-why, she was a grown
girl years ago.
Just the same" retorted the daugh-
ter, you wouldn't like it if | intro
duced you to my friends an This is
my mother. She's only forty-eight-
you wouldn't think it, would you? -
Judge.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
Sire Is Half of Hard

When buying bull Or boar do not
forget that the sire is one-half of the
herd. Do not let a good high class
animal get away from you on account
Of the price. A first-class sire often
times is worth several times the price
paid in one season. A poor individual
is an expensive purchase at any price
if used in the breeding herd.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21

Borers attack most kinds of fruit
trees, also the different varieties of
locust and hickory trees. They are
most destructive to the apple and
peach. There are several kinds Of
these worms; all of them live on the
soft bark of the tree near the surface
of the ground. The fat back and the
round black head borers feed on the
apple and the soft yellow worm with
brown head feeds on the peach, april
cot and nectarine
The eggs are laid early in summer
at the base of the trunk, near the
collar, where the bark is soft There
they are Matched in June and July
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21

up the sides against the soil or wall
them with cement or brick, running a
foot above the surface at the rear and
nine inches in front, the end walls
to the sash.
Two of three inches of coal ashes
should be placed in the bottom, on
which to set the pots. Ventilate when
the weather will allow and cover with
straw or old carpet to keep out the
frost in severe weather
Water the plants thoroughly when
potted and then give water very
sparingly to all plants in the pit dur
ing the winter
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
The Cakes Were Baked.

The great Dutch feast of ST. Nicho-
las the first week in December last
year was celebrated in Holland with
difficulty. For one thing, the war cut
off the supply of almonds, for cen.
turtles constituent of the famous
figures, or "speculaas," baked out of
st. Nicholas cake, as well as of the
seasonable confection known as ban
ket." At the last moment, however,
a single shipload of almonds arrived
from Spain and partly saved the stu
alton There still remained the short
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21

and bore their way under the bark
of the tree, either in the stem or
root, or both, producing in the apple
a reddish sawdust and in the peach
a gummy substance.
The proper course is to dig away
the earth from around the collar of
the tree, clear away the gum and
red sawdust, kill any cocoons that
may be found, trace the worm through
it's holes in the tree and kill it, and
fill up the holes with resin soap
whale oil soap is said to be the best
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
Houa In United States.

The estimated number of stock hogs
IN the United States on September 1,
Is about 1912 per cent of the same
number On same date last year, that
is, an increase of 7.2 per cent, accord
ing to reports made to the bureau of
crop estimates of the United States
department of agriculture.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
CHRISTM JOYS.

L suppose you will have a merry
Christmas at your house?"
"Oh. yes, replied the sophisticated
small boy. we younger people will
endeavor to make it so. You know,
so much depends on the tactfulness
Of children. | always endeavor to
make the holidays pleasant by show
ing an enthusiastic interest in the
mechan' al toys that afford grown
people so much amusement
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
WinterkiIIed Peach Tree,

A peach tree, after it has been win
TERRIFIED, may be cut back to stubs
painted and if the roots are in a
good condition, new top will grow
to take the place of the one that was
killed.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
Great Help,

Did you have anyone to help you
when you were hanging the pictures?"
"Oh, yes. My wife stood around and
asked me what / was swearing at
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
Friends Of the Farmer,

The farmer who runs for the gun
whenever he sees skunk or badger
Is destroying his own friends. Better
let them live to kill vermin.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
WANTED

Butternut meats from this years
crop-fve to ten pounds, more or less.
VIII pay 75c pei pound Geo. A.
Joslyn, Omaha, Neb.-Adv
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4 Capitalization

Mrs. Gabby is very unreliable.
yet | notice what she says goes. =
Baltimore American.
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ture portrayals, much less heard OF
that opuleut magnate of filmdom, the
National Film Manufacturing com
pany. Truth to tell, the very first
time she learned Of its existence was
that evening when, worn out by a
bootless tour Of business Offices where
she had hoped for employment, sac
read its ''ad" in the Help Wanted sec
ton of newspaper.
Millicent had come TO the metropolis
abrim with the high hopes and dimi-
nent enthusiasm OF youth. Incidental
~ she brought remarkable good looks
with her too, although, being unso-
phisticated and from the country, she
was not as self-conscious of them as
most city girls of her age are. The
home farm was hopelessly mortgaged
and for several years past she had
realized with increasing poignancy
what a tax upon her aged parents
slender resources she was.
AS a girl grows older she Graves
more and better things, and, no mat
ter how slightly she may be in
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21

make rs look older than we are Keep
your Eyes young and you will look young.
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Don't
tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co.,
Chicago, Sends Eye Book on request.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
Hard Enouuh.

Il want to realize hard cash from
my investments
Then why not try steel Stock"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
WaIkinn Wifh RInAu

Walking With PloW.
A man blowing with Pinch walk
ing pillow walks little over ten miles
for every acre turned under.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21
When all others fail to please
Try DenIson's Coffee.

and many man who tries to live
nght gets left.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21

age of white flour due to government
restriction, and of cooks owing to the
mobilization of the troops. But the
government removed its embargo for
the festival, and the bakers called up
to arms were granted weeks leave
at their ovens, and SO the feast of st
Nicholas held it's traditional sway.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-21

HEBARD had
not the slightest idea
that she even remotely
resembled Audrey Ar
iington, stellar member
of the National Film
Manufacturing C c ~
pany's cast. In fact,
having only recently ar
rived in the big city
from a downstate farm,
she had not even seen
any of Miss Arlington 8
celebrated moving pic
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-15

81 don't want to be made hap
py," growled Dick. 81 only want
to be let alone.'
At the time | was inexpressibly
hurt and shocked, but since l have
learned that there are times when
every human being wants to be
let alone, that the thought of even
having to be pleasant to anyone
Is torture to him, and SO after
many sad experiences from but
ting in" as Dick would call 1t, |
have learned to keep perfectly
still when Dick comes home with
his mouth set in that thin, red
line and the hard moody look on
his face.
/ waited until after dinner,
hoping that his favorite beat
steak, cooked perfectly to his lik-
ing, would bring a hint of good
nature to his face. And with the
coffee and his cigarette he did
thaw out a little.
Mary innocently brought the
things to head, however, by say
ing: 81 believe | will not go with
you and Dick to Eliene's tonight,
Margie. l feel little tired after
my ride
Dick bristled. 81 hope you have
accepted no invitations for me.
Margie, because If you have |
shall have to decline. How many
times have l told you that / wish
you would consult me before dis
posing of my time in the even
ings?"
II did not accept for you,
Dick. l have learned better than
to do that" said somewhat an
grily. 81 only accepted for my
self and conditionally for you il
you should care to CO."
Care to go-care to go. OF
course, you put it that way, and
now that / can't go Eliene will
think it is because / do not care
to go. I've got to go out this
evening, although l would much
rather go to bed"
"All right; I'll tell Eliene you
are unavoidably engaged"
You will do nothing of the
kind. You will say that as Mary
does not feel able to go we think
we should stay with her."
Don't please-don't let me
keep you at home" spoke Mary
nervously.
I'm not going to, Mary my
dear. You need sleep and rest.
Dick has an important engage
ment, but / am free and feel like
dancing, so I'll go over to Eliene's
and make excuses for both you
and incidentally have a good time
myself instead of sitting here
alone in unbroken quiet"
Dick just glared, swallowed his
coffee with gulp, although l
knew 1t scalded his throat.
well, I'm off. Good night,
Mary, 1 hope you will sleep we'll. "
"Oh, I'm so sorry, Margie, ="
said Mary after Dick had slammed
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CONFESSIONS
. OF A WIFE

in the woman's magazines and
the woman's pages of the news
papers, should be suppressed. And
that is that wife should always
greet her husband with a smile,
when he comes home tired from
business, and try to interest him
In something outside the daily
grind. This sounded perfectly
splendid before | was married,
but like many other of those won
derful things that are advised
women by old maids or epicure
creatures of alleged male per-
suasion 1t does not work out.
What's on your mind that you
should have that Cheshire cat
GRIM" said Dick to me in the
first year of our marriage when
he had arrived home accompan-
led by particularly grouchy mood.
And l answered like the sweet
and dutiful wife | supposed l was
by saying, Nothing, dear-pm
| Just trying to make you happy"
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stoage
of d
fnstdh thlried rof
his houseo senator paying
OF Egyphd ont
had
anyhow
ngand smpiGed
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he also said that the successful
wife must be a combination of
mistress" inspiration, passion
and beauty; that she must EN-
trance the eye; respond to his
ardor as flame rises to the wind"
etc. And that thrice blessed is
the man who gets such a wife.
wonder If that man has a wife
who is so tired from doing the
family wash. tending the children
and his home, doing his cooking
that when night comes she could
not scare up a bit of passion
or ardor" to save her life. Any
how | think the suds would have
a dampening effect upon any
flame" that might arise.
| ask, Where is the good old
fashioned husband" that we used
to honor?
Also give us good wives show
and there will be fewer divorces
NAN.
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never hears of nov.
But there are whole lot of
the good old fashioned women
right here today. Only, being
good, patient and sweet, they do
not come into the limelight like
the others. The average man
does not give a good, moral v life
a fair show. In fact, to the ma
jority of them, such wife is
"monotonous.
One man frankly stated that
few men were virtuous, and won
first prize, in the Theda Bara
contest in Seattle recently, when