Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-12-09
Agricultural College Urges that
Volunteer Wheat be PIoWed
Under Before Spring.
ONLY WAY TO CONTROL PEST
Late Sowing Alone WiIi> Not Protect
Wheat Fields Declares State En-
tomolopist G. A. Dean.

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-
lieve 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 a 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-
lutely 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 Altamont. 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 $4,000 mile.
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Train as Fire Alarm.-A freight
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 op-
orator, died at Pittsburg recently, &c
years old. Mr.. Hodges was a pioneer
mine owner of the Kansas field. He
was active in politics many years.
Atchison Physician Dies.-Dr. w.
H. Bogie. 81, for many years a physi'
clan at Atchison, is dead. For several
years he was division surgeon for the
Missouri Pacific road.
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Urges Farm observation-disclosures
of Kansas should launch movement
for self-help, cooperative marketing
and for more and better live stock,
]. C. Mohler, secretary CT agriculture,
pointed out in an address at the Fort
Hays normal school recently
Broken Leg Caused Death.-Ben
WEIGH, 81 years old, died in hospital
at Wellington recently from broken
leg. WEIGH was blown from his barn
while carrying sheet iron to the roof
Dies From Burns.-Mrs. Clara Don
aldson, wealthy widow at Caldwell,
is dead in a Wichita hospital from
burns received when she tried to put
out bonfire she had started on her
property. She used her apron as an
Extinguisher and the flames leaped to
1t and then to her clothing
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May Control Its Water.-Resident
will make another attempt to take
over the privately owned water system
at Lawrence at referendum election
to be held March Z, 1916. This action
was decided upon by the city commits
Rioners the other lay.
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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
n. 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 Pittsbnrg from
Kansas City and return.