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The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
FIGHT THE ALFALFA WEEVlL
Most Efficient Tool After Removal OF
First Crop Is the Ordinary Spike
Toothed Harrow.

Several methods Of fighting the al
falfa weevil have been worked out
by the bureau of entomology Of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, according to the report of the
bureaus activities for the year end
ing June 30, 1914. Valuable results.
1t is said, have been obtained from
pasturing by hogs during the weeyirs
egg-laying season, and practical meth
DDS have also been found of poison
ing the larvae In the field A single
economical spraying In the early
spring will also protect the first and
second crops.
After the first crop has been re-
moved, however, the most efficient tool
that can be used has been found to
be an ordinary spike-toothed harrow
with the teeth laid fat and several
layers of open-wire fencing stretched
beneath.
Parasites have also been introduced
from Europe, the original home Of the
weevil, and they are expected to pro-
duce good results. Thus far this
weevil has not spread greatly.
A native weevil known as Compsus
auricephalus has been found in Ok
lahoma. This pest does some damage
to alfalfa and also to growing wheat.
It's life history is now being carefully
studied.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

control. The cost is not great, as the
poison can be bought at Is to 20 cents
pound and cheaper in large quanti-
ties. One man with a knapsack or
compressed air sprayer should be able
to apply the mixture to about two
acres of tobacco a day.
Cutworms are frequently a serious
pest to tobacco as well as to a large
number of other plants. The work of
transplanting Is sometimes doubled
as a result of this insect feeding upon
the newly set out plants, besides caus-
ing a number of indirect losses there
from. The insect more usually is in
furious by cutting off the plant Just
at the surface Of the ground, but
sometimes climbs the stem of the
plant and feeds upon the bud and
young leaves.
Cutworms are most likely to be in
furious to tobacco or other cultivated
crops when grown after sod or clover.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
OLDEST PIECE OF WRITING
sumerian Tablet in University of
Pennsylvania Records Deeds of
Babylonlans.

A number of ancient Sumerian tab
let's, recording the deeds of the Baby.
lonians thousands of years ago, have
been decipered by George A. Barton
at the University of Pennsylvania mu-
scum. One Of these tablets, which
tells how a farmer rid his field of To-
Gusts and caterpillars, is dated 1000
B. c. and is the Oldest piece of writ
ing extant, according to an announce
ment made by officials of the museum.
The farmer, Doctor Barton's transla-
ton says, called in necromancer,
who broke jar, cut open sacrifice,
a word of cursing he repeated, and the
locusts and caterpillars fed" For this
service he received tall palm tree.
That canal was constructed in
Babylonia nearly 5000 years ago is
shown by another tablet dated 1.-THE
year the Divine Naram-Sin opened the
mouth of the canal Erin at Nippur."
Naram-Sin was king In Babylonia
and is supposed to have financed the
construction of the waterway which
gave Nippur transportation facilities
with the rest of the world. A third
tablet, dated 5000 B. c., records the
transfer Of land and a quantity of
grain for bronze money. Gold and sill
yer were known at that time, but were
not used as currency.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
AS Seeing the Invisible.

No great purpose has ever been
achieved by any individual until his
spirit has first gone out into some
wilderness solitude and there discov-
cred its native strength, its absolute
invincibility when it relies upon no
help but that of God. This is the
experience OF all the greatest among
men, They go apart from their fell
lows for awhile, like Moses, into the
land of indian, or like our Lord him
self into the wilderness, or like st.
Paul into the Arabian desert, and
there, in solitary communion with
God, from that highest of all compan-
ionships, they drink in strength to
fit them for the work Of our lives.
Alone with God, they see visions
which fill their souls, visions which
never fade afterward even in the
light of common day, but which serve
as beacon lights to guide them,
through storm and darkness, till the
purpose of their lives is fulfilled
Edwin H. Eland
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

Mistake Made by Actress a Natural
One, Though Certainly Some.
what Embarrassing.

The curtain was rung up for the
third time, and Margaret Blake
stepped forward and responded to the
prolonged reclamation of her admiring
audience She spoke with a graceful
modesty that charmed, then gathered
her floral tributes. Was it the intense
excitement or the binding array of
footlights that dazzled and confused
her?
Quietly reposing on lower box
rail by the proscenium she saw a mag
niflcent bunch of wholesaler favorite
fiower-ostensibly placed there for her
by a sweet-faced, dark-haired lady be-
hind them.
With applause still ringing in her
ears, Miss Blake leaned forward and
took the lovely bouquet, acknowledge
ing the gift by pretty bow.
The sweet-faced, dark-haired lady
reached after her with strange and
sudden haste.
Give me back my hat" she cried,
Historically.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
ADVANTAGES OF GOOD ROADS
No Factor Contributes More to Pros.
perity and Happiness of the Rural
Communities.

The convention Of the Virginia Road
Builders association draws attention
to subject of prime importance to
the people Of this state. Scarcely any
single factor contributes more to the
prosperity and happiness Of rural
communities than good roads, says
the Richmond Dispatch. Good
roads mean easy and quick communi-
cation, economy in transporting farm
products to railway or market, con-
venient access to the outside world,
and higher average of citizenship,
wherever they are found. Virginia
has done much of recent years to
make it's highways measurably equal
to those of most other southern states,
but much remains to be done. The
people as a whole must be educated
to a proper understanding Of the eco
ncmic and sociological benefits that
good roads confer.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

learn something about the insect be-
fore applying the methods of control.
The destruction of insects by pois-
oning is one of the most certain and
satisfactory methods of control. This
practice has been followed in several
tobacco-growing states with good sue
cess, and should be practiced in all to-
bacco-growing sections when insects
appear IA sach lrsss pezAsers 'as4st
they are very injurious. There are
three principal ways of using poisons
against tobacco insects, /. e., spraying
the tobacco plant, spraying trap crops,
and using poisoned bait. For in
sects which obtain their food by chew
ing out portions of the leaves, arse
nate of lead or paris green may be
applied to the leaves with knapsack
or compressed air sprayer, using it at
the rate of about four pounds of arse
nate of lead paste or four to six ounces
Of paris green to one barrel $50 gal
lons) of water. Weeds, such as night
shade and jimson weed and the tobac-
co suckers, may be used as trap
crops by spraying early in the season
or late in the season when there is
no tobacco in the neighborhood, with
the idea Of killing many insects which
are congregated and feeding upon
these related host plants. Poison bats
are made by mixing stomach poison
such as paris green with freshly cut
clover or bran mash and scattering it
about the fields for the insects to feed
upon in the absence of other food.
Probably the most common, if not
the most injurious insect pest of to-
bacco Is the horn or tobacco worm
Y hen the worms occur only in small
umbers they are frequently held in
check, by hand picking during topping
and suckering. Sometimes it is nee.
essary to resort to hand picking two
or three times to save the crop
Flocks of turkeys and guinea hens IN
the fields sometimes serve to hold the
insects in check. Spraying with ar
senate of lead, at the, rate of four or
five pounds of the poison to SO gallons
Of water is satisfactory method of
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
ROAD /.
BUILDING
IMPETUS TO ROAD BUILDING
Secret of Maintaining Country High
way Lies in Keeping II Well
Rounded Up and Drained.

Over good road, we can haul prod
ucts to market at any season of the
year and get full benefit of the highest
prices. It is simple matter to build
good country road, as it is not abso-
lutely necessary that 1t should be
built of gravel or crushed stone. The
secret Of the maintaining of the coun-
try road lies in keeping it we'll round
ed up and sufficiently drained, by ar
ranging it SO that the road is about a
foot higher in the middle than it is at
the edges.
A good dirt road we'll maintained is
not an expensive proposition, writes
Eugene ]. Hall of Oak Park, ILL.,, in
Farmers Review. Shortly after every
heavy rainfall 1t should be dragged
with a split-log drag. This will fill
all of the ruts and depressions and
produce smooth surface well round
ed up in the middle of the highway.
After being rounded up with split
log drag, the roads are made firm
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
NOT GOOD FOR COTTON CROP
Failure of Seed to terminate Attrib'
uted to Lack Of Oxygen Caused
by Green Manuring.

Last year a student at one Of the
state experiment stations reported the
failure of some ten acres of cotton to
terminate, where it had been sown
Immediately after blowing under green
clover. On the other hand, on SINH
lar field planted with the same seed,
but which had not been green ma
nured, normal termination occurred
A careful study was at once begun,
tests being made in pots in a green
house, with the following results: 1t
has been found that the decomposi-
ton of clover somehow affects cotton
seeds, but does not have any mate
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

For this reason special precautions
should be taken when preparing sod
or clover land for tobacco. Fall pillow
ing should, of course, be practiced, be-
ing careful to cover up all vegetation.
Many growers prefer late planting
when cutworms are suspected to an
injurious extent, and this precaution
together with the poisoned bats are
recommended for this purpose.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Hottonseed Meal 70 Hons,

Cottonseed meal may be safely fed
to hogs, provided it does not make
up more than 20 per cent Of the grain
ration, says Prof. w. L. Fowler of A.
and NJ. college at saltwater, Okla
homa. In a short feeding period of be-
tween 20 to IS days, the per cent may
be increased, but for feeding period
of 40 days or over 1t is safer to de-
crease the percentage of the meal 1t
can be fed dry with other feeds, or it
is often found preferable to soak 1t Sc
that it is not wasted.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Ruzzards Spread Cholera.

Buzzards are active agents in the
spread of hog cholera. They visit any
place which there is carrion or offal
of any sort and they have been known
to transport hog cholera germs for
long distances. In fact, in many cases
there is no other possible source of a
cholera infection except the buzzard.
All hogs that die should be burned or
buried. This will do much to check
the spread Of infectious swine dis
eases.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07


and solid by means of a heavy roller
or system of rollers. This will leave
a firm, solid roadbed which will not
be seriously injured by heavy traffic.
This system of road building is
being followed in many parts of the
West with splendid success. When
ruts and holes are formed in a road,
the jolt and jar of the wheel makes
them deeper and forms a pocket for
holding water from the first rainfall.
This softens the roadbed and deep
mud holes are soon formed. while If
there had been no ruts or depressions
there and the road had been we'll
rounded up, the water would have run
off into the bitches on either side, and
the surface of the road would be firm
and in perfect condition.
Another good thing worthy of care.
full consideration in the building of our
good country roads Is that of the con-
struction of permanent and lasting
culverts. Culverts built of stone or
concrete cost more than wooden
bridges, but they will last hundred
years, and they will not rust or need
repainting every year, as iron truss
bridges do. In the end, they are the
most economical kind of viaducts.
The advent Of the automobile and
its employment by the more prosper
GUS class of farmers has given a great
impetus to road building, too; and
the time is coming when we will have
more and more good roads In the
middle West.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
CUTICURA COMPILATIONS
Are Usually Fresh ard Clear, Soft and
Velvety. Try One.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. Thus
these supercreamy emollients promote
and maintain the natural purity and
beauty OF the skin, scalp, hair and
hands under conditions which If neg
lected might disfgure them.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold verywhere.-Adv.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as Cen
eral Tonic because it contains the we'll
known tonic properties of QU1NINE and
IRON. II acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria. Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. so cents. - Adv
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
His Action.

"Ah, squire" saluted the village
bore, what are you doing for your
rheumatism these days?"
Examining the doctors one after
another" snarled the old codger, ito
see how much they don't know.
Judge.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Materials for Eous,

Laying hens should have bread or
milk; eggs cannot be produced with
out heterogeneous materials in some
shape. Keep a supply of bone meal
or oyster shell convenient.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Doubtful Assurances,

DO you think they approved of my
Easter sermon?" asked one of our
well-known ministers.
Yes, think So" replied his wife;
they were all nodding."
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

Decorated With One When He Left.
"Uh-well, yo' honah," explained
Brother Stimmerjohn, de gentleman
come to muh house and 'gunter norate
loud and coa's bout fou' dollahs, and
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Alfalfa More Ponular.

Everywhere alfalfa is used 1t is be-
coming more and more popular. The
better it is known the more 1t is
sown.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

Sometimes the humor of a man is
so dry that he has to buy the drinks
in order to get other men to listen
to it.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

What has become of the old-fash-
toned woman who used to carry eggs
into town and swap them for snuff
and calico?
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
"Oh. he had a hill did he ?"

OH, ne ndu DIN, did ne!
Nussah! He never had no bill
when he come dar-he des had COM
mon, ev'yday nose. But-uh-yaw! haw!
haw! haw!-yo' ortuh seed 1t when he
left; sahhah, yo' dess ortuh seed It'll
Kansas City Star.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

If man will refrain from combing
his hair over the denuded spot the
probabilities are that nobody will no
tice the fact that he is bald.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

A contented, willing worker is worth
50 per cent more than a dissatisfied,
compulsory worker.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Seif-Feeder Not Good.

The selffeeder is not good for young
pigs, as under five months of age they
will eat too much.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
An

He-Is she good dancer?
She-Not scrupulously. - California
Pelican.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU
Try Murine Eye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery
Eyes and Granulated Byelids; No Smarting-
By mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

When is per cent of green clover
was mixed with the soil (Jar q or 80
per cent (Jar ~, and the whole ster-
liked, termination was as good as
where no green manure was added
Oar D.. However, when is per cent
(Jar 81 or 80 per cent Oar 81 of green
clover was added, and normal decom-
position allowed to go on, germina
ton was prevented.
rial effect on the termination of corn
and wheat. On fax a similar detri-
mental effect to that produced on cot
ton was found. The results indicate
that the decomposition of green ma
nure results in q reduction of the oxy-
gen supply and an increase in the car
bon dioxide present in the soil atmos-
phere. 1t is thought that this change in
the gaseous content Of the soil pre-
vents the termination Of cotton and
flaxseed, which contain high per-
centage of oil, and so require more
oxygen for termination than such
seeds as corn and wheat.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
system to Avoid,

Local control has failed to give US
a good road system. Let Us not 60
back to 1t.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

The world seems all the grighter to
lovers when the gas is turned low.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

You can't buy return ticket when
you're going to the bad.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Important 70 Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07
Interest In Dragging Roads.

The neighborhood where every
farmer takes an interest in dragging
the roads will soon find itself pulling
out of the mire.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-05-07

SUDAN 5000 POUNDS inspected BY state
Inspector, FIJI from johnson Grass Closing
out 15c. Mitchell 6 Hufstedler. Lubbock. Tex.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-02
FARMERS ANXIOUS TO LEARN
Size OF Incomes From Soil Is laroely
Matter Of Education-Demand
for More Schools.

The steadily increasing attendance
at existing schools of agriculture.
and the demand for more such schools
in addition to the demand for agri.
cultural instruction in the common
schools. show that farmers are awake.
as never before in history, to the fact
that the size of their incomes from
the soil Is largely a matter of educa.
tion. The man who knows when to
plow. and why: when to plant. and
why. when to reap. and why, is seen
to have decided advantage over him
to whom the time for each of these
functions is a mere "happenstance'
and who never concerns himself with
the Why" Scientific exaetness IL
becoming the rule on the farm as well
as In the laboratory and the machine
shop; and exactness comes only with
the mastery OF principles.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-02
SALVATION FOR THE FARMER
Southerner Who is Inclined to Stake
His All on Single Crop is Urged
to Diversity.

Diversified farming Is Just means
of playing. safe. The southern farmer
is in the habit OF stalking his all on a
single crop or single class OF crops.
II tue crop does well. and II the mar
kets are good, and II the crop can be
marketed. and If disease does not wipe
1t out and-well. II he has good luck
he will be able to live through the com.
ing year and have enough surplus TO
pitch another crop. But II any one of
a dozen things does strike that crop
his work Is lost and It takes consid
cradle bracing to hearten him again.
John N. Scott. yice-director OF the
University of Florida experiment sta.
ton. is anxious for the farmers to
grow greater variety of crops so
that II one fails they will have an
other or others upon which to fall
back. Stock raising is one of the most
easy and profitable means of diversi
flying farming operations. In this way
the farmer raises his own meat and In
addition produces valuable fertilizer
which will enrich the soil for his
crops
Truck farming is roitable-some
years. II the truck farmer would plant
only half his land to some staple crop
for which there is always a ready mar
ket, he would find the business more
encouraging. There is large variety
OF crops which could be grown which
would De profitable every year. Some
years they would not bring so grea,
returns as truck or some other spe.
cial.zed crop, but when one takes into
consideration the years when the sin.
gle crop fails for one reason or an.
other. the staple crops will make a
pretty good showing.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-02
COTTON STATUS AFTER WAR
Stocks to Be 7eolenshed and New
Uses for Staple Are Developing
One After Another.

One thing that has been demonstrat-
ed by the experience OF the last year
is that the world requires American
cotton in times OF war as In times OF
peace, the Savannah News observes.
New uses for cotton are developing
one after another. and the new use
once established, cotton seems at once
to become Indispensable for the par-
pose, Cotton III now used in substitu
tion for many commodities Of appar.
emily totally different characteristics
from its own. and is found not only
cheaper in cost but superior In ef.
ficiency.
Normal uses of cotton are naturally
much interfered with by a great war
In some cases this becomes obligatory
from the scarcity OF the staple. to-
gether with the more compulsory re-
quirements for war purposes. No one
can calculate how long the people Of
any country or all countries could
manage to get along with practically
no additions to pre-existing stocks
OF manufactured cotton goods. They
are first the supplies already In the
hands OF final consumers. then the
stocks in the hands of retailers. enor-
nous in the aggregate: finally the
larger individual stocks, held by
wholesale dealers and manufacturers
II Is evident that the time through
which all these supplies can be forced
to last is very elastic and can be
much prolonged.
But the scarcity must become acute
after a while: then the need for fresh
supplies will be all the more urgent
from having been SO long repressed.
The end of the war will bring not
merely the restoration OF normal uses
but the call for replenishment of de-
pleted stocks everywhere. A surplus
Of cotton was carried over last year:
II was an unwieldy surplus under or.
dinary conditions. the largest ever
known in the history of the trade. But
1t was moderate surplus In compari.
son with the great inroads made upon
manufactured stocks.