The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-07-21
Prot. Dean Of the Agricultural
College Urges Farmers
to Begin Now.
time FOR MIGRATION IS NEAR
Poisoned Bran Mash 10 Recommended
a. Most Effective and Practical ,
Method Of Control.

With the wheat harvest well along
and the time for the migration Of
grasshoppers near, George A. Dean,
entomologist at the Kansas State Ag.
ricultural college, has issued warn
ing to farmers to begin war on the
grasshoppers. During the last three
years poisoned bran mash has been
found so effective that the experiment
station at the college recommends 1t
as the most effective and practical
method of control. The following
formula was given by Professor Dean:
THE bran mash is made of bran,
twenty pounds; Paris green, white ar.
senic or London purple, one pound;
syrup, two quarts; oranges or lemons,
three; water three and one-half gal
Ions. Paris green is preferred to the
other poisons, but the price Is high
and 1t may be we'll to substitute white
arsenic or London purple.
in preparing the bran mash, mix
the bran and the poison dry In a
washtub. Squeeze the Juice Of the
oranges or lemons into the water, and
chop the remaining pulp and the peel
to fine bits and add them to the water.
Dissolve the syrup In the water and
wet the bran and poison with the
mixture, stirring 1t at the same time
in order to dampen the mash thor
oughly.
THE damp mash, or bait, should be
sown broadcast in the infested area
early in the morning. This amount
of bait or mash should cover four or
five acres"
Oil Near pleasanton.-Prof A. G.
Terrill of the University Of Kansas in
spected the lead prospect shaft two
miles southeast of Pleasanton and re-
ported the mine rich in both jack and
oil. Prospectors are here making
leases and there is every indication of
o boom.
| Prof H. A. Mills Resigns.-Profes-
sor Harry A. Mills, instructor in eco
Monies at the University Of Kansas,
has announced his resignation to &C.
cept a professorship in the depart
ment of economics in Chicago univer-
sity.
j Boy browns In Rlver.-Everett Ed
wards. 6-year-old son Of William Ed
wards, was drowned in the Missouri
river at Atchison recently. The boy
could not swim. He and his sister
we're wading and got beyond their
depth, but the little girl was rescued.
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! A Harvester at 6o.-Although Au-
gust Renquist, 60 years old, Of Tren-
ton, Mo-, owns a 160-acre farm near
Trenton, he is working for "a day
in the harvest fields near Salina.
I Dead From ,Pellagra.--Mrs. w. T.
Vest, wife Of the postmaster at Pond
Creek, Ok, died of pellagra in Wich-
tia hospital, twelve hours after being
brought there. She was 40 years old.
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| SOtI wan q Sb'SidSs-W' L. SOiOit
of the Golf Telephone Company COM
mitted suicide recently by drinking an
ounce of carbolic acid.
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Free Poison for Farmers.-Logan
county officials at Oakley have de-
cided to furnish free poison to farmers
to fight the grasshopper plague.
: Clouds Of grasshoppers are doing
great injury to growing crops.
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; Child Dies of ParaIysis.-Byron
Nichols, the 3-year-old son of Harry
Nichols, who was stricken with in
fantile paralysis recently, is dead at
Winfield.
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Accidentally Shoots Mother-Mrs.
Frank Chambers, who lives southeast
of Winfield, was accidentally shot and
probably fatally wounded by her g.