The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-29
WILL MAKE WAR ON HOPPERs
Prof. Dean of State Agricultural Col.
Iese Urges Farmers to Begin
the Fight at Once.

With the wheat harvest we'll along
and the time for the migration of
grasshoppers near, George A. Dean,
entOmologist at the Kansas State Ag-
riculturaI 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 it
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 it may be well to substitute white
arsenic or London purple.
I'm preparing the bran mash, mix
1 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
fixture, stirring it at the same time
in order 10 dampen the mash thor
oughIy
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 OF
| five acres
Three Drown in Neosho.-Mary
| Steinmetz, 10; Erma Cox, IA, and Earl
Shirk, Is, drowned while wading in
the Neosho river at Chanute when
they stepped into fourteen feet of
water while crossing the stream.
| Shirk tried to save the girls and per-
| ished with them.
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Big Elevator for Wichita.-The Otto
T-eTich Construction Company of Kan
sas City has been awarded a $275, 200
/ contract for building the new wheat
| elevator at Wichita that will be one Of
/ the biggest west OF the Mississippi
when finished. There were nine bid
ders.
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| His Leg Saved Life.-John Wava-
| do, a packing house employee, saved
tie life OF John Donovan. a fellow
workman. recently. at the probable ex-
pense of his own left leg. When an
elevator was descending into a base
| ment where he knew Donovan was at
work, Wavado thrust his leg between
the car and the floor, stopping it, but
| breaking his leg so badly that it may
have to be amputated.
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| Operated on Seven of = Family
Seven children of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H
Williams. of Wichita. ranging from
to Is years old, went to the operating
table in local hospital one by one
| the other day. until all had been sub
| jected to some alteration through the
surgeons knife Most of the opera
! tions were of a minor sort and not one
of the children cried. There were two
boys and five girls.
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| Killed in Motor Wreck.-Thomas
Sears of Nortonville, 80 years old
died at the Atchison hospital recently
| from a broken back received when his
motor car turned over six miles south
east of Atchison.
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Dollar for New Wheat.-The price
of new wheat has passed the dollar
mark at Junction City. Clifford Oil.
yer, whose grain tested sixty-twc
pounds, received the top price. $1.01.
Several contracts for five hundred and
one thousand bushels were made at
a dollar.
New City Hall for Seneea.-Seneca
recently voted $4,000 worth of bonds
to build a city hall and municipal
building. Out OF 457 votes cast, only
sixty-fiye were against the bonds. The
| hall viii be erected on Main street.
Build Big Oil Tani<s.-W. s. Bar.
wick, an architect. has been employed
by some OF the big producing compan-
les to build several 55.OO0-barreI steel
tanks in different parts OF the Augusta
field and already has started the pre-
liminary work
| Boy Drowns in Riser-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 bis sister
were wading and got beyond their
dentn, but The little girl vas rescuad