The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-06-22
FARMERS URGED TO
JOIN CITY PEOPLE.
Agricultural Expert Says Co.
peralion Would Prove
Beneficial to Both.
By A. j. MEYER
missouri College of Agriculture

The average farmer IS ready to CO.
operate with his town brethren but he
wants to cooperate in his own way
and in something that he can clearly
see is to mis- interest. A STUDY OF what
has been termed cooperation as it has
existed for many years between town
and country people generally shows
that the town has developed the plan
and presented it to the farmer full
formed. A better way to cooperate
would be for the town and the country
to gcc together. Iet both indicate
what they want in the way of CO.
operation; then together work out the
problem-not in any patronizing way
but in a substantial business-like man
ner as between partners with a COM
mon interest.
Full and free cooperation between
town and country to the mutual bene-
fit Of both is not impossible, but if il
ever is accomplished it may have to be
at the sacrifice of some of the artifi-
cial machinery which thrives in towns
unnecessary to the economic scheme
yet capable of gaining and keeping a
foot-hold. The occasional farmers
day" in the city is very desirable
thing and these events should be en-
Outraged.
An occasional city mems day in the
country might not be bad innovation,
but the permanent solution of the
problem of cooperation between town
and country is not found in the coca
sional special event which brings the
two groups Of men together. Real
cooperation must be continuous and
must be of a kind which directly
affects the farmers prosperity and
leaves more money in his pocket at the
end of the year. When the farmers in
any territory, with or without town
cooperation, are able to put their
business on a basis which will earn s
per cent instead of 4 per cent, the pro-
ducing department. will need a good
purchasing department and an even
more elaborate sales department,
which is another way of saying that
the prosperous farmer will make a
prosperous town..
Did you ever hear Of a household
that didn't have an ant remedy? How
many of these same households are not
looking for a remedy that will really
work? J.. Haseman of the Missouri:
Agricultural Experiment Station has
been giving special attention to the
little red ant that usually causes more
trouble than any Other. and has been
able to kill it with the syrup made
from half a pound of sugar and a for
| tieth of an ounce of sodium arsenite
The syrup should be made in a double
boiler because if it is scorchcd the ants
will not eat it, and the poison must
be carefully weighed by the druggist
and no more than this must be added
for two reasons: % it IS a deadly poi
son and will be more likely to be dan
gerous to animals or persons who get
it by mistake if less diluted; C2) if
any more of it is used the ants detect
the taste and will not cat it.
Professor Hascman says that the
ant has a very keen sense Of taste and
is most contrary creature, refusing
to eat many of the things usually used
in trying to get rid Of him. In fact.
he finds that the little red nuisance
eats this arsenite syrup better if it is
put on sponges, rags, or blotting paper
so # is seemingly harder to get than
if in an open dish. If the soaked
sponges or rags are put into tin cans
~ glass Jars closed Up except for
little crack as though put away to
avoid the ants, they seem to make
special search for it and pass by open
dishes of it in favor Of the closed
vessel.
Professor HaSeman recon mcnd5 this
poison especially for the little red ants
and says that the real way 10 get rid
Of any kind Of ants whose nests can
be found is to destroy the entire COZ
ony with boiling water Or by pouring
on carbon bi-sulphite which will choke
or suf'ocate them if placed 50 that its
poison gas can settle down into the
nest.
Quality commands price in ail de
partments of trade. The higher the
quality the greater is the price, re-
CARELESS of the condition Of the mar
ket. Recently the apple selling quea-
ton has been becoming more difficult
each year, and the past season has
been the most unsatisfactory ore to
growers for many years.
On the larger markets, however,
high-grade western box apples, packed
according to known and established
standards, are moving quite freely at
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