Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-03-11
PROTECT The TREES
Time to Begin Fight on Canker
Worm Pest, Says Agricul-
turaI College Expert.
STICKY BANDS A GOOD METHOD
Prof Dean Advocates "Tree TanqIe-
foot" and Gives Specific Directions
For Its Proper Use.

War has been declared. No it is not
with shot and shell that the fight is
to be waged, but with sticky bands
and spraying solutions. The common
enemy is the canker worm.
ITO assure success in the combat
too much emphasis cannot be laid
upon the necessity of beginning early"
says George A Dean, professor of en-
tomology in the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college.
In the case of shade trees or of
few fruit trees, a simple method, and
one that gives excellent satisfaction.
consists in banding the trunk of the
tree with a sticky substance to pre-
vent the ascent of the wingless fe-
males The best method is to smear
the sticky substance on bands of
heavy paper, such as building or tarred
paper, bound to the trunk of the tree.
THE paper bands should be put on
IN the first warm days of February or
early spring, and the sticky substance
renewed whenever the material hard
ems In order to close all crevices be-
tween tree and band, strip of cotton
batting - chapest grade - about 2
inches wide should be placed around
the tree, and covered with the band
of tarred paper. The paper should be
drawn snugly enough to press the
thick band of cotton into the crevices.
1.-THE band can be easily fastened at
the end with three sharp-pointed
tacks about three-fourths of an inch
long. If the paper band is much
wider than the narrow cotton one 1t
will completely cover it, and thus
avoid the unsightly appearance of cot
ton either above or below the edges
of the paper
number of substances of a sticky
nature are suggested by this author
ity. Among them are pine tar, coal
tar, printers ink, and dendro1ene. The
best substance, and one that remains
sticky for the entire season, however,
Is tree tanglefoot''
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Olathe Pioneer Dead.-Jacob Rup-
pelius, IS years old. and for forty years
resident of Olathe, is dead. He re-
tired from active business some years
ago. He leaves a wife and eleven chill
dren.
Has Community Movie.-A commun-
fly motion picture theater has been
opened in Ellsworth under the aus
pieces of the merchants of the city. In
the beginning it was announced the
theater will be open only on Saturdays.
Irvine Plant tdIe-The Irvine plant
in the Kansas prison at Lansing has
been closed on account of a shortage
of sisa1- A short time ago 1000 bales
of raw hemp were ordered at a price
double that paid year ago.
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$4,000 Fire at OIathe-The Racket
store. carrying a $4,000 stock, was al
most totally destroyed by fire at
Olathe the other night. The store was
in the Swofford building, owned by 5.
l. Swofford of Kansas City.
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Experiment Station Head Quits
The resignation of George X Helder.
superintendent of the Kansas agricul-
tural experiment station at Hays, has
been accepted by the state board of
educational administration. Mr.. Held
er resigned to go into business.
Sells Goods to Paris-A shipment of
dress goods was made recently by
dry goods company of Wichita to
Paris, France. A company engaged
in exporting goods to Europe, unable
to find in the East what was wanted,
gave the order to the Wichita house.
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Church Worker Dead.-MisS Maria
E. Brockway, a resident of Wellsville
since 1871, is dead. She was one of
the organizers of the Congregational
Church, the first established in Wells
vile, and was prominent in w. c. T. U.
work in the early days of prohibition
in Kansas
School Heads Meet. The annual
conference of the superintendent of
Kansas schools, in cities of the first
and second classes, closed at Emporia
with the election of officers. J. o.
Hall of Hutchinson is the new presi-
dent; r. c. Mueller of Seneca. vice
president; H. p Study. Neodesha,
secretary-treasurer. The next meet
ing win be held in Emporia next Octo-
Der and will consist of five sessions
instead of three. as have been held
heretofore
Minister SO Years OId.-The Rev.
Philetus Beverly, a retired Methodist
minister. kept open house in Ottawa
recently at the home of a daughter in
celebration of his ninety ninth birth
day anniversary. He is active in body
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