Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-27
WILL MAKE WAR ON HOPPERS
Prof. Dean Of State Agricultural Col
leoe Urges Farmers to Begin
the Fight at Once.

With the wheat harvest we'll along
and the time Tor the migration of
grasshoppels near, George A. Dean,
entomologlst at the Kansas State Ag.
Iicultural college, has issued a VAIN
ing to farmers to begin war on the
grasshoppers. During the last three
years ro.soned bran mash has been
fouLd so effective that tne experiment
as the most effective and practical
method of control. The following
Ioimuia 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
oeher poisons, Tut the price is high
and 1t may be well to substitute white
arsenic or London purple.
In preparing the bran mash, mix
the bran and the poison dry in
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
Il ixture, stirring 1t at tho same time
in Older to dampen the mash thor
oughly.
abe 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"
Three Drown in Neosho.-Mary
Steinmetz, IS; Erma Cox, IA, and Earl
Shirk, 16, 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.
Big Elevator for Wlchlta.-The Otto
LeIich Construction Company of Kan.
sas City has been awarded a $275,O00
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.
His Leg Saved a Life.-John Wava.
do, packing house employee, saved
t e life of John Donovan, fellow
workman, recently, at the probable ex.
pense of his own left leg When an
elevator was descending into tase-
rent where he knew Donovan was at
work, Wavado thrust his leg between
the car and the floor, stopping 1t, but
breaking his leg so badly that 1t may
have to be amputated.
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Operated on Seven Of q Family
Seven children OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. H.
Williams, Of Wichita, ranging from
to Is years old, went to the operating
table in a 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
tons were of minor SOFT and not one
of the children cried. There were two
boys and five girls.
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Killed In Motor Wreek.-Thomas
Sears of Nortonville, 80 years old,
died at the Atchison hospital recently
from 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-two
pounds, received the top price. $1.01.
Several contracts for five hundred and
ore thousand bushels were made at
dollar.
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New City Hall for Seneca.-Seneca
recently voted 100000 worth of bonds
to build city hall and municipal
building Out of 457 votes cast. only
sixty-fivc were against the bonds. The