The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-12
SPRAY THE POTATO VINES
Loss by Blight Can Be Prevented by
Use of Bordeaux Mixture, Says
College Authorities.

| AAdL II Will pay Kansas FARMERS 10
insure the potato crop by spraying
with Bordeaux mixture to prevent loss
through blight, is the opinion of F. S.
Merrill, assistant professor of horti-
culture, and L. E. MeIchers, plant
patholOgist, in the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College. Spraying will not
cost rs cents per acre.
1t will soon be time for the first
spray to prevent the early blight, say
these specialists. 1t is best to spray
and prevent this disease from getting
a start. Experiment shows that one
cannot cure this disease if it once
gains a footho1d, and therefore all
possible protection should be given the
plants.
Spraying with Bordeaux mixture,
using the 4-4-50 strength, will prevent
epidemics of this disease. In order to
attain the best results, sprays should
be given at Intervals of week or 10
days, beginning when the plants are
six inches high. Since this disease be-
comes established during the earlier
part of the growth of the plant, the
earlier sprays are important. The Bor-
| deaux sprays should be continued well
up to the Towering stage. If the
weather continues dry up to the time
when the plants begin to show the
flower buds, spraying for this disease
will not be so necessary. Insects such
as the flea beetle, are important in
spreading this disease.
Since it becomes necessary to spray
for insects attacking the potato foil
age, arsenate of lead at the rate OF
three pounds to so gallons OF Bordeaux
mixture makes a combination spray
which will control both the plant dis
eases and the biting insects. Such a
combination spray should be used as
often as it appears necessary to keep
the plant thrifty and free from blight
and eating insects.
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Buy Big Coal Tract-The largest
coal land transaction made in the
Pittsburg field for some time was an
nounced the other day. The Santa Fe
coal interests, represented by the hold
ing company, the Cherokee and Pitts
burg Coal and Mining Company, have
bought twelve hundred acres of land.
six miles west of Pittsburg. The con-
sideration was 100000 The land lies
several miles from developed territory
and has been considered in agricuI-
tural territory only.
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Pioneer Woman Dead.-Mrs. AIDE.
line Vance, one Of the earliest settlers
Of Crawford county, is dead at Cato
Mrs. Vance was IS years old With
her husband she settled near Cato in
1857.
Navy League for Atchison.-A local
branch of the National Navy League,
to boost recruiting for the navy, has
been organized in Atchison.
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Call for 1000 Veterinarians.-Two
thousand veterinarians are needed for
reserve army at once, according to
word received at Fort Riley by Major
William V. Lusk, in charge of the vet
Urinary department at the post Grad
uate veterinarians between % and SIS
years old can qualify. They will rank
as heutenannts. Candidates can apply
to Major Lusk at Fort Riley.
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A Prisoner Left s,ooo.-Levi Grub,
80 years old, a Civil War veteran and
regarded as a charity subject except
for his pension, is dead in Salina.
More than $4,000 was found sewed in
his clothing. He had lived in Salina
several years. He had no family.
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into cistern to Save Baby.-When
Mrs. Harvey Belknap of Kiowa missed
her 2-year-old son she found him in
waist deep water in 25-foot cistern.
She jumped in and held the baby out
of the water until help came.
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Atchison Pioneer Dead.-Ed Taha-
ferro, a resident of Atchison county
since 1868, is dead after long illness.
He was born in Mississippi in 1855.
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Doctors Ready to EnIist-The en-
tire organization of doctors and nurses
of the Kansas Hospital Association
was offered to the government by that
organization in convention at Salina
The "fee-splitting' physician came in
for censure before the convention
when resolutions were adopted barring
all such physicians from hospital
working under the association.
lightning Kills II Steers.-Seven-
teen 5-year-old steers were killed by
stroke Of lightning recently on a farm
of R. F. bearing, in the southwest part
of Saline county. The cattle were
valued at $1,000. and were to have
been shipped the next day
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Rush for FIour.-The residents of
darlington, population 1S5, evidently
do not look for fall in the price of
flour soon. In the past month mer-
chants have sold $4,000 worth Of the
wheat product. Normally the sales
for q month are $1,000.