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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05

duces. He puts into it his labor, he
draws from it the half that that Ia.
Dor brings as his portion; and this ar.
rangement of the %"mezzadria," or half.
and-half system as we might call it,
is, if honestly adhered to, fairer and
more advantageous to all concerned
than any other. BY it the peasant has
as keen, if not q keener interest than
his landlord in the tilling of the soil,
in keeping under the weeds, pruning
and spraying the vines, hoeing the In
dian corn, tending the cattle, and as
from all these sources one-half goes
to him, it concerns him closely to make
the profits as abundant as possible.
His days work is generally q long
one, especially in the summer when he
will be up and about at 4 a. ~, but
as he can divide his hours entirely to
suit his W convenience the hardship
is not really a great one. In the hot
months he will knock off work for a
long spell in the middle of the day and
after a good siesta he will begin again
with a leisure that betokens much lib.
erty of action and a total absence OF
any hint of being driven" If it be
true that 'it is the pace that kills."
your Italian peasant will certainly not
be exposed to that kind of death!
Women Doing Mems Work.
The war, though, has altered all this
easy, calm-going state of things. The
women, as in France, are acting in the
place Of the men, and are doing it, too,
in a very thorough and admirable man.
ner. Many Of them handle the scythe
in mastery fashion,; others, when
necessary, see to the management of
the farm; they pile up the high loads
Of hay on to the ox-drawn wagons with
a will and energy, and when once the
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05

cts suspended from. the waist and a
soft folded girdle of the crepe.
The pockets are decorated with q
conventional flower, which appears to
be done in French knots of colored
SILK. They emphasize this new evolu.
ton OF the pocket which places the
blouse In the ranks Of distinguished
new arrivals.
Georgette crepe and fine wolfe re-
main unchallenged ~favorite among ma
terials for midsummer blouses. On the
crepe models soutache braid, needle
work, beads and fine lingerie laces are
available for decorations. Laces and
embroidery are liked best for wolfe
louses. A fine wolfe will repay its
owner for a considerable outlay of
time and work and for the price of
good lace in making it, for it is about
the most handy of all sheer materials
ana looks as we'll after laundering as
before. q"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05
STUPID GOPHER IS
SERIOUS CROP PEST
Animals Multiply Fast in Alfalfa
FieIds-May Be Poisoned or
Caught in Traps.

The pocket gopher does more injury
to crops than any other mammal. Ex-
terminate it by using poisoned pota-
toes or apples or by trapping, advises
DR.. Lee Il. Dice, instructor in zoology
in the Kansas State Agricultural COL
lege.
"Alfalfa fields furnish almost ideal
conditions for the development and
multiplication of gophers as their bur-
rows are not broken up by blowing
and the root system provides an album
dance of food" said Doctor Dice.
"Gophers are stupid animals and will
blunder into almost any trap that is
properly set, and they can be poisoned
easily at little cost and labor.
"The natural food of gophers con-
sists of roots and seeds and succulent
vegetation drawn down from the sur
face. Hence a substitute of poisoned
potato, sweet potato or apple can be
used effectively. A few grains of
%strychnine inserted by mean of the
tip of a penknife into such food placed
in the burrows will serve the purpose.
A sharp stick can be used to open the
tunnel. The agricultural college sup
plies at cost a prepared poison for
gopher determination"
Trapping is effective, steel traps
set in tunnels being recommended.
The light should be excluded by a
board, which will also serve to keep
the opening free from dirt. If this is
not done the gopher will come with u
load of dirt to fill up the hole. Other
traps are on the market.
Besides destroying the root systems
the gopher covers much vegetation
with mounds of soil. This often hinders
harvesting as well US covers the grain.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05

difficulty (and it is a serious one just
now in Italy, of obtaining wool can be
got over they devote their spare mo.
ments to knitting socks for the men
on the heights.
The markets all through the country
are the gamers by their industry, as
we'll in picturesque effects as in useful
and profitable supplies. Who that has
ever been at Verona, in late sum1oer,
say, but will recall the scene in the
piazza dele Erbe," with it's sea of
wide white umbrellas pitched all down
that lovely market place, with the bas-
kets stacked with apples, white and
black grapes, pears, peaches, medlars
and ounces, while on every spare inch
Of ground are piled vegetables, beans,
carrots, potatoes, cabbages, c%ardoons,
with any number of pumpkins, huge in
size, and in beautiful tones of color
varying from dark green to bronze,
orange and yellow?
The sites chosen for these fruit and
vegetable markets are, when possible,
beside some fountain, or occasionally
at the corner of some great palace, as
for instance, at Florence at the Stroz.
ri and Riccardi palaces, where the
wide projecting roofs make a welcome
shade for the flowers which are ar
ranged so tastefully upon their cool
stones; more often, indeed, q small
piazza" or square is chosen that
boasts q supply Of water in it's midst
around which "the n%eighbors come and
laugh and gossip" relating tia sue
cess or failure of their bargains and
more often than not indulgin; in lam
guage-often used quite uncoasciously
for which their parish priest will
reprimand them one Of these days
from the altar.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05

(By C. p. HARTLEY. in Charge of Corn
Investigations, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
It sometimes becomes necessary to
do heavy work, such as hauling water
to put out fire, but what's the use of
hauling water from the cornfields to
the feed lot and hauling it back again
to the fields in the shape Of uneaten
cornstalks? Very tall-growing corn
when sappy and immature is almost
all water, and so is wet cornstalk
manur
It used to be that many growers
prided themselves on the great height
Of their c%ornstalks. The more sue
cessful farmers, however, have ceased
to haul water from the corntields to
the feed lot in the form of coarse
stalks which remain uneaten and haul
it back to the fields in the shape Of
wet cornstalk manure They do not
grow such tall stalks and often profit
ably allow animals to gather the grain,
leaving the stalks in the fields to en-
rich the soil.
A few years ago silage was thought
to have q fixed food value. One can
not take out of the silo any more food
value than is put in. Hauling and
SLIDING large sappy stalks is heavy
work and not as profitable as putting
o good, almost mature corn crop into
the silo. A somewhat larger and later
maturing variety Of corn that will thor
oughly mature for grain can be used in
the Northern states for ensilage. Even
silage corn should be planted early
and given sufficient time to make it's
best growth and reach the stage Of
maturity at which husks turn brown
and the ears become glazed.
A co-operator in the departments
corn work grows a high-yielding va
riety of corn the stalks of which reach
a height of about six feet, while his
neighbor grows u big, 12-foot variety.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05

In helping each other shred their crops
the neighbours tall-growing corn was
shredded first. The stalks were bulky
and high loads were hauled from the
fields to the shredder. When begin
ming the %shredding of the competitors
corn, which that year produced over
100 bushels Of dry shelled corn per
acre, the neighbor put on the accus-
toned high load, and his team could
not pull it out of the field. He got
down off the load to make an examina-
ton, thinking the rack must be press
ing against the wheels. The competi-
tor told him he would have to take
off a part Of the load, to which he re-
piled that he did not have on IL big
load and was accustomed to hauling
larger loads. After being convinced
that it was the weight of the load that
stalled his team, they removed a por-
ton and hauled the balance to the
shredder, from which they obtained 40
bushels Of corn, or almost a ton and
a half Of ears.
What variety Of corn should you
plant? Since there are thousands Of
so-called varieties, it is not possible to
designate by name the variety you
should plant. Furthermore, with corn
there is very little in a name. Two
lots Of seed Of the Leaning variety
sometimes differ from each other more
than two varieties differ from each
other. An accurate test of two differ
ent lots of the Boone County White
variety resulted in one lot producing
IS bushels more per acre than the
other lot. Quality is what counts and
the varietal name does not designate
quality. Plant a variety that has made
good in your neighborhood. Plant
seed which was grown in your part
Of the state and was properly field Sc
lected and properly cared for during
the winter.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05

7 T is o nearly two years since
Italy took her place beside the
allies in the life and death strug-
gle that is holding the world in it's
grip, and yet the calm and quiet to be
met with here in North Italy and close
up to the firing line cannot fail to
strike even the most casual observer,
writes a correspondent of Country
Life. You hear the roar Of the cam
non, some days almost continuously,
just over the mountains that divide the
"Veneto" from Austria; day by day
the hospital train passes along the val
ley carrying it's load Of sick and
wounded down from the front; day by
day motors and Red Cross cars dash
along the high road at breakneck
speed, giving the impression that mat
tiers of life and death hang on the pace
at which they can reach their desti.
nation; and yet the peasants work on
in steady adherence to their tasks
barely looking up to notice all this I'M
wonted movement, absorbed more than
usual at this moment in the land.
This, however, is not from indiffer-
ence as to the war far from it, for the
subject is n that all alike are keenly
Interested in, and every family has sem
M and often two or more members
to fight for their king and country.
But the Italian peasant also loves
the soil on which he and his fathers
before him have worked; his heart is
In the land, and the success or failure
of the crops is to him q matter Of
Well-being or starvation.
5 Hard Life, but HeaIthful.
In these times, too, the work re-
quires an unwonted degree of attention
and labor, for every acre must be fully
cultivated. All the men from the age
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05
USE PUREBRED SIRE
TO IMPROVE CATTLE
Whether Good or Bad He Is Half
the Herd and Sometimes
More-Weed Out Scrubs.
fBy S. T. SIMPSON,

The unprecedented demand for
purebred live stock will sooner or
later result in the marketing Of many
animals eligible to registry, which are
inferior as individuals and which may
prove poor breeders. The present high
values afford all the better reason for
investing in only good breeding ami
mails, ever though they appear high in
price. In this way only can the pres
ent high standard be maintained and
the scrub purebred finally eliminated.
The use Of the registered scrubscan
but discourage the Of purebred
sires and better live stock. The
breeder who markets such individuals
will ultimately suffer the criticism Of
those who know good live stock, and
finally be Disseminated against in buy
ing and selling. The purchaser of the
scrub purebred can breed nothing but
inferior individuals so long as he per-
sists in buying the pedigreed with no
regard for individual merit.
The purebred sire is the best
means of live stock improvement.
Whether good or bad he is half the
herd and sometimes more. For this
east the selection of the sire de-
mands equally as much attention as
the entire group Of females, and it Is
far more important to have a good
sire, both in individuality and breed
Ing, than to have one or two good fe-
males. If sacrifices must be made, let
them occur in the selection Of the
females.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05
WORK TO ERADICATE WEEDS
Plants Are Traitors to Nation in Time
Of War-keep CuItivators and
HarroWs Busy.

Weeds are traitors to the nation in
time Of a They consume soil mois-
ture that should be saved for the food
crops and they choke back such crops,
causing enormous annual losses.
Growers Of corn ana potatoes can
prevent much of this waste by proper
cultivation, setting the shovels of the
%cultivators to throw In little ridges
over the rows. Then the fields may
be narrowed crosswise frequently.
This will stir the soil over the plants
and kill any weeds that may have
started. Narrowing can be continued
until corn or potatoes are several
inches high.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05

Of twenty-one to forty are, with few
exceptions, away at the front, and
those who remain must make good the
deficiency. In this they have, however,
willing helpmates in the women. At
all times the women work in proper
ton as hard as their men-folk in the
fields, and when to these duties are
added those Of mothers and house
wives it is small wonder that they
age before their time, and that a pref
ty fresh girl of eighteen is an old wom-
an at forty. Their life, though hard
in some ways, is on the other hand ex-
tremely healthful; their habits are sim
pie and frugal, and they slide into old
age with constitutions untouched by
sharp vicissitudes of climate-the win
tiers being excessively severe and the
summers very hot-interested and
busy up to the last in all that relates
to the land, the cattle, and their chill
dren.
Family life is on patriarchial lines;
sons, daughters-in-law and their chill
dren (of which there is never any
lack) all live with the parents under
the same roof all share the same food
composed chiefly of beans, Indian
corn and cheese-and all share one
purse, kept, often pretty tightly too,
by the "head Of the family" Ill capo
ID famiglia), who receives any extrane-
Ous sums that any of his children may
earn on his or her own account, and
doles out the money required for
clothes, food, or any small expenses
that the event Of a wedding, a baptism
or q funeral may call forth.
The food question Is, perhaps, the
,nimplest of the lot. The peasant in
this part Of Italy shares with the own
~ nf tho land all that the land pro-
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-07-05
How to Apply Beads,

Beads continue to be of great import
ance In the fashion world. Women
realize that they introduce n clever
dash of color without adding bulk.
The application of the beads is q tedi-
GUS but not q difficult task. There are
two ways to do the work. One is to
take u stitch as each bead is strung.
The other Is to string the beads and
couch the entire string to the material.
The former method Is more sutisfac.
tory.
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Made With Borders

MANY 0 i the new stuffs are made
Win borders, and most of the new
se"ns snow borderings that are part
vi tne material or added. while rich
stunts will be framed in hnndsor,. am.
oroidered or woven bands. 1
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
lAMARA

The Lamara is offering an eXcep- tionally strong double program today in Valeska Suratt 4n 'WiIe Number Two" and Roscoe Arbuckle in His Wedding Night" Adapted from the New York stage success of the same name, Wife Number Two" affords Miss Surratt, famous empress of fash ion, an ample opportunity to display her wonderful wardrobe Roscoe o, Fatty Arbuckle, who is known as the man who is worth his weight in laughs lives up to his reputation in the comedy feature of the program. His Wedding Night" the Paramount comedy and the William Fox produce tion featuring Valeska Suratt will be repeated Monday and Tuesday.
 Wednesday and Thursday the two popular screen favorites, Jack Pick ford and Louise Huff, will be seen in their latest Paramount ipicture en- titled "Freckles,' which is said to be an exceedingly clever production in point of acting, and photography and story.
 The week end attraction will be Fannie Ward who will be shown Fri day and Saturday in 'Unconquered
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02

"The very air alive with flying forms" That is a phrase that is this season being used to describe the aerial portion of the Ringing Broth CTS all new circus progra11. The fla nous Showmen have always featured acts of this type, but It :s said that they have more "thrillers" this year than ever before. Many of the foreign artists, driven to America because of the great war, perform feats that have heretofore been attempted solely from the ground or upon stages. Thus the majority of the acts take place in mid air.
 Three remarkable aerial pallets per formed by skilled and graceful women athletes are among the most striking numbers. One of these ballet groups is pictured in the accompanying illus tration. Less comedy, but even more daring is the great Chang Wan troupe of Chinese performers, WHO are now making their initial tour of this coun-
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02

Do not wait till ,omorrow-phope ih.,t WANT AID to The Republican
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
THE HIP

Starting with "The Stacker today the Hip has lined up for it's succeeding seven days what looks on paper as splendid treat for the movie lover from the incidental comedy and scenic fill CTS to the big specials that are from time to time being shown ac the Hip.
 Tuesday and Wednesday Harold Lockwood comes in The Hidd"n Spring." This go-get's story of the mining camps of Arizona was filmed in Jerome where Lockwood and his company spent a month taking the big scenes of the picture. "The Hidden Spring" is big and virile, and it's treatment said to be the best the Metro has done for some time
 On Thursday and Friday Vitagrapi. will send Harry Mercy and Alice Joyce in picture that made a sensa- ton in New York It is called "The Question" and if you think a sirl can throw custom to the winds and live with the man she loves without tho formality of marriage don't overlook
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
EMPRESS

Douglas Fairbanks, the world's most popular screen star in his latest Aircraft picture, Wild and Woody" IS the current attraction at the Elm press. In this photoplay Doug" Fair banks has many opportunities to dis play the talents that has earned him the title which he so we'll deserves Handsome, magnetic master or mo- tlon picture technique, Fairbanks ad- mlrers are legion. In his latest of 1erlng the young athlete displays his cowboy accomplishments in his us,1a, dare devil manner The program is supplemented with an American War News Weekly, which will be a perman- ent feature of Saturdays and Sundays.
 Tuesday and Wednesday returns Americas sweetheart Mary Pickford Tn one of her greatest success which mas been returned by request so as to atford the many who did not see ii when last here. "Hulda from Hol- and. Miss fIckford portrays one of the most enjoyable characters of her entire career in this photopay. As an added feature a two reel comedy entitled War Brides" with the late Mrs. John Bunny better known ae Flora Finch, will be shown.
 Thursday, Friday and Saturday the
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02

war prices prevailed. This is Mime. Bernhardts tenth American tour. the French actress opening in Atlantic City on Sunday. She gave both matinee and evening performance, and at the close of the day did not seem to be in the least fatigued.
 The theater was crowded at both performances. In the afternoon Mime. Bernhardt was welcomed by a commit ee of club women and the mayor pre- sented her with a silver key to the city. As the orchestra played "The Marsellaise" the entire audience rose to it's feet and cheered the remarkable Frenchwoman again and again.
 Mime. Bernhard's tour Is 10 continue for eighteen months. which will take her to all the principal cities of the United States and to South America. Since leaving Mount Sinai hospital, in New York, last May. she has conva- lesced rapidly and seems in better health now than at any time since com ing to America on this present trip.
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
SHADOWS OF THE SCREEN

The movies will form a link between the young men who will learn to .e soldiers in the cantonments and the folks at home. Permission has been granted Pathe camera men to visit the camps and record the activities there As rapidly as the films are developed they will be sent to Washington, where they will be passed upon by the war department and then released on the regular program.
 Henry B. Walthall, motion picture star, has formed a company of his own to produce feature pictures. Head quarters will be in Hollywood, and the company, oddly, will be called the Henry B. Walthall Pictures Corpora tion.
 The Motion Picture division of the Stage Women's War Relief is raising funds with which to purchase ambu- lances and maintain them in service in the war zones The plan is to sell shares in the fund at s each. and each actress who disposes of twenty shares will have her name engraved on a metal plate on an ambulance.
 
 1hoiiidS JOSSPH hOolc, DttteI hloWI sas Tom Moore, husband Of Grace Cunard, the moving picture star, and brother-in-la of Mary Pickford. has been drafted and certified as a soldier
 Moore applied for exemption on the ground of having dependent wife, but the claim was not allowed by the board in district IA. When he presented him. self for physical examination doctors declared him fit
 E. M. Newman. the travel lecturer, recently reached the summit of Mount Rainier with a melton picture camera. He claims that he is the first to have accomplished this feat and that by the time he and his companions reached the top they were all practically ex- hausted. The pictures taken frcm the mountain top will be shown in con junction with MT NeWmans new series
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
FAIR WOMEN EXECUTE
 SUP ERb M|D-A|R PALLETS

try. These celestial champions do wonderful slides for life, hold ban quets in mid-air and enact other re- markable tricks while suspended by their queues. The company numbela Q
 an thirty performers. Other altitudinous acts include those Of Reckless Trio in remarkable upside down" balancing; the Mijares brothers on the slack wires; the Clarkonians; the Nelson troupe; Hillary 1-ons, who slides on his head from the ten top. and a host of others whose names as yet mean little to American audiences because the artists nave, until this season, appeared only in Europe
 In all there are approximately 400 arenic actors on the Ringing Broth CTS program. Their numbers begin immediately after the curtain has fallen on the last act of the big fairy land spectacle, Cinderella" The cir GUS is to exhibit here Monday, Sep tember IT
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
COlUM BIA

"The Heiress at Coffee Dan's," a Triangle Arts play, starring Bes- sic Love, will be seen at the Columbia theater Wednesday. This play rL- calls Miss Loves appearance many months ago in the Triangle prepared ness drama, "The Flying Torpedo which had John Emerson as it's d. rector and star. In that play she ap- peared as a Swedish servant girl. and her role in The Heiress at Coffee Dans' is much the same m the in tervening months, however. Miss Love has jumped from the stock ranks r, stardom. Frank Bennett, recently seen opposite her in "A Sister of Six" IS again her leading man in the new play. Others in the cast are Max Davidson, Lucille Younge. Alfred Paget and Ava Blake
 The additional offering will be a new Keystone comedy, "The Betrayal of Maggie" one of those fast and furious run makers with a luagh in every foot Of film It is just the sort of pro- gram for the soldier boys who will be the guests of the management on that day.