The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
The GARDEN PESTS
State EntomOIOgist Reports In
usual Numbers of Plant
Lice This Year
ARE PROVING DESTRUCTIVE
Home Gardeners Advised to Spray
Affected Plants With a Solution
of Nicotine and Soap.

Inc cnl0cn pug peril naSn QSNel-
oped this year because of the late
spring, but W. H WeIIhouse OF the
University OF Kansas entomology de-
partment reports unusual numbers Of
aph5ds, among which are the common
ly known plant lice and green bugs,
in the southeastern part of the state.
On a trip about Ottawa, Garrett, In
dependence, Chanute, Eureka, Par
sons, Fort Scott, Girard and La Cygne
last week Mr.. Wellhouse also found
the Colorado potato beetle in destruc-
tive numbers. Aphids and potato
beetles are the chief pests the state
entomology commission is having to
right this year.
Aphids, black plant lice" and
green bugs" are proving destructive
to gardens and Sam j. Hunter, state
entomolOgist and head of the entom-
Ology department of the University,
suggests that the home gardener
spray the affected plants with one Of
the nicotine solutions to which enough
soap has been added TO make suds. In
low plants, such as bunch beans, the
plants must be bent over and the
spray applied so it strikes the under
side of the leaves and every insect
on them. q cheap hand spray will do
the work in a small garden.
A soap solution also is good to ban
ish the plant lice. For a small garden,
dissolve one bar of yellow laundry
soap in six gallons of hot water. Let
cool and hit every insect with the
spray. That means spray every par
| ticle of the plant.
| But if potato beetles or cabbage
worms bother, dust the plants with
| one pound of Paris green mixed with
| ten pounds of hydrated lime or dry
/ flour. Or, two pounds of finely pow
/ dered lead arsenate may be used in
stead of the Paris green For few
plants the proportions may be one
/ table spoon of Paris green to a quart
! of lime or cheap flour. The busting
may be done by placing the mixture
is a can with finely perforated bot
tom or in a muslin bag and shaking
the can or bag over the plants.
| Paris green and lead arsenate are
violent poisons. Keep them out OF
reach of children or livestock.
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! Buffalo Hunter Dead.-JoeI Holmes
Day, a farmer in Saline county since
1857, is dead at his home in SaIina
at the age of IS. Buffalo hunting and
watching for Indians was part OF his
work for several years after coming
to Kansas.
Kansas Editor Under Knife.-W. G.
Anderson, owner and editor of the
Free Press, was operated on for ap-
pendicitis. He is very weak, but he
is expected to recover.
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Sells Hay Thirteen Years OId.-W.
T. Hines, who owns a 7OO-acre farm
near Potter, sold 13-year-old timothy
hay recently. 1t was placed in hay
barn on this farm in 1904 and was in
| fine condition when he brought it to
town.
Farmer Hurt in Runaway.-Paul
Brooks, a young farmer living five
miles east of Winfield, was thrown
from a wheat binder by a runaway
team the other day and was severely
cut about the face and neck He will
recover.
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For an Oil Field Road.-Petitions
have been circulated for the building
of an 18-foot brick road from Eldorado
through Towanda and Augusta to
Douglass, a distance of thirty miles.
Kansas Postmaster Dead.@Joseph
R. Kerley. so years old, who has been
postmaster at Peck, Kan, for the past
fourteen years, died in a hospital al
Wichita after a short illness.
X x
Kansas Farmer Badly lnjured.-J. F
Henderson, a farmer living near Bur
den, was seriously injured recently
when thrown out of buggy in a run
away. His recovery is doubtful.
x
Rae a Wing of Prison.-The NORTH
cell wing of the Kansas state peni
Tertiary at Lansing, the oldest por
ton of the prison, is being razed il
preparation for the erection Of a mod
ern dormitOry. This part of the II
stitution was built in 1864. It has
been responsible for most OF the crit
cism directed at the penitentiary By
reform workers. The cells are barely
four feet wide and the entire structure
is antiquated and insanitary.
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Wichita Boy DroWned.-Rober
Craig, 19-year-oId farmer boy, went II
bathing in the Big Arkansas river a
Wichita and drowned in sight OF thre'
companions, who could not swim
Craig waded into a hole made by {
sand boat
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Arrested for Draft opPosition-Johl
Erickson, a Socialist Of Wichita, is Il
fail there because he distributed ant
draft literature about the streets tn
other night His arrest was mad
; upon the request OF Captain II.
Menkemeyer of the local guard.
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EIdorado Gets City manacer.-Ber
c. Wells, for several years city eng
!. neer Of Wichita, announced that b
win resign his office at once and b
! come city manager OF Eldorsdo, Kas
ON July l. Mr. Wells is a native {
1 T<rSfIar eouufv uozr F,IdorzdC His "A