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The state herald., 1917-01-12

soon us observed. In cutting out these
branches be sure to make the cut sew.
eral inches below where the blIgh,
shows, and also gather up the cuttings
and burn them. 1t is also essential ia
disinfect the pruning shears or knife
In solution Of bichloride Of mercury
or to treat the wound with the same 80.
luton. Soft and succulent wood growth
seems to be more subject to attack. SO
where blight Is prevalent the orchard
should be seeded down and all nItrog.
enous fertilizers should be withheld
Peach yellows can only be checked by
cutting and burning all infected trees.
Peach-tree borers are generally con.
trolled by mounding the trees and dig.
ging out the borcrs.
Protection From Rodents.
Very frequently young trees are ut.
tucked by rabbits. mice, woodchucks,
and the like. and very serious damage
Is done. II the trees are still vigorous
and the wounds not too extensive, the
trees may he saved by bridge grating.
When young trees nre set In districts
where such rodents nre numerous, II
Is u good plan to use some form OF n
tree protector. These protectors may
be made of wood veneer. wire netting,
lath, tar paper. They should be set
Into the earth several inches, and run
upon the trunk to cover up the base
OF the scaffold limbs.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
HIS TOUCHING TALE

"Tn tell you what I want for my birthday said the pretty girl to her father. 'I want a dog, And it must be a real young one. WiK you get sfGreat pinhooks,' cried her parent
 And I had thought that you were all
 grown up. I cant tell why 1t is. but
 just as you made your confiding lit
 tie request Irena Belle Savings flashed across my mind! No, you don't know
 her. She was a contemporary of mine
 when I was putting bay rum on my hair and using grandmother's reading glasses to see whether I could dis cover my rnustache sprouting.
 Irena was great girl. Her fath- CT had to build 9 side porch to the house in self-defense or else choke to
 death on summer etenings because the front porch was quite useless to
 him, it being jammed full of Irena s beaus and barber shop chords, lemon ade and cake.
 Whenever any young fellow felt he had to write poem or burst he al ways selected Irena as the subject. That girl really should have had a handsome commission from the paper and ink dealer of the town but people weren't so graspiDg then and nobody thought of it. All of us used to carry Votive offerings to Irena, yearning to be rewarded with but smile-and you you can imagine the chagrin of the rest of the fed when Aleck Pig StflS pIeSSIiteQ HeF Hith a pup 0OG.
 "As we watched Irena's raptures the animal we were torn by wild un- availing wrath. Jealousy and regret that we hadn't thought of such a thing ourselves. When Irena said that it was darling and gazed into Aleck's eyes as she said it, I tell you the ten sion was terrifici 4 little more and the horde Of us would have precipi- tated ourselves upon Aleck's form and him in the dust. As 1t was we siunk home and kitked the family cat and stayed awake til dawn
 It really was a cute pup, one of the fat, rolypoly kind that falls over itsl own feet and wrinkles it's eyes and loves the whole world. But whenever we went there irena was cuddling it in her arms and Aleck always arrived to watch her do it, and the situation was impossible. Sam Walker tried to relieve things by bringing Irena his pet guinea pig. but she only shrieked and begged somebody to take the ror- rid thing away before it Frightened Fluffy.
 Fluffy had an absurd penchant for things. Tn another incarna- tion he must have been a freight car When we were calling in our best clothes Fluffy would proudly deposit on the porch floor a dead mouse or Trena's father extra set of false teeth pr her mothers switch and demand praise. Even this did not turn Irena's affection away from him. for she only laughed and asked if he wasn't the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
CANNING LESSONS
Green. and Summer Squash.

There are a number of wild ana cultivated greens which may be can winter months. says today's bulletin from the National Emergency Food Garden Commission. which is cooper atinE with this r1ewspa per in a Gam paign to induce the housewives of the country to conserve food. Among the greens available at this tinte are Marsh Marieold Bokeweed Sprouts, STaartweed, Pepper Cress. Lambs quarter, Sour Dock and Paisley tpurs- laneb.
 These greens should be sorted care fully to free them from all foreign matter and dry or dead leaves. then washed in cold water Greens should be Q oanched for fifteen minutes in stant into cold water. good way to do this is to use a wire crate or eheesecioth. Aftef blanchihg and cold dipping. cut greens into desired lengths and pack tightly into jArs, adding one level teaspoon Of salt to each quart. If f1av9rine is desired. olive oil. clipped beef or few slives of bacon may be added
 adjust and partially tighten tops and sterilize in boiling water for two hours When jars have been treated inc required length Of time. remove from boiling water. tighten tops a~d iuvert to cool in place free fL. prevent bleaching in storage.
 Excellent summer squash may be had during the winter. either as regetable or pie fiiiipR if care Is taaen in canning the product.
 For special dishes such as baked CT cfeamed squash, pare and remove seeds, cut the vegetable into small cubes of uniform size and D aneh for ten minutes. Cold-dip for an instant. pack into jars. tightly with a ievel tea spoon of salt to each quart and fill up jars with hot water Adjust and partially tighten tops and sterfI- ize for an hour in boiling water. Re move jars, tighten tops aAN invert to cool.
 con veh:ent size. remove seeds and pare. Cook for haf an hour to re- duce to A pulp and pack in jars with one level teaspoon salt per quart and proceed as above
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

Three -fourths of that steel was made by the open hearth process, and fefo- silicon was used as a de6xidizer to purify it by driving out the exygen. E.ufthefff1ore( fn making of big steel castings that alloy is practically irldis- pensabIe in the elimination of blow : holes.
 "The entire ferro ssiIicon indastry. pr.actfcally, is centered at Nfagara, which thus gives pure steel and sound castings as another part of America s contribution to the cause of allied victory. Every contract for shell steel that has been made in two years calls for a content of ferro- silicon
 There is another alloy Of iron indis- pensabfe in war, and well nigh So in twentieth cEfItury feace-fefro scTiro- rniuni. This fs the alloy which gives that peculiar hArdness to steel which makes it resistant almost beyond hu- man conception. It has been estinat- ca that a modern 14 Inch Shell, such as our navy is ever holding in feadi- ness for possible dash 9f a German fleet, has a striking momentum at a distance of eight miles edutaI to the collfdfns force of a modern express train running at top speed.
 "Yet this shell must have nose so hard and So perfect that, although the entire force Of the impact is upon its narrow point when 1t strikes the Affior plate, it will pierce tho plate Without being defotrned itself"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

1 cunninEest thing,
 As Fluffy began to get older he grew at an amazing rate It eeemed as if he never would stop growing. He got So big that in d hasty glance you could not tell whether it was Fluffy s or the neighbor's calf that was be- fore you.
 parehtly he said to himself, Now. if i'm going to look like a watchdog 1
 must feel and act like watchdog
 so he grew suspicious of the whole
 human race.
 He even ignored Irenas pleas and
 commands. For instance, there, was the time when she yielded to impulse and went wading on the way hozae from her aunts, who lived in the out skirts. and F1uffy picked up her shoes and stockings and trotttd off with them despite Irena's shrieks and cries
 Poor Irefa had to walk hume bare footed, at least as far as the home of era burst into the house ftantieaily
 she found the new young minister cailing-and those were the days when the queen Of Spain had no legs, not like these unregenerate times.
 we rejoiced to see that Irena took it out oii Aleck for while And then another thing happened. l suppose that in his gloom Aleck must nave slapped Fluffy or something. as oth- erWise the dog would not Have done as he did. He chased Aleck, who was cutting across big vacant stretch of land and pursued him til Aieck clim bed a tree one night going to Ir- ena's and it began to snow. By force Of low, gentle growls and show Of strong white teeth Fluffy Kept him there until 10 o'clock next day, When the searching party was coming back after dra ggine the river.
 When you are nearly frozen on5 the limb of tree for thousands of hours and know that if you fall off youil be torn to bits the milk of hu man kindness sort of sours. By the time rescuers had picked him off that branch AIeck was convinced that it was al Irena's fault. And when he got over his double pneumonia, he left at once for the great city and beca me a multimillionaire, thus revenging himself upon Irena.
 As for Irena, she married man who considered catching 1 string of fish a hard days work and she had eight children and took in washixa 7 to support them So I hope you see the hideous consequences of owning a dog. Let us hear no more on the subjectt'
 "Pooh." said the pretty girl, T believe you made up every Dit of it that's too expensive I'll take a French poodle!"
 On. shucks.' said her parent. What can you do With girl, woman. anyhow ?'--Chicago News
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
CAPE COD CANAL

The movement which is underway for the purchase of the Cape Cod ca nal by the government is showing some progress. IT may be the kind that will not accomplish anything but it is at least net standing still and that is something in these days of barking and filing at Washington.
 It was not long ago that the propo- sition 0: buying this waterway ccn- meeting BuzZard's bay with Massa- chusetts bay. which has been in cp- eTation for the past few years. and now the commerce committee of the senate has decided to recommend the bill looking to the opening of nego- tiations for the purchase of the canal. It is apparently the purpose of the committee before going any further in the matter to ascertain what it can be purchased for, which is certainly q businesslii1e decision. The price is an important matter. Whether the government should purchase it may
 hinge entirely upon that point. If the owners are willing to part with it at fair price, and are not endeav- bring to pass off onto the government for big money something which they are unable to make show profit, still greater progress may be made. But that must be determined at the stat and without in any way committing the government to buy. The owners should have a chance to say what they will part with the canal for, all things considered. but it should be under stood that the government is not in the market to hand out any fancy sum just tO get into control of this short cut along the Massachusetts coast.
 There are acknowledged advantaees in this inside route. It is great benefit to shipping at the present time and it can be of much importance in connection with naval operations along the coast, but should the gov ernnnent be given an attractive figure from it's standpoint, it is to be re- memb bered that there would be re- quired a considerable sum to bring about the development of the canal so that if would render the service which government property of the kind ought to.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

time. This country needs a large number of war planes and it needs a large aviation corps. The machines $ must be had in order to give the men the proper training in handling them, and while this has been repeatedly pointed out, it is only proper that the president of the Aero Club of America should cali the attention of President Wilson to the existing great need in this direction and urge that 10000 such machines should be pro- vided at the earliest possible moment that the United States may do it's part in striking at the military eenters of Germany along the western front.
 This is almost twice as many ma chimes as the existing aerial pro- gramme calls for, but it is we'll that this matter should get attention now when the construction work can be speeded up instead Of waiting until the order has been filled and find out that the number provided is not suffi- cient. If we are going into the war to bring about a quick victory we must meet the requirements in all re- SnectS
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
NOTHING FOR THE ENEMY

The expected order providing for the control of the exports Of this country by the government comm1s- sion recently authorized has been is sued by the president. II goes into effect next Sunday from which date there will be 9 complete control exer- cised over the food. fueI and war sup plies which are sent out Of this coun- try whether they are going to our allies or to neutral nations
 This government has sufficient evi- dence to show the need for this step. II has been brought to the reaIiza- ton of the fact that it has been send ing it's products to neutral nations which in turn have sold them. or an equal amount of goods which they possessed them to the central powers This means of course that We have been providing a profitable business for certain nations that have been having no trouble in getting sup plies from this country and at the same time We have been contributing t0 the assistance of the nation with which we are now at war by provid- ing food and war materials of which thev have been in serious need.
 The realization Of this situation has come at a late date but now it must stop r is Impossible to shut it off without the services of such body Is the exports council and that com mission is going to have plenty to occupy it's attention but there are reasons to believe that it will sue cessfuuy handle the problem.
 There will of course be no serious Interference with the sending of sup plies to the entente nations. We are duty bound to look after their wants and it is not the intention of this country to shut off the eXportation of goods to neutraIs where # can he shown that it will not mean the ulti- mate receipt of an equivalent amount hv the enemy, but there are nations W hich have been carrying on Iucra- tive trade with Germany because of goods which they could get from this country and it is this trade which will he stopped. We must look out for our own interests and those of the na- lions which are fighting with us and t rests with the neutraIs to say how cadly they are going to be affected We are in the war to win, not to help 1 -IIe enemy win
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
RusaA's EFFECTIVE RETURN.

It Is put natural that Prince Lvof, premier and minister of the interior ! in Russia should be elated over the
 success which is being obtained by the
 armies of his country in their offen- i sive against the Germans and Aus trians, for the progress which they are making is bound to be of great inspira ational value in that nation
 where such great internal changes
 have taken place in the past few
 months.
 It has been fully understood thar Russia possessed the men and the means to cause much trouble for the central powers if it's tangled affairs cculd be strengthened out and it's at tention directed to the resumption of the fighting along the eastern front. Just as long as Germany could keep those forces inactive and center their attention upon other things than fighting. it was gaining valuable time and working harm to the cause of the entente. but Russia was not to be hoodwinked. In due time it saw through the scheme and understood that the same subtle influence which got the better of the ear was al work upon the new government. With the realization of that condition it did not take long to reach the decision that Russia must do it's duty. that 1t must stand faithfully by those nations which were fighting it's fight and that being fully understood it required but little time to get into action.
 Russia had lost an opportunity to strike a telling blow at the enemy but it's period Of inactivity was not entirely waste for it permitted the storing up of supplies of foodstufs and ammunition of which full advan- tage is now being taken
 Germany saw fit to remove many of it's troops to the western front and with Russia now striking under tfe direction of the ca p51ble General Brus- slhf it is able tc gain much ground and it seems highly probable that it will not let up in it's offensive uftli it has at least taken Lernbere. Russia may still have many handicaps but it is still able to give much worry to the Austro-CIarn
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
HOME GARDENS
Other 5uos.

The plants most liable 90 attack rom insects or garden diseases are cabbage, cucuinbers and melons to- nnatoes, potatoes, beans, peas. beets, onions, corn, and eggplant: other gar den crops are usually immune, except that when other crops are badly in : fected the insects are likely to eat whatever vegetables they can find Emergency Food Garden Commission
 The treatment of insects and dis eases is simple; no7ices who follow al rections can do as effective work as essary is to remember to feed poison arsenate Of 1ead-to chewing insects tpotato bugs. cutworn1s and the like) and to kill sucking insects (plant lice like nicotine The Various fungous disea seases-anthracnose. leaf spot, and so on-disappeaf before bordeaux mix ture. If the disease is incurab1e, like them immediately. And remember never to plant the samecrop on infect ed ground a second time in succession.
 Some garden crops withstand dis Beets. for instance, usually do not need spra ying. The leaf spot (spray on bordeaux for itJ is it's cofnmenest af- hictiofl. Carrots, for instance, probably cry gets the blight or leaf spot, a fun gous trouble; hence spray with bor- deaux. The disease is recognized with gray or brown spots appear on the leaves and the stems droop.
 Swiss cfard usually escapes attack. If disease does appear the c1ard Endive, kohl-rabf. parsley. parsnips should be sprayed as directed for beets. lettuce, and peppers are not likely to be injured. Spinach Is sometimes at tackled bs plant lice. which should be sprayed with nicotine sulphate. Tur- nips have the same troubles as cab bases.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
THE NEED oF AIRPLANEs.

Ever since the opening of the war in Europe, it has been impossible not .o recognize the important place which :he airpIanes have occupied in rem dering assistance to both sides in the war Long ago when it wa s demon .trated h[ the Wright brothers that heavier than air machines could be successfully navigated, it was realized by the European nations that the ae- rcplares had great possibilities both for defense and offense. There was no delay there in getting governme mt aid for the development and perfec- ton of such a device and the result has been that while the United States has the honor Of producing the first successful machine of this character Europe has far outstripped 1t in the number that has been built. the uses 10 which they are put and the power fitness and speed Of the f1;ers.
 But 1t is useless to dwell upon the failure Of this country to provide for as great an air fleet in proportion as it has a navy. This country has failed to appreciate the importance Of prep eration, and the result is that it. must do it's utmost now to make ID for lost
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The appointment of Dr. C. ]. Bart lett of New Haven. for years pro lessor of pathology in Yale, 10 the directorship of the state laboratory made vacant by the death of Pro lessor Conn last April. Is one. that meets with approval and endorse ment. It is a highly important pos ition and pr Bartlett is entirely competent to render superior service. Bristol Press.
 There is no need of getting excited over the enlistnents in this city. The response to the colors has been sat isfactory. considering all the many. phases of the situation here. New Britain, in wact, leads the county in this work. Before the campaign Is really and truly over it will be So far ahead of other cities that they may never hope to catch up to us. The time has not yet come when any man in this city can jutly be called 4 stacker. And until such time pre- sents itself the work of recruiting may go on quietly and with dignity. Approached properly, there are few men of military qualifications and
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

It makes little difference how the information was obtained by Germany regarding the troop ships, the thing to do is to ferret out the source and make an example of the inforners
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

What is to be thought Of the driver who insists upon doing just the op- bosite to the directions given by si- lent policemen? Can it be that he cannot read. that he doesn't know left fr6fn right or that he doesn't in- tend to obey the regulations?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

New London is enforcing an ordi- nance requiring awnings to be at least seven feet above the walks. That Is a regulation which might not only be adopted but enforced with benefit in many cities, including Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

se.ves. and always will Hard as it may seem to some of us we must lay aside our own opinions, come down out of our air castle tthat will be hard) and be together for defense, common purpose and country As American ns it Is our duty te' our cotn- try to help her bear her losses and burdens.
 J. H. CJMMINGS. Norwich. July g. 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

A price, it is said has already been placed on the head of the ten year old boy who has been put forward as the new Chinese emperor. That's no way to treat the boy: it's those who are backing him who are responsible for the part he is playing
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

The man on the corner says: There is no complaint being heard from the amateur gardeners about their crops exceeding the speed limit
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Germany is once again experiencing that peculiar sensation which comes from strong pressure on all sides.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

There is still an opportunity for the patriotic young men of this city to come forward and fill up the ranks of the local coast artillery companies
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
sBarraue" Of Water.

A soldier who has served two years with the army ir France, recently re- sisted arrest at Kingston -of1 Thames, Eng gland, as an absentee, defending as an absentee on the roof Of a house. It was only through the use of the Are brigade who poured of the man a 'barrage" of water that the police were able to arrest him.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10
Req ders of THE BULLETIN

G L.
 By sending this coupon 10 the National Emergency Food Garden
 Commission,
 21o Maryiard Bldg. Washington, o. C., with two cent stamp to pay post age a canning and drying manual free Of charge. All you have to do is fill out the space and enclose the two cent stamp for postage. These are twelve page manuals, fully il- Iustrated and are sent out in CO., eneratioh with this paper .. part of the personal service we at all times ain, to give our readers. Sd'He '''''''' -..'...... 0tFeee .s--".s. City ........ State ....
Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-10

An All-Hussian congress of pro- will b4 held in Petfoxrad on June 30.