Meade County news., 1917-07-05
State EntomOIOgist Reports Un'
usual Numbers of Plant
Lice This Year
ARE PROVING DESTRUCTIVE
Home Gardeners Advised to Spray
Affected Plants With Solution
of Nicotine and Soap.

The chinch bug peril hasn't deyel-
oped this year because Of the late
spring, but w. II. Wellhouse of, the
University of Kansas entomology de-
partment reports unusual numbers of
aphids, among which are the common
ly known plant lice and green bugs,
in the southeastern part of the state.
On a trip about Ottawa, Garnett, 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
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low plants, such as bunch beans, the
plants must be bent over and the
spray applied so 1t strikes the under
side of the leaves and every insect
on them. A 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 quart
of lime or cheap flour. The busting
may be done by placing the mixture
is 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.-rJoel Holmes
Day, farmer in Saline county since
1867, is dead at his home in SaliDa
at the age OF S5. 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 700-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.
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Farmer Hurt in Runaway
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.
For an Oil Field Road.-Petitions
have been circulated for the building
of an 1S-foot brick road from Eldorado
through Towanda and Augusta to
Douglass, a distance of thirty miles.
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Kansas Postmaster Dead.-Joseph
R. Kerley, 50 years old, who has been
postmaster at Peck, Kan, for the past
fourteen years, died in hospital at
Wichita after a short illness.
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Kansas Farmer Badly lnjured.-J. F.
Henderson, farmer living near Bur-
den, was seriously injured recently
when thrown out of a buggy in run
away. His recovery is doubtful.
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Raze a Wing of Prison.-The north
cell wing of the Kansas state peni-
tentiary at Lansing, the Oldest por-
tion Of the prison, is being razed in
preparation for the erection of a mod
ern dormitory. This part of the in
stitution was built in 1864. 1t has
been responsible for most of the criti-
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.-Robert
Craig, 19-year-old farmer boy, went in
bathing in the Big Arkansas river at
Wichita and drowned in sight of three
companions, who could not swim.
Craig waded into hole made by
sand boat
Arrested for Draft opposition-Joh
Erickson, a Socialist of Wichita, is in
Jail there because he distributed anti
draft literature about the streets the
other night Hfa arracf uaa mada