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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-14
GIRL IS AMBITIOUS
Buys Auto From Savings as Ele-
vator Operator.
GRIT AND Determination.

- Just Didn't Get Some Things That
Other Girls Do and That Only Please
For a Little While" She Declares
First Began to Save Her Money For
Rainy Day.
Seattle, Wash.-Girl elevator opera
tors may not be unusual in war strick-
en- Europe, but they certainly are an
oddly in-Seattle, the first one in this
city being Miss Beryl Smithson, eleva-
tor conductor in the Eitel building at
Second and Pike. Seattle's busiest cor.
ner.
Not only is Miss Smithson's employ
ment unusual for girl, but all in all
she is remarkable in other ways for a
girl still in her teens. Few people
know that the automobile she drives
to and from her work Is her own and
was saved out of her very own saw
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
HINTS IN SEASON

Take shovel out and open the ditches.
 If your fence is leaning, straighten it today.
 In laying out the garden, plan to have the rows as long as possible. This will save time in cultivating.
 Working the soil when it is wet will make it coarse and 1umpy the whole season.
 Look for the beautiful in all things you will surely find it-even in March.
 This is the proper time to slip your geraniums for planting out-of7 doors in the late spring. Make the slips four inches long, leaving on only two leaves, and plant half beneath tht soil.
 Scatter ashes around the currant and gooseberry bushes.
 Scratch a little grass seed into the bare spots when cleaning up the yard Later it will look better.
 Plant shade trees. Their cool shel. ter will be valuable after awhile.
 Spring is here. Get busyi
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
coNsTRucTIoM oE .FRAME FoR AoPpERDozER

have numerous dark markings which give them a mottled appearance. They are about one-eighth of an inch in length and half as wide.
 The manner in which they jump from plant to plant is much like that of grasshoppers.
 The primary injury is produced by the direct feeding of the leafhoppers. The single tiny feeding puncture is itself inconsequential, and injury re- suits only when a great number of leafhoppers attack the same plant.
 The clover leafhopper is distributed generally throughout the United States, records showing its occurrence in every section of the country. Its range also includes southern Canada and Mexico.
 The number of generations of the leafhopper produced annually in giv- en locality varies from year to year, depending on weather conditions, and it also varies in different attitudes and climates. For southern Missouri and northern Arkansas there are usually three distinct broods, covering ap- proximately CD April and May, CD June and July, and (3) August and September. Farther south or under subtropical conditions it is probable that there are four or more.
 Merely Hide in South.
 Tn the northern states the clover leafhopper hibernates in the adult stage, at the base of clumps of grass and weeds and under dried leaves and trash. Throughout the central and
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
PLANT TREES AND SHRUBBERY

If you are planning to plant orna- mental trees and shrubs, plant in groups, always leaving an open space for grass.
 Cut-1eafed birch is a favorite tree for planting on the home ground. It is pyramidal in shape, with dropping branches.
 The Japanese naples are very beau ltiful. small trees in bush form with vivid coloring of cut leaves.
 Many shrubs are more beautiful in foliage than in flower, and some of them carry their fruits through the winter in bright eolors.
 In setting trees or shrubs, make a hole wide enough so that the roots can be spread out, avoiding twisting and crowding as much as possible. Work the soil in about the roots, leaving no spaces, and packing firmly.
 Avoid planting trees between the house and the street in such manner as to hide the view from the windows and doors. To obstruct the outlook is very annoying to those confined to the house. Trees and shrubbery should be placed so as to form q background or setting for the dwelling.-E. V. B.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23

ing. In order to expand on freezing, these materials must contain or be mixed with water, and the more water they contain the greater the expaR sion which takes place. But so long as the road remains frozen, the dam age does not become apparent. Hence the frequent and erroneous idea that it is the thaw which injures the road The injury was done when the water in the road froze and the particles of the road surface-broken stone, sand, still fine particles of earth or clay were pushed apart by the expanding power of the freezing water. The thaw merely allows the ice to melt and assume it's original volume as water.
 The remedy is self-evident. Keep the water out of the road. The time to begin preventive measures is before the rains begin. If the road goes into the winter thoroughly dry with the sur face and drainage in good condition the chances are extremely favorable that it will come out all right the fol- lowing spring.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
EXCESS WATER HURTS ROADS
Cold Weather Does Not Cause Injury, No Matter Whether Road Is
 Earth, Gravel of Macadam.

Water, not cold, is the cause of the deterioration of roads in winter. Cold weather does not in itself injure roads no matter whether they are earth, gravel or maeadam. In fact an earth road will stand more traffic when 1t is solidly frozen than at any other time. Excess water, however, is always de- trimental to a highway. When cold weather turns this water into ice, the damage that it does is greatly in- creased. Ice occupies considerably more space than the water from which it is formed, and every person who has lived in cold climate is familiar with the powerful bursting effect of water when left to freeze in con fined vessel. The same action takes place when a wet road freezes to any considerable depth. It simply bursts or, as we generally term it in road parlance, the road heaves. Later, when the frost leaves, the road is disinter- grated and ruts badly. If this process is repeated a number of times during the winter, a gravel or macadam road may be practically destroyed while an earth road may become entirely im- passable.
 A dry road will not heave. Rock, gravel, sand and even clay when per fectly dry contract slightly on freez-
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23

time, they can be dibbled in close to- gether
 Lobelias, alyssum, can be increased by the thousands in this way.
 Provided there is a good stock of plants on hand, March is soon enough to commence propagating.
 Early in February dahlia tubers, of which large stock are required, may be brought into the propagating house. Placed on the stage, partly burying the tubers in leaf mold, plenty of shoots will soon push out. When these are about three inches in length they should be taken off with slight heel, and if inserted in a sand bed they will soon root.
 Another method successfully adapt ed for roofing dahlias is to make up a hotbed a yard in height place frame on this and plunge the pots of cut tings where there is a nice bottom heat.
 A list of the quantities of plants re- quired should be made and the num- bers entered as they are rooted. This may save much trouble when the time comes for planting out.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
BRONZE TURKEY BEST KNOWN
Male Bird of Breed Sometimes Reaches Enormous Sze-Do Not
 Bear Confinement We'll.

The largest and perhaps the best known of the domesticated turkey is the Bronze, sometimes called the Nam moth Bronze. The male bird of this breed reaches an enormous size some times. The standard weight for the tom is 36 pounds and for the hen 20 pounds.
 Generally the heavier weights are found among the breeding birds, and are not for sale. As a matter of ex- perience breeders find that the great est demand for the holiday trade is for the smaller birds suitable for a din- ner for an ordinary family.
 The plumage of the Bronze is very attractive. The feathers are bronze or dull black with bands of white across. The bronze tint gives pleasing color effects.
 One common objection has been that the Bronze hen is not very good layer. But 1t is generally found that
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
GOOD ROADS <,
DOUBLE LOAD ON GOOD ROAD
Farmers Haul Two Wagons Hltched Together to End of Improved High
 way-SingIe on Poor Road.

(From the United States Department of
 Agricultural
 To see what really happens at the end of the good road, public road specialist of the department recently had observations made in different sec tions of the country. The observers noted many country-bound teamsters who drove two loaded wagons, hitched one behind the other, to the end of the good road, and then found it nee essary to leave one wagon by the road side to be returned for later, while all the power of their teams was devoted to hauling a single wagon over the un- improved road.
 Farmers bound for the market fre- quently were seen to haul wood and similar products to the beginning of the good road, there dumping them. and returning for a second load. When this arrived, the two loads were con solidated and easily hauled by single team the remaining distance to market over the improved highway.
 In one section of the country where oxen are still used teamsters were obs served to bring their loads over the dirt roads with two or three yokes of oxen. When the beginning of the good roads was reached, the teamsters would unhiteh the extra animals and finish their journey with single yoke.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
Clover Leafhopper-a, Adult; b, Lymph, Side View; c, Lymph, Dor sal View; d, Face; e, Elytron.

southern states it could hardly be said to hibernate instead, the adults mere ly keep in hiding and under cover dur ing cold weather, coming out on warm days to bask in the sun and feed upon such green foliage as can be found. In Missouri, for example, the adult in- sects have been observed feeding upon wheat during January and February, but not in any abundance Nymphs cannot long survive cold weather. and it is not probable that eggs survive over winter. In the extreme South west, where conditions are radically different, the leafhopper is active throughout the entire year.
 The adults are quick of movement and jump from plant to plant when disturbed When strong winds pre- vail they remain in hiding, as they seem to dislike windy weather. Their most characteristic habit is that of congregating in great numbers on one plant, frequently to such an extent that they crowd one another. This is what causes the concentrated attacks in "spots" throughout 8 field. The clover leafhopper does not seem to seek shady or damp places, rather pre- ferring the heat of the midday sun.
 Nymphs Not Active.
 The nymphs are much less active than the adults and are not easily dis turbed. When one brushes against the plants they cling fast to the stems and leaves instead of jumping to an- other plant.
 For direct control the hopperdozer is recommended. Any form of this de- vice that is suitable for grasshoppers will do for the clover leafhopper as well, but a much lighter and less ex- pensive one can be made for the small. CT insects by stretching canvas over a wooden frame. This can be made of such light weight that It will not in- jure the alfalfa and clover plant when 1t is pulled over a field. Two horses one hitched at either end, are used for drawing 1t. On the inside of the canvas thin coat of sticky sub stance made of tree tanglefoot which has been thinned with cheap castor oil is spread with paddle or shingle. As the leafhoppers and other Insects alight on the surface of this substance they are held fast. Such substances as cheap sorghum have been tried in place of tree tanglefoot. The sorghum. however, dries out too quickly and ire quent applications of it have to be made It is best to draw the hopper dozer through the fields when the crop is about half grown.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23

laying is largely an individual char acteristic. Many prefer the Bronze and generally this breed by far out numbers the others on the holiday market.
 The Bronze turkeys are close de- seendants of the American wild tur- key, which is still found in some parts of our country. The young of the domesticated birds soon show a ten dency to wander in search of food. They can fly to an astonishing height when it becomes necessary.
 The young turkeys do not bear con finement well. For anything like sat isfactory results they should range in the fields and pastures. They are very useful in keeping down insects that destroy crops, and many farmers wives have sold enough turkeys dur ing the season preceding the holidays to provide comforts and conveniences for the home.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
PRoPAGATING BY CUTTING
By E. VAN RENTHuYsEN.

Where thousands of plants are grown for positions in the open air during the summer, this is an impor- tant operation from March onward.
 Considerable forethought and know ledge of the work are necessary to ob- tain the plants In suitable condition and in sufficient numbers when the time for plaHting out arrives.
 Although 1eeried by some, the scar let geranium still has hosts of admir- CTS, especially since the introduction of so many beautiful varieties.
 Cuttings Of the varieties of which the numbers are short can be inserted now. These may be obtained from the old plants lifted from the beds in the autumn, or q few tops may be taken of the strongest of the young plants. Inserted in light, sandy soil, they will soon root on a shelf in a warm house.
 Cuttings of ageratum, coleus, helio- trope, iresine, fuchsia fibrous-rooted begonia, etc, when required In quan- ity, should be inserted in bed of sand made up in propagating frame with bottom heat.
 Three inches of sand will be sufTi- cient, and if this Is made firm. well supplied with water and bottom heat of 75 to 80 degrees maintained, many of the cuttings will be rooted in week and ready for potting up singly in small pots.
 Remaining in the sand such short
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
MATCHING IS "GREAT STRAIN"
Lice Working unmolested While Hen Is Sitting Is Most Responsible
 for Poor Condition.

The average poultry man will say that matching is a great strain" on hen, and the condition of some of the birds on finishing their hatches seems to bear out this statement. But the harm done by the lice working unmolested while her mOtherly instinct keeps the hen busy is more responsible for her run down condition than the energy re- quired in the actual work of incubating the eggs.
 The dusting with lice powder should be dsne not only at the beginning of the hatch, but about once a week throughout the sitting period.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23

 damage than is usually realized. In a publication of the United States de partment of agriculture (Farmers Bull letin 737) by Edmund H. Gibson, 1t is stated that the loss from this cause to the clover and alfalfa hay crops of the country is frequently attributed to poor soil and climatic conditions. For this the minute size of the pest. which frequently enables it to escape obser- vation, is largely responsible. As a matter of fact, continued attacks by the leafhopper, especially in some of the central states, often result in the loss of a considerable percentage of a single cutting.
 Crowd Together.
 It is characteristic of leafhoppers to crowd together in great numbers, as many as 600 having been counted upon one plant Tn feeding upon the plant the insects make tiny punctures. Around these the tissue gradually be- comes yellow, the spot enlarging and becoming more pronounced until the leaflets ultimately curl up and the fol iage wilts. The female also forces her eggs into the stem and leaf tissue, frequently causing gall-like forma ton. Alfalfa, clover, cowpeas and vetch are among the principal plants attacked, but the pest is common in meadow and pasture lands and feeds on a number of cultivated as we'll as native grasses throughout practically the entire country.
 The clover leafhopper is about one eighth of an inch in length and half as wide, and is marked in a manner to distinguish it from many other kinds of clover and alfalfa. The farmer will distinguish leafhoppers from other in- sects by their habit of jumping, their size. In certain respects they resem- ble diminutive grasshoppers.
 Where It Spends Winter.
 As the clover leafhopper spends the winter under clumps of grass, weeds and trash, the burning of rubbish and vegetation during winter months in waste places and along fence rows and rOadsides. will do much to prevent the pest attaining destructive numbers the following year. This precaution will destroy great number of other hiber- hating insects as well as the leafhop- pers.
 During the growing season close cutting or pasturing of grass lands is recommended. Cutting alfalfa crops from a week to ten days earlier than usual will often check the ravages of the insects and may be advisable when there is evidence that the leafhoppers are causing sufficient injury to justify the risk of loss through premature cutting.
 Each year this leafhopper, by less ening the vitality of it's food plants, occasions more or less damage over Its entire range of distribution, caus- ing a positive, although not easily estimated, decrease in the clover and alfalfa hay crops of the country. Continued attacks often result in the loss of a considerable percentage of a single cutting; especially is this true in some of the central states. The leafhopper causes the greatest dam- age during the spring and early sum- mer months, as the foliage is then most suceulent and the tissues very
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
Favorite Food of Leafhopper.

tender, enabling even the immature leafhoppers readily to pierce the skin of leaf, and stem and suck the juices. The incessant drain from concentrated attacks causes the clover plants to wither, and although they may not die. the new growth which is put forth is very apt to be thin and spindling With alfalfa it is the first two crops which appear to suffer most. The drain upon alfalfa plants does not show as markedly as with clover, es- pecially during a drought, since the alfalfa roots go deeper into the ground and the plant is better able to with stand adverse conditions.
 Known as Flies,
 In many localities these leafhop- pers are commonly known as .'fies," but in reality they resemble flies only in having wings. and because they are about the size of many smal; flies seen in the fields. The adult or pa- rent insects are light gray in color, but
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
PREVENT ScAB OF POTATOES
Treatment With Disinfecting Solution Is Recommended to Guard Against
 Fungous Diseases.

Treating seed potatoes with disin. fecting solution to prevent scab and other fungous diseases is but little trou. ble, and the expense is small. An hours time and a half-dolIar expended for the purpose will often add S25 to $50 to the value of the crop from an acre of potatoes.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
KEEPING UP DIRT HIGHWAYS
Farmers Can Have Good Roads by Grading to Drain Off Rainfall and
 Keep Surface Smooth.

We all want good roads and when we find out what is the really perma- nent highway we will want that also in line with the modern idea of build- ing for keeps.
 In the meantime farmers can have good dirt roads by grading to drain off the rainfall, and by dragging to keep the surface smooth and hard,
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
HOW TO MAKE A FLAT

A flat is q shallow box three or four Inches deep and of any convenient size. Bore a few holes in the bottom and put in a layer of cinders; then fill with light, rich loam and sand, about half and half. Smooth and firm the soil with a flat board and then draw lines across the soil two or three inches apart. In these furrows SOW the seed.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
SUPERIOR FEED FOR CHICKS
Corn Bread With Egg in It IS Recom- mended-Pasteurize Everything
 for First Month.

A good feed for newly matched chickens is corn bread with egg in it. Until they are month old, everything fed to them should be cooked or pas teurized (baked little in the oven) to kill all germs of disease, and if milk is used for moistening bread crumbs, 1t is best to boil it
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
TO ERADICATE CHICKEN LICE
Sodium Fluorid Found to Be Efficient by EntomoIosists of Agricultural
 Department.

Entomologists of the United States department of agriculture have dem- onstrated that all species of lice which infest poultry may be quickly de- stroyed by the application of very small quantity of sodium fluorid, ac- cording to the anual report of the chief of the bureau of entomology just is sued.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
The Road scraper.

Where is your road scraper? Have 1t ready to use on the roads after every rain. Persuade your neighDor to do the same.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23
Expenses for 1914.

In 1914 the United States expended for road work a quarter of q billion dollars.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23

Increase School Attendance. Figures show that school attendance increases importantly wherever coun- try roads are improved.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-05-25
SIackers WiII be Easily Detected

Washington, D, c., May 16..-All
slackers who seek to evade registra.
ton under the selective CONSUMPTION
law, shortly to be passed by con-
.gress viii be easily detected.
Authorities at the war depart
ment, who have recently given this
subject considerable thought, an,
nounced today that after the con-
clusion Of registration lists Of per-
sons registered in various voting
precincts are to be prominently
posted, and all citizens who know
of any evasions Of the law will be
expected to report these to the prop
er authorities.
In failing to register the
statement says "a citizen casts
doubt upon his own courage, and
in addition renders himself liable
to Imprisonment.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-05-25
CaIOmeI SaIivates
And Makes You Sick
Acts like dynamite on sluggish liver and yOu
lose days work

There's no reason why a person
should take siekening, salivating
calomel when Soc buys large bot
tie Of Dodson's Liver Tone a per-
feet substitute for calomeI.
1t is pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as
surely as calomel, but it doesn't
make you sick and can not salivate.
Children and grown folks can take
Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is
perfect harmless.
Calomel is dangerous drug. 1t
is mercu.y and attacks yonr bones.
Take dose of nasty calomel today
and you will feel weak, sick and
nauseated tomorrow. Don't lose a
days work. Take a spoonful Of
Dodson's Liver Tone instead and
you will wake up feeling great. No
more biIiousness, constipation, slug
gishness, headache, coated tongue
or sour stomach. Your druggist
says if you don't find Dodson' s Liver
Tone acts better than horrible calo-
mel your money is waiting for you.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-05-25

Writing in response to a letter
mailed out by the editor Of this pa
per last week addressed to each
member Of this legislature, and sen.
ator in Georgia, asking that they
do all they could to stop the carry
ing OF pistols in this state, Senator
S. G. Townsend Of st. Marys, says:
Personally speaking | have no more
respect for the man who makes an
arsenal out Of the seat of his pants
than | have for the gentlemen Of
leisure who travels around with his
neat little bag Of burglary tools and
A man in a civil=
lied community has no more OK
cuse for carrying a pistol than he
has for travelling around with a half
dozen bull dogs, | have been ex
posed to almost all conditions from
the slums of New York to the midi
die Of the Ohefenokee swamp and
have never yet known the time
when pistol would be Of any SER
vice to me. Even in a community
where others carry them and are
up on gun play, the possession Of
pistol by the average person would
only result in his heing shot first.
Senator Townsend's letter is char
acteristic Of scores Of others received
in reply to this letter we mailed
out. -Telfair Enterprise.