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FATAL REGULATION.

Congressman Isaac Siegel has intro
duced a bill in the House OF Represen-
tatives wherein he proposes all per-
sons transaGting business be required
to obtain a license.
Alas, for the land of the free. Half
civilized foreigners have become citi-
zens and take to politics as naturally
as a duck to water. Some have become
lawyers and lawmakers. These, with
selfish minded native citizens whose
business is politics, are now trying to
enslave us all.
II some real statesman will provide
way to forever dispose OF 75 per
cent. OF our political offices, politicians
and lawmakers and lawyers, he will
perform as great a service for the
country as did Washington or Lincoln.
We florists are getting accustomed
to being regulated. as some new regu-
lation is sprung on us every year, but
this bill seems altogether too general
and too much like Russia for the
U. S. A.
Is there no way to make our mar
row minded individuals holding gov
erning offices understand that for pros
perity business must be freed from en-
tangling regulations?
In the food raids, now such a popu-
lar pastime, eggs and butter will be
turned out OF storage for immediate
consumption, with attending waste
caused by increased supply.
In February and March next, II my
guess is correct, butter will be SO a
poung and eggs will be cheap when
they can be had at ten cents apiece.
But even at high prices there will be
| none TO be had.
AS an illustration, In the neighbor-
| hood where I trade sugar was obtain
able at varying prices. A grocer was
arrested and heavily fined for selling
sugar above eleven cents a pound.
The next day I tried to buy sugar
in tho store where have always
traded and was met with the reply
that they had no granulated sugar
and did not expect to have 1t again.
was willing to pay the price. but
now my family has none.
, II we are regulated any further I
shall move to Canada or some other
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The subject of strawberry raising
from seed, and especially from the
crossing of different varieties, seems
TO be little understood and very little
mention is made Of 1t in the literature
OF fruit culture.
II is for this reason that few new
strawberries of merit are introduced.
Were 1t better understood it would
be more readily undertaken. for no
other branch OF fruit culture can COM
pare with 1t in absorbing interest and
profit. During the growing season,
which is from early spring until late
fall, there is q constant succession of
changes either in plant or fruit.
The study of strawberry seedlings
In relation to heredity and environ
ment is of more interest to scientists
and those who are concerned with
plant cultivation than any other spe-
cies of growth, on account OF quick re-
suits. the great variety Of changes and
the accuracy with which these changes
may be foretold.
The average person. however, will
take up the study from a purely prac-
tical side with the object In view of
creating something new and superior
and something best adapted to the To-
caiity in which he is operating.
The great bulk Of the strawberry
industry is carried on by the CONNER
cial grower, and so the market for
plant production has been dominated
by him. He demands first of all that
a berry be sufficiently firm for ship
ping so as to arrive at the market in
good condition.
Practically all of the berries of high
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DESTROYING M0LES.

G. B. B., Abury Park, n. j., says:
"I have been unable TO find any
means of getting rid Of moles. have
a beautiful lawn the moles are de-
stroying. I have set traps without
success. Can you recommend any
thing whereby 1 can get rid Of
them?"
Open the runways with a stick such
as a broom handle cut off and sharp
ened at the end. Cut off corn from
the cob. in the milk stage, and poison
with a solution OF strychnine. Insert
this in the runways, carefully closing
up the openings made in inserting
Fum.gation with carbon bisulphide Is
also effective. but this must be ham
died with care.
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NAME OF MUSHROOM.

EDITOR FARM AND GARDEN PAGE, THE
SUN-Sir: I am writing to ask you II
you can tell me the name and some-
thing about fungus which we find In
this section growing ON willow stumps
and which seems to belong to the
mushroom family. None of the coun-
try people around here seem to know
its name. 1t grows in petal like
formation and is of a brilliant lemon
yellow and orange color, and when
cooked in butter has a very delicate
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1t has been claimed by some manu-
facturers of grain drills that wheat
and oats seeded in drills four inches
apart would give a greater yield than
fields sown in drills eight inches apart.
The four inch drills require twice
as much seed to the acre as the eight
inch drills.
The Ohio Experiment Station after
careful tests extending over several
years finds that the yield is heavier
per acre in eight inch drills than in
four inch drills.
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lilac tint. The cap is from two to ive
inches broad.
The sapid pleurotus grows In woods
and open places from June to No
vember. being most abundant in wet
weather.
1t inhabits decaying wood and may
be found about old stumps. PROSTATE
trunks of trees and on standing trees
that are dead or decaying. In Europe
1t is cultivated on elm trunks in gar
dens.
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HIGH WAGES AND THE FARMER

Iaborers and the authorities In
making and considering demands for
higher wages and lower cost Of living
have apparently. entirely overlooked
and failed to consider the necessity OF
taking care of the original source OF
the food supply.
Not wages, as 1t is usually consid-
cred in money, but food is necessary
10 sustain life. II food is plentiful
all may obtain a sufficiency. II 1t is
scarce, very scarce, only those of great
wealth can afford to pay the price;
others must starve.
II n laborer earns $50 a day and
the food he and his family need costs
$40 or S25, he is in bad way, regard
less Of the high wages.
When laborers earned only a dollar
a day and could live on fifty cents.
they were comfortable, happy and
many rose to positions of wealth and
influence.
Consider the proposition to turn the
railroads over to labor unions. putting
nm the rates to cover the constant
monthly deficits of millions, caused
largely by high wages.
Every increase in wages and
shortening of hours OF labor, beyond
a reasonable point Of actual needed
rest, adds to the cost OF production
and distribution, thus increasing the
cost of living and forming a never
ending circle. going on from bad 70
worse.
The farmer is the food producer and
the life sustainer Of the nation; ne
must thrive or the rest OF us Will
suffer for food.
The cost Of living cannot be reduced
when the cost of everything the
farmer uses is being constantly IN
creased by the granting OF higher
wages and shorter working hours.
The cost Of transportation is most
important item to the farmer, as
everything he buys and sells has to
be transported.
A farmer whose expenses were for
merly $4,000 a year for tools, fertfl-
izers, clothing. fuel, &C., and wages
81, 900 more, now has to pay $4,000 Tor
the first items and $4,000 to $4,000 for
the second, IN competition Will ldS-
tory prices for labor.
This increase must be added to the
cost of what the farmer produces on
the same area as formerly worked, and
of course this is paid by the consumer,
so the ever widening circle enlarges.
II the farmer fails to get the in
creased cost of production out Of his
crops, his land will be left unproduc-
tive, much unproductive land will re-
suit in not enough food to go around,
and everybody knows what that
means.
Farmers have been asked to speed
up production. That Is a gracious
way OF demanding harder work and
longer hours. although their hours are
much longer than in any other occu-
patton. The farmers have responded
Loyalty, but they will not continue to
increase their hours of labor when
others are cutting down to eight hour
days or less and talking of five day
weeks, as against the farmers seven
days.
f., The one thing that will reduce the
high cost OF living is hard work and
more Of It, less waste OF money and
time and more thrift.
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H0LLYH0CKS FROM SEED THE
FIRST SEASON.

I obtained blossoms In August Of
last year on hollyhock plants from
seed sown in the open ground in April
of the same year. 1 Have had the
same results this summer from seeds
of my last years plants.
New York, Aug IS. e. F. p.
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Powdered alum melted is said to b
a good cement for glass or china. Be.
fore it hardens rub the alum on III.
edges to be united, press them firmly
together and let them dry. Dishes
mended this way may be washed.
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but by 1889 had become serious pest
In the locality and have since spread
over a wide area, doing great damage.
The Federal Horticultural Board
should know the facts Of the case and
when using illustrations of this KIND
tell ''the truth, the tchoIe truth and
nothing but the truth"
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II is wrong to hoard wheat, because
1t is food. but 1t is all right to hoard
cotton. Although quite as essential as
wheat In the reduction OF the high
cost Of living, still cotton is not a
food and thus is permitted to escape.
Also 1t is grown in the South.
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Sometimes a tungsten electric gioN.
can be made to give service after IN.
filament has broken. Turn on the cur.
rent, then tap lightly on the side Of
the bulb; IL the broken wire vibrates
enough to touch one of the other wire,
the current will weld them together
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dantly enough to fill the row COM
pletely. -
After subsection to continuous tests
In this manner for a period Of twelve
years, one supreme berry out Of 1000
varieties has been found that will sat
isfy the family gardener as we'll as
the commercial grower and will please
the most exacting palate.
FREDHIcK s. DE LUE
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,TIES OF STRAWBERRIES ARE PRODUCED

Give water to the roots OF clemat,,
roses and other climbers growing
against walls.
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The threat to tie up the railroads
so they will never move again seems
drastic. Suppose there is a general
farmers strike and no food. How
long then would any other strike en-
dure?
The American farmer has no sym
pathy with Bolshevism and II we are
TO be ruled by strikes the farmers
have the final say.
The sun., 1919-08-24

Cockroaches will succumb to sodium
fuorid or to pyrethrum powder placed
about their hiding places and runways.
The pyrethrum powder must be fresh
and pure.
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Calcium arsenate has been found
effective in the control of the cotton
boil weevil. There is shortage of
machines with which to dust the cot
ton plants with the poison.
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Make arrangements to give the gar.
den n dressing of lime late this an.
tumn, II not before. Both flower ana
vegetable garden will be benefited. "a
the chances are they need lime.
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Pleurotus sapidus.

State will be very light this year. The
grape crop will be the best in ten
years. Blackberry and raspberry crops
were good.
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SCOT water is excellent for petunls.
and ferns.
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country where there is more freedom
than in the United States.
Aug. 16, 1919. New JERSEY FLORIST.
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The indications are that the apple,
pear and peach crop in New York
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Pooling New Methods and
Successful Ideas

II this farmer had owned Farm KnOwI.
edge he would not have had to waste. through
costly personal experience. all this time labor
and stu lose $500. He would have had the
long year-in-and-year-out experience Of
Americas most successful farmers right At his
finger tips. He would have avoided this COSTLY
mistake and would know just how to grow
alfalfa and all other farm crops with creates,
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profit and least labor
Hugh q. Van Pelt, ].
NJ. Evvard. Alva Agee.
II. II. Farrington, Dean
Curtis, G. II. Eckles.
Dean Jardine, W. s.
Corsa. +. G. Aiinkler.
G. h. Hutchison -
these arc only a few
OF more than 100 other
equally successful
farming experts whose
advice and help is now
ready for you to draw
upon.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
FOIL BIG GAMBLING CLIQUE
Secretary Bobby Quinn Uses Novel
Plan to Break Up Noisy Crowd
In Wing of Grandstand.

Bobby Quinn, secretary Of the St.
Louis Browns, found way to break
up groups Of gamblers who were wont
to congregate along the right field
wing of the grandstand and ply their
nefarious trade in open defiance of the
police. Quinn called In the munich
pal authorities, but got no satisfac-
ton. He employed private agencies,
but still the wagering went on. Fin
ally he went among the men himself
and tried to break up the groups that
obstructed the passageway. Finally
he hit upon plan that caused the
gamblers to howl TO heaven. He
strung series of signs along the Cir
ders, utterly blocking the view of the
playing field from the rear of the
stand. That did more than all the
cops In the Mound City. one may
walk In comfort through the st. Louis
stand now without hearing the boots
and bowls of the short anlrrs.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13

BASEBALL IS LOSING
OUT WITH SUN GODS
Bleacherites in Major League
Cities are Passing Away.
On Big Days Fans Flock to Grand.
stand and Overflow II to Diseom.
fort, While Bleaehers Are
Comparatively Empty.

When proposals are heard in the ma.
jor leagues now and then to reduce
the proportion of bleacher capacity
they are accompanied usually with the
explanation that the Increased cost of
major league baseball requires 1t. But
now we hear "a proposal from veteran
minor league Iiugnatc that blcacherS
be abolished entirely, and it cannot be-
exactly due to the Increased cost OF
minor league baseball, since the pre-.
sumption IL that various economical
measures have been inaugurated, III
Guiding reduced player and salary lin
its.
1t brings up the question: Are the
sun gods dying out In busebullf This
minor league magnute AYERS that they
are, and II might seem that conditions
In the majors give Endorsement to his
view. II has been noted that In ina.
jor league cities where the bulk OF
the attendance was IN the bleachers
In seasons past the sun seats today are
distrcssingly bare. Even on big days
the fans will flock to the grandstand
and overflow II to discomfort. while
the bleachers present wide EXPENSES
OF empty seats.
But we do not think Il follows that
the fun who used to sit In the bleach
ers has deserted the national game.
Rather he IL giving himself the priv
ilege In baseball as he Is In general
living conditions Of something better
He can afford IL and he will have what
he can afford. Perhaps then. in these
days of big money for everybody and
even hod carriers making IS day,
the uncomfortable bleuchcrs are taboo.
They are passing, to become only a
memory of the days when the world
wasn't as good n place to live In as
II is now---and the former blcucherite
Is becoming n grnndstand uristocrat.
And yet. the blcachers were no hard.
ship In the days when iuany Of us
were young. We took II pride In sit
ting nowhere else--that the grand.
stand occupants were people who didn't
really know and love baseball but lust
idlers drifting to ball game out Of
curiosity or to kill time.
In those days, though. the bleachers
were the "closc up" In baseball. Now
they give nothing hut sort OF BIRDS
eye view, and that may be contribu.
ting factor. The fan wants TO he near
the diamond. When they moved the
bleachers back and swung the grand.
stands around the base lines he nat.
urally drfted TO the grnndstands-as
soon rs he found the price.
A few years ago we would have said
that gaps In the blcnchcrs meant de-
cline In real baseball interest, but now
we have new viewpoint and refuse to
fret when we see the sun seats empty.
Hail the slogan Of the New Era: a
grandstand seat for every fan, and
enough money for every fan so that he
can afford 1t.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13

When smart play goes wrong in
baseball the player executing II usual.
ly looks like deuce. That Is precise
ly how Ross Young, right fielder for
the New York Giants felt and looked
when he did some quick thinkins~-in
fact, he thought too fast--in the
eighth inning In trying to catch j..
Vaughn on second base. That play
was the turning point OF the game,
and resulted IN the Cubs winning II,
3 to 1. Young was blamed by the
New York supporters, but this was
simply an instance Of where smart
play went amiss.
Surprised Everybody.
Vaughn was on first. with one gone.
Flack raped sharply to right. Invari-
ably on n hit Of this sort the runner
ON first will dash to second, make the
turn ut that base. turn to look where
the ball Is and what the right fielder
intends doing with It. Young expect
ed Vaughn, who 10 not speed mer-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13

chant. to make the turn at second
and by whipping the ball to Fletcher
like shot, which he did, hoped to
catch Vaughn Off the bag. but the Cub
pitcher, thinking he saw Manager
Mitchell give him the signal to come
on to third, kept on going and reached
that bag, much to the surprise of
Young and nearly everybody In the
park. Had Young waited moment
before making his peg he would have
caught Vaughn standing up. as he Is
one Of the best throwing outfielders In
the league.
Play Upsets Giants.
This play rather upset the Giants.
Manager Mitchell saw 1t, and sent
Vaughn home on double steal, with
Flack. Gonzales in his eagerness to
throw to Fletcher shot the ball to the
ground and past Fletcher, letting Hip
po count. Herzog then tripled to left
center and Flack came across.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
REFUSE $1,000 FOR PITCHER
Reading of international Won't Ac-
cept Big Bid Of Philadelphia
for Twirler Brown.

Reading International league club
has received an offer of $4,000 from
the Philadelphia Nationals for Pitch
er Brown, the youngster who has been
doing such remarkable hurting this
season. Manager Doom and the Read
ing association have turned down the
offer, as Brown was to be delivered
to the Phillies Immediately.
Never in the history of organized
baseball has Reading received such an
offer for player, 1t Is more than
was paid for Frank Baker the home
run king, when he was member of
the Reading Tri-State club In 1908.
and more than paid for Maurice Rath,
Jack Leliyelt, Mike Lynch, Pitcher
Jake Northrop and other star players
who We're sold from there to the ma
jors.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13

The Red fielders are working Won
ders in supporting their pitchers.
Leslie, the Cardinals new first base
man, handles himself well ut the plate.
With the Red Sox taking on winning
habits, Harry Hooper has started to
reach his batting stride.
Charley Jackson, st. Joe's center
fielder, tried to emulate Joe Without,
but 10 games was as far as he could
go.
Cincinnati newspapers are sending
scribes out to watch the Giants hit the
skids. They're feeling pretty sure of
the pennant.
Joplin, I'm spite of its lowly position
In the Western league race, claims it
has the best third sacker In the league
in Frank Thompson.
A fire Started by clgaret, thrown
with no malicious intent, burned u
section of the grandstand at Cardinal
field In st. Louis recently.
Wallie Schang is fast gaining on
Babe Ruth as tl,e walking kid. Oppos-
Ing pitchers are beginning to fear the
terrific punch that Wallie operates and
are passing him in the crises.
Frank Baker Is all set to retire at
the end of this season, 1t Is reported.
He has been quitting the game for
the last four or five years, but always
hears the call Of a fat contract and
heeds 1t.
Pete Behan of Hamilton has proved
himself capable pitcher, but his work
at short has been of even more value
and 1t is the plan of Manager Shaugh-
messy to leave him in the short field
permanently.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13

Bill Donovan, now managing the
Jersey City team, has something to
say about umpires. Among his OBJ
servations are the following points:
"The ex-player Is bad umpire be-
cause he Is always figuring plays out
before they are completed. He knows
what ought to happen on certain sltu-
ations. And he makes up his mind in
advance on his decisions.
10 Thinking Ahead.
He cannot help this. A player Is
always thinking ahead Of the play.
This is SO even as he Is sitting on the
bench watching the game.
"When veteran player gets to be
an umpire. therefore, he cannot be ex-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
Y BfzEG SG%e

Perkins is getting to be whale of
a hitter.
Fewster Is proving a first.class lead.
OF man.
Eddie Cicotte has world of con.
fidence in his ability.
RumOrs have IL that John McGraw
Is trying to get Rogers Hornsby from
st. Louis.
Cincinnati Is steamed tn Il million.
If Pat Moran cops he is miracle man.
If he blows he is mackerel man.
Playing on tn. Red SOX Is a tough
job. A player Has to be good enough
to keep his job and not too good to
lose it.
the worth of Helnie Wagner, the Red
SoX are expected TO show n little more
speed.
RumOrs float around Brooklyn that
Ivan Olson is to succeed Wilbert Rob
inson as manager of the Brooklyn
Dodgers next year.
Ford Talley, who couldn't get going
right In Texas, is now big winner
up In the Western Canada league,
where he is playing with Regina.
Three times this year the New Or
leans Pelicans have been ousted from
the Southern league lead only to take
1t back. They ought to be getting used
to 1t.
The Galveston club has been trying
out young brother of Tex Erwin. He
halls from Dallas, where he has been
playing on the lots. He Is said to be
as fast as u rabbit and can field.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13

pected to change his complete base
ball thinking process. He can not do
so. And he Is invariably bad UNI
pire.
ut Is a mistake to make umpires out
Of veteran players. Young men should
be secured. When they get on In years
they should be replaced as ball play
ers are.
umpirino 10 Mediocre.
"Under the present scheme Of things
the umpiring In the major leagues Is
mediocre. I'll bet there are not five
umpires on the combined stnffs of the
National and American leagues who
can read newspaper without wearing
eyeglasses"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13

header between the leaders and the
Yankees IN Chicago, pitched one-thlrd
of an inning in one game and two in
ings in the other. Not hit was made
against him, and Kerr, who Issued no
passes, struck out four batters,
Kerr seems to have good control.
He has pitched about 100 innings of
ball for kid" Gleason this year and
has issued only about thirty bases on
balls all year.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
LOSS OF PITCHER MARQUARD
Much Of Brooklyn's Misfortune At.
tributed to Injury That Has
Kept RUDE on Clutches.

II Rubc Vanguard were available
and able to give his best efforts, vii
bert Robinson believes the Dodgers
would he close up to the Giants by
now. The D0dGer leader attributes
much of Brooklyn's misfortune to the
injury that has kept Rubc on crutches
for the last few weeks.
II hardly expect Vanguard to be
able to do much pitching until late In
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
MAY PUT SHINE BALL.
UNDER BAN OF LEAGUE

Clark Griffith may yet win his
fight against the shine ball. Ban
Johnson, after seeing a recent
game ut Washington, In which
the pitchers were shining the ball,
declared before leaving for Phil
adelphia that he would leave 1t
TO American League club own
ers to keep or leglslate against
the delivery at the next annual
meeting. When Cicotte first in
troduced the shine ball Grin
fought II. Getting no relief, he
declared he would have his
pitchers use II until 1t was
forced out Of the game. With
the exception of Johnson, they're
all doing 1t now. 1t may end
the sinner.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13

Los Angeles club In the Pacific Coast
league when he became aware of the
truth Of the assertion that "they never
come back" Two years ago Hughes
arm first went back on him. This sea-
son he started out with the Los An
geles club, but he gave up the ghost
after three months of daily effort and
one disastrous trial on the mound.