The Mena weekly star., 1921-03-24

Now is the time to get your spray material ready to make Bordeaux mixture. Dissolve sulphste of copper and 3 lbs. blue stone in jar of water now slack pounds ef lime in aH- other vessel. then when ready to spray pour the contents of each vessel into barrel containing 50 gallons of water. This spray is to control scab, rot and fungus diseases. The lime is merely to prevent the blue stone burning the foliage. Two jobs can be done at once by adding 3 pounds arsenate of lead paste to the above mixture, this is to poison the tiny apple worm when it matches from the egg which the coddling moth has deposited in the blossom and of the little apple. The best time to ap- ply this is when the petals are about all off. If put on too soon rain might wash off the poison If too late, the little apple closes over the egg and there would be no poison there when the newly matched worm takes his first bite. A spray two weeks later kills some of a later brood. These are usually under a leaf that touches an apple and the worm bores in from the outside. We usually just pick those off with other defective ones when thinning The above spray is also best for grapes for rot, mildew and leaf eating insects. Use the above proportion for any less amount. The hllta CfA dtC1..,x,ac .aoIt1xx tied in cloth and left suspended just under the water.
 Frank Rork has fine stand of sweet clover, on a recently planted field of 10 acres.
 Mr. Floyd and Steady, living IF miles northeast of Hatfield, have each one-fourth acre of radishes. Each will also set one-half acre to tomatoes. In addition, MT Steady is making large planting of Klondyke strawber- ries.
 MT. E.. B. Hammer writes he is farming near Walnut, Kas. He owns fine farm northwest of Hatfield and is planning on returning here some time Since leaving here he has been d consistent buyer of Polk county products.
 Mir Roberts received fine Cuban game cockerel from Texas last week.
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 In addition to his fine flock of ma ture birds Mir. Franklin received 50 hrk ol 4htc .,-o1l known breeder of the same strain.
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 :: .: .: A local advertiser in The Stars classified adds received business from five states besides local orders. The cost to. date of the ads based on the returns are less than one-half of per cent and the end is not yet.
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 In addition to raising a worthless cotton crop, one of our friends living near the state line lost last fall first | one and then the other of team that l had been a standby for him for years-stand-b is right. But he had , 3 good mare and colt left; shortly fol- | owing the loss of his team, two of his i )ld maid cows got some frosted sor- yhum cane and died. Then he lost 1ogs and two large gentleman hogs hat cost considerable to raise strayed l off, and never were heard of. Gloom, gloom. Could anything be worse Yes, they might have lived. Satur- lay, we saw him in town, head up, shoulders back, said he was up with his spring work, had earned some money during the winter, sold his hay, lad no feed to buy, out of debt for the irst time in years-later we saw him looking at the teeth of bony old .eam that horsy looking man was ,ffering for sale on the street
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 Keep your fruit jars at work, turn he emptys over tender plants in your garden if heavy freeze is coming. drop a sack on the jar. You can beat he season two to four weeks.
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 Owing to low prices and high trans Dortation charges few are taking the hides from their dead animals.
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 Frank Rork butchered a beef and tanned the hide with the fur on, mak- nnnRHnEHnMnEnnnnnEEkuHsn