Feeding a Pumpkin with a Sugar
Solution
By S. Leonard Bast in
Some interesting experiments
have been recently carried out to
prove that the growth of gourds and
pumpkins may be accelerated by arti
ficial means. It has for some time
been known that many plants greedily
absorb sugar solutions, but it is
only recently that the idea of feed
ing a growing pumpkin has been
developed.
The plan is carried out in the'
following manner. A healthy young
fruit is selected for the experiment
a few days after it has definitely
“ipet”. Next, a very strong sugar
solution Is prepared in the follow
ing way: One or more jars are taken
attjkl each of these is filled with water.
Haw sugar is then stirred into the I
waiter until the liquid has absorbed
all that it can take up. The sugar
aid water should not be boiled, as
this will produce a thick mixture
that will not be freely imbibed by
the plant. On the other hand there
is no harm in order to assist in the
dissolving of the sugar if the water
is slightly warmed.
The next thing is to secure some
pieces of cotton through which the
sugar solution will pass. Actually
round cotton lamp wick answers
the purpose very well. It is a good
plan to use not less than a couple
of jars of solution for every pumpkin.
These are stood one on either side
of the fruit, sunk a little into the
ground, so that there will not be a
danger of overturning. A connection
must now be made betweeen the
pumpkin and the sugar solution.
Two pieces of the wick are cut, these
being measured so that they reach
from the stalk, of the pumpkin
well down into the mixture in
the jars. It is now needful to
prepare the openings in the stalk so
that the free ends of the wicks can
be inserted into the tissue. The
holes may suitably be worked out
with a penknife, care being taken
to avoid penetrating the stalk right
through at any point. When the
holes have been opened up the ends
of the wicks are fitted in such a way
that they are pushed well “home”
into the openings. Nothing now re
mains save to see that the jars are
W’ell supplied with sugar solution.
rHie contents of the jar its well
stirred two or three times a day
in order to prevent a large amount
of sugar from settling to the bottom.
The rate of growth evidenced
by the pumpkin is astonish
ing. It will be found that the
fruit grows three or four times fast
er than those specimens which are
not fed at all. It is easy to find
out the increase in weight by placing
the fruit on to a pair of scales from
time to time. Care must be taken
to avoid injuring the stalk in any
way. Within certain limits there
does not seem to be any reason why
pumpkins should not be grown in
this manner to almost any magni
tude.—Scient. Amer.
The vaudeville entertainment given
by Mrs. H. A. Chiles, Monday, May
27, for the benefit of the Ester Tem
ple, of the S. of M. 't ., was well at
tended. Mrs. Chiles wishes to thank
her friends for their co-operation.
KILLED BY STREET CAR
William Dukes, an employe of
James Bell Cafe, was killed Wednes
day by a west bound Dodge car at
12th and Dodge. The body will be
shipped by Jones and Chiles to his
home in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
Only five weeks more before Free
Trip Contest ends.—Vote for your fa
vorite.—Adv.
DIED OF HEART FAILURE
Harry Coffee, living ot 21st and
Charles, the engineer at University
Club, died of heart failure Sunday
evening at his home.e e
AMERICAN PROVINCE HAS
71 NATIVE PREACHERS
Portugese East Africa Making Great
Strides Along Educational and
Religious Lines.
Southern News Bureau, June 3.—
An editorial in the “Guardian,” a sec
ular paper published in Portugese
East Africa, pays the following high
tribute to Methodist missions in that
section:
“The Methodist Episcopal Mission
epitomizes its work as the training of
heart, head and hand. The districts
under consideration have eleven mis
sionaries, seventy out-stations, seven
ty-one native pastor-preachers, 7,895
members and adherents, three train
ing and thirty-nine elementary day
schools with 1,883 pupils, sixty-eight
Sunday schools with 2,270 scholars.
In addition, the mission has $30,000
worth of property, which includes a
printing press, a saw mill with hy
draulic turbine, and a farm of a thou
sand acres worked with oxen and
modern machinery. Fields of waving
corn appear to the natives far super
ior to the weeds that formerly passed
as harvests. These farms are often
called ‘Garden of the Gods.’
“But the work does not stop here.
There is a printing record of a mil
lion pamphlets a year in from four to
seven languages. The girls arc taugnt
laundering, sewing, needlework,
housekeeping and simple rules of hy
giene.
“This mission work is bound to
make its mark on the native of to
morrow. It seems remarkable that
so much could be accomplished in
what was untouched territory twenty
five years ago.”
TESTIMONIAL DINNER
TO BERT WILLIAMS
New York City, June 3.—The din
ner tendered to Mr. Bert A. Williams
on Saturday night, May 20, by the
Citizens Club of Brooklin, was quite
a notable affair, as it brought out
many of Greater New York’s most
prominent men. The dinner was not
as well attended as expected, as many
places at the tabic were vacant. Cov
ers were laid for at least one hundred
and only about fifty were present.
Nevertheless, it was a fine affair, and
those who did attend spent a very en
joyable evening.
COLORED TROOPS AID
FRENCH AT VERDUN
London, June 3.—Paris reports the
Germans have thrown a new and for
midable army into the attack on Ver
dun and that the violence of the as
saults equals that of the first of
March. The Germans report the cap
ture of a whole system of trenches on
the northem slope of Hill 304 and the
capture of 40 unwounded officers and
1,280 men. The Germans declare that
east of the Meuse the French’are us
ing colored soldiers in the fighting.
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