THE 8EM1-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
PRACTICAL HINTS PICKED UP IN ORCHARD
Wonderful Japanese Cherry Trees,
Do not havo the trees como until
you are ready to put them in the
ground. When they arrive, soak the
roots a little while In cold water, then
examine carefully, and cut oft ovory
-damaged root. All dead wood or Im
perfect growth should be cut off Just
boforo the first outbranchlng rootlet
Jut from under side In a slanting di
rection, so that tho exposed surface
will como in contact with tho ground.
In trimming the trees, do not leave
any branch more than eight Inches
Jong. Tho practice of cutting back to
within two or three feet, particularly
-on very young trees, Is growing and
isunlly gives very satisfactory results.
In western Washington where fruit
tgrowing now has become a great in
dustry, yearling trees are planted moro
ithan any other. They are cut down to
about one-third of their growth, and
are every year trimmed to grow low
spreading branches. Most of tho ap
ples in that country are picked by men
standing on the ground ladders sol--dom
being necessary.
Professor Bailey says that vigorous
pruning does not injure tho growth
of tho tree. Of course this does not
mean indiscriminate slashing of roots
or top, but pruning irfhde with
care and good Judgment If tho weak
xoots and branches aro cut off, more
.strength goes to tho sound ones, and
Jj otter results are obtained.
Probably the best results come from
pruning tho orchard rather vigorously
every two or three years, but if one is
not an expert at pruning, and cannot
obtain the right sort of help, better
let tho trees alone until they can bo
.properly pruned, oven if this can bo
done only once every three or four
Tears.
Peach trees which get frozen badly,
sometimes can be saved by cutting off
below tho snow line, allowing them to
sprout again.
If you have not properly protected
tho young trees from rabbits and mice
a walk through the orchard about this
time may glvo you somo unpleasant
surprises.
Oyster shell bark louse attacks
apple trees mainly. Sulphur-llmo
should bo used when tho leaveB aro
oft the trees. If this spraying Is in
effective use kerosene emulsion or
whalo oil soap when tho eggs hatch.
It will facilitate the work of plant
ing tho orchard if the land Is laid out
In straight rows the distance apart
tho trees aro to be planted.
Tho distance apart that trees aro set
is governed by the kind and variety
to bo planted.
Wounds on trees heal from the
downward flow of sap from tho leaves,
and not from the upward fldw of Bap
from tho roots.
Pick up and burn all twigs and
GRAIN LOUSE DOES CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
Excellent Results From
Dy LEONARD HASEMAK, Missouri Ex
periment Station.)
Tho common gram louso Is now
coming In for Its share of attention
along with tho army worm, tho chinch
bug and tho Hessian fly. It is a small
greon or yellowish-green louso which
collects In tho head of wheat. Tho
mature louso has wings. It attacks
wheat by sucking the sap. Injury to
ripening wheat is usually quite slight
Noted for Their Beauty.
branches that havo dropped from the
trees, since they may contain injuri
ous insects.
In planting fruit trees, dig tho holes
largo enough to rocelvo the roots with
out crowding.
Very fow fruit growers realize the
amount of plant food a crop of fruit
extracts from tho soil each year.
A bill now before congress provides
that windfall apples shall not bo
packed with picked fruit and regu
lates the size of packages requiring
a standard bushel box and a standard
barrel.
MATURE BREEDING
STOCK IS FAVORED
Pork From Small and Undevel
oped Animals Is Too Fat to
Meet Market Demands.
(By It. G. WEATHEHSTONE.)
Early maturity for tho pork" barrel
is one thing and early maturity for
breeding purposes Is qutto another,
yet tho two are closely related and It
Is desirable that we consider them
together. Tho tendency must como
from tho small or dwarf varieties.
But we may produce pigs with an
inherited tendency to make a rapid
growth from birth to tho time they
aro fit for market and at the samo
time attain the size and vigor of our
matured breeding stock.
Another difficulty I havo observed
In producing pork from tho small and
undeveloped breeding animals Is ,that
tho pork Is too fat to moot tho market
demands, which call for a carcass that
will furnish pork that Is well-marbled
with fat and lean meat, and this kind
of meat comes from pigs that are
from matured parents and that have
tho inherited tendency to make growth
rather than to take on too much fat
at tho period when they aro being fin
ished for market
Tho pigs from a well-developed 500,-
pound sow will make more pork In
less time than those from a young, 1m
mature sow. If this Is not the case,
why aro all of tho phenomenal weights
mado by the leading show animals in
the under-a-year class made by pigs
that como from matured sires and
dams?
Selecting Draft Stallion.
Soundness should be tho basis in
tho selection of a draft stallion.
Good Combination.
Poultry and fruit make a good com
blnatlon.
Well-Cared For Field.
even though tho pest may bo abun
dant. This Is not tho much-dreaded
green bug which comes early in tho
Bprlng and which attacks the stem3
and leaves of wheat, completely kill
ing the plant
Tho grain louso develops very rap
Idly and when tho weather Is favor
able for Its development and unfavor
able for Its enemies, It is able to do
considerable damage to wheat.
HGuWi
GOOD ROADS WILL PAY WELL
In Nine Years Increase In Amount
Paid for Improving Highways Has
Been Over 250 Per Cent.
(Dy E. B. HOUSE, Colorado Experiment
Station.)
Tho following is clipped from tho
Reclamation Record:
Approximately $200,000,000 was
spent last year on public roads in tho
United States, according to statistics
propared by tko United States depart
ment of agriculture. In 1904 tho total
was only $79,000,000. In nlno yearB,
therefore, tho incrcaso has been over
250 per cent.
Of tho 2,220,842 miles of roads in
tho United States, 223,774 miles, or ap
proximately per cent aro classed as
improved.
To improve tho remaining 90 per
cent may well seem a big Job. It is,
in fact, only mado posslblo- becauso
tho work really pays for itself. Prom
material gathered by tho United
Gravel Road.
States department of agriculture, It is
now possible to prove not only that
good roads are profltablo investments,
but to determino exactly what divi
dends they pay. An investigator as
signed to this problem in any given
locality first ascertains tho extont of
the territory that is tributary to any
main road, much as ono might ascer
tain the territory tributary to Bomo
river. Tho next stop is an accurate
estimate of tho total products of this
territory so much grain, bo much to
bacco, so much garden truck, etc. Of
this quantity a certain portion is con
sumed on tho farm; the restls shipped
over tho road In question.
Tho wholo calculation can then bo
checked byInvestigators at tho ship
ping point tb which the road leads. In
general it has been found that tho
two methods yield much tho samo In
formation tho total amount of prod
uce hauled over tho road. Noxt tho
length of tho average haul is calcu
lated, tho size of tho load permitted by
the character of the road ascertained,
and tho cost of teams and drivers fig
ured. With these facts before him
tho investigator Is now able to .state
positively tho cost of hauling a ton
of produce on that road, to express
In terms of these "ton-miles" tho
freight trafllc on tho road, and finally
tho total cost to tho community served
by tho road of hauling Its goods to
market. Armed with Iheso data it is
easy to decide how much money can
be profitably spent in Improving tho
road and what aro tho rotutais that tho
Investment yields to tho community,
ADVANTAGES OF GOOD ROADS
Energy of Farmer's Teams Conserved
by Pulling Heavy Loads Over Com
paratively Smooth Surface.
There is no doubt that good roada
tend to prosperity to tho farmers who
live on them. Their teams aro not
worn out with tho effort to pull a
light load over a bad road, for they
easily take a largo one to markot and
save not only tho strength of tho
team and wear of tho wagon, but
what Is of moro Importance still, tho
tlmo of tho owner.
He gets his product to markot moro
cheaply and that item alono tends to
moro prosperity. Then, too, tho valuo
of his land is Increased by tho fact
that it is on a well-made and well
kept road, for tho heaviest tax a farm
or pays is bad roads.
Everybody Benefited.
Good roads help not only the farmer
by enabling him to market his produco
when tho markot is highest but they
also help tho merchant, the railroad
company In fact, every individual In
tho county Is olther directly or Indi
rectly benefited.
Important Work.
Tho public highway and its Im
provements is one of tho important
things to tnko into consideration in
planning noxt year'fl work. Work on
the road along your farm Is Just as
Important as work In tho field.
Pigs After Weaning.
For plgB after weaning that havo
tho run of alfalfa nothing will help
them and satisfy them so well as a
good fill of slop mado of Bhorts and
about one-tenth of cottonseed meal.
Feed them somo kaflr or mllo on tho
side as dry grain so ns to save somo
of tho expense of having to supply all
tho concentrated iood in tho Blop.
Records Help Farmers.
If farmers kept books thero would
bo a great many better ones than
thero aro today.
LABOR PERIODICALS TO HELP
Campaign Against Tuberculosis Will
Shortly Have a New and Im
portant Ally.
A now campaign for closer co-opora-tion
with labor unions and other
groups of worklngmon is announced
by tho National Association for tho
Study nnd Prevention of Tuborculosls.
A comtnitteo has been appointed
with Dr. Theodore B. Sachs, president
of tho Chicago Tuberculosis institute
as chairman, to formulato plans for
lmmcdlnto nnd futuro action. Other
members of tho commlttco aro Samuel
Gompors, president of tho Amorlcnn
Federation of Labor, Washington;
Gcorgo W. Perkins, secretary of tho
International Clgarmakcrs' union, Chi
cago; John Mitchell of tho Now York
state compensation commission, Now
York; Austin II. Garrotson, president
of the Brotherhood of Railway Con
ductors, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Dr. Wil
liam Charles White, medical director
of tho Tuberculosis leaguo of Pitts
burgh, and Dr. David R. Lyman, super
intendent of tho Gnylord Farm sanato
rium, Wnlllngford, Conn.
As tho first stop in tho campaign a
special health bulletin has boon pro
pared for tho labor papors and will
bo sont out monthly in co-operation
with membors of tho International La
bor Press bureau.
No Task for Tyros.
One of tho men nt tho front Iisb told
us how ho trlod to milk a cow with
out the expected result. This lo not
an easy task for an unprnctlced hand.
Leslie Stephen was onco on a long
tramp in Switzerland, accompanied
by his friend, Doctor Morgan. Thoy
missed their way and found thorn
selves, parched nnd hungry, far from
any dwelling place. At length thoy
camo across a cow, from whom they
determined to extract somo nourish
ment, but after trying their best for an
hour, each holding on to her horns In
turn, they had to abandon all hopes
of milk. This, romnrks Doctor Mpr
gan, 1b "pno of tho very fow occasions
on which I over saw Stephen fairly
thwarted."
That Cured Him.
You should havo scon tho way Wuf
fles moaned over his petty ailments.
Ho was ono of thoso chaps who wero
always bowaillng' their ill Btato of
health, when all that 1b really tho mat
ter with them Is tho need of a little
lecturing.
"Oh, my chest, doctor I" he walled
to his physician ono evening. "My
lungs feel so compressed. Somo peo
ple tell mo to lnhalo sulphur fumes.
Others recommend a seaside holiday.
What would you advise mo to do?"
"Try fresh air," snld tho doctor
shortly. "Flvo dollars, please."
The Female of the Species.
"I tell you, sir," said tho sad-oyed
passenger with tho bargain-counter
tie, "all women aro born gnmblorB."
"That's right," observed tho but
ton drummer. "And thoy nearly al
ways win when they play hearts to
catch diamonds."
Tho girl who is solf-posBessed can
usually bo induced to transfer tho
title.
Ono liltlo tnsto of defeat Is difficult
to swallow.
Wise
Said-
"A penny saved is
a pennjr earned."
With the price of beef and
wheat sparing higher and higher,
the problem of economic living is
causing many housewives to con
sider food values in planning
meals.
For years many have known,
and others are now finding out,
the true economy in
Grape-Nits
This food, the true meat of wheat and barley full of Nature's richest nourishment,
builds nerve and muscle, bone and brain, in a way that has thoroughly commended it
the world over.
A package of Grape-Nuts fully cooked, ready to serve, and sealed in its weather
proof and germ-proof wrapping can be had from any grocer. No rise in pricel
Grape-Nuts, served with milk, cream or fruit, gives satisfaction, sustaining food
value, true economy, and proves itself a family friend.
"There's a Reason" lor Grape-Nuts
MUCH PIT! WASTED
Martyrdom for One May Bo
Pleasuro for Another.
The Open Air Man Pities the Man
With tho Indoor Job Then Thero
Is the Case of Hen
rietta.) Thero Is nn awful lot ot pity wast
ed in tho world. Tnko, for cxamplo,
Henrietta. Henrietta's family and
friends nro always pitying her bo
causo oho married that "hopelessly un
interesting" or "everlastingly disa
greeable" man, whllo Henrietta is
laughing in her sleovo becauso her
sympathizers havo never seen tho real
Bldo of her Henry, and Bho fools posi
tively much sot up becnuso sho knows
ho is moro Interesting nnd inllnltely
nicer than folks supposo him to be.
Porsonnlly, tho wrltor novor cared for
this negative charm In men, but thero
nro numerous women who feel differ
ently. Thoy consider that a man
apathetic, or even disagreeable to
others can bo stlrrod out of his habit
ual mood when associated with them.
Henco sympathy for Henrietta is
wasted.
Tho open nlr man pities tho man
with tho indoor Job. Ho reJoIcuB In
bolng out among his fellow inon. Con
finement or detail work would kill
him, whoras tho Indoor man fools con
cerning tho outdoor one that tho lat
ter loads a dog's life always on tho
go always having to bo cheerful, no
matter if tho water pipes havo frozen
or tho baby has tho croup.
Our Uttlo barks ot llfo may seem tq
bo carried along by currents strongor
than the individual will, yet really
tho Individual is consciously, or un
consciously, at tho helm controlling
ovory portion of tho steering gear and
directing tho crnft toward tho port of
his desires. Ono might think wo put
up with our associates as wo put up
with our features, but actually wo aro
constantly drnwing tho congenial
companion to us nnd eliminating tho
acquaintances wo caro nothing about
It may bo that ono "wants but llttlo
hero below, nor wantB that llttlo long,"
but ccrtnlnly peoplo do want tho
queerest things. Imagino how a man
who rejoices in n pretty wlfo and cozy
homo must pity nn explorer llko
Ponry and what Gelott Burgess calls
tho latter'B unconqucrnblo tasto for1
voluntary and unnecessary suffering.
According to Gelott, Mrs. Penry's pe
culiar solf-chosen lino ot hardships in
cluded "twenty years of half freozlng
to death, pulling sledges, eating shoes
and candles, Bleeping In a boarskln
bag." And then, nB Gelott pathetically
concludes, "when ho had found tho
north polo ho didn't know what to do
with It."
Who canyundorstnnd tho luro of tho
undertaking business? Or npproclnto
tho mental attltudo of a man who
could go to tho ball gamo with a fas
cinating girl, yot who elects instead to
gather together all tho small fry of
tho neighborhood, marshal them on
and off cars and treat tho bunch to
roasted chestnuts. You sigh oVer tho
melancholy avocation ot tho ono nnd
thu Booming martyrdom of tho other,
but that Is all you know about it Tho
first is keenly interested in his seem-
Old Ben Franklin
Catarrh of Kidneys
Cured By Peruna
"IhadCa
t&rrh of tho
Kidneys and
Bladder. I
Am Very
Thankful
For Peruna.
I Feel Well,
My tongue
is clear. I
havo no bitter taste in my
mouth. I am glad to say I
do not need Peruna any
longer, I am perfectly well.
I havo Peruna in the house
all the time. When I have
a cold or when I do not fee!
well I take Peruna. We
were all sick with the grip
last winter. We took Peru
na and it helped us. Peruna
is theTaeat medicine for grip
or colds."
Htm. Gna. H. Carlton, Box 201, Or
toDTlllc, Mla.
lngly depressing nvociitton nnd tho lat
ter has tho tlmo ot his llfo wltli the
boys.
Yes, If folks stopped commiserating,
othora nnd expended halt tho enorgy
In Just being pleasant maybo they
could win a Binllo from ovon Henri
ctta's phlegmatic husband.
Safety First
John Sharp Williams stoppod out of
tho senate chambor In rosponso to tho
card of Dob Gatos, who is a Washing
ton correspondent of distinguished ap
pearnnco and much political saplonco.
Dob nBked him a number of ques
tions nnd then, In parting, he asked:
"Dy tho way, Senator, havo you got
a good cigar about you?" putting tho
request undor tho head ot unfinished
business.
"No, I haven't but ono loft nnd I
just now bit tho ond off It preparatory
to lighting it," 'replied John Sharp.
"If I'd Just boon n mlnuto or two
Boonor " suggested Bob.
"Not exactly," said tho sonntor. "The
fact is, when I started out h,cro I bit
tho end off tho cigar just foroar you
might nok for it." &
Reminiscence.
"I can romombor when wo could got
nn idea of how an election was going
by taking a straw vote"
"Wo novor depond on strliw votes
out our wny, Tho only chanco of
learning which way tho election was
going was to discover which sldo had
tho most two-dollar bills."
Pa's Vlndlctlveness.
"George, fnthor has failed."
"That's Just llko him! I told you
nil along, darling, that ho was going
to do all ho could to keep ub from be
ing married I" Stray Stories.
Thero would bo moro hermits If huts
could bo fitted up with all modern
convonlcncoB.
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