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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1915)
THE SEMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. JUST FORCED TO COME DOWN COULDN'T STAND THE TEST FALL SPRAYING FOR THE SAN JOSE SCALE San Jose Seal Young Larva Developing Scale; (a) Ventral View of Larva Showing Long Sucking Beak; (b) Dorsal View of Same Some what Contracted, With First Waxy Filament Appearing; (c) Dorsal and Lateral View of Same Further Developed; (d) Latter Stage of Same Showing Matting of Waxy Secretions to Form Young Scale. (From Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture.) - (By C. S. MILLER.) Until lately It was supposod that thero was but ono soason for spraying for tho Bcalo, and that was in tho spring boforo tho budo oponod. Now, however, oxporimonts havo taught that in tho fall, just after tho leavos fall is oven a bottor tlmo to spray. Thero aro a number of dlilorcnt kinds of sprays on tho market, and eomo of thorn in more convenient shapo than over known for thoso who dwell in towns and suburbs and havo only a fow yard troes. But for tho farmor and fruit grower, nothing has over been found that combines cheap ness and effectiveness in tho degree that tho well-known lime, sulphur and salt mixture does. Truo, it la a llttlo troublcsomo to mako, but not unduly so when wo con eidor how cheap it Is and how easy to procure tho ingredients anywhoro. Formulas vary some, but ono that has boon given a thorough test con tains equal parts by weight of three materials, 15 pounds each of lime, sul phur and salt, being taken for 50 gal lons of water. Slako tho Hmo with hot water and when boiling pour in tho sulphur, which has boon dissolved in a llttlo water, and stir it well into tho Hmo, then add the Bait. Boll together for an hour, when tho mixture will havo becomo a very dark rod. Then add water to mako up 50 gallons of spray, and if possible, apply it whllo warm. If it stands more than 24 hours, it is best to bring it to boil again bo foro using. This wash can be cooked Adult Male Scale, Greatly Enlarged. (From Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agri culture.) in a largo iron kettle, but steam is tho best heat whero it can bo pro cured. If thoro is a mill or a factory close by. It is worth whilo to try to havo tho steam convoyed to tho barrels through a hose. It saves a great deal NICOTINE SRRAY TO ERADICATE INSECTS When Properly Applied the Solu tion Is Fatal to Larvae of Cucumber Beetle. A concentrated nlcotino solution of whlch thero aro several brands on tho markot, properly applied, Is fatal to tho larvao of tho cucumber beetle which sometimes does a. largo amount of damage to cucumbers whether hi tho cold framo or in tho field. One toaspoonful of a 40 per cent solution of nicotino to c gallon of water is enough. Tho gardener should look for tho larvao of tho bootlo just at tho sur face of tho soil. When ho dlscovors them ho should pour his nlcotino so lution on carefully with a narrow half pint cup, being suro to lot it run down all sides of tho stalk. Fighting the larvae of tho cucumber beetle is bottor thau fighting tho ndult beotle itsolf, as th ndults work chiefly on tho leaves ana du not get at tho vital parts of tho plant. Extract of tobacco containing 40 per cent nlcotino in tho form of nico tino sulphate will destroy plant lice or aphlda on trow and shrubs, it properly used. This material is on tho market. Ono-half pint of this in 50 gallons ot water is very effective if sprayed on tho plants in such a way that every insect is touched with a small partlclo of tho spray. This material is ovon moro offoctlvo if mixed with whalo oil soap ono pound of whalo oil soap to ten gallons of tho diluted nicotine solution. of hard work and cooks moro thor oughly. Tho ocalo is much moro susceptible to tho action of sprays in tho fall than in tho spring, for tho reason that dur ing tho winter its covering tlssuo ot shell bocomes harder to penetrate It is only tho scale born in tho fall that IP Adult Female Removed From Scale Before Development of Eggs; (a) Vernal View Showing Very Long Sucking Setae; (b) Anal Plate Showing Characteristic Ornamenta tion, Greatly Enlarged. (From Bu reau of Entomology, United Statei Department of Agriculture.) survives tho wlntor, and it is thero tore soft and easily killed by contact with oils and acids. A small proportion of fruit buds is sometimes killed by this wash, but tho general bonoflt received by tho tree far outwelghB this loss. Tho lime and sulphur wash is not only deadly to tho scalo but to all forms of insect lifo and is valuable as a de stroyer of fungous gorms. It is a fact that 'a treo thoroughly sprayed in tho fall entors upon tho wlntor frco from insects and gorms aiid in tho best possible condition to begin its growth in tho spring. When trees aro very badly infest ed, they should ho sprayed again in tho spring, for it is impossible to ex terminate every individual scale at ono application. It has been estimated that a single pnir of the San Joso scalo will at their rato of increase multiply into a million from Juno, when thoy begin breeding, to November, which is about at lato as thoy breed in tho mid dle latitudes. APPLES NEED GOOD DEPTH OF SUBSOIL Presence of Unbroken Rock With in Three Feet of Surface Causes Failures. In choosing a slto for apple raising tho necessity for good depth of subsoil cannot be emphasized too strongly. Shallow soils should bo assiduously avoided for orchard purposes. Tho presence of unbroken rock, large ledges, or hardpan within three feet of the surfaco should bo considered pro hibitive. A soil depth of at least six feet should bo insisted upon, and an even greater depth Is highly desirable. Soils with tho underlying rock too noar tho surface havo been responsible not infrequently for tho failure of com mercial orchards owing to tho inca pacity of the subsoil to store sufficient moisture to offset droughty conditions, or to got rid of excess moisture early enough in tho spring. Tho condition of tree growth and fruit yields makes it evident that soils for any kind of orchard planting should be deep, well drained and frlablo, yet not bo porous as to bo droughty. For the red varieties it is often desirable that both soil and subsoil should also bo well oxidized as Indicated by uni form brown, yellow or possibly grayish-brown colors. Light gray or mot tled colors should bo avoided. Buy Ducks In the Fall. With ducks always buy now blood in tho fall. It takes Bovoral months for ducks to bocomo satisfied and contented in a now location.' Somo children roam tho fields nnil hllli), And others work In noisy mills; Koine dress In Bilks, nnd dance nnd piny, Wlillo others drudso their lives nwny; Sonio slow with hcnlth nnd bound with sontf, And eomo must Buffer all day Ions. WAYS WITH CHOCOLATE. Chocolato is such a gonoral favorito with ovcryono that any dish or com bination using it will not eomo amiss. Chocolate Pie. Tako a pint of milk, a pinch of salt and a half a cup ful of butter; put on to boll, add n half cupful of grated chocolato, a halt cupful of sugar, well mixed with a quarter of a cupful of (lour; cook until smooth. Fluvpr with vanilla nnd bako In a bottom crust. Cover with whipped cream. This makes a good slzod pic. Chocolato sauco to servo with ico cream or as a pudding sauco Is deli cious. Mix woll ono-half cupful each of grated chocolato and sugar, add a half cupful of cream and heat slowly until woll blended. Chocolate Gelatin. Tako a pint each of milk and cream, a half cupful of sugar, n half box of gelatin, two ounces of chocolato and a toaspoonful of vanilla. Cover tho gelatin with one-half cupful of cold wntcr and let soak for half an hour. Put tho milk ovor tho fire, adding BUgar and choco lato, then tho gelatin. Take from tho fire and add tho vanilla and fold in tho whipped cream when it is cool. Set away to chill In a mold. Chocolate Fudge. Tako a half cup ful ot milk, two cupfuls of sugar, a squaro of chocolate and a third of a cupful of corn sirup. Cook togothor. adding a tablespoonful of butter dur ing tho boiling. When a ball Is formed by dropping in cold water, remove and stir, adding nuts if desired Let It cool a whllo boforo stirring or set It Into a dish of cold water whllo stir ring. Cream puffs filled with a chocolato mlxturo dipped In chocolato frosting mako a most delicious small cako. Chocolate Filling. This Is a most delicious filling or frosting for a plain chocolato cake. Tako a cupful of sugar, flvo tablcspoonfuls of cream, one egg beaten and two squnros or chocolate, cook In a doublo boiler for an hour. Then beat and when thick enough put on tho cake. Pygmies nro pygmies still; though perched on Alps; And pyramids nro pyramids In vales, Each man makes his own stature, builds himself; Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; tier monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall 'Tls moral grandeur makes tho mighty man. AIDS TO HOUSEWIFE. When delicate laces becomo soiled thoy may bo cleaned by squeezing them tnrough skim milk to which a llttlo bluing has been ndded. Thoy eomo out of their bnth looking like now with Just tho right stiffness. Press on a Turkish tow el. Never fill enamel nniiH witn cold water after removing them from tho heat, or emptying them of boiling mixtures as tho suddon change of tomperature cracks the enamel When it Is necessary to carry bot tles of liquid when traveling wrap them woll and place them In your rubbers, put tho rubbers together and wran them woll. A simplo cure for hiccoughs whlcli will bo welcomed as It is a "novor fall" remedy. Tnko tho largest possi ble mouthful of cold water and hold it In tho mouth whllo stopping both ears tightly with tho fingers. Then with tho ears stopped, swallow the wator at a gulp. If tho attack is so vero repeat two or three times. When taking off gloves always roll or snap them togothor, It will save many a moment that Is spont turning tho drawer upsldo down to hunt a missing glove. Wash whlto silk gloves at night so that thoy may dry in tho dark, they will keep whlto longor. Savo tho camera plates, soak thorn In lukewarm water to dissolve the gelatin. Cut pasteboard tho size cf the glass and mount nny kodak pic ture using passepartout binding. Small rings with stickers may bo bought to uso for hangers. To relieve tho strain on tho bnck and feet when Ironing uso a heavy rug, folded twice on which to stand. Had Right to Be Peeved. Village Storekeeper (as pastor oxo cutes a mastorly retreat from his 8toro)--"Dinged old hypocrito! This is the same load quarter I put in tho collection last Sunday!" Judge. Lucky Gold Seeker. A nugget of puru gold, weighing 84 ounces, was recently discovered by a prospector, at the Phllbura gold Held In western Australia, at a com para lively deep level. Uo also found an othei icuggct weighing 4!i ounces Wo Tito by things that nro under our feet, By what wo linvo mastered of good and gain, By tho pildo deponed and tho passion slain, And tho vanquished tils that wo hour ly meet. THE APPETIZING APPLE. In spite of tho fact thnt tho applo was tho downfall of our ancestors, wo still enjoy tho forbidden fruit, and without doubt it has n largo placo In our affections. Thoro aro apples of somo va riety In tho market tho year round, but tho win ter applo Is the favorito. It would almost soom thnt thero had been everything snld about serving apples, but Bomo now combination or arrangement Is spring ing up each day. For tho common baked applo, to add to its attractive ness a marshraallow plnced on top whllo thoy aro still hot, or ovon bo foro thoy eomo from tho ovon, makes a pretty garnish. Servo them with whipped cream. Whipped cream with a cube of Jelly or a sprinkling of nuts on bnked apples affords a pleasing change. Fillings for corod npploa that aro to be baked aro many. Nuts, raisins, candled chorrles or dates and figs choppod nnd mixed with lemon Juice. Chopped hickory nuts is an other well-liked filling; prunes, too. glvo a doliclous variety. Apple Conde. Carefully stow sliced apples in a rich sirup, being caroful to koor thom unbroken. Cook rice and pack it into cups to mold, setting It on Ico to chill. Turn out tho rice on serving plates, arrango tho applos neatly around tho mold, then pour tho hot jdrup ovor nil. Surround with sweetened cream and servo. Apple dumplings are favorites of tho boys, young nnd old. Roll out a rich biscuit dough, cut In squares and wrap n cored, peeled apple In each squaro. pinching tho comers to keep them tight. Bako and servo with sugar and cream. Applo mixed with celery nuts and n plain boiled dressing served In pretty applo cups, which aro made by scoop ing out tho npplo at the stem end aft er cutting off a neat sllco leaving tho stem In, makes a moat fetching Balnd, dish and all. Apples added to chicken salad mako It go farthor nnd are also an improvement. An applo added to a potato salad Is woll liked, giving an ndded zest. I.lfo Is an arrow therefore you must know What mark to ntm at, how to uso tho bow Then draw to tho head, and let It gol THE TOOTHSOME OYSTER. Although oysters aro not so nutri tious as wo onco wero led to believe, thoy aro easily digested HHRgSj antl nro mo8t delightful HB flavor In many dishes. WSrm Fried Oysters. Din oysters Into beaten egg diluted with milk, then Into crisp cracker crumbs. Fry in deep fat and garnish with sliced lemon. Curried Oysters. Al- low six Preparo oysters to each person, a sauco by frying two largo slicod onions In buttor and mixing with two tablespoonfuls of curry powder, two ounces of gratod cocoanut, a llttlo sour orango and soup stock. Simmer for half an hour, thicken with flour, then add the oystors with their liquid. Simmer for thrco minutes. Then squeezo in the Julco of a lemon und servo very hot. Baked Oysters. Tako about two dozen oysters, two cupfuls of bread crumbs, half a pound of checso nnd two cupfuls of milk. Mutter a bak ing dish and cover tho bottom with a layer of buttered crumbs, Iny a lay er of oysters on this nnd cover with I cheese, seasonings and a layer of 1 crumbs; add another layer of oysters but do not ropcat igain nB threo InyerB of oysters n not cook woll. When tho upper layer is done tho mlddlo ono Is uncooked. Finish with checso nnd crumbs and bake HO min utes In n moderate ovon. Two cup fuls of milk are added boforo tho tup layer of crumbs. Cooked rice in placo of bread crumbs Is another method of baking oysters, and Is woll liked, omitting tho cheese Tho combination of clieeso and oysters Is not relished by everyone. Grammar. Grammar is tho sclcnco, or nrt, of correct speech. It Is qulto truo that somo people are able to speak and write correctly without having stud ied tho rules ns laid down In gram mar, but it Ib -none the less truo that but for a knowledge or tho rules the majority of people would wrlto and speak In a most barbarous fashion Optimistic Thoug.it. Misfortunes wo cannot prevent aro mitigated by resignation. 4& Render Will See That Smith's Reason for Descent Was an Entlroly Good One. Hero is n story that was told by Congressman Jnmos C. Cnutrlll ot Kentucky tho other afternoon in Illus trating a remark on tho forco of neces sity: Recently Smith hired n horso for n cantor nloug tho pike, but tho nnlmnl, having neither n sweet naturo nor a great doslro to work strenuously, bo gnn to buck, nnd tho rider wns un gracefully thrown through tho nlr antl dropped by tho wnysldo. "Hollo, Smith," smilingly remarked a friend tho following day; "I saw you out horschacklng yostordny." "You did?" responded Smith, login nlng to wander n bit. "Yes," continued tho other, his smllo broadening. "What mndo you drop down so quickly?" "Case of necessity," nnswered Smith, "Did you see anything up whero I wus to hold on to?' One of Them Came Out Ahead. Hoping to bo tho first to relate somo unwolcomo news, tho youth rushed into tho house nnd said: "Father, 1 had a fight with Percy Raymond today." "I know you did," replied tho father soborly. "Mr. Raymond enmo to boo mo about It." "Woll," said tho son, "I hopo you camo out as woll as I did." Ladles' Home Journal. Giving Ticm Away. Neighbor's Llttlo Girl When did you got back, Mrs. Sprugglns? MrB. Sprugglns Why, child, 1 haven't been away. Neighbor's Llttlo Girl That's fun ny. I henrd mother say you and Mr. SpruggliiB had been at Loggorhoads for a woolt. Location. - "What was th weight of that fish you wore talking about all Bummor?" "Which fish?" Inquired tho uublUBh Ing boaster. "Tho ono I had on my lino or tho ono I only had on my mlndf" The Leader. Knleker What Is his motto? Docker First bo Buro you'ro right, then lose your head. Reason for His Looks. She Our waiter looks awfully tough He That's all right. I havo a bill to tender. Talks From Experience. "Do you believe that thero is a higher power?" "My dear sir. I married her." Llfo. Many Positions Carrying Large Salaries arc open today to men in every walk of life. But the men must possess vigorous bodies and keen, active minds. Success-making mental and physical activity relies largely upon right living wherein the right kind of food plays a most vital part. In many cases the daily diet lacks certain of Nature's elements essential to energizing and upbuilding the mental and physical faculties. Most white flour prod" ucts, such as white bread and many other commonly used foods, are in that class. A food especially designed to offset thinjack Grape-Nuts made of wheat and malted barley, supplies all the nutriment of the grains, including the mineral salts sturdy builders of brain, nerve and muscle. Grape-Nuts i3 thoroughly processed, ready to serve from the package, fresh, crisp and delicious. Then, too, there's a wonderful return of the power to "do" and to "be" for the small energy required in its digestion. After repeated set-backs thousands have found a change to right eating means forging ahead. "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts Sold by Grocers everywhere. Applicant for College Chair Had to Confess His Ignorance of One Modern Language. "You aspire to bocomo our profos sor of modern language?" asked the president of tho board ot trustees ot tho Mlllcdgovlllo collogo. "Yes, sir," was tho respectful nn swor of tho tho applicant "Koonnen Slo Doutsch sprcchon?" asked tho trusteo sharply. "Jowohl!" camo tho answer of thw applicant, not to bo taken off his guard thus enslly. "Pnrloz-vous francals?-' demandod tho intcrogntor, giving tho applicant no tlmo for recovery. "Oul." said tho applicant Tho pres ident beamed with ploasuro upon hl fellow members of tho board. "It Beeius," ho said udurebslng no ono in particular, "that tho gontloman Is eminently qualified for tho post Hut." turning again to tho applicant, "thoro is ono moro question that I must nsk you. What is tho simian equivalent of fear as oxprossod In tho monkey languago as transcribed by Professor Garnor?" Realizing thnt ho had failed in tho supremo test, tho applicant turnod sadly away. Strict Neutrality. Llttlo Hetty was In tho habit ot prnylng for her naughty playmato. Tommy. Ono evening sho omlttod to mention him. Asked by hor moth or why sho did so, tho child replied: "Uo was howwid to mo today. Ho frow mud In my face. So I won't ask God to bless him." Hor mothor tucked hor in bed, and then went into tho noxt room, leav ing tho door opon. Sho heard Dotty toss restlessly about for flvo or ton minutes. Thon there was n snifflo; thon a sound of getting up, nnd, finally, a furtive voice: "Ploaso, God, you o'n bleBs Tommy If you want to but you needn't do it on my account." His Turn Coming. "Why do you go out rowing with that man? Ho thinks lt'a tunny to rock tho boat." "I'vo hoard so," ropllod tho athlotto girl. "1 took a dtsllko to him tho nrat tlreo I saw him, and I'm Just dying for nn oxcuso to hit him over tho head with an oar." Washington Star. "He and She. Sho Havo you ovor road "Llvos of tho Hunted?" Ho No; whnt'a It about bach elors? Now York Post. A woman enn Inherit monoy and retain her common sonso. But mar rying it often makes a fool of bor. J
