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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1915)
THE SEMIWEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, TREES INJURED BY Apple Tree Killed tTJy S. A. DEACH, Experiment Station, Iowa State Colleso of Agriculture.) Rabbits and mlco somotlmos dam go nursory stock and orchard trees greatly by gnawing through tho bark. Rabbits may also cut oft twigs and in tho caso of young trees may cut off tho trunks closo to tho ground. Tho injury is usually dono In tho wlntor, but may bo begun In tho fall soon aft er tho leaves drop. Spraying tho trunks with llmo sul phur solution of tho snmo strength as for scalo insects has been tried at this station for tho past threo years and has given excellent results. When tho sprout is well started dress the stump TREATS PUPILS AS HIS BEST FRIENDS Farm-Hand Hero in Herbert Quick's Novel Becomes School Teacher Children Aid Him. In Herbert Quick's farm novel, "Tho j3rown Mouse," tho farm-hand hero becomes a school teacher, and pro ceeds to teach without any respect for cultural traditions. Ho treats tho pu pils as friends and associates. Ho regards his school as a sort of labora tory in which tho children help him work out practical problems of their own homes and farms. Ho doesn't mako them Bit stiff and silent for hours at a time. As his busi ness assistants, they aro free to move about and consult him and each other like men In an office. There's a low hum of conversation, which doesn't disturb anybody, because everybody is intensely interested in what he's do ing. The boys and girls flock to school an hour before tho boll rings, with samples of grass seed and corn smut and insect specimens and things, and they can hardly bo driven homo when school closes. They aro not crammed with book learning. Tho usual text books occupy a minor place in their education. Their arithmetic examples deal with such matters as tho per centage of loss in a wheat crop based on a given proportion of weed seeds In tho sown wheat, and tho cow popu lation of tho township and tho ratio of butterfat to milk and feed. An es fay on corn culturo is valued moro highly than ono on poetry. Reading lessons are as likely as not taken from farm Journals. Geography' is not r matter of maps, but d livo subject connected with the food tho children eat and tho clothes they wear and tho treasures In their pockets and tho crops in their barns where every thing comes from and goes to. And book culturo? Thoy get that too, as a Bort of sido issuo. It comes easily enough becauso tholr minds aro kept nt such a pitch of activity by vital human interests they can pick up in odd moments tho formal facts considered necessary. "Lot us ceaso thinking so much about agricultural education, and dovote ourselves to educational ngrlculturo," says Mr. Quick. "So will tho nation bo mado strong." And isn't ho right? Isn't agricul ture itself so big and all-embracing a thing that it can bo used in tho coun try schools as a medium through which tho country boy nnd girl ob tain mental training, a knowlcdgo of tho world and genuine culturo? Shouldn't country children, instead of being crammed with artificial stuff based on antiquated standards or city standards, bo treated frankly as Ju vonllo farmers and farmers' wives, and bo taught to lovo their work and environment, and bo prepared to livo Intelligently and Joyfully tho lifo for which they aro destined? Beware of Leaky Roofs. A house with a leaky roof Is not a fit placo for fowls. It will got thorn out of condition, thoy will suffer moro or less from coldB, and, naturally, there must be a curtailment of tho egg crop. Dampness Is ono of tho worst ovlls, nnd it will certainly bo a wlso movo to either get a now roof or proporly repair tho old one. Avoid Injurious Feed. Moldy and decayed teed and such feeds as may injuriously affect tho cow's health or tho charactor of tho milk should bo carefully avoided. RABBITS AND MICE by Meadow Mouse. so that it may Wual over readily. Cut tho stub slanting at the baso of tin sprout so that it will Bhcd wator Then cover tho wound with palnl mado of puro whlto lead and raw lin seed oil, to protect it from water and from disease germs. Do not spread tho paint beyond tho cut surface. This mothod should produce a treo oi bearing ago soonor than ono could be grown from a roplanted nursery troo. Whoro tho trees havo boen covered by deep snow tho girdling may occur a foot or moro above tho ground. In that caso tho treo may bo cut off and tho stump grafted with clons of tho 4 ,Jf UUOli u, SEVERAL DON'TS ON PRUNING TREES Dull Tools Make the Work Harder and Produce flough Wounds Handle Tree Gently. Don't wear hobnailed boots when pruning. In climbing about tho trees thoy readily Injure tho bark. Don't leavo your pruning to tho hired man. The moro you understand your trees tho hotter you will pruno them. Don't use dull tools. Thoy mako Jho work harder and produco rough wounds. Don't pruno in frosty weather. Frost bitten wounds aro slow to heal. Don't start all main limbs at tho samo height. Weak crotches aro tho results. Don't leavo stubs in cutting off limbs, They rot back and cause decay in tho trunk. Don't let Buckers grow. They nro worthless and draw upon tho tree's food supply. Don't leavo tho larger wounds bare. Apply good white lead paint or cover with grafting was. Don't slit tho bark, boro holes or drivo nails Into tho treo. They only offer places of entry for fungous dis eases. Don't uso' a hatchet for removing suckers. Tho hatchet la not a tool for scientific pruning. Don't handlo tho tree rdughly. It is a delicate structure and will amply re pay caroful treatment. Indiana Ex perimont Station. FERTILIZING PEAR TREES IS COMPLEX Most Careful Consideration and Judgment Required in Sup plying Stimulating Food. Tho use of fertilizers in pear culturo requires most caroful consideration and Judgment. Lands naturally fertllo, viz., loamy soils so common in praJrlo rogioms, cleared forest lands and clayey sollB having marl in their com position should not bo enriched. Till able lands that will grow a good crop of corn aro sufficiently fertllo for tho pear treo. When tho pear orchard begins to lose its vigor from continuous fruit crops a light surfaco dressing of wood ashes or well-rotted stablo manure may provo beneficial. As long ns tho trees maintain a normal healthy growth they require no stimulating food, DAMPEN CORN WHEN PUTTING INTO SILO Always Better to Use Too Much Water Than Not Enough When Crop Has Been Frosted. If tho corn crop has been badly frosted and Is In n dry or semldry stnto, it should bo dampened as it enters tho silo. It Is always bettor to got too much water than not enough. It is a common practlco to allow a Btrcam of water to ontor tho blowor or olovator as tho corn Is being cut, but it is claimed a better practlco to wa tor tho corn whon on tho wagon; how over, It is vory llttlo good,' to pour tho water on top of the sllago aftor tho silo has been filled. SOWS NEED GOOD ATTENTION Neglect at Farrowing Time Will Eat Up All Profits Made In Year -Feed la Important Problem. (Uy II. M. COTTU12LK) Give tho sow all tho water sho wants for tho first 24 hours after tho pigs aro born, but no grain. Take tho chill off tho wator in cold weathor. For threo or four days after the first 24 hours, glvo jplcnty of water, but feed grain and milk sparingly. Then slowly Increase uivf.il, when the pigs nro threo weeks old, tho sow Is having all tho feed Bho will consumo. Glvo tho pigs exercise and sunshine from birth, but do not allow thorn to got damp nor to bo exposed to the wind. When tho sow is given a warm, rich slop, or other milk-producing feeds Just after her pigs aro born, a strong milk flow is forced. Tho nowborn pigs get too much and have diarrhea, which often kills them. Thoy cannot take all tho milk, and tho sow's udder becomes inflamed and caked. When' tho pigs suckle tho pain becomes so intenso that in desperation she Jumps up, kills and eats them. Tho profltB for a wholo year can bo thrown away in a fow hours by a little' neglect at farrowing time. An inves tigation in ono of the chief hog-producing sections showed that tho farm- Roughage Self-Feeder for Swine Rack of This Kind Is Handy and Prevents Waste. ors were losing from one-third to two thirds of the pigs that woro born alive. Last year a man with 14 sows raised to weaning time only 15 pigs, whilo his neighbor, who used less feed, but spent every hour with his sows during tho farrowing time, raised an averago of over eight pigs to a lit ter from a largo herd of sows. SHEEP DURING WARM SEASON Particular Attention Should Be Paid to Water Supply Place the Flock Near a Running Stream. Particular attention should bo giv en tho sheep in warm weather rola tlvo to their supply of water. You know, many old fogy farmers still contend that sheep can get all tho water they require from tho dews. This is certainly a mistaken Idea, and ono that is absolutely cruel, for sheep need water as much as any of tho other farm animals, though they do not drink as much as somo others. I suppose it is a fact that sheep can subsist on tho dews aB their means of water, but thoy never do bo well as those that havo all they can drink, says a writer in Farm Progress. When an animal is forced to livo on less than tho normal water supply, it is suro to bo very uncomfortable. To do well and put on flesh, they should havo a running stream of water whore thoy can reach it. Many sheop raisers have a tendoncy to let tho sheep take care of thorn- Belves, after shearing time has passed, and thero aro so many othor farm duties demanding attention. Where thoro aro young lambs, they should be ! well cared for in order to make the beat growth possible before market ing in the fall. Thoy aro hard to get in shape to sell when they havo been forced to look out for themselves. If ono happens to havo a running stream of water in tho sheop pnsture, he may consider himself fortunato. A pond Is next best, and often ono is obliged to put up a few rods of fenc ing to incloso a pond, spring, or part of a creek. TEACH COLTS FAST WALKING Best Results Are Secured With Ani mals Full of Spirit That Want to Get Along Rapidly. A slow moving colt can bo taught to walk fast by hitching It besido a fast walker and urging It to kcop up. although it requires good handling to obtain full success with this method. Tho best results aro secured with animals full of spirit that want to movo rapidly. At tho samo tirao a young hcrso that Is full of spirit, if It Is allowed to work too hard, will bo como too tired, loso If ambition and dovclop Into a slow waikcr. Tho best training 1b to uso tho young Btock nt such light work that thoy can movo along rapidly without feeling it, lot ting them havo only enough of it so that thoy will got Into tho habit of moving rapidly and keep up tho trait after they aro older. BEST WIDTH OF GOOD ROADS Old Turnpikes, Still Our Best Road Ways, Were Not Wide Built for Ssrvlco and Profit. Ono of tho best roada I havo ovor driven ovor was just wldo enough for tvo vehicles to pass without scraping tho paint off each other's hubs. 1 nm not suro that somotlmos tho hubs did not touch. Hut It was a road that was always In good condition nnd tho men who kept it up seemed to do bo with comparative oase, writes W. E. Roso of Iowa In Farm Progross. Somo of tho old turnpikes, still our best roadways, woro not a rod In width. Whon thoso roads woro built they woro built for both sorvlco nnd profit, and in llguring tho futuro prof its tho builders saw that tho wider tho roadway and tho wheel track tho moro maiutonanco cost and, thoreforo, tho less profits. It Is a pity that tho mon who laid out tho llrst CO-foot and 6G-foot high ways hadn't taken a loaf from tho book of the turnpike builders. If thoy had wo would not havo millions of ncros of laud lying worso than idlo along our public highway right of ways. Say that tho road runs 20 miles from county seat to county seat. Along its length thero will bo anywhoro from 80 to 120 acro3 of land growing up in weeds, road grass, brush and thickets whoro it is not being washed into deep roadsldo gullies. Why, in somo stntos thoro is a full half million acres of land that Is boing wasted In Just that way and land In thoso states is selling anywhoro from $30 to $200 nn aero! Many of tho best and most famous roads of Europo aro but 1GV feet in width and thoy handlo somo of tho very heaviest highway traffic. Right now in thoso counties and townships in this country whore hard roads, per manent highways, aro being construct ed, fow of them aro being built moro than IS foot wido and a good many of thorn nro ovon narrower. Tho railroads, wastoful n3 thoy aro In somo things, nro beginning to real izo tho wasto of auscloss right of way. An Improved Road In Maryland. A road running through Illinois has its trackago fringed with alfalfa. Somo farmors havo resented tho wasto and aro beginning to cultivato tho land out to tho wheel tracks. This may causo a llttlo troublo at tlmos, but aft er all Is it not a great deal better than lotting tho roadsides grow up in ironweeds, sumacs, briars and thick ets? Any of our road vohlcloa needs no moro than a six-foot clearance Fig uro out for yoursolf how many farm wagons could drlvo abreast on a GO foot highway and then try to Iraag Ino nny necessity for nny such ar rangement. On a highway ono rod in width thero Is room for two ve hicles to pass with about four and ono-half feet to Bparo. Why havo tho roads, then, 6G feet wido? Somo of theso days our roads will bo narrowed. Wo havo not really folt tho pinch of a real land nood as yot. When wo do, then thero will bo a sudden narrowing of thoso wido stretches that aro now weed incuba tors and sccdors. In tho moanwhllo why not mako somo uso of tho soil flanking tho public highways? Why not scod it In grass and mow it as you would a meadow? Of courso tho land belongs to tho state, to tho public, but it Is worBO than usoless. Why not mako it glvo some return to somo ono? Away With Grain Insects, On tho farm, grain nnd grain prod ucts stored In tight bins may bo most effectively fumlgatod with carbon bl sulphldo. If tho building Is nearly air tight and tomporaturo Is about 70 degrees, four pounds of tho chomlcnl Is BUfllcIont for 1,000 cubic foot of cpaco, or ono pound for every 35 bush oln of grain. Honey-Maklna Material. Alfalfa offers ono of tho host honey-making materials. lslko la Jso valuable, ua Is swoot clovor. Some Drop. "When a porson pneo gots started on tho downward path ho raroly over ships until ho strikes tho bottom' said the speaker who was pleading for moral uplift. "That's right," Interrupted a mem bor of his nudlencc, who was swathed In bandages nnd who walked with a crutch. "I know from oxporlcnqo." "Ah!" exclaimed tho speaker, "hero Is an oxamplo of my nssortlon. Prny, my good man, would you toll mo what was tho causo of your downfall?" "Really, I don't know," was tho ro ply. "It might havo been troublo with my carburetor or my gasollno may havo run out. All I know 1b that my onglno 'stopped on mo 4,000 feet nbovo tho clouds." Planned to Reciprocate. "Woll, what can I do for you, Sam?" asked Jones aB tho colored wnltcr who usually served him at tho restaurant entered tho ofllco. "1 got a chanco to chnngo mall p'sl tlon, boss. Kin yo' say n good word fo' mo? Say I'so honea' nn' slch?" "I know, of course, that you're a good waiter, Sam, but how do I know you'ro honest?" "Woll, Jcs say yo' think l'so hones'. Dnt'll do." "All right, Sam; anything to obllgo you." "Thank yo', boss, thank yov very much. Whon yo' como ovah tomor row bo Btiro to sit nt mnh tnblb. I'll glvo yo' a short check." Pathfinder. What Kept Him Busy. "I supposo you nro woll posted on tho subject of sun spots, aren't you?" suggested tho lady. "Woll, really, I can't Bay that 1 am. It takes bo much of my tlmo looking after tho spots on my only suit of clothos." Technical. "I havo Just received word," said tho clerk to the telephone company, "that a man haB boen caught holding $1,000 embozzlcd from us. What reply shall I send?" "Toll him to hang up tho rocolvor," Bald tho president. A college education will not always onnblo n man to keep tho dandruff from his coat collar. Neighbors should try to do as they expect to bo dono by. On the Side of Science GrapeNuts! Certain elements are necessary for building stout bodies and active brains. The great majority of these all-important elements for life and health are supplied by Nature in her field grains, wheat and barley. But white flour products lack these essential elements Why? Because the miller to make his flour look white and pretty throws out about 45 ths. of the mineral content of the wheat necessary for building brain, nerve and muscle. Scientific opinion is on rape- for supplying balanced nutritive values. Not only does this famous pure food supply all the sound nourishment of the wheat, including the vital mineral elements sturdy builders of brain, nerve and muscle but of malted barley as well. Grape-Nuts is easily digested, generally in about an hour white flour products require about three hours. Grape-Nuts is always ready to eat direct from the dust-proof, moisture-proof, germ-proof packet de licious and economical! Not alone from the scientific aide but from the view-point of better health thousands have come to know There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts Sold by Grocers everywhere. poor substitute for kiss New York Comic Journal Evidently Thinks Little of the New "Pat-Pal" Idea. On tho basis of n Huntington. W Vn dispatch, describing Dr. E. V, Grovor'a recommendation of tho "pat pat" as a substitute for tho unhyglenk kiss, Puck submits n few modifica tions of current lltoraturo to suit, as follows: Ho planted a passlonato pat-pat up on her upturned cheek . . . Gwondolyn stood demuroly, undor tho mlstletoo, nnd In another 'instant Claronco hnd deftly pat-patted her. "How dnro you pat-pat mo, sir!" sho cried. . . . "It Ib useless for you to struggle, my proud beauty," ho hissed. Seizing hor roughly, Dalton pushed tho glorious head back, back, RACK, and leered Into tho frightened eyos. "I am going to pat-pat you; do you hear, girl? To pat-pat you!" ho cried. "And now, gentlemen," said Ter ence, our guide, "would nny o' ye lolko to pnt-pat tho Hlarnoy Stono?" Opportunity Missed. Tramp Yes, mum, I ain't got nuttln' tor hldo from tho world. I'vo been In Jail ninety times at ninety dlfforon plncos!" Miss Tcndernrt Oh! did you have a camora with you? Tramp No; I novor had nono! Miss Tondornrt Oh! what a pity! If you had had ono, you might soon tnko n now start by writing a sorlcs of nrtlclos for tho Ladles' Own en titled "Tho Instdo of a Hundrod Jails!" Puck. Too Busy. "Lot'B boo. You livo In tho com muter zono, don't you? Much build ing out your way?" "Woll, I should say thoro Is. Wo'vo Just completed two now tennis courts, a nlne-holo golf courso and " "I mean real building." "I was coming to that. Wo'vo put up two now garagos and extended tho piazza on tho country clubhouse" Eighty por cent of tho teachers In tho public schools of tho United States aro women. Kidnaping llttlo girls to soil as slaves Is a regular trado In China. the side of FOOD
