THE SFMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTT NEBRASKA.
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rEED INDUSTRY
IS IHOREAS
And That, If You Please, Is True Patriotism
WASHINGTON. She stood in the Liberty loan line. And when lier turn
mine to subscribe to n llfty-dollar bond the bit of paper thrilled her
with personal Jubilation: she was helping to win the war. She wan no slacker,
to stand buck and defend her own In
terests with her drawn salary In her
hand. She was a regulnr Yank, shed
ding hvr dollars ns the boys were
shedding their blood. That money
meant a whole lot n woman enn And
bo many uses for $50 these days
but, thank goodness, she had made
the sacrifice
And the pride of It fairly bubbled
through brain and body, until the
voice of an nged colored man who was
next In line stuck a pin In her soul.
"I want a thousand-dollar bond,' sir."
The seller of bonds bcnnied humorous kindness: "You never tu the
world could raise all tlint money you mean n hundred-dollar bond, don't
you?"
Kor contradiction, the aged colored man opened a hand that held n
chunk of bills that called for a thousand-dollar bond.
The woman recognized renl sacrifice when she saw It sacrifice that had
grlddled n man's face and stooped his back and calloused his hands Into
Jiumun claws anti In the seeing her own childish prido fell from her like the
rags from that splendid princess in the fairy talc and made her understand
the big thing that Liberty bonds stand for.
And that, If you please, Is true patriotism.
kl3ErTY' rij w
Pleasant Sunday Sights Above Capitol Hill
ABOVE the green heights of Capitol hill there are streets that trail beyond
the area of line residences until they reach n section of unpretentious
homes. If you had walked out that way a Sunday morning recently you
would have seen, among other pleas-
European War Working Wonders
in Production, Particularly
on Pacific Coast.
WAR GARDENS ADD STIMULUS
V .0.
ant sights:
A man In overalls coating his roof
with brown paint. There Is nothing
glamorous about overalls, and brown
paint Is exceedingly everydayish, but
from Raphael to date no artist ever
daubed canvas mora rapturously than
that overall man daubed tin.
Down another street n man was
tacking weather strips on his front
windows, while his family looked on.
Around n corner n woman was
tying up a leafless vino against a fence. And at the next crossing, where
there stood a white frame house with green shutters set In a garden rimmed
around with red dahlias you would have recognized the old man who takes ) ducers,
Raising of Vcgctablo Seeds Chiefly
Confined to Few Widely Separated
Districts California Is the
Largest Producer.
(Prepared by tlio United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Since the liuropean sources of vege
table seed have been cut off by wnr
conditions, the seed-growing Industry
In the United States has made rapid
developments, particularly In the Pa
cific coast and Rocky mountain states,
according t a report of the bureau of
crop estimates, United States depart
ment of agriculture.
An added stimulus to this industry
has been the increased number of war
gardens which have been plnnted In
all parts of the country. The com
mercial production of vegetable seeds
Is chlelly confined to a few widely sep
arated but well-defined districts, hut in
exceptional Instances the Industry has
been Introduced into new sections
through the efforts of contracting
seedmen who have sought to expand
the production by entering new areas.
The production of onion seed Is enr
oled on In ninny localities. Most of
the Western districts where onions are
grown for market also raise for their
own use and sell the surnlus. The
largest section of production for on
ion seed, however, Is known ns the
"river district" of the San Joaquin
nnd Sacramento vnlleys In the centrnl
part of California.
Carrot Seed in California.
California Is the largest producer of
carrot seed. Sacramento and Yolo
counties rank llrst, with San Joaquin,
Contra Costa, Santa Clara, and San
Uenlto counties ranking as minor pro-
In the production of radish
WATCH FOR DISEASE
OF COMMON POTATO
Outbreak in East Indicates In
troduction of Ailment.
Trouble May Be Recognized by Irreg.
ular, Warty Outgrowth All Sus
plclous Cases Should De Re
ported to Washington.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Gardeners In all parts of the coun
try are asked by the United States de
partment of agriculture, to watch for
Instances of potato wurt, a disease
that has been discovered In gardens
In ten small mining towns In Lnxeme
county, eastern Pennsylvania, and that
It is feared has been carried by lOu
ropean shipments to other districts.
The disease may ho recognised by Ir
regular, warty outgrowths, beginning
In the tender tissues near the eyes
and enlarging until the entire potato
may bo changed Into ti black and
worthless mass.
All suspicious cases should he re
ported to tho Department of Agricul
ture. Washington. IX C, or to the State
I 1 1 II - I 11 '
seed the situation Is reversed, the coast
counties of California producing the
vnur unilirollfi when vou co Into a Government building that treasures won
derful things. Naturally, you would have smiled recognition as one passer
by did and just as naturally the old man would have offered you a dahlia, ! bulk of the crop, and the river dls
whlch you would refuse for a certain cranky reason that he would Indorse. trict being unimportant as a producer.
."That's just the way wife and I feel about posies. Wo cut them to give it Is also grown in the Pacific North
pleasure to others, hut, for ourselves, we feel that after a flower has had to west. Ileet seed Is grown In both
wait a whole year to bloom, it likes to stay on ltd bush. I always take Sun- j the river and coast districts of Call-
lavs after early church to putter around tho house and garden. The change , fornln,' but Is probably grown more
from ofiice work rests me more than anything else. You know the doctors
tell us that change Is rest, anil I don't know what we laboring men and J
women would do without our blessed Sundays. Tiie uivme iratner was
' thoughtful of our needs when he declared that the Sabbath wns made for
man and not man for the Sabbath."
He said It with a reverence that would have kept any passer-by silent
regardless of personal views and as you turned homeward by the woman i
who wns tying up vines arid the man who was tacking wenther strips and
the overall man on tho roof, It would have come to you somehow that tho
Scripture lino hud suddenly taken on the realism of a voice, and that the
voice was saying: .
"The Sabbath was made for man."
extensively around Sacramento than In
any other portion r-f the state. Let
tuce seed Is grown almost exclusively
near the const section of California,
Should Midshipmen Serve a Year's Enlistment?
IT IS the belief of mnny ofllcinls of the navy department that every mid
shipman should serve an enlistment of one year.1 In fact, It was tho
purpose, if the war had not intervened, of navy department ofllcinls to recom
mend that no midshipman appointed
to the naval academy should receive
his commission under five years, and
that, after passing the entrance ex
amination, every appointee should go
to sea as a regularly enlisted man and
serve one year in tho ranks before en
tering Annapolis.
It has been suggested ns a better
plan to afford future ofllcers experi
ence us seamen, that the course at
Annapolis should be divided.
The first two years' instruction
would he given ashore at the academy, the third being spent nt sea, doing
the duties and having the same discipline as nil other enlisted men, and mid
shipmen then to return to tho naval academy for two years prior to grad
uation. There may ho some discussion as to which suggestion Is best, but many
olllcials of the department are fully convinced that no man should be com
missioned an olllcer In the Amerlcen navy until ho has spent at least one year
"before the mnst," not as an olllcer, but as an enlisted man.
Tills experience, it Is believed, would insure practical knowledge which
would give the olllcer the viewpoint of the enlisted seuman which ho could
obtain In no other way.
The American ideal is that men should obtain high station by beginning
nt tho lowest rung In the ladder. They should obtain plncc and position by
first mastering the primary duties.
This Is the Men that fhe navy ofllclals have in mind, nnd It seems
probable that after tho present war some such method will bo adopted for
the future.
W3 -A.
What Is a Prune? How About This Definition?
til IIAD to come all the way to Washington to find out what n prune was,"
I said one pretty war worker to another the other afternoon, ns they rodo
homeward on the street car. "Now,
I HAD to
COME T ,
TOFINOW
WHAT" A
WAS
my uenr, protested tne otner, "tor
heaven's sake don't begin to tell mo
about boarding-house prunes. That
joko Is as old as the hills."
"Oh, I don't mean that," said the
first war worker. "I renlly mean It.
You see, I am from California, out
whero we have all kinds of fruit, you
know. Of course, I lived in tho city,
hut I thought I knew nil about things
that grow.
"Prunes I accepted as n matter of
fact, and never thought about them
one way or tho other. If you had
asked me I would hue said they grew on a prune tree, or- on hushes, or some
thing. I Just never thought, that's all.
"To think that I should have had to come to tho national capital to find
out I Life is n funny proposition, all right, nnd knowledge, sometimes, almost
as curious. I had to travel clear across the continent to tind out the llfo
history of tho prune.
"When I go home I can tell the folks about many things crowded street
cars, and tho hoarding houses, and the beautiful streots, nnd thnt lovely baby
hippopotamus at the zoo, and that time I saw tho presldont, nnd many other
Uiingfa nnd, also, what a prune Is!
"I just happened to be looking through n dictionary, and there I saw It:
"'Prune the dried fruit of tho plum.'
"Honest, I never knew n prune was n dried plum before. Did you?"
now about it?
Most of Western Onion Districts Raise
Their Seed Supplies and Sell Any
Surplus.
particularly In Santa Clara nnd San
Hctilto counties and also In San Luis
( )hNpo county.
Tho pea-seed growing districts are
widely scattered but are somewhat re
stricted by the pea weevil. The two
largest districts are In enstern Wash
ington and eastern Idnlio.
Other Vegetable Seed.
The production of seed of the garden
varieties of beans is concentrated In
portions of Colorado, California, Wash
ington, and Idaho. The Oreeley dis
trict of Colorado Is the leading dis
trict. Lima-bean seed-growing Is con
fined to tho coast counties of southern
California. Cantaloupe and cucum
ber seed Is produced extensively In
Colorado, particularly In tho Rocky
1'nrd district or the Arkansas valley.
Tomato seed Is most extensively pro
duced In Orange county, California,
south of Snntn Ana. Other seed crops
produced In this district are peppers
and various vine crops. The principal
cabbage-seed growing district Is In
the Puget sound country, but the grow
ing of cabbage seed Is being tried out
In other localities and new districts
of Importance may be developed. This
statement also applies to turnip seed.
Spinach seed Is produced In Cali
fornia and In the Northwest. During
the past season the Industry has de
veloped, particularly In Yolo and Sac
ramento counties of California, but 1h
not confined to that region.
Every Gardener Is Urged to Protect
Potato Supply Against Disease by
Reporting All Cases to United
States Department of Agriculture.
College of Agriculture. All diseased
potatoes should be burned and the In
fested ground staked off.
Several well-established cases of tho
disease have been discovered In gar
dens in ten small mining towns In Lu
sserno county, In eastern Pennsylvania.
The extent of the infestation has not
yet been determined, but an nctlve sur
vey of this and other districts is now
tinder way. In most of these gardens
It has been observed by tho owners
during the last two seasons. In many
gardens It has been severe for threo
years, while lu a few Instances It has
done considerable damage for four
years.
From European Source.
The source of the disease appears
to bo a shipment of several carloads
of European potatoes of Inferior qual
ity, distributed In IDlii, before tho
passage of the Plant Quarantine Act.
Since thnt date tho importation of po
tatoes from countries where potato
wart is known to exist lias been pro
hibited by tho federal horticultural
board, but the disease has evidently
become established In some localities.
Tho wart is a disease attacking tho
i ubers and also the stems, causing Ir
regular, warty outgrowths, beginning
In tho tender tissues near tho eyes and
enlurglng until the entlro potato may
bo changed into a black and worthless
muss. The young galls are whitish
or greenish, suggesting a cauliflower
head. In the present outbreak the dls
ease manifests Itself in n very sevcro
form, though In a limited area, prac
tlcally destroying tho whole crop In
many of the gardens affected.
There Is little danger that the dis
ease will spread rapidly to neighbor
ing states, as the Pennsylvania stnto
authorities, under the leadership of
Economic Zoologist .1. G. Sanders, aro
co-operating In the survey and will
take tho necessary restrictive men
ures to prevent Infective material from
moving out of the district.
It Is feared that other shipments of
European potatoes, made prior to tho
quarantine, have carried the dlseaso
to other districts, it should bo sought
for, especially In the gardens of Indus
trial and mining vlllnges, which wero
the principal markets for cheap, for
eign potatoes. In such places garhago
Is thrown into the garden and potatoes
are grown continuously, thus favoring
tho spread of wart diseases.
European experience with wart dis
ease, particularly In England, Indi
cates It to bo n very serious trouble.
Tho saving feature Is tho discovery
that certain varieties of potatoes aro
Immune, and only these are now al
lowed to he planted on infested land.
No American varieties have yet been
found resistant. The English sorts
will bo tried, though experience to date
Is that European potatoes as a class do
not give good results In this country.
INSECTS KILLED BY PLOWING
When Soil Is Put Into Shape for Next
Season's Crops Numerous Bugs
Are Destroyed.
Plowing which puts tho ground Into
the best condition for crop growing
during tho coming season will also
kill numerous Insects that winter In
the ground, such as wlreworms, cut
worms, white grubs and com oar
worms.
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What Determines Meat land
live-Stock Prices?
Some stock men still think that Swift &
Company and other big packers can pay
as little for live-stock as they wish.
Some consumers arc still led to believe
that the packers can charge as much for
dressed meat as they wish.
This is not true. These prices are fixed by
a law of human nature as old as human
nature itself -the law of supply and demand.
When more people want meat than there
is meat to be had, the scramble along the line
to get it for them sends prices up. When
there is more meat than there are people who
want it, the scramble all along the line to get
rid of it within a few days, while it is still
fresh, sends prices down.
When prices of meat go up, Swift &
Company not only can pay the producer
more, but has to pay him more, or some
other packer will.
Similarly, when prices recede all down tho
line Swift & Company cannot continue to pay
the producer the same prices as before, and
still remain in the packing business.
All the packer can do is to keep the expense
of turning stock into meat at a minimum,
so that the consumer can get as much as
possible for his money, and the producer as
much as possible for his live-stock.
Thanks to its splendid plants, modern
methods, branch houses, car routes, fleet of
refrigerator cars, experience and organization,
Swift & Company is able to pay for live
cattle 90 per cent of what it receives for beef
and by-products, and to cover expense of
production and distribution, as well as its
profit (a small fraction of a cent per pound),
out of the other 10 per cent.
SWift & Company, U. S. A.
S
!
An Easy Matter.
An American and an Irishman wen'
telling each other wonderful thlngf
which had been done In their respec
tive countries.
"I guess we have the best Jumpers
lu the world," said the American.
"Why, one of our men ran thirty miles
and then Jumped over a fi-hnrred gate."
"Sure, no wonder he did," said the
Irishman. "Look at the run he tool:."
PROVEN SWAMP-ROOT
AIDS WEAK KIDNEYS
No Wonder.
"Whnt a smooth look tho convict
yonder lias."
"Naturally. lie has Just bee.
Ironed."
Of the 050 tons of ivory brought nn
nunliy Into England, Shefllcld consume
a third.
The nymptoms of kidney and bladder
troubles arc often very distressing and
ieavo the system in a run-down condition.
The kidncj'H Hccm to nu(Tcr most, as al
most every victim compIaitiB of lame back
and urinary troubles which uliould not be
neglected, as tlii-he danger signals often
lead to more dangerous kidney troubles.
Dr. Kilmer's Swnmp-Itoot which, so
many people say, soon Iieala and strength
ens tho Iiiclncys, is u splendid kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, and, being
an herbal compound, has a gentle heal
ing effect on tiie kidneys, which is al
most immediately noticed In most cages
by those who ue it.
A trial will convince anyone who may
bo in need of it. letter get a bottle from
your nearest drug store, and start treat
ment at once.
However, If you wich first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer &, Co., Hinghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. Adv.
The Very Name Jars on Him.
"Can't you find congenial work?"
"Madam, for me no work Is con
genial." Ronton Evening Transcript.
IWadacbra, Illllom Attarka, IiiiUtfutlcm, are
cured liy taking Mar Apple, Alt, Jalap mad
Into I'leaeaot I'elleta (f)r. 1'ltrcVe). Adr.
At Is Were.
"The Turtle Is un unsociable critter."
"LiveB too much within hltm-clf, so
to speak." Louisville Courier-Journal
Stop Your Coughing
No need to let that cough peralit. Stop the
trriutlon, and remove tickling and hoarse
news by soothing: the inflamed throat with
SO'S
Don't trifle with a cold
it's dangerous.
You can't afford to risk
Influenza.
Keep always at hand a
box of
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