NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TItlfiUNE.
NICOTINE KILLS
STRIPED BEETLE
When Applied in a Mixture It Has
Been Found Effective in ,
Protecting Plants.
POISON ACTS AS REPELLENT
Insect Makes Its Appearance Suddenly
and In Lnrpe Numbers and Serious
Injury May Result If Appli
cation Is Neglected.
(Prepared by tne United States Department
lit Agriculture.)
Nicotine sulphate, when nppllcd In a
mixture with a dust, has been found
by the bureau of entomology of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture to protect young cucumbers, mel
ons and related crops successfully
from tho ravages of the striped cu
cumber beetle. Department Circular
224, "Nicotine Dust for Control of the
Striped Cucumber Beetle," by W. H.
White, scientific assistant in truck-
crop Insect Investigations, recently ls
used, gives the results of vurlous ex
periments at Arlington farm and di
rections for preparing and applying
the dust.
Amount to Apply.
A dust mixture containing 4 per
cent nicotine (proved as effective as
those containing greater amounts, and
Cucumbers of Uniform Slzo Result If
Vines Are Given Proper Attention,
Is therefore recommended. One-fourth
to one-half an ounce to the hill is ef
fective for one application. The dust
nets as a repellent and also kills the
beetles when they come Into contact
with It. When applied properly It
drives the Insects from the cracks In
the soil
Type of Effective Duster.
A duster that will throw a good vol
ume of dust quickly and forcibly to
prevent the beetle from escaping by
lllght should bo used. A cheese-cloth
sack or knapsack-bellows type of dus
ter Is effective on small areas. The
dust must be applied as soon as the
plants appear above the ground, so
that they are well covered. The In
sect makes Its appearance suddenly
and in large numbers und serious dam
age may result If this application is
neglected.
Department Circular 224 may be ob
tained free upon application to the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, Washington, D. C.
MARRIED MEN BEST WORKERS
Chances for Securing Employment on
Farm Are Less Than 50 Per
Cent for Slnole Men.
If you want a job on a farm your
chances of getting It nre slightly better
than T0 per cent if you aro married,
and slightly less than 50 per cent If
single. But If you're married and have
children your chances nre around 45
per cent.
The United Stntes Department of
Agriculture has found that, of 1,201
farm Jobs advertised In eastern farm
papers from 1020 to 1922, single men
were wanted In 387 Instances, and
married men In 410 Instances. In 308
cases the social requirements were not
stated.
Of the ndvcrtlscmentsv for married
men children specifically were not
wanted In 54 Instances. Children were
wnntod or wero permissible In 14 In
stances. Many farmers who hire laborers
have no dwellings to let and conse
quently cannot employ married men, It
Is said. If the fanner hns a dwelling
for n laborer's family he prefers that
It sliofiTuHfo occupied.
SILO FOR STORING COW FEED
One Should Be Constructed Where
Farmer Has as Many as Six or
Seven Dairy Animals.
Build a silo for storing feed If you
hnve as many ns six or seven cows.
A home-made stave silo 10 by 24 feet
will cost less than was paid last winter
for flvo tons 9'. hay. Four acres of
com will 1111 It and do tho work of
ten acres of hay.
GENTLE TREATMENT IS BEST
It Pays to Keep Milking Periods as
Regular as Possible and Milk
In Same Order.
It pays to treat the cows gently and
firmly, to keep tho milking periods as
nearly regular as possible, to milk in
the same order, and for each milker to
milk the sarao cows each time. This
Is necessary to the highest develop
ment of a herd no matter If the In
fluence In Individual cases seems Insignificant
WAR GASES PROPOSED
TO ERADICATE PESTS
Some of Them Promise to Bo
Quite Efficient
Particularly Useful When Heavlor
Than Air and Used on Burrowing.
Rodents and Insects In
Stored Products.
(Prepared by the United States Department
ui Asnuuiiure. i
Deadly gases that wero developed
for wnr purposes arc now being tried
out by the United Stutes Department
of Agriculture as u means for destroy
Ing noxious birds, animals, and Insects,
Some of them promlso to be useful
when applied under proper conditions,
particularly thoso that aro heavlor
than ulr und can bo used on burrowing
rodents, and possibly subterranean In.
sects and pests In stored products.
The most recent proposal Is to ubq
gas to kill destructive birds that con
gregate In marshes. In tho coming
fall the biological survey, in co-open
atlon with the chemical warfare serv
Ice, Is planning to make a trial of tht
method on blackbirds In tho Imperial
valley of California. In that region
these birds are said to do at least $50,.
000 worth of damage to the mllo crop
each year. Because of their feeding
habits It Is impossible to destroy thes.
birds with poisoned baits, but, as they
roost on the reeds In the marshes. 1(
Is thought that they can bo killed by a
gas cloud at night when the wind U
favorable. Tho blackbirds aro mlgra
tory and return to the same placet
year after year. It Is thought that a
big killing in a curtain locality will
probably free It of tho pests for many
years.
Arrangements also are being inada
by tho biological survey with tho chem
leal warfare service for Investigating
the possibility of using poison gases on
such burrowing rodents as rats, pralrla
dogs, ground squirrels, und wood
chucks.
Entomologists of tho department
have already worked In co-operation
with the War department In testing
various gases on Insect pests of growi
lng plants and those that Infest stored
grain, but It has not yet been found
advisable to recommend anything to
take the place of hydrocyanlc-acld gal
or carbon bisulphide.
Tho serious disadvantages of man)
of these new gases Is that they ar
dangerous or very Irritating to men
horses, and mules, and require the usi
of masks and greut care In handling.
CORN SHELLER EASILY MADE
Both Lever and Cut-Away Portions ol
Block Are Studded With' Pro
truding Spikes.
A homemade corn shelter Is just tin
thing where only n little corn Is to
be shelled. A block of wood with a
sloping notch cut from one end ll
mounted on three legs. A lever Is aft
Homemade Corn Shelter.
tached to the block. Both lever ant
cut-away portions of the block ar
studded with spikes driven so that tin
heads protrude about half an Inch
Tho box thnt catches the corn Is fas
tened to the legs of the ahellef.
KEEP HOE GOING IN GARDEN
Success of Vegetable Crops Depend
Greatly on Cultivation Plan
to Keep Weeds Out.
Much of the success of vegetabU
culture depends on keeping the ho
going. Never miss a chance when tin
ground Is In a semlmolst condition
That Is just the very best time for the
work. Keep stirring ns deeply a
possible between the rows of all young
growing vegetables to open up tht
soil and lay It ready for the action ol
sun and air. By this process weedi
never get a foothold, far less reach the
seeding stage. If this plan Is per
sisted In one can almost see th
vegetables growing. It Is not hard
work, and It Is well worth the time II
tukes.
SUMMER WEATHER AND FLIES
Many Calves Can Be Saved If Given
Careful Attention and Kept In
Shaded Pens.
Hot weather and flies ruin a great
many calves. It Is advisable to pro
tect tho young animals very carefullj
during the fly season. Spring calvei
aro never allowed by some breeder!
to posture tho first summer, but ara
kept In shaded pens away from tht
heat arid files. Fall calves, likewise,
are not nllowed pasture during the hot
days, but are turned out at night Into
Bmall paddocks or exercise pens. Un
less the calf Is getting plenty of grain,
washy grass may do It mors harm
than good.
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DAIRY
HINTS
CONTESTS IMPROVE QUALITY
Demonstrations In South Carolina
Have Done Much to Promote
Dairy Industry.
(Prepared br the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
County and stato butter coutests, a
feature of South Carolina extension
work for women last year, accom
plished much in the way of Improving
tho dulry Industry there. South Caro
lina Is not a dairy state. It uses an
nually about $14,000,000 worth of
dairy products shipped In from other
stntes. Some of this Importation Is
due to the fact that while there Is a
large amount of farm butter produced
within the state, no steady demand for
It has been developed. For tho pur
pose of creutlng an Interest In this
farm-mnde butter, and to teach tho
women to muko a better product, con
tests which were open to home-demonstration
club members were started
during 1021 in 11 counties.
Butter demonstrations wero given
In all tho women's clubs, and till In
terested persons wero Invited to a dem
onstration by the state specialist at
the county scat. Three hundred and
sixty women and girls enrolled for tho
contests, and of these 120 sent butter
for every Judging. Without exception
there was a great Improvement In tho
packages brought to market and tiie
quality of tho butter sold, us tho
women learned to what extent the but
ter Is affected by tho temperature
used for ripening and churning, tho
care and cleanliness In handling, and
the feeds for the cow.
"Contest butter" sold very readily at
the various club markets, and thoso
who did not enter the contest were
obliged to make Improvement in tho
quality of what they offered for snlo
or lose the market for their butter. Ex
tension workers report to tho United
States Department of Agriculture that
the butter produced In all parts of the
stato has been perceptibly Improved as
a result of theso contests.
TRAP KEEPS COW CONTENTED
Kansas Farmer Designs Odd Con
traption to Keep Files From
Milk Producers.
Along with keeping his hired help
contented the farmer must also keep
his cows "contented," If they are to
give their maximum production of
milk. A Kansas farmer, who believes
that bovine contentment depends
largely upon keeping the animals
A Special Flytrap, the Invention of a
Kansas Farmer, Brushes Flies From
Cows and Imprisons Them in a Trap
at the Top of the Contrivance.
free of files, has Invented nn odd fly
trap for that particular purpose. Tho
cow enters and walks through tho
cage, and the files nre brushed off
by brushes that protrude from each
side. The flics, or most of them, In
their attempt to escape, aro caught in
a specially designed trap on tho top
of the lnclosure. Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
DESTROYING LARVAE OF FLY
Caution Must Be Used In Applying
Chemicals to Manure Piles to
Conserve Value.
. There nre many ways of combat
ing the fly nuisance. On farms, the
manure piles are probably the chief
sources of fly Infection. Tho use of
chemicals In destroying tho Inrvne of
the fly In manure piles Is one of the
Important ways of keeping this insect
under subjection. However, one must
be cuutlous Inasmuch ao a too liberal
use of some of the chemlculs will de
stroy the fertilizing value of the ma
nure. FACTORS IN DAIRY FARMING
Of Great Importance That Barns and
Utensils Be Clean to Add to
Creamery Check.
Good clean barns, clean milking
practices, and clean dairy utensils aro
thrco essential factors In dairy farm
ing, whether for the man who Is muk
lng It his sole business, or the farmer
who uses flvo to ten cows to ndd tho
creamery check to his Income for tho
month, along with other farming work.
Silo Increases Profits.
Business farmers and experiment
stations have found thut a silo not
only Increases tho yearly profits of
the farm, but eliminates many uncer
tainties of live stock raising.
Feed Calves Separately,
Tie the calves up so they can be fed
separately.
Cows Standing Highest
The cows thnt stand highest In test
ing association records nre fed grain
regularly to supplement pastures.
SICILIAN SLOWLY
TURNS TO STONE
Is Tramping Across Sand Wastes
in Texas to, Die Among Pet
rified Trees.
SCION OF OLD ROME
Race With Death Is Nearlng End,
Though His Muscles Art Harden
ing Fortune Depleted by
World War.
Brownsncld, Texas. Mile by mllo
through the sand wastes of western
Texas, his body slowly turning to
ntono so thnt even a smile on his face
Is hardly distinguishable, Gulscppl Or
lando, scion of one of the oldest Sicil
ian noble families, Is slowly trudging
his way to tho petrlllcd forests of
Arlzonn where he hopes to die.
Unless somo passing tourist lends a
lclndly hand ho may never reach his
destination. Tho strange malady with
which he was afflicted several years
ago In Sicily Is slowly making walk
ing Impossible. Ills noso Is already
us hard as marble. Physicians In
Europe and America, to whom he has
appealed, shake their heads In despair,
He has what is commonly known as
myositis ossificans, a disease In which
large areas of muscles gradually be
come hardened by limestone deposits
Artcrlnl sclerosis Is a similar disease,
but the limestone forms only In tho
blood vessels. It Is only n matter of
time In myositis, however, until tho
vital organs of the body nre affected
and death steps In Hko a dream at
night.
A Beloved Teacher.
Orlando, an old man at sixty-two,
spent his life In a little Sicilian village.
Though afforded n good education by
the money one ancestor after another
had handed down to his purents, he
never had to work for a living. He
wns not idle. On tho contrary, he was
tho village's most Interesting, most
fascinating teacher. On the curb
stones of one of tho by streets groups
of children flocked about him at all
hours of tho day, even Into the night,
Ue taught them the history of their
country, the glories of .the old ltomnn
empire, In which his ancestors played
so great a part. What he learned
from books merely supplemented thnt
which his parents had told him nnd
his grandparents had told his parents
Tho World war vastly depleted tho
family fortunes, until he, an only
child, without a dcflnlte vocation In
Jlfe, too old to learn any, was re
duced almost to poverty. To add to
Ills distress he fell a victim to this
strange disease. He had read about
the petrified forests in the United
States, and he determined, Inasmuch
as his own body was soon to be petri
fied, that he would die where nature's
plants and animals had died such a
death.
SallB for America.
So lie set out for America with tho
pittance the poor villagers had given
him. When ho arrived his money was
1s Slowly Trudging His Way to the
Petrified Forests.
gone, nnd ho determined to walk
across the country to accomplish tho
one great aim of his. life.
Orlando Is nearlng his goal, but so
Is tho dreadful disease. He walks with
great dlfllculty. The food that farm
ers and townspeople en route give him
is received only with a courtly bow
and "thank you," spoken In good Eng
lish he cannot move tho skin and
muscles of his faco enough to smile.
But ho does smile Inwardly. Ho smiles
with each step he takes, knowing that
ho Is nearer his land of death where
nil that has died and nil that Is dying
turns to stono,
Chick With Extra Eye and Bill.
Trenton, Mo. A chicken with three
eyes and two hills was found In a
flock of chicks that were hatched by
a hen belonging to Lucretla Shaw of
this city. In caring for the small
chicks of her flock Mrs. Shaw acci
dentally ran across tho freak chicken.
It was well formed otherwlso nnd
seemed to bo as pert and healthy as
the others.
What Is It Worth
On the road changing a tire 13 not an especially
pleasant task.
The dust or mud, the grease and grime, the tedious
delay all are things we like to avoid.
But the time to think about these things is when
you buy the tire not after the blow-out occurs.
Forsomc tire3blow out much more easily than others.
Outward appearance counts for little.
It is the material in the tire and the construction
of it that determines its strength.
Goodyear recognizes these facts and all Goodyear
Tires arc made of long staple cotton.
Take tha-30 x 3 Cross Rib Clincher Tire here illus
trated, for example.
It is made of Egyptian and Arizona cotton, the
fibres of which average 1 inches long.
Many 30 x 34 clincher tires are mado of short
staple cotton from y inch to yb inches long.
This means les3 strength and greater danger of
blow-outs more tire troubles.
Yet this high gracfc guaranteed Goodyear Tire
costs only $10.95.
You can buy some tires for cvenless than this but none
with the fine materials and construction of this one.
Can you afford to take a chance on more frequent
tire troubles for the sake of the slightly lower price
of cheaper tires?
GOOD.!AR
10c
Changes Last Year's Frock to New
Putnam Fadeless Dyes dyes or tints as you wiste
Peary's First Venture.
Peary's first North polar expedition
lasted four years, 1898-1002, during
which period ho failed to get nearer
titan 848 miles to tho, pole.
Stlll-y.
Hewitt Oft In tho stilly night
Jewett Thnt's all moonshine. New
York Times.
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Jor Economical
$
f. o. b. Flint, Mick,
A Thousand a Day
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Strong, Quiot Spiral Bevel Gears,
Standard Transmission three
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Standard Braking System foot
service brake, hand emergency brake.
Standard EloatricalSy stem Start
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Standard Cooling System pump
circulation, large, honey-comb radia
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Standard Doors two on roadster
coupe and light delivery, four on
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to Change a Tire?
It Did.
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ditto "It did. His client got Ave
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"Pn, what's n critic?"
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Standard Typo of Carburetor, with'
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Powerful, Vatve-In-Head Motor
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Demountable Rims vitii extra rim.
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