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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1928)
They Didn’t Renounce War The Cummingses, past, present and future (?), had a lively reunion the other day in a Syra cuse, N. Y., hotel suite, when Mr3. Helen Gladys (left), wife No. 1, and Mrs. Irene Shaw Cummings (right), wife No. 2, paid a visit to Roy Cummings, vaudeville actor, in order to appraise pretty Florence Roberts, his stage partner and fiancee. Nobody knows exactly what happened, but the hotel presented Cum mings with a bill in three figures labeled “breakages.” (Intornatlonal Niwanwl) From Pulpit to Packing ■Ki m ....■— 11 — Taking the Gospel abroad is chief business right now ot Aiinee Semple McPherson, shown above with son, Kobe, 15, pa<k;ng for her trip across the Atlantic. The evangelist will visit Eng land, Scotland and Wales. (International Lfaprcraot) * ; Aquitania Beauty Passengers on Cunarder Aqui tania held a beauty contest in mid-ocean with girls from nearly every state in United States entered. First prize was won by pretty Jessie John son, brunette and 17, who hails from ol’ Mississippi. (International Illustrated News) Victor in Maine William Tudor Gardiner, G. O. P, candidate, elected governor of Maine by overwhelming plu rality. I - ' . Flames Lick Up Expensive Yacht Photo of yacht Nancy Jane, II, as it was enveloped in flames off B*ach Haven, N. }., following an explosion which seriously injured two of her crew. The trim little vessel burned to the water's edge. ® __ tl...m I (lliialr l’All NllWl) UuUrnatlonal Illustrated N«wa) The Perfect Bride Rose Perfect, Broadway mu ikal comedy star, who is to oarry Edmond A. Rieder, nanager of big New York lotel, in the near future. She las a son, 12, by a previous narriage. < International Nawaraatt Put* Down Revolt Primo de Rivera, Spanish dic tator, at whose order more than 1,000 arrests were made throughout Spain when an in cipient plot to overthrow mon archy was discovered. (InlaraatlOBal Illu»trBt«d In Love Tragedy Willis King, 28 (above), ol prominent Chicago family, lost ^800,000 trying to beat the stock market and then took his own life. He left a note to Miss Alma Kthridge, pretty actress and artist's model, with whom he had had a break a few weeks previously, saying, in part: “Death is better than liv ing on a ghastly failure.” llatvriMi Uuu*l Nuwuiuslt OF INTEREST TO FARMERS WINTER STORAGE Vegetable and fruit growers who cater to local markets must neces sarily store some of their products for winter sale. Farmers must also ; store their supplies of apples, pears, j beets, carrots, turnips, potatoes, and the like. In providing for a storage cellar, certain provisions must be fq^owad and principles observed: (l.) See that the room is entirely j shut off from the rest of the house | or cellar, away from the furnace, and preferably on the north or cold side yf the house. (8.) Have It fully u*ru!ated by using tight walls and ceilings. Double walls, the dead air spaces filled with shavings, saw dust or cork, and with all cracks plugged, are more effective. (3.1 Have a window in the small storage room, or a ventilator in the large room: keep open whenever the out side temperature Is lower than the Inside temperature, unless there Ls danger of freezing. (4.) Keep vege tables as near 34 to 38 degrees as possible, except squash, pumpkins a&d sweet potatoes, which need a warm room, 53 to 65 degrees. For I apples 30 to 32 degrees is desirable. (5.) Keep the atmosphere damp to prevent shdiveling. An eathen floor ls best. Sprinkle concrete floors or cover with a layer of earth, which may be dampened occasionally. (6.) Keep the room clean and sanitary to prevent the growth of bacteria and other decay organisms. (7.) Keep the room as dark as possible by shading the windows from the outside. (8.) Screen all openings to keep out rats and mice. (9.) Store products on shelves, racks, slat bins or slat crates. Keep onions and cab bage on open slatted racks; potatoes in slatted bins, two to three fpet, and raised an inch or two off the floor; apples In slat bushel crates; canned goods on shelves. Store car rots. beets, turnips and similar root crops in boxes of moist sand or soil to prevent shriveling. Don't store fruits or celery with anything that gives off an odor, such as onions. (19 ) Store only sound, dry speci mens, for frosted, diseased or bruised fruit or vegetables will soon rot. LIMING FOR LEGUMES One farmer says that he would like to sow sweet clover next spring, but he is not in position to do any liming. Besides he is of the opin ion that lime is not needed on his farm, because sweet clover grows luxuriantly along the roadside in his community. It is a well known fact that sweet clover will not grow on sour land. It is a waste of seed and labor to sow it on such land. It is also a well known fact that the soil along a roadside may be sweet while that on the farm adjoining may be sour. Thu reason for this is easily under stood. Every crop grown on a piece of land removes some lime, provided it is taken off the land. If the crops grown are allowed to remain on the land. a3 those grown along the roadside usually are. the loss of lime will be much smaller than when they are taken off. For that rea son, sour soils are frequently found in cultivated fields adjoining road sidps where the soil is sweet. The proper thing to do before seeding sweet clover, or any other legume, is to have the soil tested for acidity. The county agent will be glad to test any farmer’s soil and do it without charge. Those who are not oertain as to the condition of their soils with reference to acidity, should have Vhem tested before sowing legumes and especially sweet clover. In that way they can ascertain with exactitude how much lime, if any, may be required for the successful growing of legumes. There are soils that contain an abundance of lime and will grow sweet clover without liming. In fact, it is a well known fact that fully 75 per cent, of soils are acid and require a dressing of ground lime stone before they will prccfuce le gumes satisfactorily. Common red clover will grow on soils that are slightly acid, so also will soybeans, but such crops as sweet clover and alfalfa will not. PICKING LADDERS Fifteen or twenty years ago, when open-top apple trees were being ad vocated by many specialists, one of the advantages cited was the fact that such trees could be picked from the ground. Unfortunately this did not prove to be an actuality, and even with the lowest-headed and most open-topped apple trees we still have occasion to use ladders. The type of ladder employed dif fers in various localities. In com mercial orchards one of the most useful types consists of a light spruce ladder tapering to a narrow, but not closed, top. Such a lad der is narrow enough at the top to be easily pushed between the branches and with the open point it can be made to straddle a branch and be in less danger of pivoting and throwing the picker to tire ground. Regardless of the type of ladder used, there are a few points that the commercial grower would do well to observe. In the first place, all equipment of this sort should be carefully exam ined and only perfectly sound, safe ladders should be issued. One dam age suit might cost more than a car load of new ladders. Apple pickers are prone to leave their ladders in the field, especially at the end of the reason when the last day's work is completed. A coat of white point will make them con spicuous when the wagons go on their final roundup to gather in the equipment. Incidentally, the paint will serve to delay the day of retire ment. PROPAGATING RASPBERRIES Because black raspberry planU are not easy to ship succesfully many small fruit grouers'prefer to grow their own plants.'' There Is bfilvar sally less loss of home-grown plants KNOW BULL'S ANCESTRY Where less than 300 pounds of outter fat is produced in a year, it A very easy to increase the produe ;ion of a herd by the use of a good bull. When the production reaches 100 pounds, however, it is very cllf 'icult to have the production of he daughters increased by the use )f ordinary bulls. After production ras been built to thi3 level, a care ul study of the ancestors cf a num ber of males should be made to elect a proved sire. A proved sire s one on which the owner has kept reduction records on both thy- cows i .d their daughters by the sire In mestion. than is the case where plants are shipped some distance. In addition to the reason suggested for growing plants at home, there is the added advantage of being able to eradicate disease-infested plants before plant ing. The propagation of black rasp berry plants is accomplished by the method known as tip-layering. This i3 done in the northern states in late August or early September. By this time the tips of the canes are long enough to reach the ground and are In proper condition to cover. Three or four inches of dirt over the top of each tip is usually sufficient. Better results are secured by using a spade to cover the tips than is the case when a plow is used. The furrow turned up by a plow gener ally covers the tipi too deep. If the work is well done and at the right time the tipi will be well rooSed by the end of the growing season. The tips are not detached from the parent plant until the iol lowing spring. CHLORINE AS*DISINFECTANT Uhtil fairly recently steam has been considered the great sterilizing agency for everything that had to do with milk. At the present tune, however, the use of chlorine disin fectant Is gaining in popularity. Not only are the milk producers finding it satisfactry, but it meets with the approval of practically every state and city board of health in the country. Chlorine preparations can be pur chased in several forms, but can readily be made at home. We make it ourselves and get exceedingly satisfactory results from our own mixture, says the head of a western experiment station. The procedure is simple: Mix enough water with one can—12 ounces—of chloride of lime to form a paste, then add enough more water to make a gal lon. Let the mixture stand for 21 hours, stirring it several times dur ing that period. Strain off the clea* liquid through a cloth into a st.ona or glass container. Kept tightly stoppered in a cool, dark place. thU stock solution will retain Its effici ency for a long time. to use. aaa on? pint or tne stocr solution io each eight galloas of water. Wash cans and bottles thoroughly in hot water with the usual washing solution. Rinse in hot water and then again in the chlorine solution, which should bo cool or barely lukewarm rather than hot. Care should be ex-rclsed that the solution is used only in glass, enamel stoneware or wooden vats. It should not be used in galvanized iron wash sinks. This homemade rfhlorine solution is doing better work for us than tha steam did, is more simple to handls and costs very much less. MOLASSES IN RATION An experiment has been conducted over a period of four years to deter mine the effects of adding various quantities of blackstrap molasses to a ration composed cf cottonseed meal, 3ilage and a carbonaceous hay. A hundred and twenty head of one and 2-year-old steers have been utilized in this test. One lot was fed a ration composed of cottonseed meal, silage and hay. The .second lot received the same feed with the addition of three pounds of molasses per steer daily, and the third lot received an addition of six pound* of molasses per steer daily. In this experiment the average length of the feeding period was 114 davs. The initial weight of the steers fed n the test was 745 pounds and the cattle cost $5.73 per hundred In the feed lot. The average price of the feeds used in the experiment was as follows: Cottonseed meal,' $40 per ton, molasses, 14.7 cents per gallon, hay. $12.50 per ton. and si lage $4 per ton. The average selling' price for the three lots on the mar ket was $8 80 for the meal fed steers, $912 for th’ light molasses fed steers, and $9 06 for the medium molasses fed steers. While the molasses increas-d the cost of grains for the second lot, the higher selling secured for the molas ses-fed cattle increased the returns per steer by 67 cnts above the ini tial valuation and feed cast. The difference in the rat? of gain, finish and selling price between the light molasses fed steers and the medium molasses fed steers appears to be Insignificant, while the finan cial showing clearly favors the light1 molasses ration. The returns per steer above the initial valuation amt; feed cost was $7.07 for the meal fed; steers, $7 74 for the light molasses; fed steers, and $7.83 for the medium molasses fed steers. A study of th? data of the experi ment indicates that about three pounds of molasses mav b? added profitably to a steer ration of ?ot tonseed meal, silage and hay, while the use of double this quantity is very likely to be unprofitable. STOMACH WORMS Marked nrogress is being mode in control of internal parasites in1 sheep. Not long since announce ment was made that carbon tetra chloride would control liver flukes. So successful was this method that its use is rapidly becoming a stand ard practice. Now comes announce ment that stomach worms can be effectively oontro'led bv the use of nema capsulek. The effective chem ical in this treatment is tetrachlore thyline. This treatment is very reasonable in cost, as these capsules can be obtained at all drug stores for 75 cents per dozen and one or two treatments are usually suf ficient. This control method is rap idly roming into general use in the Pacific northwest. Frcm France comes lately another treatment which Ls said to be verv effective for the same oaraslte. It is a solution made of 20 ounces of sninhur anhvdride in 40 gallons of water. In large flocks, very badly affect’d with parasites, this solution is said to have been very effective. PLOWING VS. DISCING Good plowing and early plowing are very much more important than deep plowing. Plowing from four to five inches will bi sufficiently deep. There is no advantage in plowing as deep as 10 inches for the ordin ary crops. Whether or not it is more profitable to plow every year or to disk stubble and plow only i every other year, is probably not j known. If the stubble land is rea sonably free from weeds and if early discing can be practiced, the chances are that it will be better than plow ing every year, especially on the i lighter soils which are inclined to t drift