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5250,000
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Union Label
Stamped in them. Also Gloves and Overalls.
We carry complete lines of these goods.
WELLS & FROST CO.
935 O Street
PIANO REPAIR FACTORY
We are pleased to announce to the music-loving' people of
Lincoln and vicinity that we are opening a Piano Repair Fac
tory at 10:20 X Street, where anything in connection with a
Piauo can be repaired. Voieing, Restringing, Action Regulat
ing, Polishing and Whitening Ivories. Refinishing Cases in
fact, practically rebuilding if necessary. Pianolas, Pipe Or
gans and Electric Pianos also repaired. Experienced Factory
Men and Expert Tuners in charge. All our work is guaranteed
aind any orders for Tuning and Repairing will be promptly
attended to. Get our special terms for yearly tuning; also
quotations for polishing cases.
Yours Sincerely,
Anto Phone 3733 CHAS. A. WENINO.
IU I OSS I. SMITH
Watchmaker and Jeweler
BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES
132 No. Tenth St. Opposite Postoffice
Established in Lincoln in 1890
HARMFUL BROWN-TAIL MOTH
In Addition to Injury It Does to the
Trees It Carries Disease
Germs.
There Is but one generation of the
brown-tail moth annually in New
England. The insect winters as a
tiny larva or caterpillar within a
web or nest made of silk and leaves
woven together tightly. The nests
win vary in size usually from three
to four inches in length and will con
tain 200 or more caterpillars.
These nests are securely attached
to the tips of trees or plants on which
the caterpillars were working before
hibernation.
In early spring, as soon as the buds
of fruit and shade trees appear, ac
cording to Howard, these one-fourth
grown caterpillars emerge from their
The brown-tail moth; female moth
above male moth below, larva or cater
pillar at right, slightly enlarged.
winter quarters and Immediately com
mence feeding upon the buds and
blossoms and latjr the foliage. The
young caterpillar is of a blackish
color and covered with very small
hairs. The full-grown larva is about
two inches long, reddish brown in
color, with a broken white stripe on
each side and two red dots in the
back near the hind end. The body
is covered with numerous tubercles
bearing long barbed hairs. The tuber
cles along the back and sides of the
abdomen are thickly covered with
short brown hairs in addition to the
long ones.
The full-grown larva changes to a
pupa within a cocoon which it pre
viously makes with silk and leaves.
These cocoons may be in groups or
singly in some secluded spots or at
the tips of branches of trees n
which they have fed. The cocoon is
so loosely made that the pupa may be
seen through it.
The moths of both sexes are pure
white with the exception of the abdo
men, which is dark brown. The tip
of the abdomen of both sexes, more
pronounced in the female, bears a
small tuft of brown hairs, from which
the insect gets its name. The female
moth has an expanse of about one and
one-half inches while the male . is
somewhat smaller. The moths are
strong fliers and are readily attracted
to lights.
In addition to the severe injury that
this pest will do to fruit, shade and
forest trees, and the consequent cost
of fighting it, there is another feature
connected with its presence that is
very troublesome, if not alarming,
that is, danger to the health of
people.
The larva or caterpillar bears tiny
hairs which are barbed and when the
Insect molts these hairs are shed
with the skin. Upon drying, these
skins and hairs float about in the air
and are a source of constant trouble
to persons living in an infested dis
trict. When the caterpillars skins, or
even loose hairs, come in contact with
the akin they cause a severe irrita
tion. A large part of the popular
feeling In New England that the
brown-tail moth must be exterminated
is due quite as much to the preva
lence and annoyance of this rash as
to the loss of vegetation from the
work of the caterpillar.
With this pest undoubtedly the
easiest and practically the on!y effec
tive means of artificial control where
established is by cutting off the over
wintering nests during the late fall,
winter or early spring and destroying
the tiny larvae within. This, of course,
can be supplemented by spraying with
an arsenical mixture, when the larvae
appear on the foliage in spring.
HOME-MADE SPRAY OUTFIT
Suitable One Can Be Put Together
in One Day by Any Workman Who
Is Handy with Tools.
The spray pump described below
cost me $11. One of standard make
and not so powerful was priced at
$45. Any ordinary workman who is
handy with tools could put my sprayer
together in a day. It has proven so
valuable to me that I wish to make it
known to everybody, says Charles A.
Vanoselle. in Scientific American.
It was assembled from the following:
A riding cultivator frame, pole and
wheels (old scrap iron), a good coal
ofl barrel (price $1). a three-inch cyl
inder cost-iron force pump ($6), a
plain brass two-inch cylinder and
valves ($2). a piece of good three-quarter-inch
hose and a spraying noz
zle ($2). Total ccst. $11. After pot
ting the atove material together I was
able to get easily a pressure of 130
pounds per square inch, a very neces
sary prerequisite to apply the Bor
deaux mixture with the right force.
Directions Sot assembling are as fol
lows: Take the valves out of the cyl
inder of any castiron force pump.
The Home-Made Sprayer Complete.
Replace these valves with the plats
brass two-inch cylinder and . v aires.
Cut off with a hack saw the two-inch
cylinder to the right length to Just
fill the cast cylinder. Fin in the space
between the cast cylinder with plaster
or cement, being sure that the bras
cylinder is in the exact center of the
cast cylinder. Attach the plunger
valve of brass cylinder to the plunger
piston of the force pump, and couple
up the piston to the handle of the
pump so as to get a full stroke. As
only a small amount of liquid la
needed In spraying, the object of this
reduction of cylinder is to lessen the
flow and increase the pressure. The
reduction of three to two halves the
flow and doubles the pressure. Mount
the pump on the barrel and the barrel
on the riding cultivator frame. Make
an agitator as follows: In the bar
rel, near the bottom, on the end or
head of the same, hang with a T
hlnge a board made of oak 1x6x2 feet
to swing up and down. Connect the
board with the pump plunger by a
steel rod so that it will swing up and
down with the stroke. The steel rod
should enter the barrel through an
opening made to pour in the liquid.
I use this machine to spray my hen
house with lime and coal oil at the
rate of 100 square feet per minute.
It makes a good Job at whitewash
ing as well and is death to bags and
microbes on my fruit trees.
Cut Off the Suckers.
Cut off, at any time, any suckers
you may find growing at the foot of
fruit trees or on the trunk or main
limbs where branches should not
grow.