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THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS JOURNAL FRIDAY AUGUST 18 11)09 ) The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal The News , Established'1881. The Journal , Established 1877. THE HU8E PUBLISHING COMPANY. W. N. HUBO , N. A. Huso , President. Secretary. Every Friday. Dy mnll per year. $1.00. Entered nt the poHtofllco nt Norfolk , Neb. , UB second cliiBB matter. " "Tcfupluimnn Editorial Department No. 22. UiiHlness Olllce and Job Hooina No. II 22. , , Hndluin Is on the free list. How ninny pounds luivo you ? The adjournment of congress was nn agreeable event , both to congress men and people nt large. One of the dallies has In big bend- lines , "Railroads Need Cash to Handle llnslness. " There arc others. The straw hat Is In Its glory , but it will soon fade n\rny. The fur cent will have another Inning. Tom Johnson wns defeated again by votes nt Cleveland. It looks as If one Johnson's political stnr had set. Gnlveston Is looking upon her sen wall these days and pronouncing It good. It was tried and not found want- lug. Amherst college students boast of n club whose members live on four and n half cents n day. It Is not popular with the high rollers. The Ice bills are heavy now , but tak.e what comfort you can In the thought that the coal bills will soon be heavier. The cliautauquas are In full blast. If oratory and lectures cnn make this world good and wise It ought to be booming In that direction. The woman who shot her husband because ho was determined to keep the phonograph going nil the time should be given a light sentence. One of the natural wonders dis played nt the Seattle exposition are planks twenty-four feet long and forty Inches wide cut from Alaskan trees. Four lawyers , a sheriff , six depu ties , n woman and a Judge down In Georgia are tangled up In a lawsuit over a yellow dog. An Iowa man , on an excursion the other day , while trying to flirt with n pretty girl , leaned too far out on the steamer railing , fell Into the river and was drowned. Governor Johnson not only believes that ' "westward the star of empire takes Its course , " but the star of hit presidential aspiration is taking ' flight over the same course. The president was obliged to sus pend n cabinet meeting to welcome ' noted suffragette from Norway. Th ( Taft smile was a pleasure to meet but It Is not necessary to say who hai the last word. With the tariff debate settled , con cross adjourned , and President Tafi settling down to golf at Beverly , the pink section of the dallies will be the only thing left to relieve the ennui o the dog day season. The latest dispatches say "Darce lena Is quiet. " The trouble is witt these European war clouds ; they don' stay put. Even Spain can't seem t ( furnish the sensational news depart mcnt a well sustained effort. Canada Is planning to establish i chain of forts armed with disnppenrlni guns along her seacoast. Are our Cn nadlnn brethren growing suspicious , ode do they merely wish to keep up will the procession In the. matter of arms incuts ? Immense iron beds have been dls covered In Brazil , estimated to includ twelve billion tons. With the Iron or of high grade scarcely touched In th northwestern states and millions o > tons more being found , the fear of a iron famine should be somewhat n mote. It Is certainly a poor recommend ! tlon for petrol butter to have John I Rockefeller pay $10,000 for n cow , Jus ns the Standard OH company had bi gun to advertise their new butter. E' ' Idently John D. proposes to stick t ; the cow at any expense. The pen Is mightier than the ri volver. It saved a man's life the othe day In New York. An angry woma plunked a shot at him. The bull ( struck a pen In his vest pocket an glanced off. A pen Is hard on the vei pocket , but as a man saver It Is a su cess. And now Harry and Evelyn Tha threaten to Institute divorce procee ings against one another. Is thei never to be nn end to the exploiting < these two miserable , inconsequent ! lives In the dally papers ? Why shou we have to suffer a continuation i this wretched serial ? It Is more and more apparent th the correction of the world's wor evils is coming about through a coi blnation of moral and economic force As an exchange says , "The thought the clvilliod world is turning nwi from all forms of barbarism , not only because they arc barbaric , but be cause they are proving to be Intolerably erably expensive. " Mexicans have become aroused against the Americans because of their greater enterprise and successful exploitation of Mexican resources and Jealous of President Diaz because of his friendliness to Americans. It Is this feeling of Jealousy that Is re sponsible for the outbreaks and riots of recent occurrence. Diaz has held this turbulent spirit In check for many years , and It Is to be hoped that ho will not lose his grip on affairs , now. The "kicker" In Spain has a hard row to hoe At Barcelona they were (1111(0 ( disentitled with the government and said so. As a result 120 of the citizens wore backed up agnlnst the wall and shot. The American kicker has many things to complain of , but ho Is allowed to live and enjoy his grouch. The golden nge mny not have arrived anywhere Just yet , but It Is n good deal closer by under the stars and stripes I'ere ' than It Is In poor , wretched Spain , where neither king nor court nor people can ever consider living n real safe adventure. Perhaps the most distinguished tri umph which any woman has yet gained In the United States Is that of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young , who hns re cently been elected superintendent of schools of Chicago over six male com petitors. She Is the first woman to be In supreme control of the schools of any large city In this country. Mrs. Young has taught for forty-seven years In the different grades of the Chicago schools , and the Inst few years hns been a professor In the department of education In the Chicago university. She Is described as a woman 64 years of nge. rather slight of figure , of me dium height and , contrary to natural expectation , decidedly womanly In temperament , appenrnnce and tastes. She gets a salary of $10,000 n year the largest paid to any worker In the public schools of the country except Superintendent Maxwell of New York city , who receives the same amount. The people who wnnt to change the hours of working earlier so as to have more daylight have had their brief In ning and no doubt enjoyed the oppo sition and criticism which their scheme has aroused. Now comes an other plan to change the existing cal endar. The bold man who starts this agitation Is Johnston-Dlonstay Ayers of San Francisco. He wants the world to start January 1 , 1911 , and substitute for the present years of twelve months of unequal length , a year of thirteen months of twenty-eight days each , While this serves to bring Ayers Into notice , It offers no real advantages nnd It Is safe to say that humanity will continue to learn the old rhyme that keeps in mind the difference In the lengths of the months and men will observe the same hours of work for some time to come. These people who are possessed with a craze tc smooth out all the kinks and get time nnd space rtf > < vn to exact mathematical levels forget that variety is the very hlng that odds zest to life. 3 There Is a universal feeling that the country Is on the eve of an era of un ixampled prosperity. A Boston ex ihange expresses this feeling In this : omprehenslve statement , giving the eason for the faith which possesses be people : "Everything Is ripe al present for an era of unexampled pros > erlty. The check that production re celveel two years ago served to bring ibout a healthy balance between sup > ly and demand. All stocks went low ; conservative policy predominated Now the merchant and the consume ! alike are looking to the mills , and th ( nllls are working overtime to mee the needs. The crops promise to b < ) ountiful ; money for moving or mar ketlng of them Is plentiful ; nurneroui nnd great undertakings , recognlze < not only as legitimate but absolute ! ; necessary to the carrying on of th < f country's business , are In readlnesi for launching. Idle labor Is not si plentiful as to cheapen that which i employed. Over and above these , feeling of confidence pervades land. " About a century ago a Scotch Pros byterlan minister , Rev. Henry Dur hank , established a bnnk nt Iluthweli o Scotlnnd , for the small savings of th hard working people of that commv nlty. The first year the deposits i ; the Ruthwell Savings bank amounte < to 150 poirnds , and by the third yea this sum had grown to 241 pounds But the movement rapidly spread i the hundred years that have come an gone since that time until it has co\ ered England , continental Europe an America. It Is In the United State ! thnt It has seen Its greatest expanslor w At present the deposits of saving banks In the United States aggregat reId over $3GGO,000,000 and those of fo : o elgn countries about $9,300,000,00 ! a This Is a vast pile compared with th Id $150 of the first year of the first sir Ings bank. It Is a monument to th lessons of economy and thrift taugl the people. A celebration of the cei tenary of the Ruthwoll Savings ban will bo observed la Scotland next yea It Is fitting that the beginnings of a Institution which has done so much t help the people save their mono should be commemorated. Canadian statistics and newspapers nre filled with the numbers of Amer- ( lean farmers who are taking land In the Canadian northwest , and It Is true | that thousands nro going there annual ly , drawn by the alluring advertise ments of cheap and rnarvelously pro- j ! ductlve lands. Hut the Canadian nnd | British statistics omit to tell how many disgusted Americans return to their own country after experiencing a year or two of disappointment In Canada , ! but reports show that n considerable percentage of those who go to return [ sadder and wiser men. They find the land no more productive than what they left In America. The climate Is more severe and. worst of all , they are no far from market that much that Miey rnlse Is of no value on this nc- count. If the farmers who nre anxious to change their location would go' ' south Instead of fnithor north , they would find In Texas and other south ern states great tracts of cheap lands which nre wonderfully productive , In n mild nnd healthful climate and have markets much nearer than those open to Canndlnn fnrrners. If the farmers of the Dnkotns , Michigan and Wiscon sin were fully nwnre of the ndvnntnges offered by the southern part of their own country they would not be crossIng - Ing the northern boundary of their own country. FURTHERING PEACE. If Germany Is expanding Its com mercial relations with wonderful ra pidity , Great Britain is not asleep. It is a significant fact the most signifi cant one of the times that Germany , Great Britain and the United States , the three greatest world powers , nre by trade relations more and more bind ing the world together and bringing Internntionnl relations so close thnt men must by necessity recognize more and more the brotherhood of the race. We nre so apt to view with alnrm the Immense amounts spent for naval and military armaments that It Is well to turn to the other nnd more hopeful side of the picture. Within the last month a notable event took place at Moscow. Docu ments were signed whereby n group of London financiers secured control of a Russian bank combination having 10 less than seventy branches through- ut European and Asiatic Russia. Vhat this means can hardly be com prehended by the ordinary observes- > ut In truth It Is a very Important move on the checker board of history and a great step ahead In assuring the jeace of the world. It breaks the domination of Germany In finance and : ommerce In Russia and the east and s a further proof of the reality of the Anglo-Russian friendship which has recently come about In place of the old time antagonism. It shows thnt the czar's visit to England Is an evidence of the new or- ler of things. It Is true that the great nations of the earth are putting a lot of money Into "policing" the oceans with big and many war ves sels , but It Is equally true that Ger many , as well as England and America each keen for the upbuilding and development of a market for the goods of their people nil ngree that the gen- ral welfare of the world demands n peaceful rivalry and they are doing vhat they can to promote It. The fed eration of the nations seems less uto- ) lan and more probable as the years msten on. REMEMBER JUDGE BARNES. There Is little question but that Judge J. B. Barnes will be renominat- ed by the republicans of Nebraska at the coming primary election , for su- ireme Judge , and that he will be reelected - elected to that high position by the people of Nebraska. There Is every renson why he should be renomlnnted and re-elected and no reason why he should not. Judge Barnes has served one term and has made a reputation for ability nnd Integrity which the people ol , northern Nebraska , his former home , may be Justly proud of. During the terra that he hns served the salary of a member of the supreme court has been barely enough to cover living expenses , but the new salarj law provides more nearly ndequate pay for the service required , for the future. And In this feature alone II Is only fair thnt Judge Barnes should bs re-elected nnd allowed to receive somewhere near Just compensation foi at least one term In the ofiJce. But above nnd beyond thnt reason the ability of Judge Barnes demand ! that the people of Nebraska , for theli own best interests , re-elect him to position on the supreme bench. He ii without a superior In the state as at able and fair-minded Judge , nnd It ii doubtful if there are any brondei gauged or more capable legal mlndi anywhere In the west. S Judge Barnes Is one of the big met of the country In the law. His de clslons are absolutely Impartial am their Integrity of purpose unques tioned. Through long years of service 01 the bench In Nebraska , both In die trlct nnd supreme courts , Judgi Barnes has earned for himself a repu tatlon enjoyed by few , and he shouli be honored , as ho unquestionably will by a second term on the Nebraska supreme promo bench. Th people of Norfolk and the entlr northern half of the state should hi particularly active in support of Judgi Barnes and It is to be sincerely hopoi that he may receive a vote from every republican In this section of the state , as he genuinely deserves. There nro three Judges to bo nom inated nnd eight cnndldntcs have filed for the places. The News has every confidence In the ability and Integrity of Judge Cobbcy of Beatrice and Judge Sedgwlck of York , and believes that northein Nebraska will make no mis take In giving them solid support. ARE YOU PERFECTLY SANE ? Are you < iuit > j positive thai you nro perfectly sane ? Close your eyes and strike the point of your nose with the tip of your Index finger. This Is a test applied by a Now York magis trate the other day. The woman failed to strike her nose nnd wns sent to the asylum. 1 Now , If you have accomplished the nose nnd finger test nnd nro cocUbtire of your physical nnd mental fitness , here are a few other "stunts. " simple ' tests used by medlcal"men , for you to try : j * Close your eyes and make n quick grab for the lobe of your cir. Cnn you seize It or did you clutch your hair , pinch your cheek , or miss en tlrely ? Better cut out the smokes and the drinks and tune up. i Stand with your heels nnd grent toes tight together and then close your eyes. Can you stand up n minute or do you feel dizzy or are you forced to open your eyes to keep from falling ? , That's bad you'd better tnko a good stiff walk every morning. . Stand with your feet together and j then raise one foot. Cnn you stand . that way for half n minute with your eyes closed ? If you can't , you aren'l i In fit condition nnd your nerves nre frayed out. Take a vacation and I ! tune up. I Close your eyes , extend your nrms I from the sides , nnd try to bring the I tips of your index fingers together in front of you. Sounds ensy , doesn't It ? Well , try It quickly half a dozen times and see how many times you miss. You'll not be so confident of yourself , perhaps. Now try a little vocal exercise. Just a sentence , "Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran. " Look at It and then repeat It quickly run right through It as If It were a favorite bit of verse. Or try this one : "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck - chuck could chuck wood. " Or that old familiar one , "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ; a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. " Can you do them without stumbling and stuttering ? If you can't the mus cles of your tongue are not responding to your brain impulses as they should. Talk to your wife more at breakfast time. It'll be good for both of you. These simple tests are used by med ical men to test the muscular co-ordi nation. They are not necessarily used to determine a subject's sanity , though sometimes they are Indications of mental trouble. The tests sometimes show symptoms of general paralysis of the brain , familiarly known as "brain storm. " But chiefly they are used to show the condition of the nervous system. In an insane person muscular co-ordination usually Is poor , and they cannot go through the tests , simple as they seem. WHAT IS NEEDED. The novelty of muckraking the Pan ama canal project seems to have worn off , at lenst for the present , nnd that great project Is now being allowed to progress without the fortnightly scares to the effect that It is doomed , foreor dained and predestined to be a com plete and gigantic failure , says the Improvement Bulletin. Even the wrecking of a set of gates In one of the lock canals at Sault Ste. Marie only caused a slight ripple of renewed criticism of the lock canal for the Pan ama project , which soon died out , es pecially after the statements were giv en out of the arrangements in view for obviating the repetition of any such experience with the Panama canal. From time to time , the reports are given out of the work which Is being accomplished , and It is quite apparent that the engineers and others in charge , are doing well In the tnsk that Is before them. The excavation Is about two-thlrdp completed , nnd a' ' good stnrt Is being made on laying concrete work. While the excnvntlon work is showing something of a de- crense In volume , ns compared with the same month n year ago , the con crete work is gaining nnd the amount of filling placed In dams is nlso In creasing. All this Is gratifying nnd In dicates that the work Is being taken well in hand and bids fair to be carried on with as much expedition as can be expected , with all the difficulties which have to be encountered. . The advance of the work and the Increased assurance which the prog ress of the work gives of Its comple tion within the time expected , Is also serving to Increase the general Inter est In the revival of the use of internal waterways , and nlso to a certain ex tent the revival of American shipping , The use of Internal waterways foi transporting freight Is something that is generally agreed Is feasible and the only apparent reason for its not being utilized Is that no one has attempted It seriously. There Is a little rlvei traffic , mostly with boats of obsolete pattern and serving more for local use than otherwise. But for any real prac tical use of the rivers , the attempt can jnrdly bo said to have been made , I There Is something needed all along the lino. The rivers themselves are far from being In condition to be read ily navigable , although they will be found to be In better shape than might be expected , as a few experimental trips have already disclosed. But' ' there are few and limited facilities for handling freight. The docks at many of the cities are of the most primitive character , and are hardly equipped with anything more of a mechanical line than a block and tnckle. The approaches preaches to the docks are often of un certain usage , BO thnt hauling to and from them with freight of bulk and weight would be a difficult task. All concerned seem to take the attitude that they will prepare when someone else gets ready. There are no actual projects for boat lines , nt lenst none that have passed beyond the prellrnl * nary stage , and none that are ready to talk business on handling freight. Nothing seems to have been done as yet toward getting the landings Into usable shape. AROUND TOWN. Had the whooping cough ? The corn Is being revised upward. Here's luck to the ball team on Its trip. The weather man waited till after the races were over , anyway. A Norfolk man washes the dishes every Sunday in order to get his finger nails clean. They now claim that continued drop ping will eventually wear away even the hardest aviator. The Atchlson Globe says an affinity s the first man who asks. Thnt's not Ight It's the second. When n day starts out like this one lid , it's wise to shed everything pos- Ible early In the forenoon. A San Francisco doctor has a new plan for gradual elimination of the stomach. What's the matter with Ice tea ? It's safer to face nn Irate baseball player who has had the truth told about him than a fat woman whom you've called fat. Now that the races are over some ol the family nags are developing track kind of speed and may be put Into the game next summer. If they'd have Thaw try to touch the tip of his nose with his Index finger while his eyes were shut , It would save a lot of expense In this Insanity test. Four Norfolk fat women are trying to get thin by following a certain method of exercising. Two of them walked two miles at 10 o'clock the other night to watch another pair try out the calisthenics. Every man ought to thank his stars he's not a woman when he sees 'em wash their hair. One Norfolk girl whc washed her hair yesterday sat out In 1 the sun , on the stoop , four hours before - fore her hair got dry. Treasury officials in Washington are planning to redesign our paper money because they say smaller sized bank notes would be more convenient to handle. The present bills are no in convenience to this department. One of the Norfolk fat women says she wouldn't be so doggone mad II this column had just called the bund "plump. " In that event she'd have been glad to admit that it meant her Now she says it didn't mean her al all. Another one tried to get revenge with n brassy. Pity the arid cast. Drouth Strieker Pennsylvania is burning up for wnnl of rain while the "Great Amerlcar Desert , " which used to be painted or the Pennsylvania geographies In tan this region right here Is reaping the biggest crop anybody ever saw , witt an abundance of wet rain to help il along. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Not one woman In a hundred has s nice looking back. She either needs t bustle or nature gave her one toe large. A girl Is willing for her mother te wash her other articles of clothing but her shirt waists must go to the laundry. There Isn't a grent deal to be sale In favor of whiskers in general , bui the Jnpanese seem to grow the hard est looking crop. If n girl will tell n man every rot thnt ho Is the finest driver she evei snw , he will hitch up and take hei riding seven times n week. Many people are curious to knov about particular things. For Instance the writer is curious to know If a bar her gives his wife the fee ho collecti for shaving a dead man. The grumbler is a pest. Such a mar can cause a dozen men an hour to fee dissatisfied with themselves and theli surroundings. A cheerful man is ar angel , and the grumbler a devil. It is a great credit to a spin that sh < can remember anything , not being Ir a position to say like her married sis ter , "That was the year Willie wai born , " or "It happened the Bummei Jlmmlo cut his teeth. " Making Money On the Farm VIII. Potato Culture By C. V. GREGORY , Author of "Homo Course bi Modern Agriculture" Copyright , 1909. by Am rlc4n Fr AitocUllon grown for marketer WHETHER use only , It Is Important thnt the potato crop bo made to yield UH i much ns possible. With the right kind I of care yields of 200 to r 00 bushels to i the acre can bo obtained , making this j one of the moot profitable crops that can be grown. Even with the most careless treatment the tuber frequent ly yields most generously. The potato Ls very particular In ita soil rcqulrumcntB. A rich sandy lenin Is the host soil. Not nil farms have such a soil , but nlniewt any soil cnn be so preparud ua to make a fairly good potnto patch. Two things nro essen tial , mellowness and plenty of rnolfl- turc. Clay Is too heavy , and snnd driest out too rapidly. Soils which contain too much clay or too nux U sand cnn bo greatly Improved for the production of potatoes by the mltlltlon of humuH. The Ideal way to prepare n Held for potatoes Irt to Heed It to clover for nt least u year , manure it heavily , plow It up nnd plant It to corn. In the fall the corn cnn be cut for pllnge or fodder der , so that It cnn bo plowed before winter. The plowing should be fairly deep. Two dlsklngs and n harrowing or two the following spring mnko nn Idenl seed bed for potatoes. Potatoes nro not raised from seed , but from the swollen underground stems that we call tubers or potatoes. Any piece of n tuber thnt contains nn "rye" will grow nnd produce more of its kind. A potato vine grown from a piece of n tuber Is really not a new plant , but part of the old one. If out side conditions are the same the plant will be the snme nnd produce the sumo kind of a crop. There is much less tendency to vary In plants propngnteel In this wny than In those raised from seed. Larga Versus Small Potatoes. Because of the fact that the potnto is not n seed It hns been claimed that small potatoes would produce just as good crops ns large ones. Growers often sort out nnd plant the tubers thnt are too small for market The outcome of four or five years of such selection almost nlwnys mcnns a de creased yield. If the potatoes planted were small only because they did not have a chance to develop they would produce nenrly as good results as lar ger ones from the snme hill. If , how ever , they were small because they came from n hill of tubers nil of which were naturally small they would pro duce mostly small potatoes like them selves. For this reason it Is not safe to plant tlw small tubers. Another Im portant point Is that there Is not enough food material in n small potato tate to give the sprout the kind of a stnrt thnt It needs to produce a good yield. It Is the stocky , vigorous bills thnt nre full of large potatoes when digging time comes. The start the phuit gets while it Is first making Its way to the surface of the ground largely determines the vigor with which it will continue to grow through out the season. The experience of most potato grow ers Is that It Is best to plant medium sized tubers , about the size of a ben'a egg or larger , cutting each one Into four pieces. In experiments thnt were PIG. XV WELL BIIAPED SEED POTATO , conducted along this line quarters gave a yield of seven bushels to the acre more than two eye pieces and fif teen bushels more than one eye pieces. The seed potatoes should be kept in a dark place until planting time to keep them from sprouting as much ns possible. New sprouts will grow if the old ones ure broken off , but they will not be ns strongIf the seed is nt nil scabby It should be treated be fore planting. This Is done by soakIng - Ing the tubers for two hours in a solu tion of one pound of formalin to forty gallons of water. Afterward the po tatoes should be spread out to dry nnd then cut. The cutting should not be done until just before planting , as otherwise they will shrivel nnd lose some of their vitality. The plnn ol getting the seed potatoes cut several weeks or even days before planting Is not to be commended. Even If the seed thus prepared is kept in n dark cellar the stnrchy part of the tuber la cer r tain to lose much of Its freshness , nnd the vitality of the seed may be im paired. Planting. Early potatoes should be plnnted ns soon as the ground cnn be worked. The Inter vnrletles , which comprise the bulk of the crop , should bo plnnted about corn planting time or a little Inter. In the corn belt It Is most con venient to mark off the rows with the corn planter. Where land Is high nnd It is desired to work It to Its fullest capacity the rows may be as close aa throe foot Where tea or more acrci ore grown a potato planter will soon pay for Itaelf. Where tbo acreage It omaller than this two or three neigh- bore can often combine to purchase inch a machine. Wln-rc hand planting l prnctlcod the rows Hhoiihl be opened with n HtlrrliiK plow to n depth of four to fix InchoH. The practice of dropping the tubers In n cultivator track nnd coverIng - Ing thorn lightly In responsible for many of the low yields. Potatoes send up n strong nprout that IH able to penetrate l.x Inches of soil easily , nnd the roots need to bo well down In the rnoht earth. After the tubers an- dropped the Mtlrrlng plow may again be brought Into use to cover them , of a dl.sk cultivator may be used. The main thing IH to get thorn covered deeply. After covering two or three hnrro wings should bo given to level thu ground and kill nny sprouting weeds. The cut tubers Hhould bo dropped from twelve to sixteen inches apart , one In n place. The amount of see-il to life per acre will depend on tbo price. If Heed potatoes nre not too ex pensive It payn to be liberal with them Where medium sized potatoes are out into quarters and dropped every fif teen Inches In TOWH three and one-half feet apart twelve to fifteen bushels per aero will be needed. On western farms , where land Is cheap and labor source , potatoes are often planted In rows both ways. This can be readily done by running n planter wire across tbo field and drop ping a piece of potato at each button on the wire. The wire Is moved nt each end ns In planting com. When planted in this wny hnlf a tuber In stead of n quarter should be dropped In a place. Such a plan will not gho Fid XVI POTATOES LEr'T IN PIIjE. ns good n yield ns drilling , provided the drilled potatoes are kept free from weeds. The checked potatoes can bo cultivated both ways nnd kept clean with but little hand labor and will yield more than n weedy patch planted twice as thk'k. The feasibility of the plan depends entirely upon the rela tive cost of land and Inbor. A good harrowing after the plants nre two or three Inches high will de stroy many weeds nnd loosen the dirt In the row. Deep planted potatoes nro not Injured by such a harrowing. A few dnys nftcr this the cultivator should be started and the field culti vated once n week or oftener until the blossoms nppenr. It pnys to hoe or \ pull nny weeds that come up in the rows. No one thing will reduce the yield of potatoes more than weeds. The ground should be left nenrly level at the Inst cultlvntlon. Deep planting mnkcs hilling unnecessary. Spraying For Insects and Diseases. The potato beetle Is the one serious Insect enemy of the potnto crop. The most prevalent disease other than scab Is blight. This nlTects the leaves , cans- Ing them to turn black and curl up. Both blight nnd beetles can be readily K controlled by spraying with bordeaux / parls green mixture. This Is made ns follows : Four pounds copper sulphate , four pounds fresh lime , four ounces pnrls green and fifty gallons of water. Dissolve the copper sulphate In twen ty-five gallons cf the water nnd the lime In the rest. Then pour the two solutions together. Make the parln green into a paste with a little wnter niul stir It Into the mixture. It pays to have a good hand sprayer to npply this solution or n power machine If mnny acres are grown. A hand sprayer can be bought for $5 or $ G. If equipped with two nozzles so as to take two rows at once It will not take more than an hour to go over nu nere. The en tire expense. Including the labor , will be repaid several times over by the in crease In yield. Three or four sprny- Ings will be sufficient , starting about the time the plants are six Inches high nnd continuing nt Intervals of a week or ten days until they are In bloom. Digging the Crop. Where a large acreage of potatoes Is grown or where several neighbors each rnlse a few acres every year , a digger Is n paying Investment. It leaves the tubers on top of the ground In good shape to be picked up and gets prac tically nil of them. Where only n few nre grown they can be forked out , but this Is n slow Job. The most common practice Is to plow them out. By pick ing them up after the plow , then har rowing twice and picking up after each harrowing , few will be left. If the field Is so located that the hogs can be turned In on it. they get nil thnt were missed. Aa soon ns dug , which should be before severe freezing weather , the potatoes should be piled up nnd cov ered with straw nnd dirt. Here they may be left until the ground begins to freeze , when they mny be put In the cellar or hnuled to market. If the pile Is on n well drained place It may bo covered with n foot to eighteen Inches of straw and ns much dirt und safely left till spring. There nre many potnto growers , especially those of foreign ex traction , who never keep their crop in any other way. While the dry Indoor method has numerous ndvnntnges , such as readiness for use In nil weather nnd convenience of handling , there Is much to commend the outdoor storage plnn. There nre even those who contend that the flnvor of the tuber IB only to be malntnlned by storing It In the pit. His Task. George-With the assurance of your love I could conquer the world. Orace That will not bo necessary. All you hove to do Is to conquer papa. Lou- don Tit-Bits , Every real and searching effort at elf Improvement Is of Itself a lesoon of profound humlJltj.
