_ Danger 1 1 The Zone j RIGHT CADE FOR CABBAGEFELOS Nance did not go to bed at her usual hour. She could not sleep thinking of the handsome, manly young fellow who had fallen under the ban of the Hillers. She had watched her father and his hired mau piling the packing | cases on the great hayrack truck, a full load for Mayvllle. Then the hired man went to his home nearer the vil Plant Sanitation Will Prevent By Florence Lillian Henderson S lage to get his supper and have a Many of Injurious Diseases lunch put up to last him through his ......................................................... long trip. of This Plant. (C o p y r ig h t , 1911, YV’ t i t w n N e w s p a p e r U n io n .) Suddenly Nance bent her ear and listened. A scraping sound echoed “ You can't se« It my way, Nane* 7” “ I am sorry to say I can’t, Levi. I from overhead. She thrilled as It was CROP ROTATION IS FAVORED followed by a distinct groan. Her fear I never will.” "Fear ! sorry !" scorned Levi Blair, heart stood In her mouth as she took with a dark scowl. “ It’s well enough up a lamp and went up the loft stairs. Seed! Bed Is Often Source e f Infection to be polite, but I ’d apeak the truth *A quick suspicion had come Into her and Greatest Paine Should Be I f I were you. There's someone else, mind. It was verified as. seated upon Taken to Insure Healthy Planta that’s what's the trouble, and I'd like the floor, she made out Knowlton. — Use Lime Freely. “ Oh, I am so glad,” she cried spon- t « run across him. And I have a dim Idea who It Is. H e’s keeping close, 1 taneously. and then flushed with con- and he'd better, for he's wanted, and , fusion. “ I mean, that you have es- (Prepared by the United States Depart ment ef Agriculture.) If he’s caught the crowd will surely | caped those cruel men.” Knowlton was pale, one limb was Cabbage diseases which have been settle him.” "You have said quite enough,” spoke | bandaged from the knee down, but known to destroy practically entire Nance Duryea with flashing eyes. he smiled with sw ift appreciation o f crops are preventable In the main by the kindliness of that gentle nature. simple methods o f plant sanitation. “ Don’t you dare to come here any “ I was Just trying to And something Crop rotation Is one o f the chief foe« more.” Slam ! And Levi Blair found the closed door between himself and that would do for a crutch,” he ex o f these diseases. Rotations should be the object of his love. He shook his plained. “ I feared I might compro practiced, avoiding crops which belong flst at an imaginary rival and went mise your father by remaining here, to the cabbage family, such as cauli where I stole In early this morning. flower, turnips, Brussels sprouts, and his way. The Duryea house was connected by I must get to Mayvllle and get soma of kale. Keep down mustard and weeds a covered passageway with the little the buckshot picked out o f my limb. which harbor cabbage pesta. Drainage one-story and loft workshop where My wounds are not serious, but I can water and refuse from diseased cab bage fields may carry Infection, as will John Duryea made boxes. He had not stand on the foot unsupported.” “ Yes, you must get away, and I must stable manure with which diseased ma originally been a cooper, but there was no demand for barrels or kegs In the help you.” spoke Ills practical little terial has been mingled. The eeed bed district since the moonshiners had friend, medltatlngly. "Oh, I have I t ! " Is often a source of infection, and the First to see that the bandages were greatest pains, therefore, should be been driven Into exile. A t Mayvllle, In place, then food and water, and taken to lnaure healthy plants. Locate twenty miles away, however, a small shoe factory had been started. Labor then, Nance supporting him, he was the seed bed on new ground If pos was cheap and there was a local tan helped down the back stairs to the sible, or sterilize by steam the soil that nery, and the shoe people had given truck, the cover of a rear-most box Is used. Disinfect all cabbage seed be Duryea a permanent and quite profit remove<L and within he ensconced him fore planting to prevent black-rot and ' black-leg. Clubroot Is avoided by the able contract to supply them with ship self. “ You are an angel of mercy,” he said free use of lime and by setting healthy ping cases. The value of the contract and the feelingly, as he kissed the fair hand planta. necessity of business expansion had that had succored him. Nance set the How Diseases Are Spread. about Influenced Mr. Duryea to remove cover lightly 'n the box, securing only Fungous and bacterial diseases are to Mayvllle, and Nance hailed the pros two nails. carried from one place to another by “ Inside o f three honrs you will be pect with delight. There was nothing various means, such os Insects, In within the safety sone,” she spoke. “ In at Crofton to attract a young girl. Ths fected seed, transplanting from an In men were rough and uncouth, the wom eight at Mayvllle. I am to glad 1” fected seed bed to the field, drainage She returned to her room, but only en led a humdrum, slavelike life and water, cabbage refuse and stable ma the town and the district was dominat to wutch and wait until the hired man nure, farm animals and tools, and ed by a fierce, law-defying group, fa returned. In the distance she caught wind. In view of these facts the chief the echo o f some ribald crew la the miliarly known as "Th e Hillers.” atm o f the farmer should be to pre They were called that because at the town engaged In drunken frolic, and vent, if possible, the Introduction and She heard the truck appearance of anyone In collision with shuddered. distribution of destructive diseases on wheels grate over the stony road lead the law the moonshiner up among the his farm. In order to accomplish this, mountain ranges welcomed the refu ing to the river ford. Insensibly she several precautions should be observed, gee to shelter and protection. The drifted into slumber, her head on the o f which the more Important are the two elements were In friendly com window sill, to start up wildly ail disinfection o f seed, the location and munication and stood by each other hour later aa the voice o f the hired care o f the seed bed, and crop rotation. In a signal way when occasion re man came up to her from the yard To disinfect seed, use one ounce o f below. quired. formaldehyde (40 per cent) to two He had two horses, wagonless, and The advent o f a stranger was always gallons o f water, er one teaspoonful hailed with suspicion. The rough ele he was shouting excitedly fo r her fa to a teacupful o f water. Soak the ment looked for an excise offleer or a ther, who came hurrying out to him. seed for 20 mlnutee In this solution, government spy Invading their terri "W hat’s the trouble? Where’s the dip In clear water to wash off the fo r tory in every newcomer, and when wagon?” cried Duryea sharply. maldehyde. and then epremd In thin Bert Knowlton, a young lawyer from “ Burned up, boxes, truck and alL I layers to dry, stirring If needed. a distant city appeared In the Interest met Blair and his crowd, roaring drunk. T o Dlelnfoet Boll. o f a client relating to a large tract of They tipped over the wagon, set tha T o avoid danger o f spreading the coal land, he was advised by the local boxes on fire, and are now dancing head o f Justice as follow s: about the ashes like fiends and boast disease to nonlnfect& fields by means “ Get through your Job quick as you ing that they have taught you n lea- o f the plants from the eeed bed, the son for siding with that struugar, following recommendations are made can and stay In nights.” for disinfecting the soil in which tho “ Why? What's the particular dan Knowlton, who escaped them.” ger?” inquired the self-possedled With a wall o f terror unutterable plants are grown: Sterilisation by young man rather coolly. Nance Duryea sank to the floor sense means o f drain tile laid In the bottom “ You’re hitting the gang, that’s the less. She was like some crushed flow particular danger,” responded the tav er, when she came downstairs the next ern keeper. “ As you know, the squat morning. Amid hla troubles her fa ter rights o f the tract In litigation rest ther failed to notice the haunting ter with the Wldener fam ily and they’re ror In her face. She was too stricken strong and powerful with the folks and anguished to tell him o f the fate hereabouts. They’ll block you. I warn o f the man she had befriended. you, and If you stick too close and too “ You’re to get ready to have the long, it will be a load o f buckshot some hired man take you to M ayvllle at -dark night.” once,” her father told her. “ I shall “ I shall try to take care of myself,” follow. It’s getting too hot to bold ns said Knowlton with his habitual com down here.” posure, and went on his way, unde She was like one In a dreadful terred and unafreld. trance nil the way to Mavville. Her By the merest elilìnee oncp or twice aunt noticed tic- cloud that hung over he had met Nan e Duryea. The first frame and spirit like a mill. Nance time was when he overtook her in n for several days, was confined to her Sudden rainstorm, and his umbrella, '•nnm under the rare of n physician. as he escorted her home, afforded her She cnuie ilo\vn«*fi!rs wenk end at tim ely shelter. She was duly impress tenuated. The horror of tlmt night at ed with this neatly groomed, clear-eyed ’ionic. It seemed, would npver leave young man, whose courtesy and atten her. tions made her remember him. There She was reclining at an open win had been a half understanding between dow. in a:i invalid chair, one day, when them that he was to call upon her the a man, aided bv a crutch, passed along evening when Levi Blair made his plea the street. It was h e ! Rotte of Cabbage Plant Infected With and threat, but Knowlton did nob come, “ Dli. It cannot b e!" she cried. "Mr. Root-Knot. .winch to the disappointment of Nance. Knowlton; oh. come Into this house.” It was the next afternoon Just about of the beds, through which steam Is “ .Tust out of the hospital.” Bart dusk when loud voices and a general Knowlton told Nance, “ and bent on passed; hy means o f an Inverted pan commotion in front of the house called under which steam Is adm itted; or by •olng ’ .ack to Crofton to thank you. If her to the front door. She was start fifty Hillers stood In the way. drenching the soil with a formalin so led to observe her father with set face lution consisting o f 1 to 100, or 1 “ But you were burned up— ” and wrath-filled eyes confronting half to 200 solution o f formaldehyde. "Quite the reverse. I was nearly a dozen rough-looking men, one of drowned,” said Knowlton. “ The box Crop rotation Is an essential practice whom was holding a bloodhound in I was In fell off the load as the wagon whether or not It Is necessary In the leash, Levi Blair was the leader. control o f any plant maladies. There crossed the ford. I floated fo r five "Search my house,” John Duryea miles, managed to get ashore, and— are numerous fungous diseases which was shouting, and his honest face fair But you have been 111?” appear year after year on the same ly bristled with Indignation and resent field. Some o f them, such as clubroot She burst Into tears o f relief and ment. “ Why, I ’ll wing the first dast gladness, and and then her story, and of cahhnge. are strictly soil parasites ard who crosses the threshold.” and CHnnot he controlled hy any fun then— “ That’s all right, John Duryea,” gicide. Abont the only method left to In the tender eyes of the lonely girl spoke Blair, “ but our dog has traced beside him. Bert Knowlton read a get rid o f the organisms Is to starve the blood marks in this direction. We token of love that assured him that them out, and this can he done only are after that spy, Knowlton. and we're that there was no shadow o f another ■ by a well-planned system o f crop ro going to get him. He wounded two , parting. tation. For ordinary practice, a rota o f our men and he escaped, but with tion o f four or five years Is sufficient a good dose of buckshot in one leg.” to reduce greatly the loss from most How Do Men Break Down? "You coward," cried Nance, stepping Re assured that there Is no chance parasites. Deep and frequent cultiva Into plain view. “ How dare you Insin tion by means o f which the organisms of your breaking down—although there uate that Mr. Knowlton came here. , are exposed to air and sunshine as will be times when you will try to My lather scarcely knows him by sight sists In exterminating them. fool yourself with this Idea. This and I have not seen him fo r two days. | thought o f breaking down Indeed If Double craven you are, to hunt down one of' the Illusions of mediocrity. It ENCOURAGE BOYS AND GIRLS a stranger who comes here among us Is the excuse which every lazy mtn on legitimate business.” presents to himself. It Is moral astig Little Money Required and Current “ You can go your way,” spoke Mr. matism. The great fact Is that men Expenditure May Be Reduced by Duryea. “ I have always been neutral do not break down from overwork so . Using Wastes. In your affairs, attending strictly to much as Is commonly supposed. A* my own. I ’ll tell you this, though: j they go upward In the scale o f In some day you'll go too far and the po- ; creased activity, increased responsl- 'Prepared by the United Staten Depart ment of Agriculture.) lice down at Mayvllle w ill come up htlitry only acts upon them as a nat Roys sttd girls should he encouraged here and clean you out, root and ural stimulant and carries them along. to start In the poultry business It branch.” I f hard work and worry killed men so Keluctartly and with vengeful ire easily, most o f the successful business requires little money to Invest, and !he Levi Blair led his crowd away Nance men o f America would he dead al current expenditure may be reduced In part hy utilizing farm and home went to her own room. She was agi ready. N o ! What kills men is due tated and in tears. Analyzing Intu more to w h it they take Into their wastes. I f the project begins with a itively an emotion of rare interest la stomachs rather than what they take laying flock, the return begins early, especially hy supplementing the food the hunted man, she dared not con- Into their minds.— Thomas L. Masson. supply of the home. front her father with her tell-tale face. In Physical Culture CAMPAIGN AGAINST INSECT CRIMINALS Many Birds Carry on Active War fare on Various Pests. Little Feathered Songsters Approxi mate Felice Force as to Make In teresting Study— Pewee Acts as T raffle Cop. (Prepared by the United State* Depart ment of Agriculture.) Maybe you have never thought o f the birds as an organized police force. Maybe they have not— but, under the marvelous and mysterious chief, the Balance of Nature, they approximate a police force so closely os to make an Interacting study. You see a great number o f black birds— crackles, mostly— literally cov ering the ground In some particular place. There has been an outbreak o f Insect criminals that the regu lar forces were not able to quell and the reserves have been called out You see a pewee, a kingbird or a great crested flycatcher sitting per- One e f Policemen o f Feathered Fam ily. fectly still and silent on a dead branch or a mullen top or a bunch of leaves, then suddenly making a dart Into the sir, wheeling and returning to hla perch. That la the traffic cop on duty at the crossing of busy Insect thor- eughfaree. You see— rather, you do not see un less you are very keen-eyed and pa tient, but he is there none the lees— the yellow-billed or the black-billed cuckoo slipping silently, like n sleuth la gum shoes, from branch to branch and from tree to tree. He Is the plain clothes man. relentlessly hunting down the w ily enemies o f nature’s social order. There are special policemen, watch officers and the like, for various spe cial duties. The woodpecker, with the brown creeper and the nuthatch to help him once In a while, stands guard over the tree tmnks while the warbler and the vlreo do duty on the leaves and little limbs. But most Interesting o f all, perhaps, are the patrolmen of the air, tirelessly going their rounds, from dawn to dusk and from dusk to dawn, policing every foot of “the space ’twlxt the earth and the sky.” At twilight, the night pa trolman— nlghthawk and whip-poor- will— go on duty. In the gray dawn they are relieved by the day patrol men— swallow and swift. And these day patrolmen are o f the greatest Importance, not only In pro tecting man’s property, but In mak ing living conditions tolerable. I f the mosquitoes, gnats and files that swal lows and swifts consume were per mitted to run riot, living would be Increasingly a thing o f pstn and sor row. It follows, then, that swift and swallow, like all good policemen, are entitled to be kindly thought o f by the people they protect. G R EAT DEMAND FOR POPCORN Short Crop Loot Year Has Almost Exhausted Reserve Supply In the United 8tates. ----------- --------------------- - . — ------- ------------------ = * 1 BRIEF NEWS ITEMS FROM CONSUMER W ILL WELCOME ALL OVER FOLK COUNTY McNART REGULATION ■TTJr Aphis arc damaging vetch at Sun Albany, Ore., May 13-To the Edi ny Slope. tor— I have lately been reading w ith ■ C. M. Lewis of Lewisville has a interest the hill introduced in tho I nited States Senate hy Senator M c- new automobile. Nary on April 10, which promises to Miss Hazel Akers of Parker is in he of vital importance to tath p r o | a Salem hospital. ducer and consumer. This bill, known as Senate Bill No. 4240, aim s Mis. l.iila Wilson of Parker is at to amend the Act of Coitgress o f a Salem hospital. August 10, 1917, which gave the pres Clayton McCaleb of Sunny Slope ident important |>owers respecting the licensing of the manufacture, has taught a Ford. storage, mining or distribution o f \\ ilbur Bush of Peedee lias sold any necessities, and the prescribing his mohair af 45 cents u pound. of regulations therefor. It is under Tom Tuck is cutting ten cords of this act that the president Isas tho wood for 1L M. Bosley of Sunny power to fix the price of wheal. Tho hill introduced by Senator McNary Slope. very properly extends the power o f The Dailey hop yard at Antioch the president to the fixing of tho has been plowed up and sowed to prices of petroleum, hides and skins, wheat. and their products, hemp, jute, cot ton and wool products, farm imple Mrs. \\ innie Braden has been ap- ments and machinery, wheat sub |x)inted food udministrtor for Polk stitutes, corn, rye, barley, outs, and county. their products, wherever and when Merlin Prather of Buena Vista ever sold, either hy producer or has gone to Eastern Oregon for an dealer, and further provides that i f in the opinion of the president, any extended visit. producer or dealer fails or neglects Myrtle E. Vincent of Bickreall is to coniform to the prices or regula seeking a divorce from her husband, tions promulgated hy the president, E. D. Vincent. or to conduct his business efficiently Mr. tnd Mrs. Dow Hamar of Sun under such regulations, then the ny Slope were trading in Independ president is given [lower to take o\er and operate the same, or cause ence lust Saturday. the same to be operated, during the . Pearl Fishback of Sunny Slope period of the war. was a business visitor in Independ in the face of the unprecendented ence last Saturday. rise of prices, the consumer will wel come legislation of this kind, which Citizens of nickreall have called will tend lo stabilize prices and pre in the sheriff to put a stop to rowdy vent profiteering. And, while this dances at that place. hill gives tlu> president the [lower Miss Leon ilia Smith, who is at to fix the price of nearly everything present teaching at Buena Vista, the farmer raises, it is aimed at the lias been elected to a (dace in the middleman rather than the fanner and should prove of real benefit to Dallas schools. farmer by curbing the middleman Lieutenant II. W. Bruno, formerly and stabilizing prices. Every farmer of Dallas, may have to give up army who raises stock has a quarrel with life because of poor henltli. the distributors of feed on the one Captain Walter L. Tooze at his hand and the packing house on tiie own request has been relieved of the other, and this hill gives the presi command of Co. K, 301 Infantry at dent the right to interfere, to tiie ad Camp Lewis and transferred to the vantage of the farmer. Further, the farmer is in a position to protect depot brigade. himself hy curtailing production An auction sale of farm stock and along any line in which ho deems miscellaneous articles will be held himself unfairly treated, and ho at Monmouth, Saturday May 18 for need hardly fear that the president tiie benefit of the Bed Cross. Every will take his plant away from him. thing donated by patriotic citizens. On the whole, this is a good hill, and Senator McNary has done the John Nash of Buena Vista, who people of Oregon a good turn by in enlisted in the nuvy when war was declared, and who has been in a troducing it and working for its S. G. T A L I A. naval hospital for a number of passage. months, will soon be able to come OREGON EXPERTS W ILL TRY borne. TO END DONKEY’S BRAY The Antioch Union Sunday School Salem—Can the vociferous ass bo has elected the following officers: Supt., V. A. Fishback; Asst. Supt., deprived of his bray so.as to pre Mrs. E. L. Comstock; Secretary and serve quiet during the night hours? Treasurer, Miss Nclla Johnson; That is a question to he determined by a clinic of veterinarians in Port Chorister, Mrs. Maggie Holman. land some time in June, according All I’olk county young men in to an announcement just made hy Class 1 of the military service will State Veterinarian Lytle. meet in Dallus on Saturday, May Dr. Lytle says that they have ac 18, and at the courthouse will he ad complished tin* feat in France, hut dressed by a number of men on sub so fin- the secret has not been relay jects pertaining to the military. ed across the Atlantic. It is believ The Ladies Patriotic League, an ed hy some deft operation either on auxiliary to the Home Defense the throat or what is known ns “tho Guards, has been organized at Bue false nostril,” or hy cutting a museto na Vista with the following officers: in tiie donkey's tail, that he will bo Mrs. Rose, president; Miss Plnnt, become bercfl of his strident voice. If this is successful, an effort w ill vice president; Miss Bose, secretary he made to determine whether tho and treasurer. duck may he deprived of his quack. The Dallas Woman's Club bus Numerous complaints have been re elected the following officers for the ceived as to the noisy duck. coming year: Mrs. J. S. Sweeney, president; Mrs. E. K. MncNumar, LATE RAINS HELP FARMERS; vice president; Mrs. B. C. Virgil, LINCOLN IS PROSPEROUS secretary; Mrs. H. L. Crider, treas urer; Mrs. W. D. COIlius, chairman Toledo—Heavy rains have fnllen of Civic Section; Mrs. W. I. Ford, in this county tiie past week and tiie chairman of I.ilernry Section; Mrs. moisture lias been of great benefit D. A. Mackenzie, chairman of the to pastures, ranges, farms and gar Music Section; Miss Margaret Huss- dens. ci, chairman of the Young Woman's The demand for vegetables and Section. tarries, on account of the presence of loggers, soldiers and other work Y A M H IL L F A R M E R S ON 2ND. ers in spruce production lias been A N N U A L E D U C A T IO N A L T O U R largely increased and gardeners along tiie bay are looking ahead to McMinnville—The second annual a prosperous season. farm home study tour, conducted Witli business humming, due to in Yamhill county under the aus spruce activities and liar improve pices of tin- County Life Council and ments, tiie Yaquina Bay section Edna L. Mills, county home demon prolml^y will enjoy great prosperity stration agent, took place last week. for some time, and Toledo is feeling Farmers and their families spent the impulse of new conditions in one day in visiting the farm homes various ways. of the county, take notes, exchange ideas and experiences and learn N U M B E R OF V O T E R S IN S T A T E IN C R E A S E D 64,294 from each other the better ways of milling to the comfort and conveni ence of the farm home. The first Salem—When registration closed tour, taken last year, was entirely approximately .‘105,770 voters had signed their names in *hc registra successful. tion books of Oregon, and classified by political affiliation ns follows: V IS IT O R S B A R R E D FR O M 176,800; Democrats V A N C O U V E R B A R R A C K S Republicans 84,443; Progressives 1270; Prohibi Vancouver, Wash.-—No • visitors tionists 8080; Socialist 7202: Miscel or civilians will he permitted in laneous ill 109. Compared with the registration Vnpcouver Barracks unless on a government mission, according to of two years ago, the Republicans orders received from Washington lost* 2.05 percent, tiie Democrats today. Persons entering the [tost gained 2.53 percent, and the others* will I k * escorted to the guard house. except the Socialists, decreased. The enormous Increase In demand end a short crop last year has almost completely exhausted the reserve sup ply o f popcorn In the United States. In previous years the reserve has al- wsys been maintained. In 1010 the popcorn raiser sold his 191!) crop. In 1010 he sold his 1914 crop, etc. But now that reserve Is gone, and the 1917 crop Is qn the 1918 market months be fore It would be marketed normally. And popcorn that usually brought two cents per pound In the field two years ago Is now bringing five and tlx cents, and may double In price within the next yenr. The 1917 crop will be barely suffl- j dent to supply the country’s demand for this delicious confection until a new crop Is harvested. But the price o f com In the field Is bound to in crease materially. Until a few years ago the average man gave little thought to "the corn that pops.” He looked upon popcorn as a business for street vendors. Here Is sn opportunity that every farmer should Investigate. The United States department o f agriculture has Issued several bulletins on the produc tion and marketing o f popcorn. W rite for bulletins numbers 202, 563, Soldiers, after 11 P. M., will suffer a 594. similar fate. Keep on buying Thrift Stamps, j