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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1916)
; SELECT GLEAN SEED Most Important Precaution In Control of Potato Scab. Disinfection Treatment la an Added Foresight Neither Will Be Ef fective If Soil It Already Full of Disease. (From the United Btntno Department of Agriculture, ' The treatment of soed potatoes with formaldehyde or with corrosive sub limate has been recommended for many years as a preventive of scab and other diseases carried on the tu bers. Such treatmont Is, on the whole, profitable, but has sovoral limitations which should be clearly recognized to prevent disappointment, according to the specialists of the department. The object of disinfecting seed pota toes Is to destroy the germs of scab and other surface parasites which might otherwise be planted with the eeod and infect the new crop. Only surface Infections are reachod by this method, It Is only partially effective Potato Affected With Russet Scab, , Showing Russetlng and Cracking At t eoclated With Rhlzoctonla of West- ern Potato. against deep pits of common scab. Formaldehyde is loss effective than corrosive sublimate against the black Bclorotla or rostlng bodlos of rhlzoc tonla, or russot scab, and agn.lnst pow dery scab. Neither chemical, as or dinarily used, will destroy silver scurf. Either one will kill surface Infections of blackleg, but neither fusarium wilt nor late blight Infection In potato tu bers can be reached by any seed treat ment, nor can any of the nonparasitic diseases of potatoes, such as mosaic loaf roll, and curly dwarf, be prevent ed. See Farmers' Bulletin 541 for description of these troubles. Clearly, therefore, the most Impor tant precaution against these diseases Is to select clean, disease-free seed potatoes from healthy, vigorous plants, as determined by field Inspection dur ing the growing soason and at harvest. 'Seed treatment should then be applied as an additional precaution. Boll Conditions and Potato Diseases. I Soil conditions have an Important re lation to potato tubor diseases, and many of these are widely sproad throughout the country, perhaps na tive to some soils. Common scab Is favored by a neutral or slightly al kaline soil, and seldom gives trouble In acid soils. It is therefore increased Jby liming and by fresh stable manure, wood ashes, and alkaline fertilizers, such as nitrate of soda and ground Jbone, while acid, phosphate and sul- Iphate of ammonia tend to diminish acab. Rhlzoctonla occurs to some extent In nearly all soils, but appears to at tack potatoes most when the condl tlons are unfavorable to the best de velopment of the potato plant. Ilrlng the land to an Ideal state of tilth to minimize loss from rhlzoctonla. Powdery scab Is worst on cold, wet, or poorly drained Bulls. Blackleg, .J k fxvl Potato Affected With Common Scab. on the other hand, is carried by infect ed soed. No potatoes showing a deep brown discoloration at the stem end should be planted. Sulphur tends to prevent common scab. It is not a substitute for cor rosive sublimate or formaldehydo, but in a good drier tor cut seed. Applied to scab-infected soils at tho rate of 600 pounds per acre It reduces the scab, but such heavy applications can not be generally recommended as profitable. Preliminary experimental trials are advised. How to Disinfect Seed. I The formaldehyde treatment - con alati of soaking the potatoes, before cutting, for two hours In a solution made by adding one pint ot formal- dohyde to 30 gallons of water. The solution can be used repeatedly. The gas treatment Is no longer recom mended. Corrosive sublimate Is used at the rate of 1-1,000 for one and one-half to two hours. Dissolve two ounces of the salt In hot water and dilute to 15 gal lons. This Is a deadly poison. Use with great care. It must also be kept In wood, porcelain, or glass vessels, as It attacks metal. It Is more effec tive than formaldehyde, particularly against rhlzoctonla and powdery scab. Do not use the same solution more than three times, as the strength diminishes with each lot of potatoes soaked. To treat large quantities, sot sev eral barrels on a slightly elevated plat form. Fit a plug In a hole In the bot tom of each barrel, fill with potatoes, cover with solution, let stand two hours, draw off solution, and pour into another barrel. Increase the number of barrels In proportion to the quan tity to bo treated. Another method Is to use a large wooden vat or trough, Into which the potatoes In sacks are lowered by a rope and pulley and later bailed out, drained, and dried on slat ted racks. Seed potatoes may be treated sev eral weeks before planting, provided they are not reinfected by storing In old containers or storage bins. Sprouted potatoes are Injured by treatment, but will throw out new sprouts. In general, however, pota toes will not be injured by following the above directions. Many growers bellove germination Is improved by treatment. TREATING SCOURS IN HORSES Give Mixture of Whole Oats and One Ninth Part Wheat Bran Have Teeth Attended To. For scours In horses, feed a mixture of whole oats and one-ninth part of wheat bran by weight, allowing one and a fifth pounds of this for each hundred pounds of body weight as a day's ra tion. In the same way feed one pound of hay per hundred pounds of body weight. Increase hay and decrease the grain mixture when the horse is idle. Let him run out In the yard dally, when not at work and when the weather Is fine. Muzzle him be tween meals If he eats his bedding. Allow free access to rock salt. Give tho drinking water before meals un less he has access to pure water at all times. Have his teeth attended to by a veterinarian, and if he bolts his feed mix some hard peas with it or put It in a very largo box, or have soma cobblestones in the feed box. trCrteirttiirGtrtrtiiitriiitiiiiiitrlrtrirttrti it nrvrp it nvi v Ct uulo 1 1 rn l l To buy cheap seeds because good seeds are scarce and high In price? Of course it does not. Records which have been kept of the time and labor expended and the yield secured tell the story. It's the same all along the line. Cheap seeds never paid and never will. MAINTAIN HEALTH OF COLTS Easy to Prevent Navel Disease by Providing Clean and Sa.;.tary Stalls for Animals. Navel disease which infects colts soon aftor foaling can easily be pre vented by providing clean and sani tary stalls for the mares and colts and keeping the stable well disinfected, ac cording to J. S. Coffey of the animal husbandry department, Ohio state uni versity. The disease is easily transmitted from old bedding, sawdust or barn yard Bcraplngs. Only clean and new straw should be put in the Btall and a strong solution of iodine kept handy for bathing the navel cord of the colt. The first milk of the mare contains colostrum, a natural laxative, and is essential in keeping the young colt In good condltton; therefore, mares should not be milked before or soon after foaling. In a few days both mare and colt can exercise in the pas ture lot. PLAN FOR CUTTING SPINACH Convenient Way Is to Use Sharp Hoe to 81 Ice Off Large Plants of Edible Size. As convenient a way as any for cutting Bplnach is to use a sharp hoe to slice off the large plantB as soon as they reach the edible size, thus leaving the Binaller ones for a week or two to grow larger. By so doing the season can be somewhat extend ed without risk of having the plants develop seed Btalks, which they will start to do at the first hint ot warm weather. MINERAL FEEDS NO BENEFIT Negative Results Obtained In Tests Conducted at the Iowa Experi ment Station. Pigs fed at the Iowa station were given free-will choice of 14 different minerals while bejng fed on corn and Its products, but results were nega tive, as the minerals did not appar ently help the stock in any way. Among minerals available were rock salt, charcoal, limestone, bone ash, cinders, alack coal, wood ashes, glau- ber'a salts, epsom salts, calcium cit rate and baking soda. Bathing Frocks and Ill ill roirou Bathing suits of this year's design Include many new departures from ac cepted styles of other years. They are ampler in length and width of skirt; many of them have sleeves that partially cover the upper arm, and considerable needlework is involved in their making. , There are princess models that look like riding coats, and there are full skirts with pantalets that reach somo inches below the knees. Most novel of all is a model made of silk with a very full skirt sewed together across the bottom, with two openings to thruBt the feet through. This serves the purpose of bloomers and skirt. One of the best of the new designs is shown In the illustration. It is of black taffeta trimmed with narrow white braid. The skirt is cut in four gores, narrow at the top and pointed at the bottom. The waist, cut with kimono sleeves, opens over a white silk vest. Revers reach to the waist lino, and there is a small flaring collar at the back. These and the sleeves, which are slit up the top of the arm, are outlined with two rows of the nar row white braid. Black and white silk lft wide stripes make the close-fitting cap with wings of plain black, and black and white are combined in the stockings and slippers. Altogether this Is a model that is attractive and practical. Short knickerbockers are worn under the skirt. Broadstrlpes In many color com binations serve the designer of smart Last Word in Itf tflfl I lal',ifBali 'iM'ttf TfB Irt'i'ni tiaWumTamw1 tlfcJaM An elegant blouse of linen, hand em broidered, and an equally smart but less costly model in voile, are among the latest offerings In summer styles. Each of them presents at least one new feature worth consideration, and either of them may be easily made at home. Handkerchief linen in the natural linen color was used for the blouse at the left of the picture, with a heav ier linen in a medium shade of blue, and embroidery in white, black and blue floss appearing in the decoration. This blouse has an open throat and a wide sailor collar with rounded cor ners, piped with blue. Down each side of the front are simulated button holes made of the blue linen, and the embroidery design. In the fashionable mode of long stitches, is worked about these buttonholes. Oblong buttons are covered at the top with the natural linen, and the remainder with the blue. Tho same model Is shown In salmon color and retails for some thing over ten dollars. It is style and hand embroidery which enables this linen blouse to sell for a price four times that of the dainty blouse of voilo shown with it. The voile blouse is in the fashionable chartreuse color, and this peculiar green looks unusually well with white linen in a binding on all the frills. In this blouse all the seams are hemstitched with thread in the color ot the blouse. The back portion ex tendi over the shoulders to form a Swimming Suits bathing suits to the best purpose. Wide skirts are cut with stripes run ning diagonally about the figure, and the waists with perpendicular stripes. Usually a fitted girdle of silk, in a plain color, Is shaped Into a pointed belt that Joins waist and skirt, and a little vest of the plain silk is intro duced at the front. Bloomers and stockings match the vest and girdle in color, and it is the custom to make the hat or cap of the same plain ma terial. There is a distinction between a regular swimming suit and the bath ing frock. Swimming suits are closer fitting and are made of wool jersey or fiber silk, for the girl who takes her swimming seriously. No frivolities of docoratlon add even a little extra weight to it and It is not expected that the wearer will promenade about the beach in it. The princess bathing suits are very trim and shapely. Plain materials, with collar, pockets and borders in striped or plaid or checked fabrics, make them very sightly affairs. The bloomers reach below the knees, and the skirts are almost as long. Silk poplin and taffeta head the list of silks, but there are several other fab rics in silk or wool that have helped to make this season's offerings in bathing suits the best within the mem ory of the fashion writer. Summer Blouses T short yoke at the front, and the front pieces are fulled onto this yoke in a hemstitched seam. The long sleeves are shaped Into cuffs ending in a frill by rows of hem stitching. There is a high crushed col lar of the voile edged with a scant frill and fastened across the front with a narrow stock of black satin. There are frills graduated in width at each side of the front. White linen strips are used for bindings. This model is a happy choice for a slender fig" ure and one of a very few that have been designed with a high collar. The Common Choice. A costume house the other day ad vertised hat it had on exhibition seventy-five styles of blue suits. Nearly every well-dressed woman starts out in the spring to choose a modish color for her stand-by suit, and nine out of every ten women end by buyhig some shade of blue. Rare Color. Rose, coral aud many other kindred shades are so soft and becoming that they are worthily popular this spring. The woman who has never tried them should buy a crepe blouse or frock it she would see Just how attractive she ts capable ot looking. 'I ALL SOUGHT POWER ON SEA Anelent Nations Recognized What It Meant to Be Supreme on the Ocean. The Phoenicians were the first to make long voyages and the first to arm their vessels for war. They read ily availed themselves of the ad vantages of a marine and thereby soon secured an extensive commerce. In time they assumed the empire of the sea, a sovereignty they long continued to enjoy, during which time tbey be came tyrants of the sea and exercised piracy. They were the Hrst sea pirates known to history, Aftor the Phoenicians, the Acglnetans and then the Cretans assumed domin ion of the sea during various epochs, but it remained for the inhabitants of the Island of Rhodes to create, digest and promulgate the first system ot maritime laws of which we have any authentic knowledge. So great was the success they attained, their code has always been referred to as the "cradle of maritime law." Neverthe less, as far back as the reign of King Hammurabi, who was a contemporary of Abraham, 2,250 years before Christ, we find In the code of Hammurabi nu merous sections which fix the obliga tions arising under contracts for boat building, hire or charter of vessels, transportation of goods for hire, col lisions, etc., and the principles there laid down are, In many Instances, rec ognized at the present time as the rule of decision. The Persians, and then the Greeks In turn, succeeded the Rhodlans as masters of the sea. These two coun tries maintained large fleets of war vessels, called by. the ancients, as a class, "vessels of force," as distin guished from their merchantmen or "ships of burthen." The great naval battle of Salamis, fought by these countries, in which it is said over fif teen hundred vessels took part, fol lowed by that of Plataea and Mycale, demonstrated to the Greeks, with the success of their arms, the immeasur able value of sea power. They lost no time, and spared no efforts in the crea tion of a still greater navy, and adopt ed measures they deemed Judicious in furthering the interests of their mer chant marine. Among other things they established a special Jurisdiction at Athens to pass upon maritime trans actions. CARLYLE PRIZED FIRST LOVE Margaret Gordon Was the Original of Blumlne In "Sartor Resartus," Says the Critic. During the year 1818 Thomas Car lyle, the Scotch philosopher, was liv ing at Kirkcaldy, and he seems then for the first time to have fallen in love. The lady appears not to have returned the attachment, although she with great insight at the age of twenty-two perceived the genius of her suitor of twenty-five. In the letter In which she took leave of her admirer she used these signifi cant expressions. "Cultivate the mild er dispositions of your heart, subdue the more extravagant visions of the brain. . . . Genius will render you great May virtue render you be loved! 'Let your light shine before men' and think them not unworthy this trouble." Many years after, when Carlyle wrote his reminiscences, he described the episode. He sayB that Margaret Gordon "continued for perhaps some three years a figure hanging more or less In my fancy, on the usual roman tic and latterly quite elegiac and si lent terms." The real Interest of the story is this, Was Margaret Gordon the sole orig inal of the Blumlne or "Sartor Resar tus?" One critic would have us an swer that although Jane Welsh might have Inspired some of the details, it was Margaret Gordon who was the true original. When Scot Meets Scot. A Scottish farmer was one day sell ing some wool to a carrier, and aftei weighing it in the yard he went lntc the house to make out an Invoice Coming back he missed a cheese which had been standing on a shelf behind the outer door and glancing at the bag of wool he observed that it had sud denly increased in size. "Man," he said to the carrier, "I hae clean for gotten the weight o' that bag. Let's pit it on the scales again." The car rier could not refuse. Being duly weighed, the bag was found to be heavier by the weight of the cheese InBlde. A new invoice was made out, and the crestfallen carrier went away The farmer's wife at once missed the cheese, and, rushing to the yard, told her husband that some thief had stol en the cheese. "Na, na, Meg," replied the farmer quickly; "I hae just selt the cheese for twa shillln's the pund." St John (N. B.) Telegraph. , Was It a Dark Horse? An ex-bookmaker tells this one: One day in the palmy days of horse-racing, he was operating a book at one of the western racetracks. There had been considerable betting on the third race of the day, and Just before pest time an excited rural-looking individual rushed up to the stand with a roll of bills In his hand. The man shouldered several fellows out of line and posted himself li front of the stand, but then seemed to lose himself in his reflec tions. "Well, come on," exclaimed the bookmaker. "Don't stand there. Who do yea want to bet on?" "Mister," sighed the man, "I can't tell you. It'i a secret" Loulsriiir Times, THE NEW PERKINS HOTEL Special Summer Rates Court Room, Single, 75c Double, $1. Outiide Room, Single, Double, $1.50 (llitli prlvll.'ito Induilml) Roomi with Private Bath, Single, $1.50; Double, $2.00. (When you nirltr Auk tht Clerk fur ttummor 1ULJ.) Auto-llm llnti Tmlm. All Cin from Union Deuot rit Our Doon. NEW PERKINS HOTEL Cor. Wulilmrlon A Fifth 3t PORTLAND. OKE New Houston Hotel SIXTH AND EVKUKTT s'TS. Four Blocki from Union Sttlon. Umlor nw management. All roomi newly dcuruUd. SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK OR MONTH Kates 50c. 73c, $1, $1.50 Per Day. Portland Y.M, C. A, Mo School Day and nleht clnssmi. Expert training In repairlnu, driving and mochlni work, Including fora-c, lnth, Htmpvr. drill pn'M, tractor, tc. Timo unlimited. COMl'K TKNT CHAUFmiHH AND MECHAN ICS SUi'l'UKD. WKITii US. If you cannot come to Purtlnnd to K"t your ey llttrd, I will s?nd you my method or ut ihff )y by mail. Not art desirable aa person al service but much better than ifoinjr with out tf!anne needed or trying to ht youraelf. Outfit sent on application. STAPLES, the Jew. tier-Optician, 206 Morrison at., Portland, Oregon FISK TEACHERS AGENCY. ' Trachera for all kinds of teaching- poaitlona. Prompt replies to all inquiries. We fnrniMh tha bHt tuihi.rn for all Dositiond. Send adHrcH! nnd we will mall you full particulars. J. N. ELLIOTT, 514 Journal tildg., Portland, Orogon. TheVar Children of Paris. How beautiful they are, the war children! How well cared for, how thriving, and how showered with love! Their prolonged siestas in the Bols or in the gardens have freshened the bloom of their cheeks. Their immacu late plnk-and;whitene8s Beems to tes tify to the girl mother's loving care of the now sovereign baby who for two years has had no rival. The mother's entire time is devoted to His Majesty, the baby, nor is he ever forgotten ex cept occasionally when her thoughts wandering to the absent one, she , traces in the baby's dimpled face the sometimes fugitive, sometimes strik ing resemblance to his soldier-father. Sacred moments these when in the twilight the curly head and downy cheek resolve themselves into the pale or sunburnt features of one "some where in France." Cartoons Maga zine. Start the year by getting Hanford's Balsam. You will find frequent usa for it, Adv. Gypsies Use Automobiles. "Even gypsies are abandoning horses for motors," says the July Pop ular Mechanics Magazine. "A band of about 40 of these nomads recently visited Columbus, Ohio, traveling in three covered automobiles which had been purchased a short time before. Each motor was fitted up in true gipsy fashion, and portions of the tops were painted in the bright colors character istic of the familiar gypsy wagons. In all, three families Inhabited the three car3. The sage of the group was a woman 75 years old; tho young est of the children was three months old." The Best Liniment. For falls on icy walks, sprains and bruises, rub on aud rub in Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh. Apply this liniment thoroughly and relief should quickly follow. Adv. The Usual Way. Out of a letter that came to us the other day we grab this little bit: You can tell a man your troubles, You can weep and moan and wail, You can tell him you'll go bankrupt, That you'll maybe go to jail. You can tell your inmost secret, You can bare your life's one blot And he'll say: "I want to help you, But what assets have you got?" Detroit Free Press. Nervy. "That fellow's got his nerve with him!" "What's the matter now?" "He actually asked me to lend him a couple of gallons of gasoline until next Saturday." Detroit Free Press. The Smile of Serenity. "That man is surely an optimist." "How do you know?" "He smiles continually." "Maybe he's an optimist and maybe he's a diplomat." Washington Star. HELP YOUR STOMACH TO DO ITS WORK NATURALLY NORMALLY IS NATURE'S "FIRST AID" IN STOMACH OR BOWEL DISORDERS V & TRY IT 1