Farm Bureau Active
Economy of Combating Plant Diseases—Danger in the
Silo—Sodium Fluorid Poisonous
Crownsville Farm Bureiu
and dangerous overload on agriculture,
our basic Industry.
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Must Aid Stabilization.
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That stabilization of agricultural pro­
tim e this f ill »int ha,I a verv in . duction,
which la highly desirable from
te rest in g se« i >"
the standpoint of business as well as
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of the producer and the consumer, can
presented the advantages of a un­ only come when farmers generally are
ion high school.
able so to shape their plantings that,
:■ Tom H ill of Shedd, d istrib u to r with normal weather, the acreage
of Moline im plem ent’ for the farm planted will produce the approximate
quantity required to meet the consum­
ing demand.
Until this Is accom­
plished. seasons of shortage with
it promise,i foi I h r I in ■
prices painfully high to the consumer
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are certain to be experienced. Along
th e Oregon W , k »I ami uiouair as-o- with these will come years of exces­
Ciation -a v im f'th a i it ha I
f sive production In which the producer
«bo i> 300. "00 ......... .
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• t Is compelled to bear destructive loss
fiom 4 to 7c a pouibl more than because prices are below the cost of
| production.
For the correction of
country buyers were offering.
County Agent H eym an spoke this destructive alternation of too lit­
briefly on some of the project woik tle and too great crop production the
development of effective control of
an d how it was progressing.
The meeting voted to meet regu­ plant pests la one of the most Impor­
tant factors.
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H eym an iua<te «rrangeiurnts wuh
E lm erH enderson to conduct a poul­
try dem oustration farm .
H e then went to Charity And
Lake Creek com m unities and on to
H arrisburg for a com m unity m eet­
ing th a t evening,
F rid ay evening 55 members of
the H arrisburg farm bureau heard
the accom plishm ents of th e o rg a n ­
ization related by C R. E vans and
t tie im plem ent co-operative buy mg
titan • ,o t!' not h r M H i'l
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m ohair a <1 «
pool. A numb«'
of f.* r i m n o
L m -cm n ty sougt
adm ission, decian n g there was n<
bureau in their county.
CONTROL OF PESTS IS URGED
Can Be Brought About Only Through
Painstaking Technical Rsssarch,
Followed by Adoption of Rem­
edies by Farmers.
(F r-p sr-d by the United Btetee D eperttneot
of Agrlcultura.)
When a plant disease or some other
crop pest destroys an important crop
throughout a large area. It la easy to
see how dangerous these pests are
both to agriculture and to the coun­
try. The farmer whose crop la de-
stroyed suffers through lota of his
Income; the consumer often through ab­
normally Increased cost of his food
supply. Occasionally, as In 1918, when
the wheat crop of the United States
and Canada was reduced approximate­
ly 280.000,000 bushels by black stem
rust after the entire expense Involved
In Its prdBuctlon, except that of har­
vesting afld threshing, had been In­
curred. the result Is so serious as to
endanger the stability of banks and of
business generally in the devastated
region sod even .as In that case, to
threaten the future ofsnatlons through
Impairment nf^ood supply when need­
ed for winding the great war.
T ak e Heavy T d l on Crops.
But spectacular and widespread de­
struction of crop« 1« by no means the
only harm worked by plant diseases.
Every season and Id substantially ev­
ery lmporant producing section they
take heavy toll on crop production.
Their exlstencA-^wlthout control con-
stltutes one of the chief hazards which
the farmer endnttnters. Increasing hit
cost of production and ultimately the
price which consumers must pay.
I t hag been dlftcult to determine
even approximately the amount of
damage done by plant diseases, but
very careful estimates recently made
hy the pathologists of the state ex­
periment stations and the Department
of Agriculture Indicate that In 1919
the production of ten of the Important
cereal, fruit and vegetable crops was
reduced more than 660,000.000 bush­
els by plant diseases. Thia estimate
does not Include damage due to In­
sects nor to adverse climatic condi­
tions.
When It la remembered that sub­
stantially eqns> expenditures for labor
and other Items up to the point of
Prstsctmg W heat Saad Aga lost Smut
by Farmaldahyda Treatm ent.
harvest are required for the dises«-«
and the healthy crops. It la clear that
these, yests constitute f moat |riawoua
PARTLY FILLED SILO
IS DANGEROUS PLAGE
Turn Machine Blower on Before
Attempting to Enter.
Number of Accidents Occur Each Yeai
Owing to Carelessness and Ignor­
ance of Methods of Removing
Deadly Oases.
(Prepares kr the Unite« Stetee Department
of Affrloulture )
Turn the machine blower on and
leave It on for at least two minutes
before anyone Is permitted to enter
a partly filled silo. Unless this rule
Is followed, the result Is likely to be
dead men, says the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Annually fatalities occur among
Cartners and their helpers as a result
of the workmen entering half-filled
silos after the deadly carbon monoxide
gasea have had a chance to accumu­
late directly above the freshly en­
siled corn. A few days ago two Illi­
nois farmers were killed and another
wag rendered seriously sick by silo
S ùù Ì m .'.: FLUORID POiSONOUS
Cara Should Ba Taken That Material
Does Not Gat Into Drinking
Wator or Food.
I f sodium fluorid Is used for killing
lice on chickens be careful not to let
It get Into the food or water. Don’t
pour It out where (he hens will drink
It before It can soak Into the ground.
The mutertal la rather poisonous If
taken Internally.
Where some of the sodium fluorid In
dust form reaches the body of the op­
erator. aud la allowed to remain for
several hours, local Irritation and
burning may occur on tender parts of
the akin. In dueling large flocks It la
belter to use a table rather than to
hold the fowls between the knees. The
solution does not Injure the bauds,
even when dipping Is continued for
«everul hours, except where »here are
sores, which may become slightly Irri­
tated.
Don't allow sodium fluorid solution
to remain In galvanized vessels a great
length of time. It la best not to keep
It overnight In tubs or galvanized con­
tainers, as It will Injure them.
LONG SIEGE OF
FREAjWEATHER
millions of uoiisrs uwrnugu *u lump.co
and other districts.
Mexicans pray to “water goddess'* to
end drought.
Volcano Colima In Jalisco Is In erup­
tion.
Many lives lost In waterspout which
deetroyed part of Tangier, Morocco.
Volcano Masaya In Nicaragua In
eruption.
Typhoon and floods In Philippines
and especially on Island of Luzon, do
great damage.
Six new- craters opened at Mount
Izalco. Salvador.
Waterspout In Mala-Doura, province
of Spain, damages crops and villages.
Heat in the Alps causes glaciers to
shrink and nine mountain climbers are
killed.
Seventy-five dead in tornadoes wljjch
sweep southern United States.
Flood Inundates Pueblo, causing $10,-
000,000 property loss.
Forty-seven perish In Sau Autonio
(Texas) flood.
One consolation of the freak weath­
er, however, la the prospect of an
“open winter.”
Find Burled Treasure.
Berlin.—Twenty
million
marks'
worth of gold and sliver, which Is be­
lieved to have been hidden by Ger­
many's legendary “Capt. Kidd”—
Claus Stoertebecker— has Just been
dug up near the North sea coast, said
a Hamburg dispatch to tlia Neue Ber
liner Zeltung.
. J. 1921
H A1.SKV K N IK R l'R IS K
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2 good sets Heavy Work Harness for sale
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1 set heavy Hack Harness
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1 set single buggy Harness
1 Clipper Fanning Mill, in first-class shape, for
sale. Have von a good milch cow to trade
for new machinery?
See me for new farm implements. .
6. W. Mornhinweg Implement Store
MAYBERRY &
M c K inney
L VE S T O C K B U Y E R S
Highest prices paid for Beef, Pork, Veal and Mutton. See Ua
before you aell,
Halsey phone 179.
Brownsville phone 37c51.
EXPECT PATIENT TO SURVIVE
United States Suffers Chiefly From E x ­
cess of High Tem perature and Da-
ficiency of Molatura— Soma
Recent Disasters.
New York.—The old spheroid known
as the earth la emerging from what
some human diagnosticians might call
a severe attack of meteorological
mumps. I t has been accompanied by
an Intermittent fever, manifested In a
world-wide heat wave of unusual
length and luteusiiy. In spite of crises
and relapses, earthquakes, tidal waves,
cloudbursts, typhoons, waterspouts,
hailstorms, floods and hurrlcanaa In
many widely separated [Arts, from
Kamchatka to Cape Horn and from
Guam to Guadaloupe. the doctors are
confident the patient will recover.
Meanwhile the United States for the
last year hag been suffering chiefly
from an excess of high temperature
and a deficiency of moisture, a condi­
tion unprecedented In the fifty yeurs'
history of the weather bureau.
Suffers Heat Waves.
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World Is Slowly Recovering From
Severe Attack of Meteoro­
logical Mumps.
The persistent higher temperatures,
for which a number of speculative ex­
planations hive been given, began In
August, »20, and for the succeeding
twelve months there was an average
monthly excess above normal of 3.4
degrees. ’ March, 1921, aft unusually
warm spring month, had an excess av­
erage of 10.8 degrees. The first slight
break lu the record occurred last Au­
gust, which was slightly below normal.
In the nine mouths' period beginning
in October, 1918, and ending In July.
1919, the average monthly temperature
was 2.71 degrees above normal, and
this was a record until sun spots, sea
bottom upheavals or other hypothetical
Newly Constructed Silo— Doors Should
causes sent the mercury Still higher.
Not Ba Wedged Into Place Until
T h e highest average temperature ever
Needed to Prevent W aste of Com
recorded in this country for th* month
gases which are almost as dangerous o f March, weather officials say. was
18.3, In March, 1921.
as the poisonous mustard gases used
The average temperature for April,
during the recent war. In this In
1921—66 degrees— was the Warmest for
stance, one of the farm workmen
entered a 60-foot silo which had l>een that month In half a century. May aud
half filled the previous day. Some June were not unusual, but July broke
all records for the preceding eleven
rime elapsed and when he did not
years.
come out, another of the hands as
Weather bureau officials here de­
cended Into the silo.
Neither re
appeared, though the other workers clined to discuss the possible connec­
shouted to them repeatedly to come tion between the present high tempera­
tures and disasters of nature In many
down.
parts of the world.
Fearing an accident, the farm owner
A glance back for recent disasters
finally climbed Into the silo. He also
was Immediately overcome by the end natural phenomena shows the
poisonous fumes and only the fact
following:
Two million Koreans starving In
that others followed him, forced open
the extra Mio doors and carried him Mnnchnrla owing to drought-ruined
Into the open air saved his life. The crops.
Three hundred buildings wrecked
two other men were suffocated Im­
ami many killed by hailstorm and wa­
mediately.
Each year, a number of accidents of terspout at Baez, Cuba.
Three volcanoes. Vlllartca, Llalma
this kind occur, due largely to care­
lessness and Ignorance of the propef and I*anln. spout flames more than a
thousand feet from crater».
methods of eradicating the dangeron-
Drought kills fish to river Seine and
gasea. The preventive measures are
France suffers most severe drought In
simple and efficient and, where they
are followed, there Is no danger.
47 years.
Rhine and Moselle rivers do great
• No workman should ever enter e
damage In highest flood In 136 years.
partly filled silo, after the ensiled
Cloudburst and hailstorm damage at
com has had an opportunity to de
velop poisonous carbon monoxide Rome. Italy.
Mount Vesuvius shows activity and
gases overnight, until the machine
earthquake shock la felt from Leghorn
blower has been started The fresh
to Lake Lnglno.
sir dilutes and scatters the obnoxious
Italian destroyers carry Inhabitants
gases to the extent that they are
rendered harmless After the blower to safety as volcano Stromboll re­
sumes activity.
has been operated for two minutes,
Damage of several million drachma»
It Is perfectly safe for the workmen
to enter. Another precaution which done In Greece by aevere hailstorm».
should be practiced religiously Is not
Barth Biecks Canal.
to wedge the silo doors Into place un
Earth blocks Corinth caBhl.
til they are needed to prevent the
Cyclone devastates three towns in
waste of the ensiled com
Many
Haiti.
farmers follow the practice of plac­
Volcano Kilauea In Hawaii spouts
ing moat of the doors before any gre»t
Immense fountains of lava.
amount of com la cut and d<-posltcd
Activity of the volcano Popocatepetl
la the Mio. Thia prevents free dr-
In Mexico Increasing.
cnlatlon of air through the silo which.
Earthquake shakes Vera Crus and
In turn, operates to favor the accumu­ four other cltlee.
lation of carbon monoxide and other
Lightning strikes oil wells, cuoting
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C O P V R IQ H T
T H E B O B O S - H E R H I L L C O M PA N Y ~
T MAY be presumptuous to compare any story
with the immortal "Treasure Island,” but
there is a real basis for it here, for the narra­
tive does deal with treasure, pirates and a Pacific
island in an uncommonly delightful way.
In thrilh, it must yield to its great predecessor,
in humor, it is at least a good second; in variety
and up-to-dateness, it haa the advantage.
It is a real treasure hunt with the unique quality,
giving rise to delicious humor, that the hunters
are led by women. It is a genuine treat.
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W a tc h f a r I t a t a S t r i a i in T h t t t C o lu m n t l
Beginning in the E n tirp rise of Nov. 17,1921