HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1931,
PAGE THREE
Killing With Kindness
Recently a young couple were sub
jected to the ordeal of a fashionable
church wedding, and started joyous
ly on their honeymoon.
They were a nice boy and girl.
His only Idea was to find a job at
the bottom of some good business
where he could carve out a career
for himself. She had dreams of
making a little home, keeping him
happily, listening in the evening to
the story of his day's adventures,
and helping him by her love and
enthusiasm to be a real success.
They had only one draw-back, or
rather six draw-backs; two sets of
wealthy parents and two very rich
old aunts.
While they were away the two
aunts had an Inspiration. They look
ed around secretly in the most ex
pensive part of the city and picked
out a swell apartment. They em
ployed the highest priced interior
decorator, and gave generous orders
at the leading furniture stores.
When the couple came back to,
town they were met by all four par
ents and the two doting old maids.
In a big limousine they were whisk
ed up to the apartment. The lights
were switched on. The older people
waited expectantly for the exclama
tions of joy that would greet the
splendid lay-out.
Too astonished to say anything,
the poor little rich children gazed
about them. Then suddenly the
bride covered her face with her
hands and burst Into a flood of
tears.
The older people thought that
they were tears of joy. In clumsy
fashion they began to comfort her,
to tell her that what they had given
her was nothing in comparison with
what they would like to do.
Being a well bred young lady, the
bride did not disillusion them. She
mumbled some conventional words
of thanks and held herself under
control until they had gone.
She could not tell them and they
would not have understood that
they had done the cruelist thing im
aginable; that they had destroyed
her dream and robbed her of one of
life's sweetest pleasures. They had
tried to be so very kind, and they
succeeded only in taking from her
the joyful right of every girl to
fix up her own little home for herself.
Most of us run no danger of
hurting our children in the same de
gree. We are, fortunately, too poor
to rob them very much.
Yet all parents need to be on
guard a bit in this prosperous land.
Let us have the good sense not to
kill with kindness.
Let us give our kids a chance to
enjoy the same grand pleasures
which we enjoyed the pleasure of
selecting their own mates, making
their own homes, and fighting their
way up by themselves.
SLANG
There is nothing new under the
sun. A smart scholar has been dig
ging into the classics of literature
and finds that many expressions
which are generally regarded as
strictly modern slang are hundreds
of years old. Alexander Pope, for
example, the English poet who died
in 1744, originated the expression
"nobody home," to signify an empty
minded person. Dean Swift, famed
as the author of "Gulliver's Trav
els," described a middle-aged wo
man as "no chicken."
The phrase "twenty-three," in the
sense of "it's your turn to disap
pear," comes from Charles Dickens.
In "A Tale of Two Cities" Sydney
Carton, the hero, is awaiting his
turn to go to the guillotine, in the
French Revolution. The old women,
knitting, call off the numbers as the
executioner's victims pass. Twenty-three,
they call, and Carton Is
led to his death.
About the only "modern" slang
that is really modern Is derived
from modern inventions. Shakes
peare could never have one of his
characters advising another to "step
on the gas," nor Dickens refer to an
individual as a "fiat tire."
FLYING
Col. Lindbergh the other day
pointed out that the Improvement in
airplanes since he made his New
York to Paris flight has been so
great that it is only a question of a
short time, in his opinion, before
the public takes to flying as it has
taken to motoring.
Planes are safer, faster and carry
larger loads than a few years ago.
What is needed most is landing
ltelds closer to the centers of towns,
says Col. Lindbergh. Where 90
miles an hour was a good cruising
speed In 1927, now the same type of
plane makes 140 miles an hour eas
ily, and carries 1,200 pounds as
against 400 pounds then. With In
creased safety, flying becomes a
matter of routine like driving a car.
Col. Lindbergh's opinions are en
titled to respect. He probably knows
more about both the science and the
art of flying than anyone else living,
and has proved himself a conserva
tive and accurate prophet in the
past.
WAKEFIELD
Nearly two hundred years ago I
George Washington's father planted ,
two thousand cedar trees on the
family estate, "Wakefield," near
Fredericksburg, Va. Tlday that ce
dar forest Is the scene of the great
est activity since the birth of the
first president, for workmen are en
gaged In restoring the old house,
which was burned on Christmas
Day 150 years ago. The stone foun
dations and chimneys still stand,
and a brick-kiln has been construct
ed to make bricks from the local
clay, just like those of which the
original house was built.
The restoration and preservation
of the homes and birthplaces of the
Fathers of our Nation is a splendid
and patriotic undertaking. We paid
too little attention In the early days
to these historic sites, with the re
sult that many of them have disap
peared, never to be replaced.
corn sugar as an article of food,
failed because it had no sound foun
dation. Now the Secretary of Agri
culture has removed the restriction
on its use in prepared foods; the la
bel does not need to tell whether
corn sugar, cane sugar, or beet su
gar is used for sweetening. As Mr.
Hyde says, corn sugar is about
three-quarters as sweet as cane su
gar and contains nothing detriment
al to health He estimates that the
potential market for corn for the
manufacture of sugar may be as
high as 100,000,000 bushels a year, or
nearly 4 per cent of the nation's
corn crop.
WOOD
Nothing has ever replaced wood
satisfactorily for the interior "trim"
of buildings. With wood, effects
can be obtained which are impossi
ble with mtal or composition. But
the use of wood in large buildings
in the cities has been discouraged
because of the fire risk.
New York authorities are now ex
perimenting with a new fireproof-
ing method which seems likely to be
adopted. It consists in soaking the
wood In a chemical solution which,
when heated, gives off a fire-extin
guishing vapor and at the same time
covers the surface of the wood with
a protective coating.
In New York new wooden shelves,
paneling, doors and trim are not
permitted in tall olllce buildings and
hotels, and wooden floors are allow
ed only when laid over solid concrete.
reports in regard to the germination
requirements of smut We find that
the smut may be a little more par
ticular in regard to moisture 'and
temperature than wheat. Also, that
various forms of smut which we will
speak about a little later have differ
ences in temperature and moisture
requirements for germination. The
spore germinates with what Is
known as a germ tube, and then
from each germ tube grow delicate
sporidia. These sporidia fuse and
produce smut infection tubes which
grow into the seedling, keep pace
with the growing points of the
wheat seedling and plant, and are
finally expressed as smut in the
head. As previously stated, this ex
pression in the head may not always
come about.
One of the outstanding recent dis
coveries made in regard to this dis
ease is that while various collections
of smut spores may look alike, they
do not act alike. We have this same
condition in rust, mildew and other
diseases, and this condition is Bpok
en of as physiologic specialization
or occurrence of physiologic forms.
A most striking instance of this con
dition was brought about in trials at
the Moro Station three years ago,
when it was found that smut spores
obtained from the Federal grain of
fices for coating seeds in tests of va
rious resistant varieties acted dif
ferently and proved strikingly dif
ferent from the smut that they had
previously been using. This led to
the rather exhaustive investigations
which we have carried on at Corval
lis in cooperation and with the as
sistance of Mr. Stephens and the
station staffs at Moro and Pendle
ton. In the past three years, we
have obtained more than 100 collec
tions of smut from various sources
and applied this smut in equal
amounts to various varieties of
wheat, and have found that al
though the spores may look alike,
many collections act quite different
ly. Varieties of wheat like Regal,
Albit, Oro, Russar, Ridit, which
were formerly thought to be resist
ant to smut, are not resistant to all
of these collections. Therefore these
smut collections must be different
in that some will successfully infect
certain varieties which others will
not infect. As a result of our stud
ies we have concluded that in all
our collections we have at least ten
physiologic forms of bunt. These
have different reactions on varieties
of wheat, and right now there is no
variety of wheat which farmers are
growing, or which has been distrib
uted from the experiment stations
which is resistant to all collections
or physiologic forms of bunt. It is
true that some are more resistant
than others, that is, are resistant to
more physiologic forms. For ex
ample, we have Ridit and Oro which
are quite striking in this respect
Ridit is resistant to most all of the
forms, but we have one or two
which attack it readily. Oro is ex
ceedingly striking in this respect
being susceptible to only one phy
siologic form with which we have
worked. All of this gives us hope
that we may be able to cross such
varieties as Oro and Ridit and get
new varieties which may be resist
ant to all forms. The discovery that
so many types of bunt exist makes
our breeding work extremely com
plicated, in fact adds a factor which
involves the need of keeping our
strains of smut pure and separate
as well as keeping our strains of
wheat pure. The existence of dif
ferent forms of bunt is a thing that
really might have been expected. As
stated before, the smut fungus is a
small plant subject to Its variations,
hybridizations, mutations, and
changes the same as the wheat
plant. We know in regard to wheat
that there are many varieties and
strains and that it is easy to orig
inate more. The same is now shown
to be true of the smut fungus. Sure
ly, we have just opened up a new
field which demands thorough re
search and Btudy, and the field Is
barely scratched.
Bad Smut From Heppner
It is of interest to note that one of
the worst, if not the worst, collec
tion of smut that we received, came
from the vicinity of Heppner. It is
what we know as Collection No. 9.
It attacks more varieties of wheat
than any other so far, but Oro and
Ridit are resistant to this collection.
As a result we find that this form of
bunt is rather widespread. It at
tacks varieties such as Regal, Albit,
White Odessa and Hussar very
readily, and so the existence of dif
ferent physiologic forms of bunt
should be taken into account when
varieties are selected.
I do not want to fail to mention
that we have evidence that our seed
treatments do not act the same
against all of these physiologic
giving another very practical appli
cation of this recent discovery. In
regard to control, there are many
factors to keep in mind. Particular
ly with winter wheat, an important
factor, as stated before, is soil in
fection, and the amount of infec
tion from the soil can greatly be
controlled by tillage methods and
maybe cooperative efforts.
In addition to the three well
known seed treatments, bluestone,
formaldehyde, and copper carbon-
DOCKAGE FOR SMUT
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GLUCOSE
"Corn sugar" is the fashionable
word now for what used to be call
ed glucose. As glucose it was vio
lently attacked a quarter of a pen
tury ago by the cane sugar and beet
sugar Interests, with the result that
the Department of Agriculture
made a ruling that all food products
containing srlucose should be so
marked on the label.
The effort to discredit glucose or
ing losses which annually amount to
more than a million dollars in the
Northwest states and losses nearly
as great in other sections of the
United States. At this time of low
price of wheat, there is interest in
the reduction of cost of production,
and one of the big factors in cost of
production, of course, is the yield of
clean wheat. Smut, without a doubt,
reduces not only the yield in the
field but also the quality of wheat
and hence the actual price received.
The study of bunt is of a fairly
technical nature because we are
dealing with a living organism.
There are two species of bunt, one a
rough spored form, and the other a
smooth spored form. I will not dis
cuss the differences in these two
species greatly, as right now we are
of the opinion that the two kinds
behave in much the same way. We
have other differences of greater
Importance which we will mention
later. Bunt is a fungus and hence
a small living parasitic plant, re
producing itself through microscop
ic spores. A spore is similar to a
wheat seed, in that it germinates
and grows, producing a plant which
attacks the wheat plant. The dis
ease Is what we call systemic, that
is, infection takes place in the
young seedling, the fungus grows
up through the plant and shows it
self In the head. It may be true
from evidence both with this dis
ease and smut of oats that we may
have the disease present and yet not
have it show in the head. In this
case we also may get a reduction in
the yield. Therefore, even though
smut may not be Indicated by smut
ty kernels in the head of the plant,
one still may have smut in the
wheat plant which may cause reduc
tion in yield and other losses such
as lodging and shrivelled kernels.
Smut Germination Told
Most everyone knows that smut
spores on the kernel can Infect the
crop nnd in addition, particularly In
winter wheat, Infection Is obtained
from the soil. Just a few words
on the nature of the growth of the
smut disease and Its Infection. The
smut spore germinates along with
the wheat kernel and infects the
seedling up until the time the seed
ling emerges from the ground. We
have found some interesting things
and some discrepancies in various
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IQNAL
ate, there have arisen many new !
dust seed treatments, most of them
with commercial names. Some of
these newer commercial treatments
are changing quite rapidly in regard
to their formulas. For this and oth
er reasons we are not ready to rec
ommend any of them, particularly,
for the control of wheat smut We
still believe that of the three best
known treatment methods the cop
per carbonate method of control is
the best for many reasons. We be
lieve that in a region where there
is much smut in the seed it is highly
important that a good grade of cop
per carbonate be used, that is, one
having a high copper content (50
or more) and that the dust be thor
oughjy coatetd on the seed. Thor
ough dusting is essential and is one
point in the treatment that many
growers neglect Although there is
not much difference, maybe, in the
value of the different grades of cop
per carbonate where there is not
much smut, we believe that as a
general practice a high grade only
should be used. The copper carbon
ate should be thoroughly dusted on
the seed at the rate of 2 ounces per
bushel and smut balls should be re
moved previous to treatment
Control Measures Cited
In view of the fact that we have
new physiologic forms and do not
know the exact resistance status of
off varieties of wheat we feel that
it is essentially important now to
make every effort to control smut,
and by every effort we mean that
you should grow the most resistant
varieties, treat them thoroughly and
carefully with the copper carbonate
dust of high quality, plant as early
as practicable to avoid as much of
the soil infection as possible, seed
rather shallow, where this can be
safely done, and use every cultural
practice which experience shows
will help toward the control of this
disease. It is rather unfortunate
that after all of the years of effort
spent on control methods that we
have more smut than ever, and it
appears that the time is ripe for a
concentrated effort to control this
disease from all angles.
To some people the entire smut
problem seems one of discourage
ment and it may appear that we
are going backward, but as in the
solution of mafiy problems, the
search for an answer to the smut
problem revealed the fact that it is
far bigger and more complicated
than was thought as first We find
now that these physiologic forms
exit It is fortunate, therefore,
that we have found It out so soon
nd are taking it into consideration.
Already we have started a new
breeding program, including new
combinations. In fact we have one
combination, a cross between Ho
henheimer, a German wheat and
Hussar, which we call Hosar. It is
not only resistant to all of the phy
siologic forms of bunt which we
have used, but it is more resistant
to the foot rot trouble, which has
given some difficulty in various sec
tions, than any other variety. Ho
sar, however, is not a desirable com-
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mercial variety. The yield is not
great and Its quality Is rather poor,
being a soft red winter wheat but
without a doubt it should make an
excellent parent particularly if its
resistance to all of these collections
of smut continues. We are testing
it in every way possible this season
in many places in the west and
should know its value for breeding
purposes soon. The wheat growers
of this region will not be satisfied,
we know, until scientific workers
have developed satisfactory substi
tutes for present susceptible variet
ies however long it may take.
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OATS
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Peaches
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COFFEE
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Campbell's To
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