THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
i
X Kill Onion Thrips
by Using Spray
"O f course, I didn't,'
Select Seed Tubers
"At least, aot a t E rst I thought
was just a dancing flrl.
girl. And I
i
t 7 •
n
From Sound Planta
thought her father was a head w aiter, j
and that Casim lr was a silly asa
who'd got 8bakespeara on tba brain.
I'd have chucked the whole thing Nicotine Application When Potatoes Should Be Obtained
and kicked Casim lr next tim e I saw
From Healthy Vines.
him, only th at I really did want to—"
Plants
Are
Small
Will
"You wanted to m arry Calypso T
Selecting potatoes in tbe field for
Kill Insects.
"Most frightfully," said Tommy,
seed next season is said by the potato
who is a very simple soul,
at the New York state agri
The onion thrips Is a small prolific specialist
“Considering your position," I said, insect,
cultura] experiment station ut Gen
alm
ost
invisible
to
the
unaided
"and your profession, and—and my eye. It causes Injury to the onion eva to be much more satisfactory than
sister Emily, don't you think you crop by producing a condition known selecting the seed from -the bin at
ought to have hesitated about mar as "w hite blast," "white blight," and planting time. According to this au
rying a girl like that?"
thority, many potato growers who use
top.” The whitened appear home-grown
“I suppose I ought,” said Tommy. "silver
seed now follow the prac
ance
of
the
onion
leaves
and
topa
is
due
"But I didn't. A fellow doesn't, you to the extraction of the plant Juices tice of m aintaining a cpf*-iul seed plat
know, when he's— I told you that by rasping und then by suction. Short from which they make a careful selec
Calypso laid me out, absolutely a
In tbe fall for
after the attack begins, the leaves tion in of the seed next potatoes
gone man, the very moment I saw ly
year's seed plat, using
become characteristically whitened, use
her."
SOLES
tbe rest for seed for the main plant
curled, crinkled und finally die ing.
Hill selection enables the grow
That Is all very w ell; bat I still then
down
perm
anently.
T h e W on d er S o ie fo r W ear—
er to choose seed from healthy, vigor
kept on trying. I told every one I thing Tommy ought to have thought
CHAPTER IX— Continued
Wears (wise am loam am heal leather t
Insect Is Small.
met there’d been a mistake, th at I what he was doing. If he married The thrips is very gmull In all of its ous plants only, as well as from the
— 11—
— a n d f o r a B e f f a r H ea l
her,
supposing
her
to
be,
as
he
highest
yielding
hills,
declares
the
wasn't
the
man
they
took
me
for;
Janet Church, tired of standing by
stages. The adult is at first pale yel station specialist. On the other hand,
SSRIIVC S ttP Mmalm
thought,
simply
a
German
dancing
but
they
wouldn't
believe
me."
herself and very curious to know
low, later turning brown. The wings seed potatoes taken from the bln are
girl,
he
would
have
had
to
take
her
"So
at
last
you
made
up
your
mind
pale yellow with dusky fringes of rather an unknown quantity in thut
what was going on, edged slowly to
with him and she would have are
ward the table at which Tommy was to take the goods the gods provided, home
bristles. The length is about one- they
been
the
curate's
wife
In
my
sister
may come from weak or diseased
sitting. The king, who has very a princess and a throne?”
twenty-fiftb of an Inch. The thrips Is
"Well, of course, there was Calyp Emily's parish. W hat sort of exam usually found In the axils of the plants and will transm it these charac
sharp eyes, noticed her.
Calypso likely to set to mem leaves, not appearing on the leaves to ters to next year’s crop.
“By the way," he said, "why did so," said Tommy. “I didn't really ple was
Brazil*§ Food Factorieg
of the Girls’ B’riendly society? any
W hether a special seed plat has
until present in large num been
you bring your aunt with you? Cas think at first that I had much bers
W hat would the members of the bers. extent
Producing foodstuffs occupies the
maintained or not, growers will
lmlr tells me that she's your aunt. I chance of getting her, marrying her, M
The
m
ature
female,
by
means
of
others' union have thought about a tiny, saw-like organ near the end of find it advantageous to select their greatest num ber of factories in Brazil,
suppose she is your aunt? I used I mean. Well, I told you how I was her?
W hat would dear old Canon the abdomen, cuts a slit in a leaf or seed potatoes at harvest time, in view while clothing is next, ceramics, wood
to say oausin myself sometimes, and feeling about her.”
simplest, gentlest, most inno
the favorable results secured from working, furniture and textiles fol
occasionally sister—not that any one “Yes. I understand th a t But all Pyke,
and In this slit deposits an egg, of
cent of men, have thought of a cu stem,
this practice In the station’s experi lowing in order.
•ver believed me — but I never the same— w hat I'm trying to get at rate's
generally
Inserted
out
of
sight.
Here
who kicked her legs into the egg hatches In two to seven dnys, mental pluntings. While it is usually
thought of aunt. 1 suppose now that Is this: what did you think was the air wife
platform of his paro depending on the tem perature. The desirable to harvest the bulb of the
she isn’t—but she can’t be, can’t pos happening? How did you explain It chial hall on at the
the
annual entertainm ent young thrips works Its way out and potato crop after the vines h**e died.
all
to
yourself?
Did
you
try
to
think
sibly be. But still some men have
of the Tem perance society?
queer fancies. I suppose she isn’t It out?"
I feeds tn the same m anner as the It Is advisable to go throngh the field
"I thought It out all that night." And Emily herself? My Imagina adults. Their growth is rapid and In a short time before and select a suffi
ldtsH Temple, is she?’’
said Tommy, "at least as long as I tion utterly failed when I tried to a week or two, they cease feeding and cient number of the most vigorous
"No, she’s not," said Tommy.
awake. I dare say I was Imagine Emily's reception of Calyp seek a suitable location In which to plants to supply the necessary seed
“T hat’s almost a pity,” said the stayed
She had not a very high opinion pupate. This Is a resting stage of for next season. These hills can
king. "I don’t think Calypso would awake for as much as an hour or an so.
be dug at once or m arked for
Tommy before he went to Berlin. | I about
have objected to her. I don’t think hour and a half after I got Into bed, of
the nymph and either
identification when the rest of the crop
her original Jetter to me about his adult a and week la between
even the patriarch would have mind and I was thinking hard all the time, In
usually
spent
In
the
partly about Calypso, of course. disappearance she had said th at he 1 ground an Inch or two beneath the Is harvested. In either case, however,
ed. However, if she isn’t—’’
tubers Intended for seed should be
was not altogether suited to be a
He had to drop his voice at the But—”
T he life cycle from the time the
kept separate from the bulk of the
“Mostly about Calypso, I expect.” clergyman. She would have been con ’surface.
last words, for Janet had come quite
of
egg
laying
until
the
appearance
of
In that opinion when he came
close to them. The king greeted her "Well, you may say mostly," said firmed
ndults Is about three weeks, thus crop.
Plants selected for seed should he
Tommy. “Still, I did think about the back with Calypso for a wife. There the
In the most friendly manner.
perm
was no real harm In the girl. She year. itting several generations euch free from all suspicion of leaf-roll,
'T in Just giving your nephew a others, Casim lr and the king, and was
as thoroughly respectable as Vio Several species of ladybird beetles mosaic, or so-called spindling sprout
little advice," he said. "I was talk about the absurd way they were go la Temple
was. But Edmund Troy-
should be in a vigorous condition.
on, Insisting that I was some one
ing about the financial position of ing
on thrips. Bains, espeelally and
Selecting the best yielding hills out
te, who was a man of the world, shied feed
Lystrla. Low rate of exchange and I wasn't and all that.”
heavy
driving
storms,
frequently
de
of a lot will also pay in Increased
the Idea of his nephew marrying
all that, you know. But the worst "And what conclusion did you come at
large numlie-a.
yields the next year for the time and
How did you explain It to your her. Emily, who Is a lady not of this stroy them Kill In With
of It Is that the people simply won't to?
Nicotine.
world but of the next, would have Thrips can be killed when hit with work involved in making the selec
pay their taxes. At least, they self?"
C h a m p io n Spark
“It sounds rather absurd," said been outraged and scandalized, If a 1.6 per cent nicotine dust or with tion.
wouldn't in my time. Bver since
Plugs are guaranteed
Canon
Fyke's
curate,
a
man
who
I’ve been here I’ve been thinking Tommy, "and I dare say you'll think
as a liquid spray. The diffi
to her on Sundnys, brought nicotine
to give a b so lu te
Best
Soy
Bean
Varieties
things over and I see now that I me a fool. But you know the way preached
comes In not being able to hit
that fellow Casimlr keeps on quot home Calypso as a wife. How would culty
satisfaction
to the
went the wrong way about' collect ing
the
Insects
down
In
the
axils
of
the
Named by Kansas Station
Calypso have taught a class In Sun leaves. The spray does not kill the
ShakespeureV"
ing taxes. All governments make the
user,
or
full
repair
"I have heard him do It and m ar day school? Emily would regard it eggs In the tissues of the leaves or A few of the hundreds of varieties
sam e mistake. They send ’round dis veled."
or
replacement
will
as
part
of
the
duty
of
a
curate's
wife
of
soy
beans
have
proved
their
value,
agreeable men with large blue pa
the pupae In the soil. Also a few
be made.
pers and threaten people who don’t "Evidently he’d read a lot of to teach a class in Sunday school. winged ndults escape and later infest according to tests conducted by the
Kansas agricultural experim ent station
pay up. T hat's the wrong way to Shakespeare," said Tommy, “and' ad There are things which Tommy the sprayed plants.
him and all that."
certainly ought to have thought Early spraying when the plants are in co-operative experim ents with farm
C ham pionX for F ords60c. Blue
get money. As head w aiter in the mired
Box for all other cart, 75c. M ore
"These mtd-European peoples," I about; but did not. As he said, “a small may have some value, hut after ers.
M ascotte I make more In a single
than 95,000 dealers sell C ham -
said,
"all
adm
ire
Shakespeare
1m-
fellow
doesn't"
when
he
has
fallen
The
Manchu.
Haherlandt,
Midwest,
pi uine
oft j. by Y the
om w ill know the gen
month than I ever got out of Lystrla
the
plants
get
large
It
has
very
little
double-ribbed core.
suddenly and violently in love. And, effect.
and Morse varieties have glvep good
In u year. I don’t threaten any one.
of
course,
there
were
other
consid
results
for
seed
and
pasture
purposes.
I don’t ask any one for u tip. A
Preventing
spring
infestation
Is
the
Plug Co.
Cham pí
erations. Calypso really was a prin most im portant. The practice of grow Manchu is an excellent variety for
good w aiter can make a man feel like
in
cess. Tommy did not know that, at ing
grain or pasture. H aherlandt Is a
a worm if he orders anything cheap
onion
sets
near
fields
of
seed
the time. Perhaps no one In the par onions serves as a source of Infesta heavy seed producer and suitable for
er than champagne, and without
ish would have known It at first; but tion for adjacent fields. Greenhouses grain and pasture. Midwest is a good
•peaking a word cun see to It that
In the end It would have leaked out. near
pasture variety. Morse, while
he gets a ten per cent tip at least on
fields sometimes harbor the seed and mainly
W hat would have happened? My sis thrips onion
for seed production,
•very hill th at’s paid. I take fifty
all wlntpr and then In warm adapted
ter
Is
no
more
a
snob
than
the
rest
is also a good variety for hay. Wil
per cent of what the w aiters get.
w
eather
the
thrips
leave
the
house
for
of ns; but, like all decent people, she the fields. Cleaning up fields of piles son Is an excellent variety for hay.
T hat’s revenue, collected without tlie
has a respect for royalty. She might of refuse, such ns onion fops, culls and Virginia Is distinctly a hay variety
•lightest difficulty. W hat I’m ad
severely condemn the manners, cus screenings, elim inates an Important and usually produces high yields.
vising your nephew to do Is to try
toms and mornlg of a Berlin cabaret
produces a good quality of hay. i
the same plan In Lystrla. F’lre all
of infestation. Burning weeds Sable
dancer; but she is not the woman source
Soy beans, like other legumes, must
the exlsiting tax collectors. They're
along
railroads,
ditch
hanks
and
fence
to do more than whisper nasty things rows destroys hibernating places.—J. be supplied with the proper bacteria (
an utterly worthless lot, and their
about a princess. H er position would L.
order to enable them to make a
methods are antiquated. Hire a
Hoerner, Entomology Department, in
Under City Street
he really awkward. A curate’s wife Colorado
normal growth on poor soils. The par- I C oh Coal
staff of waiters from some place like
Agricultural
College.
I discovered while laying a sewer
occupies
a
definite,
quite
humble
__________________
ticular
kind
of
bacteria
necessary
for
tltis Kmploy them on a fifty-fifty
a busy street In Coatbridge, Scot
place In a parish. But a princess In j _
-
soy beans is seldom if ever present in ; in
basis, and Just see w hat you get in.
land, is being dug up at the rate of
any
well
regulated
church
is
received
j
oWeet
LlOVer
bllage
IS
Kansas
sails
except
where
soy
beans
j
Now what do you think of thut plan,
or ten tons a day. T he “uit” Is
at the door by the clergy In full ca
have been grown. For tiffs reason It ,' nine
Miss Temple?"
Excellent
for
Dairy
Use
iS feet deep.
nonicals,
has
a
gilt
and
crimson
chair
is
usually
necessary
to
place
the
bac
"My name isn’t Temple," said
clover makes excellent silage
to git on, Instead of being herded in for Sweet
In the fields where soy beans are
Janet. “It’s—”
dairy cattle and Is growing in pop teria
to
a
pew
like
other
people,
and
Is
to be planted. This can he done by
"Of course not," said the king.
ularity
for
that
purpose
each
year.
often prayed for by name In the The Kemptville Agricultural school In treating the seed with inoculating ma- |
"Norheys told me it w asn’t."
course of the service. W hat could eastern Ontario swears by sweet clover terial which contains large numbers of
"It’s Church. Miss Janet Church.”
he done about a princess who Is also silage after several years’ experience soy bean bacteria.
She spoke stiffly. H er Impression
the curate’s wife?
was that the king was u very drunk
claims that It Is one of the most
But these complicated problems and
head waiter.
economic producers of milk. Of course
Financial Difficulties
did
not
trouble
Tommy.
He
was
able
"Church," said the king, "llow
something depends upon the time the Forty-two per rent of the farmer»
to
go
to
sleep
after
little
more
than
Janet
Church,
Tired
of
Standing
by
very ecclesiastical! And Norheys
sweet clover is cut for ensilage. It
th at their financial difficulties are
Herself and Vary Curious to Know an hour's wakefulness, rest quietly must be cut green enough to lie tight feel
k a v h he’s a curate. You ought to be
due
to low prices of farm products,
and
aw
ake
next
morning
prepared
to
W
hat
Was
Going
On,
Edged
Slowly
able to handle the patriarch between
when put in the silo. Then It will pack the United States D epartm ent of Agri
play
QUt
to
the
end
w
hat
he
sup
Toward
the
Table
at
Which
Tommy
you."
down and exclude the air. If too dry* culture says. Seventeen per cent at
posed to be Casim ir's game.
Wae Sitting.
“I’m going to L ystrla.” said Janet,
when put in. air will be retained and tribute their condition to high costs for
When
he
cam*
down
next
morning
"to enlist the patriarch’s sympathies
silage will be spoiled with a mold farm labor, 10 per cent to high freight
They know him a great he went to the head clerk In the re the
In the cause of World Peace Through mensely.
that Is alleged to be Injurious to cattle. rates, 10 per cent to high Interest
deal
better
than
we
do."
ception
office
and
asked
whether
the Union of Christian Churches."
time, for cutting Is when It starts rates, C per cent to reckless expendi
"T hat's what I’m getting at,” said Count Casim lr had called or sent any The
to bloom. If w eather conditions are tures during the boom period, und 4 Your friends notice how your car
The king looked at her for a mo Tommy.
"Casim
lr
adm
ires
Shake
message.
Casim
lr
had
done
neither.
ment with u little puzzled frown on speare tremendously, and I dare say But the head clerk, who felt It his right for curing well without outside per cent to too much credit.
runs. I f the m otor knocks and rattles
and fails to work smoothly, they may
his forehead. Then he turned to the king does too. I don't profess duty to watch over his guests, told moisture it may he handled ns hay
enjoy your predicament and laugh.
Tommy.
with good results. The sweet clover
myself
to
know
all
the
plays
olT
by
Tommy
th
at
he
ought
to
go
to
the
MonsMetor Oil will keep your motor
"I must say you’re managing this
Still I've read them. At least, police office at once to show his pass plant Is all right when handled right.
in tip-top shape. It will put pep,
uncommonly well," he SHld. “If you heart.
I"ve
read
most
of
them.
Do
you
re
port
and
obtain
permission
to
remain
power, and zest into your car and
can start the patriarch arguing about member the beginning of one of the In Berlin. This, he said, was neces Combat Cucumber Beetle
give it a new grip o r mileage.
religion, he’ll forget— It’s an extraor plays—I didn’t remember which It sary In the case of all foreigners who
Enjoy driving to the fullest. Buy
dinarily ingenious plan. 1 wish I’d was at the time, but I've looked It wished to stay more than two days.
Advanced registry testing frequent only HonaMolor Oil.
With
Effective
Sprays
thought of it In my time. But then up since, and It's "The Tam ing of the The whole business, so he assured Any one of the four following sprays ly results in registering advanced
M onaM oter QU Company
1 never had an aunt who could have Shrew." At the beginning of It there's Tommy, was purely formal, tiresome, may be used effectively to combat the profits.
i
Pan Francisco, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal
done It. I wish I could be there. a kind of little play which hasn’t but nothing worse. Tommy had noth striped cucumber beetle.
Miss Church. I’d like to hear you
to do with the shrew, or the ing to do except display his passport. Calcium arsenate dust at the rate Leaving good enough alone may
and the patriarch at It together. But anything
result In missing something bet
taming
or
else."
He would Immediately receive the of 1 part of calcium arsenate to 20 often
I can t go. They’d never let me No more anything
ter.
.parts
of
gypsum
or
land
p
laster;
lead
than
Tommy
ain
I
a
necessary
w
ritten
perm
it.
It
wae
•
• •
cross the frontier. Besides. 1 must Shakespearean scholar. But I recol called—Tommy w rote down the word ' arsenate d u s t; lend arsenate spray at
Oils & Greases
hold on to my Job here. It’s all I lect that there was a kind of pro to make sure of remembering It— | the rate of 2 pounds in 50 gallons of Young alfalfa plantings are harmed,
have to live on."
helped, when a nurse crop Is al
to "The Tam ing of the Shrew " an Ausweia.
J w ater; nicotine sulphate dust at the not
Janet turned away. Hrunken head logue
lowed to go to grain.
rate
of
2'4
pounds
of
40
per
cent
nico
"It’s
about
a
sort
of
spoof,”
said
(TO >1 CONTINUED.)
Try the New
. . .
waiters who babbled neither amused Tommy, "which a lot of people played
tine sulphate in 50 gallons of hydrated
nor Interested her. She left the roam off on a ragged beggar called Chris
Ground
putnire
stone
mixed
to
a
Conscience Ruled Him
' lime.
with great dignity. H alf an hour lopher Sly, pretending to belittle that One of the witnesses at a royal com The m aterial should he applied first thick paste in sweet oil Is an old re
Shaving Stick
later, after receiving a great deal the poor man was s king or a great mission appointed to Inquire Into a when the young Seedlings are break liable polisher for the horns and hoofs
more good advice, Tommy managed lord or something until they very case of alleged bribery In an election ing throngh the ground. Succeeding of show cattle.
• • •
to get off And go back to his hotel.
nearly persuaded him th at he w as!” stated that he had received $25 to vote applications should be made from two
I remembered the scene when Tom Conservative, and In cross-examina 1 to three times a week, early In the Like anything else, rhubarb has a
my described It. A certain lord, re tion It was elicited that he had also morning while the dew Is still on. and limit to Its productive ability After He Ffeels Like a
CHAPTER X
turning from hunting with tils at received $25 to vote Liberal.
Immediately after a heavy rain, being eight weeks of harvesting give it a
I have hnd *evrr»i talks with Tom tendants, all of them In m erry mood, Mf Justice Matthew, in amaimment, sure to co ter the entire plant. Appli rest until next • year. • •
Boy at Forty
my shout what happened In Karlin. found a beggar In a bed In a n ' Inn. repeated:
cations are necessary until the first
“ For over a year I suffered from headache«
The man who will he the most suc
and constipation. Someone at roy club $ug-
It wua easy, or fairly pan? to got at And out of sheer gaiety of heart set "You say you received $25 ir vote . picking.
pesred
Beecham'a Pills. 1 tried them and
cessful
and
wean
a
high
average
num
to
work
to
persuade
him
that
he
was
C
onservative
V'
the facta. It was very much more
they relieved me. I’m only forty and I feel like
ber
of
pigs
from
each
sow
is
the
man
a
boy
again
after taking Beechum’s Pills.”
"Y
es,
my
lord."
a
wealthy
nobleman.
difficult to And out what Tommy
Mr. J. G.. Yonkera, N Y.
Alfalfa for Hogs
who will plan to take .dvantage of
"My Idea was," said Tommy, "that "And you also received $25 to vote
thought about It all.
Thi$
man
fives
food
advice.
Follow it. and see how
Experim
ents
conducted
hy
the
ani
nature's
tonic*
“But didn't the whole thing strike they were trying th at trick on with L lheral?”
gusckly digestive disorders, constipation and btiwus-
• • •
mal husbandry departm ent at South
ness are overcome try BeecKam i PiUs.
me. I don't know how the game end "Yes, my lo rd "
you as odd?'* I asked him.
college indicate th at al A ttractive signs telling what I* te
For FREE SAMPLE—write
“Of course It did," said Tommy. ed In Shakespeare. In fact I don’t "And for whom did you vote at tha Dakota hay state added
to the ration of a he sold and how far It Is to the stand B. P. Allen Co.. 417 Canal Street, New York
“Odd Is hardly the word for It. It think It did end. But I thought I finish?" asked the astonished Judge, falfa
fattening
hog
will
reduce
materially
Bay
from
your druggist in S f and f e e bores
are
an
Im
portant
part
of
the
roadside
might Just aa welt go through with throwing himself back tn the chair.
simply msd.”
“Still, you went on with It. I mean It and see what happened. There And the witness, with injured dig. the amount of com required to pro m arket. Place them fnr enough on
Beecham’s Puis
nlty In every line of bis face, answered duce 100 pounds of pork. Whole al each side of the m arket so that the
to say. you didn't try to clear things was Calypso, you see."
falfa hay proved to he practically as motorist may slow down and stog i -
"Yes." I aatd. "You’ve told me how with great earnestness.
-
-
■P."
■
good
for
hogs
as
chopped
alfalfa.
**I did nothing »Is* except try to you fell about her Did you believe "I voted, my lord, according to nay Tbe alfalfa hay coa be fed In a rack. (here the fruits, vegetables and egg,
ar* for tale.
W. N. u.. Salt Lake City. No. 27-.192A
conscience!" Vancouver Proviso*
Stoor things up," sold Tommy. “I sbe was a princess?"
For
Hard Workers
and
Hard Walkers
Everywhere—
USKID E
d
Do your friends
laugh at you?
amma
MonaMotor
C uticura
I:
I