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THE COLUMBIAN.
" BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1909.
The Zoological Press Bulletin
of the Division of Zoology, Penn
sylvania Department of Agricul
ture. Timely Topics of Plants and
Pests Discussed Weekly. By II. A.
Surface, State Zoologist.
THE ROSB LEAF HOPPER.
At this season of the year, when
the roses are in bloom, the dama
ging effects of the Leaf-hoppers, or
"white bugs" under rose leave?,
are most noticeable, because every
body is attracted to the beautiful
blooms, and then confronted with
the spectacle of bleached and with
ering leaves and bushes being de
nuded of foliage.
The rose leaf hopper is most ac
tive in its operations -bout the mid
dle of June. Prof. H. A. Surface,
the State Zoologist, Harrisburg,
says: "It has a piercing or sucto
rial mouth, and consequently does
not eat away the tissue of the plant,
but injects a poison and sucks the
juices. Owing to their immense
numbers they cause considerable
damage. The eggs are laid on the
under side of the leaves. The
young are hatched there, and first
look like small white plant lice, but
are active and run quickly. The
white cast-off skins remain on the
under sides of the leaves. The
young insects have no wings, and,
therefore, do nor fly, and cannot
escape the insecticides applied as
sprays. When full grown they are
light in color and winged, and jump
and fly quickly, and may escape
the spray. Where the hoppers are
at work the upper sides of the
leaves will present a grayish ap
peaiance along the mid-ribs. The
whitened leaf denotes their pres
ence. "Spray the under side of the
leaves with a solution made by dis
solving one pound of whale-oil
soap in six gallons of water, or
with a very strong tobacco decoc
tion, or eight per cent, kerosene
emulsion or a very strong solution
of any kind of soap. Being suck
ing insects, they can not be killed
by the arsenical poisons, which are
used effectively against, the chew
ing insects. It the insects hop to
the ground you can destroy them
by spraying the ground with a
stronger solution which will not
there do any injury to the plants."
THE STRIPED BEETLE.
The striped cucumber beetle is
:o be reckoned witu in the month
of June by tVc growers of cucum
bers, squashes, pumpkins and mel
ons. In some seasons the beetles
lave been known to destroy large
atches of these members of the
taelon family in a few days. t State
Soologist Surface, of Harrisburg,
;hres the following information, in
.-ondensed form, in regard to this
pest:
The beetles are about one-fourth
.f an inch long and are yellow,
'ith two blatk stripes extending
engthwise on each wing cover.
They commence at once to chew
loles in the leaves, and even eat off
Jie young stems. There are two
listinct broods, the second appear
ng about the middle of August.
he eggs are laid in the ground
tear the roots upon which the lar
ee feed, often causing the plants
0 wither without apparent cause.
The earliest measure is to pre
ent damage by covering young
-lants with a net or cloth with a
ner mesh than the common mos
uito netting. They will not crowd
.uough mosquto netting if lime
nd turpentine be placed on the
.round within it. The adults can
e killed by an arsenical poison,
ke Paris green, which can be ap
ied either as a powder or in liq
id form. If as a powder, it should
e dusted on the plants after hav
g been mixed with thirty times
s bulk of air-slacked lime or flour.
In applying poisons as a liquid,
se not over one-third of a pound
t Paris gr;en or two pounds of ar
.nate of lead in fifty-gallons of
ater.
The beetle can be kept away by
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
ward for any case of Catarrh that
nnot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
'jute.
t. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
f. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
nd believe him perfectly honora-
le in all business transactions and
.nancially able to carry out any ob-
gations made by his firm.
(Valding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists loledo, U.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
rnally, acting directly-upon the
iood and mucous surfaces of the
stem. Testimonials sent free.
rl'- 75 cents per bottle. Sold by
il Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
dusting the plants with air-slacked
lime mixed with hellebore. This,
however, is only a repellant driv
ing off the insects, but not killing
them. To destroy them a poison
must be used.
The larvae can be killed by us
ing tobacco dust in the soil around
the plants; or, stick a few holes,
four or five inches deep, in each
hill and insert a teaspoonful of cal
cium carbide, filling the hole with
earth, f.and plaster with turpen
tine is also a preventive, aud it may
be added that a pinch of nitrate of
soda in each hill will act both as an
insecticide and a fertilizer.
FOR PEACH, TREE BORERS.
There is no more serious pest of
the peach tree in Pennsylvania
than the Teach Tree Borer. It is
the larva of a Clear-wing moth,
which flies by day, darting quickly
from place to place. The egg is
laid during July and August on
the bark at the base of the tree,
aud aft-r some days the larva o:
grub hatches and commences to
feed at the surface of the bark, fi
nally eating its way through and
boring up and down and across be
neath the bark, often cutting off
the total sap supply, and causing
the tree to wither as though scald
ed. After the pests have passed
beneath the bark, they are con
cealed and cau not easily be reach
ed with insecticides. They should
then be killed by cutting them out,
always cutting lengthwise rather
than crosswise of the bark, or by
piercing them with a pointed wire,
when they will die. This, how
ever, is a grest loss of time, and is,
of course, after some injury has
been done to the tree. By far the
best plan is to prevent this injury
and the necessity of cutting them
out by covering the base of the
trunk of the tree with some liquid
material that will prevent the moth
from laying its eggs; or, destroy
the larvae before they enter the
bark. The best time of year for
this is the latter part of June, when
toe base of each tree should be
sprayed with boiled lime-sulfur
wash, either commercial or home-
boiled, the same as for San Jose
Scale, applying to each tree from a
pint to three pints, according to
size. The best way to do this is
with a spray pump, with a short
extension rod, carrying the nozzles
at an angle, but where there are
only a few trees it can be applied
with a whithwash brush. Paint
ing near the ground and below with
whitelead and raw linseed oil will
serve the same purpose, and be
safe, as has been proven by Prof.
H. A. Surface in his experiments.
Mr, J. L. Shroy, of Lancaster
Co., writes to Prof. Surface that he
has succeeded perfectly in prevent
ing the borer by rubbing the base
of the tree with equal parts flowers
of sulfur and salt, in June and
again in August.
WESTON. Ocean-to-Ocean Walker.
Said recently; "When you feet down
and out, feel there is no use living, just
take your bad thoughts with you and
walk them off. Before you have walked
a mile things will look rosier. Just try
it." Have you noticed the increase in
walking of late in every community?
Many attribute it to the comfort which
Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder
to be sha'en into the shoes, gives to the
millions now using it. As Weston has
said, "It has real merit." 6-3-4L
FLECKEN ST1N E-LEID Y .
Mr. Carl Fleckenstine and Miss
Dora Leidy, both of Orangville,
were united in wedlock on Wed
nesday evening, at the home of the
bride's sister, Miss Agnes Leidy, in
Bloomsburg. Rev. A. Houtz of
Orangeville performed the ceremo
ny. A number of relatives and
friends were present.
Mr. Fleckenstine is a son of for
mer county treasurer G. S. Fleck
enstine, and the bride was a popu
lar school teacher.
Miss Annie Derret, who for the
past thirty-eight years has .lived
with her sister Mrs. J. R. Town
seud on Normal Hill, succumbed to
an attack of lagrippe on Saturday
morning after an illness of two
weeks. Besides Mrs. Townsend,
she is survived by a sister, Mrs. C.
W. Blackmore, of Newport, Eng
land. The funeral service was conduct
ed at her late home by the Rev.
Mr. Diggles of St. Paul's Church
Monday morning. Interment was
made in Rosemont cemetery.
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DYEING RIAL PLOWCRS.
How th Ingenious May Produce
8om Rar Floral Effect.
"Every once In a while some florist
geU busy and put some odd-colored
blossoms in his window as an extra
attraction to the display," said a club
man. "I Just noticed one down the
street It consisted of a bunch of Im
possibly green carnations. At first
glance a good many people thought
they were made of paper, but they
got Interested when they found out
that they were 'natural.' Now. any
body who wants to have any of these
freak flowers can get them by buying
some kind of aniline Ink, any color
desired. Carnations are the easiest
to color white ones of course. Put
their stems In a glass filled with Ink.
Their stems are soft and In a short
while the larger veins In their petals
are filled with the Ink. Don't let them
absorb too much color; they're prettier
with Just so much. Then remove them
nnd put them In a vase of salt wnter.
IIMes of the valley lend themselves
to this scheme nlco; In fact, any whUe
self-stemmed flower may be used."
Bacteria In School Glass.
A cup which had been In use nine
i.-.;-3 in a school was a clear thin
glass. It was broken Into a number of
piece i.n'.l properly stained for exami
nation with a microscope magnifying
1.C0O '.:.i:r.ctcr3. The human ctlto
ccrsped f.or.i the Hps of the drinkers
v.-ci'o so nur.iorous on the upper third
of tlie glass that the bend of a pin
cyu'.i! not be placed anywhere without
tor.chlnj several of these bits of skin.
The saliva by running down on the
Ir.rldo of t!io class had carried cells
t.rA batter!.!, to t'ae bottom. Here,
hov.-evc:-, they were less than one-third
as abundant nr. at the brim.
By counting the cells present In only
fifty different areas on the glass as
seen under the microscope. It was esti
mated that the cup contained over 20,
GOO human cells or bits of dead skin.
As many as 150 germs were seen
clinging to a Bingle cell, and very few
cell3 showed less than ten germs. Be
tween the cells were thousands of
germs left there by the smears of sa
liva deposited by tne drinkers. Not
less than 105,000 bacteria were pres
ent on every square Inch of the
glass. Leavenworth (Kan.) Times.
Eirds That Deceive.
"All birds are not so innocent as
they would seem," says a naturalist
"Take, for instance, the goose. Most
people have heard a goose hiss when
threatened by danger. Well, that Is a
trick on the bird's part In past ages,
when the mother goose was sitting
on her nest among the reeds, she
somehow learned that this action
made her head and neck simulate a
snake. So It formed a fine defense.
"The lapwing is another deceiver.
If you approach her nest, she will set
up a dismal outcry and run backward
and forward, trailing one wing on the
ground, as though it were broken,
thinking to pick her up, you follow.
Thus she lures you away from her
young.
"In times of drought the thrush acts
a He. He will beat upon the ground
with his claws like a dancer. By this
he makes the earthworms think it is
raining. Up they come, and then the
wily thrush dines luxuriantly." Ltia
don Answers.
Meerschaum Running Out.
Unless a fresh source of supply Is
found, meerschaum will soon be worth
double as much as it is to-day. The
article was Introduced into Europe, so
far as its use for pipes is concerned,
through Turkey. This was about the
year 1750. A large supply was also
found in Ruhla, in Germany, near the
Thuringia Forest, which, until recent
ly, gave employment to about five
thousand hands. Many of tho most
notable among the German sculptors
had their first training as carvers of
meerschaum pipe bowl3. The supply,
however, has now almost ceased, and
the only Important beds in the world
to-day are in Asia Minor. The indus
try there Is now controlled by Ameri
can and British capital, with tho re
sult that the stuff is now fifty per
cent, dearer than It was a few years
ago, with the prospect of a further
advance In price at an early date.
Dundee Advertiser.
Mathematics Versus Poetry.
Some men are so practical that it
Is utterly Impossible for them to take
In even the barest Idea of poetical ex
pression. They are like people who
look at all beautiful things with eyes
that seek only for what use may be
made of them. It is said that a young
professor of mathematics in one of
our universities once boasted to a
friend that he neither knew nor cared
to know anything about poetry, for it
was "all a lot of unpractical rot." His
friend thought he might feel different
ly if he read some stirring poem by
one of the greater writers, and gave
him Tennyson's "Charge of the Light
Brigade" as a test. The mathemati
cian took up The volume and read
thus:
Half a league, half a league, half a
league onward.
Then he banged the book down on
the table, snorting, "Bah; if the man
meant a league and a half, why didn't
be say so!"
The Three -Ages of Man.
Report by a young English school
girl of a lecture on "Phases of Human
Life Youth, Manhood, and Age":
"In youth we look forward to the
wicked things we will do when we
grow up this It the state of Inno
cence. In manhood we do the wicked
things of which' we thought in our
youth this Is the prime of life. In
old age we are sorry for the wicked
things we did in manhood this is the
time of our dotage." Christian Reg
later.
CHARTER APPLICATION
Sottct of ivpHmtUm l CharUr.
Notice is hereby Riven that application
will be made by "E. R. Sponsler, M. I.
Low, A. V. Duv, tf. M. Crevcling. and
W. F. Lowry to the Governor of Pennf
sylvania on the 19th dayof July A. V,
loog, at 10 a, m , under the provisions of
an Act of Assembly, entitled "An At
to provide for the incorporation and
regulation of certain corporations,"
approved the 29th day of April, A D..
1S74, and the supplements thereto, for
a Charter for an intended corporation to
be called "Catawissa Electric Company",
the character and object of which is to
supply light, heat and power, cr any of
them, by electricity to the Borough of
Catawissa.County of Columbia, and State
of Pennsylvania, and to such persons,
partnerships and corporations residing
therein or odjacent thereto, as may
desire the same, and for these purposes
to have, possess and enjoy all the rights,
benefits and privileges of sa:d Act of
Assembly and the supplements thereto,
confered,
A. V. DfY,
W. H. SlONSl.KR,
7-1 31 Solicitors.
CHARTER APPLICATION
Sottve of Application for Charur.
Notice is hereby given that application
will be made by E. R. Sponsler, M. I.
Low, A. V. Duy. C. M. Creveling and
V. F. Lowry to the Governor of Penn
sylvania on the i)th day of July A. D.
lijoi), at 10 a. m.. under the provisions
of an Act of Assembly entitled '"An Act
to provide for the incorporation and reg
ulation of certain corporations", approv
ed the 39th clay of April, A. D., 1874,
and the supplements thereto, for a chart
er tor an intended corporation to be
called "Mifflin Township Electric Com
pany", the character and object of which
is to supply light, heat and power, or any
of them, by electricity to the township
of Mifflin, County of Columbia, State of
Pennsylvania, and to such persons, part
nerships and corporations residing there
in or adjacent thereto, as may desire the
same, and for these purposes to have,
possess and enjoy all rights, benefits and
privileges of said Act of Assembly and
the supplements thereto, confered.
A. V. Duv.
VV. H: Sponslkr,
7-1 3t Solicitors.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Bttate of William B. Jord, Oectatra, late of IM
Tottn of Blooiiwburg, Pa.
Notice is hereby given that letters of
administration on the estate of William
H. Lord, late of the Town of Blooms
burg. Pa., deceased, have been granted
to the undersigned, administrator, to
whom all persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make payments, and
those having claims or demands will
make known the same without delay to
FRED E. LORD.
Administrator, Espy, Pa.
J. G. Fbeeze, Atty. 6-io-6t.
WANTED Trustworthy man or wom
an in epch county to advertise, receive
orders and manage business for New
York Mail Order House. $18.00 weekly:
position permanent; no investment re
quired. Previous experience not essen
tial to engaging. Spare time valuable.
Enclose self addresed envelope for full
particulars. Address, Clarke Co.,
Wholasale Dept., 103 Park Ave., New
York. 5-13-iot.
WANTED Salesmen to represent us
in the sale of our High
Grade Goods. Don't delay, apply at
once. Steady employment; liberal terms.
Experisnce not necessary.
ALLEN NURSURY CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y.
5-l3-4mos.
FOR SALE !
The fine residence prop
erty of the late Judge El-
well is for sale.
Location :
West Third Street between
Jefferson Jand AVest Streets.
Description:
Two story and attic, brick
and frame. 13 rooms. Lot
about m by 212 feet.
FRAME BARN
AND COW STABLE,
large garden, abundance of
fruit trees.
The house has a Steam
Ileating Plant, Bath Boom,
Stationary Bange and Wash
Tubs; AVater, Electric Light,
and Gas.
Will be sold on easy
terms. Apply to
GEO. E. ELWELL,
Attorney.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
The B. E. Hartman Store
Bloomsburg:, Pa.
HAS JUST BEEN OPENED
with an entirely new stock,
no old goods of any kind.
We are starting on new
plans. Every person's dol
lar has the same value here.
No Favoritisms, No Credits.
Your money will buy just
what your neighbor gets
No more, no less. We pro
pose showing all the new
things just as soon as they
are put on the market, and
at prices that will please
every buyer.
Come and See Our New Store.
The R. E. Hartman Store
Bloomsburg, Pa.
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Draperies, Oil Cloth and
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