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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, I'A.
THURSDAY, AUUU3T 5, 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.
CONCERNING STRAWBERRY PESTS.
State Zoologist Surface received
many inquiries recently concerning
strawberry pests, Hnd to these has
replied that the best general means
of suppressing them lies in a novel
method of summer treatment of the
strawberry plant, which many per
sons would hesitate to apply, but
which they will find so effective
that it will become a regular feature
of their mode of culture after its
benefits have been observed. This
consists of nothing more nor less
than mowing the strawberry leaves
as low as possible shortly after the
berries are picked, throwing these
together with a little straw between
the rows, dryiug them quickly on
a. hot, sunshiny day, and then
burning them at once.
The strawberry leaf rust and leaf
spot are among the diseases that are
very destructive and contagious.
They can be partially prevented by
the use of the Bordeaux mixture,
but the germs causing the leaf de
struction remain in the old patch
from one year to another. Also,
the aphis and several other insects
pests attack the leaves during the
summer. It has been found that if
the leaves are mowed closely on a
warm, dry day, and slightly dried
and mixed with just a little straw
and then burned, the pests are
practically all destroyed, and the
plants themselves escape uninjured.
Consequently, this is the time of
year to give such treatment.
Good new runners will be formed
at once; especially, if a little com
mercial fertilizer or finely-divided
manure from the stable or poultry
house be scattered over the roots of
the old plants and these be cultivat
ed in the regular manuer. New
leaves will yet be formed this sea
son, and the plants will be put in
good condition for bearing a much
more abundant and a healthier crop
next year than if the leaves had not
been burned. Persons who doubt
the efficiency of this treatment
should mow the leaves of some of
the plants, and see the results for
themselves.
BORERS IN MAPLK TREES.
Former State Senator Henry D.
Saylor, of Montgomery County,
wrote from Lis home in Pottstown
:o State Zoologist Surface, of the
Department of Agriculture, Harris
jorg as follows:
"I write for information about
.n insect that has just attacked
ome Norway maples belonging to
ne by boring holes in the trunks
nd large limbs, the holes being
lean cut about the size, in circum
erence, of a darning or steel cro
.-net needle. I have been unable to
ee the insect that is causing the
nischief. My attention was first
ailed to the matter by the droop
ng appearance of the trees, and
he presence of white spots on the
.ranks and limbs where the boring
jccnrred."
This letter was answered by the
itate Zoologist as follows:
"Replying to your letter, I can
ot say with certainty what the
.estisthat is infesting your Nor
ay maple tree without seeing it.
lowever, it is evidently a borer,
nd perhaps a bark borer or engrav
r beetle. If it be this, it shows
a it the tree is declining, and this
-orer practically attacks only de
lining or injured trees. I would
dvise digging about the trees,
aulcbing them, pruning off dead
ud dying branches, and watering
.-ell with water containing a tea
poonful of nitrate of soda to each
tlOO Reward. $100.
The readers of this paper will be
leased to learn that there is at
ast one dreaded d isease that sci
lce has been able to cure in all its
ages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's
atarrh Cure is the only positive
ire now known to the medical fra
rnity. Catarrh being a constitu
onal disease, requires a constitu
onal treatment. Hall's Catarrh
ure is taken internally, acting
irectly upon the blood and mucous
irfaces of the system, thereby de
royiug the foundation of the dis
ise.aud giving the patient strength
building up the constitution aud
listing nature in dolug its work,
he proprietors have so much faith
i its curative powers that they
ler One Hundred Dollar for any
ise that it fails to'cure. ' Send for
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Address F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by ail D;uggits. 7 sc.
Take Hall's Family Pi!!:; forcon
s.ipaticn. I -5
gallon of w ater. If the borers be
large enough that you can find
their holes and insert the tip of a
small machine oil can into them,
you can easily kill the pests by in
jecting a little carbon bisulfide into
each hole, and then stopping this
with clay or mud. For this partic
ular tree, I would recommend prun
ing, watering, cultivating and try
ing every means possible to stimu
late it to vigorous growth, in order
that yon can make it outgrow the
effects of the pests you mention. If
you will send me some for exami
nation, I shall be glad to reply
promptly concerning the same."
THE ANGOfMOIS GRAIN MOTH.
Throughout the southeastern part
of Pennsylvania there has for some
years been au annual destruction of
hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of wheat in the bin by a lit
tle pest very commonly called the
White Weevil or Moth Weevil. As
a matter of fact it is not a weevil
but a moth, the larva of which lives
within the grain of wheat and hol
lows it out to such au extent that
it Decomes a mere hull of bran. It
is ruined for milling purposes, and,
of course, badly injured for domes
tic use.
The Angoumois Grain Moth is
so named from the province of
France where its ravages were first
most noted. The mature moth lays
its eggs on the grains of wheat
while in the head or straw and as
it feeds voraciously and but a, short
time, it multiplies rapidly, giving
several successive broods. Where
the wheat is left in the straw, as in
the stack or mow, it has been
found far worse infested than when
threshed and kept in a bin. Sev
eral farmers have replied to State
Zoologist Surface that they have
acted upon his recommendation of
threshing the grain soon after har
vest, and have found the results
quite satisfactory. One farmer re
ported that half of his crop, which
was threshed shortly after harvest,
was entirely uninjured by the pest;
while the other half, that was not
threshed until the latter part of fall,
was nearly all destroyed.
The remedy, therefore, is one of
the simplest, and at the same time
one of the most effective, that could
be applied, and consists in merely
threshing the grain as early as is
possible and storing it in the bin,
rather than keeping it in the straw
unthreshed. In the grain bin the
moth weevil will work only in the
top layer of grain, if at all; and, if
it should be found there, as would
be indicated by the heating of the
grain, it can easily be killed by
pouring carbon bisulfide into shal
low dishes, and placing them on
the grain under cover of wet blankets.
Employment for Boys.
Should Not Be Allowed to Grow Up in
Idleness.
We heartily agree with an argu
ment advanced by the Altoona
Tribune that parents who permit
their boys to grow up in idleness
make a grave mistake. That paper
says that most of the petty robber
ies which are occurring in various
sections of tae country are traced
to boys of various ages. Some have
reached the time in life when they
want to cut something of a figure
among their comrades or with the
opposite sex. They have no useful
employment and their parents either
decline to furnish them with spend
ing money or have none to give
them. Having no inclination to
provide it by honest toil, the lads
soon yield, to temptation to rob
somebody. Others are small boys
who have very poor home associa
tions or bad street companions.
Perhaps the blood in their veins is
not of the best quality. Some per
sons sneer at the notion of heredity,
but there's something in it; not as
much as faddists claim, but an in
clination, a tendency, a weakness
or a strength, as the case may be.
Parents are not always responsible
tor the ill-doing of their children.
The home and its training usually
have much to do with human des
tiny, but it's an admitted fact that
some of the world's noblest men
have come out of very unpromising
homes, wLile devout meu and worn
en have sometimes gone down in
sorrow to their graves because of
ihe perverse conduct of children
who were carefully trained in the
way of virtue aud given every
chance to make excellent meu or
women out of themselves. There
is a disposition to righteousness in
some which is quite as gratifying
as it is unexpected; there is a tend
ency to criminal or vicious deprav
ed conduct winch is no less de
pressing. But when the exceptions
are eliminated the rule remains that
the child is father 10 the man, which
is the same as saying that the man
is the product, in most instances,
of his early environment.
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Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
1 C ASTORIA
That Murder Secret
Man Who Knowt cf How Woman Wat Killed,
Escaped From Snyder County Jail-No Effort
Being Mae to Find Mm. '
Why an escaped prisoner, who
claims to know a nineteen-years-old
murder secret, and got out of
jail at Middleburg Sunday two
weeks ago, as he was being held to
tell his story at the October term
of court, should not be at least
searched for, cannot be understood
by Snyder county folk. Some of
them are anxious to see Alfred F.
Thomas take the witness stand and
reiterate his alleged explanation of
the mysterious disappearance of
Mrs. Robert Hassinger in 1890
from her mountain home near
Beaver Springs.
Thomas declared that he was so
harassed by his conscience that he
could no longer eat nor sleep,
thinking of the crime he was keep
ing secret and unatoned for. Two
mouths ago his pangs became so
desperate that he told before many
persons repeatedly that he saw
Mrs. Hassinger whipped iu her
home the night of her disappear
ance nineteen years ago, and that
in a fit of auger the flogger struck
the aged woman on the head with
the butt end of the whip, felling
her to the floor, dead.
Thomas said so many things
that Robert Hassinger, the strange
ly absent woman's husband, caused
his arrest on a charge of slander
the latter part of May. Wh?n
Sheriff Hackenberger caught
Thomas at Selinsgrove the prisoner
greeted him heartily and remarked:
"You would not need to have
come for me. I was just going to
Middleburg to give myself up. I
want to tell the judge my story."
Thomas was thereupon incarcer
ated in the snug $40,000 county
jail to await trial. Sunday after
noon a week ago he packed his kit
of clothes, strolled out into the jail
yard, across the lawn to a gate in
the big stone wall, leisurely
smashed a padlock thereon, swung
open the heavy doors and walked
away. He was missed 'about "sup
per time," but that was all.
No searchers went after him, no
alarm was spread by telephone;
nothing but announcement of the
fact by gossiping men and women
on their way to church that night.
Some had seen Thomas early that
afternoon unconcernedly strolling
along the public road; others passed
him on their way to worship.
Now the indifference of the Suy-
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Along the shores of New Jersey from Cape May to San
dy Hook lie forty beaches, each offering delights for outings
long or short and each easily accessible by the splendid train
service of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Atlantic City, with its myriad attractions for young and
old, needs no introduction, for its charms are known from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
Cape May, for a century the summering place of satisfied
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ever in its new life.
Ocean City, Wildwood, Sea Isle City, with their smaller
neighbors, Anglesea, Holly Beach, Wildwood Crest, Avalon,
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Sea Girt, Point Pleasant, Allenhurst, Elberon, an 1 Btlmar on
the Upper Coast where the country meets the' sea right on
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Any Pennsylvania Railroad -Ticket Agent will be glad
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week or the whole summer. 7-22t.
! der county officials in this matter
is causing much comment. Wiy
should Thomas have absconded,
when even during his short itnpris;
onmeut he expressed eagerness to
tell his stoty under oath ?
Mrs. Hassinger's body was never
found.
Calvin Wells, financier, steel
manufacturer, and former editor of
the Philadelphia 'rest, died sud
denly from heart failure at his
home in Pittsburg, Monday night.
DIVORCE NOTICE.
Freda Rabb Hall T In the Court
of common
Pleas of Colum
bia County, Pa
vs.
' Knhnnpnfl in
I divorce.
Walter Townsend Hall No: 161 May
J Term, i9oq.
To Walter Townsend Hall, Respond
ent in the above cited case. You are
hereby notified, in pursuance of the or
der of the Court of Common Pleas of
the said county of Columbia and State
of Pennsylvania, to be and appear in
said Court on or before the Fourth Mon
day of August, I909, being the 23rd day
of said month, to answer petition here
tofore preferred by the libellant. Freda
Rabb Hall, your wife, and show cause,
if any you have, why the said Freda
Rabb Hall should not be divorced from
the bonds of matrimony entered into
with you, agreeably to the Act of As
sembly in such case made and provided.
Hereof fail not, under the penalty of
having the said petition heard and a de
cree of divorce granted against you in
your absence.
CHARLES B. EXT,
Sheriff.
Clinton Herring, Attorney, 7-22-4t.
CHARTER NOTICE.
In the Court of Common Plea of Columbia
County.
Notice is hereby given that an appli
cation will be made to the above named
Court on Monday, the 27th day of Sep
tember, 1909 at 10 a. m., under the Act
of Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to pro
vide for the Incorporation and Regula
tion of certain Corporations," approved
April (). 1S74, and the supplement
thereto, for the Charter of an intended
Corporation to be called "Orthodox
Catholic Brotherhood of Saint Nicholas
of Centralia, Pa.," the character and
object of which is to provide funds to as
sist the members in case of sickness, ac
cidents, or death, and for these purposes
to have, possess and enjoy all the rights,
benefits and privileges of the said Act
of Assembly and its supplements.
The names ef the subscribers are Ja
cob Broda. Andrew Hudick, Michael
Onushkawich, Wasyl Oryniak and Dem
itry Kosack. and others.
The proposed Charter is now on file
in the Prothonotarv's office.
EDWARD J. FLYNX,
Solicitor,
7-22-3'- Centralia, Pa.
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