DISEASE OF POTATOES
Dry-Rot Fungus Causes Blight
and Wilt of Crop.
History of Fusarium as Field Trouble
Is of Comparatively Recent Rec-
ord—Preliminary Symptoms
Are Green Color.
(By T. F. MANNS.)
The dry rot of potatoes has long
been known as a storage trouble. At
intervals since 1824 there has been
found assoclated with this rot by dif-
ferent Investigators a fungus of the
genus Fusarium, which has been
variously designated, but the history
of the disease as a fleld trouble is of
comparatively recent record,
On badly infected soils the disease
if8 characterized as follows: The
stand is uneven, though few of the
hills are missing. The early growth
Showing Premature Dying in the
Field on an Area Which Has Be.
come Infested With Fusarium Dis-
ease,
is somewhat slow.
reach a height of 10
there Is an apparent cessation of
growth. The first indication of the
disease i8 usually conspicuous at this
time. The preliminary symptoms are
a light green color of the foliage, par-
ticularly the lower leaves: this
companied during the heat of the
by a partial wilting and an inward
and upward rolling of the
leaves. The color gradually
to a vellow, which
When the plants
to 14 inches,
ie ac-
d
ay
'
85100
sickly
the affected vines
ling of the leaves
parts of the
diseas progresses
ox.
ad
the
affect
As the
green
foliage
ing
there
ing to
fully recover
of the mid-d:
mia-g
becomes
is
the
ah
Plan
Tv
OW Ooniy one
I which to
disease
badly rott the
As
fall, but
for the
There
cate that
potato rotations
tion. M
tempted
rotation of
toes, but |
rotation should be
Sick fields
potatoes again for
years, and longer
required to work the parasitic fu
from the Grass and grain crops
will undoubtedly the fun-
gus from the soil quicker than will
manuring and cultivated crops.
The work of the dry-rot {
proper storage causes an
a lighted ns do no
quite erect, except
1 ni r
drooping top.
is much evidence indi
many growers are practicing
of too shor
to
rt dura-
growers have
ain a
clover and
than
practiced.
ost of such
to three-y
ear
ota
onger
should not be planted in
f five or six
even
e
ng
16
soil.
eliminate
n im
Showing a Potato Rotting in the Soil
From the Fusarium Disease,
moisture, due to the drying up of the
rotting tubers. This excess moisture
condition, together with the added
facility with which bacteria and decay
fungi may enter the already
tubers, brings about much
tion in the
for which the Fusarium disease
primarily responsible Under the
average cellar storage conditions it
is quite safe to estimate the loss {from
dry-rot and its complications zt from
one ta five per cent
J
nfected
complica-
is
When Soi’s Cease to Produce.
The trouble with soils when they
cease to produer as they did when
new is not that elements of plant
food are actually exhausted from the
soil, but the necessary forces for the
liberation are exhausted. One of
these forces bacteria. It is est)
mated that in the common soil there
are 150,000,000 bacteria to the ounce.
These. bacteria must have for their
food, humus, then they will liberate
food for the growth of plants. To be
& good farmer one needs to grow
legumes and other cover crop plants
to turn under for humus, and to en
courage these benéficial bacteria to
perform their functions in the soil
Success Further Down,
In many instances the yield of gar-
dens can be increased by simply
getting down a few inches deeper
with fork or spade. The French
gardeners can give Americans many
lessons In this respect. The soll
should be pulvertized, but work
ghould not be com®Menced too early,
Plowing the ground while it is too
wet will cause the soil to pack in
‘8odid lumps. Good land Is almost ru
Ined 11 this manner.
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Hogs of All Ages Relish Cut Alfalfa
When Fed in Slop and Make
Excellent Growth,
|
of the most valuable crops for
cut up finely and fed with ground
feed, writes John H. Dunlay in the
Farm, Stock and Home. Last winter
when middlings were selling around
$30 per ton 1 cut alfalfa in a cutting
box and fed with the warm slop to all
my hogs that did not have access to
blue grass or the rye flelds. Hogs
of all ages relished the cut alfalfa
when fed in the slop and they made
a fine growth.
The alfalfa was cut to
half an inch in length and
ed before being mixed with the
ground feed. 1 usually put the cut
alfalfa in a large galvanized tank and
pour boiling water over it. It is then
left to stand over night and if cov-
ered will be warm the next morning
I want to purchase a feed grinder
that will grind alfalfa into a coarse
meal, and if I do this I think the hogs
will find it even more palatable. Al
falfa contains about the same amount
of protein as found in best mid
dlings and at the same time it geems
as a tonic for all the hogs that
have access to it
It is not too late to sow alfalfa and
about one-
then scald
the
LO act
it will pay you to sow at least au small
patch even if only feed the hogs
the eured hay during the winter
months, when they do not get green
feed. When there a good supply
of alfalfa, it makes the best of forage
crops for hogs of all ages. Alfalfa,
when pastured, should be to
get a good start and should not be
pastured the first season. In this way
it gets good able to
stand next year
or
It is wel } Tring
if
you
is
allowed
a start and
better the
pasturing
take
the
hogs
field
or muddy
the
Discarded Cart Wheel May Be Made
to Serve Purpose—No Trouble in
Cleaning House,
SUMMER RATION FOR HORSES
Good Combination !s Corn, Bran and
Little Oilmeal—More Carbohy-
drates and Less Protein,
the
If corn horses,
rr
m
i+ will
it will
horses have poor teeth, In whic
it
ear or shelled corn
desirable
Crushed corn and cobr
good because of the
and tl
might be advisable
method of
crushing,
mount of food value secured
does
required
co
ea
1
the cob is #0 small that ft
make up for the energy
gest 80 much crude fiber,
mbi
oilmeal
o
of and a
a summer
Feeding a
ten pounds of corn
and thi bran per day
would be equivalent to fourteen
pounds of although it contain
a little more carbohydrates and less
protein, thus making a little wider
ration. A small amount of oflmeal
would offset this, however
bran
good
Cf nation corn
make
ration for horses 1,000.
pound horse about
ree
pounds of
oats,
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ARM NOT
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Rotate your garden crop
Give the radishes just a little shade.
Plant early smooth peas. Alaska is
a good early variety.
The farmer is known by the amount
of clover seed he sows.
A set of steel drills will soon pay
many times their small cost
One way to Increase the profits of
your farm is to build a silo
Fine cabbages follow beans but do
not grow well after potatoes,
Alfalfa pasture and hogs make a
combination that is hard to beat
Sweet peas should be planted
soon as the ground can be worked.
Do not plant your potatoes in the
same old place and invite the geab.
Save muscle and time when cutting
bands by having a keen-edged knife.
Plant radishes remote from the
track infested by the wire-worm last
year.
When short of room, train squash
vines on trellises or wire fence; they
are good slimbers
Plant cucumbers in revel rows: in
dry seasons they do better than when
grown In elevated beds,
Onions, beets, spniach, radishes and
lettuce may be sown as soon as the
ground can he worked easily
Lettuce should rot be whore
soll is too dry or Heht, Da y
stand such soll a little ©
as
the
will
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PERHAPS NEEDLESS TO SAY IT
WAS THE FIRST.
Friend
Most
Mrs. Youngmother Confides to
That Her Little Dear Is the
Original and Remark-
able Child Ever.
“Isn't he a darling, May?” sald Mrs.
Youngmother to “May,” who had been
her maid of honor at the wedding and
who was seeing the baby for the first
time.
“He Is just a dear!” said May, with
her eye on the clock, while she was
mentally calculating how she could
“in decency,” bring the call to an
end.
“It isn't that he iz guch an extraor
dinarily pretty baby, May. It's more
than that, for he is certainly the most
original child you ever saw! Such cun-
ning little original wavs as he has for
one of his age! 1 wish that it
time for bim to have his dinner and
you could see the way he holds out his
little hands the he s the
bottle and opens his mouth th
Lilies
bottle feet You
was
moment ee]
un
three
is from hin
never saw anything so cute!
“Then, when I give him a little milk
to drink in a cup, he bubbles it In
the way! Mamma says that
she never knew of any other baby do-
ing it quite lik
you go, will
way he had of wav
times |
bow and
it is the st tle way
in
yy {
iunniest
¢
e he does Then, when
you see what a cunning
Some-
el-
even
goodby
him by
ng
the
ther
Hen
dears little
that he is goin
disposition.
Then he
Ww EiE
PY
: has the
of holding
staring at
the other
and
ard it! 1
again and again,
trikes he
Do you
what
watched
shi iid
Wy
‘
d he clock #
the moment t
his eves right toward it
that 1}
I sometimes think that
because he
other
ose 1¢ really knows
it is? he does
is 80 original in
Ways
And, May, as sure as 1
giad of it
ip with some
has it
indis
all right! Don't
r just a min-
avy he ig for one
great ree
the me of such
quali
of his age? May
be
child
a
sponsibility
an unusual
to
as
Fine for Stamp Flirtation.
Austria, as 34 one is
likely to commit the of lese
majeste with Enowing it An in
stance of the sort rded by a de
long ago rendered by a
Trieste, a decision that
nation in the hearts of
young Austrians, since, by the ruling
of the court, it appeared that lovers
ly themselves open to a summons
for lese majeste if they vary the “of
ficial” position of a postage stamp,
whether on a postcard or on the en
velope containing a letter, to indicate
their sentiments
An examination of the printed de.
cision of the court makes it clear that
to stick a postage stamp at a certain
angle, even though it be express
“undying love,” “disappointment.”
“tender memories,” and so forth. is
decidedly a mark of disrespect to the
sovereign, whose image appears upon
the stamp. The sender of a postcard
who used the emperor's likeness to
tell his sweetheart that he would love
her always was fined for the offense.
In in Germans
offense
out
Cision
igng
to
Dr. John Chinaman,
The introduction into China of west.
ern knowledge is destined to work a
complete revolution in medieal and
surgical practice in the Flowery King
dom. One of the things that is golug
and now nearly gone is what is call
ed “acupuncture” or pricking of
needles. This mode of treating dis
cases consists in sticking long
needles of silver or gold into the body
or members of the sufferer and then
pulling them out, as housewives some.
times test their cakes with a broom.
straw to see if they are done.
Reliable authorities tell
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brought about cures. Perhaps the
patient was scared into being cured,
It is declared
actors are able aot.
be stuck any more.
that the Chinese
vital organs with their needles with
out causing doath, and that the proe
ese does not cause any considerable
amount of pain. ~From the Pi: hfinde
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Proved |
Scientific Investigation Has
That Tobacco Should Not Be
Used by the Fair Sex,
It seems that at last a purely physio
reason has been found why |
women should not smoke, apart from |
he very general prejudice which ex
gts in this country.
“Smoking,” says Dr. Hargrave, a
London physician, “does not have the |
same effect on women that it does
on men. As imperious necessity felt |
by most emokers to satisfy their pas
slon after eating is physiologically ex
plained by the excitation of the gall.
vary glands which secretions, so use
ful in digestion, the smoke augments, |
Moreover, it has been shown that it
sterilizes the saliva and that this is
really beneficial from the viewpoint
of the possible infection from the
foods themselves.
"But with women it Is a serious con
clusion reached from many experi
ments that few of them need tobacco
while the of men
salivary stimulated
egterflized very |
n the |
Even
habitual
n of this
proportion whose
secretion
by
rtion of
very
were
and smoking was
large, the
other hand
in women
¥
smokers for yea
Props women o
small
been
acti
was
who had
rs, the
weed was found to be less mi
fac ble
arked, In
t almost negligi
SO
the
smoke
Hargraves is of
should not
t need it
apparently Dr
opinion that
wWomer
because they do 1
AWFUL ECZEMA ON FACE
Freeland, M “B eczema
started in little spots and would burst
and run face and wher.
ever the ich face,
it sore. Pimples
would his face
gore WAS very
Cross a He
suffere
to
him from
10
d aby’'s
all oy his
would
toy
make another
would
make
he
break out
and
It
inflamed
and
Tig wal
%
i
tie mit
told me
i
put on some
and then he would rest all
have cured him con
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I was only eighteen
“Mamma, why tell
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¥ ou
mode
am
Widow
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