Spray Controls Disease of Peaches Found in Orchards in Differ- ent Sections. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) A new spray containing zine and lime which promises to give commercial control of bacterial spot of peaches has been developed by the United States Department of Agriculture. This discovery is especially important, since this is the first time, so far as known, that a bacterial disease of fruits has heen brought under direct control by spraying. Disease Long Known. Bacterial spot has been known to plant-disease specialists for about 20 vears, but it is only within the past 10 or 12 years that the disease has become seriously destructive over ex- tensive areas. It occurs in practically all peach sections of the eastern half of the country, but causes serious loss mainly in sections in which the soils are light and comparatively low in fertility. Tests carried on in southern Indiana and in Arkansas have shown that six applications of the spray at intervals of two weeks, beginning at “petal fall,” greatly decrease the effects of the dis- ease with no injury to fruit or follage. In addition there was a stimulation which resulted In larger and darker green leaves. It was found also that lead arsenate might be used in connec- tion with this material, thus reducing labor costs. Its Composition. The spray solution is prepared by using 4 pounds of zine sulphate, 4 pounds of hydrated lime, and 50 gal- lons of water. One pound of aluminum sulphate may be added where agita- tion is poor or entirely lacking, as this helps to keep the material in suspep- sion, One of the first recommendations in the control of bacterial spot of peaches is to keep the orchard in a high state of vigor through good cultivation, pruning, fertilization, control of bor- ers, etc. In spraying It Is necessary to cover the fruit and the under side of the leaves thoroughly. Useful Orchard Ladder Is Easily Made at Home Handy orchard ladders may be con. structed from materials on the farm. Conrad IL. Kuehner, extension hortl. culturist at the state university, has plans for constructing a simple port- able step ladder to accommodate two people. These may be obtained by writing to the Wisconsin College of Agriculture. The ladder is safe, and does not damage branches or cause fruit to fall while the picker is adjusting it. By giving the incline just enough slant so that the worker's knees may rest on the rung above his feet, both hands may be employed In picking fruit. It is very easy to construct by fol- lowing the plans furnished by the horticulture department. The only precaution necessary, Kuehner points out, is to use strong, straight grain lumber which should be securely nailed and braced. good, Fertilization to Supply Needed Potash for Corn Premature dying of corn plants In black sandy soils may be due to de- ficiency of potash In the soll, says the United States Department of Agricul. ture. The corn plants may develop well during the seedling and early- growth periods and attain normal size, but before killing frosts they break over, the leaves die suddenly and the ears remain incompletely devel. oped with soft cobs and chaffy grains, Such ears suffer further losses from weathering and ear rots. Experiments conducted in Indiana, where premature dying of corn Is prevalent, showed that the continued removal of crop residues and the use of fertilizers con- taining only phosphates aggravate the trouble, Control measures, says the Department of Agriculture, include fer- tilization to supply the needed potash, changes In crop-residue disposal, and selection of locally adapted seed. POPP OP0000000000000000004 Agricultural Squibs POPP P00000000000000000000 Pure seeds are the first fundamental of farming. CI Curing hay In windrows saves from 10 to 40 per cent of the labor required for cocking. * * » Spread of noxious weeds can he pre. vented, to a large extent, by careful handling and buying of seed. * * * The farmer who succeeds these days is more than a good producer. He looks ahead and plans his production to suit probable market conditions, . * - The best vegetable seeds usually are obtained by ordering early. Later, the best varieties will be exhausted. It is best to study various seed cata logues and order only the most roll able strains, Bewure of novelties, » » - urning may be used effectively for eradi and brush if It is done late in the spring or after May 1. It has been determined the buck brush and most of the weeds may be fairly well controiled by two late burn. ings. cating weeds CENTRE HALL, PA. Lincoln, 3.—Kamal- in India, NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Hoover Makes Move Avert Collapse of Arms Conference. N AN effort to avert the collapse of the arms conference, or failure to reach a five-power agreement to re duce armaments, threatened by the at- titude of France, President Hoover has sent new instruvtions to the American delegation, The President is sald to have of: fered alternative proposals designed to make a five-power agreement possi- ble, if not for actual reduction of naval strength for at least placing a limit near present figures, It is understood that he suggests concessions on the part of the United States and Great Britain which would make It easier for Japan, France and Italy to agree. The collapse of the conference was threatened when Foreign Minister Briand had announced his withdrawal because the United States, backed by Great Britain, had flatly refused to accede to the demands of France for a security pact as a condition of their consenting to any reduction in naval armament. Later Mr. Briand relented and an. nounced that he would remain with the conference, ‘and ‘that he still had hopes of reaching an agreement, The break with France came at a private meeting between Prime Min. ister MacDonald, Secretary of State Stimson and Foreign Minister Briand of France. Mr, MacDonald demanded that Briand produce his real figures Mr. Briand replied, tartly: “1 have no figures, 1 came over here to get a pact. If you want fig ures you must talk to Premier Tar dieu. I am finished.” Mr. Briand demanded point blank of the British prime minister and the United States secretary of state why they are suspicious of France's naval requirements and why they refuse to permit her to maintain adequate sen power for self-defense, but accept Italy's demand for parity in silence, “lI don’t think that it is fair to ask France to produce all of her figures and make out her case” he sald “We are willing to discuss every point without being asked. But there is another country at the conference occupying the same status as France, but she is left alone and says nothing beyond demanding parity with us— making no justification of her claims” The Japanese delegation Indicated that the absence of France from fur. ther negotiations, which sutomatically disposes of Italy also, will prevent Japan from proceeding in detail toward any extensive reduction of ar. maments, because her strength is con- tingent upon the naval forces of the European powers, However, it is practically assured that Great Britain and the United States will write a treaty, If the other powers refuse to come in Uncle Sam and John Bull will sign it alone, to ECRETARY OF LABOR J. J. DAVIS has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for United States senator for Pennsylvania. Mr, Davis’ announcement came after he had been Informed that Willlam 8. Vare had withdrawn from the senate race and would throw him his sup. port. Mr. Davis denied that he In. tended to withdraw from the cabinet to make the race, HE great importance of teaching civic responsibility to the youth of today, along with the ability to read and write, was stressed by President Hoover In a short address at a din- ner given by the Boy Scouts of America, Four hundred business and profes. sional men, gathered in Washington to commemorate the twentieth anni. versary of the founding of the Boy Scout movement and to launch a big expansion program, listened while the President spoke of the necessity for training the boys. of impressionable age in the duties and obligations of citizenship, “if the country is to con. tinue as a successful democracy.” the highest ns- Mr. Hoover spoke In terms of the Boy Scout movement, serting that It is one of the most val. uable educational and training forces for democracy In the nation, The President also praised the leaders of the Boy Scouts for offering the boy of today an opportunity for real ad venture and of directing hig interests toward “constructive joy" Instead of “destructive glee” N AHATMA GANDHI, Indian lead- 4 er and mystic, Is conducting a campaign for civil disobedience against British rule in India. Demonstrations have been held in various parts of the country, but they have been orderly. Gandhl defies the British govern. ment to arrest him and warned his followers that they must be prepared “for the worst, even death, in plans for deflance of the salt tax.” Produce. tion of salt in deflance of the govern ment monopoly Is the first disobedi- ence step of the Indian program. The British authorities are taking every precaution to prevent trouble, MMEDIATE appropriation of more than $173.000000 for multiple gov- ernment projects was voled by the senate In passing the first deficiency bill, Of this sum $100.000,000 is for the farm board, giving that newly estab. lished government organization a total of $250.000,000 of the £500.000.000 an thorized for its revolving fund by con gress. The additional fund was ap proved without opposition. NEW financial and diplomatic A era dawned for Germany and Eu- rope when the reichstag, following the plea of Chancellor Mueller, voted fo accept the Young plan, which provides for the final liquidation of Germany's war debts In his address In the reichstag Chan cellor Mueller hailed the expected 1b. eration of the Rhineland, of sovereignty and control of finances, railroads and taxes. “We will depend on decisions of the un. controlied and uncontrollable office in the hands of foreigners as was the case under the Dawes pian” he said, V JITH the body of William How. ard Taft resting beneath the newly turned sod in Arlington ceme tery, the affection which he bore for Mrs. Taft, his three children, and Yale university was attested when his will was opened. To “my dear wife, Helen H, Taft.” the final testament of the former President left virtually his entire es tate. Filled for probate, it disclosed no valuation, Yale university, where Taft spent many of the happiest years of his busy life, first as an undergraduate, and then as the Kent professor of law from 1013 until 1921, when he rose to the chief justiceship, received the largest single sum mentioned in his will-—<£10,000, It will be added to the principal of the alumni university fund and credited to his own class, that of 1878. To his three children, Robert A. and Charles P. Taft, and Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, the former chief justice left some of his most prized posses. sions—his papers, manuscripts, cor. respondence, addresses, and copy- rights. They are to be used as the reciplents think best, after consulta. tion with Mrs, Taft. its recov ery no longer OLICE COMMISSIONER WHALEN of New York has started a eam paign to drive all active Communists from their jobs in shops, factories and commercial establishments, He sup. plied heads of industrial corporations with a proscription list of 500 names of Communists who have been operat. ing in their pinces of employment as organizers, agitators and propa: gandists, COMMITTEE of the New York County Lawyers association, after a two-year study of the ques. tion, decided by a six to one vote to challenge the Eighteenth amendment as a defiance of the Tenth amendment to the Constitution. The committee flgo voted to submit their contentions to the Supreme court for a test ruling, The Tenth amendment reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are re served to to the the states, people.” The fact that the Eighteenth amend. ment conflicts vitally with the older Tenth amendment has never heen pre. sented to the Supreme court for a ruling. respectively, or ~HREE states—New York, sylvania and Ohlo—are to more than a billion dollars this for construction and maintenance of state, county, and municipal publie works, according to figures by Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont, John 8. Fisher of Pennsylvania has just reported to Sec- Penne spend Year Gov, state Is estimated at $3005,088,118. The total for New York state is $475.275.. 442, while that for Ohlo is £223.225.000. “On the basis of complete reports from more than two-thirds of the states covering all types of public con- struction and maintenance to be car. from federal departments and com. missions and public utility com- panies” said Secretary Lamont, “prompt decisive action in speeding up this year's $7.000.000,000 program of construction work of these types seems well established ™ Aam—— ate radicals in opposing the nomina- tion of Charles Evans Hughes chief justice, it Is likely that unless President Hoover names a man known liberal tendencies to succeed the late Associate Justice Edward Terry Sanford there will be another long-drawn out fight in the senate. HE count government Is preparing noses again. An army of 100,000 census-takers will begin knock- ing at your doors April 2 in the na- tion's fifteenth decennial count population Many new questions, along with the old ones, are to be asked this time. The 1030 census will delve deeply Into the country’s economic life providing the usual basis for reappor- tionment of seats in the house of rep- resentatives, EGISLATION to place the power industry under the controlling hand of the federal government is pow before congress, sponsored .by Senator Couzens of Michigan, chairman of the senate interstate commerce com- mittee, The bill is the second to follow months of inquiry Into and discussion try and its relations with the federal trade and power commissions. Couzens, a Republican, is the author aiso of another bili, to reorganize the power commission, and was confident the regulatory proposals before the senate this session, VY oLUMINOUS evidence showing the breakdown of prohibition en. forcement, especially in the large cities, has been amassed at secret hear. ings by the Wickersham law enforce. ment commission during the last few weeks, it has been learned, Although the commission's sessions have been held behind closed doors, reports leaking out unofficially are that shocking conditions have been pile- tured before the Investigators by wit. nesses from Chicago, New York and other urban centers. It is known that among the witnesses have been prohi. bition officials from these cities, some of whom have testified dry law viola. tions are widespread despite honest enforcement efforts, HE army engineers are ready to proceed with $35,000,000 of flood control construction along the main stem of the Mississippl river as soon a8 congress makes the money avail. able, Selecting work not involved in the controversy over the merits of the Jadwin plan, the engineers have vir tually completed all plans and specifi. cations and their field forces are ready to go to work after the pending ap- propriation bill is passed. Coincident with this announcement, Secretary Hurley made known that condemnation proceedings Will be brought immediately to obtain levees and floodway rights across raliroad and state highway lines in the Boge net Carre flocavay in Louisiana, (@, 1030. Wea rn Newspaper Unlond Communi v Bui : of Special Attention The cholece and arrangement of trees matters deserving of more atien- A limited knowledge of random selection of nursery sometimes represented in plantings Many a tree 18 not character cations are its Oar adapted to and effect Even where, from the it Is obvious that an exercise may result in charm JMistinetion rather than dullness and monotony. Where possible the native trees on well form the nucleus Existing trees, If any, may due to their in- approaches or with itself. In this respect the the small place is per- haps ‘more difficult, and differs es- sentially from that of the large coun- try place where there is more leeway a8 to placing the house with respect to contour of ground, vistas and exist. ing or future trees. with the house problem of Civic Barnacles Clog Pathway to Progress Jarnacles attach themselves to the hulls of vessels and other submerged objects. They retard the speed and efficiency and cause loss of time and revenue, to say nothing of the loss of energy that could have been di. rected In a profitable way, Every often a thorough cleaning Is neces- sary by scrap ing off the barnacles and (Fla) Herald. may be likened to ships and there- fore find it imperative to scrape off the “barnacled” members. After a neglect a COLD ISTRESSING epld in chest or throat—that so often leads to something serious—generally responds to good old Musterole with the first ap~ plication, Should be more effective if used once every hour for five hours. Working like Te trained hands of a masseur, this famous blend of cil of mustard, camphor, menthol and other helpful ingredients brings relief natur- ally. It peastrates and stimulates blood circulation, helps to draw out infection and pain. U nd by millions for 20 years, Recommended by doctors and nurses, Keep Musterole handy —jarsand tubes, To Mothers—Musterole is also made in milder form for babies ond small children. Ask for Chile dren's Musterole. Lafayette’'s American Land The gra La- fayette is in Florida—all of township 1 north, range 1 east, containing 23.- (28.50 acres, was congress December 2K, land nted to General granted by eral Lafayette 1824, and title to Gen the organization presents a bright ap- Is cleaner, the various endeavors by the member. As a result of thig cleaning activ- returns will be twofold ; more effectively the needs of the city. day each be done all at ong time, Beautifying the Roadside After an improved road made, little attention is paid as a rule to the roadside. From the point of the road may be a marvelous piece of work, but to the be may quite different. The banks, tree trunks Vermont Chamber 8 nation-wide Connecticut sets out ram- other states set This, out trees in together with Proper Planning Saves Money “One of the greatest blights of our disfigurement and upset to surround- ing property caused by railroads and other transportation agencies. Great and deteriorating influence upon the poor creatures of humanity who gen- erally drift to the depreciated neigh- There is also the great loss of time misplaced or ontgrown yards, terminals that proper co- carriers, should make esthetic and compatible with the reasonable amenities of life. Beauty Essential To meet the demand of the present day, buildings must be not only effi. clently planned and soundly built, but they must also be baautiful, “It is being found that good archi- tecture in commercial and apartment buildings is a real asset and a sound investment,” Rollin C. Chapin of the Minnesota chapter of the American In- stitute of Architects pointed out. Work Reflects Materials Inferior materials are not conducive to good workmanship, Rather, they in- vite poor workmanship, for the car penter, plasterer or other artisan takes his cue as to the quality of workman. ship desired fron the quality of ma terials furnished, To state the fact explicitly, no carpenter ean do a good Job with inferior materials, Roofing Material When the roof covers a large sur face and ns it comes down close to the eye of the observer, the selection of its material has much to do with the architectural guccess of the house ESI x i i passed to him July as sold by order of Gen- fayette many yes and ed by a great many differ- 4, 1825 It w eral La i® now rs since, own Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills are not only a purgative, They exert a tonic action on the digestion. Test them yourself now. Only 25¢ a box 372 Pearl St, N.Y. Adv. And has h many a8 man who isn't married is troubles, too. — —————————— Is Your Rest Disturbed ? 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