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.
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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
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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
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as sold by order of Gen-
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ed by a great many differ-
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