The New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1924 Page: 2 of 8
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NEW ULM ENTERPRISE, NEW ULM, TEXAS
OUR COMIC SECTION
Ether Waves
Softening Waters for
Use by Orchardists
Where Liquid Is Too Hard
Oil Will Separate Out.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
On account of the low cost of the
2 per cent lubricating oil emulsion
developed by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture for the con-
trol of the San Jose scale, this spray
is coming into extended use by orch-
ardists. Inquiries received at the de-
partment indicate that many of the
waters used in preparing the diluted
spray are more or less hard and cause
the oil to separate from the water.
Fruit growers contemplating the
use of the 2 per cent homemade
emulsion or commercial products made
according to the government formula
should ascertain whether the water
to be used for spraying purposes is
sufficiently hard to cause the separa-
tion of the oil and water when diluted
in the spray tank. This can be read-
ily determined by mixing three tea-
spoonfuls of the homemade stock
solution, or of the commercial article,
in a pint of the water to be used
in a glass jar and placing it aside
for a few hours. If no oil rises to
the top, the water does not require
softening. If, however, the oil separ-
ates out, the hardness of the water
must be corrected if effective ‘ results
are to be secured in the control of
the scale. The water can be soft-
ened in different ways, but a con-
venient and inexpensive method is to
make some weak bordeaux mixture
for use in the spray. The bordeaux
should be made according to the fol-
lowing formula:
Bluestone ................... 1 pound
Lime.......... 1 ”
Water ......................50 gallons
Add the bordeaux mixture to the
spray tank while filling with water,
adding just before the tank is full
six gallons of the stock oil emulsion
required to give the two per cent of
oil in 200 gallons of spray. The spray
should be kept well agitated during
application. The bordeaux mixture
made from one pound of bluestone
and one pound of lime is the proper
amount for 200 gallons of spray. When
less quantities of the spray are re-
quired, as 50 gallons, % pound of
bluestone and % pound of lime will
make sufficient bordeaux.
Make Quality Hay When
Alfalfa Blooms Appear
Alfalfa should be cut for hay about
the time the blooms appear or at the
time the young shoots start out from
the crown. The mower should be
equipped with a shoe so as not to cut
too low as this will damage the crop.
The hay should remain in the swath
only long enough to wilt good,’ then
•‘it should be raked with a tedder, or
I side delivery rake, and allowed to cure
in the windrow, rather, than in the
1 swath. If exposed to the sun too long
In the swath, the leaves will cure and
: become brittle before the stems are
I cured. This will stop tfie leaves from
j performing the duty of drawing the
. moisture from the stems, and that will
result in dangerous hay if it is baled
before properly curing. When prop-
I erly cured in the windrow the leaves,
■ which constitute about 60 per cent of
1 the feeding value of the hay, are
saved. Of course alfalfa can be cured
in the swath, the same as any other
hay, but it is Important that it be
thoroughly cured, or it may cause
death from feeding, or possibly, spon-
taneous combustion—which will like-
ly burn the place where it is stored.
However, there is no excuse for this
if care is taken in curing.
Bulletin Issued
on Watermelons
Handling of Product Is Pre-
carious on Account of
Many Factors.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
“Watermelons.” That is the name
of a new bulletin just issued by the
United States Department of.Agricul-
ture. The subject of watermelons is
a big one, but the author of this bul-
letin has covered the ground thorough-
ly. The handling of watermelons is
extremely precarious, he says, on ac-
count of the many factors that govern
their sale on the market. Overpro-
duction is one of the chief causes of
loss, but weather conditions at the
market are perhaps a more important,
factor. Cool, rainy weather will cause
breaks of the market,, while clear, hot
weather will invariably stimulate the
demand. Considerable losses are also
caused by diseases which have their
origin on the farm, but develop during
transit.
Increase Yield and Quality.
Under existing conditions any de-
cided increase in the acreage planted
to watermelons for shipment, for the
present at least, would be unwise, but
there is great opportunity for improv-
ing cultural methods and for increas-
ing both the yield and the quality of
the nfelons. Watermelon as a rule
should not be grown on the same land
oftener than once in ten years, in
order to avoid losses from disease.
Plant on new land wherever possible
and avoid the use of barn or feed-
lot manure where either refuse melons
or hay cut from melon fields have
been fed during the previous season.
They respond to the use of commer-
cial fertilizer, the amount being gov-
erned by the character of the soil and
the cost of the fertilizer. Melons
grown for the market should be
thinned to approximately two on each
vine or hill, in order to get marketable
size, the pruning being done when
the vines are dry. ^J?he vines them-
selves should be cut back or pruned.
Watermelons should not be gathered
until reasonably ripe, but not over-
ripe; They should be clipped from
the vines by means of a sharp knife,
leaving the stems as long as possible,
and hauled to the shipping point with-
out injury to the skin or bruising.
Melons should always be hauled and
loaded into the cars the same day
that they are clipped from the vines.
Ship in Clean Cars.
Watermelons should be shipped only
in clean cars provided with at least
three inches of dry bedding, and- .in
case of box cars or ventilated cars a
lining of paper around the walls is
desirable, although not absolutely es-
sential. In sections where stem-end
rot Is prevalent, watermelons should
be handled with extreme care to avoid
injury. Only melons with fresh
green stems should be loaded, and the
stems should be reclipped and treat-
ed to prevent the development of
stem-rot in transit. Melons should be
handled carefully throughout, snugly
packed in the cars, and should reach
the market without unnecessary de-
lay.
The profits accruing from watermel-
ons growing are not'large; therefore
all items of expense in their produc-
tion should be kept as lbw as possible
consistent with good cultural and
handling methods. Sudden expansion
of the acreage planted Is undesirable,
and usually results in extremely low
prices.
A copy of this bulletin, Farmers’
Bulletin No. 1394, Watermelons, may
be secured, as long as the supply lasts,
from the United States Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Weeds are robbers of both plant
food and moisture.
* * •
Plant corn every ten days for a
succession of roasting ears.
Low-analysis fertilizers cost just as
much to mix, bag and deliver as the
high-analysis grades.
* * *
A homelike home and a homely
IWme are not the same. Sometimes a
little shrubbery makes the second into
the first.
♦ * *
The typewriter is also a valuable
farm Implement, for it gives the farm-
,pr a carbon copy of each business
communication.
* « *
After all, the secret of success in
farming lies in the proper cultivation
of only the acres that can be made to
produce large yields.
* * «
With things so high, the farmer who
puts out a good garden for next sum-
mer is likely to be well repaid, even
if not a thing is sold out of it.
♦ ♦ •
Take all the time that is necessary
to get the farm machinery properly
adjusted. It will save horse power
and time and will enable you to do
better work.
♦ • •
Of 2,690 grain marketing associa-
tions reporting to the United States
Department of Agriculture, 78 per cent
buy feed for members; 73 per cent buy
fuel, and 24 per cent buy containers.
« * •
Reports from 753 associations han-
dling fruits and vegetables Indicate
that 55 per cent buy containers for
their members; 40 per cent fertilizers,
and 25 per cent buy spraying mate-
rials.
Night Pastures Favored
for Cattle and Horses
A night pasture for dairy cattle and
horses saves some time e^ery jporning
and good effects can be noticed on the
stock. The cows will do much bet-
ter if they can spend the night on pas-
ture from the time the ground has
warmed up until early fall. It isn’t
possible to have a night pasture on
every farm. In such a case, It is bet-
ter to spend a little time rounding
the stock up in the morning than to
not let them out at all.
Some object to letting their work
horses out nights on pasture. A horse
may sweat a little more, but seem to
keep in better health the year round
and takes much less care when given
the run of a pasture. This does not
mean to not give them an evening
feed. We give our horses the regular
feed in the barn when at work. On
Idle days they are turned on pasture
and given a feed at night if they come
up. When a horse can roll on the
pasture sod he requires very little cur-
rying.
Carbonic Acid Vapor Is
Very Poisonous in Silo
Carbonic acid gas is formed through
the fermentation of corn in a silo.
This gas is very poisonous. Being
heavier than air, it will settle at the
bottom of the silo and, unless some
provision is made to let this flow out
of the silo, it Is dangerous for persons
to enter. In the case of an above
ground silo, leaving the door open at
the silage level permits this gas to
escape, and there Is no danger. With
a pit silo this escape Is Impossible, and
the proper method to pursue Is to start
up the silage cutter and blower so as
to agitate the air and mix good air
with the carbonic acid. Another
method has been to take a branch of a
tree and stir up this carbonic acid gas
so that it will disappear into the air.
Let Cuticura Soap
Keep Your Skin
Fresh and Youthful
Sample Soap, Ointment, Talcum free. Address:
Cuticura Laboratories, Dept. M, Malden, Mass.
MOTHER!
Watch Child’s Bowels
Laxative
Children love the pleasant taste of
“California Fig ’ Syrup” and gladly
take it even when bilious, feverish,.
sick, or” constipated. No other laxa-
tive regulates the tender little bowels.
so nicely. It sweetens the stomach
and starts the liver and bowels with-
out cramping or overacting. Contains
no narcotics or soothing drugs.
Tell your druggist you want only
the genuine “California Fig Syrup’*
which has directions for babies and
children of all ages printed on bottle.
Mother! You must say “California”
or you may get an imitation fig syrup
“California Fig Syrup” is
Children’s Harmless
Essence of taking exercise is that
you’ve got to be interested. That’s
what so often ails walking.
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We Never Heard Their Last Names
SUFFERED SINCE
YOUNG GIRL
Words Failed to Express Benefit
Received from Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound
Greenville, Texas. — “Words cannot
express how much good Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable
Compound has done
forme. Everymontb
I would have cramps,
and headache, and I
felt like I was freez-
ing to death. I suf-
fered in this way
from the time I was
a young girl, and all
the doctors said was
‘operation. For
months I had a tired,
sleepy feeling all
day, and when night would come I
would be so nervous I couldn’t stay in
bed. Our druggist recommended the
Vegetablecompound to my husband and
he bought four bottles. . I have taken
every one and I think I have a right to
praise your medicine.”—Mrs. J. B.
Holleman, 2214 E. Marshal Street*
Greenville, Texas.
For fifty years Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound has been used by
women frorp girlhood through middle
age- K
It is a dependable medicine for trou-
bles common to women. Such symp-
toms as Mrs. Holleman had are relieved
by correcting the cause of the trouble.
For sale by druggists everywhere.
Shake Into Your Shoes
And sprinkle in the foot-bath Allen’s
Foot- Ease* the antiseptic, healing
powder for Tired, Swollen, Smarting,
Sweating feet It takes the friction from
the shoe, prevents blisters and sore spots
and takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. Always use Allen’s Foot-
Ease to break in new. shoes and enjoy
the bliss of feet without an ache. Those
who use Allen’s Foot-Ease have solved
their foot troubles. Sold everywhere.
Trial package and a Foot-Ease Walking
Doll sent Free. Address
Allen’s Foot-Ease, Le Roy, N. Y.
(Copyright, W. N. U.)
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The New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1924, newspaper, June 12, 1924; New Ulm, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1194141/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nesbitt Memorial Library.