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August I2th. 191s
Farm and
Garden
THE SQUASH VINE BORER.
t(?ften Causes Death to Squ shed,
Pumpkins and Muskmelons.
The squash vine borer la au dissect
. which is ofteu responsible for the
death of the squash, pumpkin. musk.'
melon, cucumber and gourd vines. The
.pest prefers, however, the squat ,auntt
pumpkin vines. It is not easy ,to tell
,just what is affecting the vines at first
when they wilt and the down, but data
short time the presence of the borer
may be detected by the yellowish ex-
'•-lcrement, or "tress," vrhiett they t9orce
' from their burrows in the steins, Later
natural rot appears at the -affected
joints and the ste:Irs or leaves beeein
• severed.
"'The larvae bore through tate stems
tfaom the roots to the base of the rplant,
arnd through the leaf stalks. In 'fact,
tthe young larvae may be found to the
larger veins of the plants and not in-
frequently in the vegetables them-
selves. The Hubbard squash, laaaarrew
cymliugs and other late varieties 'el
.squash often suffer the greatest 1%5
from the squash vine borer, and the
devastations are likely to he more
e.
•
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GROWN LARVA.
acutely felt in the small gardens than
where large crops are grown for the
market.
Not infrequently crops are lost year
atter year where the ground is sucees-
sively planted to pumpkins, squashes
or.other crops which the borers infest.
The insect is exceedingly difficult to
control in that ordinary insecticides
and repellents are practically useless.
Since the insect passes the winter in
the ;fields which it has ravaged. the
ground should not be replanted the
succeeding year to the crops on which
the +borer lives,
Good results have often been ob-
taiued by planting as a trap crop as
early as possible a few summer
squashes, such. as crook neck and early
cymiings,, before and between the rows
of them:min crop of late varieties. The
summer squashes attract the borers in
such mutnbers as to leave a much
smalleronumber to deal with upon the
late or .main crop. As soon as the
early .Preop is *harvested, or earlier if
the ground is needed for the main
crop. the summer squashes and vines
are raked up and burned to destroy all
larvae which they may harbor. The
same treatment is followed after gath-
ering theelate varieties. This method
has proved. profitable where used its
New Jersey and should produce good
results farther north. In the south,
however, rvaaere well defined broods of
borers appear, it may not be so effi-
cient, but ate „at least worthy of a thor-
ough test.
The borer may be greatly reduced in
numbers by ;lightly harrowing the sur-
faces of the detested fields in the fall
so as to bring . the cocoons to the sur-
face, where :they will be exposed to
the elements, .and then plowing in the
spring to a 'atniform depth of at least
six inches so that the adults will not
be able to come 40 the surface of the
soil.
Another cultural method which tends
to keep down tthe'damage done by the
borer is to keep a small part of the
vines after they Phare attained some
length covered with earth so that the
secondary roots will be sent out to
support the plants an case the main
root is injured by the borer. Still an-
other aid is keeping the plants in good
condition, .free frown other insects and
disease, and well nourished. When
the vines are so badly infested as to be
incapable of bearing fruit they usually
die at once and should ;promptly be
taken off the field and burned. As
soon as the crop is dead the old vines
should also be destroyed.
The old time remedy of cutting the
borers out of the vines, although la-
borious, is useful. It is about the only
method open for employment after the
borers have entered the vines. A
sharp knife is used, and the cut made
lengthwise of the vine. As several In-
dividuals often infest a singe vine, it
Is best to cut longitudinally, so as not
to sever the vine from the root stalk.
The wound will heal more qulekly if
covered with moist soil. The location
of the borer in the vine may be readi-
ly detected by the accumulation of yel-
low "Lama," or exerement, at the point
where it is working.
Spray For the (Onion Maggot.
The onion maggot, which does a lot
of mischief, e way be With fought t wi x
neer spray compounded to kill the fly
Whleh lays the eggs from which the
maggots ns
Ifg tat co a This Spray should he
eppiitd, before the Maggots a ,
with it coarse sprayer.: ixitkifif'-
slats of one tilnt of NOW Otleind >
lames, One-sixth a an Ounce of Was*
fart alto am 0110u awl*.
ST -ART Z%D!V: UTL*ING NOW
T"AGNATION in one's business is greatlyo :be feared anti 'greatly to !-be
<-avoided. Action' -:an effort to get ahead --keeps a business healthy,
',wealthy and wise,
\Visible action is ;advertistiiig
:in ithe Weekly Tit es—a fresh
advertisement each week, The
preparation and publication of a
rriew advertisement is:a .sure nin-
Ldieation of business rein gy-.
''Start Something"' is the slo-
gan-lcf today. Start advertising
N<''.. Keep up theiadvertising
alt through the year, and your
business will feel the tonic°effect
of ;!,ltaur action,
To the Merchants. of Wingham
;Make husir.ess brisk for\yau and towrwiif \Wingham by .. big and rightly-
directed effort—by a series of adequate <advertisements in the Weekly
' allow.
bet and Keep Ahead by Planning Ahead
1
EMU IKVALE.
A Travelling; Library has now been
opened in the-Bluevale School for the
•ase .of the ,public in addition to the
:reference bookshelf previously instalted.
The'TravellirgLibraries are sent out
free of charge by the Department of
Education and may be kept for three
months. They„are then exchanged for
:a fresh supply of books or, if preferred,
permission •can be obtained from the
Department for an extension of time.
The present'tibrary contains forty-two
svolumes . selected to suit a variety of
-tastes. The ibobks are loaned for two
weeks and ewe -quite free to both adults
,end cniidren au74ject to the usual regu-
lations regarding damages, etc. The
;following is,Frret'of titles: —
"rItkCTION
The Man who \was Good, Leonard
Merrick.
Qat of the Wreekil Rise. Beatrice
Harraden.
Peter's Mother, Mrs. Henry de la
Pasture.
The Wife of Sirttesac Harman, H. G.
tlSlelis.
The Witness for the Defence, A. E.
W. Masan.
Pdarynnette Married, Marthe Troly-
Curtin.
My Lady Caprice, Jeffery Farnol.
Fnstber Experiences of an Irish Resi-
dent Magistrate, ,(Humorous,) Somer-
ville and Rose.
Joshua Craig,
Phillips.
The Maker of Moons, Robert W.
Chambers.
The Tennessee Shad, (School Story,)
Owen Johnson.
Father Pink, Atred W. Barrett,
Angel Esquire, Edgar Wallace.
The Gift of Abou Hassan, • Francis
P. Elliott.
The Bishop of Cettontown, (Story of
the South after the Cixt;l`War,) John
Trotwood Moore.
William Adolphus Turnpike, (Canadian
Story,) Wm. Banks.
The Forged Coupons .(Russian,) Count
Leo. Tolstoy,
HlsTony
The Holy Roman Empire, Hon. Jas.
Bryce, (former Ambassador to the
United States.)
History of Our Own Times,
McCarthy.
History of the Union Jack, Darlow
Cumberland.
Struggle for Imperial Unity„ Col.
Geo. T. Denison, (Police Magistrate,
Toronto,)
Early Days in the Ynkon, W.
Ogilvie.
David Graham
Justin
EIOGRAd re
Alfred Tennyson, (English Men of
Letters Series,) Sir Alfred
Lyall.
Thomas A. Edison, Francis A. Jones,
Story of Tecumseh, Norman S.
Gurd.
Story of Sir Isaac Brock, Waiter R.
Nursey.
Lord Clive, Col. Sir C. Wilson.
Sir Francis Drake, J. Corbett.
Wolfe, q. J. Bradley.
TItAVE1.
The Romance of London, Gordon
Home./
My Travels, Richard Shields.
Exploration of Egypt and Bible Lands,
J. Garrow Duncan.
Story of the Universe,
Singleton.
Volcanoes and Earthquakes,
E. J. Houston.
AGnICUi.Tifttn ANT) DOii;t sTIC SCIENCE.
Successful Farming, William Rennie,
The Farnistead, (A comprehensive and
vl`e'1t-illustt"atod voltttnes eh the di-
eign and etsnstreetion' Of furan•
houses, barns, stablest, planning of
grounds, water supply, sewage die, e,
Esther
Prof.
posal,) Isaac Philips Roberts.
How to Make Poultry Pay, P. H.
.Jacobs.
Needlework, M. }K.(Gifford.
Cakes:end Cake Decorations, Ohas.
E. Xing
Boston Cooking. School Book Book,
Fannie Merrit Farmer.
War .and.Democraey.
The ;Round Table, The foams Eng-
lish Quarterly whose views on the
War axe so often quoted. ,
KS Bnxee Cured Psoriaets.
Mee. ,Nettie Massey, Consecon, Ont.,
'writes:: -"Three doctors described my
trouble .ae psoriasis, and one said I
could .never be cured. The disease
spread .allover me, even en my face
and head.and the itching and burning
was hard to bear. I used eight boxes
of Dr. Chase's Ointment and am entire-
ly cared—not a sign of a sore to be
seen. it oan hardly praise thasdlintment
enough.”
WHEN PA COUNTS
;(+T'letroit Free Press -
Pa's not so very big or brave, he can't
lift weights like Uncle Jim,
His hands are soft tike little girls',
most anyone could wallop him.
Ma weighs a whole lot more than
Pa. When they go swimmicig she
could et
Out in the river all day long, bat Pa
gets frozen right away.
But when the 'thunder starts to roll,
an' lightnin' spits, Ma says: •'•`Oh
dear,
I'm sure we'll all of us be killed. I
wish your ea was only here."
Pa's cheeks are thin an' kinder pale;
he coutdn"ct ,rough it worth a cent,
He couldn't stand the hike we had the
day the Boy Scouts camping went.
He has to hire a man to dig the garden
coz his back .gets Iame,
An' he'd be crippled for a week if he
should play a baseball game.
But when thunder storm comes up, Ma
sits an• shivers in the gleam,
An' every time the thunder rolls she
says: "I wish your Pa was home."
I don't know just what Pa could do if
he were home., he seems so
so frail,
But every time the skies grow black I
notice Ma gets rather pale,
An' when she's called us children in,
an' locked the windows an' the
doors.
She jumps at every lightnin' flash an'
trembles when the thunder roars.
An' when the trebly starts to cry, she
wrings her hands and says: "Oh
dear!
It's terrible! It's terrible. I wish
your Pa was only here."
Whooping Cough
Mrs- Charles Lovell, Agassiz, B. C.,
writes: "Seven of our nine children
had whooping cough the same winter
and we attribute their cure to Dr.
Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turperf-
tine. We always have it in the house,
and reeornmend it as the king of alt
dnedieines. I was formerly completely
cured of protruding piles by using Dr.
Chase's Ointment."
THE TREATMENT (IPA COLD.
The proper treatment of a cold, ae
cording to many phydictans, depends
in someodegree upon the way the per-
son has taken the cold. It is necessary
to go hack to the beginning of the
illness—to begin where the cold be-
gan.
For instance, if one catches cold by
getting the feet cold, saybe• going out
with thinshoes, and getting wet and
chilled, it is not the cold, but the long
chilling that does the harm. The best
measure is to take a hot foot bath.
The coldrget in through ttitetfeet, so it
should be driven out through the feet.
If one gets cold by exposing the
back of the neck to a draft, resulting
in a lame neck, soreness, cold and stiff-
ness in the neck, then hot applications
should be made to the .back of the
neck.
If the cold is the result of general
exposure: and a lowering.of'khe general
bodily temperature then a general
hot bathis good. This should be taken
at night. Drink a couple of glasses
of hot water, get into the'hot bath, and
stay there about half an hour.
Have the bath hot enough to set up
perspiration- It may be as 'hot as one
likes in the beginning, but when per-
spiration begins, lower the tempera-
ture to about 100 degrees, and keep it
there for about half an hour more.
Then lowee it to about 95 degrees and
stay in the bath another hour. One
may safely remain in the bath two
hours if sagering with a :really bad
cold.
Drink sottae more water at the close
of the bath and go to bed. It is well
to' drink just as much water as one
can.
TO FEEL RIGHT, BREATHE RIGHT.
Deep breathing is the greatest known
beautifier and equalizer of bodly con-
ditions; it reduces superfluous flesh and
adds flesh if one is thin. In short, it
develops the body normally and sym-
metrically.
To breathe deeply one must learn to
fill the lungs to their capacity.
There are three positions for practis-
ing deep breathing. Stand erect, with
both heels together and place one hand
on the chest and the other hand on the
middle of the back. Take a long deep
breath. Repeat, alternating positions
of heads.
Next, stand erect with both heels to-
gether and place both hands upon the
chest. Draw ter. longdeep breaths.
Once more stand erect and with both
bands upon the hips, throw back the
shoulders and inhale and exhale ten
times.
Practise deep breathing in walking.
Draw in a deep breath and exhale slow-
ly. One can walk four or five steps
while inhaling and the same distance
while exhaling. With practice this be-
comes second nature,
TO CLEVELAND
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(June 22nd t0 Septembaw dth)
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t#s A ntage :1n This Respect tOver
irtrnch and Garman.
itt ant dUterlultiuunl report. printed In
parallel eohtuuie iu F rettea, cit•ran;te
and is?n;iish, the three versions being
exact ti'nnktiutiou, or twit orbs•. the
lettgtiah roper Lim varia hly las heti'ti1�;t;
sotuetirnt't •it mon by a whole page. ,#.i
a rule, *he ilIveueh report was the must
slitl'use.
This 'brevity of l'.nglisb is partly ex
plants! by the fact that English Is
made op Ito nu,extruordlnary extent of
words or one syllable. Its nouns lay.
(enlllae the.(ieratnint lost :111 their
Inflections 'except the possessive •'s,"
have 'become mere roots. a very large
proportion .of 'Chem monosyllable. in
Germany a 'monosyllable root 'praert-
cally attwutys gets uta extra ayiluble
tacked on by way .of case ending. In.
the second ,place English has little of
the ela'b wute'ttbtd etplicit machinery or
structure that French bus, *so It saves
space in .prepositions and such para-
phernalia. Lusteati, IiIngtlsb has what
the grammarians .salt incipient agglu-
tination—'that is. •stieloing words to-
gether in4rroups •without .either:prepo-
sitiont or. ease'endiugs'to connect them.
An example of the former kind of
brevity is a 'word like •'tearthqugke,"
two syllables, compared with the Ger.
man ''erdbeben," three. syllables. and
the Fatench "trembI meat de terre."
five syllables. An example of the
terseness ,of Engllsh 'would be a,phrase
like, "1 have .been to the 'house and
have now 'conte aback;" every word a
single syllable. In a telegram this
would be just as 'intelligible in 'the form
"Been house' naw back." you cannot
carry that sort .of thing far in any
other European language.—Manchester
Guardian:
Comparisons Are Odious.
"Oh, dear," lamented a lady on
her return tem a fashionable recep-
tion, "I heave made sut:h a terrible
blunder'. ?lady X. introduced .me to
an artist, and, trying to be .clever, 1:
commenced to air .a theory I have
read about—that it is Impossible for
an artist to avdi'd drawing faces more
or Iess like his own. This artist dis-
agreed very politely, but I wouldn't
give in and finally told him 1131 own
drawings proved It. '1 have discov-
ered since that 'he draws nothing but
pigs and sheet!'"—Loa.don 'Tatler,
Long Drawn Out.
Uncle Jeff. an aged negro driver of
Augusta, was piloting several north-
ern visitors around just after the first
golf links had been put in there. Un-
cle Jeff was a little short in his
knowledge according to St. Andrew,
but long on local pride.
"How many holes have they'?" in-
quired a visitor, "eighteen?'
Uncle Jeff pulled up to make his an-
swer more impressive.
"More'n dat, suit," he said. "Dey's
got a passel er land, and de Stoles
ain't bigger'n a tin can. 1 aeckin
dey's got a thousand holes already,
suh."—New York Post.
• Force of Drops of Water.
It seems almost incredible that so
small a thing as a drop of rain should
injure the propeller of an aeroplane,
but such is the' case, At so great a
speed does the propeller revolve -1.200
revolutions a minute as a matter of
fact—that a rain drop bits it with such
enormous force as to chip a piece of
the wood away. Some idea of the
hardships entailed by flying through
the rain at sixty 'miles an hour may
be gathered from the fact that an avia-
tor who recently went through such art
experience, alighted with the edge of
his propeller fretted as though it .had
been gnawed by rats. The rain drops
had chipped pieces out of the blades
and also bruised the aviator's face,
owing to the force with which they
hit against his flesh. --London Specta-
tor.
Antiquity of "A Regular Shindy."
The antiquity of many familiar terms
is surprising when it is known. Many
people are not aware that "What the
dickens!" occurs in Shakespeare, but
fewer still will be prepared to hear
that the phrase "a regular shindy" is
found in an author's note to a poem
called ""The Popish Kingdom," pub-
lished in 1570. A writer quotes this
note, which refers to the celebration
of Maundy Thursday, "Midnight sere-
ices are held in church, the lights are
put out, and a regular shindy follows,
uteri being beaten and wounded."—
London Globe.
Suffered From
Salt Rheum
FOR MANY YEARN+
Burdock Blood Bitters Cured Her.
Salt Atheutn or 1~czema is one of the
'most painful of ail skin diseases, and if
at attended to immediately may ate-
come very deep seated,
Give the blood a good cleansing by
the use of that grand old medicine
Burdock Blood Bitters. This sterling
remedy has been on the market; 'for the
past forty years, and is the best blood
cleanser on the market today,
Mrs. William 11. rowllie, Cole's /Stand,
NA; Writes: "I have been a soften*
from salt rheum for a good nanny year ,
and was so bad 1 could not do nay own
work, x tried a, good many madici
tet
but they all failed to do pie any good
until I tried Burdock Blood Bittern, t
had not taken one bottle until 1 fouslid
a *teat change, and I amt most then/dui
for trying it. 1 hope that every °rhes
sufferer iron* salt rheum Will try B.B.B.'"
Burdock Brood titters is nartufactur
ed only by The 't, Milburn Co., Limited,
? Totogto, Out,
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