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10c domestic for only 8c at
Arnof’s sale. Adv
Best grade shingles for sale by
H T. Raney.
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your HOME paper.
E. E. Jeffries left yesterday
for Heber Springs.
Arnof’s big cash sale begins
Saturday, Aug. 14. Adv
Ladies’ hats at half price. Get
one at Arnof’s big sale. Adv.
Chas. Simon of Grays is now
cutting meat at Greer’s Market
Domestic, medium weight,
bleached or brown, 4}4c yd at H.
Arnof’s big two week’s sale. Adv.
Needles and Shuttles for all
makes of Sewing Machines. We
also repair machines. W. D.
Hinson. Adv
Mrs. E. P. Yeager and baby
left Tuesday for Hot Springs,
accompanied by Dr. Yeager who
returned home the following day.
Louis Rushing
KSOBAinilll
Notary Public
Cullum’s Barber Shop
Everything to be found at
a First-class Tonsorial
Parlor
Bring us Your Laundry
McCrory Piano & Realty Co.,
Factory Lines
National Piano & Mfg. Co., Boston.
M. Schultz Mfg. Co., Chicago.
FIGHT THE ARMY WORM
Farmers Should Be Prepared to Meet
Invasion by This Pest With Pois
oned Bait of Arsenate of Lead.
Those of us who have had trouble
In 1912 with the grass worm will take
warning in the fact that this insect
is busy this year in Texas and is very
likely to work its way northward
The ravages of this insect are largely
to be averted through intensive culti
vation and the use of arsenate of lead
and poisoned bait.
The full grown grass worm or fall
army worm, as it is often called, is
about one and a half inches long. It
is of a pale yellowish brown or black
color, being mottled and streaked
with yellow. On each side of the ab
domen there is a broad waving band
of yellow, mottled more or less with
reddish. On its head there is a yel
low inverted “Y."
Feeds on Corn and Sorghum.
The grass worm is essentially a
grass pest, feeding upon our various
wild grasses and upon our tame
grasses. Including corn, sorghum,
Johnson grass, Sudan grass, millets,
etc. It is also very fond of alfalfa,
and will feed ,upon cotton when
grasses are not readily available.
Particular care pfust be taken to
keep the late corn and cane well cul
tivated. It might be said in this con
nection that many fields of corn were
lost in 1912 on account of poor culti
vation. The worms will feed upon
crab grass which is allowed to grow
up in a field, and will later turn their
attention to the main crop. Aside
from this, the importance of cultiva
tion will become apparent when it is
known that the worms enter the
ground for the purpose of transform
ing to the pupa? stage. By cultivat
ing, fifty to ninety per cent of the
worms in the ground can be killed,
thus preventing a heavy emergence of
moths which would otherwise deposit
eggs for a larger generation.
Use Arsenate of Lead.
Where the worms have made their
appearance in a corn field it is ad
visable to dust with arsenate of lead
at the rate of three to five pounds per
acre, the latter being mixed first with
two or three times its weight of cheap
flour. The material is applied in the
same way that cotton is dusted for
the army worm.
Where corn is to be used as fodder,
dusting with arsenate of lead would
be attended with danger. In such an
event a poison bait can be scattered
broadcast on the ground where the
worms are at work. This might be
applied at the rate of seven pounds
per acre.
Poisoned Bait.
Poisoned bait can be made as fol
lows: Mix one hundred pounds of
wheat bran with two to three pounds
of Paris green, and after the poison
has been uniformly worked into the
bran, work the matter into a thick
dough with three to four gallons of
molasses, to which has prevously been
added the juice of six lemons or or
anges. This material will then be
ready to apply.
Alfalfa fields which are infested
should be immediately cut where this
practice can be resorted to without
injury to the plants. After the hay
has been removed, one may apply
poisoned bait, or else the worms may
be killed by taking a number of folds
of chicken wire, weighting this down
with a section harrow and dragging
it over the Infested field.
Where fields are threatened by mi
grating worms they should be sur
rounded by a deep furrow. Worms
which fall into this furrow can be
killed by dragging a log back and
forth as long as the migrating is tak
ing place.—George J. Baker, Professor
of Entomology, Arkansas College of
Agriculture.
BITTER ROT IN ORCHARDS
To Be Controlled, Must Be Fought
With Bordeaux Mixture.
Bitter rot this year is proving seri
ous in some orchards. It is the one
disease of apples which must be
fought hard from its first appearance
in the orchard if it is to be controlled
at all. Even if there is only a tree
or two showing the disease, steps
should be taken at once to spray and
to clean out the diseased fruit It may
be worth while to strip the affected
tress entirely and take the fruit
to the evaporator rather than take
any chance on leaving a small infec
tion to later become a rotten spot
and help to spread the trouble.
Bordeaux Mixture Spray.
The spray mixture used for bitter
rot is bordeaux mixture at a strength
of 10-10-100. Its application to the
fruit and twigs and limbs of the trees
simply prevents the spread of the
disease by preventing the growth of
germinating spores.
Spraying will not pay where the
bitter rot is not first removed from
the trees, and if there is so much rot
in the orchard that it cannot be re
moved without taking all the fruit,
that portion of the orchard would
best be stripped.—J. Lee Hewett,
Plant Pathologist, Arkansas College of
Agriculture, Fayetteville.
Born: Thursday, Aug. 19,1915,
to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Raymond,
a girl.
David Arnof and Walter Jeff
ries were Augusta visitors this
week.
J. E. Jones, wife and two
daughters, of Riverside left
Tuesday for the Pacific coast.
They will attend the Panama-Pa
cific Exposition before returning.
GENERAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
J. M. Jackson, Helena. .. .Circuit Judge
J. N. Rachels, Searcy..
.Prosecuting Attorney
E. M. Carl-Lee, Augusta.
.Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
J. T. Angelo, McCrory. .Representative
Sam Vann, Vanndale.
.State Senator, Seventh District
A. L. Hutchins, Augusta.County Judge
E. D. Robertson, Wynne.
.Chancery Judge
R. E. L. (Bob) Spradlin, Augusta....
. Sheriff
L. W. Winfree, Augusta.Circuit Clerk
Wm. Moorman. Augusta. .County Clerk
Walter Jimerson, Augusta. ..Treasurer
Edgar Miller, McCrory.Assessor
Alex Beilis, Augusta.Surveyor
T. W. Woodbury, McCrory... Examiner
Dr. R. Q. Patterson. Augusta. .Coroner
Dr. R. N. Smith, Augusta. Health Officer
CITY OFFICIALS
G. W. Barber.Mayor
Walter W. Raney.Recorder
j J. G. Pulley.Day Marshal
Q. K. Porter.Night Marshal
Dr. H. P. Hargis.Health Officer
Aldermen: G. L. Carson, C. Crutzer,
J. F. Morgan, H. D. Swayze and E. T.
Wherry.
Council meets first Monday night of
each month in the Council Chamber in
the Farmers & Merchants Bank Bldg.
COURTS
Northern District—Circuit Court 3rd Monday in
February and August.
Chancery Court 1st. Monday in December and
May.
County Court 1st. Monday in January, April,
July and October.
Probate Court 4th. Monday in January, April,
July and October.
SouthernDistrict— Circuit Court 1st. Monday in
March and September.
Chancery Court 2nd. Monday in February and
September.
County Court 2nd. Monday in January, April,
July and October.
Probate Court first Monday follwing that of the
Northern District.
Excursion rate of $3.45 round
trip to Memphis via Iron Moun
tain effective Aug. 31 and Sept.
1. See R. C. Thompson, Agent.
Mrs. Ben Watson brought us a
sample of some extra large red
pepper this week. It is some of
the largest we have seen, weigh
ing % of a pound.
W. F. Cobb left Tuesday for
Hot Springs for his health. His
wife and children left the day
following for McClean County,
Ky., to visit her people.
I. P. Phillips, G. G. McCrory
and John Shearer attended the
Cotton States Merchants Associ
ation at Memphis Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.
Mrs. Mary Pearson and son
arrived Wednesday from Wynne
to visit her college chum, Mrs.
*R. H. McDonald, who is here
visiting her parents. They will
leave today for the latter’s home
at Weldon.
Messrs Steve and John Davis
of Augusta have just completed
a private- bridge for T. E. Stanley
north of Augusta. The bridge is
415 feet in length and a substan
tial improvement to Mr. Stanley’s
farm property.
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