DATS LOST III 11
Twelve Per Cent of Crop Is Destroyed
By Smut—The Best Remedy
Is Formalin.
The plant disease survey made dur
ing the last year and covering more
Ilian one-half the counties in the state
shows that smut caused the loss of
12 per cent of the oat crop according
to the report of .1. Lee Hewitt, Plant
Pathologist with the University of Ar
kansas, who says that Uiere was little
disease and loss where the seed had
been treated with formalin before
planting.
Ten million bushes of oats were
produced in Arkansas in 1916. Twelve
per cent of this crop, or 1,200,000
bushels were lost because of smut.
The average yield for the state was
27 bushels per acre; consequently,
three and one-fourth bushels per acre
was the average loss. With oats at
40 cents a bushel, th average farm
price, $1.56 was the average money
loss per acre. By treating seed with
formalin before planting with a cost
of about two cents per acre and the
work, this enormous loss to the farm
ers of the state could have been avert
ed. Every farmer in Arkansas should
see the value of the fomalin treatment
and use it before planting the 1917
crop.
Two Causes of Loose Smut.
Loose smut may be caused by either
of two fun pi which are so similar that
they may be considered as one in the
treatment for smut. The loss from
smut is greater than is commonly sup
posed for: 1. Smutty stalks are usual
ly shorter than healthy ones and not
easily observed. 2. The boot some
times hides the smutty heads which
then appear only as fmmature or bar
ren plants. 3. Smut ripens several
days before' cutting, and may blow ;
away, leaving: the smutty stalks naked
and not noticeable.
Smut is a parasite plant that grows
Iryide of and feeds upon the oat plant.
Smut robs growing oat plants of nour
ishment and weakens them, some
times so much that, they cannot pusn ]
their panicles or heads out of the j
sheath of the upper leaf.
Threshing Machine Agent of Infection.
The black masses of smut, seen
when the grain is ripening, consist of
countless numbers of spores. When
the oats germinate and grow the smut
spores germinate also. The tiny
smut plants penetrate and enter the
oat plants, growing up within. There
is nothing to indicate their presence
until the heads form. At this time
the oat kernels are filled with the
smut Sometimes only a part of (tie
head is affeeted. A part of all of the
stalks from each stool may be attaek
! ed. The threshing machine is the
wholesale peent o? infection as crops
I practically free from smut may be
! come infect d hy spores carried in
| the rroeMne from an infected neigh
boring field.
To Prevent Smut.
1. Use seed oats free from smut.
* Pisinfect all sacks, bins, etc., with
formalin. 3. Trpnt seed oats with for
malin when there is any doubt of their
being free from smut. One pound to
forty gallons of water is the samp as
one ounce to two and onp-half gallons.
Use this strength with the sprinkling
method.
Formalin Treatment of Grain.
Spread the grain in a layer three to
four inches thick on a clean noor or
canvas. With a watering pot, sprinkle
| the grain thoroughly with the mixture
! of formalin and water. When the crain
I is prettv wet all over, shovel it hack
and forth two or three times to get
some of the mixture on every grain.
Add more of the mixture and shove?
over until the grain is quite wet but
not wet enough to park in the hand.
Then shovel into a pile and eovpr with
empty Fncks. Let stand for six to 12
hours. Spread out the grain and dry
quickly and thoroughly, otherwise thp
grain may germinate which will In
jure It. Tirving may he hastened hy
adding air slacked lime. It will take
about one gallon of mixture for each
bushel of grain. If the grain is sowed
before thoroughly dried, allow about
one peek to the bushel extra for the
swelled condition of the grain. Do not
I use more or less formalin ttian is rec
ommended. Do not put treated grain
into old, smutty sacks, bins or any
place or receptacle not having been
treated with formalin.
A. Dorms.lin treatment is ftfr: (11
Bunt or stinking smut of wheat. (2)
All oak smuts. (2) Kernel smut of
sorghum. 14) Covered smut of bar
lev. (5) Smuts of millet.
B. Hot water treatment is for: (1)
Boose smut of wheat. (2) Head
smut of barley.
C. Seed treatment is useless for:
(1) Corn smut. (2) Head hmut of
sorghum.
Bee keepers should take jarticular
pains to inform,the fruit growers char
spraying the fruit trees when they are
in full bloom not only poisons many
of the bees, but it is not the time to
get the codling moth. Better still,
get in touch with the horticultural in
spectors, and ask them to give the
proper information about the best
time to spray.
Irregularity in care and feeding is
felt more by sheep than by any other
farm animal. A successful sheep man
says that he “feeds by the clock.’’
| POULTRY POINTERS^
The practice of poultry feeding,
while governed largely by circum
stances, should as far as possible be
confined to the regular routine.
A iien eats approximately three to
four ounces a day, or about six pounds
a month. The amount fed each day
varies with the appetite of the bird.
The success of egg production de
pends largely upon the activity of the
bird. The reason the Leghorns exoel
in egg production is largely because
they keep themselves in good physical
condition. They exercise.
It has been found that a few thor
ough applications of crude petroleum .
to the interior of poultry houses will
destroy completely the common red
mite infesting chickens.
The hen that is first off the roost in
the morning, keeps busy during the
day and is the last to go to roost at
night is the profitable hen.
It will pay the poultry keeper to
nail up cracks in the back, sides and
root of ids henhouse.
Some birds have the disposition to
take exercise, others have to be
forced. This is especially true of the
heavier breeds.
Overfeeding causes inactivity, which
will be manifested by no holes being
dug in the straw.
The skill of the poultry feeder Is
tested by the manner in which he com
pels the hens to exercise.
Egg production is quite largely de
pendent upon keeping the birds in con
dition
It is not the large turkeys that ar^
so desirable, but the medium-size ones
that are pretty and smooth.
There is no danger of overfeeding,
providing the birds are compelled to
take sufficient exercise.
The hen that is inactive and shows
long toenails is seldom a good pro- ,
ducer.
Divorce Seen as Sequel to
“Chocolate Eclair Marriage”
One of Kansas City’s divorce proe- I
tors—a woman—has found the true
rouse of the divorce evil. She is Miss \
Tiera Farrow, and lias had her job
for only a few weeks, but she undoubt
edly has made a beginning! Perhaps*
she will find a remedy in the same jig
time, remarks the St. Louis Post-Dis
patch.
It is not the corner saloon, the moth
er-in-law or the eternal triangle, says
Miss Furrow. Boiled down to its es
sentials, her theory seems to be that
there arc too many chocolate eclair
marriages between persons of corn
beef and cabbage predilections. In
other words, the whole trouble is that
the sentimental novel ideal of marriage
ns o rose garden fs soon dissipated for
tlie young woman who. finds that her
husband is not a wavy-haired hero, but
only a matter-of-fact plumber or busi
ness man, ns the case may be.
Thus, somewhere along in the honey
moon the poor young thing begins to
fear she is neglected the first time
friend husband takes his newspaper
and cigar and forgets to blow her a
kiss for a whole hour at a stretch. Aft
er a while there are tearful reproaches
just at tlie moment he is at the most
absorbing part of the batting averages,
whereupon lie wrnthfully seizes his hat
and goes out to seek a sociable barten
der who will defend the Ty Cobb side
of a debate all night, if need lie. Be
fore very long the bride is weeping In r j
tragical tale into the ear of some sym
pathetic friend, while the bridegroom
is afraid to go home because he is in
fee simple possession of wliut is some
times flippantly referred to as a “hurt." |
Then it’s her for the divorce court and
alimony.
Vast Resources of Siberia
Are Unrivaled in Old World
Siberia is destined one day to become
tiie richest country in the world, for it
has a natural wealth so diversified,
and as yet almost untouched, that it
has no rival in the old world. How
vast this wealth is is described by A.
Hammer in La Nature.
Before the war Siberia was produc
ing from 1,000.000 to 1,300.000 tons of
flour a year. As a grazing country
it has no limits and it exports large
quantities of leather, tallow and but
ter. Its forests are almost inexhaus
tible and it supplies fifrs to all the
world.
Its mineral wealth can only be
guessed at, for the greater part of the
country lias never been prospected. 1
But there are several enormous de
posits of oil, that of Konznetz embrac
ing about 30.000 square miles and esti
mated to contain 920.000,(100 tons of
oil; that of Irkutsk, estimated to con
tain 250.000.000 tons, and those of the
Ienisseisk and Siemipalatinsk. Some
of these have as yet scarcely been
touched.
The Konznetz basin possesses also
great deposits of iron one, estimated
to contain 10.500.000 tons. Iron occurs
in la rye quantities in many other re
gions.
Other tnetals that promise wealth to
their exploiters are copper (5.000 tons
of which were mined in 1013), gold,
lend, zinc, manganese, wolfram, lin,
antimony, cinnabar, mercury, sulphur,
saltpeter, graphite, naphtha, quartz,
sulphide and sulphate of soda, white
clay and common salt.
Its rivers are as full of fish as those
of British Columbia. Much flax, cot
ton and many cereals are grown and
Can he grown to u virtually limitless
extent.
Beauty or Brains
A photographer in New York won a
prize of $500 for the photograph of a
beautiful girl. Many artists have
raved over the classic beauty of this
girl's features, but the young lady her
self has no illusions as to the power
of mere beauty. “Something besides
prettiness is necessary to achieve suc
cess,” she said recently. “If I had my
choice between being the prettiest girl
in America and the most talented girl,
I should unhesitatingly choose the lat
ter.”
"Yes, of course she is pretty—but
site’s an awful flat!” remarked an hon
est college boy of a certain young lady
who felt that good looks excused her
from any attempt at intelligent con
versation.
Portraits of women who, as history
tells us, have ruled the world by their
charm, and swayed the destinies of
empires, reveal the fact that they have
rarely been beautiful in the accepted
sense of that term. Cleopatra, Mary
of Scotland, as well as plenty of more
modern charmers, have not been women
whose chief appeal was to the eye.
They have influenced their times
through the keenness of their minds,
their personal magnetism, aud their
power of being agreeable.
Things That Are New
For the same purposes as on electric
medical vibrator one has been invent
ed that Is connected with a washstand
spigot and operated by water power.
/ Of English invention is a trumpet to
be attached to a telephone receiver so
its sounds can he magnified and heard
without holding it to the ear.
On one side of a new electric porch
light are grooves into which figures
can be slipped to make it serve as a
house number either by day or night.
By placing a turbine in front of an
intomobile a French inventor believes
lie utilizes the air resistance met by
die car in running to increase its
power.
A Little Bit of Everything
One out of four Australians has a
substantial bank account.
Many osti idles in South Africa are
hatdied in Incubators.
A six-mile bore under James I>ak, in
the Rockies will cut 73 miles off the
transcontinental trip.
Among the tallest trees in the world
is the Australian eucalyptus, which at
tains a height of nearly 500 feet.
Ireland has 84,809 land holders hav
ing plats not exceeding an acre, 61,730
who hold more than one acre and not
more than five acres, 153,288 under 15
and 136,058 not exceeding 30._
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK & MONROE RY.
South North
7:45 a. m . . . Huttig.3:59 p. m
9:50 a. m. Monroe 2:07 p. m
local. *
Leaves Arrives
11:25 a. m. Huttig . .. 12:30 p.m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
FARNIERVILLE A SOUTHERN RY.
North South
6:22 a. m. . Huttig 2:32 p. m
7:21 a. m. Farmerviile 5:45p. m
local, f
10:‘10a. m. Huttig .2:22 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
vilie.
‘Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerviile and goes to Mon
roe.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
T. B. Weaver, W. M.
W. P. Reasons. Sec'y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 122, R. A.
M. meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
J. M. Gibson, H. P.
C. A. Berry, Secy.
ZEDEIC1 AH, COUNCIL. U. D.. R. &
S. M. Meets every fourth Wednesday
night of each month. Visiting compan
ions welcome T. B. Weaver, T. I. M.
R. N. Benson, Recoider.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Oder of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec'y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. O. 0. F.
meets every first and third Tuesday eve
ning. All brethern cnrchallv mvit»d
H. C. Bedford. N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Wilkie Frost, N. G.
Mrs. Murray Maroney, Secy.
SWEETBAY CAMPNo.411 W.O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
Lester Malbne, C. C.
J. C. Bridges. Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145. yj. C..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o'clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. E S Etheridge, Guardain.
Mrs. J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
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