Orchard Work in May and June Is
Very Important—Cultivate Or
chards Until August.
BV J. S. Knox, Horticulturist, Exten
sion Division University of
Arkansas.
The nation needs Arkansas’ fruit
products for food and every orchard
ist in the state should take precaution
not only to have a large crop, but the
best crop obtainable. Good fruit can
be secured only by proper care and
by continuing the orchard work in
May and June. Possibly there is no
other season of the year when the
work in the orchard is of greater im
portance than it is during these
months.
This being the case, it is all im
portant that we should cling to
our orchard work and see that the
fruit trees have the attention which
they merit. Just as long as our or
chard work is made a sideline anil
neglected when the real farming sea
son comes on just so long will we be
harvesting a crop of diseased or
wormy fruit that will scarcely bring
returns sufficient to pay for the har
vesting and packing. There ia only
one way to grow first class fruit and
that is to take the best of care of the
orchard. If we fall to continue 'he
spraying and cultivation through the
growing season we have a very poor
chance of gathering a crop of good
nixed and perfect fruits. The ques
tion is often asked, "Can I afford to
spray my orchard three or four times
each season?’’ As an answer to this
question I would simply say, "Ask
your neighbor who has tried it?”
Spray Thoroughly.
Continue the spraying of the stone
fruits, such as peaches, plums amt
cherries with the S-8-50 or seif-hoiled
lime sulphur solution adding 1 1-2
pounds of arsenate of lead paste to
each 50 gallons of the solution. The
fruits have grown considerably since
the last application and, consequents,
it Is not so well protected as it was.
In doing the spraying, remember that
only the portion of the fruits covered
by the solution will be protected
against the ravages of the insects or
diseases. This being the case it can
he seen thnt thoroughness is one of
the great factors in spraying. You
cannot do the work thoroughly with
out some of the solution dripping
from the trees so don't worry ahout
that. It is usually during this season
of the year that brown rot and scab
are raging on the peaeh crop and the
farmer who discontinues his spraytng
operations now is the one most likely
to suffer. If some of the trees are
dying better dig them up and burn
them since they make ideal breeding
places for bark ■fteetles.
Don’t Let Bitter Rot Destroy
Your Apples.
The work in the apple orchards will
consist in the spraying for control
of codling moth, scab, blotch, and
canker worms. FiYtunately, wre can
combat; all of these with the same so
lution. Use about 2 1-2 gallons of the
commercial lime sulphur solution and
four pounds of arsenate of lead paste
to each 100 gallons of diluted spray.
This work also must be done thor
! ouglily and for best results additional
| sprayings must, be made at intervals
; of two to three weeks. About the
i middle of June the bitter rot of the
apple is likely to show up in many or
chards and for this reason it proba
bly will be advisable to make one or
two applications of the 4-4-50 Bor
deaux mixture solution. There seems
to ho quite a lot of this disease in a
great many orchards over the sta!e
and when an orchard is once infested
there is nothing that can control if
except thorough and systematic
spraying.
In practically all of the vineyards
over the state there can be seen num
bers of mummied fruits still hanging
on tlie vines. These were destroyed
in many instances by the black rot
fungous and could have been saved
by spraying with Bordeaux mixture of
a strength of 4-4-50. The first applica
tion should have been made lust after
the berries set and others follow at
about three weeks interval. Two
pounds of lead arsenate paste should
be added to each 50 gallons of the
above solution for the control of the
grape eurculio.
Cultivate Orchards Until August.
Keep your orchard cultivated dur
ing the summer or at least until Au
gust, when a crop of peas may be
sown for a cover crop and for the pur
pose of adding more organic matter
to the soil. If you have cowpeas. pea
nuts. soy beans or potatoes planted ■
in rows between the rows of trees it
may help to defray the expenses of
cultivating the orchard. These, how
ever, should be fertilized so that they
will not draw too heavily on the soil.
Keep after your orchard work. It will
surely pay you.
A number of excellent bulletins
treating of the different phases of
orchard work may be had by applying
to the Extension Division, University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.
All of these bulletins contain infor
mation which every orchardist
should have and as they are absolutely
free there is no reason why you
rhould not have them. Write for
them today.
SOME SMILES j
Government Ownership.
“Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Tor
kins, “I am going to bo in favor of gov
ernment ownership.”
“Have you given the matter any
thought?”
“Yes, indeed. Tf we bad government
ownership of railroads I might lie able
ro tell any conductor who didn’t find
me a seat on the shady side of the
car that I wouldn’t vote for him next
election.”
Particular.
“Casey is me pertickler friend, Oi’d
have ye know.”
“G’wan! If he was pertickler, he
wouldn’t be yer friend.”
• Natural Deduction.
“That woman.”
s a i d, H e r 1 o c k
Shomes, tire great
detective, “has evi
dently heard that
lemon juice is good
for the complex
ion.”
"’Cause why?”
asked old Dock
Watson?”
“She has such a
sour-looking face,”
replied the g. d.
“But as a rule,
women have bet
ter c o m p 1 exions
than men.”
“ Naturally,”
c o m m e n ted the
“No artificially,” snapped Shomes.
Superstitious.
Neighbor—I heard your dog howling
last night. If he howls three nights in
succession it’s a sure sign of death.
Nextdoor — Indeed! And who do
you think will die?
Neighbor—The dog.
Might Have Been.
“My hoy might have been president
of tlie United States.”
“What happened?”
“Ho got married, and his wife
wouldn’t let him go into politics.”
No Other Poem Has Given
World So Many Immortal
Quotations as Grey’s Elegy
No single poem in the English lan
guage perhaps has contributed so
many lines that have passed into cur
rency of quotation as Gray’s famous
Elegy. It is a veritable mine of epi
grammatic nuggets that have enriched
tlie language of orators and writers
and become such familiar property
that their origin is almost forgotten
and they seldom now receive tlie
credit even of quotation marks. Here
are a few of them tliut will be recog
nized as old friends:
“The short and simple annals of
the poor,’’
“Itich with the spoils of time.”
“The paths of glory lead to the
grave.”
"And freeze the genial currents of
the soul.”
‘•Fun many a flower is horn to blush
unseen and waste its sweetness on the
desert air.”
“Some mute, inglorious Milton, some
Hampden guiltless of his country's
blood.”
“Hands that the rod of empire might
have swayed.”
“The applause of listening senates
to command.”
"The noiseless tenor, of their way.”
"Far from the madding crowd's ig
■ noble strife.”
. “E’en in our allies live their wonted
fires.”
"A youth to fortune and to fame
unknown.”
"To wade through slaughter to a
i throne.”
The Inspirational influences of the
poem have been far-reaching, says the
Kansas City Star. Thomas Hardy’s
most famous book—and the best of
his earlier novels—"The Madding
Crowd,” derived its title and perhaps
| its inspiration from one of the oft
quoted lines of the elegy. It is told
of Daniel Webster that when he was
being driven to the capitol to deliver
his reply to Haynes he was heard by
one of his companions to murmur over
and over again as he rode along the
words: “The applause of listening
senates to command.” It will also lie
remembered that Wolfe, the conquer
or of Quebec, read this poem in his
tent the night before the buttle on the
Plains of Abraham and said:
“I would rather be the author of
that poem than the conqueror of Que
bec.”
Money No Object.
The judge was passing sentence on
a very defiant-looking culprit.
“This is a sad case,” his honor said.
“You, who remained honest until you
were forty, have tarnished your name
and dishonored your family, ail for the
sake of three miserable dollars.”
"Please be fair,” said the prisoner.
“Was It my fault there were so few?”
Live on Houseboats.
The numerous canals of Holland an
populated by about 50,000 people, t(
whom the houseboat represents hom<
all the year around, and with the ex
(•option of the winter season, when tin
canals are frozen, they are constantly
on the move. The stern of the vesse
is fitted up for the boatman and lib
family, while the space in front h
i used for carrying freight.
FEEL AWE AT CRATER LA&F
Marvelous Sheet of Water Inspires
All by Its Charm—Attraction
Almost a Fascination.
Crater lake has been known to In
spire reverence in visitors who claimed
to feel little or none at sight of the
Grand canyon. It is difficult to imagine
anybody who would remain untouched
by the canyon, which is probably the
most magnificent natural spectacle in
the world; but if such a person exists,
he might still feel the spell of Crater
lake.
For Crater lake has the chartn of
simplicity, of a direct beauty that grows
after the shock of the first view. The
canyon, if anything, is too grand; it
seems to have been built and colored
for the amusement of the gods and is
likely to oppress too impressionable hu
mans after a time with an uncomfort
able sense of their own unimportance
and Insignificance. There is something
very different in the placid brooding
beauty of Crater lake.
Crater lake can he described in a
few words. It is a cliff-walled body of
sparkling water, held high in the air in
tlie cup of a volcano that has retired
from active business for lo these many
years. Also, it Is blue—exceedingly
blue, blue beyond the habit of earthly
water. At times it looks like a patch
of tropic sky seen in the earfy morn
ing. The only Item in the character
istics of Crater lake a bare inventory
fails to include is its peculiar att"ac
tion that is almost a fascination. The
Indin .3 peopled it with all manner of
gods and spirits, and it is easy to see
why they did so. It takes more than n
chemical combination of hydrogen and
oxygen to give out the peculiar atmos
phere of mystery and unreality that
hangs ovjer tlie sunlit turquoise waters.
FEMININE FRILLS
The new collar line of the pep
luin blouses is three inches be
low the base of the neck all the
way round.
These peplum blouses have
peplums hip length or they may
extend to the knees.
The really clever blouse Is a
slip-on that goes over the head
and has all the simplicity of a
“middy,” but is embroidered and
has flowing lines.
Unique and lovely shades of
tan have an unusual pinkish
cast.
New also is a pale, greenish
gray that bus been named “as
paragus.”
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK & MONROE RY.
South North
7:45 a. m.Huttig ... 3:69 p. m
j9:50a.m- Monroe 2:07 p.m
LOCAL. *
Leaves Arrives
11:26 a. m. Huttig . 12:30 p.m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
PARMERVILLE A SOUTHERN RY.
North South
5:22 a. m.. Huttig. 2:32 p. m
7:21a. rn. Farmerville 5:45 p. m
local, t
1 10:10a.m. Huttig 2:22p.m.
i Arrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
^Arrives Tuesday. Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
I0DGE 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. R. Reasons, Sec’y.
HOWARD QHAPTER, 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.
ZEDEICIAH, COUNCIL. U. D„ R. & ^
S. M Meets every fourth Wednesday
night of each month. Visiting compan
ions welcome. T. B. Weaver, T. 1. M.
R. N. Benson, Recorder.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320. Order 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. 0. O. F.
meets every first and third Tuesday eve
ning. All brethern cordially invited.
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.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4 I I W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
Lester Malone, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. C..
rneets 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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