Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 9 Dec 1926, p. 6

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se * Bew $3 a] PAGE SIX Jn afWonl o ze THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS Humpty Dumpty has been launchâ€" ed into big business. His days of slip shod marketing are on the wane, Some 70,000,000 dozen of eggs are marketed by farmers‘ coâ€"operative orâ€" ganizations in the U. S. last year, the business runing up to $22,000,000. This estimate by the bureau of agriâ€" cultural economics cover 156 farmers‘ orga:ui:i;fim. Nearly 90 per cent of the ness was handled by 30 assoâ€". ciations in 10 state: Missouri, l(inm_'{' sota, California, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, Washington, New Hampshire, New York, and Utah.* | Uphold the administration ing "YES" next Monday. to refill the hopper. For several months the bureau representatives at the Fort Valley laboratory, have been giving attention to the perfertion of the technique for usirig airplanes in this way, with the coâ€"operation of those‘ who have had prévious experiâ€" ence in the work at the boll weevil laboratory at Tallulah, La. It has been necessary to make adjustments of the feeding mechanism of the planes so that the heavy dust used for peach insect control work would be evenly distributed. A thousand acres ofpuchtreuinGeouhwillbe; treated by airplane during the season,â€" under the supervision of the Fott Valâ€" ley laboratory., It is expected that this work will yield valuable data on the results, cost of operation, and othâ€" er points. HUMPTY DUMPTY NowW | IN BIG BUSINESS It took an hour and fiftyâ€"five minâ€" utes to dust 10,000 peach trees with a mixture of arsenate of lead and hyâ€" drated lime. ‘The timeâ€"recorded inâ€" cluded all trips to the landing field the latest crop t: receive trntm;nt by the airplane dusting method for ~The commercial peach orchard is controlling insect pests. According to a report received by the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Deâ€" partment of Agriculture from its field station at Fort Valléy, Ga., this procâ€" ess was tried for the first time in March of this year. Airplane dusting: for cottonfields jhas been a demonâ€" strated success, and the outcome of this type of control for insects affectâ€" ing peach trees will be awaited with interest. , 1 f OF PEACH ORCHARDS Ten Thousand Trees Treated In About Two Hours by This Method, Report AIRPLANE DUSTING . "He was finally saved through the aid of Indians toward whom he had ever assumed a kindly and generâ€" ous attitude. ‘In referring to. this experience,. he recorded: . ‘These ravens fed me (in the wildreness.‘ Chief Massasoil, of the (Pokanoket 'l ns, gave him â€"a tract of, land on tiver, where ‘he was joined by old friends from Salem, and a settlement started. Founded Providence _ "But uport receiving friendly hints that complications were liable to arise with the Plymouth colony, he pulled up stakes and moved to the present gite of Providence, and in June, 1663, started a settlement that is still going strong. The land in that section was cheerfully given â€"to him by his old friends, Comanicus and Maintonomah, chjefs of the Narragansetts. (It was well for all of New England that Wilâ€" liams â€"was on such friendly terms with these Indians and exercised so much influence over them, otherwise all of the settlers might have been fird, their crops destroyed. He sily prevailed upon the powerful Narragansetts not to join the league being ~formed . by â€" Pequot sachem Sassacus for the purpose of destroy» ing all English settlements,: It is claimed that no other wite man in the New World could have put over this important piece of diplomacy, Durâ€" ing the Pequot war, the very men who caused the banishment of Williams called upon him for advice and asâ€" sgistance, which he cheerfully gave." p as t] Mmaz"d aligious liberty and the founder of Rhode Island. . Comparatively few are aware of 'd.n“ m o:bt he was a diplomat as 1 of great servâ€" fi’u the colonies in a‘ diplomatic way. In an article in flum ; iQ.merd the . National \ r â€"O‘*Taylor discusses the interâ€" esting events of the great founder‘s life in an entertaining way. Mr. ‘O‘Taylor says in part: | t M Experiences D:clltu'.' in January, 1636, when the ration of Ind?ondenee‘ was nearly as far in the future as it is now in the past, that Roger Williams was compelled to leave his wife and babies and tramp through the snowâ€" eovered forests with no other comâ€" panions than the wild beasts _who were ready to ‘devour him. Years later in writing to a friend about this unhappy experience, he said: ‘I ,was sorely tossed for fourteen weeks, in a. bitter winter season, not knowing: what bread or bed did mean.‘ { Roger Williams Proponent of Religious Liberty BI:;M | u.gm':e%m FOUNDER RHODE . ISLAND TELLS HISTORY OF PIONEER CHARACTER npshire,| Uncle Sam, '. cotirmont; 4 ‘MI As Shy is the sa b vot-" 1901 1 %.:’ wX y Afor presen so . moi ~â€"â€"_ {bill to China.â€"Détroit News In©10,128 man ing ”m.‘ ments surveyed Department Labor in July, were 2,975,690 employes recei amounting to $76,919,002. the number of employes and the : received were larger this July thin in July, 1925.â€" Congress shoulld be given credit for not monkeying. the .Jength of m‘: tH::#MmbMS Fifth, the eli ’;ofmgfi of constructive the cheap politician who on class | anâ€" tagonisms. . » 4 Bécond, a real tization industry, as disti hed from #j jous ~democratizatign in the form public ownership. [ j §# > F"‘"‘fltfl* t of a m the workers | new in serve them on part of the cus tomers. â€" 90 4+ > t + Third, the 4?:4.. of e ownership from it of mfl tablished industri B ppninitualiis prtelit Auicaicicdss TE CTCE, . ECATEMHAHM to Dr. Thomas N. Carver, P b of Political C y .. ak B university; C 5 s _ Summarized, results, Prof ssor Carver says, are as follows: _ _ _ s _ First, the eli of classâ€"comnâ€" scious conflict laborers and capitalists; in r words, a blendâ€" ing ‘of the la The rapid â€" of ow including cus employee ership â€"of: public y stock, w have farâ€" & results, rd CUSTOMER OWNING OF i v'mmns LA UDEL During the season of wild birds the United States Depa ment of asks that all sons try to p from harm f1 all sources ‘the which live in vicinity of their and fields, â€" Roosevelt "It is the duty 1 every man, weo and child to tect the birds." one who the : incalculable (number of which even one will destroy. season should be Wwilling to take son pains to protect charming â€" useful little inl allies of the far er and orchardi *e,". ’- The boy with the air rifle, the m tin&th;.f ignâ€"born ld"l:t‘ his t ed squirrel he small animgls, ithe rain@torm and t windstorm, and the house cat all tak lthdftoll,ol rilMâ€"birdâ€"life. Years ‘the depredations of the cat on bir caused ; little cConcern but now thai probably efftyâ€"five..... million + cat blanket the U waking up to the increasing necessi of protecting bird ngflnlt hem. | is not necessaity that houscholdem tial bird destrby gbal‘lg be ke from unduly increasing if effort i then from Rili@G the song birde from killigg the song birds. . 1 In Negt Seakson During the nésting season es ial ly watchful card is needed, particulat ly at the time n the fiedglings, w able to make full use of their unde veloped wings, flutter to the The sight of hElpless young hopping across the lawn excites th predatory insting@t of even a 1â€"fed house cat. Ina whort time the wings of these birds have grown st: enough for them to fly a little way lessened. Until the young birds ca look out for thenigelves the cat shou not be allowed tq leave the house, u Birds Help e Birds, accolifling to the Biolopiq Survey of th@ United States Depar ment of igulture, are . wone of n ture‘s importgnt agencies {or kee insect life. Nést boxes should be ; up an shrubb@r; planted to m "’ for the disap ce of the holl trees and yourlg wild growth in whi the birds once built their nests. Wak for drinking &nd bathing . should be supplied in the summer season @m shelter and food provided in wints Protection of birds from their nat ural and unnatural enemi¢s is not t least important consideration. « â€" _ Insects grubs cause an an loss of. to the agricult interests of the ‘United States, our people . another tapa,o% Susts: | This mekvy exponditored bnrden of which is borne in largey by farmers, $ growers, and deners, ‘be reduced if uhé provision were ‘constantly made the needs of valuable insecth ous birds, i;‘l‘:dhu protection their lives. | rof. Sa Plan W Have Panioathing Rifeal SHOULD HAVE PROTEC One of N Important Ager cies In Down Horde of tes; Enemies _ s Numerous mt THURSDAY, DECEMEBER i4 : same Sam > powers in moderate a

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