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Thursday, July 3, 1930 OLD ORCHARDS ARE BEING CLEANED UP State Agricultural Dept. Reports Activity; Eliminating Pestâ€" Harboring Trees division of agriculture. Owners of neglected orchards are complying with the state‘s cleanup requirement, according to. a survey just completed in the plant industry @ivision of the state department of At the request of Director Stuart E. Pierson, of the agricultural departâ€" ment, Phil S. Haner, superintendent of the plant inspection forces, thru field observations and reports from fruit growers, located some fifty orâ€" chards that harbor insect pests and plant diseases to an extent sufficient to endanger fruit production on adâ€" jracent property. The insect ‘pest and plant disease law, in effect, condemns any neglected orchard that constitutes a hazard to adjacent property, according to the plant industry supcrintendent. . Thus far, efforts to remove the menace that neglect permits, he said, have been limited to the commercial fruit proâ€" duction sections. Trees that remain unpruned and unsprayed, according to the plant authorities, harbor hords of destrucâ€" tive insects and develop blight, and pant diseases. These, as foes to sucâ€" 6 esc o n ie minre Hmm o cessful fruit production, invade adâ€" jacent property. By explaining to the negligent owners that orchards suffering from such neglect are decidedly unprofiâ€" able and a menace to their neighbors‘ production, the plant industry official finds it possible in most cases, he stated, to induce the owner to clear the orchard or, if practical, to overâ€" cume’-(â€")i;jif.;ctionhble'conditions by inâ€" tensive pruning and. repeated sprayâ€" ing. Records on file in the division office show that cleanup operations are now underway or contemplated in 35 Iliâ€" nois orchards.. The efforts to effect improvement will continue, the agriâ€" cultural â€" department officials . said, until all such hazards are removed from the commercial fruit producing sections of the state. Another Initiation by 40 and 8 in July Another initiation or "wreck" of candidates for membership in the local chapter of 40 and 8, the fun orâ€" ganization within the Legion, will be held early in July according to Manâ€" ce Talcott, chef de gare. A second big wreck, similar to the orie held last Saturday night at Gurnee will be staged in August at which the deâ€" gree team from the Cook County 40 and 8, the largest voiture in the world, will put on the work. The July meeting will be in the form of a fish fry at one of the lakes in the county. + The sun has to do a lot more tanâ€" ning than it used to when mother was a girl.â€"Cincinnati Enguirer. "ondemned as Hazard Cleanup in Progress the division office Fred Stone, Comedy Star Says Farm Turned Out to Be Only Circus Fred Stone, musical comedy star, has had his fill of farming, he deâ€" clares in The Country Home. The last farm he started turned out to be a cireus, he relates. And it was largely the fult of his friends. One of the first reverses he exâ€" perienced was a giff of seven wild calves from Will Rogers. Then Will spent most of his spare time out on the Long Island farm roping the ’cnlves and they became so wild that they ended up in a butcher shop. "About that time," says Fred, "somebody donated a flock of tumbler pigcons and soon after came a flock of fantails. We made the technical error of putting them in the same quarters, â€" with results that would have driven a pigeon fancier into hysterics. The following spring we were overrun with the dizziest asâ€"| sortment of pigeons one could imagâ€" ineâ€"fantails tumbled all over the place and spread their tails until they looked like a Japanese lawn party. Our dignity was ruffled and we gave them away. The next morning the whole flock was back. I guess they had a little homing blood in them. too "We spent our time meeting inâ€" coming freight trains, carting animal crates back and forth, establishing and breaking up one menagerie after another, _ We didn‘t contribute one constructive thing to the farm probâ€" Icm, during those days, but the cireus people could have learned a lot from New Machine Picks Cotton Faster Than 70 Men Can by Hand The 1930 season may prove as cpochal in the cotton industry as did the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whiney, according to Wheeler MceMillen, agricultural expert, writâ€" ing in The Country Home. The new development, says Mcâ€" Millen, is the tractor cotton picker, which threatens <to do. away with Negro labor in the fields, which has not been improved upon since earlâ€" iest days of cotton in America. In a test in Kentucky, the fastest colored cotton picker known started down a long row and in 2 hours â€"21 minutes he had picked 45 pounds of cotton, a record in itself. Then the machine started and in two minutes it Lulled out of the row to unload 54 pounds of cotton. The machine had gathâ€" Fifteen such machines will be used in experiments with this year‘s crop, and, if equal to the test the whole cotton market may be revolutionized. cred, more cotton, 70 times as fast as hand labor St. John‘s Evangelical Church (Evangelical Synod of America) North Greenbay road and Homeâ€" wood avenue. F. W. Fischer, pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Divine services at.10:30 a.m. Friends come to workship with us, who like you, seek the truth, You arc always welcome at St. Johns! T H E ‘ Voliva Is Not Only | Proponent of Claim | That Earth Is Flat Two men are preaching the theory that the world is flat, but no one knew there was anyone other than Wilbur Glenn Voliva expounding this doctrine until the other day. Out in Van Buren, Mo., Gilbert "Flat Earth" Johnson has been sendâ€" ing out views along the line of Volâ€" iva. He will reach a greater audiâ€" erce if he has his way about it as he has asked permission to talk over rudio station WOS in Jefferson, Mo. Johnson maintains he has been enâ€" deavoring since 1886 to convince peoâ€" recognition and assistance have not been given him. So he has appealed to Governor Henry S. Caulfield for permission to use the state radio staâ€" tion to broadcast a lecture on his to Governor Henry S. Caulfield permission to use the state radio tion to broadcast a lecture on newest "flat earth" theory. ple that the earth is flat, and as yet In his communication to Governor (Czulfield, Johnson revealed that "I am sending some of my work to all the leading nations of the earth, Busiâ€" ness is on the alert.. Some other ccuntry may pick up theory and our own nation lose the honor," "The earth is a great circular plane, with the vault of heaven mting' on the great southern cireumference. At this point the sky and soil join and the sky becomes part of our great aivr vessel. The compressed air beâ€" tween the earth and sky is what the writers of the Bible consider the four corners of the earth; the four winds q088 8888888 890pP8 8A CEAEF 4 ol <9) o op *) tA e ©h &p cp :g! :g} 45 J 1 & & o * o w\ o op P 4P YF PP PTIPPTTT 160 4og CHICAGO AVENUE 4 EVANSTON PaooL & PIPER romt HOUN® 5 â€"INC+â€" CHILDREN‘s SHOE SPECIALISTS > C&s"" IHE barefoot boy of song and story was a pictur= esque figure of the easy going, carefree youth of other days. But he missed all the fun of the active young fellow of today who wears Pool and Piper summer shoes for easy going at all speeds. In an effort to strengthen the case of the county and the state, in a fight to get control of the swamp lands of Lake county Assistant States Attorney S. H. Block and an assistant attorney general from Oscar Carlâ€" strom‘s office went to Washington, D. C. last week to get government sur» l veys of the land. The case has been under hearing of heaven the north, south, east and west winds. "Therefore the foundation of the earth is the air, the pillows of heaven and the pillows of the earth are one, therefore our earth is one grand airâ€" ship." Attorneys in Swamp Land Case on Trip to Washington, D. C. for five years, It was brought by Frank Hatch, of Grass Lake, against the state and county and involves but 160 acres. Although it is but a small tract on which title is being cleared it really will involve all swamp land in Illinois as the supreme court will be asked for an opinion eventually from which future rulings can be made. Hatch claims the land through old patents and payment of taxes. The state claims it through a grant from the government and the county contends it belongs to Lake county because the state ceded it to it. Large groups of visitors from down state Illinois are being received at Field Museum of Natural History as a result of excursions conducted by the Chicago entertainment committee. (o \to \te