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S?GAR-BEET THRIPS HARMFUL TO PLANTS Spraying Is Most Effective ? Means of Controlling Pest- ". : Ste5wi3**;T --- - ; .^Si??^ j Besides Doing Much Damage in Green, house Insect Ateo Injures Outdoor Plants-Apply Spray on Dull :>" or Cloudy Day. I ' . vi^SS?fe^ -? [^?vf*f~ [CPrepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The sugar-beet thrips is an impor jtant insect recognized as a greenhouse jpest and also injuring outdoor plants, ?principally sugar beets and sugar cane. (The insect is dark brown or black in ?color, and about 1.3 millimeters in : length. The injury caused is similar ito that of other species, such as the i onion thrips and bean thrips. The plant is attacked by the adults and by :the nymphs, or young, in the same manner. The leaf cells are pierced Harvesting Suyar-Beet Seed. and the plant juices withdrawn, caus ing the cells to shrivel and turn white. When a number of these cells are de stroyed they appear as irregular white or light-brown spots. If the attack ls severe, the whole leaf surface becomes .invested by these spots and finally ?shrivels and dies. Spraying has been found to be the ?most effective means of controlling this .insect, both in the greenhouse and out ?of doors. The following solution used lin one experiment killed all adult in sects and about 95 per cent of the nymphs. .Nicotine sulphate (ounces) .6 Fish-oil soap (pounds) .4 Water (gallons) .'..50 The spray should be applied to both sides of the leaves; If possible, on a dull or cloudy day. The adults are not so active at this time and are, there fore, less likely to move out of reach of the spray. In the greenhouse the sugar-beet thrips may be held in ?heck by the application of a strong spray of water to the foli?ge. This washes the young er stages from the leaf ; and as these are unable to reach the food plant again, they soon die. VETCH CROP IN HOME GARDEN Sp?.~2d or Hoed Under lt Will Assist In Keeping Soil Supplied With i Needed Humus. A few cents' worth of vetch Iked planted In the garden each year and .spaded or hoed under as a green ran? nure crop will keep the soil supplied with hmnus and, to a large extent, with ?nitrogen. The vetch should be kept (growing at all times in all available ?spaces. ? For example, if early corn or cab bage are not removed in time to allow .for a follow-up crop, vetch can be ?planted between the rows at the time i of the last cultivation. It will then be ?large enough to spade under in the fall ?or spring. Another good way to use .vetch is to sow it in the fall or spring . when the garden Is being spaded in I preparation for tomatoes. By the time the tomato plants are ready to eat, the vetch will be well un der way. If the vetch is not more than three cr four inches high, places can ?be cleared at proper distances for j planting the tomatoes by turning un der a spade or two of soil. Then ?when the vetch left between the to [matoes is six or eight inches high, it i can be hoed In. Since it is green and I tender, this is no great task and the ?vetch will soon rot. If vetch ls used In ?this way, the soil should be lnocu : lated with the necessary bacteria. In istructlons for ?.olng this simple wort jean be had upon application to the ' state college of agriculture at Ithaca, !N. T. PUTTING EAR CORN IN SILO Best to Add Some Stalks Because They j Furnish Much Sugar Essential to Fermentation. j It has been found practical to en sile soft corn ears without any 6talks, ?but lt ls better to add some stalks ibecause they furnish much sugar which is essential to proper fermentan fion. Tests made at Ames on the ?Iowa station show that an Immense amount of corn can be stowed away In a silo this way, that it will not spoil, and that lt maker an exceed ingly rich feed. It should be fed as a concentrate and not as a roughage. The ears should be cut fine and thor oughly tramped in the silo when filling. Do not let any spoiled ears .get In, or too big a proportion of ma ture corn, as this does not pack and ?ag?e so we?. BAPTISTS PLAN RECO BODY CHARGED WITH DUTY LION CAMPAIGN CAN PRO ; To make a general survey of the economic, social and religious condi tions in Europe "with a view to recom mending to the Baptists of the South where and how they can aid most ef fectively in the reconstruction of that continent through the Baptist 75 Mil lion Campaign, a commission, com posed of Dr. J. F. Love, secretary of the Foreign Mission Board at Rich mond, Va.; Dr. Z. T. Cody, editor Bap tist Courier, Greenville, S. C., and Rev. Everett Gill, missionary at Rome, Italy, who is returning after a leave of absence in this country, and who will serve as guide and interpreter to the other members, is now in Eng land for a conference with the Bap tists of Great Britain and will go from there for an Inspection of France and Belgium. Another brief conference will be held with the Baptists of Switzerland, after which a trip will be made through Italy and a survey of the new repub lic of Czecho-Slovak'a conducted. From Prague, capital of Bohemia, the com mission will go into such parts of Rus sia as are open, and the foreign trip will be concluded with an inspection of Palestine, where the missionary work formerly done in Syria, Persia and Galilee by the Illinois Baptist As sociation has been turned over to the Foreign Mission Board. There are approximately 4*250 Bap tist churches in Europe today, with 3,000 pastors and missionaries and 566, 800 church members, it is announced by the headquarters of the Baptist 75 Million Campaign, and a considerable sum from this campaign will go toward succo/ing needy families of Baptists and others in the war-torn regions as well as in the propagation or the gos pel and the establishment of Chris tian Institutions there, it is announced. Before sailing on the Adriatic on his (4,S00,000 TO BE Ol reu m--OO ? modern hospital illustrative of the employing in the rel In their work of relieving human physical suffering Southern Baptists at present own and control fourteen hospitals and there are under course of construction and'about ready to be opened at lea't two more, with consid erable progress made toward the erec tion of others. All of these institu tions are liberally patronized and are self-supporting but all of them need to be enlarged In order to meet the rapidly-growing demand? upon them. The demand for charity work is espe cially urgent and in order to enable them to thus render a needed servies to those who are least able to help themselves as well as to provide larger facilities for th? regular work the hos pitals are doing the sum of 14,800,000 has been r.pportloned to them from the proceeds to be raised in the Baptist 75 Million Campaign. This work of relieving the physical Infirmities of men women and chil dren and thus putting them on tho NSTR?CTI?N P?SH OF OUTLINING HOW 75 MIL MOTE THAT TASK REACHES ! THE NEED AND ISSUES CALL European mission, Dr. Love made ti^ following statement outlining the pur pose of the commission: "When the call came to help save, promote and secure democracy in Eu-: rope there came a louder call to help save, promote and secure evangelical Christianity In Europe. That which alone will now preserve and perfect the democracy for which brave men have died on the battlefield of Europe is the Christianity of the New Testa*, ment. Southern Baptists can not long er profess New Testament Christian- ' ity and decline a challenge like that I which ls now presented to them to hear "witness to their faith among the peoples of Europe. Our people never before faced such a challenge and such a responsibility. "Of course we can not go to the men; and women of Europe who have beenv stripped of earthly fortune and reduced to direst necessity with a message of i Christian love and brotherhood if we decline in our abundance to carry some substantial pledge of our love and compassion. Mothers will not be able to stay the crying of their little, ones to hear us preach if we decline i to practice the gospel of compassion and feed these little ones and build fires at which they can during the com ing winter warm their frosted toes. Southern Baptists are under the most solemn obligation to help relieve the want and suffering of Europe. But if there were no reconstruction work in I Europe, Southern Baptists have mo i tives numerous enough and strong enough to compel them to make a com . plete success of the Baptist 75 Mil lion Campaign. I would therefore, as j ' my parting word to my brothers and , j sisters of the South, implore them to give themselves to this campaign and carry it to a triumphant conclusion j during Victory Week, November 30 i December 7." type of buildings Southern Baptists sr? lief of human suffering. road to better health and larger efft ciency and usefulness was begun witn in the bounds of the Southern Baptist convention in 1890 when the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium was opened in St Louis. From a very Bmall beginning in a residence with less than a dozen beds, this institution. has grown into a modern institution with more than 300 bedB. Other Baptist hospitals In the South include Baptist Hospital, Muskogee, Okla.; Baptist Hospital, Miami, Okla.; Baptist Hospital, Cushlng, Okla.; Bap tist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.; Georgia Baptist Hospital, At lanta; Oklahoma Baptist State Hos pital, Oklahoma City; Baptist Hos pital, Columbia, S. C.; Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium, Dallas; Baptist Hospital, Houston, Tex.; Baptist Hos pital, Alexandria, La.; Baptist Hos pital, Jackson, Miss.; St. Louis Baptist Hospital, St Louis, Mo., and the Kan s s City Baptist Hospital at Kansai City, Mo. The Great Rush is Over wm ima Now that the rush of the ginning season is over we urge the farmers to bring in their cot ton where they have been holding it in the seed, and, too, owing to the very few gins in the ru ral districts. . Our gins have been giving bet ter service and better samples this season than ever, and we guaranteed satisfaction. We have a capacity of 50 bales per day and will not keep your wagon waiting. We solicit the patronage of farmers from all rural sections. We gin every day in the week J. G. Alford GEORGE HEINTZ And his barbers have moved from the Albion Hotel to The Stag. 750 Broad Street, where we T be pleased to see our many frien a. d customers. I also have an up-to-date barber shop in teh Masonic Temple. 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