Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 3

) ] FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH PROFITS FROM SWEET POTATO ~ Question of Proper Handling of Crop Deserves More Attention. . /- RESENTS ROUGH TREATMENT : One of the Big Drawbacks to Indus- try Is Inability of Farmer to Keep Tubers in Storage—Field Diseases Are Serious. (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) Sweet potatoes deserve as carefgl handling as apples. In fact, they will not stand the rough handling that ap- ples are often subjected to in grading and packing. This statement may surprise many sweet potato growers who are not in the habit of taking pains to avoid bruising this product. of proper handling of sweet potatoes 18 one of several points touched on in a publication just issued by the bureau of plant industry of the United States department of agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1059, entitled “Sweet Po- tato Diseases.” One of the chief barriers to the extension of sweet potato growing in this country is the Inability of farm- ers to keep sweet potatoes in storage 8o that they can be placed on the market in winter when prices are good. Consequently most of the crop grown is consumed locally or sold at digging time when prices are low. A few sweet potatoes go to northern miar- kets in winter, and even in the South they cannot be obtained with any de- gree of certainty at that season. Speclalists of the department of agri- culture belleve that if storage methods and principles were better understood, far more sweet potatoes would be available for winter use. Must Fight Diseases. However, the success of the indus- try does not depend on eareful han- dling alone. ‘There are several seri- ous fleld diseases, as this bulletin points, out, the best known of which are black rot, stem rot and foot rot. The storage of sweet potatoes affect- ed with black rot must necessarily re- sult in heavy loss, since the disease spreads rapidly throughout the bins. Stem rot, on the other hand, does not produce any marked decay in storage, dut it may open the way for storage rot organisms to enter the potato. After sweet potatoes are dry and the surface moisture has dried oft they should be carefully laid in con- tainers holding about a bushel and hauled to a storage house. If the po- tatoes are to be stored in bins they should be poured carefully from the contalners into the bins. There are some advantages in storing in crates rather than in bins. Crates permit A Field of Sweet Potatoes, the Rais- ing of Which Can Be Made Highly Profitable. the free circwtation of air among the | potatoes, a condition which cannot be so readily obtained if they are piled in a bin: The crate has an added ad- vantage in that by its use as many potatoes can be taken out for the market at any one time during the winter as are desired without disturb- ing the remainder. Sweet potatoes will not stand frequent handling, and for that reason it is unwise to disturb a pile or bin unless they are all mar- keted at the same time. ' Dig Late for Storage. Potatoes intended for storage should be dug as late in the fall as is consist- ent with weather conditions. This is usually just preceding frost or after the first light frost. Frozen potatoes will not keep, and it is likely that a heavy frost will injure them to some ex- tent. It is advisable after a heavy frost to cut the vines at once and dig. To wait too long may mean that in or- der to avoid freezes the potatoes must be dug during bad weather. After the potatoes are dug they should be left exposed long enough to dry off the surface moisture. On a bright day this would require but an~hour or two. On a very hot day, however, it would be desirable to hurry the pota- toes to the shade after their surfaces have been dried in the sun. The question | 12, 1920 lREFUGE SPOTS FOR ELOPERS Fleet Prison and Gretna Green Were Highly Desirable Places in the Olden Time. Gretna Green, whose chief industry was once matrimony, fs a village in Scotland less than a mile from the River Sark, which marks the English- Scottish boundary line in that vicin- ity, near the Solway firth. The Eng- lish - marriange laws sent eloping couples to Scotland just as the divorce laws of 47 of our states make Reno desirable for would-be divorcees, and therein lies Gretna Green's first claim to fame. Fleet “Gretna Green” of England until the passage of the famous Hardwicke act of 1754, which made unauthorized marriages voidable, Gretna Green thereupon becoming the romance spot of the British isles, All the Scottish law required was that two persons should in the presence of witnesses, and the British law then, as now, recognizes marriages as legal so long as they con- formed to the laws in the places where they were performed. During the three decades when Gretna Green flourished, there were more than 7,000 marriages recorded there, nearly 800 of which were per- formed in 1855, the year before Scot- 1and enacted a law which made a three weeks’ residence a requisite to mar- riage. Marriage by declaration is still legal in Scotland. BE THANKFUL YOU CAN SMELL English Woman Writer Went Through Life Keenly Regretting Her Lack of That Sense. Did it ever oceur to you to be grate- ful for the sense of smell? Probably not, and yet those who have been de- prived of it have felt their loss keenly. Harriet Martineau, the famous Eng- lish writer, lacked the sense of smell and consequently the sense of taste, which. depends on smell. Once and only once she tasted in all the inten- sity of flavor a slice of a leg of mut- ton. The sense came to her suddenly and she thought and hoped it had come to stay. “] was going out to a great dinner |' that night,” she said when telling of her onc taste, “and I looked forward with great eagerness to the dainties that I knew would be set before me. How I should enjoy practicing my new- found sense of taste!” Baut, alas, the sense of taste disap- peared as suddenly gs it had come, and never returned, and she went through life remembering that taste of roast mutton as one of her keen- est joys. ‘ Accldent Policy’s Limit. If a man die of blood poisoning as the result of giving himself a hypo- dermic injectlon, his family can col- lect nothing on his accident insurance policy. For the possession of a hypo- dermic needle is a violation of the New York public' health law, Article 11A; therefore the man commits a crime and dies as the result. This was declded by the appellate division in a recent case. Merchants in the Philippines. That a merchant does not need to have or retain a capital ihvestment in an established business before he can be admitted to the Philippine islands is the gist of a decision handed down in the case of a Japanese merchant who sold his business and came to Manila for the purpose of engaging in business in the islands. He was de- nied admission by the customs author- itles on the ground that he did not be- long to the class of merchants exempt- ed in the fmmigration laws. ;‘Gn-y" Chamberhin is what invalids. e powerful that Full details on storing sweet pota- toes are contained in Farmers’ Bul- Jetin No. 970 of the United States de- partment of agriculture, prison was the figurative | declare their intention to be married: " Good for the Whole Family “A good cough remedy is one that can be depended upon to cure coughs. that clires some particular cough, but coughs in general, It must be a cough remedy that can be relied upon for all the different coughs that are so prevalent. While coughs are primarily the same, yet the condition of the patient makes the difference in the nature of the cough itself. Coughs of healthy persons are easier to cure convulsive cough of a large man is harder to cure than the cough of a baby. If you get a remedy will cure a large man's cough and yet not be too powerful for the baby, you have a good cough remedy. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is just this kind of remedy. It is good for any member of the family. It relieves coughs of all kinds. It is the product of much thought and study to produce an ideal cough remedy. It iscom- posed of things which cure easily and soothingly without harm- ing the most delicate tissues of the throat. It acts as easily and safely on the young as on the old, and is the ideal remedy for coughs, colds, croup, influenza, whooping cough and bronchitis.” THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ————— JOME SMILES Y e 2l Tonsorial Repartee. “Have you seen Prof, Diggs lately?” “Met him yesterday.” “Blundering along as usual, I sup- pose?” “Yes. He had just mistaken a bar- ber shop for a meat market, which was next door. ‘Dear me!’ he exclaimed. ‘This is no place for mutton chops. ‘Not unless you want to get ’em trimmed, sir,’ replied the head barber.” An Independent Wife. Flatbush—And your wife writes to you on postal cards? Bensonhurst—Oh, yes. Flatbush—I should’nt think you'd allow her to do so. " Bensonhurst—Oh, she’s very inde- pendent. She doesn’t seem to care who knows what she says. Quite a Job. “Senator Twobble says he labored long and hard over that speech he de- livered today.” “He means comparatively long and hard. He took the manuscript right out of his secretary's hands and in- sisted on writing the last two para- graphs practically without any as- sistance whatsoever, except in the matter of punctuation and a singular verb that should have been plural.” A Schemer., “T must tell you, Edgar, that I can- not cook.” i “But those excellent meals I have had at your house?” “Were all prepared by our cook.” “Do you think we can get her away from your folks when we are wed?” Next Antarctic Expedition. Great Britain’s next expedition to the antarctic regions will endeavor to learn something additional about the habits and migrations of whales and to ascertain the mineral and other deposits of economic value. Yellow Mustard For Rheumatism A good hot mustard plaster or poultice is pretty sure to overcome most rheumatic pains and even sci- atica and gout but it’s a mussy affair and geéner- ally bli ] Heat is abso- Jutely necessary if you want per- manent relief. Begy’s Mustarine made of true yel- low mustard with other pain reliev- ing ingredients added is just as hot, is cheaper, cleaner and more effective than the old fashioned poultice or plas- ter and cannot blister. Besides rheumatic pains and swell- ings Beggy’s Mustarine is speedily effective for lumbago, backache, neuritis, pleurisy, bronchitis, sore throat, chest colds and all aches and pains because heat eases pain—30 and 60 cents at druggists or by mail, S. C. Wells & Co., LeRoy, N. Y. Not one the causes of all the coughs of ——— HIS POCKET WAS BARE. ‘ Teacher was giving a lesson on good behavior, and wanted to drive it home to the children’s mind. | First she sought to point out the wickedness of stealing. i “Johnny,” she sald to one small boy, “if I put my hand in your pocket and took out a penny, what would 1 be?” But instead of replying, “A thief," Johnny looked at her solmenly, and remarked : “A conjurer!”—London An$wers. e — 1 Sorely Stricken. “The chairman of the reception com- mittee seems to be upset about some- thing.” “He has cause to be.” “What's gone wrong?” S “Somebody sat on his silk hat and there’s not another oge to be had in town. He simply can’t do himself jus- tice in welcoming the distinguished visitor without the proper headgear.” ~ MANY CASES OF RHEUMATISM NOW Says We Must Keep Feet Dry, Avoid Exposure and Eat Less Meat Stay off the damp ground, avoid exposure, keep feet dry, eat less meat, drink lots of water and above all take a spoonful of salts occasion- ally to keep down uric acid. Rheunmtism is caused by poisonous toxin, called uric acid, which is gen- erated in the bowels and absorbed into the blood. It is the function of the kidneys to filter this acid from the blood and cast.it out in the urine. The pores of the skin are also a means of freeing the blood of this impurity. In damp and chilly, cold || weather the skin pores are closed, thus forcing the kidneys to do double work, they become weak and sluggish and fail to eliminate this uric acid whjch keeps accumulating and circu- lating thl:ough the system, eventually settlgng in the joints and muscles causing stiffness, soreness and pain called rheumatism. At the first twinge of rheumatism \ PAGE THREE e e —————— ———— e ——" S —— i ee— get from any pharmacy about four ounces of Jad Salts; put a table- spoonful in a glass of water and drink before breakfast each morning fog‘ a week. This is said to eliminate uric acid by stimulating the kidneys to normal action, thus ridding the blood of these impurities. Jad Salts is inexpensive, harmless and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia and is used with excellent results by thousands of folks who are subject to rheumatism. Here you have a pleasant, effervescent lithia-water drink which overcomes uric acid and is beneficial to your kidneys as well. SPRING WILL SOON BE WITH US PHOTOGRAPHS WHEN you invest in that new Spring finery which you have already picked out, don’t forget.that your friends have long been waiting for a photograph of you and your new spring suit would make a most appropriate costume. ‘‘Speaking” Likenesses by Photography Prices That Please The HAKKERUP STUDIO Bemidji, _Early Spring Arrivals of SOCIETY BRAND and HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES Yesterday and again this morning we received agivance shipments of suits and med- ium and light-weight overcoats that embody the new spring styles. .Both 'single and double-breasted gar- ments are in the lot and the new half-belt in the back models with French pleats. Also several suits with patch pockets that will be so | much in vogue this year. There’s an “easiness’ about the new coats They’re roomy and comfort- able—and full of style-smartness. And So- ciety Brand and Hart Schaffner & Marx that you’ll like. Clothes are all-wool—always. We commend these advance showings and suggest early selections. Suits priced at $35, $40, $45, $50, $55, $75 \~ \L - \> Marx and the trim, alert, stylish mires. NEW SPRING CAPS Made by the best manufacturers of Men’s and Boys' Caps in America. All the new shades and styles. Minnesota ‘4 Fine Clothes Q for Boys They’re Made by Hart Schaffner & look everyone ad- l' Woolwear Co. These new suits for boys give that They’re all-wool, stylishly tail- ored and guaranteed. Some may cost a little more but they are well worth it. Boys’ Suits priced at $10.50, $12.50, $14.50 to $25.00 % Reasonably priced . at $2.50 to $4.00. SELECT YOURS NOW. EXTRA SPECIAL—MEN’S KAHKI UNIONALLS Heavy weight, full size, special price At this price they cost very little more than the ordinary pair of overalls. Money Cheerfully Refunded The home of Society Brand and Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes { { - —_— i 1