New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1915, Page 7

" POLLANDRA BOR That Have Been Injured. (U. ‘8. Department of Agriculture.) Wishimgton, ‘D, C, July 23.—The . Parandrg borer is aninsect which can tlF do very nttle harm to fruit and other trees as long as they are sound and vigorous, -but which is.quick to take ‘#dvantage of any injury to complete 1 the ‘work of :destruction: ; Orchardists | are, therefore, récommended in a new publication of the United States De- partment of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 262, to keep:their trees free from all exposed dead surfaces.. .For example, 4 the rot uncommon practice, when pruning out large branches, of ‘leav ing “stubs of. 6 inches~ or more. is' i quite likely to result in ultimate in- . Jury from thig insect. The stubs ars practically sure to die back to tho trunk, and the decdyed spot or cavity ! thus formed attracts the. beetle as a place in which to lay her eggs. In- stead.of leaving such stubs, therefore, . the cut should be made nearer the trunk where the natural swell at the base of the branch will insure. rapid | ‘healing. The out surface should then. be.coverea with & heavy caat of white lead or some similar paint. It fréequently happens also that i the. 'Parundra borer takes advantage of injury causéd by the entrance of ‘mmon Toundheaded apple:tres inito a tres. ' For this' reason w“*erhenever round-headed -borers “are found . they should be removed. at once whilé the wounds made by them ‘arée still sufficiently 'small' ‘to heal ~ /quickly, ~ Accidental injuries to a tree should be.rémedied ‘by: cleaning _pff the torn and splinteréd bark and “"Wood paiting the surface thorough- 1y. Protect Orchards. Précaytions such as these, if care- fully carrled .out, will probably pro- tect orchards from this borer. Many trees, however, which have passed __their prime haye their lives much “Cshortened by the insect. The larvae, b sound wood and away decay which permitted its cerin to the tree. This results { i1 'a'rapia enlargement of the area of the decay and permits each suc- cessive gensration to weaken further the tree. Insures Telephone Poles, In addition to fruit trees, the Pai- andra borer does much damage to cheéstnut telephone and telegraph poles. As with growing trees, tne poles, should Be carefully preserved from any injury which will enable the borer to gain an enitrance, EUROPEAN WILLOW SUPPLY CUT OFF Basket Manutécturers Seek Grow- ers in United States, (Forest Service, U. 8. Department of oA Agriculture). Washington, July 23.—Because the Buropean supply of willow reds has | been largely, cut off several American manufacturers of willow furniture anq baskets have asked the Department of Agriculture for the addresses of ‘hatching from the eggs, burrow with- .in the wood, . probably, for three. éars, before they émerge as adult eetles. In this respect théy are very siniflar to’ thé round-headed ' 'apple- Aree borer but they are distinguished by the fact that they invariably enter 2 dead spot or cavity and that they .throw: no castings, to . the - surface: . -The' adult borer is & soméwhat flat glossy, chestnut-brown bettle, averag- ing something less than 3-4 of an nch in Tength,” The 1arva, when fully o Bringing In persons in this country who have taken up willow growing. For some years the Department has distributed willow cuttings of imported varieties with a view. to developing the produc- tion of high-grade willow rods in the United 'States.” The usual imports of ‘willows' came- chiefly ‘from England, :Belgium, Holland, France, and Ger- many, but these sources have been practically closed for séveral months. One manufacturer reports that Jap- anese osieérs are taking the - market formerly supplied by Germany, at a slightly higher price. Finished wil- low baskets from Japan have come in where 8plit bambao was-the only’ Japanese baskerware on sale before the war. As a consequence of the shortage of imported osiers, it is said, the price of American willows has in- cressed and growers here are mesting with a heavy demand for their pro- duet. Nearly two million willow cuttings have been distributed free by the For- est Service among State experiment Stations, forest schools, and individual growers, The value of willow culture as & profitable means of utilizing over- flow lands’ not suitable for ' other crops has been demonstrated and the Department of Agriculture maintains a small willow holt on the Govern- ment farm at Arlington, Va, for fur- ther tests and for the continueéd pro- duction of cuttings for free distribu. tidn. “ A bulletin dn basket willow ¢ul- tune recently, published by the Depart- ment -’ idiscul the. varieties and methods which have praved most the daintiest, choicest - flavored flaked food ever produced— ost Toasties I you Hke ‘cér'n flakes, as'most folks do, there’s “a delightful ‘surprise’ ahead. 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Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and I highly recommend it. - If anyone ‘wants to write to me I will gladly tell her about my cgse. I was certainly in a bad condition as my bloogrwas all turn- ing to water. 1had pimxlu on my face and a bad color, and for five years I had | been troubled with suppression. The doctors called it ‘Anemia and Exhaus- tion,” and eaid I was all run down, but Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- d brought me out all right.”’ —Miss VIsA MYRES, Box 74, Massena, N.Y. ‘Young Girls, Heed This Advice. Girls who are troubled with painfu.or frregular periods, backache, headache, -down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion,should immediately seek restoration to health by taking Ly- dia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. CLAIMS WAR BABY EVIL EXAGGERATED Mbsi Assertions on Subject Have No Real Basis Says London Paper. | London, July 23. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.)—The war baby talk has been greatly exaggerateq according to the Daily News, which has’.been conducting an’ independent investigation n a small provincial city, where vgq,ooo troops were bllleteq. The investigators found. that the. present Prospective increase over the previous records of illegitimate births was scarcely of any account. Most of the assertions regarding war babies have apparently no basis of real data, but have grown from hearsay, like most rumors In war time. Fach part .of the country thinks the war babies are t6 be found | in some other part, Nevertheless, there are many suthentic instanees of soldiers with unmarried wives, which hay always beeén a feature of British army life, since regulations general- ly oppose marriages of enlisted men. This historic ¢éndition was suddenly ‘brought ‘to public notice by the:in- equalities of the war separation al- lowance, which relieves only the legal wives of soldiers. Only Four Cases. To. test the rumor that the presence of soldiers in 'billets ana camps has been Tesponsible for an outbreak of immorality, a correspondent of the Daily News went to a military center, where, according to report, 2,000 war bables were expected, 200 being on the list of a single doctor and 50 on the list of a single nurse. The writer interviewed the mayor of the city, who scouted the teport. The police inspector said he K knew personally of only four cases. A popu- lar minister and his. wife had never heard of a single instance, The ad- jutant of the Salvation army said o6nly seven cases had passed through its hands, and the vicar of the largest parish had heard indirectly of not more than a dozen, Neither the health officed, the workhouse doctor, ' the @ispensary “doctor, nor a number of doctors giving free treatment to the poorer classes under the national in- surance “act, had come in contact with a single maternity case in which the father was a soldier. One of the doctors said he had himself questioned his colleagues, including the man sald to have 200 cases on his list, and only one knew of a single war baby. Investigations were carried farther, but without additional results. Gave Authorities Concern It was admitted, however, that some ill balanced and emotional girls had given the authorities some concern. Latk of parental discipline ‘was largely responsible for this. Sev- eral girls left the town for other places to hide their conaition, Some others had appealsd for help, but there are in normal times a regular percentage of these cases among the servant and working classes. Appar- ently, this rate has been very little exceeded. As the investgations were conducted in the city which started the war baby agitation, it is not likely that the problem is serious, although the public from the cabinet down have beén greatly concerned and agi- tated about it. 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