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THE OLEAN EVENING TIMES, SATURDAY, JtTLT TL, SETJ5H. THINGS OF THE SOIL By DAN r. VAN OOKOER Agricultural Editor, Otaw Evening ttow Queitloni our widen on liw'ni, tloweri, vtjtUbl. growing, poultry, fruit, livestock and gcnertl agriculture will ti intwerfd by rtturn null without charjti. A'ldrtu letters to The Krtohqr Africvitanl JUItor, Vw Service, Washington, B.

0. COPPER-LIMB DUST AND BORDEAUX FORMULAS Readers who have not yet received our formulas for making potato spray and dust mixtures at home obtain full directions for making copper-lime dust for the small home garden crop and Bordeaux mixture for use with power sprayers. Write for these formulas at once. Have you any questions on growing late potatoes? Make your late crop profitable by protecting it from insects and diseases. Name.

Town State St. or Route Address to THE EVENING TIMES AGRICULTURAL EDITOR. Van Gorder Service, Washington, D. C. Late- Potato Sprayn Potato yields arc usually boosted or restricted by the development of the top growth or lack of it during late July and August.

In the leaves is manufactured all the food that is stored in the tubers. Unless the foliage is kept healthy and thrifty, the tubers will be denied sufficient food. Consistent spraying is the key to the solution of most of the late potato problems, at least to that portion of the problems relating to vines and foliage. It is for the sole purpose of aiding the plant to grow to normal ripening that sprays are applied. The potato is by nature a cool weather plant.

Growing it in the warmer climates than it has been accustomed to requires artificial means to overcome the natural enemies and diseases. Hot weather often brings hopperburn and sun-scald, both serious diseases affecting the foliage. Attacked plants begin'to die at the leaf tip and margins. The withered portion turns brown and begins to roll, the dying tissues becoming brittle and spreading over the entire leaf. The vines appear "ripe." This premature "ripening" shuts off the food supply to the tubers, resulting In reduced yields and inferior quality crop.

When diseases or insects reduce the green leaf nrea of the potato crop the yield is proportionately reduced. While Bordeaux mixture Is not an insecticide, yet its presence on p'otato foliage kills and repels the leafhopper, an insect that carries hopperburn virus among the plants. It is believed the copper in the spray is deadly to the insect. Then too, Bordeaux mixture actually keeps the foliage cooler and in some unexplained manner stimulates the plants to longer life. This enables the leaves to manufacture the full food requirements needed to mature the tubers to maximum size, providing other -influencing conditions permit.

If the late summer is damp and rainy, late blight will likely be severe. This is a fungous disease that spreads rapidly after it enters the potato field. Prevention is the only practicable course in combating blight, as it cannot be eradicated after it once gains a foothold. Bordeaux mixture will insure freedom from blight injury to the crop under normal To be highly effective, sprays should be applied under 300 pound pressure at intervals of a week to ten days. Increases of as much as 100 bushels per acre have been obtained from consistent spraying.

Where applied without pressure, sprays, are not widely satisfactory. Therefore, for the small home garden dusting with a copper-lime dust will likely prove more effective. Dust at intervals of a week. Bordeaux mixture of 4-6-50 strength is advised for potatoes, applied at the rate of 125 to 150 gallons per acre at each application. The question whether spray or dust is more effective for potatoes has been settled in several tests slightly in favor of the former.

But on the late crop dusts will give excellent results in controlling hopperburn, sun-scald and late blight, "if the Colorado beetle is present, add two pounds of arsenate of lead to 50 gallons of the Bordeaux This is at the rate of five level tablcspoon- fuls to each gallon of spray. Potatoes are an important and essential food crop. Especially is the late crop valuable for storage of winter supplies. It is important that adequate protection be given the crop against these widespread diseases and insects. This yractice is highly profitable.

A I WASHINGTON LETTER Ben M.arsh, Champion Petition-Presenter, Often Steals a March On Even the Progressives, Now Wants Congress To Appropriate Billions For Relief Of the Unemployed. BY RODNEY DIITCHER NEA Service Writer Washington, July Ben Marsh, the tall, gray veteran radical who displays more activity and gets more newspaper space than anyone else among the numerous persons in Washington who devote themselves to furthering social "causes," dashed into this office with eyes agleam, At last, Mr. Marsh averred, he had found himself affiliated with a mass movement and this remarkable discovery had given him the keenest pleasure. Mr. Marsh is sometimes thought to hold a world's record for being in the minority.

Occasionally, in fact, Mr. Marsh has been a minority all by himself. One of the things that has kept him busiest for years has been his attempts to persuade progressive senators to sponsor measures and programs which have frequently been regarded by senators as two or three hundred thousand years ahead -of the times. "Panacea" Promoter It is also believed that llr. Marsh for many years has held fee championship for organizing petitions presented to and completely ignored by officials in high authority, especially presidents.

Very often he has been supported by the signatures of widely known r.nd respected persons, but the ideas and the proposals above the signatures have been enough to horrify such copservatives as Republicans. Democrats and sometimes even most progressives. Mr. Marsh, in short, is our most persistent and perhaps most advanced promoter of what are contemptuously referred to by President Hoover as "panaceas." Nevertheless, everybody knows Ben Marsh and" most people like him. Even the progressives, with whom he is generally disgusted because of their conservatism and who keep complaining that Ben spoils the appearance of their parade by dashing out 20 or 30 paces in front.

Ben is 54 years old now and, as Mother Jones used to say of herself, the longer he lives the radical he gels. His background includes lengthy public wrvlce as an expert on distribution of population and its congestion In New York state and as a charity worker with spjolal reference to children. For severs! years he has been Mcretary and almost the entire, of an organization, hero known UK the People's Lobby, the president of which Is Professor John Dewey. Seeks Jobless Uclief Getting back to that gleam in Mr. Marsh's eyes and his boast of really being in on a mass movement at last--he says that a.

majority of the American people want a special session of Congress to enact a program of unemployment relief. Otherwise, he explains, he would not now be able to produce a memorial to the President and members of Congress signed by "twelve hundred mayors, economists, labor leaders, educators, preachers, priests, rabbis. Salvation Army officers, sociologists, publicists, community chest directors, Red Cross workers and other social workers." The petition is an impressive record of sentiment, but on behalf of 6,000,000 unemployed whose savings are virtually exhausted and who face acute distress, it urges federal appropriations of $3,000.000,000 for public works, $250,000,000 for direct relief and 5250,000.000 for subvention of state unemployment insurance systems. No one really expects President Hoover to comply. Prominent Signers Nevertheless the signers of the petition include such folks as Dewcy, Mayors Curley of Boston, Murphy of Detroit and Hoan of Milwaukee, Professor Davis of Yale, Presidents Me- Mahon of the United Textile Workers and Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Rev.

Dr. John A. Ryan of the National Catholic Welfare Council. President Kceney of the West Virginia Mine Workers' Union, Professor E. A.

Ross of Wisconsin University. President Frank R. Adams of the general convention of Unlvcrsalist churches. President Marion Park of Bryn Mawr, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Carl Vrooman, Sherwood Eddy and many other well known folks who obviously agree with Ben Marsh that the unemployment situation is more than ever In need of drastic action.

Mr. Marsh now steps out after a record for the number of signatures on a single public petition. WILL TOUR STATES Miami, Fit--Dr. Austrcllo Ath- aydc, Brazilian journalist, has arrived here tor a tour of the Unltca States, in which he will study American Industries and tell people of the manner In which the products they purchase are manufactured. THE.

HOROSCOPE Sunday, July 12, 193 According to astrology this is an unimportant day in planetary direction. It Is a time for rest and recreation. The clergy may find their congregations restless and apathetic while this configuration prevails. Under this sway the mind Is likely to assume a critical and pessimistic trend. The wise will refrain from expressing views on politics or religion.

The sway seems to be threatening to old, established doctrines of church and state. Practical demands organizations every sort will mark the autumn, it is forecast. As. old ideas have been swept away in world changes new standards of human relationships must be established, the seers declare. Economic readjustments arc prognosticated as the autumn brings to the United States widespread good fortune.

Jupiter is to assure for merchants and manufacturers great activity, for new will cause extension of trade. The seers emphasize the need of the recognition of the universal brotherhood and stress the danger of any sort of dissension at this time when the stars indicate menacing aspects. In the autumn the growth of power among certain religious organizations will cause much newspaper comment, it is predicted. Those who read the stars declare that the forces of good must unite to combat the spread of vice and crime, which will be even more far-reaching than at present. National ambitions a merged in national interest In rescuing the people from the powers of evil, astrologers foretell.

Patriotism in the United States is to become practical, it is prognosticated, by enforcing all the laws' on which sound citizenship is built. Persons whose birthdate it Is have the augury of a year of hard work in which small obstacles must be overcome. Success is presaged. Children born on this day probably will exhibit great independence of character and strength of will. The subjects of this sign usually reach the heights, if they decide to climb.

Julius Caesar, the great Roman general, statesman and writer, was born on this day, 100 B. C. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Clara Louise Kellogg. 1842. American singer; Henry David Thoreau.

1817. author and philosopher; Charles Kingsley, 1819, writer. Monday, July 18, 1931 This be a fairly fortunate day, according to astrology. The planetary government is especially lucky for brainworkers. Intelligence will be valued according to new standards, it is foretold.

The coming year will make a special demand for the practical application of knowledge. College graduates arc to have opportunities to serve that come to few 1 in the ordinary course of world progress, the seers prophesy. New leaders are to rise rapidly and trained minds are to dominate in a period of tremendous progress and change. There is a good sign for travel today and again it is foretold that Europe will attract an unusual number of Americans. Warning is given that economy will be difficult under the stars that dominate France and Italy.

The evening of this day is read as a most auspicious time for entertaining public men and speeches should be well received. Air travel and air communication including the radio arc well directed at this time which should encourage expansion and profit. There is a sign read as foreshadowing efforts to use the radio for unworthy purposes and es I I Story by Flotomi by A TUB STOKY. THK COLOK THK I'ICTUKK) The donkey slowly poked along and Clowny shouted, "Something's wrong. Why don't he step out faster so this ride will be some fun? Shucks, he could run with all his might and all of us could hang on tight.

Please, Miss, do me a favor and make this old donkey run." The girl then stopped and said. "Well, lad. I can assure I'd be glad to let you have your little wish, but how about the rest? If they will let you ride alone. I'll let you travel on your own." Then Scouty shouted, "We'll get off. I think "that would be best." The rest then jumped down to the ground.

The little donkey turned around and when the girl cried "Glddyap!" away the donkey ran. This took poor Clowny by surprise. Then he began to realize that he was In a fix. He thought, I'll do the best I can. He grabbed the donkey's neck real tight and, goodness, what a funny sight to see his feet sail in the air.

The others laughed in glee. But Clowny stayed on, safe and sound, though they thought he'd fall to the ground. And when the ride was over he cried, "Who's as good as me?" The other Tinics thought they would be much better off to stay off of the frisky donkey. Then they heard brave Clowny call, "Then you admit you are afraid? A hero of myself I've made! At riding lively donkeys, I have proved I'm best of all." Just then they heard a merry shout and, when the whole bunch looked about, they saw'some girls in flimsy garments jumping in the air. Said scouty, "Gee! Just see them prance.

1 guess that is a fancy dance. Let's stay and watch "them for a while. I'm sure they will not care." (Tho Tinymltes get .1 laugh out of a pillow fight In the next story.) Hinsdale Hinsdale. July 11--The annual picnic of the C. S.

T. Club which was to have been held at Cuba Lake Friday afternoon, was postponed until some future date owing to the rain. A party of young people held a wciner roast Thursday evening I at Seneca Oil Spring. Mrs. Howard Cagwin and who were guests for two weeks of Rev.

and Mrs. Richard Brooks, have returned to their home at! West Pittston, Pa. Mrs. Will Joint and Mrs. May 1 Moore of Savona visited at the I home of Mr.

and Mrs. F. E. Lin-1 coin, Wednesday. Mrs.

Adeline Jcssop and son. Gordon, have gone to Savona to spend several weeks with Mr. a Mrs. Will Joint. I M.

A. Gile attended a gathering of D. O. V. held at Black Creek Thursday.

John Hackett is confined to his home by illness. Mrs. W. H. Lincoln went to falo Thursday to spend a few days with Mr.

and Mrs. W. D. Mr. Ralph Mullin and of Riverside, were recent guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Owens. Mrs. Frank Mason and daughter. Virginia, of Saugertes, whoi visited Mr.

W. C. Ed-' munds, have returned to Shingle-' house. Pa. Service will be held in the Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday morning.

The pulpit will be occupied by Rov. Amlcr. on of Maple- hill. K. G.

Foster had business in Buffalo Friday. Mrs. Howard Crosby and Mrs. H. G.

Hogue were pican visitors Friday. W. H. Lincoln had business In Friday. A meeting of the Past Noble Grand's Club of Hinsdale Rebekah Lodge was held at the home of Mrs.

Anna Brooks. The regular order of business was conducted by the president, Mrs. Clara lor, followed by a brief program. A tureen supper was served, Mrs. Cagwin of West Pittston, wo.i a guest.

Mrs. Neola Foster will entertain in August. Word-has been received in town of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Perry Tucker of Houghton.

Mr. Tucker was a former principal of Hinsdale school. 93 Office Positions i That's the number of calls for 1 office help at Westbrook Academy the past ten months. Not so bad for a slow business year. 1929-30 record was 117.

Total number i since February is 41. Recent placements arc: Edward I Barry, Bella Sherwood, Merle Fol- lett, Gcnevievc Hoffman and Marjorie Bliss, in Olean. Howard Nichols and Felton Kenficld, Port Arthur, Texas; Elsie 7-eigler, Bradford: Beth Zink, Millington, N. Doris Learn. Wcllsvillc; Doris Mcnter, Washington: Richard Glasser, Lockport, Bea- tiice Wandover, Northport.

L. Gail Goodrich. Beacon. N. Mildred Crawford, Fredonia, N.

y. -Adv. WHEN THE ITS A GOOD TIME TO GIVE A THOUGHT TO YOUR WINTERS C-O-A-L Enjoy your vacation with a care free mind. Before you start, call 3533, the coal headquarters and have us put your next winter's fuel in the cellar now. Take advantage of our summer- saving prices.

QUIRIN COAL CO. 300 EAST STATE ST. W.C.B.L.OCLl. 3553 A FREE RIDE IN A Ford Tri-Motored A Piloted By CAPT. GOODSELU TOD AY and SUNDAY Ahren's Airport Barse Farm Flights Daily 10 A.

M. to 8 P. M. 20 Mile Aerial Tour $3 45 Mile Bradford Tour $6 For Every New or FREE RIDE-- Used Car Sold During These Days FORBES Motor Agency Authorized Ford and Lincoln Dealers Comer State and 8th Sis. Olean, N.

Y. J1L pecially in cities where the underworld aspires to power. Revolutions are indicated in foreign countries which are under the menacing influence of the planets associated with military and naval activities. Many accidents were predicted for the vacation season and the seers continue to warn against danger of many sorts including falls from high places, drownings and automobile collisions. Persons whose birthdate it Is have the augury of a year ot i strenuous experiences In which letters or legal documents may be disturbing, but prosperity i promised.

Children born on this day probably will be inclined to make thr best of life's opportunities. SuV jccts of this sign usually are vcr. studious and intellectual. Those who have celebrated th' day as a birthday include Card Henry Edward Manning, 180f i English prelate and author; Al bert Baur, 1835, historical painter. FURNACE-REPAIRING You can save a good doal of unnecessary shovel-slinging and cussing to say nothing of fuel bills cut in half if you start out the coming winter season with a CLEAN furnace performing perfectly.

We'll do all repairing and cleaning as well, at a price truly moderate. "We Install Hot Water, Vapor and Warm Air Systems" Howard F. Rogers Heating Co. 315 W. Slate St.

PHOKE 6771 Olean, N. Y. Speedy Bottle Cappers $1.50 Values Now .75 Values Now 98c 49c Other Bottler Supplies always on hand at lowest prices. Freitag Malt Products Co. 502 E.

State St. Phone 4581 DA BALANCED HIGH-TEST AND KENDALL OIL Refined from loo per cent Bradford Grade Pennsylvania Crude, will be used by Captain Goodsell, World War Ace, in his Olean Flights in the Giant Tri-Motored Ford a AHREN'S AIRPCET Today and Sunday FLIGHTS DAILY 10 A. M. TO 8 P. M.

20 Mile Aerial Tour $3.00 Mile Bradford Tour $6.00 E. L. Gayvert Inc. Allegany, N. Y.

Phone 43-W.