The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1914 Page: 3 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
PROr J. WILLARD DOLTE
\ODyright, Western Newspaper Union.)
BACKYARD FRUIT TREES.
' A great many suburbanites have one
or more fruit trees in their back yards.
Some city folks are as fortunate, and
everybody with a sunny back yard
can enjoy the shade, beauty and lus-
cious fruit of their own trees if they
■will go to a small amount of expense
and trouble.
One interesting and possibly dis-
couraging feature of the backyard
fruit tree is the fact that very few of
these trees produce enough fruit to be
(noticed. They produce the shade and
the beautiful blossoms to perfection,
(but they also produce such a large crop
of bugs and parasites of other kinds
that there is no room for the fruit.
It is freely admitted that it is harder
to secure a good crop of fruit from
|one or two trees alone than from the
«ame trees in an orchard, but it is by
ino means an impossibility. In the
orchard there is less wind to blow off
blossoms and fruit. There are other
trees to cross fertilize and there are
more bees to carry the pollen. . On
the other hand, there are also more
trees to propagate diseases and bugs
In the orchard, and if the backyard
fruit grower will but give his trees the
same medicine that the commercial
fruit grower does, he will get all the
fruit that is coming to him.
If you have some sour cherry trees
in jour yard, all you have to do is
.prune out the suckers and interfering
branches and keep the birds away from
the reddening fruit. Nature will tend
to your yearly reward. Keeping the
birds away is the great job, and it is
practically impossible unless you
cover the entire tree with mosquito
bar just before the fruit begins to
turn.
Peaches do not stand pruning well,
but plums, apples and pears should
be pruned every year. Cut out the
suckers and the inside branches.
(Trim off the tops of vertical limbs
(that promise to grow too high for
easy picking from a ladder. Keep the
tree free from dead and diseased
branches and clean out the center so
that the air and sunshine may reach
the fruit.
Should your trees be infested with
scale insects of any kind, spray them
^thoroughly with a solution of lime,
rsalt and sulphur early in the spring.
jJust when the petals drop and three
(weeks after also, the trees should be
(sprayed with Bordeaux mixture to
jkill the apple worm, and put in a lit-
jtle paris green to get the caterpillars.
iThese remedies will prevent leaf curl
also. If there are plant lice on the
leaves a good spraying with kerosene
emulsion will put an end to them.
Any of these sprays can be applied
with a bucket force pump, and your
seedsman can supply both the mate-
rials and full directions.
In putting out evergreens it Is a
good plan to secure them as near at
home as possible, so as to avoid any
possibility of having them dried out
in shipment. If this cannot be done,
insist upon having the nurseryman
take extraordinary precautions to
keep them in a live condition, a»d
plant them as soon as they are re-
ceived. They should be transplanted
very early in the spring or during the
rainy season of the fall, to avoid any
possibility of drought occurring before
the roots become established in the
new soil. Dig your holes before the
trees arrive and have them deep
enough to set the tree a little lower
than it was set .in the nursery soil.
As a rule evergreens are not pruned
or trimmed back as much as other
kinds of shrubs or trees, because they
are purchased so young that the en-
tire root system comes with the tree,
and there is no necessity of trim-
ming the top. Do not make the mis-
take of buying too large evergreens.
A tree that is four feet high has not
over half as much chance to live and
thrive as a tree that is only two feet
high when transplanted, and by the
end of five years you won’t know the
difference. The smaller trees ara
cheaper and much easier to handle,
and should be chosen in every case il
possible,
New Indian Animal Stories
How the Rabbit Got a Wife
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By JOHN M. OSKISON a ■
BUFF FOWLS.
The three solid or self colored types
of domestic fowls are the White,
Black and Buff. I have taken up the
first- two in previous articles, and will
devote these few notes to the Buff
breeds, equally popular with the
Blacks, but much less so than the
Whites.
The earliest buff chickens of which
we have any record are the Buff Co-
chins. These heavily upholstered
members of the well known Hen Fam-
ily were introduced into this country
from China ports by some sea cap-
tain who was in the China trade in
the old days of the Yankee clipper
ships. Tradition says that they wera
well and favorably known in China
and Manchuria foV centuries before
and the pair which were brought to
this country were saved from the pot
only by chance. The breed achieved
considerable popularity along the New
England coast and would undoubtedly
hold a very commanding position in
the poultry world today were it not
for their friends.
Early in the American history of
the breed certain misguided Cochin
fanciers conceived the idea that “if
clothes make the man feathers make
the chicken,’’ and that was the be-
ginning of the end for the unfor-
tunate Buff Cochin. These enthusi-
asts so arranged the standard descrip-
tion of these fowls that it was neces-
sary to produce a tremendous growth
of feathers upon show specimens in
order to win prices, and the result
was that the breed was changed in its
character, the young ones took almost
a year to mature to the laying age,
laying ability was very seriously in-
terfered with, and the utHitarian value
of the breed for the farmer was en-
tirely destroyed.
From this original^buff breed came
a great many of the valuable Buffs
that we now have, however, so they
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EVERGREENS FOR THE LAWN.
lembers of the evergreen family.
<jnief among them in beauty and har-
■diness stands the Colorado Blue
(Spruce. It will grow in almost any
«oil with proper care, and its beauti-
ful, changeable colors of greenish
blue make it a sort of connecting link
in the natural color scheme between
the green of the turf and the blue of
the sky. Arbor Vitae is another very
popular evergreen for hedges and
lawn planting, and in the large trees
nothing grows faster or,makes a more
satisfactory appearance than the
Douglas or Norway Spruces and the
Scotch Pine.
Evergreens are much harder to han-
dle and get started than are the de-
ciduous trees and shrubs, because
they never are in a dormant state.
Plants in general are easier to trans-
plant in the dormant state, because
they then suffer very little shock or
setback through being dug up and put
in a new location. The evergreens re-
main more or less active and in a
green condition throughout the year
and they must be handled with very
much more care than other plants if
you are to have success in transplant-
ing them.
The sap of the evergreen Is also
xadically different from that of other
plants. A deciduous 3hrub which has
become badly dried out can be re-
stored by burying its roots and
branches in the moist earth for a few
days. In the case of an evergreen un-
der similar conditions the resinous
(sap in the branches solidifies and once
in this condition no amount of water
(will restore it to a fluid again.
It is very hard indeed to tell when
a transplanted evergreen has been
dried out in this manner, as the leaves
rwill look bright and green for several
months after this has happened and
the first intimation you will have that
eomething is wrong will be the drop-
ping off of the leaves, which may oc-
cur Iona after you have planted the
tree.
fact that Cochin blood was used in the
development of some strains of Buff
Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, Or-
pingtons, Games, Leghorns, and even
the Rhode Island Red contains its
quota of Cochin blood. The cham-
pions of many of these breeds will in-
dignantly deny this imputation, but it
can and has been proved in the case
of each of the buff breeds named, and
really it is nothing to be ashamed of.
Buff, as understood by the poultry-
man, is a solid old gold tone, which
is to be aimed at but never quite
reached. In reality most buff chickens
are a wonderfully discouraging mix-
ture of lemon, orange, red, black and
white, these colors being so tangled
up that the breeder despairs of ever
getting them straightened out. The
red shows on the shoulders and the
hackle and saddle. The white comes
In the wing and tail feathers, and it is
sometimes so bad that there is no
hope of dyeing it or hiting the white
spots out so that the judge cannot de
tect it. The black comes in the wings
most frequently, and its removal is
often bo impossible that the breeders
have to arrange their standard de-
scription to make black flight feathers
legal and desirable, in order to avoid
having all of the birds disqualified.
Owing to that old Cochin blood the
breeder of buff fowls has a fine time
preventing his smooth legged breed
from growing feathers on the legs
The Cochin has as many feathers on
his legs and feet as a pigeon has in
his wings, and they keep cropping out
in any breed that possesses Cochin
progenitors. Another thing that both
era the buff fanciers is the vulture
hock of the Cochin. At the hock or
knee joint will appear a bunch of long
stiff feathers that is not accepted in
polite chicken society, and this is one
of the things that makes the buft
breeders of today curse Mie memories
of the man who first thought of using
Buff Cochins to make Buff Wyatt-
dottes.
(Copyright, 1914. by the McClure News-
paper Syndicate.)
Long time ago, in the camps of the
Indians who lived in the wooded moun-
tains, there was a long dispute about
the ’possum. It was all about why he
was such a fellow for lying down, curl-
ing up into a ball, and pretending to
be dead.
Some of the old people told the
story of how the cricket-barber was
once sent by the rabbit to cut off all
the hairs from the ’possum’s tail be-
fore he came to a big dance, and that
made the ’possum so ashamed of him-
self that he lay down and hid his head
under his front paws and would not
say a word for so long a time that all
the other animals thought he was
dead.
But some other old people, who said
that they spoke true, used to tell a
different story, and this is it:
In the settlement where they lived,
the rabbit and the ’possum were called
good-for-nothing fellows—they were
always playing jokes and running
away when there was any real work
to do.
One by one, the animals in that set-
tlement got married and began to raise
up nice families. All but the rabbit
and the 'possum, and no one would
take them!
How shall we get wivee?” asked
the ’possum, and he sat down in front
of the rabbit’s door, down in the
broom grass by the edge of the river,
and put his hand under his chin to
think. And in a little while the rab-
bit knocked the ashes out of his pipe,
put it in a crack over the door, and
went over to sit down closj.j^0 the
’possum.
“I have a plan—lj«s±<sflnto me!” said
the rabbit. “Tomorrow you and I will
get up early, 'take some lunch, and go
to the next settlement. Over there
they have heard of me as the messen-
ger of the council, and I will tell them
that I bring an order from the coun-
cil for everybody to get married right
away—and while everybody is getting
married, you and I will get a wife,
too.”
“Good!” said the ’possum. “Then I
must go home at once and get to sleep
so’we can get an early start.”
“Yes, be sure you take your beauty
sleep,” cried the rabbit, and as the
’possum waddled fatly away the rabbit
sat down to plan out the words he
would say when he got to the next set-
tlement.
Early next morning the rabbit and
the ’possum started out. In a very
little while the rabbit was far ahead of
the ’possum, for the ’possum was fat
and a slow traveler. So the rabbit
came to the next settlement at noon,-
and when all the animals there had
come in to eat dinner the rabbit stood
up and said that he had brought the
message from the Great Council of the
animals for all the animals in that set-
tlement to get married at once.
Everybody knew that the rabbit was
the messenger from the Great Coun-
cil, and so, even before they sat down
to eat their dinner, everybody who was
not married picked opt a wife. The
rabbit picked out a wife for himself,
too; and then they all sat down to
make their dinner a great wedding
feast.
In the afternoon, when the ’possum
came along, there was no wife left for
him! But the rabbit said to him:
“That is too bad! Now, I will tell
you what we will do; we will go on to
the next settlement, and there you will
be sure- to get a wife.” And after the
’possum had rested and eaten some-
thing they set out again. But, again,
the rabbit got far ahead of the wad-
dling ’possum, and when he came to
the settlement he called all the ani-
amls together and stood up to say:
“I come from the Great Council, and
I bring word that you are all to begin
to make war at once. So long have
you been at peace that you are getting
lazy. Now, everybody must begin to
fight at once!” And the rabbit said it
so loudly that everybody in that set-
tlement took up their arms and began
to fight.
But the rabbit did not want to fight
and in six jumps he was off and away,
taking his wife with him. Then, just
as the fight was getting fierce, the
’possum came up, and they all jumped
on him. Not having any weapons to
fight, with, because he was on a wed-
ding journey, all-the ’possum could do
to save himself was to fall over, curl
up and pretend to be dead.
And so, say some of the old people,
he does to this day whenever there is
trouble.
WINTER QUARTERS FOR FISH
Splendid Fishing May B& Enjoyed by
Cutting Hole Through Ice, With
Bonfire Built Near It.
Looked Like a Steady Job.
To be saved from the maw of t
Ghark by a Hawaiian duke might be-
fall any young woman, but being
saved twice in the same day by the
same duke is an experience unique
to Miss Addie Dunbar, According to
that young woman’s story on her ar-
rival at San Francisco, recently from
Hawaii. Duke Kahanamoku of
Honolulu, a world champion swimmer,
played the hero role. The first time
he drove away a shark that had at-
tacked her, and helped her to shore.
A few hours later, when surf riding,
Miss Dunbar’s boat capsized and she
was struck on the head by the gun-
wale and made unconscious. Again
Duke Kalanamoku swam to her res-
cue and landed her safely on the
beach.
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You need never hesitate to use Resi-
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that could injure the tenderest skin—
even of a tiny baby. All druggists
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and Resinol Soap (25c).—Adv.
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the inland fish are living under cover
that is not of their own choice or mak-
ing >T' '4'Hib.t they think that nature _
is keeping them in prison; afiff grum-
ble accordingly, if a fish with its
mouth full of water can grumble.
These finny friends of the fresh water
probably do not know enough about
physical science to be aware of the
fact that the icy coverings that block
out much of the sunlight from their
homes serve also to shield them from
the cold of winter. In ponds and rivers
where there are are many fish the
water under the ice seems to get close
for them, just as the air gets close in
a room filled with people and without
proper ventilation. So if some heavy
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chances are that before he has scram-
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rather, in the water—about the hole,
and will pop their noses out eagerly
for a gulp of fresh air. Then is the
time that they may be dipped up in
nets with ease. I have seen them
dipped out in pails from some of the
Michigan lakes. One of the best ways
to catch the big fellows is to build a
bonfire on the ice at night, then cut
a hole in the ice not far from the fire
and set a lantern beside it. If you
have a dry goods box large enough to
shield yem from the wind, and Inside
of which you may put your lantern, so
much the better. Provide yourself
with some large hooks, and, say, ten
feet of strong line. Bait the hooks
with fresh meat, or minnows, if you
can get them, and drop your line and
hooks into the hole, keeping the hook3
near the surface. Usually you get a
“bite” as soon as your bait touches
the water. Then comes a tussle, and
a hard pull, and your fish is landed.
You should wear a pair of heavy,
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