STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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EXPERTS HEAR TALE OF KANSAS ORCHARD
American Entomologists Learn How K. U. Methods Increased Yield 600 %
America's scientists gathered at Cleveland this week, will hear the story of a ten-acre Kansas orchard and will learn how the yield waxed 600 per cent by the application of methods worked out by University of Kansas professors. This marvelous tale of the six-fold increase in crop will be told by H. B. Hungerford, instructor of entomology, before the American Association of Economic Entomologists in session from January first to third.
Playing the physician to sick trees is the secret of the success at the University orchard, declares Mr. Hungerford and Dr. S. J. Hunter, professor of entomology.
"When the ten-acre orchard containing trees fifteen to eighteen years old was leased," says Mr. Hurgerford, "we found one tree afflicted with blotch, bitter rot and Codlin moth. We decided this area up into districts, treating some blocks of trees and letting the others progress in the normal way. Our purpose was to test certain ideas regarding spraying, and for this purpose, certain average trees in the unsprayed orchard and in the experimental block were tagged while in bloom and counts made of all drops throughout the season, together with tabulated reports of the aliment of each block. We thus had a history of each apple while growing; 51,457 apples were counted and tagged. A
graphic representation was made when the results were placed on charts.
"The spraying liquid used consisted of one and one-half pounds of commercial lime sulphur testing 33, and two pounds of arsenate of lead to every 50 gallons of water. The machine used for spraying held 200 gallons and the pressure was 180 to 280 pounds.
"Missouri Pippins, Ben Davis and Gano, three of the hardest apples in Kansas to keep from fungus diseases, were sprayed with Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of lead three times, beginning with the early blooms and finishing with the late blooms. Each section was sprayed once or dripping. Other sections of the orchard were sprayed but once and twice.
"We found that the trees poorly sprayed showed blotches, while those receiving the triple bath were sound throughout. This proved to us that three thorough sprays will control the diseases. The Codlin moth was found in from 19 to 50 per cent of the unsprayed fruit picked but while one to one and a half per cent of the treated fruit was wormy.
"The final results show that 14 per cent of the unsprayed fruit was sound and marketable in comparison with the 95 per cent saleable product of the sprayed trees. Or, summing it up, we found that the farmers of Kansas and other states could increase the yield from 300 to 600 per cent by proper attention."
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TRACK MEN START SPRING PRACTICE
Team Greatly Weakened by Loss of Last Season's
Stars
"Candidates for the Varsity and freshman track teams should report to me at the earliest moment possible," is Coach Hamilton's edict concerning prospective cinder path phenoms. Practice has now started, but the current prospective candidates can be seen limbering up in Robinson gymnasium.
There is every reason for this early start in track work. This year's team will be greatly weaken by the loss of such stars as French, Murray, Davis, Wilson, Fairchild, Stuckey, and the two Wood-buryers, and their places will have to be filled from a squad of practically green material. In addition to the loss of men the team faces one of the heaviest schedule in the history of the school and a number of men will have to be developed for each position.
Captain Patterson, Malcolmson,
Perry, Hazen, Burnham, Hurst, Edwards
and Greenlee will probably be the nucleous around which the coach will build his new team. Kansas should be strong in the hurries, distances, sprints, and pole vault, but the other positions will remain a mystery to be worked out by competition among the candidates.
The first meet will probably be with K. C. A. C. at Lawrence February 10th.
February 17—Manhattan at Manhattan.
February 10—K. C. A. C. at Lawrence.
The complete schedule for the track team is as follows:
March 14—Missouri at Kansas City.
March 15—M. A. C. at St. Louis,
Mo.
April 19—Relay races, at Des Moines.
April 26—Interclass at Lawrence.
Mem. 19, Nobrecke, at Lincoln.
May 16—Nebraska at Lincoln
May 17—Missouri at Lawrence.
May 31—Missouri Valley meet at St. Louis Mo.
June 7-Chicago, Ill., Western Conference Meet.
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HOW ABOUT THIS, MEN?
What returns would the folks get from all the money they have invested in you and your education if you should not live long enough to realize on it? Do you think it would be more than good business consideration to carry enough life insurance to at least repay the folks in part of all the sacrifices they have gladly made for your sake?
Looking at it from a business point of view, wouldn't you only be showing a worthy appreciation of all those favors by taking at least a small policy in favor of your mother? You expect to carry insurance later anyway. If you do that while you are in school, you will, of course, want to pay out just as little for insurance as you can afford. The way that is to take is Northwestern, the most popular insurance by far among the business men of Lawrence, and the faculty of K. U. It costs the least.
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Your life is of value to your parents in two ways; in the capital they have invested in you and in their affection for you. Not that any receivable amount of life insurance money would take your place with them, but why should they lose both you and all the money they lost? Wouldn't the one loss be enough? Can you think of a year in which disease or accident has not taken its toll from the student body?
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BASKET BALL IS HE'D LIFT 'EM FROM WORRYING STIEHM ALEXANDER TO CHOPIN
"Ask about us"
Nebraska Coach Finds Goal
Tossers Searce - Gibson
and Nagi Out
CHANGES THE LINEUP
Shift in Ball Tosser Squad Tried Team to Rest After Hard Week's Work
The Varsity basket-ball squad will be given a rest tonight after having a hard work-out all this week.
Coach Stiehm is having his troubles again. Just before the Christmas vacation Gibson and Nagi announced that they would not return to school after the holidays. This will probably put a crimp in the aspirations of the Nebraska basketball five.
The men who are working out are: Haskell, Underwood, Stryker, and Hyde. The squad works out every afternoon and tomorrow night the first game of the season will be played. Cotner College will be the opponent and is expected to givv Nebraska a hard tussle.
These were the men around whom the coach hoped to build a team, and if these two tossers hold good to their assertion, Nebraska will present a weak team against the rest of the conference fives. Of course Captain Carrier remains, but he can hardly bear the brunt of the season's work. The rest of the material is very uncertain, although in some of the late practices the men show promising form.
Last night a change in the line-up was made and the following men started the game for the Varsity: Smith and Sproull, forwards; Boehm, center; Dunmire and Greenlee, guards. This squad worked out against the College team and won by a good score. When the lineup was shifted somewhat opposed the freshmen, the Varsity was unable to overcome a handicap of twenty points.
The team worked much better than against the Haskell Indians Wednesday. The men showed much improvement in passing the ball and in hitting the goal.
Wanted: One Song With Good Lungs
The University Glee Club has issued a call for a college anthem, a song that will in its lines and melody breathe the air and atmosphere of our own University.—University Nebraska.
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Dean Johnston Would Raise Musical Appreciation of Young Kansas
That Kansas needs music is the belief of Dean Charles H. Johnston of the School of Education at the University of Kansas and he is working on a plan to raise the taste of future citizens from Alexander's Ragtime Band to Wagner and Chopin.
With the cooperation of Dean Charles Skilton of the School of Fine Arts, he is trying a new course in musical appreciation at the University training school and if it proves a success, it will be endorsed for adoption by state high schools.
A victoria is used in the course, and for twenty minutes each day, the students hear selections from the world's great operas, famous band compositions, and the folk-song of all countries. These were selected by the music department with a view of giving a wide acquaintance with classical music. Lectures and instruction in harmony accompany this feature of the course.
"High schools today do not value aesthetic training as they should," declares Dean Johnston. "As a matter of fact, a training to cultivate the appreciation of the beautiful is as desirable as physical training. The music teaching in Kansas high schools can be improved in reference to the value of the study of the beautiful and also to a form of study which puts emphasis not so much on the casual relations of what is studied as on the value to the individual. Courses should be offered in musical appreciation, composition and harmony, and certain provisions should be made so that a student could take private instruction if he wished. Each institution should have musical organizations such as glee
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clubs, orchestras and bands, in which many students could participate.
"For this work a certain amount of credit should be given counting toward graduation or entrance to college. More than thirty colleges in the East, Harvard among them, accept credits in music for entrance."
PENNSYLVANIA CRIPPE
ASKS KASANS FOR AID
A crippled young merchant in a Pennsylvania town read last week the wonder tale of how surgeons at the University of Kansas state hospital at Rosedale were smoothing out the bent limbs of the poor. He saw the pictures of little Stewart Bennett of Topeka with strangely twisted feet and then another of the happy baby after the doctor professors had cured him so that he could stand erect.
The University has taken the matter up and has sent him a hopeful letter.
During the past year, 1524 patients have received treatment or medical advice in some form from the hospital and the dispensary. Two hundred and twenty-seven cases were admitted to the surgery department. Of these, 149 recovered entirely, 48 showed marked improvement, and but 21 were either not treated or failed to get results from the services of the physicians.
The sanitary engineers at the University, working in connection with the state board of health, are giving their services, full time, to the inspection and improvement of water supplies, and sewage disposal plants in various towns and cities.
Seventeen thousand families have been represented in the student body since the founding of the University of Kansas.
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Tuesday, January 14
Burton Collver presents the world-renowned diva and greatest of all Carmens and Santuzzas
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