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A. J. WARREN. Publisher.
SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1891.
VOL. XL-NO. 52.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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PROFESSIONAL.
P   E. JONES.
Attorney at Law.
Ml llu-tinrss attended to with Promptness and
Care    Office on McKay street.
SALIXE, - - MICH.
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NEIGHBORHOOD GLEANINGS.
Newsy Notes and Occasional Occurrences
From our Near Neighbors.
(±    R. WSU.IAK.S
Attorney at Law,
Espsuial attention paid to Pension Claims of all
kinds.   Kewcomb Block.
MILAN, - - MICH.
JJ   A. NICHOLS, M. D.,
PHXS1CJLAN and SURGEON.
Office at Nicho s !
SALINE,
. drug store.
MICH.
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Q   F. UNTERKIRCHER, NI. D.,
PHYSICIAN sind SURGEON.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours.
Office in ITauser block, Chicago street.
SALINE, -       - MICH.  <>'
O   W. CHANDLER, M_ D.,
PHrSICIAN and SURGEON
Sffice on Adrian Street, first door sour'i of the
Wallace Block,
SALINE, - - MICH.
TJ D. HELLER,     . D   S.
DENTIST.
Headquarters lor the best Tooth Powder
.in the market.
Office over Nichols Bros', drug store.
SALINE, - -        MICH.
C. SLAGHT,
Veterinary Surgeon.
Graduate of Chicago Veterinary College,
Residence 1J-" miles east of Pennington s Corners.   Calls may be left at either of the
stores at the Corners.    All calls
promptly attended to.
MACON, - - MICH.
A man near Grass Lake has raised
8000 pounds of hops this season.
Forty cans of fruit was taken from a
cellar in Adrian one evening last week.
A.  L. Alexander had strawberries
. ■ from his garden for tea one evening
j last week.    The vines are loaded with
-! green berries, so that a week or two of
j warm weather would bring a big second
crop.   The berries are of the James
Tick variety.—Register.
It is not good for men to be alone.
Leap year is approaching and the girls
are already beginning to talk and calculate. B.s Luther is well supplied
with an eligible lot of both old and
young bachelors, a lively campaign is
likely to ensus.—Luther Enterprise.
Ann Arbor girls may make note of the
above as our city has also a number of
eligible bachelors.—Ann Arbor Democrat.
A Normal student whose name we
will not mention was taken out by several Df his companions the other night
on a snipe-hunting expedition. When
some considerable distance in the
country the victim was stationed in the
brush with a snipe bag and a lantern.
The light of this latter he was told
would lure the birds right into the bag.
After seeing the student located in the
brush his companions left in various
directions, to scare up the game, and
of course wended their way homeward.
At six O'clock the next morning the
faithful hero of this o'er-true tale returned home, with light still trimmed
and burning, but with an empty game
bag. It was not until he saw the smiling faces of those who awaited him,
that he realized that he had been sold.
Ypsi. Commercial.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WATERMAN'S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
(Hiss Gillett's old stand.)
Will be in Saline every Wednesday- and shall be
meet all iu need of work in my line.
A Great Country and How to Reach  It.
Kerosene Emulsion and Its Uses.
The entomolgist of the station is
very glad to receive specimens,, of insects, and will always answer inquiries
regarding the same. Insects should be
sent by mail in close strong boxes—tin
or wood. Paste-board boxes are hot
strong enough, and are often crushed.
Insects sent in letters are most always
crushed beyond identification unless
inclosed in quills or capsules. The
postage will not be more than one or
two cents. A little cotton with .the insect will prevent jarring and breakage.
Iu caselarvce, caterpillars, grubs, etc.,
are sent, some of their food-plants,
should take the place of cotton. This
prevents shaking and supplies food.
No holes should be made to supply air.
Any information regarding the insects
sent, will he gratefully received, and
may prove very valuable. Where
found: damage done; and any other
facts.—A. J. COOK, Agricultural College.
pleased to meet all in 1
'jail aiid see samples o£
our work.
O   CORDON,
The Pioneer Painter.
■- Gs-or Forty years Experience,   "
."ari-iage. Sign and Ornamental Painting, Paper
Hanging. Frescoing, Etc.
SALINE, - MICH.
yy   Wl. BRIGGS,
Practical Pai nter.
louse paiiiting. graining, paper   hanging and
kalsomining.    All ,worb promptly and
neatly   done, tand- satisfaction
guaranteed,
SALINE, -"        - MICH.
yANDUZER'S
Barber Shop.
•fair Cutting.   Shaving,   Shampooing  and   all
Work in the Barber Line.
Bath room in connection.   Hot or cold baths at
A. B. VANDUZEE.
uy times.
SALINE,
MICH.
A. MILLER & SON.
(Successors to J. A. Alber).
Jji-u-ery, S*eed and
Sale «Stal_le-,
FjV'st-plass rigs at reasonable v&tes.
Commercial travelers and fchejr. baggage carried to and from adjoining
towns with promptness and at living
rates.
Old American House Barn,
SALINE, - - MICH.
John Baumgardner
(Successo  to Anton ;Eisle,)
 DEALER IN—■	
Owing to the great amount of interest shown in the northwestern states,
and especially in Montana and Washington, the Northern Pacific railroad
has prepared two folders, entitled,
"Golden Montana" and "Fruitful
Washington," which contain a great
many interesting and valuable details
iu reference to climate, topograrhy,
agriculture, stock-raising. mining,lum-
bering, government aud railroad lands,
homsteads and other subjects of interest to the capitalist, business man or
settler. These folders can now be obtained on application to the General
Passenger Agent of the road.
It should be borne in mind by travelers to" the Northwest that, among
other things, the Northern Pacific
Railroad offers the following advantages: It is the direct line to principal
points in Minnesota, North Dakota.,
| Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington; It has two trains daily to Helena
and Butte, Mont., Spokane, TaComa
and Seattle, Wash.,aud Portland, Ore.:
It has complete equipment of Pullman
first-class sleeping cars, dining cars,
day coaches, Pullman tourists and free
colonist sleepers, the cars being new,
comfortable and neat: It has through
sleeping car service every day from
Chicago, 111., to Montana aud Pacific
Coast points, of Pullman first-class and
tourist sleeping cars in connection with
the Wisconsin Central Line, and ves-
tibuled first-class sleepers via C. M. &
St. P. Ry.; It passes through, the
grnndegt scenery of seven states ana
$he great yo^ng cities of the northwest;
The service is' complete in every respect, the "Yellowstone Park and Dining Car Route" being in fact, a thoroughly first-class line to travel over.
District Passenger Agents of the
Company will supply publications referred to above, with maps, time tables,
rates or other special information; or
communications addressed to Chas. S.
Pee, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul, Minn.,
will receive prompt attention.
Foreign and American
garble,
©ranite and   Building
stone.
Corner of Detroit arid Catherine Sts.
ANN ARBOR,       ' MICH.
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S.JOSENHANS'
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REPAIRING   DONE     ON    SHORT
NOTICE.
All kinds of Forging, Repairing Horseshoeing,
and general Jobbing.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED apd prices rea-
sqnabje.     Shop   qn _ Ann Arb,pr street,
SALINE,
hear Main.
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GOOD SITUATIONS
FOR MEN ^fivT
GOOD PAYING PERMANENT POSITIONS
to a lew good men. Exclusive territory. But little knowledge required
to begin. Honesty and push will make
Big Monet.
HoopesBros. & Thomas,
Nurserymen,   West Chester, Pa,
Mason, the druggist, is selling quantities of those bunches of five lead pencils and a scratch block for oc. He has
Ou hand all of Harpers readers, Harper's geographies, Harper's arithmetics, Harrington's spellers, Reed &
Kellogg's grammars, Swintoh's gratn-
ma**§ and a large staple of slates, pencil!, ppiis,, ink, paper and 25 or 30 styles
cf paper in pads, both for ink and pen-
oil.   -*•'"      .'l    -Hi .....
This insecticide is becoming so important in the work of fighting our insect foes, that any new facts concerning
its manufacture and use will be eagerly
studied by every enterprising fruit
grower and farmer. We have experimented very extensively this season
and are: glad to bring our results to the
attention of all interested in the warfare against insect pests.
Before entering into the general discussion, I wish to correct my former
Bulletins, Nos. 58 and 73, in one or two
points which further information makes
necessary.
In No. 5S I state what was then true,
that so far as I knew, I was the first to
use and recommend a practical kerosene and soap mixture. I find that one
Henry Bird of Newark, N, J., as early
as 1875, two years before my discovery,
advises mixing "a little kerosene oil"
with "strong soapsuds." He adds "It
readily combines and can be applied
uniformly with a syringe.3' This last
statement makes it almost certain that
he secured an emulsion. He doubtless
heated the soap to dissolve it (as I did
two years later) and used his syringe
to mix, whereupon with the suitable
proportions "little oil and strong soap
suds'' an emulsion almost immediately
follows. I find the above item, iii tl"-e
Gardener's Monthly for iSjf\ p.. }06.
In Bulletin No. 73 we say Pp. Riley's
emulsion always fails with. us. We
then used hard wtter from our- artesian
well tis it was far- more convenient.
With perfectly soft water it does not
fail, which fact was first suggested the
past season by Prof. P. J. Niswander,
of Wyoming University, then an assistant in our laboratory, whose valuable
ai dwe wish to acknowledge.
A good emulsion is one that is easily
produced, aud one in which the kerosene oil will permanently unite with
the emulsifying agent and not separate
upon dilution even if allowed to stand
for days or weeks. As water will always be the diluent, no ^formula is desired which will not give" success, when
hard water is used in making or diluting our emulsion, asoftenno other than
hard water will be at our command.
While ease and certainty in forming
our emulsion, and permanence of the
mixture of the kerosene with the emulsifying agent, are of first importance,
after these are positively secured the
less amount of water used the better; as
in case we desire to carry our emulsion
some distance before use, we can delay
dilution aud will have less", to ftarry.
It were better if t^e en-jt-.k-iion upon
standing could always he diluted, even
though cold, with cold water either
soft or hard. With some kinds of hard
soap this is quite impossible with all
desirable emulsions so far as we have
tried them. Yet as all will do so upon
heating them: or heating the water
used to dilute them, the objection is
not serious. Often an emulsion npon
standing forms a fibrous or curdj mass,
which upon dilution becomes stringy
or granular, does not liquefy, and rises
to the top. Immediate dilution upon
making the emulsion, or beating,
either the etnulsiqn qi* d*iluentt at ajjy
time subsequent when we wish to dilute
it, prevents all such trouble. Thus
this is no positive evil, only a matter
of in con ven ience.
In making an emulsion,violent agitation is positively required. Simply
stirring vith a spoon or stick is not
sufficient. The best method is to use a
pump and force the liquid back into
itself, through a small noozle. This
stirs the liquid very violently and, in
two or three minutes, we obtain a'thiek
creamy substance, which is the emulsion. The cheap dollar pumps work
admirably and are all that is required.
Any pump that will do for spraying
may be used. That an emulsion may
be easily made, and permanent gitev
dilution with, hard \yater, it is' neces*-
sary to have an excess of water. Thus
a diluted, alid'often an undiluted emul-
sion, will separate from the soap solution; but the kerosene oil never separates, it always remains in an emulsion
which rises abbye the soap solution.
This is no objection, as by shaking the
diluted and warming when necessary,
diluting and shaking the undiluted, all
will mingle or mix in one uniform
liquid and remain mixed for some time
before the emulsion again rises to the
top. The separation of free oil is a
fatal objection; the separation of the
emulsion from an excess of soap solution
is no objection.
Several formulas for making emulsions have been recommended.
SOFT SOAP AND KEROSENE  EMULSION.
Dissolve one quart of soft soap in two
quarts of boiling water. Remove from
fire and, while still boiling hot, add one
pint of kerosene oil, and immediately
agitate with the pump as described
above. In two or\three minutes the
emulsion will be perfect. This should
be diluted by adding an equal amount
of water, when it is ready for use.
This always emulsifies readily with
hard or soft water; always remains
permanent, for years even; and is very
easily diluted, even in the coldest
weather, and without any heating. In
this last respect it has no equal, so far
as we have experimented. The objections to it are: We cannot always procure the soft soap, though many farmers make it, and it is generally to be
found in our markets. It occasionally
injures the foliage, probably owing to
the caustic properties of the soap. We
have used this freely for years, and
never saw any ihjury till the past season. In case of auy such trouble, we
may use one-half the amount of soap—
one pint instead of onequart. It works
just as well, and we have sometimes
recommended this proportion. The
soap itself, however, is an excellent insecticide, and we have preferred the
stronger solution as given In the formula above, unless it injures foliage
which will rarely be the case in a one-
fifteenth kerosene mixture. Again,
we have a large amount of water. We
like this, as it insures a ready and
quick emulsion in all cases, and _\al*:e$
dilution very easy. B,ut I| any p,pefer,
the amount Of YfSltev- may he one quart
instead^ p-ftWQ <i Wt& This works well,
and \-fe have s,qmetirn,es reoommended
it, hut w§ like the regular formula,
everything considered, the best. In
case we use one pint of soap, we should
add water to the amount of oneand one-
half times the amount of the emulsion
in diluting it. In case we use one quart
instead of two quarts of water, we
should add twice as much water as we
take of the emulsion in diluting. In
every case, the substance we use should
contain one-fifteenth part of kerosene
oil, and we must always dilute sufficiently to secure this proportion.
THE SQUASH BUG.
The old-time enemy of the squash,
Amasa tristis, De G., is too well known
to need description. The brown egg
clusters, the dull yellowish larva; and
.pupae, the black imago, are all familiar
to every gardener. Their destructive
work on squashes aud other cueurbita-
ceous plants is too obvious to escape attention. The mature bugs hibernate
in winter and often appear in devastating numbers in early spring when the
plants are small and illy able to resist
the attack. Soon the egg clusters are
seen on the leaves and not loflg_. after,
the young larva?, appear. -pi-,es,e will
De fouqd, o,f all sizes through the summer. i\nd into the autumn. To tight
these insects successfully is 'a most difficult undertaking. Trapphig them, under boards at night, and gathering and
killing them very early the next morning, before they have dispersed, is a
laborious proceeding. Hand picking,
and sweeping or brushing them into a
vessel containing kerosene oil is still
more hard and irksome. We had
hopes that we could use the kerosene
emulsion of at least the pyrethro-kero-
sene emulsion successfully in destroying these Imgs, b^t qn, tl^e q|d bugs vte.
fail entirely. We. 1-,-ave. \vxi b.uen. uhlss
to kill %em expert w.e used ar emulsion
so strong that we] also killed the plants.
We can kill the eggs and nymphs with
either emulsion but not the niatnre
bugs. Pyrethrum either as powder or
in the liquid form has no effect on the
imago, and so we were not greatly surprised that the pyrethro-kerosene
emulsion was not superior to the simple
kerosene emulsion. " As we have no
good remedy for this mature squash
bug it is very desirable that one be discovered.
KEROSENE EMULSION AND  THE  PEAR
AND CHERRY SLUG.
We find that the kerosene emulsion
is quick death to the cherry slug,
Eriocampa (Selandria)> cerasi. Jn, cagg
a tree is'suffering^otl} fc.qn^ $u,gs, »fi&
plant lice, $iefl "§ur.e|y we should use
: ke.cp.aene emulsion, and kill two birds
with one stone.
A. M. Humphrey,
THE GROCER AND CROCKERY DEALER."
FIRE  FIRE   FIRE!
Why rail tlie risk of life and property by
using the low test oil when
you can get the
Hi g? Ir    "Test
AT   HUMPHREYS.
Be sure and call for the high or old test oil and
you will get it.
P. S.  We have a complete stock of Plant
Crocks.
Why   Isg   It?
Why is it that E. P. Mills & Go- are having such a tremendous trade this fal
despite the  intense  competition?    Why is it  that a constantly increasing
number of people are selecting this store as their trading place?   The        ■
secret is an open one, the question easily answered.
One Price and that Price uniariaMy the Lowest
is one magnet and one that draws powerfully, too.
Everything   Guaranteed  as   K.epr«3-
ssnted or Money Refunded.
Is another drawing card.
Perfect satisfaction guranteed and customers not hurried
to death because they do not buy
Are two more elements of popularity.   These combined with the largest and
best selected stock of
Dry Goods,- varpets   and   Gents'   Furnishings
in thecounty are inducements which people are prone to investigate.   When
in Ann Arbor next time see if you can't save money, time
and palienca by trading with
20 SOUTH MAIN STREET, -        ANN"ARBOR.
The old Wines & Worden store remodeled and modernized.
PARSONS, THE CLOTHIER
Is now ready with a new stock of
Clotllin
AND
Gents  Furnishing  Goods.
"Call and loofe^them over.   Large assortment of Men's. Youth's and Boys1
Overcoats, also a a full stock for the small boy.   Knee Suits, 4 to 14
years, and Long Pant Suits, for 8 to 18.
MY DRY  GOODS  STORE
Has been receiving astock of Staple aud Fancy Worstered and Cotton Goods.
Call in and see what we have in cheap Novelty Goods for the School
Children arid Misses* also Dress Flannels for the Ladies.   All colors
on hand now for the fall.   Don't forget we sell the shoes, A. C
McGraw & Co.'s   band-made.   Large stock wrappers and
drawers and flannel and knit shirts.   100 pair of new
pants from 75o to S6 per pair.    New styles in Hats.
O   Parsons-
FALL OPENING
OIF1
insry ■ aiii
Ite^y- g©Q4s5 Velvets, Plush Pelt Embroidery, Tinsel-cord, Yarns etc.
MRS. L. R RHODES.
(Successor to Mrs. C._ A.'Hendriek.)-
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