November, 1917 
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green baits are dropped along rab- 
bit trails or in places frequented 
by the rabbits, care being exer- 
cise:! in placing them to prevent 
any possible injury to live stock. 
The following poisoned wash 
lias proved highly satisfactory in 
the west and promises to be one 
of the most popular methods of 
protecting trees from rabbits: 
Poisoned tree wash . — Dissolve 1 
ounce of strychnine sulphate in 3 
quarts of boiling water and add y? 
pint of laundry starch, previously 
dissolved in 1 pint of cold water. 
Roil this mixture until it becomes 
a clear paste. Add 1 ounce of 
glycerin and stir thoroughly. 
When sufficiently cool, apply to 
the trunks of trees with a paint 
brush. Rabbits that gnaw the 
bark will be killed before the tree 
is injured. 
Many ether repellent tree 
washes have been used with vary- 
ing success. Other means of con- 
trolling cottontail rabbits, such as 
trapping and driving, are usually 
too slow and laborious to warrant 
their use. 
— TJ. S. Dept, of Agriculture. 
Vandals and Vandalism 
(Continued, from front page) 
miles of Milwaukee have become 
practically depleted. 
Ever since the latter part of 
September when the berry, which 
is a creeper with a reddish yellow 
color, became ripe autoists have 
been driving out into the country 
and picking lai-ge quantities. 
Hedges in the vicinity of the 
cement mills on the upper river, 
St. Francis and Menomonee Falls 
were covered with the berries in 
former years, but it is impossible 
to get them at these places unless 
one goes very early in the season. 
It is now necessary to make trips 
of from thirty to fifty miles. On 
Ihe Fond du Lac road, between 
Milwaukee and Menomonee Falls, 
there is a hedge which is covered 
with the vine for about 100 feet 
but every berry, it seems, has been 
picked. Many were to be found 
in the vicinity of Meeker, just be- 
yond Menomonee Falls, early in 
the season, but these have almost 
all disappeared. Some autoists 
LET I S REMEMBER ! 
By Cleveland Moffett. 
Let us remember that in a 
year or two the white souls ol' a 
million dead soldiers, American 
lads, our dear sons, will be 
speaking to us from their 
graves, on the battlefields of 
Europe, asking what we did 
over here to stand behind them, 
what we did over here for the 
cause of World Liberty. Was it 
merely a matter of talking? 
Was it merely a matter of sign- 
ing checks and folding band- 
ages? — Of cold business effi- 
ciency? Is that all? Did we 
face, no personal danger? Did 
we suffer no personal inconven- 
ience? In what way did we ac- 
tually with our own bodies get 
into tire, trenches of sedition 
here? Into the foul and slimy 
labyrinths of treachery and dis- 
union that arc spreading and 
burrowing here into the heart 
of this nation? That is what 
the white' souls ot a million 
American lads, our sons, will 
be asking us in a year or two 
from their graves on the battle- 
fields of Europe. And we must 
answer them. God! Let us an- 
swer worthily. 
now report that they have been 
able to find the berry in the vici- 
nity of West Bend and St. 
Michael’s, a drive of about forty 
miles over good roads.” 
Twenty years ago such vandal- 
ism was confined to the outskirts 
of cities and towns and committed 
only by reckless boys. How much 
of this sort of thing was done then 
by people who owned carriage 
teams? Which only shows how 
many different kinds of people 
own automobiles. 
A fence row glowing in beautiful 
autumn colors, a joy to every pas- 
ser by if undisturbed means no- 
thing to the vandal except what 
he may plunder for his or her own 
selfish needs. The feminine pro- 
noun is used here advisedly for it 
is a matter of common knowledge 
that in these matters women are 
often as bad or worse than men. 
Since the automobile has become 
common property wild flowers have 
been swept clean from fields and 
roadsides near cities never to re- 
turn and are rapidly disappearing 
elsewhere. It is thoughtlessness 
and selfishness, lack of considera- 
tion for others that prompt these 
acts. In short it’s ill-breeding. 
The real gentleman or lady never 
trespasses knowingly on the rights 
or pleasures of others. 
Fruit at the Convention. 
Altho this was a poor apple year 
in Wisconsin the state fair exhibit 
was very good. If our apple grow- 
ers both amateur and professional 
will give a little time right now to 
wrapping and packing apples our 
convention exhibit may easily be 
the biggest and best we have ever 
had. If you leave it all to the 
other fellow we may not have 
much. The potato growers will 
hold a convention in Madison late 
in November and the growers are 
planning to exhibit carload lots of 
spuds! Surely we can show pecks 
and bushels, if we try. 
Prune the grape vines and lay 
them on the ground ready to cover 
with earth as soon as there is dan- 
ger of the ground freezing. Prune 
severely, as too much wood and 
foliage means small, poor grapes. 
