a 1 1 v«g rjt rz -J ^r: --vrf| ^,"^4 '"•'i'- 5 "r^*--'*"'^sri- "t- '•~*/r—jFi A. jr uV rtt INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS TWO FAGK NAVY LAUNCHES NEW DRIVE OUST BARBERRY iri After a temporary, enforced lull in Power Company Provision Store SAVE THE WHEAT navy recruiting, due to the filling of Meat is as the complements of the training stations, the navy has once again unleashed her recruiting forces and is as Steel and Ships I making -a mighty appeal throughout Will We Have reduced the prices on all Meats and Groceries State and Federal Agents the entire United States for volunteers. No limit has been placed on Enforce Public Safety Commission's from 10 to 15 per cent, and more in many cases. We the number of men to be taken, according Order. Food is the first essential of the are going to do our "bit" towards making to a telegram just received by Lieutenant George A. Treadwell, fighting forces. our city the best place in Minnesota officer in charge of recruiting for to live in. Minnesota and North Dakota, from AN VIGG8IUS DRIVE The and the American farmer Commander James D. Willson, inspector M. & 0. POWER CO. war packer have met every emergency, of recruiting, central division. ^*5252 and have promptly furnished school For the past several months the Children and Patriotic Citizens PROVISION STORE an adequate supply of wholesome'" number of recruits taken from this to Co-operate on Arbor Day, April section has been limited to 40 weekly. 19—Barberry is Vicious Ally meat. With all restrictions cast aside of Elack Rust. another rush similar to that of last No other industry can claim a December is predicted. All men accepted If you have barberry bushes—any "Good-bye, dad. I'll fight to the last punce of strength that's in me." record of war time efficiency. better in the new drive will be enrolled kind of barberry bushes except the "Good-bye, Jim. I'll back you to the last dollar I have ii^the world. I am aai in hte Naval Reserve force. Japanese (Eerberris thunbergii)—on ing every day to buy more Liberty Loan Bonds." Swift & Company has shipped tQ "Well, old man, now is the time to buy." There are openings at present for your place, whether it be a city lot apprentice seamen, firemen, hospital or a farm, prepare to dig them now. the United States Government and corpsmen, cooks, bakers, machinists, In accordance, with an order recently the Allied Nations, issued by the Minnesota Commission carpenters and painters. Painters of Public Safety, barberry and carpenters are particularly in demand bushes of all kinds, except the Japanese, for duty at the Great Lakes Over 12,000,060 Pounds (400 carloads) are to be dug up and destroyed. training station. Men in the draft A. G. Ruggles, state entomologist, may still enlist in the navy by securing per week, of beef, pork, and lard, since has been commissioned to see certificates from their local January 1, 1918. that the order is carried out "forthwith," draft boards to the effect that they which means right now. He are not required to fill any current is already at work. one week recently we shipped In quotas of the national army. The reason for the order is seen Recruiting officers and men are in the fact that barberry bushes are 24,000,000 Pounds (800 carloads) planning a great campaign and intend the. vicious allies of the black stem rust of wheat, and other grains. This to make the new drive one of and the demand is increasing. disease in 1916 caused a loss of 30,000,000 the biggest in the history of the bushels of wheat in Minnesota navy. Our profits are limited by the alon£—about $30,000,000 as wheat Buy Liberty Bonds—— prices stood then, about $60,000,000 Food Administration to 9 per cent worth of wheat as prices stand now. That the barberry bushes are allies YOUR SERVICES ARE on investment in the meat departments. of the black stem rust Is seen in the NEEDED AT ONCE (This means about 2 cents fact that the winter spores of the rust, formed on wheat or grasses at The U. S. Army Needs Men At Once on each dollar of sales.) l-lo profit harvest time and remaining on the For Service in the Following straw until spring, cannot infect the is guaranteed. Branches. wheat, oats, or grass plants directly, but must pass to the barberry plants, We are co-operating with the Cavalry from which they are redistributed to Infantry the grains and grasses in condition to Government to the best of curability. at do mischief again. In this way, Signal Corps least in part, the rust plague is repeated Medical Corps I from year to year, especially Field Artillery Swift & Company 191S Year con* Bock, if the weather conditions are- favorable. Coast Artillery taining many interesting and instructive Avjatiori Section facts, sent on request. United States Guards Safety Commission's Order. Address, Swift & Company, Auto Truck Companies The public safety commission's order Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois This Space Donated by Spruce Production Division for the eradication of the barberry was issued in order to bring Q. M. Mechanical Repair Shop Swift & Company 0. M. CARR & CO. the state into close co-operation with 20th Engineers (Forestry) $ the federal government in a campaign Engineers, General Assg. u. s. A. against the black stem rust, Quartermaster Corps "The Store of Quality" under the general direction of E. C. Railway Regiments \4 Stakman of the Minnesota experiment Ordnance Corps iiBniHnininHiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmBiiiBuiiiiiimii station in the central west, and under Apply at the Recruiting Station, the special direction of E. M. Subscribe for the Press Rex. Hotel, International Falls Freeman, dean of the Minnesota college of agriculture, in Minnesota. Buy War Saving Stamps If America should hold back a single The order in part reads: "All barberry bushes except the dollar that is needed to win this species and variety known as Japanese war, her fate would be the fate of barberry (Berberris thunbergii) Russia. are hereby declared to be, and the same are, a public nuisance and a menace to the public- welfare, and their maintenance, propagation, sale, or introduction in the state is forbidden. LIKE BACON It shall be the duty of eatery person owning or having charge of any premises on which barberry bushes of the rust-producing varieties YOU are grown, or at any time found growing, know how cooking to forthwith destroy such bushes. "The state entomologist is authorized. brings out all the rich to ^auae all rust-producing barberry bushes within the state pungent flavor of bacon— of Minnesota to tre eradicated. there's nothing that tastes It shall be the duty of the county board #9 of every cgunty in this state to order better. But you wouldn't like and cause the eradication of all such rust-producing barberry bushes within it raw. their respective counties under the instructions and according to the directions IT'S TOASTED of the state entomologist." Eradication, on Arbor Day. So we toast the Burley tobacco In compliance with this positive order, arrangements have been made a used in LUCKY STRIKE Cigarettes to interest the schools and communities for exactly the same reason of the state in the large eradication of barberry plants on Arbor day, —to bring out the rich, solid flavor. April 19. __ The. spring is chosen as the time for the eradication campaign, because it is then that the spores of the rust pass, from the old straw to the barberry to gain a fresh lease of life, before I passing on to the new cvop of grains and grasses. If the barberry busies are destroyed at this time, X7DUR little girl hardly peali izes what this war means.' therefore, there will be no new lease of life for the winter spores developed She has a big daddy to protect her. It is hard even :ate last summer. Japanese vs. Common Barberry. for you to realize that today in Europe there are thousands The Japanese barberry^ is usually from 2 to 4 feet in height and-has of little girls homeless and somewhat spreading, reddish brown stems,' while the common barberry Today in Europe American soldiers almost starving. They haven't grows to a height of from 4 to 8 are staking their lives against any daddies any-more. Some of feet, with its stems mostly upright and of gray or grayish green color. this doctrine and are shedding their them haven't hands any more. The spines of the Japanese barberry blood to make the world a decent are mostly single, while on the com-mon barberry Ihey are usually in place in which to live These little girls have been sacrificed groups of three. The spines on the to that philosophy expressed former are geneally smaller ,than on Your government is calling on you today the latter, also. The buds and leaf by Professor Lesson of the University to help equip these soldiers who are clusters on the Japanese variety arq of Berlin in Das Kulturideal fighting for your little girl. about one-half. inch or less apart on the common variety they are about und Der Kreig: "The state Every penny you invest in the Third an inch £part. The leaives of the Japanese can realize itself only through destruction plants are spoon-shaped, smooth Liberty Loan will be paid back to you around the edgis, and green, whereas of other states which with interest. those, of the other kind are large and ?. •*. broad, have spiny teeth along the logically can only be brought How you respond to this call will show edges, and are either green or purple. jdjcut violence,". by how you protect your children, The Japanese flowers and fruit grow singly or in small clusters, while those t: r? Guaranteed by IV on the other grow in long clusters. -This Space Donated by ..SjsHow to Destroy the "Spiny Huns."~ w.@rjtatzon '•^tTo destroy the common barberry, dig it up. beiug careful to get .the rv .vhole cro rocta, EC that it aj ajriin sJ&lfe