Show r Y Sorrel as a Pest In many parts of the sorrel Is very abundant couail r and Uh It Is found In wbtrn extirpated Tho abundance farmers It mart r of been casting about them for thai 1a of getting rid at this pest will a ln arc u liming the land helps greatly writer of T this was reCelllly In tt of Illinois a where red sorrel haSlPI everywhere The fields are red I a It amid tho farmers t so abundant that It complain Interferes that II with their crops There gar Iir was one 0 where limo had been used In tho field and the rest left Wllhe pan At lime In tho part that had been lie In there was little sorrel while 1 on At other part It grow In abundance 4 was evident that It found lime not Its lilting AI Tho popular Impression Is that t < ref Indicates sour land and this bet stR doubtless has in It some truth thou sorrel will grow on land that Is sue lr It Is like some other plants It bas preference and In this a case It Is r land that Is too acid for the grout ot some other plants The very fi r that other plants do not do well en 10 helps the sorrel for It leaves the la free for Its use Sorrel can be b fought by liming the land If it Is a cllned toward sourness and then r y ting It Into a crop that needs cute lion We havo never seen the n persist under such treatment solicit communications from our re era on this point e RotInfected Potatoes me Tho Maine station carried on Ma r experiments to determine how I J a7 blightInfected potatoes should be ed t The conclusions reached by the eipi tr 1m enters were pa The Infection of tho potatoes tl i i the fungus occurs chiefly If not i n tlrely In the field before digging It The Infection Is usually the resj of diseased vines k Tho disease Is transmitted In I majority of cases not directly throt tho vine but indirectly through ti I soil I Potatoes may bo Infected directly tho field from spores Introduced In i manure or from rotten polite I spread upon or left In the land ti I z preceding year 4 Jones and Morso conclude tint t mycelium which produces the roll mally passes into a dormant ili after Infesting the potato but abnormal conditions of moisture temperature may cause abnormal i tivlty In the fungus and hence the ting of the tubers I Whatever may be the explana these experiments all agree In sic Ing that whether the vines hale t have not been protected with Bo 11 deaux mixture there Is far less llitil R Ity of loss from rotting In the eel in tho case of late dug potatoes r Ants in the Gelds IWo I-Wo used to think tho ant was iiBi 4f friend nnd pointed to him as a ere S It m ture to bo emulated But It Is no He recognized that he is sometimes pe viciously active He Is so much of s Ii enemy to the farmer that the latter i hI justified In destroying the ant ail fib wherever tidy are found Few real Iel the extent to which attacks of plai t lice are duo to nnts It has been ml 1m posed that tho dairy business ofd bt I ants was a side issue but if one ti i It follow the habit of the little fdlowsl will be surprised to find how ooze arm a-rm a ms arc the colonies of ants that hel along the spread of plant lice Act a are especially objectionable In II Ie corn field where they tunnel down t en e the tender corn roots and transport t Ig them tho plant lice t a What You Do Do Well When a boy we sometimes been t d h Impatient with having our father saf Whatever Is worth doing at all I It a worth doing well Time has past II on and many years have elapsed sin t we have Keard I this oft given adrl HI and the longer we havo lived the mow Id force wo have seen In It The habit fir doing things well or otherwise grot Xi < with our growth and finally becomes It second nature No farmer should be t > t It content with being only a good fan a er Ho should strive to be the best e farmer In tho neighborhood Strive I to ralso tho best crops havo the best stock keep tho neatest place h I short do your best every day and strive to know more about your butt r ness nnd you will succeed Alt Caldwell Fruits In China Fruits familiar to Americans are grown to but small extent In dins with tho exception of oranges and which are Iocr pears both of BJ tad few keepers Berries are strawberry bas poor but recently the been Introduced and tho Chinese Pro to lear1l J deners aro patiently trying 10 Indifferent Luc < how to grow It with cess Tho Chinese havo no nslll i berries worthy of mention Peaches nt b but only aro grown all over Chinn e the north are they of good quality wblco t grape Is cultivated from made the well known Chinese ratios el tasteless t Chinese apples arc soft and U and lack flavor Juice and keepld It quality At the present time A per re and entrees can apple lear peach pear It 9 i trees ore being Introduced and d fu probable that In tho not dis AIltfu e China 11111 ture tho pomology of revolutionized g |